AH Military School Thread

[rengadeirishman]

As Dan was leaving he accidentally bumped into another patron. He apologized, then continued walking. All of a sudden he heard a slightly high, nasal, voice "I say there sir, youve made me spill my brandy." English. Dan said to himself and turned. "I apologize again, it was an accident, Id be happy to buy you another if youd like." "What I'd like is for dumb mick-yankees to watch where they're going." Musta seen my nameplate. "And I'd like fucking limey's to watch their saxon mouths before i break their gin-swilling faces." Dan shot back getting angry. The blustering brit threw down his glass of brandy and drew a sabre, and, with a yell, charged toward him. Just as the brit was near, Dan drew his own and the brit stopped dead, with Dan's blade pressed to his neck. "Now now, boy, dont stop on my account." Dan said "a touch stubbly are we? allow me to aid you," dan ran the blade up and down the other man's neck, shaving a few bristles. "There ya go, cleaned up nice and proper." Dan lowered his blade, "Have a nice day." he said as he walked off. He heard a loud roar, and turned to parry the brit's strike. the brit struck again and Dan parried again, a few more such exchanges, and their blades were locked, the brit trying to slash down and Dan holding him back. "This bores me." Dan said as he quickly side stepped twisting his blade and causing the brit to stumble from being overbalanced. With a quick jab, the hand guard on dans sabre, connected with the brits temple, and the unfortunate young man was knocked out cold. Dan looked around at the dumbstruck people, "Well, good evening then." he said as he sheathed his sabre. he tooka shot that was sitting on the bar, and quickly kissed a young woman sitting at the bar, much to her shock, and distinct lack of protest. He collected his greatcoat from the coat check girl, tipped her and handed her a piece of paper. He then walked out the door and lit a cigarette. Then walked back to his dorm

 

[Ithica]

Kaili looked out the window to find James and to keep an eye out for the enemy. She was getting a little annoyed at how slow things were moving. They had 400 meters to cover in this little impromptu training session and she still had things to do.

She should have spoke up but hadn't seen one of these battle simulations before and let her curiosity run away with her. "I'll give it an hour before I bail," Kaili thought to herself before returning her attention back to the street.

 

[Mantra]

James followed along Kaili's rout, slinking his way across the road slowly, inch by inch and always alert for anything. He finally managed to manouver to a place where he rolled behind another pile of debris before entering the next building and rejoining Kaili.

"Good. Now clear and secure this room and make your way towards..." he whispered, but stopped in mid-sentance. His ears perked up at the sound of a soft, swishing sound. He suddenly grabbed Kaili's shoulder and threw her down to the floor, landing next to her.
The swishing sound ended with a massive 'KA-WHOOM! which shook the entire buiilding. Dust, mortar and plaster trickled from the celing and the floor lurched as the incoming artillery round detonated not far away, deafening all with man made thunder. Another wooshing report and another explosion farther away followed but then a third round impacted somewhere in the street they had just crossed. The store wall blew inward, as the artillery round turned brick, glass and concrete into flying schrapnel. Both James and Kaili were hurrled farther into the store like rag dolls, carelessly discarded by some angry, giant child.

James righted himself almost as soon he stopped bouncing, rolling to a kneeling position as his eyes linked with Kaili's

"That way, move! GO, GO, GO!"

 

[Ithica]

Kaili didn't recognize the swishing noise coming from outside. She had been about to ask James what it was when he threw her on the ground. She covered her ears after the first explosion.

Kaili knew that she was completely out of her league by the third explosion. She was shocked by the strength of the force that knocked them back. She was glad that they had been laying on the floor before the blast because most of the exploding wall missed them. Kaili bounced off of a counter and when she landed on the floor she looked up at James. He seemed to have landed surprisingly well and started asking herself what the hell was she doing here.

She heard the order and ran towards the back of the store. She found the door and slowly looked out to make sure there was no one out there. Finding the back alley empty, she started to run away from the building. She kept low and close to the buildings she passed them. Another explosion sounded behind them and she glanced back at James.

Kaili caught movement out of the corner of her eye and grabbed James. She pushed him between two buildings and began looking for cover.

