Littlebird Down (1)

15 minutes before the distress call, the Aztec team and two helicopter from the Nomad team is currently in a middle of a dessert. Over it to be exact. The Aztec team leader is currently reading the information about their objective. The name of their target and a sketch of him. That is until one of the co-pilot began to speak.

"Man.. I made one mistake and all hell's break lose. Sorry about this guys..."

"Don't be sergeant, that mistake is made by us, not just you. We are a team and we didn't check each others back. Let this be our reminder to not fuck it up next time."

"Roger that. Thank you Aztec leader."

After a short pause, one of man from nomad team is letting out his discontent. "But man.. did you guys got cursed or something? I mean, how unlucky can you guys be? Got chewed by 'The Rook' Oman; got picked to do a assignment after long battle; not only that, the target we need to pick is already moved to the next village. Worse thing is, 'I' also got pulled in this shit."

Hearing this, the Aztec team leader, Bolrow understand the man's discontent and try to cheer him up. Bolrow then check the GPS. "By the looks of it, we will arrive at the second village in 30 minutes. So if we do this quickly, we'll be back in.. 2 hours. Tell you what, if we manage to get back faster than that, I promise I'll give you my secret stash of 'Alpha'. How about that?"

The man was shock, he started to stutter for a moment. "Did,did,did I just hear that right? Aztec leader, you possess an A,A,A,'Alpha'!?"

Alpha is a brand of liquor from Eldia, that have the tastiest and most adictive liquor that even Al can't get enough of. Of course the price is very high and even the liquor it self is hard to come by. To be able to taste it once is like a dream come true for most people.

Bolrow then smugly reply. "Yes I am~. I knew a guy you see~."

But other Nomad team's men then began to protest "Oi, oi, oi we have 12 men here. One bottle is not gon.."

"I'm planing to give you 6 bottle. So let's just hurry this up and get some rest."

Hearing this, the protester reply cheerly. "Woo hoo! Yes sir~!"

10 minutes later, the rather small air cav is flying over a seemingly empty canyon. But then..

'Thunk' 'Thunk' 'Thunk'

"What the fu.. Aztec leader we've been hit."

"Aztec-zero-eight copy that. Do you see the shooter?"

"Negative Aztec leader. I got no visual."

"All unit we have a shooter. Search it out."

"Zero-six here, I saw 'em. Two golems, 11 o'clock below me, hiding behind a rock. I'll go down there and shoot few rockets."

Aztec-zero-six then began to descend even before the go ahead confirmation.

Bolrow have a bad feeling about it and quickly shout. "Negative zero-six! Ascend! I repeat, ascend quickly!"

But it was too late. Just as Bolrow feared, it was a trap. Three other golems that were hiding on a hidden cave quickly shoot bolts at the helicopter. The barrage manage to hit the pilot and the back rotor.

The co-pilot try to control the chopper, but it is useless. The chopper is spining out of control. "My pilot is hit! Back rotor also hit! I have no control! Zero-six is going down! Zero-six is going down!"

"Aztec-zero-six is going down. She is going down."

'Boom!' The AH-6C 'Little Bird' then crash.

"We got a littlebird down. We got a littlebird down."

"Aztec-zero-six is down."

Bolrow quickly think of a plan to evacuate both the pilot and co-pilot whether they dead or alive. "Nomad-zero-five, I need your ground team to provide cover from high grounds. Find a suitable place and get your heavy weapons ready on the double."

"Roger Aztec leader."

"Nomad-zero-three stand by for quick extract. Find my boys, dead or alive."

"Roger Aztec leader."

"All aztec team, clear all enemy you find near the wreckage."

""Roger.""

Nomad-zero-five then began to land on top of the canyon, across the hidden cave. "Move! Hurry and set up the Striker!"

The two man team ground squad quickly exit the chopper and try to find a suitable firing position. After a quick look, they found a perfect placement for the Striker and immediately set it up.

"Load the HEDP (High-Explosive Dual-Purpose) rounds! Those fuckers wont know what hit 'em."

On the other hand, the Aztec team manage to destroy all five golems. Bolrow then order Nomad-zero-three to began the evacuation. "Nomad-zero-three coast is clear. Go Go Go."

Nomad-zero-three then land and the two man team rescue squad quickly head to the littlebird's wreckage. The littlebird crashed side ways, three of four blade propeller got destroyed and the armaments on the right side is completly destroyed. Luckily none of the armaments exploded.

Both rescue personel then climb on top the wreckage to check it. "Dunn here. We found both of them. The pilot's fine, except for a bolt that stuck on his arm pit. Co-pilot on the other hand, got crushed waist down by the wreckage. I think he's..."

"COUGH! COUGH!"

"Scratch that! He's alive! Hey buddy! Buddy, you alright!?"

"Never better.. COUGH! I got sand in my mouth... Other than that, I, my legs hurt like hell..."

"Shit.. we need to move this damn chopper. Barr, you move the pilot to our chopper. I'll stabilize the co-pilot here until you get back. Thankfully you are a hecaton and I can use body strengtening magic. I'm sure we'll manage to move this bird."

"Roger."

Both of them then began to evacuating the pilot. They cut his seat belts, lift him out of the chopper and then slowly lower him down.

While Dunn lowering the pilot to Barr, he slightly saw some movement from the cave that the golems came from. When he look toward the cave, he saw more than two dozens men coming out. "Contact!!"

Dunn have no choice but to drop the pilot and quickly draw his weapon. He shoot few rounds toward the enemy and quickly move inside the chopper to take cover. "A platoon of enemy is coming out from the cave! Bro, use the Striker already!"

"We can't! Wrong ammo! We are changing it now! Hold on!"

'Fuck! They probably expecting to shoot golem rather than normal soldiers huh...' Dunn protest the Striker team in his mind. "Rescue squad here! Somebody cover my squad mate! He's trying to bring the pilot back to chopper!"

"This is Aztec leader, we got you."

"Negative Aztec leader! We got him."

Multiple explotion began to erupt. The ground team on top the canyon manage to change the Striker amunition to 40 mm HE (High Explosive) round and began to lay down a curtain of explosive. Barr quickly run toward the UH-1 that currently hovering near there with the pilot on his back. He use his lower arms to hold the pilot and use his upper arms to shot at he enemy.

When Barr jump in with the pilot on his back, the chopper began to rapidly ascend. Barr then quickly wrap the pilot with a bandage, while keeping the bolt in so the pilot wont bleed out. Because the pilot still unconcious, Barr didn't give him an anesthesia and just strap him on a stretcher.

After finishing that, Barr then speak to his pilot. "Bring me down! I'm getting the co-pilot and my partner!"

But pilot shake his head. "Can't! Too many hostile! You want to go down, you need to jump!"

"Alright then! Get me close to them!"

The pilot give him a thumb up.