A Hunter In The Dark

Afghanistan
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Sgt woods is sitting with his squad just below a ridge line of a mountain over looking a village waiting for command to give the green light to move in and take out the target. His team has been waiting for almost an hour and hes starting to get anxious about possible outcomes and how it could go wrong but he quickly banishes the thoughts to the back of his mind. Woods isn't a superstitious person but he does think negative thoughts before a mission could lead to casualties and he wasn't gonna have any of that, especially since it was one of his new jr enlisted marines first op since hitting the fleet a lcpl named Jason Grif, Woods hasn't talked to him to much other than how he was likening the fleet and making sure everything was going good for him back home but other than that he seemed like a good kid. Sgt Woods always made it his top priority to make sure his marines were in good condition and nothing bad was going on in their lives. As he thinks over all of his teammates and how he was gonna make sure they got a good leave when they got back to the states once their deployment was over and done with he puts in a new pinch of dip to try and ease his nerves about the mission they were about to carry out his jr nco Cpl Smith comes over to him.

"You know that shits gonna rot your gums if you keep it up." States Smith

Woods looks at her out the side of his eye trying to get a read on her before replying.

"I can stop whenever I feel like it Smith."

Smith just gives him a look that says (sure you can) while she sits done next to him. Woods knows she was gonna ask him something but really didnt feel like beating around the bush like always but he resigns to just sit there keeping noise to the min.

"When do you think command is gonna give the go ahead we know hes down there so what's taking so long?" Asks Smith.

"I don't know I'm not liking that it's taking this long though."

"Sigh... sorry about being so blunt but you look nervous. Getting second thoughts or something?"

Woods doesn't say anything right away just looking down at the village of insurgents thinking about his response.

"Honestly I got a bad feeling. But i dont know what to really think about this it's just seems to easy."

Smith just looks at her smart looking for any sign of him to be joking. For as long as she has been under him he hasn't been nervous of an OP before.

" dont worry about it Smith just the thoughts of an old guy."

Smith just chuckles at that since hes only a few years older than her.

"Your not old your only 28. But I've never seen you nervous about a mission should we call commander and head back?"

"No we'll be fine just this wait is getting to me I'm su..." Woods is cut of by his radio.

"Hunter 1 this is overwatch 3 copy"

"This is hunter 1 over"

"Hunter 1 your team is a go to move in and intercept the target copy"

"Roger that over."

With a sigh Sgt Woods gets up from his spot getting the attention of his team.

"Alright missions a go get to position we're moving into the village I want you to keep your eyes peeled and check the shadows, i dont want any surprises while down there understood!" Exclaims Woods.

"Yes Sgt!" Comes the teams response.

With that Woods leads his team down the side of the mountain to the west side of the village where they will make their way to the targets last known residence at the village. They come up to two huts on either side of an alley way leading to the main road as the stop and hold position for further orders from Sgt Woods.

"Alright it's dark on the road nvd's on and watch the roofs and windows when moving." Says Woods as he flips his nvd's down and turns them on lighting up the area in green. Woods the directs Smith and Grif to clear the house next them and to meet them at the road whil him and his other lcpl, lcpl Grey, clears their house. Looking through the window Woods dosent see any thing and Grey gives the all clear on his side Woods gives home the go ahead to go in so him and Grey climb into the windows and enter the house clearing rooms one by one. While Woods walks through the next room to the front room to meet with his lcpl an enemy insurgent comes around the door knocking his rifle to the ground and pulling a knife on Woods, as woods takes a fighting stance the insurgent plunges at Woods with the intent to kill him but Woods saw this coming a side steps bringing his knee up to meet the enemy's stomach with full force stealing the air for him. While the insurgent tries to regain his breath Woods knocks the knife away going behind the guy rlwraping his arms around his neck, before he could do anything Woods gives a Sharpe jerk snapping the insurgents neck killing him dropping him to the floor Grey comes in from the other room with weapon ready.

"Are you ok Sgt?"

"Yea I'm fine damn insurgent took me by surprise is all nothing I couldn't handle, anything on your side?"

"No all clear."

"Alright let's go the others should be waiting outside in the alley."

As the two walk over to the door a large explosion goes off just outside the door blowing back the two marines and back into the room. When woods comes back to the world all he can hear is muffled yelling and gunshots ring out while the world spins around him from the blast. As he regains his hearing and the spinning stops cpl Smith runs over to him and helps him back to his feet.

"They knew we were coming it was a set up we got to get out of here let's go!!" Yells Smith

"Is everyone ok?!"

"Grey is a little banged up but hell be fine we need to get out of here insurgents are closing in and fast we need to move!"

The two marines run out of the building to the road and meet up with the other two who are currently engaging the insurgents from cover. Woods and Smith run to cover further down the road and starts to provide covering fire for the rest of his team. As the other two start to run back to Woods and Smith lcpl Grif is shot in the leg and hits the ground luckily for him there was a crater in the road that he crawls into. Woods saw this and runs for the kid while Grey and Smith give covering fire from the concrete barriers that they were behind. Woods makes it to the kid and jumps into the crater and starts to open fire on the insurgents that were closest killing each with a shot to the head leaving no mercy for them.

"Grif your gonna be ok alright, I'm gonna get you home!" Yells Woods trying to keep the bleeding lcpl awake while he triage his wound and applies a tourniquet to his leg to stop the bleeding.

"Alright let's get you out of here!" Woods says as he picks up Grif and starts to run back to the rest of his squad as hes running he hears something hes all to familiar with the whiz of an rpg flying past him hitting the ground off to the side of the road When he gets back to the others he sets down Grif and starts to shoot back at any insurgent he can see.

"Smith, Grey get Grif the fuck out of here while i give covering fire he needs a corpsman and being here isn't gonna get him one any sooner!"

"Sgt we cant leave you here by your self!"

"Dont worry about me I'll be right behind you just start moving!" Before anyone can say anything else Woods sees a grenade land to the side of them with out second thoughts he jumps to action.

"GET DOWN!!" Yells Woods as he throws him self onto the grenade taking the majority of the blast into his body.

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Black that's all Woods can see while he drifts through the unknown untill he notices a bright light in the distance steadily growing bigger as he gets closer to it, with a flash of light Woods goes into the ever growing ball of light.

"GASP!..." Woods wakes with a startle all he can see is blurred motion and muffled talking.

"He.... re.... ok."

"Sir c.... ear me"

"Guards!... edical now!"
After a few mins of this his vision and hearing come back as his head spins and pain runs throughout his body Woods gets a good look at who was kneeling next to him. A woman but not a normal woman that he has come to know. This female has more of a equine appearance while still having the body of a human female. Shes midnight blue with hoarse ears and muzzle but a horn atop her head and... wings on her back. Atleast he figures it's a female due to the d cup tits that she has a wide hips.

"What the fuck." Wheezes Sgt Woods before his head goes back as he falls unconscious.