Omega's Valued Prisoner
Tale 34: Boating
Gyules and Mora awoke with their alarm early in the morning. The sun was starting to come up in the horizon. Both of them jumped at the alarm and Gyules rushed to grab it, turning it off.
"Can't that noise be far more pleasant?" she asked.
"If it was you wouldn't wake up." he said as he turned it off. She laid back down and then just looked up.
"Can't believe we are really together! This feels so wrong and amazing!" she said and rubbed her face a little "And I could even feel your thing in the night." Gyules stopped toying with the clock, his face turning red and then turning to her.
"Yeah that was awkward."
"If my knowledge if correct that just is when you are excited, so I am glad!"
"Alright...Mora this is a little awkward."
"I don't feel it. I mean I used to be scared of that and I think I am still a little scared, but I am getting-" Gyules pinched the bridge of his nose.
"This is a wonderful start." She laughed and then got up.
"I am going to go to my bedroom and pretend to be there." she said and got out of the tent. Gyules put a shirt on and then stepped out with her.
"I will...uh...see you then?" she said. Gyules gave her a kiss and patted her on the back.
"As long as nothing goes wrong, it should be fine. Now go on cyclops girl. Don't get in trouble." She smiled and then walked off. Mora still worried for Gyules and if she could see him again. Let alone how could she know he is on the island? It could be huge..well wait no it couldn't be if it has a hurricane around it. Could be large like mountains and towers and then they will fill it with Locusts and it will be difficult for him to get about! Hopefully they won't kill him...she kept worrying but yet she knew deep down he would succeed. Gyules was tough, he killed Skorge.
With Omega meanwhile, the rest of the squad began to climb out of the tents, even as early as this. Tanner was the first and he had a comment as always.
"So you and Mora did it."
"What?"
"We are in flimsy tents, she whispered like the first comment and then you two pretty much said: "Fuck sound levels!" and talked normal. I dunno about the others, but Ilian and I could hear it all. Ilian stepped out after him, brushing her hair down and fixing it. She didn't have any of her makeup on yet though, so she appeared much different.
"It's so cute, you two are finally together." she stated "I wonder if your kids will be more human or more Locust." While it sounded like a cut down of sort, Ilian was actually quite serious. She wondered if they would have a daughter and it comes out like a mini berserker, or a drone that growls at them a little. Who knows what it could be, but more than likely it would be more human as that was dominant in both.
"I am happy for you two."
"Errr...thanks Ilian. I know you mean well."
"I do. Now when shall we start making our way to Azura."
"When the Locusts leave and they wanna escort us out, hopefully by then Myrrah will leave with them, we will steal a boat and make our way there. If possible, let's take multiple boats. Can figure out a way to identify them as us and will use this as a surprise and sink any boat carrying Brumaks and such. I don't think we can save Azura from the Locusts, but we can try. After all, we can't get there ahead of them since they supposedly have that tornado over the island."
"Hurricane actually." Aiden corrected.
"Same thing."
"Actually no, a tornado over water is called a water spout and is much stronger than a hurricane, a hurricane requires warm water and-"
"Can we bring a boat through a tornado or a hurricane? I think not, so I don't give a shit. It still applies. We gotta wait for the Locusts to get through. They must have some sort of idea."
"And that idea would be?"
"They got old submarines back there." Osman noted "I was walking through the hangars, I believe the Locusts know how to operate them or have been practicing and are gonna use one."
"Or they are just gonna try and swim under it. I got fifty bucks that says they are gonna try and swim under it." Tanner said pulling out a crumpled fifty dollar bill. The sun is just starting to rise for them and soon they notice the Tempest is flying overhead by the docks.
"That bug gives me the creeps." Tanner said.
"Do not worry. I found a weapon to take it out, if we have to." Aiden said and then went back to his tent. He then came out with a Hammer of Dawn.
"If we are lucky this will work and we can take out any Locust boats. Just not the whole invasion force."
"Where did you get that?"
"Found out, the Locusts merely toss them away. I believe since they cannot guarantee they will work, and because they do not fire an immediate bullet, the Locusts do not use them. This was left on a charging station for it, so it should be ready!"
