Ambush!!

Rayla sat at the end of the truck when, it was not long after Peters entered the back looked at his squad and and sat with with Katie and Fin. "Try and get some rest it will be day before we reach Constance." Katie had a disgusted look on her snow like slim face with yellow eyes and curly blue hair, "Peasant country do we have to go all the way out there I hear its filthy out there. Its bad enough we have to share our transport with this one here now we have to go out there to do god knows that out there." Rayla face darkened but let the comment go, "Squad commander I'll be heading to my rig I have to get accustomed to my mecha anyways." Rayla jumped out of the truck, Peters didn't even say anything he just pulled his cap down and pretended to sleep.

Fuming Rayla jumped onto one of the trucks in the back carrying her mobile suit and jumped into the cockpit. entering the training simulator she decided to practice for a couple of hours.

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Rayla awoke the next day her hair blacking her view as she moved her face saliva stuck to her arm making a nice line from her mouth she sighed cleaning herself off. Then headed outside it was mid afternoon she had been up all night using the simulator getting accustomed to the weapons on board. She had one heavy chaingun, two mounted shoulder canons with two heavy rockets mounted on each one. Finally one detachable arm that had a dagger underneath, she could work with it, she had only managed to get a seventy score yesterday on the easiest difficulty she still had a long way to go before she was any good this mecha.

Yesterday she had also been briefed about their mission on her mobile log, it was to bring back munitions from her hometown. They were suppose to escort it back to the academy this was actually the easiest assignment she could possibly be given, it probably had something to do with the people she was riding with. This was an obvious answer seeing as her village's main product was munitions. She decided to get some food then use then get a quick bath before she would train a bit more. Halfway through her training she received an alert one her mobile log, the trucks suddenly came to a halt. The alert on device said to activate her suit and ready up for combat.

What exactly was going on here wasn't this suppose to be a cake assignment. She didn't dare disobey she activated the machine it roared to life this was much different from the simulator she brought down her combat helmet. Bringing up her mech she managed to get herself up without falling. She had heard of rookies doing that then she brought up her machine gun. Readying the weapon, She had been the first one up so she had to wait on Peters and the rest.

"Roll Call!!" Peters yelled. As his suit rose from the truck carrying a wicked looking axe on its back and a grenade luancher in its arms.

"Katie here!" Katie responded with a rifle and two detachable plasma blades on her back. In one smooth motion she was on her feet.

"Fin here!" He pulled out two pistols on each hand.

"Rayla here!" Rayla just stood there waiting for instructions.

"Follow me." Peters said running forward at a good pace. "We have just received a distress call from two of the squads headed to the border it seems the enemy has intercepted them have started a fight with them. I have set a waypoint to set up an ambush do not start firing until I say so it should be easy to deal with them. We need to stay in radio silence from here on out so the enemy does not spot our transmissions. get to your designated way points and wait for my signal."

It took them about thirty minutes to reach the waypoint each one of them was waiting for the signal. They made their way into a wooded area with plenty of cover. Rayla hands began to shake she had never been in actual combat before she tried to calm herself down. After what seemed to be an eternity she caught a glimpse of something was that another mobile unit moving slowly, it was hard to tell but it seemed like a smaller unit then theirs. Wait she thought this is a trap!!! She hoped she was right if not she would give away their position she quickly brought up her gun but the mobile suit had disappeared into the forest.

She was about to break radio silence when the mobile unit came into view again it was going after the instructor first. Her hand stopped shaking gripping the controls with all of her determination. Then she fired the kickback from the gun was as she expected the simulations were pretty accurate. The attack landed ripping through the back of the mobile, suit tearing it into two halves and also some trees maybe she wasn't as accurate as she thought. As she fired, bullets flew from all directions around them, the enemy rockets around their instructor most likely annihilating his mecha.

"Ambush!!" Rayla yelled moving deeper into the forest if she could not see her opponent neither could they see her. She had been too late to save her instructor hopefully the other two could get out safely.