The convoy

I radioed my team to regroup by the APC and we started to move back towards the APC a hand grabbed my shoulder. I turned to see a woman clad in silver armour that is more decorated than that of the other knights, maybe she is their commander.

"Who are you!" she demanded.

I looked at her body language she seems to be nervous. 'Ha! I guess it must be scary to see people show up out of know where with unknown weapons.' I decided to shrug off her hand and I regrouped with the rest of Bravo squad.

"Mark and Rob guard the APC, James you're on recon alert me if you see any unknowns, Fabian you're with me," I ordered them to their respective posts and walked back over towards the convoy with Fabian at my side.

I look at the knights who have cleared most of the bodies off the road and dumped them in a small ditch. Most of the carriages looked to be wooden frames with cloth or canvas covering the roof, however, I noticed one of the carriages in the middle of the convoy was black and had gold trimmings. Someone of importance perhaps, the knight commander from before walked back over to me and Fabian.

"Thank you," she said softly "My knights would be dead without your help."

"It's fine," I replied calmly "I'm Finn, you are."

"Oh, yes. Yes, I'm Alyx commander of the princess's royal guard" she said flustered.

"Wait, princess," I said trying to stay calm "Hooh boy."

I radioed my team "Any activity? *stchk*"

"*stchk* Nothing yet" James replied.

"*stchk*Nothing here" Rob informed.

"*stchk*Ok keep your guard up" I ordered my team; I looked back up from the radio to see Alyx looking at me very confused at where the voices were coming from. Movement behind Alyx caught my attention, the door of the black and gold carriage opened and a young lady stepped out. 'So she must be said princess.'

"My lady, it's not safe." Someone called out from inside the carriage but gave up trying to stop her. She started to make her way towards the knight commander and me. Just as she was about to reach us a hail from my radio interrupted her advance.

"Sir! Multiple unknowns converging on the convoy! Over," James informed me, he seemed quite anxious.

"Copy that Bravo 1-2 how far out are the contacts? Over." I inquired.

"About two mikes till contact. Over," James replied.

"Copy, Bravo 1-2 stay on overwatch, Bravo 1-3 and 1-5 mount up and ready the 50-cal, out" I ordered my team, "Fabian you with me we're gonna flank them."

"Excuse me, what's happening," Alyx asked with worry in her voice.

"We have multiple unknowns approaching this location, we gonna give a face full of lead," Fabian replied excitedly.

"Wait, multiple unknowns… it couldn't be… no… could it.," Alyx said out loud, her voice full of fear. I stopped and turned to face her.

"If you have any idea what they are please tell me." I inquired coldly.

"They could be the waring troll tribe that has been wandering these plains, they decimate all get in their way and they… leave no… survivors," Alyx said looking at me with almost pleading eyes.

"*stchk* Bravo 1-3 you have permission to use the 50.cal confirmation of targets, uh… trolls." I informed my team "Fabian get the anti-armour ready." (M136 AT4)

"Roger," Fabian replied, he start calmly extending the barrel of the M136 AT4 and arming the round. Shots resounded around the plains as the 50.cal opened up on the trolls that were quickly approaching the carriages. I looked back at the knight commander and the princess who are covering their ears from the noise, they looked frightened, hmm. I turn back to see a few trolls slowly fall around 250m away from our location. A glint catches my eye I pull out my binoculars and see an armoured troll that seems to be their leader.

"Fabian, shoot the one in the armour," I said with an aura of coldness.

"Roger," Fabian replied and looks behind "Backblast clear!" *pppfffeessshh*

The sound of the rocket firing scares the girls, and their screams were drowned out by the continuous gunfire from the 50.cal. A small explosion can be heard as the rocket hit its mark and the armoured troll fell. Afterwards, the other trolls looked confused then started to retreat and ran away.

"Contacts leaving about 2km from our current position. Over" James informed us over the radio.

"*stchk* Copy that, leave overwatch and regroup with us, Rob park the Stryker near us" I ordered my team.

"Y-y-you killed an armoured troll," Alyx blurted out seeming hysterical. The princess seemed to be getting over the ringing in her ears.

"What was that noise, could it have been magic," The princess inquired with slight distress in her voice.

"No, no, that was just the browning 50.calibre machine gun on the Stryker," I said to the princess.

"50 … ca…li…ber machine gun?" the princess inquired further.

"Don't worry about it," I said to her. The Stryker came up the side of the road and stopped next to us the back door opened and James, Rob, and Mark came out.

"We picked up James on our way back," Rob said.

"Ok," I replied "Status?"

Suddenly a UI appeared out of nowhere in front of me, the rest of my team was stunned at the sight, Alyx and the princess looked at me in awe.

"y-y-you're a hero!" Alyx practically shouted.