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Chapter two Invasion

"Hold'em off!" Marcus commanded as the Locust swarmed the base, relentlessly killing anyone in their way. Prishe charged in with a Retro and started impaling any of the Locust that she could with Fabia covering her while sawing though Grenadiers with the Lancer. Suddenly, Fabia felt a sharp pain in her back and felt herself being lifted. When she fell back the pain intensified as she landed on an object. Looking down she noticed that a Savage Drone had impaled her on the Retro. Tossing her to the side like garbage the Drone redirected its attention towards Prishe and charged at her. Fabia, managed to pull out her flame grenade and took aim.

Prishe turned to see the Drone too close to dodge. In an instant the Drone burst into flames screeching in pain as it tried to fight off the fire and fell to the ground. Prishe looked up to see Fabia's head fall back and hit the ground.

"Fabia!" Prishe shouted catching Marcus' attention. He turned to see Fabia on the ground bleeding out. Marcus and Prishe both charged toward Fabia mowing down every Locust in their way and dodging bullets. Prishe was stalled by a Boomer in her way. "Out of the way!" Prishe yelled as she revved the chainsaw and slammed it into the Boomer with all her strength.

The Boomer was unaffected and slammed his arm into Prishe's head making her falter a bit. Prishe quickly regained her footing and pushed harder on the Lancer. Blood began to spill from the Boomer like a water fountain. The Boomer began to panic and struggled to pull Prishe off. Prishe pushed harder and the saw finally ate though and Prishe emerged on the other side drenched in blood. Marcus reached Fabia before she did.

"Will she make it?" Prishe asked as she approached.

"Not sure, get her to the medical ward!" Marcus commanded. Prishe picked up Fabia in her arms and began to haul ass toward the medical ward while bullets whizzed past her. Bursting into the medical ward, Prishe was met with chaos as every doctor and nurse scrambled to help the wounded and patients screamed in agony, some of which were just there to avoid combat.

A sound caught her attention, "P...Prishe..?" She looked down to see Fabia looking up at her with eye's half closed.

"Hang in there," she said, "I'll get a doctor to help." Prishe shouted at each doctor passing her, but each one ignored her as they went to tend their patients. Irritated she exploded on the next doctor that was about to pass her like the others, "Hey! Fuckwad!" She yelled, "Get your fucken ass over here and save my friend, or so help me I will take my gun and shove it up your ass!"

The doctor clearly irritated turned and walked toward her and shouted back, "In case you didn't know, there are other's with a better chance of surviving than your friend, so suck it up!" he turned back and Prishe followed him carrying Fabia. Prishe looked at Fabia and knew that time was running out fast. Prishe quickly put Fabia in an empty bed and ran over to the patient of the doctor she yelled at earlier and with everything she had, she thrust her hand through the patient and out the other side. His blood made a sickening splash as it hit the floor.

Prishe pulled her arm out letting the patient drop dead to the floor and turned to the doctor, "I'd say every person in here has the same chances as my friend now," she said to him, "because every patient you attend, I will kill until you help her, and if she dies because you were to stubborn to help her I will tear your head off AND EAT IT!" The doctor (and everyone else in the room for that matter) was scared shitless and complied with her demands rushing with a few nurses to help Fabia. Prishe lifted her arm and saw it covered in blood, the Boomers blood replaced with a new coating of the man's blood that she just killed. She licked her fingers tasting the blood on her hands and then spit it out, "Yuck, bastard ruined the Boomer's blood taste." She said to herself, "He didn't have long anyway. Guy had cancer, probably would have been dead by tomorrow."

Outside, things were starting to calm down...sorta. The locust were retreating, but Cole and Baird were not letting up.

"Go back to Hell you ugly fucks!" Baird shouted while firing his Lancer."

"Too bad for you mother fuckers!" Cole shouted, "The Cole Train never stops what he starts until he's done! WHOO!" Only a Grenadier remained from the retreat and was shot in the legs. Marcus caught up to it and kicked it over so that it looked up at him. Marcus slammed his saw into the Grenadier's chest and revved it, digging in until it stopped squirming.

"That's the last of them." Anya reported while approaching them.

