I was going to make a note about the layout of this chapter and how I got a little bit of extra time to write this because of a lockdown at my school because of a gun threat, but i'm sure that nobody wants to hear me talk so i'm just going to shut up now and let you read this chapter.
Isaac was allowing Vandal to make as many of the javelin spears as he wanted; he would look back at the dragon every once in a while as he pondered on something that has been on his mind for the past few days, 'According to Nicole, I only have three weeks until whoever she was talking about comes.' Isaac has been counting down the days since his last vision. 'How could she even know if they are coming or not? She isn't real, it doesn't make any sense.' Two days ago, Isaac decided that he wasn't going to take any chances, he had been going around the area collecting spirit gems that he could use to make alternative ammo for his plasma cutter, pulse rifle, and Ellie's line gun. He also visited the black smith to order more blades for in ripper in exchange for more of his blank audio logs that the smith found very useful. Just the other day, he was able to find a shop that sold titanium rods that he could use to make Ellie's javelin spears. The shop owner said that Isaac could have them because he couldn't find a good use for them. Isaac spent all that day at the temple's black smiting class using their tools to try to get a certain part of the rod smoothly hollowed out so that he could copy how the ammunition was made. Unfortunately, Isaac did not have the parts that he needed to make the original spears that had the electrical charge as an external piece so he had to modify it so that it would be internal; he also had to use a green spirit gem to use as a power source for the electrical charge due to a lack of the original piece of technology.
Isaac didn't want to take any chances if Nicole's statement was true or not. The desk in the dorm room was filled with different ammo types and amounts ranging from several hundred pulse rounds to thirty line racks.
Vandal's pile of supplies to make the spears was steadily growing smaller as he was finishing with the last of the spears. "So what did you mainly work on while you were in space?" Vandal asked.
"I mainly worked on ships and not much else." Isaac answered. "Do you know if Nick has said anything about me yet?"
"She asked me not to say anything from our conversations." Vandal said, wanting to keep his promise.
"I understand." Isaac said. He suddenly had the strangest felling that something bad was about to happen.
Vandal had finished the last spear and set it with the others. He suddenly snapped to attention and was trying to make as little noise as possible. Isaac knew for a fact that something was wrong; he quietly moved to the window so that Vandal could keep his concentration. He moved the blind in front of the glass and looked at the sky; he could see something that looked like a rock that was starting to get larger, and it was coming straight for their building. Without saying anything, Isaac ran for Vandal and threw himself onto him and covered the dragon's head with his arms. They both could feel the entire building shake when the boulder made contact with the structure. "What was that?" Vandal shouted as Isaac got off of him and ran for the desk.
"We need to get to the ground floor!" he shouted while he put all of the ammo on the desk into his inventory. Isaac strapped his ripper, pulse rifle, and Ellie's javelin gun to himself and equipped his plasma cutter.
Vandal ran towards the exit once he felt the ground starting to shake, likely from another boulder hitting the lower floors like the last one. He ran out of the door and stopped for his friend who was searching for anything else that would be useful. "Hurry up Isaac!" he shouted to the engineer.
Isaac ripped open several drawers on the desk and took out anything that he could find, med packs, more plasma energy, even a stasis module. Once he was finished looting everything, he ran for the exit until a large piece of sheet rock dropped from the upper floor and blocked his path. 'Shit!' he thought. "Just go I'll meet up with you somewhere else!" he yelled at the ice dragon. Vandal left without another word. Isaac felt another boulder impact the building and could hear a large cracking sound at his feet. He wasn't given any time to react, in a split second he fell through the floor along with a few hundred pounds of materials and furniture. Isaac fell to the base of the floor beneath him where the first boulder hit. A large sheet from the floor had broken off and made a slope that led out of the hole and into the hallway. Isaac landed and rolled out of the building and activated his thrusters in the legs of his RIG to help break his fall. Once Isaac landed on his feet, he broke into a sprint and was nearly crushed by the falling rocks.
'Holy shit! That was close.' He thought. Isaac looked around at his surroundings; hundreds of civilians were running in panic to find cover from the incoming bombardment. In the short amount of time that the city was under attack, a number of buildings had already leveled along with a few bodies that were crushed because they were trapped in the collapsing structures. Isaac opened the functions menu in his RIG and made a video link with Ellie.
