Chapter 34: Thunderstruck

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Jonathan's POV

I hummed as I bit down on the last saltine cracker from this box, "Wow... haven't had these in YEARS" I said to myself emphasizing the last part. I leaned back in the driver seat of my fire truck, feeling very tired I closed my eyes to take a quick nap...

"Jonathan wake up!"

Startled I got ready to throw hands with someone, but I saw Timothy with adrenaline running through his veins, behind him and around I noticed soldiers running around and convoy vehicles relocating. "Timothy what's going on?" I asked him, "There's a FOA convoy heading in our direction, Rose and Rachel saw it, get out of the truck" Timothy started tugging on my arm nearly dragging me out of the truck. Stepping out of the truck the adrenaline kicked in, I grabbed my helmet and gun and ran to find my team, but the sound of faint whistling made everyone look up...

BOOM!!

BOOM!!

BOOM!!

The earth around us started exploding, dirt, concrete, supplies, and bodies flew into the air. An explosion close to me sent a shockwave into my body sending to me the ground, covering my head and balling up I laid there on the ground as explosions shook the ground. After a moment the shelling stopped and I scrambled to my feet and looked around for my team, instead I saw death, gore, and destruction from the shelling. "Jonathan over here!" I traced Jose's voice and saw him standing with the rest of the team behind a brick wall, finally reaching my friends I hugged Rose who held me tightly, "Where are they coming from?" Pedro asked but his question was answered instantly when heavy gunfire was aimed at the allied soldiers who quickly returned fire. "Right over there!" Jose said gesturing to FOA soldiers engaging with allied soldiers, "This is a field, we need somewhere less flat" Rafael said, and we all agreed with him. Eyeing my fire truck and Jotchua that weren't far from us and was not caught in the fighting, "Well everyone it looks like were taking our vehicles" I said, and we looked at each other before taking off running towards the vehicles, Timothy with his LMG laid down cover fire for us as we rushed to the vehicles.

Tossing my gun inside the truck I jumped inside and started the engine, the passenger door and cabin doors opened and in hopped my original passengers. "Step on it man!" Nico shouted at me sticking his gun out the window, not wasting any time I stepped on the gas and the truck sped off. Speeding down the road I took a turn and slammed on the brakes when the truck came face to face with a dozen FOA soldiers behind them an armored truck. Throwing the truck into reverse, bullets were fired at us and among the chaos Jotchua was forced to go an opposite direction than us. While still reversing, the armored truck behind those soldiers sped out from around a corner and the driver decided to chase Jotchua.

3rd Person POV

Jose speeding down the wrecked street was alerted by Timothy inside the gun turret, "Enemy vehicle incoming!" from behind the Humvee a Russian GAZ Tigr sped towards them. Timothy rotating the M2 around back, pressed down on the trigger...

*Click*

"Damnit its jammed!" Timothy said trying to pull the cocking mechanism back but to no avail, pulling out his pistol he fired at the armored truck but the bullets merely hit the bulletproof glass doing nothing. "Hey guys I need something to blow that bastard to hell!" Timothy yelled into the Humvee making his sister grab something on the ground of the Humvee, but Jose swerved to avoid a collsion and caused Rachel to hit him in the head with an RPG, "Ow can you not hit me in the head with a rocket launcher I'm trying to drive!" Jose shouted. "Here" the twin sister said handing Timothy the RPG, "Has that been in there this entire time?" Timothy asked and his sister shoved the RPG up into Timothy's face, "No questions, here" Rachel said this time holding up the rocket.

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Timothy quickly and clumsily shoved the rocket into the launcher, placing the weapon on his shoulder a sudden swerve almost made Timothy fire the rocket into nothing. "Jose hold her steady!" Timothy yelled in irritation, taking aim again but was interrupted again when the GAZs gunner started firing at the Humvee making Timothy duck. Bullets chipped the Humvee and Jose took a sharp left to avoid gunfire, Timothy peaked over the gun turret and saw the gunner was firing aimlessly at them then he had an idea. "Jose when I say take a sharp right or left" Timothy informed Jose, "Alright when your ready" Jose said gripping the wheel.

"Now!" Timothy shouted and Jose took a sharp right, Timothy quickly peaked up from cover and aimed the RPG. Because of the sharp turn the GAZ gunner couldn't fire and had to wait until they were in their sights, because of that Timothy had a crystal-clear shot. Pulling the trigger, the rocket launched and struck the trucks left wheel from the shockwave and force the GAZ lifted off the ground and landed upside down. "WOOO!!" Timothy cheered loudly letting the others know he succeeded in destroying the GAZ.

Jonathan's POV

I slowed the truck to a stop and met up with a majority of the allied soldiers, I assume other allied soldiers are spread out. "All soldiers not injured follow me!" General Ernesto shouted over the soldier, we made sure our weapons were cocked and ready. Everyone spread out into different vantage points to fight the enemy, my team and I hid inside a two-story building, Jose would take his M14 along with Timothy and Rachel who were packed with explosives to use while the rest of us stayed on the second floor waiting. Flipping my visor down I took a deep breathe.

The sound of running steps and tank stomping was haunting, "I am seeing maybe 200 soldiers followed with a single titan tank, I don't like this homie" Pedro said, "Pedro get down" Rafael pulled the Brazilian man down, Rafael continued "We got this, were going to be fine". The first shot was fired on our side and that was the sign to gun them down until they drop, the enemy were stunned at first but quickly returned fire. The titan tank rotated its turret around and prepared to blow us to hell, then a rocket from the rooftop slammed into the right leg ultimately destroying the leg. The titan slumped to the right, the turret fired and striking the concrete mere inches from the ground.

From above our heads, I could hear Timothy holding down the trigger on his MG4, switching my HK416 to single fire, my finger squeezed the trigger and successfully gunning down several FOA soldiers. In the corner of my eye, I saw the titans turret move and the cannon fired blowing a buildings room apart, another rocket was fired at the titan hitting it, but the rocket didn't do anything to it. One of the tank crew made the dumbest decision, one of them opened the hatch and fired at us with a pistol but was instantly shot to piece's by several different allied soldiers.

"The hatch, someone throw a grenade in or something!" a soldier yelled

An allied soldier took the chance and sprinted to the tank, struggling to climb the war machine. Once on top the soldier pulled out a grenade but was shot from inside the tank, his lifeless body rolled off the tank and hit the ground hard. I got up from my cover and ran to the stairs but met Timothy at the stairs, in his hand was a rod with 5 grenades wrapped together, he looked at me and I looked at him, seeing we were wasting time I snatched the explosive from his hand and ran down the stairs while Timothy was yelling for me to stop.

Busting through the door I ran around back to where the tank was, I saw my friends up in that window looking down at me worried after what happened to that soldier, but I knew better. Climbing up the tank, I lifted my gun to my hip and readied myself. As I approached the tank hatch, I saw the hatch was moving, they were trying to close it. Pulling the pin on the explosive I was about to toss it when a FOA tank crew member peaked from the hatch, pistol in hand and hatred in his eyes. He fired off a shot and thank God it missed, I lifted my gun and started shooting it from my hip, shooting the crew member dead. Sighing a breath of relief, fear exploded through the roof when I realized I was still holding the armed explosive, quickly I approached the hatch and threw the explosive inside and jumped off the tank and sprinted as fast as I could from behind, I heard the deafening explosion of the explosive detonating the ammo depot.

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