Omega's Valued Prisoner

Tale 21: Rescue

Mora, during this whole crazy time at the bar, is reading a book in her room. Specifically a book about a human who traveled through hell, purgatory, and heaven. All taking form in a very long poem. She is thinking to herself though about religion. The Locust religion follows a trinity of worms that had created their homes and the very habitat they lived in. Also talked of her mother as an important figure as she bred the Locusts into what they are She knew the great worms had done so and many words could appeal to various small worms beneath that nourished them..but...

Their religion did not talk much of an afterlife. It mentions how their body goes to dirt and decomposes, aids the ecosystem, and more life. Yet it does not talk of much more than that afterwords. She sighed and looked down a bit. What happened to the Locusts who died? What about the humans dead as well, where did they go? There had to be something, SOMETHING! She knew it, otherwise. All that sacrifice and those lives...it would just be wasted. This entire war was pointless, if the humans and Locusts just learned to work together, if Mother hadn't instantly assumed they would be hostile in the future...all just what ifs. No point thinking in the past, but she cannot help about it. It goes against much of her beliefs to think about the past, to not focus on what was going on, hell went against the Locust belief.

Being exposed to humans, she has had too much time to think. Too much time to learn and think about life. Figure out things with her own mental capacity, mental and social things. Not physical problems and ways to order troops. Instead she was thinking of how to improve her own happiness and the happiness of others, but for their own sake. Not for their efficiency. So to try and help with this, she has been reading books, either over the human mind, or over human psychology. It was all very confusing though, as many times these books of psychology conflicted with each other. So she merely attempted to apply the ideas to situations she knew of in the past or tried to see if she could get some people in these situations and if they did as the book said they would. Course now she was wondering about religion and as she read she wondered.

She cursed and fell back on her bed after reading a bit more. She could not agree with this human religion. It punished homosexuality, those with alternate beliefs, the ones who performed too much violence, and those who betrayed others. It punished so many people who did not seem to deserve a punishment. She figured there had to be something after life, but...who knows. Hell she still wondered who created the universe, she only knew who made the hollow.

"DAMMIT THEY GOT SENTRIES!" shouted a man, from outside. She stopped thinking and then looked out her window. Marauders were all about the house and trying to enter. She heard the sound of a sentry activating and then opening fire at a man. He had tried to rush in. Mora walked back and over to her bed. She pulled a Hammerburst out and then did her best to get the window up. She slowly slid her hand past the bar and pulled it up. The lasers were on the outside, but she still was careful around suck thing. She got her hammerburst past the bars and then aimed down at a guy not noticing and running to the ground. She fired a few times and the guy shouted, falling over having been shot. She fired a few more times, three more bursts. Then the men is dead midway through the third burst.

"Shit she killed Charlie!" shouted a guy and everyone ran to cover. A man then got beneath her window and tossed a grenade up. It landed on the edge of the window.

"SHTI MAN! DON'T KILL HER!" one scolded to the one who threw it. Mora just pushed it with one finger and it fell down beneath them, exploding. The wall was shine as it was built strong, just now a bloodstain from the multiple men it killed.

"I wish there were less defenses so I could kill them more." she muttered to herself, a bit sad about that. Along the front of the house, three Marauders, were discussing what to do though. Not a large squad was sent to inspect defenses, the grenade taking out a few and the sentries shot right through one Marauders and into the man behind him.

"Alright boys, we gotta think." sad the one in the center "She is up there, we are down here. In between us are sentries and lasers."

"What if we just shoot at the sentries?" asked the one to right. The center man slaps him.

"Because, you idiot, what the fuck is a bullet going to do against a sentry when we are shot! What possibly makes you think if we shoot at technology it will stop working."

"Video games." His other cheek is slapped.

"That doesn't work man." The other guy then was blindfiring into the house and shot at the turret. He poked his head forward a bit.

"Its broken."

"What do you mean its broken!" shouted the center man running up."

"Its no longer firing." he said and stepped into the house. He had shot up the furniture a bit also, but other than that, he was fine. The one up the stairs though began to fire and killed the man who stepped in at first.

"SHIT!" said the guy who was not leading. They then got into cover and were about to react more when Mora opened her door. She tosses a grenade she keeps down and it lands before them.

