23-10-2025, 12:58 AM
23:48, the wilderness between Haifbourg and Trachimbrod, occupied Amudim.
Four months. The preparation for all this had taken four months. She glanced at her watch. "Two minutes until go, radio the locals and remind them to start in thirty minutes," she barked at her second-in-command. She looked through her night vision binoculars. There it is, Haifbourg South and whatever corporate dribble they added onto that name. She glanced at her watch again. One minute. While packing the binoculars she looked around at the squad they brought. Three RSB officers including herself, six locals. The four cars had a further eight locals. Good recruits, very eager. Sometimes too eager. "Alright, team, let's move." Their previous observations had noticed a blind spot at the southern side of the compound, as the roads ran north, west and east the guards had thrown up fields of barbed wire and called it a day. Local boys had spent the last two days finding gaps and mapping it out for them. In a few years they'll carry rifles too. They arrived after a brisk fifteen minute walk in the Majatran night.
At midnight her sapper was cutting through the barbed wire and the team of nine moved inside the compound. Two stayed on watch near the exit, the other six placed the explosives. Silent as a mouse she snuck around the tents and counted her steps. Thirty, then left, ten steps, then right. Large and green. After the two minutes that felt like two hours she reached it: the armaments tent. She could hear two men talking inside, Vascanians by the sound of it. One laughed loudly. At least they were having fun cleaning rifles. She remained outside the tent and dug a small hole near the eastern side of it, right under the base of the tent. The ground was not too hard here. After placing the explosive and timing it for ten minutes she filled the hole. A quick glance assured her nobody had spotted her. She used the same route to return to their exfil and just after her the last member of the squad arrived. In silence they left the compound after which she heard shouting inside and an alarm was sounded. For a moment her heartbeat was raised significantly but then the engine sounds of the approaching cars became audible. Thank God, they did not find a bomb. Six minutes later the compound was engulfed in a bright light and a very loud bang.
The rendezvous point saw her wait for three locals for half an hour longer than ordered. "I'm sorry, team, we need to go now. The Yeudi sapper looked distraught, one of the drivers had been his younger brother. She put her hand on his shoulder and looked at him. He nodded. "We go. We fight other day again." She could only smile at him. "We fight another day, until they free your lands."
Four months. The preparation for all this had taken four months. She glanced at her watch. "Two minutes until go, radio the locals and remind them to start in thirty minutes," she barked at her second-in-command. She looked through her night vision binoculars. There it is, Haifbourg South and whatever corporate dribble they added onto that name. She glanced at her watch again. One minute. While packing the binoculars she looked around at the squad they brought. Three RSB officers including herself, six locals. The four cars had a further eight locals. Good recruits, very eager. Sometimes too eager. "Alright, team, let's move." Their previous observations had noticed a blind spot at the southern side of the compound, as the roads ran north, west and east the guards had thrown up fields of barbed wire and called it a day. Local boys had spent the last two days finding gaps and mapping it out for them. In a few years they'll carry rifles too. They arrived after a brisk fifteen minute walk in the Majatran night.
At midnight her sapper was cutting through the barbed wire and the team of nine moved inside the compound. Two stayed on watch near the exit, the other six placed the explosives. Silent as a mouse she snuck around the tents and counted her steps. Thirty, then left, ten steps, then right. Large and green. After the two minutes that felt like two hours she reached it: the armaments tent. She could hear two men talking inside, Vascanians by the sound of it. One laughed loudly. At least they were having fun cleaning rifles. She remained outside the tent and dug a small hole near the eastern side of it, right under the base of the tent. The ground was not too hard here. After placing the explosive and timing it for ten minutes she filled the hole. A quick glance assured her nobody had spotted her. She used the same route to return to their exfil and just after her the last member of the squad arrived. In silence they left the compound after which she heard shouting inside and an alarm was sounded. For a moment her heartbeat was raised significantly but then the engine sounds of the approaching cars became audible. Thank God, they did not find a bomb. Six minutes later the compound was engulfed in a bright light and a very loud bang.
The rendezvous point saw her wait for three locals for half an hour longer than ordered. "I'm sorry, team, we need to go now. The Yeudi sapper looked distraught, one of the drivers had been his younger brother. She put her hand on his shoulder and looked at him. He nodded. "We go. We fight other day again." She could only smile at him. "We fight another day, until they free your lands."