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# <center> #17: Operation Cedar Falls</center>
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Shelby had never heard about Operation Cedar Falls. He was about too.

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_BoomBoomBooomBooomBooomBoom.BoomBoomBooomBooomBooomBoom_.

Noise in the distance getting louder. Shelby had no idea what it was.  The walls of the tunnel he was traversing began to shake and vibrate.  Dust and chips began to fall from the ceiling.  __BoomBoomBooomBooomBooomBoom.BoomBoomBooomBooomBooomBoom__.

The tunnel shook harder,  vibrated harder, more dust fell, dust was in the air. Shelby activated the air supply system in his helmet.

___BoomBoomBooomBooomBooomBoom.BoomBoomBooomBooomBooomBoom___.

The noise was significant now. Shelby encountered panicked VC. He couldn’t avoid them. They seemed to almost welcome death at his hands.

# BoomBoomBooomBooomBooomBoom.BoomBoomBooomBooomBooomBoom.

Shelby knows what it is now.

ArcLite.

Somewhere high above him B-52’s were dropping thousands of TONS of bombs....on him. 

# BoomBoomBooomBooomBooomBoom.BoomBoomBooomBooomBooomBoom.

His point drones flew through a larger room full of soldiers. There is so much dust in the air, the soldiers are coughing so much and they are so distracted by the bombing that they don’t even notice the drones. The noise is so loud that it would be pointless to attempt any shock and awe.  

He killed them all. Like fish in a barrel.

Shortly Shelby is in a room full of pieces of dead men.

# BoomBoomBooomBooomBooomBoom.BoomBoomBooomBooomBooomBoom.

Fragments of the ceiling and walls began to spall and fall to the floor. The dust is so thick that it can’t be seen through.  Radio contact with his drones is lost. The floor is bucking and heaving like a ship at sea in a bad storm.

# BoomBoomBooomBooomBooomBoom.BoomBoomBooomBooomBooomBoom.

Bigger and bigger pieces began to fall from the ceiling.  It appears that a cave in is eminent. Shelby  dug a hole in the floor using his sword. He jumped in and covered the top with his shield.

# BoomBoomBooomBooomBooomBoom.BoomBoomBooomBooomBooomBoom.

The roof caves in in spots. Shelby’s  hidey hole, with him in it, is partly buried.

# BoomBoomBooomBooomBooomBoom.BoomBoomBooomBooomBooomBoomBoomBoomBooomBooomBooomBoom.BoomBoomBooomBooomBooomBoomBoomBoomBooomBooomBooomBoom.BoomBoomBooomBooomBooomBoom.

The pounding goes on, and on, and on, and on.

Were it not for the voice Shelby would have gone completely insane. The voice erects an ego-barrier to protect Shelby... then it dies.

Shelby endures...it only seems like forever....It can’t have been that long....could it?.... 

# BoomBoomBooomBooomBooomBoom.BoomBoomBooomBooomBooomBoom.

His mind slips away.  He becomes all but catatonic.

# BoomBoomBooomBooomBooomBoom.BoomBoomBooomBooomBooomBoom.


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_The Next Episode is_
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 _The Last Episode was_
[#16: Death From the Dark…](https://steemit.com/fiction/@everittdmickey/28nd92-soulstone)
_the First episode was_
[ #1 : Prologue](https://steemit.com/fiction/@everittdmickey/12ldxy-soulstone)
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