Barret blasted down another fire-team of soldiers turning them all into ground beef. The armor piercing rounds tore through everything and everyone. "How much ammo do you have left?" Cissnei asked watching the barrels smoke and the casing roll around on the floor.
"Enough." Barret said scanning the empty room devoid of life. "I thought Deepground was a thing of the past." He grumbled looking at the bloody shredded remains of the one of the soldiers. Their uniforms and equipment destroyed by his hail of gunfire. "There's always more of Shinra's trash to clean up isn't there?"
"They left a big mess." Cissnei agreed.
Barret flashed her a toothy smile. "They left a few good things at least."
"Easy big guy." Cissnei said rolling her eyes. "I thought I told you no flirting… at least not while there's more fighting to do."
"You're too cruel." Barret joked stepping forward his arm leveled. He slammed his foot on one of the heavy steel doors knocking it open. If flew open on its hinges the barricade built behind it shattered to pieces. Cold air and gunfire rushed it. Barret quickly silenced it with another burst of his gatling arm. "Looks like we have them running scared." He grinned. "If they're trying to keep us trapped they must be pretty desperate to keep out of a fight."
Cissnei had to agree. Usually raiding tactics were offensive but if they're were trying to keep them trapped within the underground labs they were clearly fighting defensively. Cissnei had to give credit to gun arm. As unwieldy and unconventional as it could be in the close confines of this underground complex it was uncharacteristically powerful and dominating able to return fire tenfold. Soldiers fighting in close quarters weren't expecting to find such a powerful weapon with such a high rate of fire.
Barret moved the snow and sunlight touched it as the roof blown open by Deepground. Repelling ropes hung from the gash. "Looks like they made a backdoor." He said looking up. The sound of a chopper overhead mixed with the roaring howling winds.
The collective din masked the sound of the screaming rockets. Explosions rocked the earth as the gunship above rained rockets down from above. Snow and ice metal and concrete fell down on him as the hole above widened.
"Barret!" She cried as the debris fell upon him. The dust and snow obscured everything and she could hardly see in there. Proper training and judgment cast aside she rushed in grabbing her healing materia disappearing into the cloud of dust and snow she searched for him.
She scanned the ground for him and hearing his coughs found him. He was partially buried under the cement and steel rebar. The ice and snow filling the cracks. "Damn it." He cursed spitting ice and dust out of his mouth.
"What are you doing here?" he asked as she began digging the rubble away. "It's not safe… that chopper's got to have thermal imagining. "It's going to see you."
Realizing he was right she reached into her backpack and grabbed one of her infrared smoke grenades. The dust and snow wouldn't hide them from the thermals of the gunship but the smoke blocked out heat signatures. The grenade popped and white smoke started filling the chamber rising upward to the sky.
The chopper answered with a long burst of cannon fire. The heavy Vulcan spat rapid fire dead into the chamber strafing the walls above. Unable to shoot straight down it fired at whatever it could trying to get to them. Cissnei lay flat covering Barret's body with her own as the walls shook and more snow and debris rained down upon them. Small pieces of concrete hit her and she felt small metal shards pierce her body. The firing stopped and they listened as the helicopter passed overhead.
"Damn fool." He said pushing her aside. He pulled his gun arm out of the gathered debris and aimed it skyward firing everything last round he had left his Big Shot cannon charged and fired sending a great fireball to the heavens.
Even though he obscuring smoke she could tell he hit his target. The explosion sounding in the air and the chopper came crashing down upon their heads. The ceiling came down around them. Cissnei feeling the place coming down grabbed Barrett and pulled up. He moved to help free himself of the piled snow and concrete removing his legs he she dragged him away from the room into one of the adjacent walls. As everything came down.
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Sorry for the short chapter guys I had a busy weekend. I hope your enjoying Barrett's and Cissnei's little adventure I thought I it would be a good little lighthearted change of pace. I like writing them and I hope you are liking there end of things as well. I'd like to thank angel for her kind comment and of course my biggest fan CupofTeaforAliceandHatter for her ever faithful support.