12/30/2008
Introduction
This is a novel on two men in the Steel Talon (and later ZOCOM) Regiment. It is set in the middle of the Third Tiberium War (based on CNC3 and Kane's Wrath). Ignore the date. It is incorrect. Visit THX-43110's story at http://thx-43110.blogspot.com/. I have noticed a few getting confused about the layout. Please note that you start reading at the TOP. These posts are written by both THX-43110 and THX-43111. Please do not refrain from typing in comments on our posts. Just include your name and/or your email address (the one that you check frequently). Please vote on the poll too as it tells us what you feel about the novel.
12/08/2008
Chapter 8
Kaasim shot right up from his dilapidated bunk in the barracks,waking up from a nightmare and still recovering from the shock that had just happened before his eyes no more than a few days past.He looked at the bunk beside him to find it empty,much to his regret.He scanned the bunk room in the barracks.The room was large and empty with nothing more than two long rows of double decked bunks with small cabinets for each militant and a weapons rack located at the far corner of the room.dozens of his comrades laid scattered across the cold metal floor,soundly asleep.
The deep clanking of steel boots echoed in the hallways.The black hand are coming this way.He promptly dove under his threadbare blanket and took the guise of a sleeping teenager.The black hand troopers marched into the bunk room,their three glowing red eyes scanning the entire room for any militants who were not asleep.Amidst the Black hand troopers,a Lieutenant enunciated clearly,"You two,tell Kane that his militants are on the way."The two Black hand troopers immediately marched off to the command bridge.The lieutenant raised his leg and within a moment,sent it crashing down on a nearby militants back.The man screamed in agony as he felt a sudden jolt of back along his spine.The other militants woke up to see the black hand trooper shout,"All of you dogs get moving now!Kane has orders for all of you!"
the people moved sluggishly,still dazed by the sudden turn of events.The black hand trooper grabbed his pistol from his holster and took a shot at the nearest militant,sending the man to the ground promptly.Blood spilled from the dead man's back,pooling around his dead body.The other militants immediately noted that it was business.Within moments,efficiency was doubled as the militants rushed to their respective weapon racks and passed down their weapons,all of them being outdated 20th century chain guns,Kaasim received an AK-47,a reliable but now outdated weapon.He put on his combat vest that was just hung on his bunk bed and wore his helmet.joining his squad,Kaasim followed the black hand troopers who herded them all to the assembly hall.
Kaasim walked into the assembly hall,remembering the previous time he entered not but a few days ago on a mission that would scar him for life and change his thoughts of nod.The militants all stood at attention as the screen began to show Kane's face to them.
Kane sat in his command chair deep within a bunker miles under and from Sarajevo,untouched by the Ion cannon strike or the Liquid tiberium bomb.He looked at his brother Natsumi who was in charge of the AV feed to the militants and looked back at the camera."Is the visual feed ready brother?"Kane spoke calmly.Natsumi looked at Kane with gentle eyes and nodded his head.An LED on the camera blinked,and he immediately greeted the militants.
"Good morning my brothers and sisters of Nod."
The crowd stood at attention.Kaasim looked ahead at the screen,but his mind wandered about,thinking about the events that had happened.
"I come before you in our finest hour!The visitors have arrived on Earth and have bestowed upon us a mighty gift!the gift of the future!Yes my brothers the visitors have given us the sight of the future,our tiberium future.First the Tacitus has given us the knowledge of their arrival and now they bless us yet again with these threshold towers which will lead us onto the path of ascension in which we shall walk and upon us the new age shall dawn!the age of tiberium.But to walk this path,we need to prepare.for we must earn our right of passage by destroying GDI and their blind attempts to rid the earth of this mighty gift.Brothers,listen to me and your place on the path will be reserved for you and we shall all evolve together into the new age as a species as we leave the disillusioned GDI in our wake.Follow me and the path shall open up to us.MY CHILDREN BROTHERS AND SISTERS ONE AND ALL
Prepare for Ascension!
PEACE THROUGH POWER
The militants went into a frenzy,all of them encouraged by Kane's charisma as a leader.The black hand lieutenant the shouted,"All right maggots get you asses moving to the reckoners!"The militants swarmed to the vehicle bays.The hall suddenly lurched.Kaasim looked around and wondered what and how it had happened."I thought this thing was a building?"Said a nearby militant.