 

[RoneLith]

Orn had watched the laughable display of fencing by at least one of the combatants. He had just arrived at the Cigar and Brandy club and though he felt under dressed he knew his cigars and his fine beverages placed his order for a Perdomo Estate Vintage Churchill and a bottle of MacCallan 18 year. His large size and poorly dressed attire caused him to stand out like a black spot on a white board. Most of the people felt too stuffy and pretentious perhaps even a little bit conceded. Truly the people were not his type but the cigar bar was. However he noted as the winner of the quick display of fencing stole a kiss off a rather lovely looking woman who was still just as red as a rose, perhaps not all of the people here were the type to sit in their comfortable command posts while there men died in the feild.

Orn smoked his cigar peacefully all the while slowly nurseing a glass of his Scotch with just a small amount of water in it to cut through the alchool and bring out the true flavors of the drink. It was at this moment that the brittish man began to stir he rose to his knees; anger, hatred and hurt pride in his eyes a deadly combination for himself that is. The man grabbed his sabre and stood ready to chase after the man that had wounded him so. He started to storm out of the place it was then that Orn decided to intervene.

"Going out to die then?" Orn said barely glanceing at him. The man stopped and turned his pride and anger blinding him to Orn's size.

"You want to be first?" He said pointing the sabre at him.

"Oh no, just thought I would save your life for you. Better to live with a small amount of tarnished pride that vanishes in a week or so then to die for little more than spilt brandy. Trust me, there are far greater things worth dieing for, but if you wish than by all means die a foolish and meaningless death."

"What would you do? Huh, just forget about it?"

"It does not matter what I would do, mainly because I would never put myself in the position you are in, it only matters what you will do, death for nothing of wait until something else comes along that will make your death matter." The man tilted his head down the anger replaced by reasoning and sheathed his sword.

"You're right," he walked to a chair and sat down, relighting the cigar he was smokeing. Orn asked the tender to get the man a drink and make sure he does not cause any more trouble. He then excused himself and taking his cigar and scotch with him went in search of the victor of the match. For in him lay the possibility of someone worth having on his team.

 

[rengadeirishman]

Dan had changed back into an O.D. beater and loose camo bottoms. He once again wore a brace of .45s in his shoulder holster and his sabre at his hip. he sat out on the dorms patio in a lounge chair with a glass of his grandfathers homemade whiskey and his cigarettes. I wonder if killing other students gets us expelled, even in self-defense. He replayed the fight in his mind seeing at least half a dozen ways he could have killed the brit. A man shouldnt use a sword if he doesnt know how he thought to himself, taking a long drag. As he sat outside relaxing He caught sight of the largest man he had ever seen. This man walking toward him was 7 feet tall if he was an inch and had to outweigh Dan by 100 pounds, as he got closer he could see the mans blond hair and fierce blue eyes. Scandinavian I'll bet, they sure do grow 'em big up there Just in case, he made sure his sword was clear in the scabbard before saying out loud "Name's Dan Daugherty, fine evening isn't it?"

 

[Mantra]

James pressed closely against the wall of the alley next to Kaili who did the same. Artillery continued to fall, but although the ground continued to shake and the air vibrated with concussions, none of the following explosions seemed as close as the detonation outside the store had been.

In the street not ten feet away, a handful of hostile soldiers rushed by, apparently seeking cover from the artillery themselves. James counted seven in all, all armed and uniformed combatants. He turned his head towards Kaili silently motioning down the alleyway. The safe zone coul not be much farther, so long as the alley did not suddenly end or turn away from the north.

 

[RoneLith]

Orn held the cigar in his mouth while taking stock in this man as he walked up. It had not taken that long to find him, simply asking other students about a man in dress uniform and looking a little upset. He watched as he checked his sabre, he let out a large laugh, taking the cigar out of his mouth of course.

"I often have that affect on people," he said comming next to him, his cigar in one hand and bottle of scotch in the other. "Orn Kross, pleased to meet you."

Orn sat down in a chair adjacent to Dan, taking a puff on his cigar and wondering just how good he was with the sabre. More than that he wondered just how good of a soldier he was and is he willing to help Orn create a team of hardened warriors. All the while he studied him, he looked relaxed but the look in his eyes told otherwise. Quick reflexes no doubt, he had proven that at the bar. Orn studied him trying to find the tale tell sign of what he had come to call the warrior spirit. He could not define it but Orn had seen many soldiers and had led many in battle, every soldier had the spirit but it was those that sent his hairs on the back of his neck standing on end that truly possessed and no doubt understood the warrior spirit.

