Blood & Steel
A momentary cry of pain erupted from the soldier as a hail of bullets ripped through his chest. Blood sprayed out while he fell to the ground, he was dead before he even hit the floor.
"Friendly down!" A fellow soldier, a Mobian, screamed.
A nearby unicorn was cowering down behind some cover. He used his magic to pick up a nearby spear and sent it flying towards his enemy, planting it straight through the face of one of the enemy soldiers.
"We're getting overrun here!" He shouted over the gunfire and explosions to the Mobian beside him.
"Yeah, no shit!" The Mobian screamed back. He pulled out the communication device from his pack and radioed in to the command center above. "Unity, this is Echo-2. We're getting swarmed down here! We need backup, anything you can send!"
"Copy that, Echo-2. We have friendly Pilots already deployed, they'll be arriving within two mikes."
"Glad to hear it," the Mobian replied, a small amount of hope within his voice. "We'll do what we can until they arrive," he finished, putting the comm device back into his pack.
"Pilots?" The pony asked. "What's so special about those guys?"
"Trust me," the Mobian replied. "They're a whole other level."
A drop ship in the sky closed its distance to the battlefield, prepare to drop off the soldiers it was carrying. The ramp at the back of it lowered, allowing those inside to see the battle that was currently underway. It came to a hovering stop quite some distance up from the ground. The soldiers inside the ship were known as Pilots, the best of the best. The visors on the front of their helmets looked like a narrow X, they flickered to life with a moderate white light.
"Unload, go go!" The crew chief aboard the ship shouted.
The six pilots aboard the jogged to the end of the ramp and jumped out, the jump kits on the back of their waist let out a quick boost before they touched the ground, allowing them to land on the ground with a heavy thud. All but one of the pilots quickly ran off, each heading off in their own direction. The one left behind spared a moment to quickly scan his surroundings. Seeing nothing in sight, he ran ahead. Gunshots sounded from the second story of a building to his left. The pilot jumped to his right, hitting the wall he had directed himself towards. He began pumping his legs as his jump kit got to work, wall running on the surface of the wall. Pressing off of the wall and activating his jump kit for a sudden burst, the Pilot directed himself straight for the window of the second story of the building. He smashed through the window and raised his knife, landing on top of an enemy Grunt and stabbing the knife into his chest. Hurried footsteps sounded from behind the pilot, he picked up the rifle the Grunt had dropped and fired three quick shots into the second approaching Grunt. A third one came straight at the Pilot from his left, swinging his fist straight at him. The Pilot dropped his weapon and quickly stood up as he spun around behind the Grunt, grabbing the sides of his head and giving it a sharp twist, snapping his neck to a point his head was facing the wrong way.
Bullets from an aircraft outside ripped into the building, shattering what remained of the window. The Pilot sprinted ahead towards another window at the far end of the building, he jumped through it and began a rapid descent towards the ground below. He removed his main firearm from the holster on his hip, the Smart Pistol MK5. The weapons auto targeting system quickly locked onto three enemies standing below, three rapid trigger pulls sent a bullet through the heads of each of them. The moment his feet touched the ground, the Pilot was off and running again. As he ran through some smoke billowing out of a nearby downed ship, an explosion went off in front of him. The blast knocked him off of his feet and sent him flying off to his left. He hit the ground hard, dropping his weapon in the process. Gunshots and explosions could heard all around him, he was right in the center of the ongoing battle. He had no chance of finding his lost firearm, but he quickly found himself a nearby rifle to make up for it. None of that mattered however, his build time had finally completed, he was ready to call in the main thing that set the Pilots apart from every other soldier out there. He activated his beacon, a green rotating circle showed up on his hud. In the sky above he could heard a deep rumbling, it got louder with every passing moment. A fireball in the sky rocketed to the earth bellow, four sheets of metal split off from it and were projected off to the side. The ground shook on impact, and with the deliverance complete, the Pilot sprinted for the Titan that was down on one knee ahead of him.