"Maybe its some sort of aircraft"
"Who knows"
He stepped into the vehicle bay to see a group of priests blessing a long column of militants as they prepared to enter their respective vehicles.The priests injected divination fluid into them,the liquidized tiberium flowed through their veins and made them more energetic and aware of their surroundings.Kaasim got into his reckoner heavy APC and stared into blank space as the doors began to close.from inside the APC,Kaasim felt a sudden jerk,followed closely by the sound of the vehicle bay doors opening.the raider buggies swarmed out of the bay,followed closely by attack bikes.Kaasim's reckoner then drove forward,with the scorpion tanks in tow behind.He looked out of a porthole in the reckoner transport to see a gigantic black/red manta ray like Vehicle with its mouth agape and the scorpion tanks exiting from it.so that's what the building was.
The reckoners moved forward at a constant pace,the scorpion tanks just in front of them.the entire vehicle brigade moved in unison towards what was left of the blue zone city of Beijing to scour the city for items that could be scavenged.
Half an hour later
the reckoner came to an abrupt halt,causing Kaasim's head to jerk forward in a sudden painful motion.The door opened up,bathing the once dark cargo hold with a sickly green glow from tiberium,the very substance that they revered.Kaasim followed the rest of the militants out of the reckoner and into the city of Beijing.
"Group Alpha!you are to scour the northern streets.Group Beta into the south."
Kaasim followed closely with his team into the northern section of the city,looking for anything worth scavenging.the streets around the militants laid bare,the building torn and the road cracked.by the sides of the roads were bodies sporting burns and pooling blood.but what surprised them the most was the presence of almost man sized bugs that seemed like scrawny stick creatures with an elongated nose with a charred nozzle.On closer inspection,as they approached the giant creatures,the militants saw the sickly green tiberium fluid that filled them and the plasma reserves that stored the blue stuff that melted tanks into slag.
They walked for just over ten minutes when he heard a sudden clanking in the distance.All the militants hit the ground and acted professional,pulling up their rifles and aiming instead of cowering behind them.the sound became louder,causing a couple of militant recruits to shiver in fear while the more experienced ones stood firm.The mist before them clouded their vision,enshrouding whatever produced that sound from their sight.It moved even closer,the militants able to see a brief outline of it, a human with devices placed on its wrist while its hand carried a long spear like weapon followed lastly by a metallic housing unit.It led out a loud shrill scream,sending the militant recruits into a fright,compelling them to fire blankly at the shadows.Shocked,the militants watched as three recruits peppered the area that the being had been with bullets,only to travel through the smoke and hit nothing,while the being appeared a good ten meters away.
"FIRE!"
the militant platoon went into a frenzy,the lot of them mindlessly emptying their ammunition on the being which evaded the ongoing barrage of lead with fluid grace,before unveiling its own surprise.the fog cleared to reveal the creature,a seven to eight foot tall humanoid creature with tentacles at where its mouth should be and thousands upon thousands of tiny tiberium shards formed around it,forming an armored plate.Its skin could be seen at the joints,revealing a sickly dark green vine-like skin that seemed boneless.
The creature,or Foreman rather,Jumped three meters in the air,evading another onslaught of bullets before releasing a flurry of miniature plasma discs.the discs flew through the air and found their marks,the burst cutting down a full squad of militants.the foreman hit the ground and promptly dodged a stream of bullets while stabbing another militant with its Tiberium spear.Kaasim slammed a fresh clip of bullets into his rifle and began spraying at the Foreman,hoping to land a hit at it.But alas,none of the bullets found their mark.The foreman moved too fast for any of them to react in time.
sidestepping once more,the Foreman dodged yet another wave of bullets before releasing another flurry of plasma at the militants,downing another three,leaving a small group of six militants.Definitely outmatched,The militants broke into a run as they attempted to retreat from the massacre.The foreman got down on all fours and its skeletal frame morphed,that of a cat and sprang forth with unimaginable speeds,catching up with the militants quickly.the last militant turned around and promptly met his demise as a tiberium spear was plunged into his gut.the foreman got back on two legs,its form changing once more and continued the chase.Even on his two legs,the foreman ran faster than the lot of them,soon catching up with another two militants.the other two militants turned and while backtracking,They sprayed a full clip of lead at the Foreman,hoping to slow it down.the Foreman Continued forward,the bullets ricocheting of its Tiberium shard armor.It grabbed another spear from its containment device ad flung it forward,killing the first militant before grabbing the other militant,Flinging her about before launching her into the high rise building.
