Enjoy and review. And I listen to the "Two Steps from Hell" soundtracks while I write and they are the most epic songs you'll hear and I encourage you to listen to it while reading this. I recommend "To Glory" ,"Last Stand" "Archangel" and "Atlantis".
Mandy checked her LAR as she heard the locking and loading of the heavy machine guns and grenade launchers that lined the trenches. Mandy stuck her head up and surveyed the icy plain before her, the wind was picking up blowing hundred year old snow across the frozen desert making visibility about fifty yards. Mandy turned on the thermal imaging on her visor and saw a horde of Xidioian vehicles and war machines but she didn't know how far away they were. "Hmm" was all Mandy could say then the soldier beside her just collapsed she turned off the thermal and looked at the soldier there was something jutting out of his helmet she couldn't see his face because of a scarf and goggles then she saw several other soldiers collapse in a similar manner then heard someone yell "Return fire!" The booming of the gun fire could be heard for miles and Mandy put her own rifle over the side and fired in the general direction she thought the enemy was at. Many soldiers were getting their heads hardened by Xidoian snipers especially gunners who had to be replaced almost every second. Then she saw the alien war machines break through the fog then heard someone yell on the com channel "Mines now!" then a great explosion almost like a volcano eruption swallowed the aliens in a Hellish inferno sending bits of flaming debris and shrapnel flying in all directions then she heard an insanely loud screeching noise and looked up and saw Xidoian aircraft sweep down and destroy the heavy gun placements and clear out trenches with its plasma cannons and one was sweeping right towards her trench and it started burning everyone inside and Mandy thought fast and throttled her jet pack and managed to avoid the ships attacks but not the ship itself. She could only let out a short yelp before impact she flattened out against the cockpit and slid upwards and instinct kicked in and she grabbed at something and hung on for her life. The Xidoian pilot thought the human it just hit was gone and proceeded to finish his mission. The craft was going fast and Mandy was struggling to hang on then her mind took over and she reached down and grabbed her combat knife from her boot and buried it in the hull. She pulled her self up grabbed another handhold and plunged the knife in again a little closer to the cockpit the Antarctic wind made this very difficult. The pilot heard "ting" noises and proceeded with trying to get whatever was up there off by rocking the aircraft from side to side. Mandy almost panicked but still held onto the knife while she slid over the surface. When he stopped she pried the knife out then buried a little closer to the alien. The pilot heard that "tink" again and hissed in frustration he proceeded to do a few barrel rolls. Mandy felt the craft spin to the left and held onto the knife with a death grip and praying that it would hold. When the craft was upside down and if you would've froze time and looked at it, it would appear that Mandy was doing a handstand on the craft, then make time go normal again and you would see that she slammed into the hull when it became right side up. The alien stopped and Mandy resumed her crawl she plunged the knife in one more time 'Almost there' she thought 'just one more time'. She brought the blade up and, smash, the knife stuck into the glass and it cracked like a giant spider web. The Xidoian pilot shrieked in surprise. Mandy grabbed a grenade off her battle harness, with her other hand, snapped the pin off with her thumb and brought it down shattering the glass and sending the explosive into the aliens face. Since there was no glass anymore the knife had nothing to hold onto and Mandy flew backwards and then down away from the ship. She just managed to see the aircraft explode sending fiery debris in all directions then she plowed into the ice then slipped into unconsciousness.
Back in the trenches Billy and Grim had their problems as well. Billy killed well over his share of Xidoians with his shotgun. Grim just teleported right up to the aliens and just sliced them in half and sometimes used supernatural powers to kill a few. Even with them helping things weren't going in their favor they had to retreat back to the bunkers. The soldiers got ready for a door breach. The Xidoians put this device on the door and twisted a knob the next instant the door vaporized and ceased to exist. A soldier just happened to be waiting there with a rocket launcher and sent a missile right in the middle of the Xidoian force. He and the rest of the squad heard shrieks of pain and death then the rest barged in with plasma flying but the defense squad cut them down until a red armored alien major with a blazer attached to his arm filled the room with the scorching fumes. The Xidoians were one step closer to taking Sector five.
What will happen next stay tuned next week and find out! And review.