The sky was dark. The clouds swirled like an evil culdron above the battle. Rain started to pour out, weeping for an end. Linna had an incredible view of these clouds. She was laid out in the bed of spikes, facing the sky. She laid just as she had landed, movement caused such pain she thought it would kill her. If she stayed put, letting her blood flow from her body with the objects blocking full flow she might have a chance. She could feel the rain seek in the cracks in her hardsuit where spikes of several diffrent sizes and shaped had pierced through. The most vital had hit her lower abdomin, as far as she could tell all the others were minor in comparrison. She thought back to her childhood, and to her family out in the country. What was she doing here?
Sylia and Nene had seen Linna go flying into the building the boomers had built, and felt the shock of pain Linna had been sent into. Sylia sliced through many bommers in just that instant, she was having trouble deciferring Linna's pain and her pain. Her head had that same throbbing that drove her to such strange acts of insanity. Nene flew up high and played back up for Sylia. She would taze the boomer, and Sylia would destroy it.
"Sylia!" Nene yelled, "I can see in the building..." She was stareing over a wall, all she could see was a few sharp points, a couple running with blood.
"Can you see Linna?" Sylia screamed as she thrust her sword into another boomers core and slid it out in another motion to slice off the tenticles comming after her.
"Some of her..." Nene whimpered. She had to see more, she flew closer. Looking down into the pit she could see Linna pierced threw by about five of the spikes. The green Sabers blood was pooling in the bottom of the pit. Nene was hit by a sudden rush of nausia, she was staring down at Linna. "Sylia... she's... she's..."
"Nene watch out!" Sylia cried out. Nene didn't even have the chance to react, A boomer grabbed hold of her. She was now pulled into the tenticles the same way as Linna had been. Was that now her fate?She scremed at the top of her lungs. The scream made Sylia's head feel like it had just shattered, she stumbled, and a boomer smacked her a good one. She went flying back into a wall, sliding down to the ground... unconscious.
The boomer held Nene way up into the clouds like the previous one had done to Linna, Nene had to think fast. She activated the super computer. If nothing else, being in a virtual world when she died may not hurt as much. As soon as the system was activated she was floating in a black pool of goo and wires. The whole world around her looked that way. She could see the Boomer she was fighting, in a human form looking something like Sylia.
"Sylia!" She called out.
The woman turned to look at her, her eyes glowing the same red the boomers had been. It walked toward her, and reached out a hand to offer help from the gunk. She took it and pulled herself out.
"Who are you?" It asked, "And how did you get here? I thought I was alone..."
"My name is Nene. What are you? Are you a boomer?" Nene looked at the perfectly human looking figure standing in front of her.
"I am a boomer." It confirmed, "But I am confined by this poor shape and duty that I have been programed to. I will never truely be me."
"You're trapped in here." Nene looked around at the horrible background, "I think I'd go rogue if my head looked like this too."
"Not rogue. Free" It corrected, "I, we all will be free."
"Free from what?" Nene looked around, how would going rogue make a boomer free. It had said itself that it would never be what it wanted to be. The boomer woman seemed to be as confused as she was herself. It's eyes faded from the glowing red, to a natural deep blue.
"I don't know." It looked around, "Why are you here?"
"I didn't want to die..." Nene trailed off wondering if she had hit the ground yet, wondering if her body was suffering some horrible pain that she was unable to feel in this state.
Priss had felt the intense pain surge threw her body when Linna had hit the ground, but it just drove her to ride the bike faster. She had just skidded to stop to see Sylia hit the wall, and slide down, no longer moving. She could hear Nene's scream of horror, but Nene never went into that pit. The boomer holding her had just paused, ready to throw her. It was frozen in place, ignoring the orders issued by the boss boomer. Priss snarled. She jumped off the bike and flew into the air. She bounced off of boomer head, to boomer head until she had reached the humoungus leader. She knuckle bombed it on impact.
