AR: SO our heroines are in hot water. Let's see who or what will save them from incoming doom.
Green: I'm not singing The Doom Song. 100 points to those who get the reference.
Chapter 9: Definitely not Episode 5
"MARCO!" Fio screamed out loud. The WF soldiers charged with their swords. Eri fired all 5 rounds of
her revolver before it went empty. The Federation soldiers charged with their guns.
Suddenly the wall on the left side blew up and a few WF soldiers were crushed by the Metal Slug as it ran
them over. The others backed off, while the Vulcan cannons fired in all directions, killing more soldiers,
and spreading blood all over the floor. The tank stopped, and Marco popped out of the open hatch, and
said, "Say my name and I'll magically appear. Now this is no way to treat a lady." He then got back into
the Metal Slug, but then Morden shouted, "Send in the Girida-O's! And all WF personnel please clear
out while we deal with the situation." "MORDEN!" Marco shouted. He turned the cannon in Morden's
direction, and fired, but a shield soldier jumped in the cannon's way and was blown to bits instead.
All the WF soldiers ran out of the room, while the Girida-O's came in with Di-Cokkas. The Metal Slug
drove in full speed towards a Girida-O, while the Girida-O drove in full speed towards the Metal Slug.
Both tanks met, and the Slug climbed over the O and crushed it. Then the Slug raced for a Di, which fired
its cannon. The Slug ducked, and was about to fire it's own cannons when the Di's mortar fired at the Slug,
which Marco didn't see coming. Luckily, it missed.
"Mortars? On tanks? That's new," Marco commented, "They've definitely improved."
The Slug then went into it's normal position, and Marco realized he was surrounded by tanks.
Eir then jumped into action. As she charged at the tanks with Molotov's in hand, a Guerilla came at her
with a machete. Eri dodged the machete, and pulled out her tonfa and smacked the soldier back, and was
ambushed by three SF. One of them grabbed her neck, but Eri punched him back, sending him flying into
the nearest wall. As for the other two, Eri pulled out her hatchet, and smacked it into one of the SF's heads,
and kicked the other guy in the groin.
Fio attacked the tanks surrounding the Slug with Heavy Machine Gun bullets, when a sniper bullet
whizzed passed her, missing her by inches. A sniper on the other side of the room with a Dragunov said,
"Oh my god that was a horrible shot!" Fio turned her head and a group of rebels and pink rebel soldiers
did the dog pile on her. Fio's voice squeaked, "They're DEFINITELY a lot better now. We need more
soldiers!"
Marco jumped out of the Metal Slug, and before nay of the enemy tank pilots could a thing, Marco pulled
out two handguns, and fired at each one. His precise shots destroyed all of them. Eri, who was currently
right on top of a pile of 7defeated guerillas, said, "No fair, those tanks were mine!" Marco then said, "Eri
look out!" She turned her head, and dodged a flying sword, thrown by Snyder. Snyder let out an inhuman
growl, and said, "Enough of this nonsense! All gunners, take your positions!"
Snyder, in slow motion, pulled out his two shaman handguns in the good old action movie way, and
resumed to normal motion, taking his position behind some sandbags with the Elite by his side and Morden
on his other side with a bazooka in his hands. Allen and Macba had positioned themselves in the middle of
some M4 gunmen. "OPEN FIRE!" Morden shouted. The soldiers piled on top of Fio jumped off, and Fio
got up and said, "Hah! That's right! Don't mess with the SPARROWS!" Suddenly Marco grabbed her, and
carrying her, took cover behind the Metal Slug with Eri, while Fio kept on saying, "Whoo! Look at me
I'm a brave agent!"
All of the baddies started firing at the heroes behind the Slug. As the bullets panged off, Marco could only
think that Tarma was not going to be pleased. "Eri, maybe a few explosives might help?" Fio asked, and
Eri said, "Oh yeah, I totally forgot!"
At the enemy line, a rebel minigunner said, "Jaaacksoooon, I caaaaan't feeeeel my haaaaands!" Jackson
said, "Then get your finger off the trigger, dumbass. Morden then shouted, "All right, let's finish them
off! Close in!" For the second they all stopped firing to jump over the cover, Eri suddenly got up and
threw a boomerang at the soldiers. They all stopped as they saw the boomerang miss them entirely, and
they laughed. The boomerang turned, and hit one of the soldiers in the farthest right of the line, blowing
him up and killing several more soldiers.
"Enough, charge!" Snyder shouted. Marco pulled out his radio and said, "Tarma get here quickly!"
Suddenly, a door opened, and Grant walked in, saying, "I am never drinking too much booze again..." He
then looked up and saw the line of soldiers with commanders. "Did I miss something?"
"We're under attack, you fucking idiot! What does it look like what's happening, a goddamn party?!"
Snyder screamed in his trademark demon voice, and changed his voice to his old human one, "Get over
here and help us!"
