Fight for Freedom (Special Chapter)

(a/n) I'm glad to see that people still like the story, and most people thought that I should do an AS-Overlord special. This match has no link with the story at all, but I will use the same characters from Kill Switch. This match is dedicated to the men who fought and died on the beaches of Normandy, and throughout Europe. We will remember you all.....

Special Chapter 11: Overlord

"5...4...3...2...1...Begin"

John lunged forwards and grabbed the minigun and sniper rifle in front of him, the others all did the same. The sounds of artillery and gunfire rattled in John's ears, he didn't have much time to observe his surroundings.

John stood still for a second just to get a look at where everything was, he didn't have any idea where he was going. Two tall towers obviously dominated the beachhead; it was snipers galore up there.

Two small bunkers lay directly ahead of them, the left one sporting an automated turret, it didn't cause much trouble, it was more of a nuisance. The right bunker was free for any brave man to try and slow down the attack.

Lock pushed John forwards roughly. "Don't hang around kid! You're a moving target!" he pushed John forward again, John started running in the same direction as Rae and Amon.

Lock followed close behind, his eyes scanning the two towers, both were empty, unusual. They couldn't let us just walk through the beach, if this part fell apart for the attackers then the whole advance would lose momentum.

John checked behind him to see if Lock was still there. 'Zip' as he turned, Lock's head had been violently ripped off its shoulders by a sniper bullet.

"Shit!" John exclaimed. "Man down!" he shouted through the radio. He crouched, he didn't know where the bullet came from, and he wasn't really up for checking it out either.

He pressed up against the small bunker on the right. He thought of climbing through, but the gap was too narrow for him. John, still crouching, peered around the corner to see if he could find anything.

Gunther, Rae and Amon had nearly made it to the bunker entrance, then, what sounded like an artillery round came from a small hole in the canyons that surrounded the area.

The shell hit the ground with almighty crash. Rae, Gunther and Amon were blown to pieces, blood and flesh coated surrounding ground. John ducked back around the bunker; he stuck his head around the corner once more, to see what was left of his comrades.

There wasn't anything left, of their bodies, or indeed John's head. Snipers had taken the tower and were as ruthless as any sniper had to be.

Vick was staying by the boat using his sniper rifle to take out as many people as he could. His score was increasing quite rapidly. Lock told him to give the team covering fire while they moved in.

Vick agreed and started firing away, more bullet casings being flung out of the side of the rifle. Rae was hit in the leg; she could carry on, but not very fast. Another shot in the chest finished her off, her body floating calmly on the water.

John, Lock and Gunther made a charge for the entrance at the end of the beach. Gunther's head was blown to bits, and Lock was hit in the arm, only making him drop his weapon.

John looked up at the tower on the right. They were against Blood Fist. The whole team was made of mechs. John saw Cathode with a sniper rifle in hand looking through the scope right at John.

John knew she was going to shoot for his head; the split second moment seemed to last for ever as he kept running and running towards his target. John was merely waiting for him to hear the shot.

John sensed the trigger being pulled, he ducked, it was a natural instinct. The shot was fired at the exact same time; Lock got hit instead, the bullet bringing him to a complete halt, his lifeless body dropping to the floor.

John swore, he felt guilty that Lock had to die instead of him; he didn't feel he was worth it. John looked back up at the tower; he saw her aim again, only to have her fragile, brittle body almost blown in half at the waist.

Vick taunted to her over the radio, the body fell out of the tower and landed with a nasty sounding 'Crunch'. John felt relived as the body broke into shards of metal and fragments as it hit the floor. It was a clear run for John to get to the entrance.

John checked behind him, Gunther and Amon were making their way up the beach. John ran down the small ramp and down into the bunker. "Blue team infiltrated the bunker!" flashed up on his wrist pad.

Supplies and ammo lay in the corner, John picked up what he could and he left some for the rest of the team. He headed down the slightly steeper ramp and came into a room with about 4 pillars in it, then on the right there was a small concrete ramp that lead on to a slightly higher platform which led through a doorway.

As soon as John entered the room, bullet flew everywhere chipping chunks out of the pillars. John used the pillars as cover; Gunther charged into the room and was cut to pieces by heavy minigun fire. "Shit" John said as the body was pounded by the constant chain of bullets. Rae and Lock came in shortly afterward. Lock managed to gun down Mandible and then take cover, but Rae suffered the same fate as Gunther.

