The Man Who Will Be Outside The Bunker
Chapter 5
*21 hours later*
*PSHHHHTTT* *PSHHHHTTT* *PSHHHHTTT* *PSHHHHTTT*
Wojak takes off his welding mask and knocks the surface of the base of the H.OL.D.A.S.S. and calls out to Lusio if everything is done from that side of the base of the H.O.L.D.A.S.S. and Lusio confirms it.
After that they begin assembling the Barrel of the H.O.L.D.A.S.S. and starts lifting it up with the other using the gravity gun and the other to guide it and attach it carefully with a welding plasma torch.
"Looks like your average Sci Fi Rail cannon and the Barrel Length is about 5m long and 2.5m wide and the platform occupies about 3m radius and the neck or those hydraulic looking parts or the base of you would prefer it, that is attached to the cannon is about a Meter long and 5 rpm normally with maximum of 10 rpm"
"Why are you telling me this Lusio?"
"Just part of my programming I guess"
"I guess that's about it then Lusio"
"Yeah your right about that Wojak, hey how about we put missile turrets near the flaks that looks like a C-RAMS"
"I never thought of that, LET'S DO IT!"
"All RIIIIGGGHHHTTTT LEEEETTTSSSS GOOOO!!!"
"LET'S GOOOOOOOO!!"
And Wojak hopped off the H.O.L.D.A.S.S. Turret and landing on top of the Bunker and jumped off its roof and starts making sentry turrets from the printed left over materials.
Making modifications to the 4 C-RAMS by attaching a missile turret on the left side and containing 16 missiles and is able to self replenish.
After working and modifying all the C-RAMS for 28 min. Wojak asks Lusio.
"You know? How come it have high orbit in its name when it isn't even in space and why put system?"
"I read around the info of the H.O.L.D.A.S.S. that it also have a tracking system built inside the base so that was the use for those components you were holding and thanks to its Very Powerful Barrel and the power behind it,
It is able to reach high orbit within 15 sec but also affecting the power of the projectile, while the real effective range would be low orbit able to reach it within a second" said Lusio after explaining why it included a System and high orbit in the Acronym of H.O.L.D.A.S.S.
"Okay thanks for the Info, but do you know what we are really lacking?" Said Wojak
"What is it?"
"Energy shield"
"You do know that it's very hard to make, why not just use a kinetic one"
"Acids go through it"
"But we don't have enough materials and it can go very wrong by like frying its user or electrocuting it to death"
"Don't worry I have A.N.T.I.S. for that"
"True it will accelerate things more faster but it only have the experimental energy in it"
"So what's really the problem"
"Energy shields aren't finalized yet and if you try to look at the Data box that your protecting it's just for the massive improvements for the existing weaponry and utilities and new exploration of utilizing eezo techs"
"Well let's just use the information and take a gamble"
"Fine, ok just let us try this and while we're at it let's also make drones, a aerial drones like a battle drones"
"I get what your talking about, let's make 200 of it and just put kinetic barriers"
"Yes I agree"
"Alrighty then but we make the drones first"
"Okay lets do that first" Wojak said
After the conversation between Wojak and Lusio they begin making Battle drones.
*15 mins later*
After finishing making 200 Battle drones and deploying it outside the Bunker
Wojak comments about the Drones
"You know I never thought the Drone looks like the command and conquer generals at never this big if it's civilian standard and small when it's Military one, it's just that the length is 30 inches and 8 inches wide"
"Just got inspiration you know" Lusio Said
"How about we get working on the energy shield"
"Riiiiiiggghhhtt, lets just hope it won't mess up"
………..
Two Hours later Wojak finally Made the energy shield with the help of Lusio and the guide of A.N.T.I.S., the device exact size is 80mm wide in the shape of a disc.
