AUTOR'S NOTE: Hello and welcome in my first fanfic. I know that my writing is probalby very bad, but it cant't be helped. I appriciate all feedback and reviews. Thanks for reading and I hope you will like this. have fun.

Italy 2049, somewhere in Ground Zero, few days after victory over Scrin:

„Hey, do NOT touch anything, we don´t know what will it do, it is a Scrin Rift Generator after all „said the engineer.

„Yes. " Replied the rifleman after giving him a look of pure boredom as he was flipping his combat knife.

Suddenly, a piece of ceiling came falling down on the control panel of the Rift Generator and nearly gave the rifleman a heart attack. After a few seconds of silence, a sudden „FUCK! "Could have been heard through the whole building.

„What is the matter Mr. Clever? "

„Well, that fucking debris activated the Rift Generator and I have no idea where the rift has appeared and where it leads, because there seems to be at least two modes of operating this building."

„Wait a second, so you are telling me that we have a wormhole at our doorstep and we don´t know where it leads to? I hope you are joking? Right? "Said a little bit frightened soldier.

„I hope I could say I do, but I don´t. "replied the engineer as he was picking up his radio.

„Base, this is engineering team 1, please respond. Over. "

„Go ahead. Over"

„We have a big problem. Over. "

„What´s the matter? Over. "

„Well, a falling debris has just activated a wormhole somewhere and we have no idea where. Also this trip here was pointless, I learned nothing new. Over. "

„Okay, please return immediately to base and tell us what happened. Over. "

„Okay, returning to base, ETA is 20 minutes. Clear. "

„Clear. "

30 minutes later at base:

„So you want to say that we have a wormhole to god-knows-where in the middle of Ground zero, is that right? "Asked the base commander Maj. Karl Gottfried.

„Yes, but it has some strange properties, for example Tiberium can´t cross it, it amplifies our signal and it has constant temperature of 25 degrees Celsius. We are also building a remote controlled Surveyor to send the other side. "Replied chief scientist and engineer John Fixon.

„Well, this is going to be one heck of a week. I am going to write a report to Pentagon and prepare permission to send your Surveyor to the other side. See you later John, wish me luck. "

„I will Karl, I will. "Responded John as he moved back to his Tech Centre.

Two days later:

Tens of OX-35 Transport Aircrafts could be seen over the Mediterranean Sea carrying troops and vehicles to Italy. The whole force had 500 Riflemen, 200 Rocket launcher troopers, 250 Zone Troopers, 50 MBT-6 Predators, 70 M121 Guardian APCs, 100 CC-6 Pitbulls and 5 Surveyors.

This was a new unit made for exploration of the other side of the wormhole, now known as „The Bridge". The special surveyor sent by John Fixon reported a breathable atmosphere and optimal weather for humans, so Council of GDI agreed on sending expeditionary force through The Bridge with their purpose being establishing a base and make peaceful contact with any intelligent race there if possible. In the OX-35s was a lot of soldiers with no idea where they are going or wha twill they do, but they trusted the command of GDI.

In one of the Transporters was a squad lead by 2Lt. Kate Gottfried, who is Maj. Karl Gottfried´s sister and his subordinate. Her team consisted of 12 Riflemen, 1 sniper and 2 rocket launcher soldiers. All of them came right from training, so this was their first mission in yellow or red zone.

"Soo, does anyone have an idea what are we doing here?" asked Pvt. Ross Manfres while thinking what outside looked like.

"Yes, I would like to know it too." said Pvt. Kristina Ekkehard.

"Major will tell us soon enough, so could you stop asking me the same thing again?." replied 2Lt. Gottfried and gave her new unit another look. She was a short sniper, had brown eyes and brown hair. She had mixed feelings about them. Even though they have not seen real combat, they seem to have enough imagination to think what war zone looks like. But they were new, they didn´t know what Tiberium does, and she knew that sooner or later they would get careless next to it. She doesn´t want to lose another comrade to this alien substance.

Flashback

She was in sniper training with one other cadet and commander. The other cadert was doing some idiotic things.

"Hey, get away from that!" yelled her commander at his unit.

"Why? Our armor will protect us!" said her comrade as he was spinning around.

