Chapter 4
Tyrants
The street roamed with gears falling wounded, some ran past others, Cog mechs known as "Silver backs". The silverbacks where medium sized machine suits designed for heavy artillery against boomers or any other big Locust danger. Silver backs ran slowly and headed into the large E-hole that cracked through the ground causing Gears to make a massive barrier of fortifications. Gears placed spikes around the barriers and electronic lasers that burned flesh if crossed. The court yard had suffered inside and out with Locust entering from below, Locust gained sniping spots above the Gears. Locust snipers took aim and fired without any hesitation, they growled in joy as Gears cried and died.
Echo squad ran into an alley as they took a moment before going looked front noticing the battlefield. The barriers held tightly against incoming sniper fire and grenade explosions. Tickers ran quickly into turrents causing them to blow up.
"Sarah and Jack take out those snipers on the far left above the Anton building and provide us some cover" said Fade
"Gotcha"said Sarah
"Okay sir "said Jack with a wimpy tone
Sarah and Jack both rushed in through an open doorway and headed upstairs of the broken apartment. Gears followed in after her as they took the chance to get higher ground.
"Bronx, Joey we go into the front lines now" said Fade as he rushed forward past other gears that blinded fired.
"Hell yeah "yelled Bronx as he faced right shooting his lancer towards a boomer
Joey ran after Bronx as he noticed gears returning fire behind large amounts of sand bags that were placed into a massive wall of cover. The sand bags were covered by laser technology that can burn skin alive. Fade took cover taking aim her fired back, Bronx and Joey both took cover beside Fade. Front of the fortifications was a massive E-hole that allowed countless wretches,tickers,Boomers,and Maulers to enter out of and head into threw grenades into the bunch of wretches as they fought over the rolling grenade and exploded. Bronx laughed as he grabbed from the ground a massive mounted turrent,yet portable and placed it over the bags of sand cover.
"HAHAHHA Come at me bitches!"he laughed aloud
Firing straight into Cyclopes and Boomers. Sarah and Jack both ran up the stairs trying to rush quickly to cover their team from above. Jack breathed hard in and out, his adrenaline pumped more and more yet he couldn't keep going. Sarah reached the top while Jack was half way up the 3 floors of the building. Sarah kicked open the door as she noticed Cyclopes taking cover behind the small walls in the long hallway. Snipers firing from the shattered windows in the hallway. Gears ran past her and took cover behind opposite sides. The hallway was medially large. It had bullet holes through the walls and shattered windows. The floor boards were covered with blood and ammunition. Jack finally entered the hallway out of breath and feeling tired as then Gears pushed him out of the way as he screamed and fell face first onto the floor. Dropping his Lancer it slid across the floor and into an incoming ticker as it exploded with the lancer. Jack gasped and crawled into a doorway as his cover he lowered his head and began to cry. Sarah looked at him while grunting aloud.
"Jack!? Come on we need you" yelled Sarah
"I'm useless! No, why am I even here?! I was a garbage collector" cried Jack
"Remember why you're fighting Jack, why you're doing this "continued Sarah
"Why?!, oh I'll tell you-you why, my father he enlisted me by force, and my brother didn't care" yelled Jack
"My mother left me to them, my sister called me a pussy, my oldest brother enlisted and died before I was brought in" continued Jack while crying more
Bullets flew through the windows and walls, other Locust fell to the Lancers and hammer bursts of the gears.
"Even worse I'm fighting for a man in a fancy military suit, that-that's million miles away from here and for what?! Honor? A noble death?! I-I-I want to live" said Jack
Sarah looked back at him whimpering to himself as gun fire continued, from room to room through the open doors in the hallway.