Kaasim and the other two militants ran to no end,while calling for help.One militant grabbing her communication gear and requested for scorpion tank backup.It was granted,but they needed to reach it a couple of blocks down the road.she looked behind to see the Foreman catching up with them,its tiberium spear in hand.
Just ahead was the scorpion tank.They waved at it,hoping that the driver would help them as soon as possible.She looked back once more.The foreman was only a few of its strides away from them and gaining fast.The scorpion tank registered the foreman as an Extra terrestrial.the driver drove forward with a smile of his lips."finally i get to kill some of these aliens."
the foreman was close to stabbing the nearest militant when it suddenly saw the scorpion tanks light AP shell flying for it.the foreman jumped into the air and dodged the explosive by a few meters,leaving the cannon operator in shock and awe.the driver accepted the challenge.he commanded the cannon operator to constantly feed the cannon with shells as he went wild with blood lust.Cannon shells were released at a constant pace,only to miss as the Foreman expertly evaded shot after shot.Kaasim watched as the scorpion tank missed time and time again against the invincible alien.
the driver got wiser and placed a single shot to send the foreman jumping to evade it.He then aimed the next shot at where it would land."You die now bastard"
The Foreman jumped to evade the first shot and was about to land when it realized that a second shot a been fired at it.It landed and tried to dodge but the shell was too close.the foreman closed its eyes and quickly the tiberium shard armor did its work.the thousands of shards began flipping and overlapping into a thick plate at the foreman's chest while another layer formed on its face,protecting its face.The shell collided with the armored plate and led to a huge explosion.the driver watched the spectacle and laughed as he watched the shell hit the foreman.the smoke covered the Foreman as the armored plate flipped back out and slid around its body to form its armor once more.It readied its spear as the smoke began to clear.It had found its next prey.
the scorpion tank driver watched the smoke clear to be fearful at what he saw.Not only had the Foreman not been killed but it was also moving towards him at an exponential rate with its spear already prepared.Frantically,he shot another shell at the foreman,only for it to dodge it and continue reaching for the tank.
Kaasim watched as the Foreman ran to the tank and knew for a certain fact that it was doomed.He and the other two militants ran around the corner and hid,while peeping through a hole to watch the spectacle.Shocked,they watched as the foreman tore through the layer of armor encasing the scorpion tank,followed by numerous punctures in the Scorpion tanks armor as the tiberium spear jabbed through it and lastly the foreman jumping back out with the cannon operator and driver in either hand,before throwing them onto the ground and continuing on its way.Kaasim and the other militants then continued on their way,wary of making any noise so as to avoid another encounter with the Foreman.
The deep clanking of steel boots echoed in the hallways.The black hand are coming this way.He promptly dove under his threadbare blanket and took the guise of a sleeping teenager.The black hand troopers marched into the bunk room,their three glowing red eyes scanning the entire room for any militants who were not asleep.Amidst the Black hand troopers,a Lieutenant enunciated clearly,"You two,tell Kane that his militants are on the way."The two Black hand troopers immediately marched off to the command bridge.The lieutenant raised his leg and within a moment,sent it crashing down on a nearby militants back.The man screamed in agony as he felt a sudden jolt of back along his spine.The other militants woke up to see the black hand trooper shout,"All of you dogs get moving now!Kane has orders for all of you!"
the people moved sluggishly,still dazed by the sudden turn of events.The black hand trooper grabbed his pistol from his holster and took a shot at the nearest militant,sending the man to the ground promptly.Blood spilled from the dead man's back,pooling around his dead body.The other militants immediately noted that it was business.Within moments,efficiency was doubled as the militants rushed to their respective weapon racks and passed down their weapons,all of them being outdated 20th century chain guns,Kaasim received an AK-47,a reliable but now outdated weapon.He put on his combat vest that was just hung on his bunk bed and wore his helmet.joining his squad,Kaasim followed the black hand troopers who herded them all to the assembly hall.
Kaasim walked into the assembly hall,remembering the previous time he entered not but a few days ago on a mission that would scar him for life and change his thoughts of nod.The militants all stood at attention as the screen began to show Kane's face to them.
