Fight by Doug Burbey & Mel Todd

Author:Doug Burbey & Mel Todd [Burbey, Doug & Todd, Mel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bad Ash Publishing
Published: 2018-11-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

Laws of War, No More – December 1, 2014

On Lieutenant Colonel Declan Kenner's first day of command, he watched in horror after a portal appeared outside of Minneapolis. This signaled the first large-scale horde incursion into the United States. He was unable to do a damn thing besides watch remotely from the Fort Bliss Texas Operations Center as the evacuation procedures for the city over thirteen hundred miles away kicked in. The populous knew as well as he did, that if they stayed in the city they would die. The military began their counterattack on the horde. The United States Air Force responded first, launching a massive aerial attack on the demonic blood harvesters that appeared out of the portal behind the demon horde. The military tacticians and scientists watching the attack through camera and satellite images noted that the demon portals and flying objects, or electronics of any kind, didn't mix.

Frustrated at his inability to help in any way, Declan waited with the rest of the world as the Air Force scrambled hundreds of aircraft from bases in the Midwest. He followed the progress of the Canadian forces that came to the aid of the Americans by sending their own troops and planes into combat on American soil. As the planes approached within three miles of the portal, avionics went dead, all electronics failed, and the planes fell from the sky. Missiles fired at the portal experienced the same fate. Declan was impressed how one insane helicopter pilot figured out that if they stayed within twenty feet from the ground all equipment worked, letting them use machine guns and rockets on the demons. But he assumed that only a few pilots could pull that off while not ending up killing more of their own people than demons. He filed that tactic away in his mind for possible later use.

The entire operations center sat helplessly as the horde rolled through Minneapolis. Declan saw how the civilian population could not evacuate as fast as the horde moved. This reaffirmed his theory on how the city will be lost no matter what. Yet, the civilians fought back against the onslaught even as the military pushed at the horde trying to attack it straight on. He saw the city burn, through high altitude unmanned aerial vehicle live video feeds, as the demons overran and eviscerated its weak defenders then descended on the panic civilians still trying to flee the city as the military poured in to take on the demons. Declan had his team taking notes on how the newly prescribed, but controversial, American military tactics proved a bit more effective, but the military had only just started training their own force of novice mages. The SSAU had embraced the new-found human ability to leverage magic, while moving heaven and earth to gather every bit of lore ever written on the subject then put it to use. But the human battlemages were still too few and not ready. Declan had to change that, fast.

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