The huge Boomer stopped it's commands and reached for her with it's lanky arms. She was too fast, she hopped up using the side of a builing for leverage and kicked it smack in the face. It blew up on impact. The boomer wobbled, as if it were about to fall. The red eyes opened again on the half missing face of the boomer, then it reached out both arms along with tenticles comming from who knows where to grab Priss. She blew another hole in it's arm, but the tenticles wrapped around her, and she found herself up in the air with Nene. Nene had gone silent, perhaps as unconscious as Sylia. Looking down she saw Linna, the sight made her crumble inside. There was no way she was going to walk away from that, there was more blood on the ground than there could possibly be left inside Linna.
"Linna..." She whispered. The large Boomer heaved her higher than Nene. She couldn't take her eyes off of Linna. She had broke her promise, and that was a worse fate than anything this Boomer could do to her. "Just drop me already you fucking piece of shit!"
The boomer reacted to this by pulling her back towards it with incredible speed. It slammed her suit into it's body. That gave her quite a shake. She bounced when she hit the ground underneath it, and rolled over to escape. Her suit surged, and went dead. The weight of the suit was to much for her to crawl away with. The Boomer placed one of it's feet on her back. It slowly put more and more pressure on her. She cleenched her teeth against the pain.
"Back off of her!" Leon yelled up at the large boomer in front of him. He was right in the middle of the army of Boomers with a small pistol aimed up.
"You idiot Leon." Priss grunted, a smirk twitching in the corner of her mouth.
It didn't take long the boomer sezed him, and tossed him into the pit with Linna. He shot off his little pistol a few times, but it didn't do much good. Priss could hear his yell as he fell into the pit. She cringed. Were they going to throw Sylia in there next? She tried to move again, reminding the boomer to apply more pressure. She could feel her bones bending, and whimpered.
Sylia shook her head, Priss' cry of pain had woke her up. The throbbing was worse than ever and she had to fight to move. She stood up and used her new wings to fly over to the boomer stomping on Priss. Sylia screamed with all her rage at the pain in her head, heading for the target of this Boomer's core. She dived into it full speed with her sword extended. She ripped through the boomer, and riped out it's core in her trip though. She flew into the building directly behind the boomer with the same force, smashing into the wall and again hitting the ground. She layed there limp, cringing at the horrible enternal pain driving her mad.
Nene saw the world through the boomers eyes, as they stood in it's soul. It was no longer rogue, it turned to the other Boomers and with a similar commandment to how thier leader spoke, it told of what it had learned in it's short talk with Nene. All the other boomers's glowing red eyes returned to the dull black. They went to cleaning up the mess they had made. The Boomer holding Nene set her down, and as soon as the contact was lost she returned to her body. She could see Priss ejecting herself from her hardsuit not too far away. Sylia was no where to be seen.
"Linna?" Nene asked peering down into the pit Linna was trapped in.
"I'm still here... "She put effort into whispering.
"She's alive!" Nene rejoiced. She hurried over to the many emergency vehicles that were waiting to help, just outside of the A.D. Police Vehicles blockage.
Priss crawled away and shook off the bruises that weren't apparent yet. She hurried over to Sylia and pulled her helmet off. Her eyes were open, but dialated very small. Priss ripped at the armour on her friend. It popped off when she hit the emergecncy eject. Priss lifted her out of it, and carried her leader away from the chaos and smoke.
The emergency crew had one hell of a time getting Linna out of that pit. They were sure she wouldn't make it. Priss had placed Sylia in the hands of EMT people then hurried to help the crew with Linna. Down in the pit there were several A.D. Police officers, some alive, some dead. Leon was there, Priss knew she shouldn't have looked for him, but she couldn't keep herself from searching.
He had landed on his side. Only two spikes had even harmed him, but by the injury of them it made it hardly possible to tell it was him, aside from his hair cut, and choice of clothes. His face had been completely malled, and his leg. That was it. Poor unlucky sap, Priss looked away quickly. If she hadn't turned him down would all this have happened? Linna whimpered. She hurried to her side and grabbed her hand.
