The disorder units started firing at Soni and I, and a whole swarm of
little green rays shot past us. I heard a loud boom, and ducked. The big
green energy beam of the big disorder unit soared over my head, blowing a
big hole in the skyscraper in front of us. I heard metal bending. Wait a
sec! We could use the building against them!
"Soni! Go towards the building in front of us, then face the disorder units! Dodge their blasts and lure them closer to the building," I said
"I get it, the building will crush them all!" Soni said.
We boosted faster toward the building and turned around. We just stood there, boosting and strafing to avoid the beams. The big disorder unit's eye began to glow again, and he fired a massive ray at us. I boosted up, Soni boosted left. The skyscraper began to tilt some! The disorder units came closer, still firing there energy weapons.
"C'mon! One more big blast!" I said.
The disorder unit glowed one more time, and fired the last shot into the weakened skyscraper. The blast hit it, and a loud creaking noise was followed by glass breaking.
"It's falling!" Soni said. I boosted right, she boosted left. I avoided the falling debris.
I turned around and saw the skyscraper tilt, then begin to fall, and then it landed right on top of the disorder units! The loud thud of the building was so loud, I couldn't hear anything but the sound of metal crunching! The dust and glass shards started approaching me in a rapid- moving cloud. I braced myself, and couldn't see anything in the dense cloud.
"Warning! Land unstable!" My computer said. Land unstable? That means the floor is about to. . .
"AHHH!" I said as the floor beneath me crumpled.
"Myk!=+8" I heard Soni say as the communication link was severed.
I fell down. I landed, but then the force of the skyscraper landing made that floor crumple. I fell for a few seconds some more.
"Computer! Activate safety foam!" I yelled. White bubbles began coming out of the vents, covering the whole cockpit. Then it solidified to a cushiony layer of pillows. I still heard metal crunching and floors crumpling, and I was thrashed around in the safety foam. I tried to brace myself and hold on to something, but damn safety foam is too soft to hold on to! I was being thrashed more violently, until it stopped.
"I've landed?" I said. Something was odd. I think my AC would be standing on it's head then, because I could still see my big AP numbers through the foam. . . and they were upside down! I tried to jump, and I'm a lot lighter! Shit! I'm still falli. . .
My AC landed with a loud thud and the force knocked me out.
~
I woke up. Everything was dark, I could only see the red light of the cockpit door. Everything else was dark. There were occasional flashes of sparks. I propped my arm up to try and stand.
"Ow! Fuck!" I said. My left arm is broken!
I placed my arm on top of me. It hurt like hell! I used my right arm instead. I got up and looked around my cockpit. The safety foam and darkness made it all look gray. My HUD wasn't on, so I looked out the window. There was a hole in the ground, and light was coming out of it! The light illuminated the rest of the place where I landed. I went closer to the window to see if there is an exit. I was still kind of dizzy from my concussion, but I could see enough, and there wasn't a hole big enough to get through. I turned around and went for the cockpit hatch. I opened it with my right arm and stuck my head out.
"No way out," I said. There were no ways to get out! I went back inside and got my machine gun. I went outside and stood next to my fallen AC. I've never seen my AC from this angle before, charred up, dented, and not functioning. It was on its stomach, arms and legs spread out. That must have been one gnarly fall.
I took out my machine gun, and used the case as a makeshift stand for my broken arm. I put my machine gun in my right hand, and then walked over to the hole light was coming out of. It was the sky! There's no way it could be the sky, then I'd be upside down and I'd fall! I waited to fall, just in case. Good, I didn't so I'm right. But how the hell is the sky BELOW me?
"Damn!" I said. I couldn't see land! All I saw was a massive blue expanse and clouds! Then a small hum came up. It got louder and louder, so I raised my machine gun. A blue hover MT with 4 big arms came face to face to me! It looked like a construction MT. I backed up a little in case it tried to shoot at me.
"What the hell? Who are you? No one is allowed here!" said the pilot.
