Omega's Valued Prisoner

Tale 26: Demise Pt 2

Elsewhere from Gyules position, at the same time as he is on the rooftop, Mora is being aided by Savage Locusts sitting among them with the body of the commando beside her.. She had been captured for a little while, but escaped and killed the man.

What had occurred was different than what was thought. The commando ad actually gone outside through a window and had forced a hand over her mouth pulling her out. She had seen many points to escape and chose not to. Mora's idea was to get to Jacob and actually kill the bastard this time, rather than all of that bullshit with faulty Boltoks and doubles and whatever else Jacob used to imitate immortality. The man tried to take her through town in the stealthiest way he could, in which on the time she made sure she could get past her bindings, weakening them. Only on the way there he stopped in a house and found out Locusts had blocked off any path that could lead to the mansion where she is to be dropped off. Instead, thanks to Locusts she presumed, he is going to drop her off elsewhere. At that moment Mora broke free of her hand bindings and took his weapon, killing him. She cut herself free and then stepped out, calling over Locusts who recognized her once they got a real look at her.

She had also gotten a look at Locusts and it was awful. They were not like the New Nexus Locusts who had gone without leadership, but had still maintained a majority of their intelligence and sentience. These Locusts...they had physically devolved to be a bit more savage, bearing a higher muscle mass, sharper teeth, lowered intelligence, and sharper claws. Some of the Therons, the once most intelligent Locusts had abandoned their Torque Bows and guns in general to try and brutally cut and maul enemies with their best of abilities, hiding beneath their sun beached robes the savage deprived husk of a creature they once were. Mora was crying a little even at this disappointment when a Theron arrived without a helmet. She remembered when the Therons were RAAM's pride, he had risen from their ranks to general of the army. Nonetheless she had to ignore this, she was trying to lead them to have minimal casualties all about, hopefully not kill Osman or Gyules, but she had no idea if they were alive or dead, so for now she had to focus on Jacob. Course now also she had finished learning of their situation and of their numbers.

"I have scouted out the area a bit, but you must save all units, try and stop attacking from that side. Do we have Booshots?" A grenadier nodded except then managed to say: "Few". A Savage Boomer entered, in which she noticed right away the Boomers was lacking much of his natural fat and wore more armour. He was mostly covered, except he still appeared far more Savage, obviously not fed as well as they used to be by the lost of that natural fat. He was holding a Digger and handed it to her, bearing little snapping creatures on his belt. She looked it over and the Boomer stated: "Many".

"What does it do?"

"Creature fired." The Grenadier stated, using his hand to imitate the motion of the creature coming out and then hitting the ground.

"Dig." He walked a little bit forward, hand on the ground and then lifted it up to the height of his head.

"Boom." Locusts always bore difficulty talking, but could understand what he said, whereas she figured most humans would be annoyed. She got annoyed with herself that she thought of humans. Really had spent too much time amongst them.

" So it digs through the ground, beneath cover, and explodes?" she said. The Boomer nodded. She thought for a little bit.

"Ammunition is plenty?"

"Farmed!"

"Range obviously isn't enough if you haven't used it on these people, but if they explode though..." She began trying to think, feel like RAAM a bit. RAAM would instantly have a plan now, he would know instantly. She had to think...think...Sewers! No, not a good idea, not at all...They will turn Lambent even with gas masks. Hmm...

"I got it." she stated "If these can dig under cover...wait when do they pop out?"

"Under enemies."

"Oh, they sense it. Start taking blocks and whatever you can and put them in front of yourself as you walk down the path, give drones these weapons and possibly give another one ammunition for them to carry. They will send out as much of this things as they can to kill the humans. Slowly push it forward as much of you can, make sure to fire it left and right also at angles as humans might wait just past your opening to shoot you down until more come. Then rush in every Locust you can. Keep men outside watching in case any Marauder resistance comes elsewhere or from behind, use every bit of weaponry that is better than your own the Marauders leave behind, make sure you are armed with the best of equipment before rushing in. Oh yes and also, these humans are called the Marauders, they wear darker armour and keep them as your main target unless Lambent arrive. These men have been using old towns to lure in Locusts and then they take them out, we have an upper hand for now, but they have something planned to take us out. If we take the mansion they will rush after us and attempt to take it back, in which we can sue our superior numbers and their weaponry against them. Pass this plan onto everyone and lead the attack as soon as everyone is ready."

