Ritsu tapped the glass, the dial behind it shaking abit. She huffed. While you could cut the uneasy atmosphere with a knife, Ritsu stood oblivious to it. Like a child waiting to reach an amusement park, Ritsu leaned against a girl, molesting a dial in boredom.
Jennifer sat, fist to her cheek, waiting as well.
Both fought back to ask, "Are we there yet?"
"Hey" one called out, "wanna map this place?"
The silent one looked at the speaker. "Sure, why not." They found paper and began drawing a plan of the machine that was riding along. They mapped out its four gear-like wheels that helped it along the underground road its front shovel-like apendages carved out. They mapped the underside shovels and back shovels and underside gear-like wheels. They mapped the humps on the top that served as storage and gunning roosts.
As they were mapping the inside, with its 10 feet of undercarriage and 7 feet of main floor which is where they currently sat, one of the drivers muttered a curse. "They knew. . . they knew we were coming." She stared out at the image in front of her. Her co-piolt, who was new to the battlefeild, shivered in fear. To the untrained eye, there was nothing.
But,to these battle scared and death weighed girls, the danger was apparent. Motion sensor bombs were set not so far away. The safety of the underearth was shattered. " We're surfacing! Get ready!"
The soldiers readied themselves. Ritsu checked her gun once more, catching a glimpse of a couple sharing a breif kiss as some stayed in the main floor and others headed to the undercarriage so as to drop out from the hatch. Ritsu shook her head of the sight before getting close to the pilots.
She looked out as the machine surfaced. The machine stood at the enterance, 2 others around the hospital. Ritsu could feel her heart beating. A finger tapped her shoulder, she looked over it. "Keep steady" Jennifer gripped Ritsu's shoulder firmly and gave a nod before heading under.
Inside, a bit of trouble had arose.
Mio had started a riot with the friends she made and the allies that had been hidden away. They were locking up the doctors and nurses and knocking out the security.
Mio grabbed the hand of a woman, large with child, and ducked them into a desk as people ran by. Once safe, she lead the woman out the door where she spotted the machine.
In the machine, Ritsu was overjoyed. "She's safe! She's safe!" Ritsu cried out. Ritsu's glee and joy soon changed as the feel of war ran over her again. Some hospital workers began to shoot at them. Two machine workers quickly grabbed the controls of the shovel arms and protected Mio and the woman from the bullets.
Mio and the woman continued to run toward the machine, the woman flinching with each bullet that hit the arms protecting them. "Its alright, keep running under the machine and the others will help you up. I'll see you soon." With a nod, Mio ducking into a hidden hole on the front and immediatly joined the others in preparing for the battle slowly seeping into the feild.
Ritsu and Mio caught eachother's eyes for second, just a second. A second and they felt it.
Electricity.
A charge strong enough to keep 500 battieries alive for 25 was strong.
And they relished the second of eachother's skin as Mio rushed by, the scent of the other and just the general presence of their rescued love.
After that second, it was game time.
"Tanks A and C ready! Alright, lets roll!" the captain started the charge. Mio was ready and she rushed out, firing as the ones infront of her fell.
She bit her lip hard and whispered, "Fuck!"
She, as others, still held prayer in this madness, murmuring prayers as they shot and leaped over bodies of friend and foe.
Mio held her gun tight as groans emerged around her, more gunners were spilling out of the hospital. She ran faster, bullets spilling as she held the trigger down.
pop,pop,ugh.
Unforgiving rocks pelted a man as the group secured the outside. That was their position but several did other things. Some ran to the fallen comrades, others ran inside the hospital. Mio was one of them.
Ritsu had fallen before her and she had little choice but to keep going, unsure if their reunion was short lived. She hardly hit the ground, seeming to teleport over to Ritsu's form.
Mio put an ear to Ritsu's back. And waited.
Waited for the rise of her back as her chest pressed against the ground in a breath or the thump of her heart or a hum of pain or groan of weakened words. Any would've been great for Mio at that moment.
And in that moment.
That one moment, memories of them flooded through Mio's mind before a quick flash slipped through. And she smiled at the memory.