"Okay so the way you use this is that you must attach it to a surface or even yourself and adjust the size and measurements it's supposed to protect and it will project its shield and will do it's job, but the drawback is that the bigger the projection the weaker it gets and the energy shield can't regenerate and you have to find energy cells for it, so the limit is exactly just the size of this Bunker and sustained heavy arms fire for one minute could drain the shield and worse if it's the Rachnis, it can only sustain for 45 second from continuous acid throws and relentless piercing of their claws, so only use it in tight situations" Explained Wojak to how the device works.
"Well I never thought that we could make this, even with drawbacks but it's feasible and even great, this could change everything" said Lusio
Wojak wipes his oily hands or gloves against himself and taps his A.N.T.I.S. on his forearms "Yeah ,I'm currently replicating two right now, so both of us can use it, wait just lemme save the data, slippery fingers, and"
"And? What does and mean?" Lusio asks
"I accidentally deleted it" Wojak said with a pained voice
"you did WHAT?!?!"
"The DELETE BUTTON WAS NEAR THE SAVE ONE, *sighs* sorry I'm just stressed"
"Its okay, I also just acted that way"
Said Lusio
" anyway I have good news and bad news, which one do you wanna hear?"
"The Bad One."
"It will take about 2,600 years to retrieve it because I deleted it"
Lusio *Groans* "oh my goodness why does it even takes long?"
"apparently I deleted it hard, I don't know what happened it just that my fingers slipped right at the delete button"
"you know what forget that, how about we just need to study the device itself"
"Yeah about that when you were making the drones I put something that will fry out the components in it if it gets tempered".
"Oh so we really have to wait, hooooooooo great, its okay it really not your fault because it doesn't really matter as you are getting out of here anyway"
"Wait just me?, Can't you just come along?"
"No, it's just that I'm only able to wander around the Bunker and can't get off world"
"So there's no other way around?"
"There is, it's just that when I 'die' the memory gets saved in you're A.N.T.I.S. so there's not much to worry about, so whenever you make a holo and upload the Memory then BAM I'm back"
"That's a relief, so let's deploy the drones now eh?"
"Right behind ya"
Both going out the Bunker and deploying the drones, the drones patrolling the area and and others being stationary around the Bunker waiting for threats and scanning every perimeter.
Wojak along with Lusio, starts installing Barriers on every turrets position to increase its defense and durability.
After 10 minutes of installing the kinetic barriers, after that they also built 30 repair drones adding 10 more minutes and considered it as time well spent because they considered the damages that will be inflicted of the incoming Rachni Reinforcements.
…
Wojak looking around outside the Bunker watching all the activities of the Combat drones and repair drones
"That repair drone sure do look smaller than the combat drone like half the size of it"
"Well we don't want it to get easily hit during a fight now would we?"
"Makes sense"
Lusio goes back to the Bunker first to check everything there and prepares for the Rachnis with Wojak following behind when and adjusting his A.N.T.I.S. radio in hopes of catching a signal when he recieves a Radio chatter with a sounds of what appears to be gunfire and screeching from the Radio of his A.N.T.I.S.
Suspecting that it must be the Salarians or the Asaris he tries to contact them again but he lost it, but fortunately while it was receiving the signal the A.N.T.I.S. collected informations and contacts.
Wojak immediately went to the Bunker and tells Lusio about what happened
"Then Contact them and send a message!"
Then Wojak raises his forearm and immediately sends a SOS signal and a videofeed to explain his situation but leaving out Lusio of the explanation and Information about Rachnis while sending packets and infos about his standard measurement of time.
"SO HELP ME FOR THE LOVE OF GOD,PLEEASSEEE!" Wojak said and ends the message sending it on repeat.
"So what now?" Lusio Said
"Now we wait for their response"
…
*10 min later*
*BEEP 4x*
"Holy Shit! I think they decided to finally rescue us- I mean me!" Wojak said
"Come on let's hear it!" Lusio Said to Wojak
The Video message shows a Asari of a high ranking with Bustling activity in the background that seems to be the Bridge of a Space vessel.