"Great, let's go see how badly the bastards ruined our day." Baird commented. The others nodded in agreement and headed for the medical wing. Upon reaching their destination, they were met with shock. Not from the various patients, but from the fact that EVERYONE was avoiding one patient in particular.

Marcus noticed who it was, "Hey, is she going to be ok?" he asked Prishe who was sitting next to Fabia's bed.

"Yeah, I...uh...took drastic measures just to get one of these assholes to even look at her. The doctors approached with caution, and only approached to check and treat Fabia then hauled ass out of the area.

"What did you do Prishe?" Baird asked curiously.

"Hey," a doctor approached the group, "this your kid!?" he asked.

"Oh, I don't know...maybe." Baird replied sarcastically.

"Well, I'll have you know that Hoffman will have her courtmarshalled after I tell him what she did!" the Doctor spat out.

"And that would be?" Baird asked impatiently.

"She killed one of my patients, and threatened me just to get us to save her friend! She was about to die, when my patient could have lived!" the doctor shouted loud enough to get every other doctor's attention, or at least the ones who weren't treating critical patients.

"We'll, then it's a good thing she did." Baird replied proudly.

"What?" every doctor in the room shouted stunned.

"If she hadn't, you dickwads would have let her die." Sam protested, "Probably wasn't her best Idea, but she got you to save her friend!"

Everyone stood stunned asking themselves, 'How they could support something like this?'

Marcus turned to Prishe, "Not gonna be easy to get this to slide by, but if I manage, then you still have to fill out a whole lot of paperwork."

"Fuck." Prishe replied. She turned to Fabia, "At least I saved her, that's what matters."

Baird and Marcus were pacing, "It's been five hours, When is she gonna wake up?" Baird asked and as if on cue Fabia stirred and slowly opened her eyes.

"Wha-? Where am I?" she asked.

Prishe placed a hand on hers, "The med room, you got stabbed with a bayonet." Fabia began to sit up and suddenly cried out in pain while grabbing her abdomen. "Just lie down, doctor said it was a miracle you lived and that you'll be out of it a few days." Prishe stated while helping her lie back down.

"Hold up," Anya exclaimed, "A few days!? Something like that would take a full YEAR to heal!"

"The doctor said that while he was treating her wounds, he saw them healing before his eyes." Prishe explained and began to laugh, "You should have seen the look on his face when he told me!"

Baird looked at Fabia, "Mabye...could it be because of a mutation, mabye caused by the Imulsion before we destroyed it?" he asked.

"Maybe," Anya replied, "Speaking of Imulsion, I thought that Locust were heavily infected with it and that was why they died out from Adam's weapon in the first place. Marcus, didn't your father say it still targeted the Locust as well anyways?"

"Maybe some of them were born on the surface during the war and my father unknowingly managed to make the machine target only Imulsion rather than Locust as well and only killed the heavily infected ones." Marcus replied, "But, dad said he wanted that to happen so that neither species would have to die out. These Locust are like the stranded, they know something was and is happening, but all the get is the big picture and not the details. They have no idea Myra is dead, hell they probably don't even know that there is no longer any Imulsion."

"Talk about stupid," Baird commented, "They're moving around underground and still haven't noticed the fact that there isn't some glowing shit on the walls!"

"There you are!" came a voice from behind them, "Why're you all in here?"

"Cole, where the hell did you go?" Baird asked, "We told you Fabia was hurt and you wander off!"

"The com was messed up when you told me so all I heard was 'ass-here-hurt-wing'." Cole replied. Fabia couldn't help but laugh, flinching from the pain as she did.

"Marcus!" called another voice from behind. Marcus turned to see Hoffman approaching, "God damn it Marcus, I leave Anvil Gate to make sure you're all still intact and this is what you get me into?" Hoffman joked.

"Ease up pops, or your blood pressure will kill you before you get any more action." Baird commented.

"Yeah, well that didn't stop me before." Hoffman replied then turned serious, "On another note, we're all going to be evacuated to Anvil Gate. Stranded you can handle, but Stranded AND Locust? This tiny base will be their's by the end if the week!" Everyone nodded except for one person. Baird went to Sam who was in a corner staring at the ground.