The Locusts nodded, a few a bit amazed with her leading. She was thinking of plans passionately, sounding just like her mother. In truth Mora was trying to act like Gyules in thinking of such a plan. The Locusts began to head out, course Mora followed though, holding the Lancer the commando had wielded. Mora then stopped and walked over to a Locust. He asked him to go to a location and retrieve her something for battle she needed.

Outside of the city though, Aiden's group was dealing with the Lambent who had formed there. Several Lambet Stalks had popped up around town and were delaying the main assault the Marauders were going to provide, their frontal assault having retreated after losing a few troops to Gyules and the Locusts presenting such a serious assault on the mansion. Course now Aiden's group was specifically in an old mostly destroyed house, under heavy fire from Lambent behind trees.

Aiden popped out and shot a Lambent who was peaking out, causing him to fall back and explode. Ilian shot down another one and then fell down. Tanner turned to her instinctively.

"Are you okay!?" he shouted.

"I just slipped a little." she said sitting up "I wasn't shot, but I am glad you care." Yet she still bore little emotion in her tone of voice. Tanner sighed and then took out his Markza.

"Fuckit, I am going to try and shoot the pods from that unstable roof." He stepped on an old barrel and jumped through a hole in the ceiling. He got behind cover in the remains of the stone wall and began trying to see if he could see the pods. Just as Tanner got barely a bit of a pod in sight, the floor caved in and he fell on top of Ilian. He was on top of her and when he adjusted himself, their faces were a bit close, both blushing. Course then the two both realized and got up, turning away and clutching their chests.

"Your heavy armour crushed my boobs." she stated, still with little emotion, but her voice wavered a bit showing sighs of pain.

"And my chest is still very sensitive. I think I messed up a few stitches..." Tanner stated in near tears once more.

"GUYS! You can worry about being in pain when the Lambent are dead. I have been shot five times and I am not complaining!"

"Really?"

"You don't look shot." Aiden turned to his other side, bearing the five shots in his sleeve, two of which were bleeding.

"Shit, you okay?"

"I will be if we live." Ilian sighed and stood up, realizing how dire the situation is. She took from her belt an incendiary grenade. Before the two could react and tell her not to she threw the grenade into a tree above the Lambent. The Lambent looked up as the tree as it burned. Branches fell off and soon it began to spread, not only in the trees, but in the underbrush. The area was lighting up quickly and spreading.

"Ilian, you damned idiot! The area is dry as hell and now its going to burn up like its hell!"

"Thats why I saved it as a last resort." Aiden face palmed and then looked over to Tanner.

"You two need marriage counseling."

"Fiance counseling, thank you. Not married yet, but that will happen if we survive the fire. If not let us take comfort we killed Lambent as we went."

"Well...where the hell do we run to now?" Tanner shouted "The fire is going to spread everywhere, the forest goes as damned far as the eye can see and we cannot leave the others behind."

"Lets just sit in here." Ilian stated and sat on the floor. Just as she sat, the wind picked up a little and spread some flames , which now had the broken roof on fire." The three got up and starting running, trying to avoid the fire that is now spreading around town and the area.

"At least with this light source no Creepers will spawn!"

Gyules and Osman though noticed the flames as they made their ways up the rooftops.

"Shit is that-"

"I don't want to watch the world catch fire." Gyules responded with "But I do enjoy the sight of those stalks burning and the Lambent trying to come out of pods on fire." Osman would have stated that this was sick, but it was pretty...who could deny that this sight is pretty? Gyules stopped looking and went prone, crawling over to the edge of the roof and watching Locusts as they marched through the street. The two had not gone around the mansion. Instead they had been traveling through the rooftops and encountered meager resistance. At most a few Snipers from the Marauders, of whom even in black armour at night, proved easy to spot and kill.