"This is the Captain Shai'ila of ARS cruiser Dei'Via, we have received your message and with permission from the council, we have dispatched the nearest fleet to your location, we will arrive your equivalent of 4 hours, please hold your position until Escort arrives at your location, May the Goddess bless you, this is Captain Shai'ila out"
*The video message ends*
Both figures stares at the A.N.T.I.S. for seconds and screamed out of their lungs out of relief and excitement except for Lusio as he is Holographic and don't have lungs.
"GDANG I can't believe this is real!" Wojak said
"I know! Right?" Lusio Said
"But I still have a question, why the Captain and not the Admiral or the Council?"
"Maybe they are the nearest ones and need to quickly mobilize, I mean you have infos about things about the Rachnis and DATAS for weapons, techs and stuffs."
"That does makes a lot of sense and communication can sometimes be slow and that was the military so every single seconds and time counts so they need to be quick"
"Yeah, but I'm thinking when they say fleet, I think of a more mish mash of ships coming together that is just near this system"
"your not wrong about it as you know the phrase, 'TIME IS GOLDEN' "
"I'm thinking of making Napalm but 2x more powerful"
"Well we have the Mark 77 bomb"
"Well I'll just call it napalm but I'll make it 2x more powerful and destructive
And that, they ended the conversation and awaits for the Inevitable.
………
1 hour and 58 min later
*PEW-BOOM*
*PEW-BOOM*
*PEW-BOOM*
"PEW-BOOM*
"PEW-BOOM*
The sounds of the H.O.L.D.A.S.S. cannons have been very unnerving and relentless since the detection of Rachni vessels 8 min ago and and have been approaching the planet's low orbit yet it was comforting for a reason as every Boom it made, it was a confirmation for every ship it damaged or destroyed but unfortunately this was not enough the vessels was able to evade The shots.
The Anticipated of the arrival of the Rachnis have finally been announced
*ATTENTION, PREPARE FOR RACHNI VESSELS LANDFALL AT 2 MIN AWAY FROM 1 KM OF EXACT POSITION OF BUNKER *
"Shit, good thing we crafted few automated machineguns inside the Bunker to occupy some of the windows or murder Holes I would like to call" Wojak said
"Yeah your rig--"
Lusio was interrupted by the Speaker's Broadcast
*DATA TRANSFER HAVE ACCELERATED TO FINISH IN 4 HOURS TILL 100%*
*RACHNIS HAVE ARRIVED AND HAVE TRIGGERED THE BURROWED WHITE PHOSPHORUS*
*SPEAKER ENDS BROADCAST*
"Damn looks like I'll prepare the Enhanced Napalm"Wojak said
"Me too"
They begin loading the crafted mortars with enhanced mark 77 bombs or napalm and begins firing at the positions of the buried Containers to maximize DAMAGE and PAIN.
"HOOOOOLLLYYYYY SHIIIEEETTTTT that looks like it from hell, just looking at it makes me feel heat and warm"Wojak said before watching the sky and counting the Rachni vessels numbering in the Hundreds containing hundreds of thousands of Rachnis
"Well enough sight seeing as we gotta go to the bunkers as the C-RAMS just started firing with it a missile at those flying fighter Bugs"
Both runs towards the Bunker and went inside
"They look like Wraiths and have the same size as the wraiths but more Insect looking with carapaces and with rapid flapping insect wings instead of the normal wings"
And that ends their conversation and they start firing at the Fighters Bringing down every Rachni fighters trying to Destroy the Cannon.
*BRRRRTTTTTTTTT*
*SCREEEAAAACHHHHH*
*SHWISHHHHH*
*SWOOOOOSSHHHH*
*BOOOM*
*BOOOM*
*BRRRRTTTTTTTTT*
*BOOOM*
*BRRRRTTTTTTTTT*
"REALOADING" Shouted Lusio
As he said that a dying Rachni fighter impacts the Bunker surface with its Body ,painting it with its innards and corroding the surface with little success
"HEY MAKE SURE YOU HIT SOMETHING THAT DOESN'T SMASH OR HIT THE BUNKER" Lusio shouted back
"FUCK YOU IM BUSY" Wojak replied
"SCREEE--"
*BRRRTTTTTTTTTTTTT*
"EAT LEAD LACED EEZO"
On top of the Bunker the Cannon has Sustained light damages from the constant harassment from the fighters, Whether Acid spew or impact from the Bodies itself.
