Chapter 10 skirmish

Welkin looked over at Alicia and Frederick "The imperials must be at Mill plaza. I'll help" he said.

Alicia nodded at him "Thanks Welkin. Now, Move out. Stay low!" She said. Welkin nodded as he went with the town watch. Frederick loaded his sniper rifle as he and Alicia went the other way with some of the town guards.

- the plaza-

Frederick, Alicia, And two town guards ran down the road on the east side as they hid behind some sandbags. Alicia looked over at one of the guards.

"Ok, How many did you see when they came into town?" She asked the guard.

The guard thought for a moment before answering "I saw about over 8 or 14 Imperials coming into town" he said, Frederick gritted his teeth under his helmet.

"Damn...beasts all over the shop..." He said. Alicia and the town guards looked at him with utter confusion at what Frederick just said.

"Huh? Beasts all over the...what are you talking about? And what does that even mean? Was that supposed to be some kind of joke!?" She asked. Frederick took off his helmet as he looked at her with his neon green eyes, Alicia didn't notice until now how beautiful his eyes looked but she ignored it for now.

"Allow me to explain" Frederick said "What I mean when I say beasts all over the shop, It means that the 'beasts' are the Imperials. And the 'shop' means the area. So it means that the imperials are all over the area. And that also means that we have to take them down".

Alicia now understood a little bit of what he meant now "Oh, I got ya...I think..." She said as she looked forward "Okay, Let's begin. It's up to us to defend Bruhl!".

The others nodded as they moved out, Alicia looked over at Frederick "Our target is the Imperials in mill plaza. Focus on taking down their captain" she said, Frederick nodded as he aimed his sniper rifle.

"You got it!" He said as he ran forward and hid behind some cover, Alicia joined him as he aimed his sniper rifle at one of the Imperials.

"You're going down!" Frederick said as he fired his sniper rifle hitting the imperial in the head as the bullet went through his helmet killing him instantly, Alicia then took aim and shoot at the other imperial that was on the other side as she killed him too.

"Perfect" she said, The two then jumped over the sandbags as they took cover again. Frederick went a head of her as Alicia stayed a few feet behind from him as she took cover behind some sandbags, The two town guards followed Frederick as they all took cover.

That's when they saw another imperial come from the side of a house as he started firing at them. The town guards shot at him as they got his right and left leg.

"Darn! He's still moving" one of the guards said, That's when Frederick aimed his sniper rifle and shot the other imperial in the chest as it broke right through the armor plate creating a huge hole as it killed him. The town guards were impressed.

"Wow! That's some rifle you have there" the other guard said "You destroyed that Imp". Frederick smirked "Heh, Like I said. These beasts need to be put down" he said.

Just then, One of the guards was shot down.

"Ah! I'm hit!" He said as was holding his waist in pain. Frederick looked over to see that another imperial had shown up.

"Ugh! These beasts are REALLY all over the shop!" He said, That's when he saw the imperial get shot down from the side.

"Huh?", Frederick then glanced over to see Welkin and a town guard on the other side.

"We got him!" Welkin shouted, Alicia joined up with Frederick as she waved back at him.

"Good job Welkin!" She said, The town guard then ran forward. "L'll get the captain!" He said.

"Ok, Be careful" Alicia said. The town guard nodded as he ran forward as he made his way to the truck. He then leaned to his left to see an Imperial wearing all red crimson armor.

'That must be the captain' the guard thought, He then pulled out a grenade and threw it at him.

"Take this!" He said, He then shot at the captain so he could distract him from seeing the grenade.

The captain then stood from the sandbags and fired at the guard, "You're threw!" He said as he shot at him, He got the guard in the arm as the town guard moved back behind the truck. "Ah! Servers you right!" The Imperial captain said, However he then felt something hit his leg.

"Huh? What, No!" The grenade then went off killing him in the process.

The guard smiled after he heard the grenade go off.

"I got him" he said, But just before he could enjoy his victory. Everyone then heard the ground shaking.

"What's that?" Frederick said, That's when a few other guards ran over.

"Everyone! Get out of here! The imperials...they-" that's when the others saw a large red tank come from the side, The tank aimed it's barrel at the guards as it fired killing them. The other guards started to run from around the area.

"It's an Imperial tank! Run!" They said as the tank open fired on them as more Imperial soldiers came into the town.

"A tank!" Alicia said in shock, Welkin joined up with them "That's not good. We're not equipped to take out a tank" he said, Frederick looked at his Hecate 2 heavy sniper rifle then glanced back at the Imperial tank.

"Darn, If only I had a boys anti-tank rifle mk-1 right now. Or a M72 LAW missile launcher" he said.

"A anti-tank mk-1? What's that?" Welkin asked.

"I'll say, And what's a M72 LAW missile launcher?" Alicia asked.

Frederick looked at them "Look I'll explain latter! Right now we should try and pull out of here" he said. Alicia and Welkin looked at each other and nodded.

"Ok, So what's the plan?" Welkin said.

"Welkin, You should get off this road and into the alley to the east. It's too narrow for a tank to follow" Alicia said "And try to stay behind cover while moving. One blast from that turret and it's over!".

"Got it!" Welkin said as he then got up and started heading east into the alley. Frederick followed him "I'll be your shield, Since my combat armor is immune to gunfire" he said.

"Thanks Frederick" Welkin said as they ran east, The boys ran as the Imperial tank fired it's turrets at them. Frederick stood in front of Welkin as the bullets bounced off of his metal plates. Welkin was able to shoot down some hidden Imperials as he made his way into the alley.

"Whew, Thanks a lot Frederick. What are you going to do from here?" Welkin said, Frederick reloaded his sniper rifle "If they're rolling in the tanks, Then the town watch is screwed. I'll help Alicia and the others buy some time so everyone can get away safely" he said.

"Got it. I'll head back to my house and grab everyone, Then come back".

"Right!" The two then split up.