John used the distraction to point his gun from around one of the pillars and start firing back. It worked to some affect. Syzgy was forced back out through the door way. John and Lock sprinted in afterwards.

Syzgy had taken shelter in a corner where he could not be seen. John ran in first and was fatally wounded by his flak cannon at close range. Lock saw what happened and made a jump as he came into view of Syzgy's weapon.

Lock fired with his minigun, piercing holes through his fragile structure. Sparks flew on each bullet that hit, Lock didn't let up until Syzgy's main metal body was savagely ripped apart.

Lock heard the computer voice for Syzgy malfunction and fail. He collected some weapons and ammo in the room full of boxes and went up the steep ramp. He was followed by Vick and Rae.

John respawned in the ammo room, he saw Lock and the others running around the corner on the ramp ahead of him, he followed them. No supplies were left there when John arrived; it didn't bother him that much.

"Man down!" Lock cried over the radio as it was fuzzed out by gunfire and explosions. John approached the control room. A stray bullet chipped up a bit of dirt near John's shin. John stumbled in surprise and peeked his head over the edge of the ramp.

He was spotted instantly. A ball of flak flew in and exploded on the wall next to John. Flak bounced around the corridor and several pieces hit John in the foot and leg. John felt the burning sensation in his leg and fo8nd it increasingly hard to ignore it.

Gunther came up to John's side, keeping his head down. He helped John up and they both went in. Gunther's head appeared over the edge as they both ran into the defense. It was instantly ripped off.

A rocket exploded to John's right and pushed him to the left slightly. John prayed that the rest of his team would show up and help him. Flak and bullets riddled the surrounding wall behind him, the huge gun in the center of the cavern went off, the huge bang shaking the cavern even more.

John was running as fast as he could with his bad leg, he took one step up the ramp up to the control room and rockets bombarded the ground in front of him, knocking him sharply backwards and into the wall. Another bullet finished him off.

In that instant, Lock, Vick, Amon and Rae ran into the room all guns blazing. Corrosion was sniping on a platform above their heads. Amon crouched for a second and aimed through her scope and fired a clean shot at his torso.

It went in one side and came out the other. Corrosion fell backwards off the catwalk and landed on his neck in a very painful looking way. Amon hollered and moved forwards with the rest of the group.

Lock was taking shots at Cathode. She kept popping up and firing a few rounds at the team. She was a pest now, and Lock was setting about killed her. Vick made a dash up the ramp, using his flak cannon to kill Syzgy and blast him off the edge, then a ball of flak made him follow Syzgy's body soon after.

Amon suffered from Cathode's pot-shots. Cathode appeared with a minigun and fired a burst, a lucky one. Amon was running towards the ramp and caught all the bullets in the neck and head.

Blood burst out of her neck and face, the force of the bullet knocked her so she collapsed on her back, blood still leaking from her. She was as good as dead. Rae checked her body and moved on up the ramp and into the control room.

"One minute remains!" the commentator boomed in the fighters earpieces. John heard it as he ran into the cavern. Cathode was still taking potshots, and Lock seemed to have had enough of it. He fired a few more rounds and then charged up the ramp, John thought she would be taken care of from there.

Cathode body tripped and crumbled off the edge of the catwalk. John heard it and looked up to see what it was.

The surprisingly heavy body dropped onto him, John caught the body and fell on his back. Lock popped up over the edge and fired some rounds off with a minigun. John used Cathode as a shield, bullets 'chinged' of the body. John buried his face into the ground, desperate not to get hit.

The firing stopped, and John threw the body off him. "Christ are you trying to kill me?!" he shouted angrily and Lock. "Sorry" Lock replied rather dismissively and moved on.

"20 seconds" the announcer said. John's heart rate sped up, he saw Lock just inches away from the control room get smashed by a minigun. John feared the same fate and was reluctant to move.

More bullets deflected off the area around him, forcing him to make a move or die. Gunther entered the room with a rocket launcher and fired a few rockets up at the catwalk. As John made it half way up the ramp and saw a stray rocket plough its way into Rapier's chest, making him fall on his back, but it didn't kill him, John finished the job.