"Great, we are probably gonna need that." Gyules stated "Can you carry it though." Aiden took out his pistol and tossed it aside, then hooking it to his belt.
"Sure can." he said, not throwing out the ammo. Might pick up a boltok later when the Hammer no longer works.
"So shall we just relax here then? Can't get too close to the boats, I assume Myrrah doesn't want us to know of the invasion."
"Just begin packing up what you can carry-" Gyules was interrupted by the sound of wings. He looked over to see the large Tempest flying above them.
"Well, I see you humans are awake." Myrrah stated. Several shriekers flew from the Tempest's back. Heat radiated from it's mouth, enough so that they can feel it at their distance. The creature was ready to kill it seemed. The rest of Omega had their weapons out and ready.
"Nice of you to greet us...with your bug...yes we have seen it before. Yes it is pretty. You can fly it over there now." Gyules stated and pointed to the ocean. The beast's mouth began to swell with light.
"FUCK RUN!" Gyules shouted as they all tumbled out from the blast and the beast's light began to shine. It burned away the tents instantly. Tanner and Ilian went to the right, Osman, Gyules, and Aiden to the left. Tanner took out his markza and began firing at it as he began to run off with Ilian. Ilian ended up forcing his rifle down.
"Just run, you aren't going to kill it." He said nothing and now began to rush with her to avoid it, running down the building and past the Locusts preparing for war. The Locusts didn't seem ready for them as they went by and were able to avoid gunfire, but were knocking over boxes, soldiers, and such on their way. Osman and Gyules took off running to the left, sprinting as quickly as they could. Aiden had climbed up on a large box and aimed his Boomshot.
Myrrah had the Tempest raise in the air and looked over the humans running only for a boomshot grenade to hit the Tempest's plating.
"Shit...no good." Aiden stated and then jumped off the box as the Tempest sprayed light at it, burning up the box and singing his box. He ran behind the two as they rushed forward. The three men ran into an area between buildings.
"Got a plan Klaus?" Osman asked.
"Regroup, get the fuck out of here."
"Let us go by boat." Aiden noted.
"What!? We can't! She will destroy that!"
"I got the Hammer, nothing resists the Hammer."
"And if that does?"
"It won't."
"And if it does!? We all die!"
"We have to get to Azura. Something is there, something important, even if it's it not the device to kill the Lambent."
"And what will we do about that?"
"Whatever we can."
"...Also it's closer to the docks than the exit."
"You got me there. Fine, I am giving you a chance Aiden." The two then feeling it getting increasingly warm. They look up to see the Tempest above them, it's head poking down and preparing light. They all quickly rush out as it burned the area, completely burning away the walls and singing the ground. The guys kept running forward towards the docks.
Meanwhile Tanner and Ilian are running through the docks and run through the Locusts only for a few Locusts to pull out guns.
"SHIT!" Tanner screamed and then pulled Ilian with him as he ran to the docks. He ended up falling right into a docks Locust boat. Tanner got up and behind the controls, fumbling to make it work as gunshots went off. Ilian instinctively just got into cover and was providing suppressing fire.
"Tanner, can you work it?" she asked. Just as she asked that the boat boosted forward so hard the two fell over. The boat kept rushing out of the docks, being pulled by two creatures going as quick as they can.
"I will take that as a no."
"Yeah it's a no!" he said as he began pulling himself to the control panel. Tanner grabbed a lever that he had used before to make it boost and now pulled it down. The creatures stopped moving though the boat kept going forward a little. It soon stopped and now Ilian reached over to the right side and began to pet it.
"Ilian! We don't have time to pet things, we gotta somehow make it back there and somehow save the others...or at the very least confirm their deaths. Which might be hard because I believe they will be cooked and eaten..."
"What if we inform Mora? She will be able to get her mother to stop."
"Not a guarantee that will work of if we will find her. Hmm...what about...I got an idea." Tanner stated "Drive the boat to the dock and the Tempest. We might die, but if we die we will be heroes."
"You are going to try and snipe Myrrah as she is in her mount?"
"...Yes."
"You can't do it, but try."