"SHIT!" shouted the leading Marauders and it exploded, wrecking more furniture and killing him. Mora then hears that and looked over the lasers. She wanted out, to check what is going on, are Gyules and Omega okay? Oh shit...they could be dead. Dead and n hell according to that religion! She looked over the lasers and tried something. Mora took her hammerburst and all the ammo she kept, firing at the device until it breaks, taking the last of her current clips and reloading. The laser device was wreaked, she knew Gyules would be pissed over that, life saved or not. She merely turned off the sentry once she got over to it, since it had an obvious off switch no one ever bothered with it seemed.

She ran downstairs and began to run towards that mansion Jacob commandeered. Mora was running to it and ran to it to find the doors opened, but no one in the area she could see. She looked about and then noticed a very large crowd of people. Mora ran over and began to dig through the crowd, directly disobeying Gyules, but caring for their own safety, something she never expected to do when they had bound her with duct tape and Tanner put it over her mouth for being too talkative.

Course she preferred tape rather than what was Gyules' usual style of shutting up Tanner. Not a fan of pain. Mora snapped out of thought, getting far too deep into thinking today. She began to force her way through the crowd, but her frail figure proved to be a hindrance and a benefit here. She was slipping through what she could, but was not strong enough to push men aside far. She made her way through as she heard Jacob babbling. Everyone began to move back then and she was forced with the crowd as she fought it.

"I hate being this close to anyone!" she thought, completely squished by the massive amount of people. She did her best to keep fighting, people complaining to her, but got to the front of the crowd, a few minutes after the crowd bunched away. She got in front of everyone and then was by the edge. Mora nearly rushed off the edge and ended standing on her toes, leaning over. She flailed her arms about, cursing as her top half leaned back in an attempt to fall backwards. She was holding her hammerburst with one hand and barely gripping it. A human grabbed her hair and pulled her down.

"I got you." said the human and then looked over her, Mora clutching her rifle to her body, face reddened. She had been so scared, didn't even see what was down there at the moment.

"Its-" The man is interrupted by Jacob laughing.

"ITS THE BITCH!" he shouted through his laughter, now leaning over and hands on his knees. He began to slam his fist into his knee and fell down upon the ground gripping his gut. He keeps laughing for a while, until the point of where it is awkward. People are looking at each other and have never seen him laugh this much without someone in pain. He then calms down with a few more laughs and gets up.

"This is so fucking easy!" he said "I have the squad now dead, the bitch comes rushing into my arms, holding a damned rifle and looking cute as fuck. I have enough damned troops in town and in position to overtake the town with almost no casualties, so I can accomplish all of my tasks by morning!" shouted Jacob "This is so fucking great, so fucking great! I have never had it this easy. Ah...go back to watching the Berserker kill them, bring the girl to my office." said Jacob. He walks off stage and now Mora is being forced off, soldiers holding her down tightly. She is yelling at them to let go of her. Mora is weak, but she is fighting. One of them pulls her rifle from her and puts it on his back.

"That is my gun!" shouted Mora "Do you realize how long it took me to get that thing working well! Not even just working, but well!" she shouted "Nor do you realize how awful it is that you are forcing me into a room with Jacob! He will rape me!"

"Dammt someone shut this bitch up!" shouted the man who took her rifle as he began to escort her out. She was being escorted to a door on the opposite side of the one Gyules entered from. The guy to her left kicks the door as he escorts her.

"I said, LET GO OF ME!" she shouted and shook the man off from her leg. She pulls out from her belt a large knife and slams it into the stomach of the man next to her. He shouts and she slams it in a few times, his other friend watching and seeming horrified. Blood splurts from the wound and onto Mora's hand. She twists the knife a little, starting to enjoy this, then moves to the next man. She begins to grin and the man starts to run. She grabs the back of his shirt and with newfound strength, forces him onto his back. She drops to her knees and holds the knife with both hands, slamming it into his chest, between the ribs and into a lung. She does so a few more times, usually scrapping a rip or two, but never able to pierce into it. When its done, the man is dead, blood had sprayed onto her. She walks over to the other guy and grabs her gun back. Mora sighs and calms down.

"What the fuck do I do...was...is Omega dead. Or are they in that pit. I cannot go out there! They will notice me and kill me, or take me away and who knows what will happen. I just...must..." She looks over to the dead soldiers and then looks through the hallway. She takes the helmet off of one and puts it on, then unbuckles his armour. She puts that over her and then tries to buckle it. The armour being a bit big on her, but once buckled it begins to crush her chest. She loosens it and then just leaves it dangling.