Kane sat in his command chair deep within a bunker miles under and from Sarajevo,untouched by the Ion cannon strike or the Liquid tiberium bomb.He looked at his brother Natsumi who was in charge of the AV feed to the militants and looked back at the camera."Is the visual feed ready brother?"Kane spoke calmly.Natsumi looked at Kane with gentle eyes and nodded his head.An LED on the camera blinked,and he immediately greeted the militants.
"Good morning my brothers and sisters of Nod."
The crowd stood at attention.Kaasim looked ahead at the screen,but his mind wandered about,thinking about the events that had happened.
"I come before you in our finest hour!The visitors have arrived on Earth and have bestowed upon us a mighty gift!the gift of the future!Yes my brothers the visitors have given us the sight of the future,our tiberium future.First the Tacitus has given us the knowledge of their arrival and now they bless us yet again with these threshold towers which will lead us onto the path of ascension in which we shall walk and upon us the new age shall dawn!the age of tiberium.But to walk this path,we need to prepare.for we must earn our right of passage by destroying GDI and their blind attempts to rid the earth of this mighty gift.Brothers,listen to me and your place on the path will be reserved for you and we shall all evolve together into the new age as a species as we leave the disillusioned GDI in our wake.Follow me and the path shall open up to us.MY CHILDREN BROTHERS AND SISTERS ONE AND ALL
Prepare for Ascension!
PEACE THROUGH POWER
The militants went into a frenzy,all of them encouraged by Kane's charisma as a leader.The black hand lieutenant the shouted,"All right maggots get you asses moving to the reckoners!"The militants swarmed to the vehicle bays.The hall suddenly lurched.Kaasim looked around and wondered what and how it had happened."I thought this thing was a building?"Said a nearby militant.
"Maybe its some sort of aircraft"
"Who knows"
He stepped into the vehicle bay to see a group of priests blessing a long column of militants as they prepared to enter their respective vehicles.The priests injected divination fluid into them,the liquidized tiberium flowed through their veins and made them more energetic and aware of their surroundings.Kaasim got into his reckoner heavy APC and stared into blank space as the doors began to close.from inside the APC,Kaasim felt a sudden jerk,followed closely by the sound of the vehicle bay doors opening.the raider buggies swarmed out of the bay,followed closely by attack bikes.Kaasim's reckoner then drove forward,with the scorpion tanks in tow behind.He looked out of a porthole in the reckoner transport to see a gigantic black/red manta ray like Vehicle with its mouth agape and the scorpion tanks exiting from it.so that's what the building was.
The reckoners moved forward at a constant pace,the scorpion tanks just in front of them.the entire vehicle brigade moved in unison towards what was left of the blue zone city of Beijing to scour the city for items that could be scavenged.
Half an hour later
the reckoner came to an abrupt halt,causing Kaasim's head to jerk forward in a sudden painful motion.The door opened up,bathing the once dark cargo hold with a sickly green glow from tiberium,the very substance that they revered.Kaasim followed the rest of the militants out of the reckoner and into the city of Beijing.
"Group Alpha!you are to scour the northern streets.Group Beta into the south."
Kaasim followed closely with his team into the northern section of the city,looking for anything worth scavenging.the streets around the militants laid bare,the building torn and the road cracked.by the sides of the roads were bodies sporting burns and pooling blood.but what surprised them the most was the presence of almost man sized bugs that seemed like scrawny stick creatures with an elongated nose with a charred nozzle.On closer inspection,as they approached the giant creatures,the militants saw the sickly green tiberium fluid that filled them and the plasma reserves that stored the blue stuff that melted tanks into slag.
They walked for just over ten minutes when he heard a sudden clanking in the distance.All the militants hit the ground and acted professional,pulling up their rifles and aiming instead of cowering behind them.the sound became louder,causing a couple of militant recruits to shiver in fear while the more experienced ones stood firm.The mist before them clouded their vision,enshrouding whatever produced that sound from their sight.It moved even closer,the militants able to see a brief outline of it, a human with devices placed on its wrist while its hand carried a long spear like weapon followed lastly by a metallic housing unit.It led out a loud shrill scream,sending the militant recruits into a fright,compelling them to fire blankly at the shadows.Shocked,the militants watched as three recruits peppered the area that the being had been with bullets,only to travel through the smoke and hit nothing,while the being appeared a good ten meters away.