"Sam, you ok?" he asked, "I know you unsure about going to Anvil Gate, if you want I can ask Hoffman to take us to Azura instead."

Sam shook her head, "Its alright, I'll be fine." She gave him a kiss on the cheek and they left to prepare for the evacuation. Cole saw this and was dumbstruck.

"Yo Anya, I knew Baird had a thing for Sam and all, But when the hell did they start dating?" he asked.

Anya looked confused at him, "Cole, you're the only one that Baird considers his friend and you never picked up on that!? she asked, "Its been almost three months!"

"Damn, guess you're right now that I think about it, but I'm happy for the man." Cole replied and began to laugh, "Not only can Sam take his sarcasm, she can throw it back."

The evacuation took a week, Delta squad were the last to leave. Fabia had recovred and was helping by moving a few things here and there. She had just finished piling the last box assigned to her when she felt someone's arms wrap around her waist.

"So, how do you feel?" Prishe asked.

"Better, but something's been bothering me." Fabia replied.

"Whatever it is, it can't be worse than the paperwork I had to do." Prishe pointed at the stack of papers in a box that took her two days to fill out after the incident in the med wing.

"Well...never mind, its stupid."

"Come on tell me." Prishe pleaded.

"Well, we just got here a week ago," Fabia replied, "and they're already moving us while we still have no idea who we really are."

Fabia felt Prishe's grip on her loosen, "Your right." Prishe said feeling sad at this fact.

Fabia pulled Prishe's arms tightly around her, "but like I said," Fabia commented, "Its stupid, what matters is now." Prishe placed her chin on Fabia's shoulder, regained her grip on Fabia, and smiled while Fabia leaned her head against Prishe's.

"Well, does this mean I don't have to keep a secret anymore?" Anya asked walking in.

"Mmhmm." Fabia nodded while Prishe looked confused.

"Anyways, the Ravens just landed. The crew will get the rest of the stuff, so pile on." Prishe still held on to Fabia, both laughing on their way to the Raven. In the Raven, Sam was asleep on Baird's shoulder with his arm around her, Anya leaned against Marcus and he did the same, and Cole was talking to Carmine about what they would do to pass the time.

"Hey, what happened to Sam?" Fabia asked.

"Apparently some of the civi's thought they could go back to their old lives of high class and requested a protective escort." Baird replied, "So one thing led to another and Sam had to beat some sense into some of them."

"They were too stubborn, I didn't want to waste time." Sam mumbled falling back asleep.

"That's my girl." Baird said with a chuckle.

Three hours into the flight Prishe was getting impatient, "Are we there yet?" she asked.

"No" Marcus replied.

"Are we there yet?"

"No."

"How bout now?"

"No!"

"...Now?"

"FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, PILOT HOW MUCH LONGER!?" Baird shouted very much annoyed.

"We're here." the pilot responded.

"Whoohoo!" Prishe shouted.

Fabia looked out and saw a big fort come into view, "Well, at least we know nothing's getting through without loosing an arm...or head."

Suddenly Carmine's voice caught everyones attention, "Catapult, look out!" A large flaming mass was headed straight for them. The pilot maneuvered the Raven managing to dodge it.

"Fenix to Anvil Gate." Marcus paused for a response listening to static.

"Marcus?" Hoffman's voice broke through, "What's going on?"

"You got a battalion of grubs headed your way!" Marcus responded.

"Marcus, those bitches brought a bigger battalion than the one that attacked when we jacked that Locust Barge!" Cole shouted. Marcus nodded.

"How big is it?" Hoffman asked though the static.

"Well, let's see," Baird replied, "Your order is 3 dozen boomers, 200 Grenadiers, 50 Kantus, 2 dozen Motors and a side order of Catapults. Oh, and did you want your order super size? Cause that's what you're getting!"

"MOTORS!" Fabia shouted. The pilot managed to maneuver around the Motors but got hit by a catapult.

"SHIT! HANG ON" the pilot shouted, "MAYDAY, MAYDAY, KR-22 IS HIT! REPEAT, KR-22 IS GOING DOWN!"