Staff Sergeant Ethan Cooper

I don’t really know anymore...usually I’m writing in my log every day but…something’s been pulling me back…I’m a Staff Sergeant…I have a Squad and I care for them greatly…I really don’t like playing the ‘Dick’ Sergeant. In this world, Earth is practically ran by technology…even our military, I’ve written about this before but today…We use Exo Suits, which give us more strength and mobility in Warfare…even enhancing Special Operations like Cloak, Tactical Visors, Night Vision, hell even today's Rifles, Machine Guns, or Pistols are enhanced with built-in attachment-type bullshit…even though it’s useful…but fuck me…humanity has come a long way…including violence.
Today, me and my platoon are being sent to Mount Everest…apparently, there are facilities that the insurrectionists have built over the years…and now we're about to demolish them.
Cooper, Out.

“Alright, we all know the objective right?”

“Infiltrate, collect intel, and blow the facility.”

“Okay, command, retask the drone support…give us an idea of what we’re hitting and how much we’ll be dealing with.”

“Copy Cooper, there’s a lot of Insurrectionists inside…basically, it’s somewhat a fortress in there. We have reason to believe they are holding classified intel and dangerous weapons…your mission is to recover the intel, destroy the weapons along with the facility and if you find any extra intel that contains where they will attack in the future, collect it.”

“Okay, sounds easy enough.”

“Okay we’re retasking UAV Drone Support, your HUD should show a map of the place and where enemies will be located.”

“Alright, gear up boys.”

The Squad was in a Warbird Chopper, it was fully cloaked so the Insurrectionists couldn’t see them. The Soldiers grab their booster pack for their Exo Suits and their Tactical set and equipment for the Exo, they then grab their weapons and equipment.

“Load them up, check your wrist launcher and magazines,” Ethan says.

“Staff Sergeant Cooper, what’s the play?” One of the Soldiers ask.

“We go in quiet and such, grab the intel and plant charges on the weapons…there’s only one way out where the Warbird can extract us so after we get what we need, we go loud and eliminate anyone who gets in our way. Once we’re on the Warbird, we detonate the charges and we’ll just watch the fireworks.”

“Oo-rah Staff Sergeant, let’s do this.”

Ethan chuckles and cocks his weapon, “Alright, grab your helmets…we’re here.”

The Squad all grab their helmets and put them on, then the helmets close and cover their faces, breathing can be heard but then is silenced.

The HUDs switch on which shows their Ammo Count, Lethal, and Tactical Count, Equipment List, Mini-Map.

“Exo Suit, Synced and Online, Cloak online, Boosters active, Stim ready, Hover ready, Wrist Launcher Synced and Ready, Boost Stomp ready, Tactical Visor ready, Night Vision ready.”

The Squad then exit the Warbird and point their weapons in front of them.

“Activate Silencers,” Ethan says.

The Squad then all hit a switch near the barrel which then a Thick cylinder barrel which a narrow hole slides out of the regular barrel.

“Suppressor on.”

“Alright, an entrance should be a klick ahead of us…let’s go.”

The Squad moves forward in the snow buried grounds and the blizzard that was hitting them continuously, The six soldiers look at their surroundings to make sure there weren't cameras or any hostiles watching. They then reach the alternate entrance, it was a metal door with a Hand-Print lock.

“Loggins, you got the fingerprints?” Ethan asks.

“Yes, sir.” Loggins holds up his glove which then glowed a specific Fingerprint Pattern over the gloves, he then puts it on the door and the scan accepts it. The door opens slowly and the Squad enters.

“Alright, we’re in…be advised we may lose comms within the hardened walls.”

“Copy Cooper, we’ll increase the scan within the facility, Reaper will pick you up in 20.”

“Negative, don’t increase the scan, we have a map of the facility, that’s enough. We’ll use threat grenades and Tactical Visors instead…don’t want to risk the enemy detecting the drone.”