"I am looking for a brother," Orn said after sometime.

 

[ultimate_nerdslut]

The young strawberry blonde mechanic was glad to finally arrive. She loved working on planes but she often got rather large headaches from the take offs and landings. Her mind wandered to where exactly her room was because she needed to get some rest or at the very least steal some aspirin from her roommate. She wasn't tired at all but maybe it would be better for her to shut out the light that was only making the mild headache worse.

She found herself in the middle of a courtyard where several boys seemed to be getting to know each other. She was in no mood for such childish actions as mild pushing and shoving. She had far too many other things to worry about.

She managed to avoid contact with most of the untrained children before spotting two men that might be able to help her. One was a large beast of a man who stood and the other was smaller, but not small, and was sitting. How was the best way to interrupt without starting some kind of an issue, they could have been talking about something important really.

"Oy, either of you men know where I could find Dorm six three?" she said as she looked at the two of them. Her eldest brother had insisted that her things be sent ahead so she was hoping that it was all in there and all she would have to do was unpack. "If you don't know where it's at just let me know, I can find someone who can point me in the right direction a'ight?" She asked.

 

[rengadeirishman]

"A brother eh? Where are my manners, care for some whiskey?" Dan held up the bottle. "Orn Kross you said? Well pleased to meet ya, god its good to see another man who looks like he can handle battle, most of the other infantrymen ive seen have been real weedy and nervous looking. Where ya from? my guess is scandinavia somewhere, your big and got the right voice for it." Dan then heard a lilting irish brogue and turned to see a cute strawberry blonde. "Well hello colleen," he said taking her hand and kissing it with a bow "My name is Dan Daugherty, and Six-three is my dorm, I suppose that makes us roommates." he said releasing her hand and raising from his bow. "This here is Orn Kross, He has good taste in cigars. I like him already. What's your name lass? oh and would anyone like some whiskey? secret family recipe." he said, showing off the bottle.

 

[ultimate_nerdslut]

Devin was surprised by the sudden uptake of her hand and the kiss placed upon it. And small smirked formed on her lips as her eyebrow arched up as if surprised... "I suppose that does make us roommates, Daugherty," she said before looking to the large man. Well, Orn was a fitting name for such a man, not that she would say that he reminded her of a Finn MacCool. He was a giant that was for sure.

"Nice to meet you Orn Kross," she said with a firm handshake to the light haired man, there was really no reason for him to get down and kiss her hand, not that there had been need or reason to this other man to have done the same.

"The name is Devin Roark," she said with a smile. "And I have a throat on me." Her headache was nearly forgotten with the prospect of some fine whiskey. "Well, I can say that I am sure that this arrangement will work out nicely." She was more than happy that her roommate was a handsome man and not some Bollocks.

 

[rengadeirishman]

"Well now that we are all acquainted." Dan said sitting back down. "How does everyone like it here?" he asked as he handed Devin the bottle. He also opened his cigarette case and offered one to her, as Orn was still happily smoking his cigar.

 

[Ithica]

Kaili shook off the dust that had fallen on her from the building. The force of the first explosions had shocked her, so she was glad that they were further away from it now. She glanced over at James and was unnerved that he didn't seem to be affected by everything that was going since they had started.

She watched the soldiers run past and caught James gesturing for her to continue on down the alley. Kaili nodded and started to run. Any time she could she would use dumpsters and anything else she could for cover. Kaili began to think that next time she would be the one to set the program so at least she could have a gun.

 

[RoneLith]

"You are correct, I am from the Scandinavian countries, Norway to be precise." Orn paused and returned to his seat adjacent from Dan. A ladies man, he thought. Inwardly he chuckled as he watched Dan try to flirt his way into the young ladies sheets via this one introduction. It was then that he finally caught the Spirit inside of him, it was exactly what he had expected. It appeared that Dan was the type to protect, be it honor, or a lady even one he just met. He had been right about him, this was someone who needed to be on his team.