"FIRE!"
the militant platoon went into a frenzy,the lot of them mindlessly emptying their ammunition on the being which evaded the ongoing barrage of lead with fluid grace,before unveiling its own surprise.the fog cleared to reveal the creature,a seven to eight foot tall humanoid creature with tentacles at where its mouth should be and thousands upon thousands of tiny tiberium shards formed around it,forming an armored plate.Its skin could be seen at the joints,revealing a sickly dark green vine-like skin that seemed boneless.
The creature,or Foreman rather,Jumped three meters in the air,evading another onslaught of bullets before releasing a flurry of miniature plasma discs.the discs flew through the air and found their marks,the burst cutting down a full squad of militants.the foreman hit the ground and promptly dodged a stream of bullets while stabbing another militant with its Tiberium spear.Kaasim slammed a fresh clip of bullets into his rifle and began spraying at the Foreman,hoping to land a hit at it.But alas,none of the bullets found their mark.The foreman moved too fast for any of them to react in time.
sidestepping once more,the Foreman dodged yet another wave of bullets before releasing another flurry of plasma at the militants,downing another three,leaving a small group of six militants.Definitely outmatched,The militants broke into a run as they attempted to retreat from the massacre.The foreman got down on all fours and its skeletal frame morphed,that of a cat and sprang forth with unimaginable speeds,catching up with the militants quickly.the last militant turned around and promptly met his demise as a tiberium spear was plunged into his gut.the foreman got back on two legs,its form changing once more and continued the chase.Even on his two legs,the foreman ran faster than the lot of them,soon catching up with another two militants.the other two militants turned and while backtracking,They sprayed a full clip of lead at the Foreman,hoping to slow it down.the Foreman Continued forward,the bullets ricocheting of its Tiberium shard armor.It grabbed another spear from its containment device ad flung it forward,killing the first militant before grabbing the other militant,Flinging her about before launching her into the high rise building.
Kaasim and the other two militants ran to no end,while calling for help.One militant grabbing her communication gear and requested for scorpion tank backup.It was granted,but they needed to reach it a couple of blocks down the road.she looked behind to see the Foreman catching up with them,its tiberium spear in hand.
Just ahead was the scorpion tank.They waved at it,hoping that the driver would help them as soon as possible.She looked back once more.The foreman was only a few of its strides away from them and gaining fast.The scorpion tank registered the foreman as an Extra terrestrial.the driver drove forward with a smile of his lips."finally i get to kill some of these aliens."
the foreman was close to stabbing the nearest militant when it suddenly saw the scorpion tanks light AP shell flying for it.the foreman jumped into the air and dodged the explosive by a few meters,leaving the cannon operator in shock and awe.the driver accepted the challenge.he commanded the cannon operator to constantly feed the cannon with shells as he went wild with blood lust.Cannon shells were released at a constant pace,only to miss as the Foreman expertly evaded shot after shot.Kaasim watched as the scorpion tank missed time and time again against the invincible alien.
the driver got wiser and placed a single shot to send the foreman jumping to evade it.He then aimed the next shot at where it would land."You die now bastard"
The Foreman jumped to evade the first shot and was about to land when it realized that a second shot a been fired at it.It landed and tried to dodge but the shell was too close.the foreman closed its eyes and quickly the tiberium shard armor did its work.the thousands of shards began flipping and overlapping into a thick plate at the foreman's chest while another layer formed on its face,protecting its face.The shell collided with the armored plate and led to a huge explosion.the driver watched the spectacle and laughed as he watched the shell hit the foreman.the smoke covered the Foreman as the armored plate flipped back out and slid around its body to form its armor once more.It readied its spear as the smoke began to clear.It had found its next prey.
the scorpion tank driver watched the smoke clear to be fearful at what he saw.Not only had the Foreman not been killed but it was also moving towards him at an exponential rate with its spear already prepared.Frantically,he shot another shell at the foreman,only for it to dodge it and continue reaching for the tank.
Kaasim watched as the Foreman ran to the tank and knew for a certain fact that it was doomed.He and the other two militants ran around the corner and hid,while peeping through a hole to watch the spectacle.Shocked,they watched as the foreman tore through the layer of armor encasing the scorpion tank,followed by numerous punctures in the Scorpion tanks armor as the tiberium spear jabbed through it and lastly the foreman jumping back out with the cannon operator and driver in either hand,before throwing them onto the ground and continuing on its way.Kaasim and the other militants then continued on their way,wary of making any noise so as to avoid another encounter with the Foreman.
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