“Roger, good luck in there.”

The Squad walks slowly down the hallway, they then spot a couple of hostiles, Ethan looks at one of his soldiers and nods his head towards one of the enemies, he then puts his thumb across his neck. The Soldier nods back and the two take out combat knives.

The two stand behind the hostiles and put their knives right behind their neck, Ethan nods and the two put a hand over their mouths and jab their knives in their neck. The hostiles move around in pain as their groans are muffled…then silence and no more movement come from them.

Ethan and his squad member move the bodies out of sight before moving up, he then puts a fist up and looks at his squad.

“Okay, our objective is two clicks away, it’s highly likely that the weapons will be there as well…activate cloak and don’t move around too much unless you want to be discovered.”

The squad nods and they look at their Wrist Pads and tap the screen a couple times, they then disappear, along with their weapons and equipment.

“Okay…on me.”

The Squad moves up in the open areas of the facility, slowly and steady with ease, they move around in a pattern together, avoiding contact with hostiles around them, while making close calls with the enemies near them, they spot a couple of Insurrectionists moving weapons into a room. Ethan looks at his squad and nods at them and points at the room.

“Slow and steady boys.”

The Squad enter the room and are met with a few insurrectionists, “Move over there, quick!”

Even though they were cloaked, the power was close to being depleted, they all moved into shadows and cover behind crates and barrels. Ethan looks ahead and sees it was a headquarters room or a meeting room of sorts…there were large screens of camera views, lists, maps, etc.

“Switch off,” The Squad deactivates their cloaks as they listen to their Sergeant, “Okay…make sure silencers are on, as soon as the two drop the weapon, take them out and those four at the monitors.”

The Squad nods at Ethan and raise their heads from cover and look at the enemies, “Dalton, hack into the electric system…kill the lights in here and lock the door.”

“Staff Sergeant, how are we getting out again? The way we entered?” Loggins asks.

“No, the place is a one-way door, plus we need to get up where the Anti-Air system is so we can get out safely…if we take the way we entered while they’re on alert…they’ll clock us.”

“Yes, Staff Sergeant.”

Ethan puts a hand on his shoulder, “Hey…don’t worry, we’ll make it back home…I’ll make sure of that…remember I care for my men.”

“Promise?” Loggins asks.

“No promises in the military,” Ethan says.

Dalton nods at Ethan and he nods back readying his weapon, “Alright as soon as the power is cut, activate Night Vision…you know what to do after that.”

A small chuckle is heard from Dalton as he then lifts three fingers up, counting down…after he hits zero he taps his wrist pad and the lights go out.

“Night Vision active.”

The Squad hold their Weapons up and open fire at the hostiles.

“What the fuck--“

The hostile says his last words as he then takes a bullet to the head, the rest react to their fallen comrade as then they look ahead to see small sparks of fire coming from somewhat-quiet rifles…after seeing that, they end up exactly like their friend.

“Hostiles down,” Loggins says.

“Clear, Dalton, collect the intel and any information that will help us in the future. Loggins, Michael, plant the charges. Connor, Rosales, locate where there the Anti-Air systems are.”

The squad all salute and do their objective as Ethan checks his ammo count and keeps watch at the door. He then hears static through his comms.

“Command, this is Ethan in the Blind, we have found the intel and weapons, we are taking care of it as I speak, send a Warbird in 10 as we attempt to take out the Anti-Air.”

Just then, the squad returns altogether, “Staff Sergeant, we’re all prepped and ready.” Dalton says.

“Alright, stack up…once the system security comes back they’ll realize something’s wrong. Once they enter, we take ‘em out and we move to destroy the Anti-Air systems.”

“Let’s do this,” Rosales says.

The squad reloads their weapons and checks their systems if they’re good to go, Dalton then nods as the power switches back on…then the alarms activate.

“Here we go.”

The door panel lights up green which then opens the only door to the control room, insurrectionists then enter the room to be greeted by a swarm of bullets.