"Hold on Linna, " Priss begged tears buring in her eyes for the second time that day, "I can't loose you... I just can't..."
Linna opened her eyes to see Priss, standing next to her. She made a meak smile underneath the oxygen mask they had on her. She clenched onto Priss' hand with all the strength she had left. The emergency vehicle rode off into the rainy streets of a destroyed city.
To be continued....
Sylia and Nene had seen Linna go flying into the building the boomers had built, and felt the shock of pain Linna had been sent into. Sylia sliced through many bommers in just that instant, she was having trouble deciferring Linna's pain and her pain. Her head had that same throbbing that drove her to such strange acts of insanity. Nene flew up high and played back up for Sylia. She would taze the boomer, and Sylia would destroy it.
"Sylia!" Nene yelled, "I can see in the building..." She was stareing over a wall, all she could see was a few sharp points, a couple running with blood.
"Can you see Linna?" Sylia screamed as she thrust her sword into another boomers core and slid it out in another motion to slice off the tenticles comming after her.
"Some of her..." Nene whimpered. She had to see more, she flew closer. Looking down into the pit she could see Linna pierced threw by about five of the spikes. The green Sabers blood was pooling in the bottom of the pit. Nene was hit by a sudden rush of nausia, she was staring down at Linna. "Sylia... she's... she's..."
"Nene watch out!" Sylia cried out. Nene didn't even have the chance to react, A boomer grabbed hold of her. She was now pulled into the tenticles the same way as Linna had been. Was that now her fate?She scremed at the top of her lungs. The scream made Sylia's head feel like it had just shattered, she stumbled, and a boomer smacked her a good one. She went flying back into a wall, sliding down to the ground... unconscious.
The boomer held Nene way up into the clouds like the previous one had done to Linna, Nene had to think fast. She activated the super computer. If nothing else, being in a virtual world when she died may not hurt as much. As soon as the system was activated she was floating in a black pool of goo and wires. The whole world around her looked that way. She could see the Boomer she was fighting, in a human form looking something like Sylia.
"Sylia!" She called out.
The woman turned to look at her, her eyes glowing the same red the boomers had been. It walked toward her, and reached out a hand to offer help from the gunk. She took it and pulled herself out.
"Who are you?" It asked, "And how did you get here? I thought I was alone..."
"My name is Nene. What are you? Are you a boomer?" Nene looked at the perfectly human looking figure standing in front of her.
"I am a boomer." It confirmed, "But I am confined by this poor shape and duty that I have been programed to. I will never truely be me."
"You're trapped in here." Nene looked around at the horrible background, "I think I'd go rogue if my head looked like this too."
"Not rogue. Free" It corrected, "I, we all will be free."
"Free from what?" Nene looked around, how would going rogue make a boomer free. It had said itself that it would never be what it wanted to be. The boomer woman seemed to be as confused as she was herself. It's eyes faded from the glowing red, to a natural deep blue.
"I don't know." It looked around, "Why are you here?"
"I didn't want to die..." Nene trailed off wondering if she had hit the ground yet, wondering if her body was suffering some horrible pain that she was unable to feel in this state.
Priss had felt the intense pain surge threw her body when Linna had hit the ground, but it just drove her to ride the bike faster. She had just skidded to stop to see Sylia hit the wall, and slide down, no longer moving. She could hear Nene's scream of horror, but Nene never went into that pit. The boomer holding her had just paused, ready to throw her. It was frozen in place, ignoring the orders issued by the boss boomer. Priss snarled. She jumped off the bike and flew into the air. She bounced off of boomer head, to boomer head until she had reached the humoungus leader. She knuckle bombed it on impact.
The huge Boomer stopped it's commands and reached for her with it's lanky arms. She was too fast, she hopped up using the side of a builing for leverage and kicked it smack in the face. It blew up on impact. The boomer wobbled, as if it were about to fall. The red eyes opened again on the half missing face of the boomer, then it reached out both arms along with tenticles comming from who knows where to grab Priss. She blew another hole in it's arm, but the tenticles wrapped around her, and she found herself up in the air with Nene. Nene had gone silent, perhaps as unconscious as Sylia. Looking down she saw Linna, the sight made her crumble inside. There was no way she was going to walk away from that, there was more blood on the ground than there could possibly be left inside Linna.
