Blood in the Sand

The next morning Rainbow wakes up Roman to tell him some good news. After a few minutes of no movement Rainbow balls her fist and belts Roman in the groin causing him to wake up and groan in pain.

“Oh good you're awake, now I can tell you the good news.” Roman looks at her angrily and growls.

“What good news?” he said standing up and regaining his composure.

‘“Well from that intel we pulled from the airfield we found out two high valued targets. The best part on top of our promotions, were going to Yemen to assassinate the younger brother of the leader of Prometheus. The guys name is Nizaar Rabbaani.” she says throwing roman a dossier on the man.

“It says here his brother is Saleel Tahir. Wait how can they be brothers there last names are different.” Roman said confused.

“According to our intel their mother's maiden name was Tahir but they changed it to Rabbani when she got married. Saleel decided to keep his last name while Nizaar took the father's last name. In any case the file indicates they are very close so if anyone has intel on Tahir it will be him. So we're leaving in a couple hours to infiltrate their Compound in Yemen. Our primary objective is to kill Nizaar however if Tahir is there we are to bring him in alive.” Rainbow says pointing to Tahir’s picture. “Well I’m gonna go get ready to go. you might wanna do the same, you are the squad leader after all.” Rainbow said laughing her way out of the tent.

Roman stands out of bed and stretches and yawns before heading out to the Maxims tent to get a full briefing. As he walks out he quickly realises he forgot his shirt. He stands there muscles gleaming in the sunlight.. Baxter walks by and smacks his ass.

“Keep up the good work big boy.” Baxter said walking away laughing as Roman rubs his ass before heading back into the tent grabbing is sage green t-shirt. He quickly makes his way to the tent and he steps inside. After several minutes of light conversation about his new position Roman and Maxim get down to business and begin discussing the fine points. After grabbing his gear Roman meets up with Rainbow and Rhino Company and they headed for Yemen. The trip was long and boring but eventually they reached the drop zone. Rhino Company pours out of there Helicopters and begin storming the compound. Bullets fly, grenades explode, and bodies begin to fall left and right. Fighting their way through the small army they finally reach the moment of truth. Roman kicks in the door and without hesitation puts a bullet in Nizaars head and his body falls to the ground.

“Search this compound for Tahir then report back here.” Roman said giving Nizaars body a kick to confirm that he is dead. After several hours of searching it was confirmed that Tahir wasn't here. So to complete the mission Roman cuts off the hand of the dead body and bags it as they leave the compound they climb into the armored convoy and begin the trip back to the makeshift base to bring the confirmation that Nizaar was terminated. Roman and Applejack talk and joke when a sniper shot rings in Romans ears as Applejack eyes widen and she clutches her chest.

“Stop the truck we have a man down.” Roman screams. As the trucks stop a line of rockets start pounding the convoy. Everyone scrambles for cover as Roman hoists Applejack on his back and begins running as an army of Promethean soldiers come charging down the hill and they begin to open fire on Rhino Company. Roman puts Applejack behind cover as she holds her chest. a medic runs over to try and stabilize her. The bloody fighting lasts for thirty minutes before Rhino Company begins to push back Prometheus.

“Baxter pop a green smoke once Private allen radios for a hot evac.” Roman says firing and keeping Applejack safe. Baxter nods his head and relays the message to Allen and then he pops the smoke and throws it. Just as the smoke popped reinforcements came charging in from the East and West. Roman scanned the horizon and then overlooked his men before finally breaking his tough guy act.

“Fall back to the green smoke or were going to be overan. Rainbow I want you to provide suppressing fire on points A and B. Baxter you grab Applejacks left I’ll grab her right we gotta get her to the evac site now.” Roman said hoisting up his friend who is now bleeding out onto the sands of the battlefield. Baxter and Roman kick into overdrive dragging their wounded teammate as bullets whizz past her heads and grenades explode in the distance. After several minutes of running they reach a run down house and quickly get Applejack inside laying her out on a clean section of floor.

“Sir, she is loosing to much blood we gotta find away to stop the bleeding. Rainbow and Lansky can’t hold their position much longer.” Baxter said propping Applejack against a nearby wall. Roman runs over and kneels down next to her.

“How ya doin Applejack talk to me.” Roman said pulling out a small medkit from a nearby fallen member of the once large Titan Squad. As he is getting ready to patch up Applejack. Baxter, Rainbow, and Lansky come running back towards him.

“Sergeant were low on ammo and Prometheus is closing in fast we gotta hurry and get out of here.” Roman keeping himself calm and collected looks at Rainbow.

“Sergeant Dash I want you to get what ammo you can from our fallen brothers then I want you, Baxter, and Lansky to get to the green smoke for evac. Roman turns to pull out his radio. “Sierra 248 where the fuck are you I have two dead and one wounded and in critical condition. What is your position.? Over” After a few minutes of radio silence a voice rings over the walkie.

“Roger that Titans I see your smoke I’m five mikes to the evac zone ETA ten minutes. Over”

“Roger that Sierra 248 about damn time you got here. Who all is with you?” Roman asked cutting open Applejacks shirt to find the bullet hole.

“Just me and Rhino Company.” The radio man says before a familiar voice comes over the walkie.

“Staff Sergeant Roman are you there?” Roman smiles slightly “Yes sir commander Maxim I’m here and the situation is completely Fubar sir.” Roman says giving Applejack morphine and bandaging her up as she weakly speaks into his ear.

“I don’t want to die Roman, I still have to get you back for that prank you and Pinkie pulled on me.” She softly chuckles before coughing up blood. Roman who is now slightly crying takes her hand.

“Don’t worry Applejack you're going to be ok the evac is almost here that way we can get you back to the carrier and get you some actual medical treatment. For right now just save your strength ok.” she nods and passes out from blood loss as Rainbow runs over to Roman.

“Holy shit is she...dead?” Roman cleans the blood off his hands and puts gloves on.

“No she still has a pulse she just passed out from blood loss, thankfully our squad medics supplies were destroyed in that I.E.D blast but we have to get her airlifted out of her ASAP.” just then as the insurgents were closing in the helicopter arrives gunning down some of the enemies. Roman carries Applejack to the helicopter and loads her into it. As the helicopter makes it off the ground several missiles pound the area taking out several helos including the one with Applejack in it. The helicopter Titan Squad Climbed into got hit as well and spun towards the ground. More missiles pound the helicopters knocking them out of the sky and killing all of Rhino Company. The remaining helicopters and humvees retreated as Prometheus soldiers started combing through the downed helicopters.