The first lines Burned the Rachnis that tries to cross the flaming Napalm border combining this with White phosphorus it even makes it more toxic and inhospitable killing many and many this does not help from the continued Hail of bullets and energy lasers but unfortunately it was just fodders and disposable bodies to make way for the other thousands just to cross the 2nd line.
The 2nd line riddled with mines and traps it was a sight to see from the massive explosions from the Mines and the Collapse of some surfaces showing a hole and impaling their bodies filling up every holes in every direction from the relentless attacks continuously and the Rachni workers making covers slowly to avoid the turrets but was immediately neutralized and destroyed by the missiles from the C-RAMS.
The Rachnis Not letting more loses mounting up decides the empty ships should go and simultaneously go straight towards the Bunker and destroy the Cannon that was hitting and Damaging the Bio-Ships,
Wojak noticing this immediately rerouted the current position the cannon was facing to face the nearest accelerating bio ships and the Cannon proceeds to fire at the Ship , Piercing it and Obliterating the Ship with debris flying around hitting and smashing the few unlucky ones while it's Main Body crashed down outside the 1st line Crushing many Rachnis.
Then the Cannon Continues with its Relentless Piercing boom to every Approaching Rachni Ships Causing Collaterals and Damages.
The turrets from the 3rd line behind the trench keeps Firing in all direction with extreme precision and calculating the most to cause collateral damages by hitting the legs to tumble and cause others behind it and forcing them to go around only to be shot by laser beams resulting in decapitated bodies making a makeshift Barricades with their mounting bodies while the Rachnis who went near the trench where Burned in a fiery Death in every direction making more and more burn and burn for every Rachnis to get close and burned to death five more Returns just to burn again.
With the Mounting bodies and the falling ships from every directions and every bombardment of acids directed at the Bunker and covering the affected area with very corrosive substances, while the repair drones fights off the damages sustained on every devices surfaces and Cleanses the affected area from the Acids while the Battle drones fends off the fighters and neutralizing it to prevent the C-RAMS from being overwhelmed.
The Bunker's murder Holes flashing and drowned with the sound of firepower in every corner to protect the Data and the Cannon from the fighters, everything around the area was littered with bloods guts bodies in every direction with the Lines outside the trench with mounting bodies replacing the soil and rock surfaces with pierced carapaces, bodies riddled with bullet holes, acidic bloods, debris and fragments of bio ships causing more Disorganized organized path like Ants scattering when a giant foot destroys their homes then swarming the giant from every corner.
After 1 hours have passed, Both parties are in a constant stalemate, the battlefield littered with hills of bodies, bloods and debris from the ships outside the trenches or outside the inner line and the inner line filled with fighters relentlessly targeting and attacking the Bunker and the Cannon while the Battle drones Counters the fighters.
*30 mins later*
Everything went on a blur everything was drowning with the noises of firepower, the Ferocious Screeching, the booming sound of the Cannon and the Crashes and the Debris of every fragments and the relentless charge and bombardment of Acids in every direction, the falling bodies of fighters and the relentless strikes and impacts it makes for when its life is close to dying, the sounds of buzzing and lightning from the drones and the electrical current from the repair drones, Everything was Chaotic yet Patterned.
UNTIL.
*RATATATATATATATATATATATATATA*
*BRRRRRRRRRRTTTTT* *BRRRRRRRRRRTTTTT*
*BOOM 8x*
*SCREECHING*
*CRASHING*
"DAMN WHEN DOES THE STALEMATE ENDS?! HOW MANY OF THESE BUGS DO I HAVE TO KILL BEFORE IT BREAKS AND SEE THEIR NUMBERS NOTICIBLY DWINDLING?!?!!!?!?!"
