Story of the 55th Infantry

[Liam]

((This RP takes place in the One Year War that was briefly described in the Iron Wars time line. This is an attempt to get some more people interested in the Iron Wars RP.))

Major Ryan Orakin looked over the men under his command and said, "Alright, they may have greater numbers, but we have bigger guns!" He raised his MT-84 auto-rifle and shouted, "Let's win this for our families and for Earth!" Although Ryan had no family to speak of, he was trying to encourage the soldiers. He looked over the edge of the trench and watched the enemy army approach. "The Regine Empire won't take this city on my watch!"

Just then a laser blast flew down from orbit, missing their trench by three meters. Ryan looked over at another soldier and shouted, "Lieutenant, where's that air support?" as he looked back over the trench and fired and ducked to avoid enemy fire.

[woot]

James looks at ryan and was scared as he could possibly be. He fires his weapon and quickly ducks back. his blue eyes kept watch on ryan. "Ill cover you!"

[Liam]

Ryan looked over at James, "We just have to hold this position until air support arrives." Just then another blast came down from above and missed by one meter. He started firing again at the enemy and ducked before they could fire back. He looked over at the mech garage they were forced to retreat from. "The gas probably dissipated by now. Private, you're with me. We need to escort the pilots back to the garage so we can get some mechs out here before more tanks arrive." He pulled a F-4 Concussion grenade from his belt. "Understood?"

[woot]

James looks up at him even though he was a mech pilot himself he nods and reloads his clip and cocks it. "Yes sir!" He looks at him for further instuctions.

[Liam]

Ryan nodded and threw the concussion grenade, "Turn away!" The grenade exploded with a blinding flash that would leave most people blind for a moment if they looked at it. Ryan jumped out of the trench and started firing on the enemy soldiers to reduce their numbers. "Pilots, to the garage!" He kept firing while moving towards the garage. The mech pilots ran for the garage.

[woot]

James keeps fireing at the enemy as he neared his point of the garage his mech would be waiting for him in there. "Move! move! move!"

[Liam]

Ryan looked at James and said, "Get in your mech, I'll cover you." Ryan shouted in his radio, "Lieutenant, where the heck is that air support?" as several more shots came down from orbit, taking out the repair bay's equipment in the garage. He fired again on the enemy soldiers. "All soldiers, fall back to the garage! Mechs, cover them!" He watches as two HT-4 hover mechs left the garage and started firing on soldiers. The soldiers begun to fall back to the garage as the mechs kept the soldiers at bay. "Private, you get that mech working, yet?"

[woot]

James climbs into his mech "Wolfhound" And started it. The doors shut and with a whirr of the engines it was all green for him. He releases and charges forward to aid the men. He turns on his intercom to Ryan. "Mech all green and clear!" He stops and fires his large ballistics weapon and went hot with his machineguns.

[Liam]

Ryan replied, "Affirmative." Just then another message came over the radio, it was the emergency beacon from the central command, the beacon went out pretty quick. "Either they jammed it or central command was destroyed." Just then, a large chunk of metal came down and destroyed half of the garage. "That wasn't a laser blast, that's a ship! Air support is here!" A plate of hull landed in front of him and he saw the EFF insignia on it. "This is bad..." The HT-4's moved forward and begun firing on enemy soldiers. The EFF soldiers ran into the garage for cover as Ryan was firing onto the enemy soldiers as his men went into the garage.

[woot]

James takes his mech in still faceing and fireing at the enemy. A mech next to him gets nailed and explodes sending small metal clanging agenst his mech. "Ah.. son of a..." He looks up and sees ships and quickly heads in the garage defending the men.

[Liam]

Ryan didn't like where this battle was going, but he didn't have much choice. The second HT-4 got struck by an orbital laser and it was completely destroyed. "Shoot..." He ran into the garage, firing on enemy soldiers as he entered. "This is real bad." He threw another concussion grenade, his last one, and closed the door. A shot blasted out a small chunk of the wall. "Not tanks, why tanks?" The sound of another ship falling down could be heard, it sounded like a big one falling fast. The sound of it's impact suggested that it landed not too far and didn't take too much damage from falling. He opened the door and fired, but his gun clicked. He closed the door and said, "Out of ammo, damn."

[woot]

James kept eye on the door and looked around then back to the commander. "Commander what are we to do now?"

[Liam]

Ryan looks out the door at the destroyed ship. "That's not one of ours." He quickly closes the door before a barrage of bullets hits him. "It looks like their ship is gone, men." He looked around the garage, seeing if there was a usable vehicle. "We have to get to the armory soon."

Just then a voice came over the radio. "This is Captain Stillwell of the Vesuvius to the Fifty-Fifth, do you read me?"

Ryan replied on the radio, "Yeah, this is Major Orakin, we're outnumbered."

Stillwell replied, "Air support is on it's way." The radio went silent. Moments later, laser fire came down from above and was firing on the enemy soldiers.

[woot]

James gets back to contact with ryan. "sir!, i have only a few side seats on the remaining mechs that some of you can hitch rides on."

[Liam]

Ryan radioed James and said, "Not necessary, you worry about the other soldiers." He picked up a a few guns on the ground and radioed, "Captain Stillwell, you think you could cover the others as they get to the armory. Keep 'em busy, I'm going to see if I can get to the hangar and get a fighter up and running."

There was silence for a moment then, "Yeah, we'll cover them, just be careful, Major. And some extra incentive, there's a promotion waiting for you if you survive. Good luck, Stillwell out."

Ryan ran off to the hangar and fired at soldiers behind him as he ran. "Just get to the armory, I'll join air support when it gets here."