Chapter 7
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Chapter 7
A bright light filled the hollow completely, blinding the Locusts. Baird was just about to go unconcous once again when the light brought him back to full concousness. Dizzy's loud whoop filled the room.
Baird squinted against the harsh light, unable to bring up an arm to shield his eyes. Soon the entire placed was filled with the loud noise of the firing of lancers and the yells of both Gears and Locusts.
Everything finally went black for Baird...
Mrcus, Dom, Cole, Bernie Hoffman and Anya quickly desnded down the ladder of the rig and hurried toward Baird. Bullets wizzed past their heads as they quickly ducked behind the table. They carefully reached over to blindly fire at the enemy . Finally they stood over Baird and stared at him in horror.
"He doesn't look too good." Anya said quietly.
This was Anya's first time on the front lines. She had always been in CIC giving orders on the radio, since the very begining. She was always calm and collected as she directed people where to go. Shit she heard her mother die over the radio and still remained calm. Now she faced death head on and felt like she would just fall aprart. She was terrified deep inside, but if everybody else could do this, her mother, her friends, she could too.
"Let's just get him out of here." Marcus said calmly.
Cole couldn't bare to see his best friend laying there in his own pool of blood. He reved his lancer and sawed the chains right off the table. The sound of the saw on metal filled the air and sparks lit up the place. Carefully he slid his arms under Baird and pulled him against his cold metal chest plates. Barid was unsually light for a good sized man.
"Ah shit." Cole said. "This really sucks."
"I sort of want to hear the little bugger ranting about how long it took us to get here." Bernie said.
"More comming!" Dom called out. "Let's just hurry an get out of here."
Quickly they made their way back toward the rig, taking out any Locusts that would get in their way.
At the top of the rig, Dizzy laid down cover fire with his lancer. Several more Locusts dropped.
"Let's get out of here, Dizzy!" Marcus shouted over the noise.
Cole dropped down to his knees, carefully setting Baird down on Betty's cold metal deck and carefully checked his injuries. Baird's entire body was covered in long deep cuts, brusies and blood. There were already cuts that were already infected and oozing puss. Cole made a face.
On Baird's shoudler, the burn was already festering and slowly getting worse. The infection was probably already in his blood, running it's corse throughout his body. Heat radiated from his body another indacation of the raving infection.
"Damn, Damon."
Marcus stood beside Cole, frowining down at Baird. He wasn't a big fan of the loud mouth blond, but damn this is FUCKED up.
Slowly the rig made it's way out of the hollow and back toward the COG base. It would be a long silent ride that left everybody thinking: Why were they even alive? and :Is there really a reason to live?
Marcus walked up the ramp and stood at the turret, his arms crossed over his chest as he watched the quickly passing scenery. All this just seemed like one really long, really bad dream. A small gentle hand rested on his shoulder and he turned to see Anya looking up at him worriedly.
"Marcus..." she wasn't sure what to say. Marcus had already been through so much and for a man of few words, he was already closing himself off more and more.
"Why..." his voice was barly audible over the rig.
What was there to say? This war had gone on for more than a decade with no signs of stopping. On top of that, most of Sera had been burned with over half the population along with it.
What was there to hold onto now? Would this war ever end or was the human race destend to go extinct.
Anya silently stood by him and always would as long as Marcus would allow her to.
TBC...
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