Chapter 37: Commander Gabido
After they arrived at the smoking parts of the helicopter, a fire began to flare up around it. Nobu quickly began to put it out.
-That's right, so that we wouldn't be discovered. - Firespitter agreed.
-Not exactly, but that's also true. So that the entire forest wouldn't be covered in fire. - Nobu trampled the burning grass.
-Oh, don't worry about that, there's a lot of humidity here and the grass isn't dry, any fire won't spread beyond this clearing. Look for food, water, ammunition... although who am I kidding, military helicopters don't store such things, but maybe you'll get lucky and it fell out somewhere.
Nobu was in a state of excitement, he managed to shoot down an entire helicopter. "So this is what butterflies in the stomach are." Now that he had a huge combat power, he could try to follow the plan and shoot down aircraft to eliminate enemy air superiority. Should he continue to stay near Bucephalus and Firespitter?
"Lucky." Nobu walked a short distance from the helicopter and found a whole pistol and a working radio in the burnt holster of the remains of the scattered machine gunner. After checking the clip, he heard a voice coming from the radio.
- Over. Hawk 3, report the situation, we saw one of the birds crash. - Nobu took the radio in his hands slightly nervously, do you need to say something? After poking at several buttons, he managed to find how to speak.
- Ahem... Connect me to the main one. - Nobu said in Burmese. A few moments of silence. The radio operator spoke nervously to the soldier reporting the losses. - Minus Hawk 3.
- Who am I dealing with? Anandaman? - The liaison returned to the dialogue with the unknown.
- .... Until the main thing happens... I will continue to shoot down helicopters. - Nobu said this in a slightly trembling voice.
- Damn, is that a child's voice? - the radio operator said to the soldiers gathered around.
Having climbed the tallest tree in the area, Nobu began to look around the surroundings, with his enhanced perception he would spot the enemies much earlier than they him. He saw dozens of flashlights approaching him and gradually surrounding him. Helicopters were circling above the destroyed camp, Nobu was going to go around each platoon until he found a position to shoot them down.
- Well, we got it. "It may seem like a way out to fight, but it is useless and risky, in addition to the encirclement itself, they can also possess various abilities even worse than the Expansion. I need to get out of here and preferably quietly, but first it is better to get rid of the aviation. Walking with Bucephalus among the enemy forest is pure suicide, it is better to leave them and go alone. Besides, he is wounded, how long will he last?"
- Fuck Anandaman, fuck the Junta. This is not my war. "I need to escape under the noise. I hope my threat to shoot down the helicopters will be enough for them to land them, and then I will take some pilot hostage, order them to get out as far as possible. Japanese shipping is too well developed to ignore the Burmese market. There will definitely be Japanese ships in their ports. Although will Japan trade with a dictatorship? I am not sure, but there is no way out."
While Nobu was planning how to destroy the aircraft and escape, one of the generals of the Myanmar army arrived by helicopter to the destroyed camp, since this operation was his initiative. There are four of them, and they control the entire army in the state, and therefore the entire state.
The general and his entourage arrived to the hubbub of the helicopter. The general looked young and ambitious, but his most noticeable feature was a strange spot under his eye, which shimmered in different colors. Of course, he is the only one among the generals with noble intentions to save the country from corruption and stop the war by destroying the cartel.
- Allow me to report the situation! - the commander of the special operation "Quiet Pool" responsible for this cleansing of the logging camp of Anadaman greeted the commander-in-chief.
- Not necessarily, I have already heard the report.
- So, you are aware, Mr. Commander, we have them pinned down and are surrounding them in the forest. - the commander followed the general.
- I also know about the losses incurred, I did not put you in charge of the operation with the aim of destroying my team.
- Yes, the enemy has a big quirk advantage, but there are more of us and the equipment provides support....
General Gabido decided to listen to another report from the persistent commander. The plan was excellent, a massive assault, night, equipment, surprise + sabotage inside the camp. The sabotage worked perfectly, as planned, although some said the opposite. "Sending those two directly to the camp justified itself. If not for them, the enemy could have given a strong fight back." General Gabido is a difficult person, scrupulous and cautious, one could call him the only competent general among the other three. His quirk was not his main advantage, he became a general only thanks to everything at once, including a sharp mind. Perhaps the most promising among the generals planned to destroy the Anandaman cartel, burn out all the roots from the state.
However, there was one inconsistency in this beautiful plan, a stain on the reputation of the Burmese army. The loss of equipment is unacceptable, as well as important personnel. They have already lost more than a hundred people, the main skirmishes were at the checkpoint, those who survived continue to hide in the forest and resist, although they are completely surrounded and pressed into the very corner, beyond there is only a river, and what is a river? It is detection, which means death. "Sly bastards."
- We have to give them credit, that small group in the forest are the most powerful and lucky bastards of all. What do we know about them?
- We have a surviving group that made contact with them. They should not disturb the wounded now, the rest continue to carry out the mission. In general, one large man, and at least several more people. The first, according to the soldier, has a strengthening quirk, since he withstood the quirk of our fighter, he can manipulate stone, and only one. Always flying after him, and this case, when he took him with him on a mission. - the commander and the general just saw a boulder larger than a man flying past.
- And what abilities do the others have?
- It was also reported about using fire, or rather something like fire breathing. - the commander scratched his head uncertainly. - There was also a third one in this group, but he doesn't know anything about him. Perhaps he was the one who shot down the helicopter, if you leave the birds in the sky, then there will be a threat.
- What made you decide?
- We were contacted, perhaps a cartel fighter wanted to hear from you. - he said in confusion.
- Let's see what he says. - They moved towards the mobile radio station.
- Switch to that frequency. - the commander gave the order to the radio operator. A quiet white noise typical of radio was heard.
- This is General Gabido, who are we in contact with?
-...I'm not from Anandaman.- Nobu hesitated for a second to tell him this. -You should lower the helicopters.- The soldiers looked at each other.
-Then who is it?
-A surviving worker, probably.- The soldiers offered various suggestions, but this one seemed the most logical.
-No way, we need to finish the operation. Even if you're not from the cartel, the cartel soldiers are still in the forest.- The general was surprised by the child's voice, a thought touched his mind.
-...I'm very sorry to hear this.- There was disappointment and sadness in his voice. A second later, quite close to the base of the former cartel camp, now the junta camp, there was a roar and one of the helicopters flying over the forest exploded and fell.
The soldiers jerked and quickly ran away, grabbing weapons, an alarm went up in the camp.
A nervous breath came from the radio. - I will have to continue while they are in the air. - Over.
-What a disobedient child. - A vein appeared on the general's forehead. - Okay, lower the aircraft. - he ordered his field commander. General Gabido began to think how to solve the problem. "With such power, he will be able to destroy our equipment, continuing to stay here is becoming more dangerous with each passing second. Now it is not they who are surrounded, but us. No one knows where this little one will strike next. Hm."
- Commander, do we still have those old UAVs? Put better cameras on them, prepare them and launch them over the forest. No matter how powerful the enemy is, he will not be able to shoot down objects that are too fast and too small.