The year is 3234, the cold crisp wind brings in the snowflake infested sky that paints the streets white. Cars are no longer useful and only waste gas so most towns lay dormant and appear like a ghost town. The snow covers nearly everything on the roads and in the forests leaving only the faint glow of lights, at least the lights that still have electricity that is. Most major cities have been destroyed and all that remains is craters the size of countries. Less than 5 million people remain in the world still clutching onto the life they once knew. 

Everything changed when the fighting began four years ago, I Haven't seen any of my family in two years they have all been relocated to a better place that its location is undisclosed so that they can't intercept our transmission and find the location of the remaining civilians that were lucky and got out of the barren wasteland that is called earth.  Before the fall I was a normal human who was a reserve to help pay for my school whilst not having to fight or be on active duty. I enjoyed my life prior because I could see my children who are now probably past my waist in height. I miss them a lot, however that's not what's important right now. 

When they attacked the whole world was thrown into chaos everyone was scared and all reserves were switched to active duty, myself included of course. I reported into my station and was assigned to a new platoon code named: SPEAR. My platoon had a previous wartime legend General Oscarson and our mission was to locate the leader of the enemy and remove him. 

Two weeks later, after we had extensive training specific to what we would be dealing with, it was deployment day. I still did not know why I was selected to be on this platoon with General Oscarson since I had never been on active duty before but he seemed to be content with me being on the squadron with him. 

He said to me when I reported to his office “Private, I selected you based on your consistency in training and how good of a sniper you are. I understand you have never been on the battlefield before however I believe you are the best option for our mission SPEAR based on your accuracy in training and on missions in the summer you have the best shot in the army.”
“I don't think you have the right person Sir.” 

“I know you're the goddamn right person for the job Private! Otherwise, I wouldn't have selected you for my team now get some rest wheels up at 0 600”

“Sir yes Sir” i didn't know what else to say to the general i didn't even know what we were up against none of us did. 

We were deployed on December 7th 3234 less than a month before christmas. Our team consisted of 5 of us General Oscarson, Captain Ross, lieutenant Ark, Second lieutenant  Pierce, and me a Private. 

“First time, huh?” said Captain Ross when I boarded the ship.

To which i responded with “Yes sir” 

“HaHaHa” chuckled Lieutenant Ark, “I remember my first deployment, it was into North Korea back in 29. That was one hell of a feeling, I had an unsettling feeling tenfold what i'm feeling now or before any mission. That first one is always the worst.”

“I've had to piss about twelve times this morning, Sir. I think unsettling feeling is an understatement,” I laughed out. 

“Captain said you have the best accuracy in the army regardless of active duty or reserves, that true rook?” Second lieutenant asked  

“Yes, he does” said the General who just entered the aircraft holding a file in his hand. 

“He's actually never missed a shot in any mission he's been on.” he said. 

“Well then I'm glad to have you with us” said Lieutenant Ark. 

“Yessir im glad to be here!”  I muttered out whilst gripping the seat. 

“Alright listen up I've just received the official outline for our mission and photographs that the previous squad was able to transmit back 48 hours ago and havent heard from since,” General Oscarson said as he smacked the file labeled SPEAR onto the table. 

Captain Ross opened the file and his face spoke for all I needed to know. Whatever was in that file was something we've never seen before and all previous tactics are not going to work for this mission.  Inside the file were photographs of alien life forms 12 feet in height with high tech weapons and ships. I couldn't believe what I was looking at. Their technology was far more advanced than ours and sure as hell better. 

The battlefield was a barren wasteland on the planet neptune. The entire planet was a frozen tundra with temperatures in the -370 degrees fahrenheit. Mountain sized waves that had frozen over created channels we have to traverse over. We had on our pressurized suits that kept us warm and living otherwise we would be dead. From the ground we could see all of Neptune's 14 moons in the sky. The entire battle spanned 16 hours and was a grueling battle. 

The gigantic aliens were a challenge to battle since they were faster, stronger, and bigger than anyone of us combined. Since I was a marksman I was separate from the rest of my platoon and I took a position on top of one of the tsunami sized frozen waves to look over my team as they advanced forward to the enemies compound setup on the tundra. We estimated the alien count was about 300 in total for the compound. Within the first 8 hours we took down half of the aliens, mainly the stragglers outside the compound and the lower ranking militia in their ranks. Their ranks were determined by what uniform they were wearing, black is worn by the lowest rank, followed by green, then yellow, and finally red which only three aliens wore from our surveillance.  After engaging in battle with the aliens for 14 hours General Oscarson called on our radios 

“Everyone got back now! I’ve marked the compound for bombing runs.” It rained down supporting fire from above while my comrades sprinted to the evac location to get off the planet before it was decimated. As we climbed aboard the ship, I could hear the whistle of the warship flying in overhead and dropping the bomb directly on the compound and their ships. They were eliminated in one fell swoop.