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advance.” Ryan was curious to see how
Sergeant McElroy responded to the three-pronged attack he was about to face.
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    “All right,
Alexander,” Lauren called out as she signaled for her squad to move out. “Let’s
see if you can keep up with us!”
    Alexander
swore as he saw Lauren begin bounding toward the ridge along with her squad.
The Type Four battlesuits allowed its wearer to run at a speed faster than an
Olympic sprinter. “Let’s go,” he ordered as he stood up and gestured to his Marines.
“Let’s see how many kills we can get.”
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    Ryan watched
with interest as Sergeant McElroy’s Marines began laying down heavy stunner
fire at the advancing Marines. With a grimace, he saw several fall and lay
still as they were hit.
    “Lieutenant
Guthrie, you may begin your attack.”
    From the right
flank of the ridge, twenty Marines in Type Four battlesuits suddenly rose up in
the air using the antigravity plates in the boots of their suits. The plates generated
a repelling force that allowed limited flight. They began moving rapidly toward
the ridge in a zigzag pattern while firing their stunners at Sergeant McElroy’s
Marines.
    Ryan waited
twenty seconds before giving his next order. “Sergeant Hunter, you may commence
your attack.” Ryan focused his attention back on the ridge to see how the
sergeant reacted. If all went as planned, Ryan’s Marines would have complete
control of the ridge in the next ten minutes.
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    Casey nodded at
hearing Ryan’s command and then signaled to her six Marines to follow her. She
wanted to complete her assignment to impress Ryan. Since their return from Delton,
she and the captain had been living together. It had been the happiest time of
her life, and she knew that shortly it might have to come to an end as they
couldn’t allow their emotions to get in the way of combat operations. She was
disappointed that the change was necessary, but there would be other times in
the future they could be together.
    Casey and her Marines
were on the far left flank of the ridge and using an arroyo with a small
running stream in it to conceal their movement. If Ryan’s plan worked, Sergeant
McElroy’s platoon would be focused on the attack on their center and right
flank and would never see Casey’s squad approaching.
    They were
moving as rapidly as possible as they wanted to hold casualties down from the
attacking Marines under Lieutenant Guthrie, Corporal Parker, and Corporal
Adams. Casey knew if any of them lost a lot of their Marines, she would be in
for it when they returned to the barracks.
    “I’ve got
movement,” Private Juan Rios said over the squad’s comm channel. Juan was from Luna City and had attended the fleet training center there.
    “So do I,”
added Private Mary Hatterson. Mary was a clone like Casey and they had known
each other since the Academy. “I don’t think they’ve spotted us.”
    They carefully
continued to move along the arroyo and then began climbing around a small cliff
face which should put them directly above Sergeant McElroy’s position.
    Casey had her
sensors probing every possible hiding place but all she could see were two Marines
in Type Three battlesuits watching the battle on the lower slope of the ridge.
They didn’t seem to be aware of Casey and her squad.
    Spreading out
across the top of the ridge Casey saw most of McElroy’s troops were now in
plain sight below where they were firing upon the advancing Type Four battlesuits.
    “It worked,” said
Private Rios, as he pointed his stun rifle in the direction of the enemy.
    It was that
moment that Casey heard a laugh over the general command network, which allowed
all of them to communicate, including Sergeant McElroy.
    “Not this
time,” the sergeant said.
    Before Casey
could respond, she felt her suit go limp and she felt as if she had been stung
by a swarm of bees. She moaned from the pain. She hated getting hit by a
stunner. Where the hell are they, she wondered as she fell to