THE GUN - THE ORIGINAL VERSION

Book 2: Island Mission

This story is set in "Hawiyay". I didn't know where Hawaii was, back then, or that it was part of the USA. The islands in this story seem uninhabited, apart from the bad guys, and there are no cities or buildings on them. This was likely inspired by the game Urban Strike, which starts off in a similarly-deserted Hawaii, with just a few grass-hut "native villages", and enemy encampments dotted around.

Anyway, Gunn and Jackson, who has joined the forces now, are flying over the islands in a helicopter. It looks more like a Chinook transport helicopter, only "more futuristic" (read: pointy), than one intended for combat.

A Stealth Force soldier is about to shoot a woman in a small village. The chopper shows up and blasts the soldier. They drop a rope ladder and the woman climbs up, going "Fools!". She gets inside and it turns out she is a Stealth Force secret agent, with an ancient WW1 German Mauser pistol. She demands Gunn lands the chopper, and asks why he has no co-pilot. Then Jackson comes up behind (was she on the bog or something?) and shoots her.

The Mauser pistol fires randomly towards the roof and somehow damages the Fuel tanks, so the chopper crashes into some trees. Jackson reckons they are doomed, but Gunn says it'll be okay, and she goes "You where in the army, you're used to this". Apparently Gunn (in an abandoned story) and Jackson are now in the Wolf Force "Air Force Division"... though back in the first story he was also flying a helicopter.

Gunn finally finds The Gun, which was thrown out in the crash. Later they happen across an enemy cruise missile launching base, which has one of the stupid triangular missiles that were common in early stories. It looks like it launches from a ramp, like the old V1 rocket/missile/drone. He sets his gun to silent and shoots an enemy, but for some reason the shot is not silent, alerting the rest of the enemy. Gunn blasts a machine-gunner in a tower with a grenade and the guy falls out, but survives and shoots at him with a pistol. The pair charge into the clearing and blow away two stealth force soldiers, something explodes (I suppose some stray shots hit fuel barrels for the missile, or something) and Gunn runs to the beach, shooting a soldier in a small boat.

Jackson sticks a Wolf Force logo on the side of the boat (some big stickers must have been JUST LAYING AROUND), as they sail to the next island. Some "Emny boats" attack, Gunn launches torpedoes at them and sinks them, they don't fire a single shot in retaliation. The pair get to the next island and spot a shed with fuel barrels next to it, Jackson shoots the barrels and the hut catches fire. A Soldier opens the door and is shot twice, the bullets bounce around inside the hut and take out two more. Some time after first drawing this, I added extra 'rank squares' to one of them, implying he was a high-ranking enemy general. After those two die Jackson and Gunn just walk away, and the story ends. I suppose making that guy a general gave the story an "ending" of sorts, as they'd defeated a "boss".

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