He jumped in the air as he neared his machine. The Titan stood up and caught him mid jump with one of its massive hands, two panels opened up on its chest and the Titan placed the Pilot in the seat inside of it. For a moment, there was only darkness. There was a ping followed by the sound the reactor core coming to life. A holographic screen lit up in segments in front of the pilot inside the cockpit, like a window to the outside once it was fully activated. Metal bands sprung up and wrapped around the Pilots arms on the armrests of the seat. The Titan finished the pairing process and the Pilot was now in full control of his Titan.
An enemy Titan began approaching from the left, the Pilot whipped around and started unloading his Chaingun into it. The majority of the Titans shields had already been depleted before it managed to return fire. The two of them began to lumber towards one another, bullets flying through the air as they both continued to fire. The Pilot moved his Chaingun into the left hand and swung his Titans right fist out, a heavy clang sounding as metal met metal. That was enough to completely ruin his opponents Titan, sending it into its doomed state. Before his enemy had a chance to eject, the Pilot swung his Titans fist out a second time, tearing straight through the exterior of the Titan. He grabbed a hold of the Pilot inside and ripped him out from his seat, tossing him into the air above before grabbing him again and throwing him straight ahead, the force that he connect against a wall with was enough to kill him.
The Pilot spun his Titan around to see a friendly Titan engaging with another enemy.
"Cyrak Titan sighted. Range, two hundred meters," he heard his ally say over the radio in his helmet.
The metal bands removed themselves from around the Pilots arms, allowing him to press a couple of buttons above the top hatch on the front of his Titan from the inside. The doors opened up again and the Pilot jumped out into the awaiting hand of his Titan. He laid himself down in it as the Titan rotated itself slightly and brought its hand back, it threw its Pilot like a shot put and sent him flying through the air across the battlefield. He reached behind himself and removed his rifle from his back as he hurtled towards the enemy Titan. The Pilot slammed into the Titans back and grabbed ahold before clambering further up it, he gripped the panel on top of it and tore it of, revealing the Titans internal systems. The Pilot looked up momentarily to see his allies Titan had been destroyed, he looked back down again and began firing into the weak point he had opened up on the Titan he was now rodeoing. Out of nowhere, a barrage of missiles flew through the air and connected with the Titan, destroying it and knocking the Pilot off. He hit the ground a rolled a few times, the visor on his helmet died and momentarily blinded him before it quickly began rebooting itself again.
The Pilot pushed himself up with one of his fists and looked to the direction the missiles had come from. Through the smoke, another enemy Titan began approaching. It wasn't Cyrak or a friendly though, G.U.N. now had joined the battle. More missiles shot out from the container on the Titans shoulder, hurtling towards the Pilot. The Pilot raised one of his hands in front of his face as he waited for his end to come. It never did however. He lowered his hand again to see a green swirling shield in front of him, absorbing the rockets and bullets and holding them in place as they flowed around inside the shield. A large metal hand come down and picked the Pilot up, he draped his arm over the hand as his Titan went about placing him back inside its cockpit. The hatch closed shut and the screen in front of him lit up once more. The Pilot slowly dragged his arms back over the armrests of his seat as the metal bands clicked back into place, the impact from hitting the ground had dazed him slightly and his visor was still attempting to normalize itself. With everything functioning once again, the Pilot dropped his Titans vortex shield and sent all the projectiles it had collected back at the enemy Titan. There was still much more fighting ahead of him before the war could be ended.
(A/N) So this is just a little something I felt like writing for an upcoming story I plan on doing, kind of like when I did the preview for 'Paladins' before writing the actual story. This is more of a trailer than a preview seeing as I probably won't include this in the actual story. So as you can tell, this is a SonicxMLP story, that's why it's in this category. But there's actually a third part to it, that being 'Titanfall'. By that, I only mean the Titans themselves and the weapons. So it's more SonicXMLP than Titanfall. I'd like to get some feedback for this, find out what you all think. I'm not after OCs yet, so don't abuse the reviews with your characters, I'll let you know if I want them. So anyway, leave a review and please let me know your thoughts.
As always
Catchya =)