Mora opened the door slowly and then shuts it slowly, leaving the bodies there as she did not know where to hide them, nor is strong enough to pick up dead weight. She walked over to the area people are crowd about, slowly fighting her way to the front again. The room was fairly dark and everyone was focusing on whats going on down there, so she had the advantage. Mora lingered over to the ledge and looked down casually. Down there, Omega was hiding beneath some rocks in this large tunnel, the Berserker looking confused. She had no idea what to do, humans could be smelled all around, in front of her and a ton above her.

She could hear the chanting of those above her, but not the ones in front of her. Mora could tell this by just her actions, pitying the poor girl. She could tell, whereas others could not, she had been locked away. She was troubled, starved a little, burned a lot. The thick skin plating and her stance showed these things. Plus upon her back it appeared someone tried to pry off a piece that was sticking out a little, while below ti was a square cut that they could not manage to cut through the whole way, so a lot of little slash marks were at the end. Thank goodness the helmet hid how sad she looked. She did move over a bit and saw down there Aidan. It had to be Omega squad there. Omega was alive and fighting for their life! Hopefully the crowd was to confuse them, Mora was going to find a way out.

She slowly and casually walked out, then got into that room and threw the helmet aside. A soldier was walking down at the time and turned over to see the scene. She aimed her rifle and fired at him twice, killing him before he can shout to his friends. Mora begins rushing forward and focusing on saving Omega, she would use her training RAAM gave her to save human lives. She kept rushing forward and then shot at another soldiers walking down the hallway, shooting him in the leg. She runs over and then slams the rifle into his back. Mora flips him over and holds him up by his shirt.

"I will force hooks into the back of your flesh and tear it apart, then pierce rings into the wounds to pull on them at any time. All of that, if you do not tell me exactly how to get Omega squad out of that cave alive!"

"Ow...shit! Gotta get them into the Berserker cage and raise it! Then they will need to shoot their way out the back!" said the guy.

"Thanks" said Mora smiling a bit "Where is that room."

"Jacob's office!"

"Shit..." she mutters and stands up. When the soldier is to say anything else she takes out a boltok and blows out his brains. Similar to how RAAM executed the Gear for his radio. She then takes off running downt he hallway and looks back to him. "Fuck...I dunno where that is." She begins to look around and then hears the sound of a crowd chanting through the wall.

"ALMOST!" shouted one man.

"Shit!" she muttered and ran through the hallway until she saw a door on the wall to her right. Mora ran through the door and found a few more guys, but ran past them, the guys not noticing and many of them intoxicated or high. She ran past them to a room with a staircase and a sign by the staircase. It now listed what the Marauders had up there. Mentioned a few pointless rooms, but at the end of the list s Jacob's Office. It even states its at the end of the hallway up there. Mora then rushes up the stairs and towards a hallway.

"This place is really oddly designed." she thought to herself and noticed a man walking down. Mora fired upon him once and killed him, then took off running forward again. She kept running until she got to Jacob's office and he opened the door, grabbing her neck.

"I sort of tried to lighten security and wanted you to fight your way here." said Jacob "Figured it would be more entertaining if you thought you had hope, considering my troops didn't even search you for weapons or bind you, should have been obvious. Course tonight has been showing I really need to think out things more, got a little cocky this time." he said. Mora is struggling to breath as he holds her throat tightly.

"Oh sorry Anastasia." he said and threw her aside.

"What!?'

"That feels like a good name for you." he said "But nonetheless, you are Princess Moragna, not Princess Anastasia." he said and walked over to a large control panel. What was thought to be a wall, was somehow a window that he was peering into and looking over the crowd. Mora got up and was about to shoot at him, then he pulled out a Boltok and shot her in the knee with perfect precision. She falls over clutching it and cursing, then struggles to grab her fallen gun.

"I am doing this way too quick!" he said "I just meet them a few days ago, and no build up am I killing them already! With a berserker, only have one of those and it doesn't work well. Can't use a berserker for show, I have no idea why I thought one would work! They can smell everyone around them and will be confused as hell."

"Why are you telling me this?" she said as she tried to get up. Mora cursed again and looked at her leg. He had shot right below her kneecap, the bullet stuck right in the bone.

"Because I find whores are really nice people to talk to. They always understand, but I usualy gather them by the boatload and host orgies. Orgies so great girls freakin clip my nails and take bits of my beard when they leave, as souvenirs! All apart of my religion, but I am bored of them and everyone else. I am really bored of most things, so fucking you I expect to be now. Tell me, is your pussy scaly."

"What!? No, you are disgusting. Just let my friends go, I will find you something entertaining if you let them go."