Ellie was at the medical center getting her eye socket checked on to make sure that it was healing properly. She was waiting in one of the treatment rooms that was surprisingly similar to the ones that were on the sprawl. It was a small white room with a roof that was a few feet above her head; there were various paintings of different artwork that the doctor had collected, hanging from the walls. Ellie had her line gun and plasma cutter attached to her side, she never went anywhere without any kind of weapon within arm's reach. 'What the bloody hell is taking them so long?' Ellie had been waiting for about twenty minutes for somebody to see her. 'I guess that the doctors here really are just like the ones back home, always keeping the patient waiting.' She joked to herself. Suddenly, the door swung open and a mole ran in with panic all over his face. "What is going on?" Ellie asked.
"The far side of the city is under attack! We were told to evacuate this area and to move underground." The mole said while going through the medical equipment that they might need for any injured. "I suggest that you do the same." The mole ran out of the room with his medical supplies in his arms.
Ellie walked out into the hallways and saw the staff running either to the nearest exit or helping injured patients. She walked out one of the side exits to the building and immediately saw some of the larger buildings under fire.
She looked at the RIG attachment on her wrist and noticed that she was receiving a video call from Isaac; she answered the call and Isaac appeared on the holographic screen. "Ellie!" Isaac shouted from inside of his helmet. "I'm at the temple, we need to meet up and do what we can to fend off the attacker while they get their defenses up."
"Ok, just send your location to me and I'll be there as fast as I can." Ellie said as she started to run in the general direction of the temple. "Also, can you get my javelin gun? I left it in our room."
"Yeah… our room is kind of fucked up right now but I was able to grab it and its spears." Ellie could see a building start to collapse on itself behind Isaac. He turned to face the building and started to run towards it. "I need to see if anyone survived that; I just finished uploading my location, I will see you in a little bit."
"Ok, I will see you soon." Ellie skidded to a stop and activated her locator on her wrist; it displayed a blue line that was slightly darker than Isaac's that curved around a building to her left and further down the street. She equipped her line gun and followed the path that was set for her. The streets were crowded from the amount of civilians that were either going to bear arms or those going to the underground tunnels.
Ellie continued down the road but stopped when she heard Cynder's voice, "Ellie, wait up!" The dragon called out. Ellie turned to face the young dragon that was almost chest high. "Have you seen Spyro? I have searched everywhere for him."
"No I haven't. Have you seen Isaac?" Ellie asked. Cynder shook her head. "Well if you help me get to him I can help you find Spyro."
Ellie activated her locator and pointed down the path that it led. "Isaac is that way but I'm not sure how far." Ellie said to Cynder. The dragon nodded in confirmation; they started to run down the blue path towards Isaac's location. The fire from the enemies' artillery was getting more and more intense as the ran; they were nearly crushed by different boulders. One that ricocheted off of a tower and another one that struck the ground a few feet to their left. Although they were lucky, others were not; bodies that were crushed littered the streets. Most of them were barely recognizable while others were just a red smear along the pavement. They reached the walls of the temple and were searching for one of the gates that would let them in. Cynder took flight to see where the closest one was so that she could let Ellie in. The walls to the temple were ten feet tall with no way to climb it.
Ellie's RIG lit up and Isaac appeared on the light blue screen. "Ellie where are you?" Isaac shouted as another boulder hit behind him.
"I'm just outside of the walls! I'm nowhere near any of the gates and Cynder just flew over the wall to look for a way in." Ellie shouted back so that Isaac could hear her over the destruction that was going on around her.
Isaac turned for a second to face some dragons that were being evacuated with several broken limbs and a section missing from her tail. "We have no time! You need to make your own entrance; after all your weapons are mining tools. I need you to help me evacuate these dragons, then we need to move to the gates and keep these fuckers from getting into the city,"
Isaac ended the transmission before Ellie could say anything else. She flailed her arms to get Cynder's attention and to try to get her within ear shot. The black dragon noticed her out of the corner of her eye and flew down to her; she stopped about thirty feet above Ellie and hovered in place. "The gates on this side are blocked off. You will have to go all the way around."
Ellie equipped her lone gun and turned on the sights; she aligned it to one of the more brittle spots of the wall and fired it four times. A three foot section of the wall started to crumple and collapse under its own weight. Ellie opened an audio link to Isaac's RIG. "I'm in, we are heading to your location now."
"Ok, I met up with Spyro. They just sent others to help us get everyone out of here." Isaac said over the audio link. "Just get here as fast as you can."
Once agian if you have any questions or ideas about this story, please review or pm me and if you want to hear about the gun threat that was a diversion for two bank robberies then you can look that up on any news website.