Only now they could see the Locusts setting up large blocks in the kill zones, and had been slowly pushing them forward. Every once in a while a Locust would stand on his very tip toes and fires his weapon as pointless suppression. The blocks were extremely thick and as the Mulchers bullets dug their way in, they did not pierce or break the structure, which had to be pushed by the mightiest drones, but also held up by the so it wouldn't fall over.

The two watched this a bit and got back up.

"We are on the border of the Marauder territory and the Locust territory. No rooftops we can jump to, lets just go downstairs and to the next building. Probably got some soldiers there to kill people or blocked the way, but we gotta check anyways."

"Alright man, all of this feels a little pointless though. I dunno if we can actually go through. Jacob would normally just lead us there and let us watch some sort of big show, but he has done nothing. I know he has something planned."

"We won't spring the trap." Gyules stated as he sprung the trap. He opened the door to the building to walk into a rifle to the fast. Before Gyules could lift up his rifle he was smacked in the head by the rifle. Gyules was to fight more, only for the man to slam his rifle into him and several other man began beating him. Osman attempted to run into cover, only for Jacob to step out, wielding a Vulcan. He began to wind it up to fire and then stopped. He lifted his hand up and held a little cartoon like detonator, bearing only a little antennae and a large red button. In the distance, by the woods behind Jacob with Lambent stalks up, a mortar came up. It was followed by several and soon Mortars rained into the house Osman was in, collapsing it. Osman looked up inside only to put his arms up as the ceiling fell upon him. The ceiling fell in at an angle, coming right in front of Jacob and having a small piece of wreckage out enough to poke his foot. Dust was blown out and blew back Jacob's hair once it hit the ground.

The mortars began to rain their down across the Locusts, going through the two points they are trying to enter from. A few Mortars rained elsewhere in town, but only came from that side.

"Try and set up radio contact, see what happened to the other mortar squads." Jacob stated as Gyules knocked off the guys. The men had mostly been kicking armour, but had bruised his already cut cheek a bit badly, he bore many more bruises beneath his armour and possibly some tissue damage. He ignored the pain though as he began tried to even lift the old building, see if he can get to Osman.

"FUCK!" he screamed among many other curses as he desperately tried to get it off or dig through. He had to do something, anything! Osman couldn't die, he wouldn't loose anyone, no casualties. They already lost enough during Hollow Storm, he wouldn't lose anyone else. Jacob had his men stop, enjoying the sight. A sick smile adorned his bearded face as Gyules dug through. Then they heard some Locusts shout and he called off their fun. Gyules was smacked in the head by the rifle again and yet did not pass out.

"Fuck..." Gyules shouted, falling back once more. A man grabbed him and was about to lift him off when Gyules forced him off, pulling out his knife and slamming it into the man's throat. It went in all the way, sticking out the other side. Jacob smiled a bit at that and then walked over to him.

"Let me handle this boys, need hi alive after all." said Jacob. As he stated this Gyules revved his chainsaw and slammed it down into Jacob. Jacob shouted a bit as it dug into his shoulder, but then grabbed his shoulder. He gripped his shoulder harshly as Gyules dug it in. Jacob forced his head into Gyules and caused him to fall back a bit, Lancer stuck in his flesh. Gyules fell back, wary once more and soon fell back, unable to retain consciousness. Jacob gripped his head in pain.

"Ow...aaah...fuck this is the worst part of my day. That bruise is gonna swell, its gonna look so stupid for such a long time! I shouldn't have headbutted, no one wins with a headbutt, no one ever wins with a headbutt. He then looked over to his shoulder and pulled out the Lancer."

"Let's get this stitched and prepare the shithead. Damn, I really didn't wanna do this this time. I wanted to get Mora and lure Gyules into the electric room we managed to set up."

"I know sir." said a soldier as he followed Jacob, the group walking through a path they set up to their stronghold.

"I was really excited for the electric room, but fuck do I want her alive... Oh well, he will be good bait, could always electrocute him there when she comes...think we can do that?"

