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Chapter 1: pilot (or in this case grunt)
War was all around Angel City, every corner of the city either in brutal close quarter combat or gunning each other down with weapons. Several dropships came in, squads of IMC grunts roped out, one of the grunt's rope snapped as the dropship was knocked out of the sky by an Archer rocket. The grunt landed with a heavy thud, he felt the pain of shrapnel shred his armor, he hissed in pain "Ah fuck, I'm down!" he said as he dragged himself behind cover, one of his squadmates ran over and grabbed him by the back of his collar and began dragging him toward the marketplace.
"Damnit Max!" the grunt said to Max as he dragged him into a building away from the skirmish, he set him down and looked around to make sure no one gets the jump on them, he pulled out a med-pack and began fixing Max's wounds.
"Shit John, that fucking rocket nearly killed us!" Max hissed at John as his comrade tried to pull bits of shrapnel from his body "Fuck John stop pulling those fuckers out!" he yelped slapping away John's hand.
"Then what the Hell am I suppose to do then?" John said behind his helmet as a nearby explosion rocked the building
Max slowly stood up, holding onto John for support "Damn Militia bastards." He coughed as he pulled himself off of John, bringing his R 101C Carbine to bear
John chuckled as he nodded in agreement "Ya we're gonna kick there asses!" he said fist pumping "You think you'll be able to shoot them back?" John asked with a bit worry
Max waved him off "If I can stand I'm ready to go." he responded as he hid behind a pillar spotting several Militia grunts. "Enemy sighted in South West building!" Max called out as he fired several rounds. He heard the familiar death shout as a Militia grunt fell clutching his chest in agony. Moments later the Militia fired back and Max hid back behind cover. "You sons of bitches!" he shouted at them as he shot back nailing two more, then the Militia retreated, Max was momentarily confused at the sudden retreat.
"Where the Hell are they going?" he asked as he and John cautiously walked out. The sky lit up as a blazing pod fell from the sky and a titan exploded from it several of Max's squad walked out from the apartment complex east of the central plaza his squad was corporal Ryan, Sargeant Edward, and private Fredward. Max's eyes widened "how the fuck did you guys make it?" he asked
"By pure luck." Sargeant Edward said gruffly as he was gripping his arm that was heavily bleeding
John ran up "Sarge your bleeding!" he said as he pulled out his med pack
Edward shook his head "I ain't got time to bleed." he replied as he walked over to the titan "Where the Hell is our pilot?" he grumbled
Max then grinned like an idiot seeing the IMC white marking the Atlas titan. A pilot jumped over Max and John right into the open cockpit of the chasis. The Atlas had a 40mm cannon and slowly made its way down the central area, wary of ambush. Suddenly a bright blue orb landed next to the titan and exploded sending electricity everywhere short circuiting the titan momentarily blinding it. Several small grenades were fired and the titan took heavy damage as several plates fell revealing the under armor. Max spotted the enemy pilot and began shooting at the pilot. The pilot looked over and quickly switched weapons and shot at Max and his squad who ran behind cover "Holy fucking shit." John panted as he felt terrified "We almost died, again!" he said
The pilot turned back around and ran up a building to get higher ground. All the while the Atlas and an enemy Ogre titan fought. The pilot scored the killing blow dooming the titan, the Atlas tried punching the Ogre but it caught his fist in his open palm and tore his arm off and yanked the other one out and smacked him with that arm, killing the titan and the IMC pilot. Max saw the whole ordeal "Well fuck there goes our pilot." He mumbled
The pilot from earlier jumped down behind Private Fredward and snapped his neck "Fuck enemy pilot take him down!" Edward shouted lifting up a B3 Wingman and fired several shots. He was returned with a brutal kick to the chest, crushing his ribs and his heart. Corporal Ryan didnt even get to raise his weapon as he was ended with a headshot. The pilot turned to deal with Max and John, the pilot then exploded into chunks of meat and armor. A sniper down the street armed with a amped Kraber killed the distracted Militia pilot. Max and John were in awe.
"Uh,thanks for the support." John finally managed to say as the pilot ran by not even bothering to reply to John, the sound of thundering metal feet brought the two out of their trance. The Militia Ogre came pounding down the street crushing anyone foolish enough to get in it's way. Max fell backwards and tried scrambling to his feet. John grabbed him and lifted him up "RUN!" A nearby grunt said as he blindly fired his rocket which completely missed the Ogre. Max and John turned tail and ran for it but it was no effort for the Ogre to catch up, yet before the Ogre could carry out it's massacre the sniper from earlier pulled a trigger on a detonator which triggered the two satchel charges he cleverly placed. The Ogre reared backwards from the explosion now doomed, the pilot ejected as his Ogre exploded in a nuclear explosion. Max felt the shockwave rock the central building's wall.