"Just watch me!" Tanner stated. Soon they began to drive the boat right towards the docks and the Tempest sprung up into the air. It launched light down at the ground again for a little while and then stopped. A Boomshot blast hit it in the mouth and it recoiled back slightly, but then adjusted itself. Tanner got out the Longshot and aimed. He put the zoom to it's max and now could see Myrrah standing out of the Tempest's mount, trying to look for them. Omega was being quite sneaky. Soon he had the rifle aimed, moving it to keep with boat speed. Tanner had the crosshairs right on her head and then fired.
The bullet whizzed through the air quickly and soon it nailed Myrrah right in the helmet, knocking it off and causing her to fall down. Her ears were ringing and she had to lay back compensating for that. Soon the Locust boats were starting to get out and were firing at Tanner's boat. Tanner quickly got into cover as Ilian docked the boat. She soon saw Gyules, Aiden, and Osman running away from the Tempest.
"GUYS! We got a boat!" she shouted.
"Saves us the trouble, GET FUCKING IN!" he shouted and the guys ran to the boat, jumping in. Myrrah recovered from the shot, her hearing slightly off, but it would recover. Her helmet was shot off. She began to look about and noticed them climbing into the boat.
"AFTER THE HUMANS!" she commanded "Do not let them warn Azura!" Aiden took over control of the boat, Osman, Gyules, and Ilian got behind boxes on the boat, while Tanner got on the Troika at the front of the boat.
"Shoot it in the mouth." Gyules said.
"Did you test that?" Tanner asked.
"Fuck no, just seems logical."
"How is that logical, what about the head?"
"Just go with the mouth! I think it's skin is too tough, let alone it's armoured!"
"Are you two really fucking arguing over this!?" Osman shouted "You sound like whiny bitches!" Soon boats were catching up to them. Osman popped out of cover and began to shoot at the Locusts, but got a brighter idea. He aimed at the beast pulling the boat, shooting that beast until it roared and stopped. Only one half of the boat was going and it ended up not going fast enough and fell behind.
"Shoot the fish."
"Shoot this, shoot that, just let me shoot what I want!?" Tanner complained "Like I might shoot you guys if you don't remain down!" He began firing the Troika at the gunboats followings them to their right. The guys went to their left and soon were using this tactic as gunboats followed alongside, providing heavy Troika fire in return, though not shooting their beasts but at them.
Three gunboats followed on each side. Tanner was easily mulching the other Locusts, focusing on the Troika gunner first and then shooting the others. He just aimed for the legs of the Troika gunner and with that they died. He shot one in the back and killed the driver, while for another he just killed the Locusts on board leaving it stopped in the water.
The guys meanwhile were just blindfiring until Aiden began taking fire and received a few gunshots at his armour. He cursed in pain and yelled to get fire off of him. With that Ilian took out a grenade and carefully aimed, throwing it. She managed to actually get it on board, hitting the center of the boat. It was a fire grenade, causing the boat to catch fire and the fire spread, burning them all on board, or at least giving them 1st degree burns. The boat farthest began trying to catch up to them only for their troops to be shot as they came out, the guys able to see the Locusts poking out a bit and shooting those parts.
Tanner shot a barrel upon a boat and caused it to explode and the boat exploded into pieces. The back end went up in the air and soon hit the water further ahead, causing a large splash. One of the boats thrust itself ahead and got in front of them.
"Tanner turn about! Boat ahead!" Tanner turned and fired at the Locusts on it as Aiden tried to slow down. He quickly began to mulch the Locusts who tried to operate the turret and boat, then the other two that tried to pop themselves up. Their boat slowed down and soon it came to a stop right in front of that boat, avoiding a collision.
"We didn't get killed!" shouted Tanner looking back to them. Right behind him the Tempest landed. Light began to flood from it's mouth and he jumped back. Ilian pulled him into cover and then the light sprayed. It began to cook boxes and the box, killing the creatures that pulled their boat and burned through their cover. When it stopped spraying light Tanner jumped for the turret and grabbed it only to pull his hands back falling over in pain. Ilian pulled him back into cover.
