The LANCER Project: NATO's Downfall

I am happy to say that I am announcing a sequel to the highly succesful LANCER project. This one will have new characters and will be approximately 15-25 chapters with an epilogue. It will continue 2 months after the first, sometime in mid-April. Silver Team will be getting a new recruit.

The US government has collapsed and the people have gathered into clans and are fighting each other for food and supplies. Many of their views on the US consists of fascism, while some clans make deals US remnant soldiers and some joined the US army. Much of the US territory is dangerous, due to clan warfare, as a result, the remains of the US government are at sea, being hunted relentlessly by the Russian Navy.

Characters Returning:


 * Vector: Continuing to lead Silver Team, he will have some damage, physically.
 * Butch: Remains as second in command, although Vector will not be present at some point, where Butch is appointed squad leader.
 * Alpha: Stays with Silver Team, serving as their sniper.
 * Wildcard: Stays with Silver Team, he will run into a familiar face during the story.
 * Dare: Remains with Silver Team as heavy weapons specialist.
 * Rain: Has been presumed dead onboard Mir II.
 * Kerensky: Has went back to Russia posing as a spy.
 * Leonid and Alex: Have been presumed dead along with Rain
 * Joel and Jarod Jackson: Presumed MIA onboard Mir II.
 * Green: Leads Charlie Team.
 * Petterson: Still remains in LANCER, on the verge of leaving.
 * Weasel: Still with Charlie Team
 * Shadow: MIA
 * Phoenix: Still with Charlie Team
 * Predator: Remains with Charlie Team, training to be a pilot as well as a gunner.
 * Kinkallen: Returns as a B-2 pilot
 * Hornet Team: Revenant, Longsword, Prowler and Spartan will be serving as defensive soldiers.
 * Alexys Kinney: Remains as an Apache Pilot.

Prologue: Imprisoned
Unnamed Russian Gulag

Somewhere near Northwestern Russia

July 17, 2018

Dare shook his head, it was nearly imposssible to even budge. For the fifth time in the last two minutes, he tried the door, it was still locked tight. The warden had served them food and let them excercise but it was back into the cells. The door opened and a Russian Field Marshall walked in, he beckoned to Dare and led the rest of the squad out. They ordered them into a large room and began beating them. Dare endured the blows, but finally sucumbed to them and was knocked out.

Vector's lack of excercise meant he was having more difficulty. The Russians finally stripped them of his armor and destroyed them, Alpha looked as if he would rather try to break out with a toothpick rather than part with it. He looked terrible, with bruises all over his face and blood dripping from his nose. They were so morally broken, that nobody spoke.

Even Wildcard.

The guard brought him in, he didn't even resist, he just moved along. Nobody had ever seen him look so defeated, he was in many ways the strongest of them. The guard twisted Marcus' face upwards and beat it down with a Desert Eagle.

A normal man would have cried out in pain, but Wildcard simply grunted and spat out a tooth. The guard towered over him and was about to strike another blow when a shot was heard. He crumpled to the ground and Vector stood in the doorway with a Makarov PM. Footsteps were heard and Shadow Company soldiers rushed in. Dare guessed they freed Vector and were here to rescue them.

"We don't have much time." One said, he handed Dare an RPK. "Can you walk?"

Dare nodded. The soldier and his sergeant helped up Wildcard and they began to exit the Gulag. A Pave Low was waiting, they boarded and Wildcard was set down on a medical bed. Vector counted all his teammates who would later be examined for mental issues being so long in the prison.

The ride back was not long, all of them were happy to see the sky and the outside world, which hadn't existed to them in months. Butch looked to be enjoying himself. The helicopter landed on an aircraft carrier in a fleet of nearly 130 ships.

"What's going on?" Alpha asked.

"Glad you perked up LANCER." Randolph said grinning like a kid. He folded his arms and greeted the LANCERs. "How was the gulag? Host treat you nice?"

"Definitely." Dare joked, everyone laughed.

Randolph led them to his quarters. Vector stopped to see Hornet Team and Charlie Team on patrol boats. He waved, it was so long before he last saw his family of soldiers. He walked into Randolph who was at his desk.

"Since February, I have had no contact with the Mir II or the team sent up to stop it. Russians kept pouring in and the US surrendered at DC, Richmond, New York, Baltimore. The Russian flag flew over all those cities by the end of March. We tried making a last stand, but they launched a nuclear ICBM into the US. The economy collapsed and now the American people don't accept our government. The Russians are patrolling the landscape killing all Americans they can find. The remaining people are fighting each other for rescources. It is impossible to regroup Americans as many believe we left them for dead. Now this small fleet of 100 something ships, is all that's left of the United States."

They all stood in silence. Even Wildcard had managed to get up and listen to the general's tale. Randolph stood, letting the story soak in. "I don't believe it." Butch finally said, "I just don't."

"I will form a plan. But you guys need some rest and a psych exam before you are redeployed." Randolph replied.

"Sir." Vector stated, "But me and my team are fully capable of..."

"Don't give me that bullshit." Randolph said placing his firm hand on the young colonel's shoulder. "I know when someone's had enough. Look at Wildcard for example." Everyone turned to Wildcard, who still had his mask on, but anyone could see he was injured. "He looks as if he's been to hell and back."

Vector nodded, looking at his team. "As you wish General. C'mon guys, let's get some R&R."