Ally and I had just settled in for the night with a sweat-dampened blanket and each other covering us as we drifted off to sleep. That's when everything went to hell.
"Come on guys get your asses up." Winn barked pounding on our door "We're under attack." He added as if Al and I weren't moving fast enough to find our clothes when the rumble of bombs exploding around us was any signal.
The base was in an uproar as what looked like Nazi invaders swarmed out of the weird looking spaceship landed smoothly down the block. "Schott get as many civilians as you can out of the line of fire, Maggie have Ny and Avs help you clean out the armory to give them cover fire." Winn and I node in answer to our Commander's orders. "What are you doing to do?" I ask already knowing the answer as Winn raced off to go find the other two Ally had asked for.
"I'm going to give them something to shoot at." She smiled cheekily as she pulled me in for a searching kiss. "Stay out of trouble Mags." She whispered hugging me tightly before pushing me away to follow her orders.
I could feel both Ava and Nyssa's arms pulling me back down to cover. Ny's hand clamping down over my mouth to stop my scream from giving our position away, but my gaze stayed trained on the stomach-turning scene playing out before my eyes.
I could see them both in the glow of the burning fire behind the advancing woman. Ally had fallen against a young girl she'd been shielding her head now resting against the fallen teenager's stomach after the Nazi soldier's rifle blast cut off the teen's scared screams. The fabric of the shirt Ally had stolen from me in our hast to get out into the fighting continued to burn licking at my love's blackened skin while her glassy eyes stared blankly in our direction as she took her last breath.
Winn was still struggling back to his feet beside the two unmoving bodies. Even without being close enough to hear him I just knew the young man was saying some chose words to the advancing woman barking orders to the swarming soldiers. That was until he collapsed at the blonde's feet.
I forced myself to keep looking at the woman who was now holding my friend's heart in her hand. The one that had mutilated the toned skin of my Ally's back. A back I had just hours before been clawing at to hang on as we chased each other over the edge into the warm waves of lust. That was now just a charred mess with just one burning look from whoever this long-haired cape wearing woman was after my brave commander jumped in front of that little honey-colored hair teenager to take the attack.
Burning the taller blonde's face into my memory while she let Winn's heart fall from her hands with a disgusted look on her face as if she thinks that intimidation tactic would bring the rest of our ragged group running out to avenge them. And I would be too if I could just get out of Nyssa and Ava's hold and we didn't have civilians to protect.
A task we held up for the next two days until we were overwhelmed by the sheer might of the crippling invaders.