"No sir I am sorry. The way all of the paths work, we do not have enough time to redirect that, I recommend your usual for hostages. Big fight with them in the room, wound the opponent, kill the hostage, then the opponent. Just don't kill her."

"Might as well..." said Jacob "Works fine for this, let's just hope she will make it. We forget to leave anymore openings to the mansion than this one."

"Well let us see, but we just gotta capture her." They kept walking, over to the mansion.

Once again jumping to other people. At least I announce when I do unlike some fanictions, so respect that. Yeah, I know you are worried for the characters, but deal with it and let us see some other problems. If you complain I will provide the bad ending planned. (The bad ending will also be forced for the stories if it turns out this had been read by too many children).

Mora fell back as the mortars rained on the Locusts behind her. Mortars were falling all about quickly and would kick up much dust. The mortars landed all about and by the time the dust cleared, many of the Locusts about her were dead or heavily wounded. Mora could not tell, she felt something heavy over her and could not see. She managed to push her way out and began to regain her senses. What was over her were the Savage Locusts. They had huddled over her when they saw the Mortars, choosing to make her unharmed at the cost of their lives.

She once again felt a deep sorrow, the Locusts she was leading were slaughtered and torn apart by the Mortars. They thought she was leading them to victory they trusted her to get the to the mansion and to kill the Marauders. She let them die, didn't consider any other positions, didn't think about those stalks and what they are attacking, she didn't survey the position enough! She let them die, she damned might as well have killed them herself. Mora couldn't help but sob, but even then felt bad. She damned killed them, yet all she could do was cry, she could only fucking cry after losing all of these lives. Mora let herself sob a bit, before she noticed a stalk catch fire. She got up and wiped away a few tears, quickly running off and into a house where she ran to the roof, a stable house rather than the one that was in the area plowed by Mortars. The woods were on fire. The fire was spreading quickly, making its way through the woods and burning the stalk. The wind was picking it up and minor branches, spreading the fire down south, yet it was still making its way north and throughout whatever woods it could.

"Fire works in odd ways..." she thought, feared it would get to town. She then walked back and noticed more Locusts coming, but now also there Marauders setting up barricades in this area. Mora ran over and began to wave her arms to the Locusts, making sure she is out of sight for the Marauders.

"Don't run in, send men out and kill the Mortar crews first!" she said "Or they will bombard the town, do not waste men on the church, we need as many Locusts as we can, we took a huge loss!" she screamed. The Locusts stopped and many of them bowed, eager to be in her presence. She didn't care, she wanted them safe.

"Do this quickly, if there are any men you can contact, something, but there are men out there! If anyone saw the ortars, lead them from the location you saw!" she shouted "Be careful for Lambent and prepared, and if you see anyone in COG armour, do not attack.." The Locusts looked at each other confused and many shouted why. One accused her of being an imposter and raised his rifle, only to have a nearby Locust punch him and yank his rifle from his hand. He then slammed it into the Locust's head. The Locust looked at hi a bit sad, both of his hand gripping the wounds. The other just gave him an angry glare as if they were a disgruntled parent or sibling.

"These humans mean us only harm if we are to harm them. They are elite and on our side in this fight. They can prove useful and have proven loyalty by not attacking the Queen herself when given multiple chances." The Locust seemed reluctant, but were going to obey their Princess, she demands, they perform. "Men are digging in past this position, they are waiting. Use your new Diggers, if you bear any, and surprise them, then take the position and prepare to take the mansion when we are able to! When we take the mansion, these humans will be defeated!" The Locusts cheered a bit and quickly got into work, several running off to take out the mortars. Mora jumped down so she could be with the man as they began to use their diggers. The Boomers stayed behind cover who wielded them and fired the fish. They went through the ground, making their way until they got to the humans setting up everything. Quickly they exploded and killed several men.