Suddenly he lost his balance and fell right on Tiberium crystal which punctured his right lung and started growing throuh him. Their commander tried to get off the crystal, but it only made him severe the lower part of other cadet and the commander stumbled back. They immidietly returned back with his legs and reported what happened.

End of Flashback

This incident still haunted her dreams and gave her chills. She never wanted to see this again. Never. Soon the doors of their transport opened and they saw another 1 500 Riflemen, 800 rocket launcher troopers, 250 Zone troopers, 150 MBT-6 Predators, 230 M121 Guardian APCs, 100 CC-6 Pitbulls, 50 Mk.3 Mammoths, 25 Juggernauts, 25 RIGs and 2 MCVs.

"What the hell is this force for?!" yelled all of Kate's soldiers.

"I have no idea, but my brother may know, he is the commander here." replied Kate as she looked on the force below them. She stared in ave at all those soldiers just chatting as if this was their everyday routine. Little did they know what awaited them in next few weeks.

1 hour later, insde the base:

Kate was walking to conference room, where was beginning a meeting for all commanding personel. She was a little bit ahead of schedule as she wanted to greet her brother Karl, who was elected as field commander of this operation. After she entered the room, she instantly found her brother on the other side talking to someone in commando armor. She ran throuh the room to her brother and that person. Few meters before her brother she slowed sown and prepared to scare him. But that commando has revealed her.

"Oh hello, would you like to speak to commander?" he politely asked as Karl stared to turn himself around.

"Oh hello sister, how have you been?" he asked as he hugged her.

"I was fine, and I got my first unit." she happily confessed while she prepared to kiss him.

"Oh really, I would like to meet them personaly to see who they are."

"Don't worry, they are privates straight from the Academy. But they haven't seen real combat, which is not that good."

"Hmm, they sound like interesting bunch. But let's save this for another time, the meeting is staring."

"Okay, see you later." said Kate as she was going to find her seat.

The conference took about 3 hours, and everyone there was informed about this mission. They told them the story with Rift Generator, it's two modes, The Bridge, their goal and assigned which units will be scouts, defenders of base or assault unit, if they needed one. Kate and her unit were scouts, and she was happy about that. Also the commando who talked wit her brother was commander of team, which found ideal place for their base on the other side. His name was Ethan Archer and he was a First Lieutenant, which meant he was her boss. As she was going to find her unit to tell them the news, she stumbled upon her classmate from Army Academy 2Lt. Albina Wolfgang, who was commander of her own unit of Zone Troopers.

"Albina, hi." greeted Kate.

"Oh hello there, little miss. How are you?" replied Albina

"I'm fine, thanks. and what anout you?"

"I am great, I have made my dream come true. So, I heard you are in scouting division, right?"

"Yep, and in which one are you?"

"I am in the assaul unit, so if you need help, just call us and we will do the dirty work."

"Thanks for the offer. It was good to se you again."

"Goodbye." said Albina as she walked to another corridor.

I was so lucky to meet her here, we could at least talk in private, thought Kate. After few minutes of walking and humming some tones she found her unit in their room. They were playing some card game, chating and drinking tea or coffe. They looked like bunch of children, even though they were 22. Suddenly an familiar feeling of deja vu hit her. She remembered as she and her so-called "brother" were playing cards with other kids in the orphanage where they lived. It was a yellow zone, but it was a place they could call home. But this home was destroyed when Brotherhood of NOD came and burnt it down, killing most of the orphans. They were lucky they hid in the basement, where they promised to destroy NOD by their own hands. Few days later GDI captured this city and some soldier named Tobias Gottfried. They took his name as their own and moved to orphanage in blue zone in Munich. Then in their teens they joined the Army Acadeny there and made it through. She stopped daydreaming about this and came inside.

"Attention soldiers!" said Kate as she walked inside.

The soldier formed a row and saluted.

"At ease. Now I will tell you what are we doing here. Few days ago we accidentaly opened a wormhole somewhere. The wormhole is called The Bridge and does not let Tiberium pass through. On the other side we found a habitble world. We are to go there , secure spot for our base and then we scout the surroundings. Code name of this operation is Incursion. The operation beggins at 1030 hours tomorrow. Be ready and in full gear, we are taking APCs numbered 212 and 213. That is all, dismised."