“Let’s go now!”

The Soldiers run through hallways and corridors while taking out more insurrectionists.

“Eth…an…this is…Pilot Reaper, we’re…ten….inutes…out.”

Ethan quickly puts a hand to his comms while taking cover, “Copy that Reaper! We’re close to taking out the Anti-Air Guns, expect them out in five,” Ethan puts his hands back on his weapons firing at the insurrectionists, “Squad, they’ll be here in ten, we need to be done before five!”

“Copy that! Lethal out!” Dalton says as throws a Frag which explodes after at least three seconds killing at least four tangos.
The Squad continue their venture onto destroying the Anti-Air, killing many enemies they come across, soon they were close to their destination.

“Approaching the Anti-Air Systems!” Rosales says.

The Squad gets into a position which would lead to outside the base where the Anti-Air resides at, they plant charges at the door to blow it open as the locks on it were tight…after all the door leads outside where the blizzards blow strong.

“Do it.”

The charges blow and the door swings open letting in the frozen storm. The soldiers move outside taking out more insurrectionists that were controlling the Anti-Air.

They had a fight ahead…most of the Insurrectionists were out here making sure their Defenses are up and running, the Squad quickly gets behind cover, all readying Tactical Grenades.

“Alright switch ‘em to Threat Mode!” Ethan yells.

The squad does just that as bullets were still firing at them.

“Now!”

The squad throws their Tacs and suddenly their HUDs lighted up at least fifty enemies in their view.

“Use everything you got! Take ‘em out!”

The Soldiers back out of their now destroyed cover, firing at the enemy…one by one the enemies fall to the ground dead.
Ethan then taps his datapad which opens his Wrist-Mounted Shield, he slowly moves up as he fires his Rifle with his other hand as if he was a S.W.A.T Member.

“Everyone shields up, and move up!”

The rest of the squad copy their Sergeant’s Moves and continue their assault.

“Cooper, this is Reaper, are the guns out?”

“Gimme a second!” Ethan says.

Ethan then holsters his Weapon but not his Shield as he then starts running towards the fray of Tangos. Immediately he unequips the Shield and he jumps but his boosters lift him up at least twelve feet in the air in which he then quickly taps his datapad and he readies for a landing, but then his boosters activate which boosts him to the ground. He then lands on his feet which sends a small shockwave to the tangos in front of him whom which fall back.

“Got you now,” Ethan says as he then equips his Rifle and starts firing at the open enemies.

The remaining enemies then slowly start to retreat and leave, the Soldiers continue firing at every open tango they could get.

“Why are they retreating?” Dalton asks.

“They’re probably regrouping, we better hurry!” Ethan says.

“Got it!” Dalton says as he then spots the controls to the Anti-Air and quickly deactivates every gun one by one, he then
plants a bug on the controls which short-circuits them.

“They’re down!”

“Reaper, the Anti-Air Guns are down, how close are you?”

“Just about enough for them to get me if they were on! Do you see me?”

Ethan looks to the open fog to see a Warbird flying in.

“Everyone let’s go, we’re outta here!”

The Squad cheers as they’re evac arrives they walk towards the landing Warbird and wait for its gate to open. Then, a shot was fired and flies by the Squad.

Ethan quickly turns around to see the Insurrectionists return, he gestures everyone to get onboard, but then a bullet flies into Dalton’s back, he yelps in pain but then falls forward.

“Dalton’s hit!” Michael yells.

“Everyone get on now!” Ethan yells back.

The Squad does what they’re told and boards the Warbird, they then watch as Ethan picks up the still breathing Dalton.

“You alive?”

“I’m still kicking sir,” Dalton replies as he also coughs.

“Good, cause you’re going home,” Ethan says.

Just then a Rocket flies by them almost hitting the Warbird as well, Ethan looks back to see the dozens of Innies with Stinger Launchers.

“Oh shit!”