Orn quickly took measure of the young lady and noticed the small amount of grease and soot between the fingernails that no amount of scrubbing could remove. Her hands were rough as if she had been working with them her whole life, possibly a mechanic of some sort. She was cute but by no means someone to have on her bad side. Her stance and the confident way she had easily spoken to the two of them hinted at a confidence that could not be shaken. Almost as if she had never come across anything that she could not fix with her hands. Truly a rare and useful woman. Were he not focused on his goal he would have acted the same way as Dan she was a rare catch, he wondered if Dan had a chance.

"As for here, I rather like the grounds, and I agree with you that many of these students will most likely end up as either fodder, or officers that stay behind the lines and send me off to die. That should only be left to those that have faught on the front and cannot continue to do so. Generals and the like."

 

[ultimate_nerdslut]

Devin settled herself against the wall as she accepted the whiskey. She took a quick swig and relished the way that it burned. She was not at all one of those pompous prissy little birds that would start coughing from some damned fine liquor.

"I'm as weak as a salmon in a sandpit, my friend." Well, she was hungry, you can't eat airplane food it just makes you ill most of the time. "It doesn't help I've been runnin around like a blue-arsed fly," she said with a smile.

She accepted the cigarette quickly enough and quietly found that she had no matches or a lighter. She didn't have to look to either of the men for help because she found one of which holding up a light for her. She smiled and allowed him to light it for her.

"So where are ya hailing from?" she said before one more quick drink, passing it back to Dan right after. She puffed her cigarette, keeping it pretty shallow for the sole fact that her throat was a little sore from the whiskey and screaming at the little shite, at the airport, that didn't know where her luggage was and why they thought it might have not been transported to the base. She listened to Orn's answer.

"It's a mite colder up that way," she said with a chuckle. "But beautiful country I've heard."

She listened to the bigger man speak of the boys out in the yard and had to agree. "I may not be in the infantry as you two, but even I can tell that most of those boys are going to drop out before hell week is over," she said looking out at the group. Shame really, some of them were very nice looking, but they wouldn't be here long really.

 

[Mantra]

James caught the back of Kaiki's shirt, restricting her ability to run too far ahead. Instead having them move one after another down the alley until both were near the end of the alley, crouching down next to a large, steel dumpster with flaking green paint. Behind them, the artillery continued to fall, pummeling the city as it did so.

He motioned for Kaili to stay where she was as James low crawled towards the open end. Beyond they could see a glowing, electronic barrier, indicating the edge of the 'safe zone'. and an almost undamaged stretch of asphalt between them. James flattened himself against one wall and peeked out, snatching his head back after only a fast glimpse. It was fortunate he did so as a bit of brick fragmented a split second later. James dove backwards into the alley, rolling over backwards as a second fragment was blown away from the wall where he had just vacated.

"Sniper." he said plainly, seemingly unconcerned by the fact he had nearly been decapitated by the rounds. "Probably at an elevated position to our left."

 

[Ithica]

Kaili jumped as a brick exploded and crouched further against the wall. When James returned she listened to his apprasial of the situation.

She tried to think of what to do. If they doubled back around to the otherside of the street they would run back into the fleeing enemy soldiers or the artillery. She decided that they would probably need something to destract the sniper but couldn't think of what to do.

"Don't you wish you had a gun now." Kaili mumbled before asking, "Have any ideas?"

 

[Mantra]

James looked up and into the dumpster and found nothing of interest in its mish-mash of refuse. He also looked up and down the alley, taking note of everything available.

"We cannot remain here. It is likely that the sniper relayed our position to others. They will advance as soon as the artillery barrage allows them to move; if not sooner." He said before finally looking over the dumpster itself.
"It would be extremely difficult to successfully engage a consealed sniper from our location. Even if we had a weapon, I estimate an 87% chance of a fatality for whoever attempted to supress the sniper fire. Since there are only two of us, I do not see that as an acceptable sacrifice."

He continued to examine the dumpster and with a slight push, observed that it was indeed on wheels and still rolled somewhat.

"I have a plan. I will push this out, you can run along side of it, just make sure to keep to the right until such time as you can break cover and leap to the safe zone."

"Are you ready?"

 

[Ithica]

Kaili had her doubt's. "So are you going to leave yourself out in the open to get shot. That's very noble of you but I don't think so."