"Linna..." She whispered. The large Boomer heaved her higher than Nene. She couldn't take her eyes off of Linna. She had broke her promise, and that was a worse fate than anything this Boomer could do to her. "Just drop me already you fucking piece of shit!"
The boomer reacted to this by pulling her back towards it with incredible speed. It slammed her suit into it's body. That gave her quite a shake. She bounced when she hit the ground underneath it, and rolled over to escape. Her suit surged, and went dead. The weight of the suit was to much for her to crawl away with. The Boomer placed one of it's feet on her back. It slowly put more and more pressure on her. She cleenched her teeth against the pain.
"Back off of her!" Leon yelled up at the large boomer in front of him. He was right in the middle of the army of Boomers with a small pistol aimed up.
"You idiot Leon." Priss grunted, a smirk twitching in the corner of her mouth.
It didn't take long the boomer sezed him, and tossed him into the pit with Linna. He shot off his little pistol a few times, but it didn't do much good. Priss could hear his yell as he fell into the pit. She cringed. Were they going to throw Sylia in there next? She tried to move again, reminding the boomer to apply more pressure. She could feel her bones bending, and whimpered.
Sylia shook her head, Priss' cry of pain had woke her up. The throbbing was worse than ever and she had to fight to move. She stood up and used her new wings to fly over to the boomer stomping on Priss. Sylia screamed with all her rage at the pain in her head, heading for the target of this Boomer's core. She dived into it full speed with her sword extended. She ripped through the boomer, and riped out it's core in her trip though. She flew into the building directly behind the boomer with the same force, smashing into the wall and again hitting the ground. She layed there limp, cringing at the horrible enternal pain driving her mad.
Nene saw the world through the boomers eyes, as they stood in it's soul. It was no longer rogue, it turned to the other Boomers and with a similar commandment to how thier leader spoke, it told of what it had learned in it's short talk with Nene. All the other boomers's glowing red eyes returned to the dull black. They went to cleaning up the mess they had made. The Boomer holding Nene set her down, and as soon as the contact was lost she returned to her body. She could see Priss ejecting herself from her hardsuit not too far away. Sylia was no where to be seen.
"Linna?" Nene asked peering down into the pit Linna was trapped in.
"I'm still here... "She put effort into whispering.
"She's alive!" Nene rejoiced. She hurried over to the many emergency vehicles that were waiting to help, just outside of the A.D. Police Vehicles blockage.
Priss crawled away and shook off the bruises that weren't apparent yet. She hurried over to Sylia and pulled her helmet off. Her eyes were open, but dialated very small. Priss ripped at the armour on her friend. It popped off when she hit the emergecncy eject. Priss lifted her out of it, and carried her leader away from the chaos and smoke.
The emergency crew had one hell of a time getting Linna out of that pit. They were sure she wouldn't make it. Priss had placed Sylia in the hands of EMT people then hurried to help the crew with Linna. Down in the pit there were several A.D. Police officers, some alive, some dead. Leon was there, Priss knew she shouldn't have looked for him, but she couldn't keep herself from searching.
He had landed on his side. Only two spikes had even harmed him, but by the injury of them it made it hardly possible to tell it was him, aside from his hair cut, and choice of clothes. His face had been completely malled, and his leg. That was it. Poor unlucky sap, Priss looked away quickly. If she hadn't turned him down would all this have happened? Linna whimpered. She hurried to her side and grabbed her hand.
"Hold on Linna, " Priss begged tears buring in her eyes for the second time that day, "I can't loose you... I just can't..."
Linna opened her eyes to see Priss, standing next to her. She made a meak smile underneath the oxygen mask they had on her. She clenched onto Priss' hand with all the strength she had left. The emergency vehicle rode off into the rainy streets of a destroyed city.
To be continued....