“Get him onboard, we gotta go now!” Reaper says.

Ethan then grabs something from Dalton’s Vest, the Detonator…he then put it in his own vest. Just then he lies Dalton down into a seat and he straps him in.

“Take care of him!”

“What about you sir?” Connor asks.

“Get yourselves to safety, Reaper, get out of here now! I’ll hold them off!”

“Copy, good luck Ethan!”

“Wait, Staff Sergeant no!” Dalton says as he then coughs again.

Ethan jumps off the Warbird and starts firing at the Innies with everything he’s got, he then shoots at the Tangos holding the Launchers and ends them quickly, he then takes a bullet to his left shoulder.

“Ah! Sonuva--!“

“We’re away Ethan, thanks.” Reaper says.

“...Fair winds, Reaper.”

Ethan pulls out the detonator and before hitting the button he thinks back to his whole life…his family, his brother, anyone he cared about, they were gone…he didn’t have anything to lose in fact, was it time for him to meet Death himself?

“I am ready.”

Ethan hits the button and another bullet hits his leg, he then crouches down, hearing the explosions.

“You’re fucked now.” Ethan chuckles as he looks up to see smoke rising from the vents…then fire…and an explosion inferno…that started to approach him.

He closed his eyes and awaited his end…he then felt Darkness and Silence.

“I guess this is what death is…”

“Actually it’s not.”

“What?”

Ethan opened his eyes to see a beautiful white figure with velvet red hair…and…a muzzle similar to a Horse…along with a horn?

“Who…are you?”

“I am Faust…I have seen your actions, your history, and your sacrifices…I am here for a second chance at life.”

Ethan looks at her like she’s crazy…then again…he’s dead…so maybe it’s an illusion.

“Are you even real?” Ethan asks.

“Yes, I am…trust me…as weird as I look to you…I am real.” Faust replies.

Ethan looks at her with disbelief but at the same time…belief.

“Why me though…out of everyone…why me?”

“Because you are a good man, Ethan Cooper, you’d sacrifice yourself for your men and anyone you even care about…you always put your life on the line…I haven’t seen bravery like that in a long time.”

“There are braver and courageous ones than me in human history though,” Ethan says as he looks away.

Faust comes down and puts a hand on Ethan’s Shoulder, she then takes off his helmet, Ethan flinches at first but then lets her, she then looks at him. He had Blue Eyes…Lunar Blue…or Midnight to be exact, he had a small visible but barely noticeable Goatee, he had a scar next to his Right Eye, his hair was Black, pure black and it was down to the back of his neck.

“You are someone…that lots would admire and such, I promise you that…I pulled you out of death because I want to help you and for you to help me.”

“And what is that miss?”

“Please just call me Faust.”

“What did you want me to do Faust?” Ethan asks.

“I’m sending you to Equestria…a land of peace and harmony…inhabited by species that aren’t human…they look like me basically, however, there are events that will unfold…and I need someone like you, who’s willing to protect and willing to put his life on the line for it.” Faust answers

“Miss, if what you’re telling me is true…and this land’s peace is about to shatter…I will do everything I can to make sure it stands…because you have saved me.”

Faust smiles and takes her hand off.

“Thank you very much, Ethan…If you completely help…you can stay here and live in peace.”

“Then I guess I will owe you the thanks ma’am.”

Faust giggles and waves him goodbye.

“Good Luck...and find Celestia.”

Ethan nods as he then shuts his eyes and feels his body radiate.

“Here we go…wait, who's Celestia.”

His whole vision went black again.

Author's Note

The start of something new....OOOH BOY!!!!

I wanted to make a Sci-Fi and/or Military Story because, I'm really into that type of stuff and hopefully you guys are too, I hope I got some well...Military sayings right...(God I am a fucking dumbass) But honestly it's from what I hear and from too much Military stories, movie, and games I've played, read, and watched...

Anyhoo, I hope you guys like this!