"The fucking turret is heated! It burned through my gloves! Ah fuck ah shit shit shit!" he shouted gripping his hands and dove to the water putting them in. Steam rose from the water as his hands entered. When he pulled them back Ilian could see an area in his hands and fingers where he gripped it.
"That is gonna stay, now your physical attack is halved you were burned."
"...What is that referencing!?"
"Don't get confused you will hit yourself."
"NOT THE TIME!" screamed Gyules as Myrrah prepared another shot. Gyules began to blind fire his Lancer at her and Osman joined in. They could hear it hitting the creature int eh mouth, but soon the sharp sound of the Tempest before it fired it's light came by and they pulled their guns in. Aiden began tampering with the Hammer of Dawn and soon he got the laser to start pointing forward. When the light stopped shining, nearly cooking through their cover, Aiden stepped out of cover and then aimed it. Myrrah began to try and get the Tempest to fly only for the Hammer to force itself down. The Locusts in the distance watched as the large laser bore itself down and began to harm the Tempest. Myrrah could be heard grunting in pain as the Temptest struggled to stop. When it finished the Tempest was stunned and Aiden got out of cover and charged forward.
Aiden ran towards the Tempest and took an impressive jump forward, grabbing onto armour above it's mouth just barely. Aiden pulled himself up forward and then climbed on top of it and knocked Myrrah back, taking control of the Tempest and forcing it to fly off of the boat and into the water.
"Get to the new boat! I will handle her!" shouted Aiden. Gyules rushed for the boat and was followed by the others. He rushed to the front of the boat and had his hand out.
"Aiden! Get over here! Jump and we will get out!" His face depicted worry, he wasn't certain how the crazy boar hunter was to get out of this. Aiden was overpowering the Queen and forcing the Tempest to fly to the water.
"I am going to drown it and her!"
"You will die!"
"I can swim! It can't!"
"You are being crazy! GET YOUR FUCKING ASS OVER HERE!" Aiden looked to Myrrah and the water and then to Gyules and the others.
"I gotta do this!"
"That is enough human!" Myrrah managed to shove the large human back and now she pulled out a Boltok. She aimed it right at Aiden and fired at him. The power of the boltok up close knocked him back and pierced the armour. He coughed a bit of blood and then slammed himself into her to knocked Myrrah out of the saddle. Myrrah fell into the water, but swam up. She was infuriated at this bothersome human trying to harm her Tempest, which was gurgling water and struggling to get out, only to be forced into the water by her very controls. She took out the Boltok and aimed it at Aiden of whom didn't look to her. Myrrah fired one shot. The bullet swirled the air and slammed into Aiden's head, blowing it apart and killing him. His body fell to it's knees and then hit the ground.
"AIDEN!" Gyules screamed. The entire squad watched in horror as Aiden died. Gyules got up and was about to jump into the water right after him only for Osman to grab him and yank him back.
"GET THE FUCK OFF OF ME! I am going to kill her! I am going to remove her fucking heart!"
"We gotta go Gyules! If you go you will die and so will we!"
"Go without me, more will die if she lives!"
"And don't let yourself be one! Ilian get us out of here, I dunno how much longer I can hold him!" Ilian shook her head and got her mind out of the scene. She grabbed the controls and now force the boat to turn over and started driving it off away from Myrrah.
By the time Myrrah climbed into her saddle they were already out of range for her to catch up to them, let alone the attack had to commence. She kicked the big human's corpse into the water with a little bit of effort. Corpses are not easy to move even if it's eight pounds lighter. Dead weight adds a lot to it. Took a little more than a kick but she removed it and the Tempest floated in the water and began to take flight, coughing out water as it flew. She petted it and looked to the humans trying to flee.
These humans had proven to be most bothersome, felt good to finally get rid of one, even if it wasn't Gyules. She knew they were going to be at Azura and at least then she could track them down and finally kill them.
Now that they had the chance, the Gears began to grieve. They hung their heads in sorrow, though Gyules didn't feel sorrow, Gyules felt anger.
"Why the fuck did he do that!? Dammit we could have figured some other way! Some way we could have survived! Maybe been hurt a little, but hurt is better than dead right!? Fuck he had chances to run and live, and save us! Why did he have to risk his fucking neck, fuck fuck fuck!" Gyules got the point of just mindlessly swearing about all of Aiden's actions until Osman had to yell at him.