Wojak Screamed in rage as he keeps firing
"I HAVE NO FUCKING CLUE MAN!?!?!!!!"
Their Questions was answered but in a Incorrect way, The Cannon Facing upwards the Incoming Ship going Fast and Shoots down the Ship, penetrating through the Hull and Imploding, Unfortunately one of the debris smashed right on top of the Cannon Damaging the Barrel and severely bending it and making it useless.
"SHIT THEY DESTROYED THE CANNON WE GOTTA BRING OUT THE BIG GUNS LUSIO"
RATATTATATATATATTATA*
"THE HANHELD MAC?!?!! THAT THING WILL DISLOCATE YOUR ARMS!!!!"
BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRTTTTTT*
"I DON'T CARE IM GONNA DO IT"
RATATATATATATATATATATATATATA*
!!PING!!*
"DAMN GUN"
LOADS ANOTHER ROUND*
"HOW ABOUT LET ME DO IT AS I'M A HOLOGRAM AND CAN'T GET INJURED THE WAY YOU DOOO!!!"
Bringing out his Rocket launcher and loading it with Improved Napalm or the Mark77 and pointing it to the big cluster of Rachnis and firing it.
"OKAY FINE"
Bringing out the Handheld MAC and tossing it to Lusio.
Lusio goes outside the Bunker and climbs up and avoiding every fighter and took a spot and fired the MAC with precision, calculating every shot that will result in great collateral damages and doing so with varying results,
The first one does exactly what he expected the Bio ship Collides with the other Bio ship steering it sideways impacting the Bio ship from behind and crashing the three Bio ship to the ground outside the 2nd line and Dies,
The second shot critically injures the Bio ship and it started steering Downwards, burrowing into the land nearing the trench and plowing bodies and debris away, this results in the Rachnis utilizing this to their advantage used the Burrowed Bio ship to tunnel straight into the Bunker,
Lusio noticed these switched his MAC with his Launcher and fired at the Carcass burning it inside out and the Hull crumbled down and smashing the Rachnis inside the Ship and cooking them Alive.
A dying fighter witnessed a Man firing his device decides to use all its energy and strikes the Man with a force of a Car flinging both the body and the weapon.
Lusio quickly gets up and went inside the Bunker while blasting the incoming Fighters.
Wojak immediately asks Lusio while firing
"WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED?"
"A FIGHTER SMACKED ME, HITS LIKE A CAR AND THE MAC WAS NEAR THE TURRET'S PILLBOX AND I CAN'T RISK THE ACID ATTACK"
"WELL WE HAVE TO HOLD THEM OFF FOR ANOTHER HOUR AND WE ARE PRETTY FUCKED!"
And they resumed with their actions firing and defending their position.
But every minute the situation was getting worse the mounting bodies provided enough cover from the turrets and used the bodies to slide the bodies to block out the turrets while the Flamethrower turrets keeps spewing flames at the bodies to try and liquefy it but it was too much as one by one they started swarming every Pillbox and destroying it to make way for the others, with Wojak witnessing this he used the detonator and blows up the swarmed positions of the turret's pillbox.
Another 30min have passed and the situation was very grave and messy as they keep firing at the Rachnis but it doesn't matter as they keep getting ground for every minute they gain ground, meter by meter, until they are just a meter away from the flaks and the continuous piling of bodies and the ejecting of missile making marks at every corner creating a Semi circle patches of craters.
Unfortunately it too was overwhelmed and destroyed and leaving only Wojak and Lusio to fend for themselves.
Wojak decides to pull out the Data in the lower part of the bunker without permission and goes back to the surface
Wojak keeps firing and tries to fend them off but they reached the Bunker along with the rest of the vessels, but not all was lost as the Bunker was not breached yet, Activating the Energy shield pushing away the Rachnis for about 45 seconds.
"Making a Humvee press instantly in here as I have too much resources "
Spawning a heavily modified Fitted with EEZO tech armored Humvee inside the Bunker in 8 sec he manned the turret and tells Lusio to drive and start the engine, Lusio Immediately hops on the Driver's Seat and starts the engine and starts a grooming noises, in total they have spent 30 seconds.