"NOW THAT IS WHAT I ALSO LOVE ABOUT YOU!" he said and slammed his fist onto the wall.

"You fucking care about humans, you should never care about them! You are meant to be enemies to the end. Like a snake and mongoose, dreadlocks and waterfalls, Femininsts and Malenists, BUT NO! You want them to fucking live, you broke out of your house to rescue them and fought your way to my office! They damned captured you first, probably still a hostage, so why, WHY!? Tell me!" he said walking closer to her with each sentence, but at the end of it, gripping her, shaking her a bit.

"Because they are fucking good people!" she said and slammed her head into him. Jacob falls over with a bloody nose. Mora takes his pistol and slams it into his head. She pulls out her knife also and stabs it into his leg where he shot her.

"NOW WE ARE EVEN! Go operate that control panel and call it all off." she said holding the gun at him, stuck sitting on the floor. Jacob is cursing and gripping his leg, letting his nose bleed all over him.

"FUCK THAT HURTS!"

"No shit sherlock!" she said and shot at him again, missing on purpose but to encourage. She pulled off of her belt her own Boltok and also aimed that at him.

"Now get fucking to it!" she said and then used one to get herself up. Jacob stands up just fine and then walks over to the mirror. He lifts up the wall beneath it and exposes some buttons and various controls.

"I apologize for the odd design, this place was designed by an amateur architect trying to be mysterious, pus we also altered it a fair amount." He presses a few buttons and pulls out a microphone on a wire. Jacob activates the wire and begins talking into it.

"Kill the Berserker, the remaining members of Omega are free to leave! This is too easy, we need to savour it." he said "The girl from my office is to be escorted out also, specifically carried like the demanding brat she is." Two soldiers from each side walk away and come back with scorchers. They begin burning the Berserker and killing it. Some guys open the cage in back and tell them to go. Omega squad is reluctant, but then Jacob hands her the mic.

"You can trust them for now, I got a gun to Jacob's head." said Mora into it, tempted to make a speech as her mother used to. Just for the feeling of so. Down there, the guys walk to the pit and Tanner is already bothering everyone.

"So we just had a damned Locust girl save our asses."

"Weren't for her we wouldn't be in danger in the first place, so I cannot say save."

"Bullshit, that girl ran into here and saved us from that Berserker, which is dead now."

"We do certainly owe her one." said Aiden "Some sort of favour." Gyules sighs as they walk into cage and are lifted up. It exposes a little room beneath the office and they are escorted to Jacob's office to get Mora, the guys figuring they can just carry her instead. Once there, they find Mora sitting on the bed, looking at her leg wound, Jacob has been shot in the head and is laying there, dead.

"Sure he is dead." said Gyules as Aiden killed their escort.

"Lets be safe." she said and shot at him with both boltoks several times.

"He is dead, now get me fucking home and fix my leg. He shot it and it really really hurts!" It was obvious she had cried a little over this, Mora was not hardened enough to just ignore a gunshot like so. Gyules walked over and picked up Mora, carrying her bridal style as he had done so earlier today. He was careful not to touch he picked her up.

"Lets get you patched up." he stated and began to carry her down and out of the place. The soldiers were all angrily retiring to bed, many of them wanting to kill Omega. Before they left, they made sure they got their guns back, specifically by forcing the operator of the supermagnet to force it down. They also learned it was ripped from a junkyard and a lot of their items were ripped from various places. Omega rushed to get out of there and to arrive at their house.

"Home sweet home!" said Osman as they approached the door. Osman ran ahead to it, but just as he did he heard a loud beeping sound. The house's walls burst forth in a fiery explosion, debris raining all about and throwing Osman aside, the door on top of him. He threw the door off of him and got up.

"...WELL FUCK!" shouted Tanner. The entire squad appeared shocked, horrified, as their home had been destroyed. Laughter began to fill the air, so the squad turned around to see Jacob standing there among several Marauders. He is still bleeding from his head and a few various wounds.

" Thought you could kill me!" he laughed "I have had worse!"

"She shot you in the head, how the hell are you still alive?"

"Because I am fucking religious figure!" he shouted "Not listen to any of the titles? Not hear of how I believed to become closer to god, one must sin? Because it sure as hell works!" He walks off laughing with his Marauders.

"I hate that man, so much." said Gyules once he was gone, the remains of their house burning in the back.

"Can you fix my leg now?"

"I will get you to the clinic." He then begins to walk off while Osman begins explaining possible places for them to live in.

The End