"Oh my God,"John panted as he pulled his helmet off revealing his chiseled jaw, blue eyes, and crew cut brown hair "Im having a shitty day." he sighed setting his helmet down as he slid down to the ground. "Why the fuck are we even out here?" he said rubbing his temples
Max cocked his head "What do you mean?" he asked as he sat next to John, outside the battle still waged on but the two didn't even mind.
John huffed "Pilots and Spectres kick our asses all the time, whats the point of us being here?" he said looking over his shoulder to stare out the window.
Max shrugged "Cannonfodder?" he guessed as he took his own helmet off his sharp jawline, green eyes, and short blond hair.
John laughed "Ya that must be it, useless cannonfodder for the enemy pilots to waste ammo on." he said sadly as he saw a whole squad wiped out by a Stryder titan.
Max nodded "It sucks being the grunt." he sighed rubbing his neck, just then a robotic voice came over the comms "All IMC forces, we have many casualties retreat to designated dropship zone." Spyglass said monotonously as usual.
Max sighed and picked his helmet up and put it on. "Lets go." he told John as he began running down the stairs into the open street. John followed after, carefully looking around as the battle carried back toward the apartment complex oblivious of the two grunts. A Militia pilot jumped overhead not even giving them a second glance. After 30 seconds a IMC dropship flew in, multiple pilots jumped into it. Yet the escape was to no avail as the ship exploded killing all ocupants. Max gaped "Holy..." Max said dropping his gun.
Spyglass came up again. "Any surviving IMC ground forces your evac has been destroyed by Militia forces we have no way of collecting you." Spyglass said bluntly as his image disappeared.
John fell to his knees. "So... so we're stuck here!?" he cried holding his head in horror. Max was in no better shape.
Max grabbed John "Ya we're stuck here but thats no reason to bitch about." he growled at John shaking him to put emphasis. "But we don't give up, giving up is for those Militia assholes." he finished letting go of John.
John finally collected himself "Then what do we do? Sit here on our asses and wait? Play cards?" he said his voice rising which could be heard down the street. Max tried waving at him to shut him up, but John just didn't care. "Im fucking done being the weakling! I could take on every one of these Militia fuckers by myself!" he shouted as he ran toward the apartment complex.
Max immediately regretted yelling at John. "John! Get your ass back here!" he said reaching his hand out in terror.
"LONG LIVE THE IMC!" John shouted as he ran toward the Militia pilots and their titans not caring if he died. The Militia were actually conversing with one another.
"You should've seen the he face on that grunt as I blew his brains out." A CQB pilot laughed as he patted his shotgun. Several riflemen laughed along with him. "I got 10 confirmed pilot kills." One rifleman bragged. "Fuck off I got 16!" A sniper retorted "Ya 16 my ass!" the rifleman said shoving the sniper. Thats when they heard John, the sniper looked over his shrub like backpack moving with him "Is that... a grunt?" he queried. The rifleman laughed "My God Jack a grunt actually stopped being a pussy!" he roared with amusement as John continued to run foward randomly shooting his carbine. An Atlas titan walked forward, the cockpit opened up revealing the pilot within. "I got him!" she said as her titan lifted its right arm pointing a chaingun at John. A CQB pilot walked forward "No Jessica let him get close." he chuckled as John was 15 meters away. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" John roared closing the gap and tried jump kicking the CQB pilot. The pilot caught John's foot and swung him over his head, a crack was heard as John hit the pavement. He went still, Max was filled with extreme rage he ran out of the nearby building toward the Militia pilots "You motherfuckers!" he shouted angrily. The CQB pilot looked over to Max "Another one?" he sad, the rifleman shrugged. "Maybe we should capture that one Matthew." Jessica suggested as she hopped out of her titan. The CQB known as Matthew sighed "I guess I can let one live," he said as Max got in front of Matthew and tried to use the stock of his carbine to hit Matthew. Matthew grabbed his carbine yanked it out of Max's hand and hit him with it, Max fell as he lost consciousness...
Yay first chapter finished!