She then turned around and walkes to her room, which she shared with her brother. There she went to sleep right away as she was tired as hell. Once again the dream of the cadet that died to Tiberium growing through him haunted her. She woke up and panted heavily. On the other bed was her sleeping brother. Suddenly she had an idea to go sleep with him in his bed. So she silently walked there and layed on the bed trying not to wake her brother up. She succeded and she hugged him. She fell back asleep in this position until it was morning.

At morning:

"Wakey wakey, rise and shine." somebody softly spoke in her ear, "It's time to work, sister." continued this voice. She started to open her eyes and saw her brother in his uniform and he was holding a plate.

"I made us breakfast, but I already ate mine. I'm going to my office, see you later." said Karl as he walked out of the room.

Kate got out of the bed and ate her breakfast. then she changed into her uniform and brushed her teeth. As it was 9:22, she went to armory to check her gear. She met there her whole squad, which greeted her with a salute.

"At ease" said Kate and added: "What do you think about this wormhole and otherword thing?"

"Well, we have been debating about it and thought that if we helped them, they could help us against Brotherhood of NOD. So we have a good feeling about this mission." replied a grey-haired rifleman, her second-in-command. His name is Falk Mattias. He was at least a head taller than her and has blue eyes.

"Interesting point of wiev you have there, squad. So, are you ready for whatever may be out there?"

"We are ma'am, we are." replied another one of her soldiers. His name was Engelbert Killian. He was tall, muscular, had blonde hair and green eyes.

After checking her equipment, Kate decided to put it on now, when it's not that crouded here. After putting on her gear, she went outside to meet their APC drivers.

She found them next to an egineer talking abot problems of the APC' s guns in hot enviroment because they overheat a lot.

"I am sorry but I can't help you, and even if I could, it would be too late now, you must say it earlier next time. OK?" asked the engineer.

"OK, see you later Bob." replied one of the drivers. As they turned around they spoted kate and greeted her.

"So, you are the commander of the scout unit we will be driving around? My name is Cornell Randolph, but please call me Cornell. Nice to meet you." said Cornell

"And this guy next to me is Karel Eugen." he added

"Nice to meet you, commander." said Karel.

"Well, my name is Kate Gottfried. Nice to meet you too." replied Kate and continued: "Are our vehicles ready for operation Incursion? And which one drives which APC?"

"The APCs are ready. Karel is driving APC 212 and I'm driving APC 213." replied Cornell.

Later:

"Okay, attention all personel. Operation Incursion is a go, I repeat, Operation Incursion is a go. Move out, armor division! I wish you luck." said Cpt. Karl Gottfried in the radio.

"So here it comes!" yelled Kate's team in the two APCs. The convoy started moving slowly as commander allowed each unit to move out in walking speed, so that the Zone Troopers outside wouldn't fall behind. Their callsing was S-2, which meant they were second unit to cross The Bridge. In their first APC were only Riflemen, who were Pvt. Ross Manfres, Pvt. Kristina Ekkehard, Pvt. Marius Wilhelm, Pvt. Gerhard Valentin, Pvt. Engelbert Killian, Pvt. Wulf Eckheart, Pvt. Alexis Horst, Pvt. Maria Helfried, Pvt. Siegmund Leonhard, Pvt. and Matthias Wolfram. In the second APC were two Riflemen, one missle squad and one sniper. The sniper was Kate, the two Riflemen were Pfc. Falk Mattias and Pvt. Markus Hagen. The Missile squad was made from brothers Thomas and Tobias Klemens. Both were Privates. This was her own unit, her new friends.

"Listen up, missile squad. If we are to make contact, I want you to stay in the vehicle until I say you can get out, safety reasons. That is an order." said Kate.

"Yes ma'am." replied the brothers.

At the end of their little conversation, the vehicles started to move, so all soldiers looked out of the windows in anticipation what the other side looks like.

Thank you for reading chapter one of Operation Incursion. I appreciate every review. See you in chapter two.

I also made few changes to C&C lore, mainly in the number of people in APCs. Bye!