"Run run! Now!" she said signaling the Locusts and running after them. She ran forward firing suppressing fire with the Lancer she had before (Slightly damaged, still of use). The men got into the minimal cover they made and she got behind a building as other Locusts made their way. Some men were going to fire at her and so she popped out of cover, firing the Lancer killing him. She had some minor difficulty adapting to the recoil, much preferring her Hammerburst I. She rested against the wall and then poked her head out again and shot at a Marauder who was rushing in to help the people who were against the ground to hide behind the few sandbags they had placed.

"THIS WAS A BAD IDEA!" a man sobbed "THIS WAS A BAD IDEA! OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD! WE ARE GONNA DIE!" He was crying, balling his eyes out. Locusts began to laugh, even Mora felt a bit better from before and began to chuckle. She then rushed forward from her building and managed to climb over the small sand bags they had set up to their right, the men on the sand begs on the left. She began to gun them down with her Lancer, shooting and killing the man. The bullets tore through their armour and flesh, leaving them bloodied and dead.

"Try not to cross from this path too much, they may have men waiting, building their cover while others watch. This shows a good sign, they are low on men since they only sent out three. Low or stingy on sending out men...hmm... I am going to go help elsewhere." She began running around and would run to the other point to enter the mansion. She was running past the Locusts who were preparing their own defenses and starting to dig in there. She then stopped and looked over to one Drone.

"Hey!" she shouted to the drone, who got startled and fell over. He quickly got up and dusted himself up. He felt a bit embarrassed and tried to stand confident to her to try and make up for it, shaking a little bit, nervous.

"Ease us please, for me." she said, giving a comforting smile to the Drone and patted him on the shoulder. He jumped a little then, a bit star struck that royalty touched him. Her hands were so soft, different than that of others. If he was physically capable of blushing he would've.

"Alert others not to waste men taking the church, I assume you killed their snipers, so just leave it at that." The Drone nodded and she gave him the comforting smile once more.

"Thank you very much." she then kept running forward, the drone eased and pranced off. He felt so honoured being one of lowest of the lowest grunts, yet being given a direct order from Princess Moragna, the spawn of the Geist Allmother/Queen. (Hehehe, original names of characters. Yes I feel like randomly disclosing originally Myrrah was to be known as Geist Allmother. Locusts were to be known as Geists also).

Mora ran off ahead and soon rushed into a group of Drones. One of them ahead of the group pointed back, stating: "Victory." The others behind him were dragging Osman. Mora gasped and ran over to him.

"OSMAN!" she screamed loudly. The drones set him down at that shout and she ran to his side. Osman was without his helmet and very bloodied, his arm was bending in a bad way and bloodied, bearing a large puncture wound in it. His other arm was fairly hurt also. He bore many bruises, his helmet gone and he was bleeding from his forehead, some blood coming from his mouth.

"Mora...you're...you're safe." he said, a bit relieved and then groaned a bit.

"Ah shit everything hurts...really gave me a scare man. Locusts picking e up, I thought I was gonna be tortured or some shit!" he said, trying to relieve himself a little with that. Mora was moreso worried and feared he might die of wounds.

"I was in the Mortar strike, building fell...Gyules was taken."

"What!? Gyules!"

"We were, we were coming for you." He began to cough a bit and then some blood came out.

"Oh that is not good, we thought you were captured, Gyules dragged me along to save you. Jacob somehow found out our spot, kicked the crap out of him and had a damned building fall on me from the Mortars. He obviously has a trap planned for you at the house." He began coughing more.

"Get him to the medical station, make sure he lives!" she commanded of the drones. They began to rush him.

"You might have to remove that arm."

"OH GOD!" shouted Osman as they took him away. Mora was more determined than ever right now, she had to save Gyules and she had to kill Jacob. Mora walked forward filled with passionate hatred, Jacob had jeopardized this family of hers all because he wanted her, and for what? Some sick fetish of fucking a Locust. She was disgusted with this fetish, disgusted with his attack of his own species, and disgusted at how much he has to fucking present everything like some sort of damned show! She was going to lead the march now as they attack his mansion. Once they would make their way back, she would make a speech she thought of, and then would lead the attack.

The End.