"Give me a ride, this gun can shoot through your armor!" I yelled back. She was just a timid construction MT pilot, so she believed me. The MT pulled up closer to the hole. I kept my gun drawn in case she tried to pull any quick maneuvers. I hoped into the cockpit and sat in the copilot seat.
"Who are you?" said the pilot.
"Myk Linear, what the hell is this place?" I replied.
"You don't know? Everyone knows this place, it's the Nature Layer," she replied. She moved the MTs arms into the storage compartment and began taking out a big metal patch to cover up the hole.
"Hey wait! My AC is in there!" I said.
"You're an AC pilot? How did you get all the way to the top of the Nature Layer? No AC booster power and generator can get an AC even halfway up from the bottom?" she said.
"Go up? I didn't come up here, I fell down!" I said.
"Fell down? That's impossible! No one can come from above!" she said.
"Well I did, and I don't have any idea where I am," I replied, "do you have a nav point, so I can come back here and get my AC?"
"Yeah, I do," she said. She took a little transmitter and put it next to the hole. It flashed green, meaning it was on. The MT turned around and began going in the opposite direction she came from. I looked outside and began to see an ocean, and then land began to appear. This was a massive room, and it looked like earth! I bet 20 cities the size of Skyline could fit in here, and still have lots of room!
"What is this place?" I said.
"I told you already, you're in the Nature Layer," replied the pilot.
"The Nature Layer for what?"
"You don't even know the place where you live? This is Layered! Everyone lives here! People can't live anywhere else! Maybe you are suffering from amnesia or something," she replied.
Layered? What the hell is this? I've never heard of the city Layered. The MT approached a floating platform. It was a giant platform. It had multiple runways, and there were a lot of construction MTs similar to the one I was in. The construction MT pilot landed on it, and we got out.
"Hey, Michelle, who is that guy?" said one of the runway workers as he came up to us. I guess her name is Michelle.
"I don't know, he was in the hull breach that I was sent to repair. He's an AC pilot," Michelle said.
"AC pilot? How could he get up there?" asked the worker.
"I don't know. He said he fell down and was there, not boost up into the hull," Michelle said.
I felt a little queasy from standing up, and my concussion resurfaced. I blacked out.
"Soni! Go towards the building in front of us, then face the disorder units! Dodge their blasts and lure them closer to the building," I said
"I get it, the building will crush them all!" Soni said.
We boosted faster toward the building and turned around. We just stood there, boosting and strafing to avoid the beams. The big disorder unit's eye began to glow again, and he fired a massive ray at us. I boosted up, Soni boosted left. The skyscraper began to tilt some! The disorder units came closer, still firing there energy weapons.
"C'mon! One more big blast!" I said.
The disorder unit glowed one more time, and fired the last shot into the weakened skyscraper. The blast hit it, and a loud creaking noise was followed by glass breaking.
"It's falling!" Soni said. I boosted right, she boosted left. I avoided the falling debris.
I turned around and saw the skyscraper tilt, then begin to fall, and then it landed right on top of the disorder units! The loud thud of the building was so loud, I couldn't hear anything but the sound of metal crunching! The dust and glass shards started approaching me in a rapid- moving cloud. I braced myself, and couldn't see anything in the dense cloud.
"Warning! Land unstable!" My computer said. Land unstable? That means the floor is about to. . .
"AHHH!" I said as the floor beneath me crumpled.
"Myk!=+8" I heard Soni say as the communication link was severed.
I fell down. I landed, but then the force of the skyscraper landing made that floor crumple. I fell for a few seconds some more.
"Computer! Activate safety foam!" I yelled. White bubbles began coming out of the vents, covering the whole cockpit. Then it solidified to a cushiony layer of pillows. I still heard metal crunching and floors crumpling, and I was thrashed around in the safety foam. I tried to brace myself and hold on to something, but damn safety foam is too soft to hold on to! I was being thrashed more violently, until it stopped.
"I've landed?" I said. Something was odd. I think my AC would be standing on it's head then, because I could still see my big AP numbers through the foam. . . and they were upside down! I tried to jump, and I'm a lot lighter! Shit! I'm still falli. . .