"Marco," Eri said, "I'm afraid you won't get away like this."
Grant said, "Calm down James, I just got back from a club, it really was awesome."
"What do you mean Eri?" Fio asked.
The answer came in a second. Eri jumped over the Metal Slug, threw her bag of explosives and bags full
of weapons to Fio, and shouted, "Unarmed! Without a single weapon! How about you bring in your best
guy and we can do a one on one fight with our fists?!"
The Federation guys slowly backed away, because Eri was one of the most dangerous soldiers in the
Regular Army. Not only did she love explosives more than the demolition team, but the mere sight of her
during the Modern Wars caused battalions of rebels to run for their lives. Morden said, "Careful, she isn't
just an amazing bomber, but she is very strong in physical strength even though she looks like a dried
weed."
Allen was about to step forward, when Hilde said, "I'll do it!" Allen then argued, "NO way! You were
beaten by new guys before the Second Modern War! I'll handle it!"
"Oh yeah?!" Hilde argued back, "How about your son losing to recruits who hadn't even finished their
training?! Don't they say Like Father Like Son?!"
Allen was about to punch him out for speaking badly against his son, when Grant stepped in, "Excuse me
ladies, but I'll deal with this."
Two rebel soldiers quickly placed two small boxes a small distance apart and a big box in between. Eri
cracked her fingers. Grant readied himself. Both sat on the small boxes. An SF came and said, "Your
weapon for this contest," he said and gave Eri a knife. "Never had this sort of arm wrestling before. Aw
well, this will be easy," she said, until she saw that a guerilla gave Grant a machete.
"WAIT!" Eri panicked, "Uh, how about a trade?!"
Suddenly there was a loud vroom and the Ferrari Slug came in, with Ralf on the top who saw Morden and
threw a shuriken. A pink rebel came in and got hit by the shuriken and stumbled back, got up and said,
"I'm okay! This armor works great!"
As Fio ran towards the Ferrari Slug, Tarma stuck his head out of the window and saw Eri being
surrounded by Guerillas as she continuously pummeled Grant with the handle of her knife, since the blade
was broken. Grant was still clutching his machete.
"Eri! Get over here!" Tarma shouted, when an Eaca-B suddenly came into view through the hole through
which the Atlesian Paladin had gone through. The Ferrari Slug's left Vulcan cannon aimed at it and
started firing, while the heli fired back, causing bullet holes in the window. Tarma rotated the tank cannon
by 90 degrees to the left and fired, destroying the heli.
"GO! Save yourselves!" She shouted back, and Snyder suddenly knocked her on the head with a baton,
causing her to fall unconscious.
"No..." Tarma whispered as the Ferrari Slug pulled in reverse. Marco got into the Metal Slug, and went
after the faster racing car. Suddenly the tank stopped. The throttle was in full, yet the tank was going
forward. Marco opened the hatch, looked back, and saw that a demon with long tendrils and devil horns
was holding the Metal Slug by having coiled it's tendrils around the tank. Snyder said to a nearby Shaman
Pioneer, "I'll give you an A+ for summoning such a good demon!"
Marco pulled out a grenade and lobbed it at the demon. The monster swallowed it, and blew up splattering
it's guts everywhere.
The Metal Slug suddenly skidded forward. Marco got back inside the hatch before he could fall out. As
the tank speeded away, Marco said on the radio, "Hey guys! Slow down!"
A missile came in out of nowhere and hit the road. An R-Shobu was chasing the tank!
"Ah crap..."
The heli was prepared to fire anther missile. Inside, the pilot was saying to the radio, "Uh, check, this is
Charles, I repeat, I have the, whatever that thing was called, in sight. I forgot. Was I supposed to destroy
the thing, or catch it?"
A voice said over the radio, "Is it a cartoonish looking tank?"
"Yes."
"Then capture it. If you can't, just destroy it."
"Roger that."
The heli went on, until Charles realized the Metal Slug had gone from view. The R-Shobu took a right
turn, and went on, makin it's usual helicopter blade spinning whatever noise. The Metal Slug then pulled
out of hiding. It had been hiding in some old alleyway which was hidden from view due to the poor
lighting of the place and the fact that Marco had turned it's headlights off.
As it made it's way back to Beacon Academy, the radio crackled once more, and Fio's voice came, "Are
we gonna get Eri back?"
Marco thought carefully, and said, "Yes."
Back at the storage place
Grant was sweeping along with some of the other guys. After the attack, the whole place was a mess with
bullet shells lying all over the place and pieces of debris everywhere. As he swept on, he then straightened
his back, and saw Smith. "Hey Anton, what's got you smiling?"
"It's complete."
"What is?"
Anton cracked a smile, and said, "The Dominator. Remember Plan C?"
SO Eri is captured, our heroes encountered the baddies, and everything is still really shady. Poor
Eri. I'm pretty Snyder has some diabolical schemes up his sleeve for her.
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