"Quit being a fucking bitch! He wasn't fighting for fucking us, he was trying to save Azura and the Locusts from the attack! He wanted to kill the Tempest and Myrrah. It's not just about us and our survival Gyules, there are other people and he actually gave a shit about them! Unlike us who did leave Conway and them."
"That was the best fucking move, that place was awful and we saved towns from Jacob."
"We didn't have that as an intention. Aiden died as a fucking hero, trying to save Azura and all of us! Maybe he didn't succeed, but don't get pissed at his actions."
"I, ah shit I don't exactly feel sorrow Osman!"
"Well then don't just complain. We are all sad, but mourning isn't going to do shit. We need to get to Azura to warn them."
"And what will warning them do? So what if they prepare, not sure what that can do. Myrrah has more than enough raiding force to take on an Island that is small enough for a hurricane."
"We can hope!"
"And what if we get killed? How the fuck are we supposed to survive a hurricane?"
"We gotta try for Aiden."
"He saves us just for us to die to the Hurricane. I am supposed to be in charge I-" Ilian smacked Gyules with her pistol in the back of his head. She knocked him right out.
"He is becoming irrational with grief. People will look down on this, but it's natural. I can see the place, let's try and get to it." she stated pointing in the distance.
"I would ask if you could have lessened it...but I think that was necessary and wanted." She began driving the boat towards the Hurricane and Tanner used his scope to keep eye for the Locusts.
"They aren't in sight so far, I think we are far ahead and might have delayed their launch."
"Gives them time to prep their island defenses." Ilian stated as they made their way to the island. It took about twenty minutes at full speed but soon they were near.
"Great. How do we get in?" Tanner asked looking at it.
"Can we swim under it?"
"I ain't testing that." Tanner pointed out. Soon they began to feel the boat tugging a bit. They looked over and noticed their beasts were watching a fish caught in the current. Soon on one side it began to rush and tried to catch it, bringing them right into the hurricane. They began to grip the boat as they began to feel it lifted. They all began cursing madly as the boat ended up flying into the air. Osman grabbed the unconscious Gyules with his fake arm and held him tightly.
"Fuck...he is gonna pull out my limb!" shouted Osman as the boat was now on it's side and being thrown through the hurricane, whipped around. Tanner reached over and grabbed Osman, holding him up, but now just holding with one hand of his own and nearly slipping. The boat began to be whipped through the entire hurricane, swirling through it as incredible speeds, throwing warm water at them and soaking them. Gyules began to awaken from the water and soon he came into conscious with a raving headache. Once he realized where he was, he joined them in the screaming and tried to pull himself up Osman, only to realize it's Osman.
They were thrown to the top of the hurricane and by some miracle or curse the boat ended up somehow being thrown out of the hurricane and to the eye, where Azura was. They could see the beautiful architecture through the rain, but they really couldn't take it in as they were busy falling from who knows how far. The boat luckily landed upon the rooftop of an interior building, sliding down it and forcing tiles to come off of the building.
"What the fuck just happened!?" shouted Tanner as the boat slid down and soon came off. The boat landed upon a balcony and held itself there, the group about to cheer only for it to break the balcony and fall down to fall down breaking balcony after balcony until there were none and the boat crashed into the ground, creatures dead and everyone frightened.
"Ilian..." Gyules stated slowly.
"Yeah?"
"Did you really...knock me out and send them into a hurricane?"
"Not me, little creatures-"
"Ah! You just fucking, sent us into a hurricane. Yet we somehow survived."
"Well, we survived. Look at the bright side." she said and got up.
"That's why I love her." Tanner stated laying back.
"Because she sends you into Hurricanes?"
"No, that ass." Ilian looked back to him and smacked her own ass to try and tease him. A Lancer was shoved in her face a she walked forward. Soon a group of Onyx Guard had their guns aimed at them. They all put their hands up."
"How the fuck did they get in here?" One whispered to another "Are they Stranded?"
