by Rulyon 2011-05-13, 07:48
Torque approached silently, leaned close behind the privates ear, and barked: "Where's your salute, private? That is your commanding officer!"
The frightened soldier jumped, almost dropped his rifle, then straightened into a salute stiff as a board and white as a ghost. Torque saluted Scar as well to druve home the point. Scar waited there for a few seconds, draw out his nervousness, then returned the salute.
"Dismissed, private."
"Change your Huggies and find something useful to do!" Torque added as a parting shot. As the soldier disappeared amidst piles of equipment and supplies Torque shook his head and smiled.
"It's been a while since I got to do that. Take a look at this.". He tossed a box of shells at Scar, who caught it deftly in one hand and looked at it.
"White Phosphorus shells? Aren't they against several statutes and international laws?"
"When used against humans for lethal purposes, yes. But what we're up against clearly aren't human. At least not any more. At any rate, they're in the manifest. They sent three cases of WP shells, an equal number of exploding, and twice that of regular shells. AND" he added with a smile "they sent four more M4's with laser sights and nightvision scopes to equip our soldiers."
"You're too excited about this, Torque."
"AND they sent plenty of HE grenades, rifle ammunition, a few grenade launchers..."
"Seriously, your eyes are twinkling..."
"...AND something I'm particularly keen to try out. Something experimental."
Scar rubbed his face waiting to hear it. When it didn't come he looked up to see Torque was staring at him with a huge grin on his face.
"You're going to make me ask, aren't you?"
"You know it, Colonel."
"Alright, I'll bite. What is this you're dying to try."
"X37 Thermobaric "Bunker Killer" grenades.". He raised his eyebrows. "Let's see those bastards stand up to THAT."
"Torque, you're-"
KSSSHHHH! The fire sprinklers kicked in.
"Oh, great, just what we needed..."
"Just like the Congo, eh, Colonel?" Torque turned to see to the rest of the supplies.
-I wonder what other goodies they brought us.-
EDIT: Damn, ninja'd three times while I typed that in my iPhone. Time shift? O.o