10
VROOM*
9
*SCREECHES*
*VROOM*
8
*VROOM*
7
*VROOM*
6
*VROOM*
*SCREECHES*
5
*VRROOOOOMM*
4
*VROOM*
3
*SCREEEEECCHH
*VRRRRRRRRMM*
2
"PREPARE FOR BUSTING THROUGH THE WAAAALLL"
1
"STEP ON ITTTT!!!!!"
And the HUMVEE smashed through the wall as the Shield went down and running over the unlucky Rachni who are in the way while Wojak keeps firing every Rachni at the Surrounding Vehicle.
The Rachnis went after the Vehicle while others are swarming it but fortunately for the HUMVEE drivers they were a bit fast while the Rachni ships provided support by bombarding potential path for the Vehicle but it just keeps evading around it.
After the HUMVEE went inside the jungle and loses the Chasing Rachnis but then they realized that they may get stuck so They went back to the plains and the Rachnis immediately tried to swarm the Vehicle but it was still faster.
*Inside the HUMVEE*
"HOOOOOOOHHH MYYYY GAAAAADDDD THAT WAS VERY CLOSE, GREAT DRIVING" Wojak shouted while firing back at the Chasing Rachnis and fighters
"THANKS, I JUST TRIED MY BEST" Lusio replied
*RADIO TRANSMISSION ON THE HUMVEE TURNS ON*
"THIS IS CAPTAIN SHAI'ILA OF ARS CRUISER DEI'VIA WE ARE CURRENTLY ENGAGING THE ENEMY WE CANNOT HOLD THEM OFF FOR LONG, WE ARE SENDING THE COORDINATES TO AND YOU HAVE 2MINS TILL EXTRACTION, THIS IS CAPTAIN SHAI'ILA OUT"
*RADIO TRANSMISSION ON THE HUMVEE TURNS OFF*
"I RECEIVED THE COORDINATES, SENDING IT TO YOU LUSIO"
After Wojak sent the Coordinates a Spaceship went overhead them and provided supporting fire against the Chasing Rachnis.
"GOT IT AND I SEE THE SPACESHIP GOING IN THERE!!"
The Vehicle accelerates towards the spaceship.
"IM CONTACTING THEM!!,HELLO THIS IS WOJAK I AM IN THE YELLOW VEHICLE BEHIND YOUR POSITION DON'T SHOOT AND ASKING PERMISSION TO OPEN THE CARGO DOORS SO I CAN GET IN!!"
And Wojak continues firing on the Rachnis.
After 3 seconds,
THE RADIO ANSWERS HIM BUT IT'S CLEAR IT'S FEMININE
"THIS IS THE COMMANDER TORA SPEAKING, PERMISSION GRANTED WE ARE OPENING THE CARGO DOORS NOW"
The back of the covenant looking Spaceship opens it's port on the side
" COME ON COME ON MOVE FASTER"
"WE ARE ALMOST THERE WOJAK GET READY TO JUMP"
"OKAY!"
As the Vehicle accelerates Lusio Shouted jump and Wojak immediately does so while Lusio turns the vehicle Around to Bait the Rachnis.
As Wojak jumped nearing the Cargo doors he slipped and tried to grab on the sides but luckily a bluish field engulfs him and pulls him up but unfortunately a Single Fighter slams both of them inside the Ship and the fighter critically impaled Wojak in its Heart before dying by the Commando's gun.
Wojak was losing consciousness and all he hears are the chattering of the Aliens and the tone of a Commander giving orders, Wojak could only blink before blacking out.
AUTHOR'S NOTE: I AM HAVING A HARD TIME WRITING THIS BECAUSE I CAN'T IMAGINE A NAME FOR THE ASARI OR SALARIANS, I NEED HELP FOR SOMEONE TO GIVE ME AN EXAMPLE THAT IS LIKELY FITTING NAME FOR EACH RACE, PLEASE HELP ME.