The other problem was that they didn't know how many snipers there were. Even if the dumpster offered cover from the sniper they knew about, what if it left them open to another. But as James pointed out, they didn't have many options and the enemy may be closing in.

"We will both keep to the right and I'll help you push."

 

[Mantra]

"I have no intention of being left behind, although admittedly this will not eliminate the possibility of being terminated." He said, pushing the dumpster a bit farther forward. "Trust me cadet Kaili."

 

[Ithica]

"Alright. But you could have left the last part out about being terminated." Kaili said. She moved so that she could test the weight of the dumpster and how well it moved. The wheels swiveled a bit and it was heavy but if muscled through it would move fairly well.

She moved so that she could get a good grip on it so that there would be little of her out in the open as possible. She nodded to James and started to pull. After getting it moving the dumpster started to move easier but it rolling on the pavement made a lot of noise. Kaili grimaced at the sound and started to pull harder.

When they moved out of the alleyway, there was a couple of seconds before she heard the sound of bullets hitting the dumpster. It sounded like they were rattling inside and she wondered if the one side was giving away already. Kaili began to worry about how long it would take until the bullets pierced all the way through and if they would make it to safety first.

 

[Mantra]

James set himself at the back of the dumpster, where he could best push the thing. He also turned it at an angle so that he was pushing at one of the corners and providing some cover for himself as well. There in the narrow alley, James was cut off from Kaili, but once out in the street, there would be no such restriction.

"We will not have much time as we will likely draw fire as soon as we exit. As soon as you can, break cover and jump clear. Try to stay down so your head is not visible above the baracade."

James did not wait for confirmation, instead he lowered his own head and shoved. The dumpster gave a great screeching sound, but moved out into the street, slowly at first, but quickly gained momentum as the two pushed. Almost imeadiatly, rounds began pinging off and into the dumpster from the far side. Three rounds pierced the metal barrier in rapid succession as they moved farther into the street.
The sniper was firing blind at them behind the dumpster, but it wouldn't take long before blind luck scorred a hit against them.

 

[Ithica]

Looking up, Kaili saw where the electronic barrier was. She steered the dumpster in that direction. She could see that they were about a dozen meters from the safety zone. Kaili swore quietly as the far front wheel on their cover became caught on a large rock causing the dumpster to start to swing.

Kaili redirected her effort to compensate for the change. Luckly the wheel swiveled and the rock was dislodged but their luck started to run out. Kaili looked in front of her and saw a bullet hole on their side of the dumpster. She backed up a little and continued to pull keeping an eye out for rocks.

Kaili was relieved when she looked up and saw that they were only a few meters from the safety area.

 

[rengadeirishman]

"Norway huh? Well I'm from the good ol' US of A. Baltimore, Maryland to be precise." he took a good swig of whiskey and strong drag on his smoke. "Black Ops are my specialty, My father taught me how to kill a man three different ways with my barehands by the time i was ten. He was Black Ops also, and My grandfather before him, he emigrated from Ireland and joined up with the US army. Long distance officering just isnt in my realm. Doesnt really do too well for my kind of war. Theres a saying back in b-more, "If your gonna fight any man in the city, make sure hes not a Daugherty." dan said chuckling. "By the way, anyone like ice cream? ive got some in my room."

 

[ultimate_nerdslut]

She smiled listening to him talk, he was pretty funny. She continued to take tiny drags from her fag and wondered what it was going to be like living here. It didn't seem to be much different from how things were with her brothers, of course she had only met two men so far... But no one else seemed to be so bad.

She smirked at the saying... "You can just go ask anyone from Donegal about me and you'll hear a lot of things Danny," she said not opening her eyes, she was surprised that they were closed. "I may not look like a fighter but don't do anything that may cause me to have it out for ya," she laughed as she remembered her bowing match with the Donovan boy.

"Ice cream you say?" She said sounding amused and interested. "Let me finish this," she motioned to her cig, "and I'll be more than happy to take a snack." Ice cream wasn't filling but she had a stomach on her and if that was the only food she was getting straight away she'd take it.

"Well, How long have you two been here then?" She asked. "Do you know the grounds well enough to show a lass about?"