My AC landed with a loud thud and the force knocked me out.
~
I woke up. Everything was dark, I could only see the red light of the cockpit door. Everything else was dark. There were occasional flashes of sparks. I propped my arm up to try and stand.
"Ow! Fuck!" I said. My left arm is broken!
I placed my arm on top of me. It hurt like hell! I used my right arm instead. I got up and looked around my cockpit. The safety foam and darkness made it all look gray. My HUD wasn't on, so I looked out the window. There was a hole in the ground, and light was coming out of it! The light illuminated the rest of the place where I landed. I went closer to the window to see if there is an exit. I was still kind of dizzy from my concussion, but I could see enough, and there wasn't a hole big enough to get through. I turned around and went for the cockpit hatch. I opened it with my right arm and stuck my head out.
"No way out," I said. There were no ways to get out! I went back inside and got my machine gun. I went outside and stood next to my fallen AC. I've never seen my AC from this angle before, charred up, dented, and not functioning. It was on its stomach, arms and legs spread out. That must have been one gnarly fall.
I took out my machine gun, and used the case as a makeshift stand for my broken arm. I put my machine gun in my right hand, and then walked over to the hole light was coming out of. It was the sky! There's no way it could be the sky, then I'd be upside down and I'd fall! I waited to fall, just in case. Good, I didn't so I'm right. But how the hell is the sky BELOW me?
"Damn!" I said. I couldn't see land! All I saw was a massive blue expanse and clouds! Then a small hum came up. It got louder and louder, so I raised my machine gun. A blue hover MT with 4 big arms came face to face to me! It looked like a construction MT. I backed up a little in case it tried to shoot at me.
"What the hell? Who are you? No one is allowed here!" said the pilot.
"Give me a ride, this gun can shoot through your armor!" I yelled back. She was just a timid construction MT pilot, so she believed me. The MT pulled up closer to the hole. I kept my gun drawn in case she tried to pull any quick maneuvers. I hoped into the cockpit and sat in the copilot seat.
"Who are you?" said the pilot.
"Myk Linear, what the hell is this place?" I replied.
"You don't know? Everyone knows this place, it's the Nature Layer," she replied. She moved the MTs arms into the storage compartment and began taking out a big metal patch to cover up the hole.
"Hey wait! My AC is in there!" I said.
"You're an AC pilot? How did you get all the way to the top of the Nature Layer? No AC booster power and generator can get an AC even halfway up from the bottom?" she said.
"Go up? I didn't come up here, I fell down!" I said.
"Fell down? That's impossible! No one can come from above!" she said.
"Well I did, and I don't have any idea where I am," I replied, "do you have a nav point, so I can come back here and get my AC?"
"Yeah, I do," she said. She took a little transmitter and put it next to the hole. It flashed green, meaning it was on. The MT turned around and began going in the opposite direction she came from. I looked outside and began to see an ocean, and then land began to appear. This was a massive room, and it looked like earth! I bet 20 cities the size of Skyline could fit in here, and still have lots of room!
"What is this place?" I said.
"I told you already, you're in the Nature Layer," replied the pilot.
"The Nature Layer for what?"
"You don't even know the place where you live? This is Layered! Everyone lives here! People can't live anywhere else! Maybe you are suffering from amnesia or something," she replied.
Layered? What the hell is this? I've never heard of the city Layered. The MT approached a floating platform. It was a giant platform. It had multiple runways, and there were a lot of construction MTs similar to the one I was in. The construction MT pilot landed on it, and we got out.
"Hey, Michelle, who is that guy?" said one of the runway workers as he came up to us. I guess her name is Michelle.
"I don't know, he was in the hull breach that I was sent to repair. He's an AC pilot," Michelle said.
"AC pilot? How could he get up there?" asked the worker.
"I don't know. He said he fell down and was there, not boost up into the hull," Michelle said.
I felt a little queasy from standing up, and my concussion resurfaced. I blacked out.