"Can't be, three of them are in Gear armour. We should probably-"
"Hey! Fucks!" Gyules stated standing up "You untrained pussies going to shoot or are you going to recognize we are your fellow humans and do not need to be shot."
"Why are you here?! How did you find out on this place?! Most importantly, how are you here?"
"For some odd reason you guys are sending scouts, I think you noticed one didn't return. Yeah he was captured by some people and then interrogated-"
"You captured and killed them!?"
"No...we killed him."
"How can we trust you?"
"Because I didn't come with a bomb."
"...You could have come with the intention of shutting down the Maelstrom!"
"God you are stupid. How the fuck would I turn that off!? Let alone with four people! Fuck, none of this matters, the Locusts are coming! If we got past the Maelstrom they can too. You got the entire fucking Locust army coming for you including Queen Myrrah!"
"What!?"
"You guys are useless peons. Take me to your commander!" They looked to each other a few times whispered things and then looked over to them.
"We will take you to Dury and Prescott."
"Prescott is alive?" Osman stated as they walked. An Onyx Guard began to contact Dury and Prescott over radio, telling them to come by and talk to these Gears that broke in and warned of Locuts. The two obviously expressed disbelief, but still had to meet them. A few minutes later Prescott and Dury arrived to see the four, of whom did not seem like the pinnacle of the COG army.
Ilian was drying Tanner off with a towel just so she can rub it all over him and mess with him, already having done so to herself, Gyules is laying back in a chair toying with his knife and then poked the end. He caused his finger to bleed and then shook it and sucked upon his finger, Osman had removed his armour since it's wet and was sitting down shirtless and only in pants, pants provided, since his clothing is soaked.
"These are the Gears who got past the Maelstrom."
"And that one is dating Myrrah's daughter." Tanner stated once given the chance, pointing to Gyules with his thumb.
"Now is not the time for jokes. What is this about a Locust attack, actually fuck it, just tell me what the hell is going on."
"Can I get a band-aid first?" Gyules asked raising his hand. They both looked at him a bit annoyed and then an Onyx guard walked off and came back with a pink band-aid that had kittens on it.
"Thank you." Gyules removed his glove and put it over that wound.
"Alright I will start from the beginning. One of your choppers you sent out for some godforsaken reason was shot down by a group of Stranded terrorists working under Jacob Ilima. Jacob recorded the interrogation of a soldier and we attacked Jacob's group, killed them, killed Jacob, watched the disc and found out about the island. Locusts ended up obtaining the disc and now have an army on their way. We saw them and even took one of their boats here after stealing it. Myrrah killed one of our people and now she is going to figure out how to shut off the hurricane and her army will slaughter you."
"You bastard you didn't give Mora any credit! She united local Locusts in the area and, oh wait I shouldn't of said that." Tanner began to state. Dury got up right away.
"I will begin gathering the troops, where do you think they will mostly attack from?"
"can't say, but probably from the coast, have troops every where and be sure to guard whatever it is keeping your mad scientist tech working." Dury began to rush off, almost eager it seemed. He had been waiting for an actual fight for quite a while. Prescott looked over to them then.
"And we are just supposed to trust you? Trust that the Locusts are coming, because of four stranded Gears!?"
"He does ya fucking prick. We are more trust worthy than you. Seriously, what the shit is this!? You built a fucking island, an island so that you guys can just hide out the whole war and let us suffer and die. How can anyone trust you Richard? You still never told them about the Sires and New Hope Research Facility." Prescott began to become offended at this comment, eager to defend it until he heard mention of New Hope.
"What do you know about that?" Prescott asked, extremely worried and surprised "What do you know, about New Haven!?"
"Everything. I know Myrrah, I know the COG made the Sires, made the Locusts and Myrrah herself. C'mon guys, let's go help Dury. That went by much easier than expected." Gyules stepped forward to run and get to Dury only to actually realize his fatigue. It struck him all at once and he hit the ground hard passed out once more today. When Prescott looked back to them he noticed they were all extremely tired, Osman had even fallen asleep. They were worn out from this day and going through a hurricane. Prescott had to do something about them, they knew of New Hope, something had to be done to hide that secret.
The End