John looked left into the control to check if it was clear, what sounded like a minigun came from behind him. "10 seconds left" the announcer said, piling on even more pressure.

Sparks and bullets flew around the control room. It was a miracle the nothing was hit or broken. John blind fired a few shots back, he hit something. He heard the sound of pain coming from one of the mechs.

John fired a ball of flak into the area, he heard a mech malfunction. "6...5...4...3" the dead body of the mech flopped out from it's hiding place. John turned and fired two ball of flak into the control room.

"2...1. Blue team is the winner!!" the announcer said. He was cut off half- way through saying 'one'. John breathed a sigh of relief, he wiped his forehead. He put his hand over his heart; he didn't really realize how quickly it was beating. And now he had to defend it himself.

"5...4...3...2...1...Begin" the announcer said. John spawned in a room with about 5 different portals. He looked straight ahead and above the portal was a sign saying. 'Bunkers' John went into it.

In a flash of white light John had appeared in the bunkers right at the front of the assault. He turned left and took a minigun, some armour and supplies. John cautiously lifted his head up and looked through the gap.

In a split second he was firing rampantly with his minigun. His finger didn't come off the trigger until he was out of ammo. John had managed to mow down Mandible and Rapier, but Syzgy was returned fire and forced John to duck down.

Chinks of the concrete surrounding John were ripped out with the bullet flying around the beach. John checked his minigun; out of ammo. No ammo had respawned yet, but he figured he could be more helpful elsewhere.

John teleported back into main portal room. He looked left, and then right. 'Left tower' John thought he try his hand at sniping skills here. He went through with a flash of white light.

Vick was already there constantly firing with his rifle. John picked one a up, crouched and aimed through the sight.

John had never fired one of these rifles before, he was slightly reluctant to pull the trigger at first, as he didn't know what to expect. He aimed into the sight and leveled it at Syzgy's body.

He squeezed the trigger gently. 'Bang', the kick of the weapon was quite violent, but not unbearable. Syzgy stumbled and faltered in his stride, Corrosion helped him up, but Vick put a bullet in his head with surprising accuracy. John fired again at Syzgy and he stopped moving.

Cathode had made a good run up the beach, the mortar round had missed her and she was nearly at the entrance. John wheeled around and fired a shot at her, it hit the ground just next to her ankle.

John was starting to get nervous, suddenly; Gunther turned the corner of the entrance with a minigun and tore Cathode to shreds with it. Her body coming to a halt just a few feet away from the entrance.

Lock came into view as well, and patted Gunther on the shoulder. He said something to him and disappeared back down the entrance. John then looked to his right and saw Rae with a rocket launcher reigning down more explosive hell than the snipers.

The defense the team had was exceptional compared to the shabby, unorganized defense Blood Fist had put up. It made John feel slightly proud when he looked at it. He turned his head back to the beach and starting firing more shots at the opposing team.

Rapier made a charge up the beach, bullet chipping up dirt around his heels. He kept focused and concentrated on getting to the entrance quickly to avoid being killed by the mortar.

The mortar went off, but far behind him. Gunther was the only thing stopping him now. He started firing before he even saw him, so he would have the advantage when they spotted each other.

Gunther's caught the bullet all in the head, making him collapse flat on his back. Rapier advanced into the bunker. 'Red team infiltrated the bunker!' flashed up all over the wrist pads or monitors of every person in the map.

"Shit" Lock said as he read it with astonishment. 'How did he get through our defense?' he said to himself in his head. He ran to check the left tower. He could see why he got through.

As soon as Lock came into the tower, a bullet struck his foot, making him fall on his side. "Ah shit!" Lock said somewhat quietly and looked at John who was also flat on the floor, Vick's body was headless and still getting hit from the enemy who was none the wiser about his death.

More bullets flew in, striking to the tower and showering them in dust. Lock put his head up for a split second. A line of snipers had been formed. Constantly suppressing the towers and the bunkers, and there was no beat in the firing. So there was no opportunity to shoot back when there was a break.

"Go back through the portal, and then wait for while so they think we are gone. Once we've done that, we can jump em', and blow the shit out of those guys! You with me?" Lock shouted at John.

"I'm right next to you man, you don't have to shout." John replied calmly. "Yeah let's do this" he said afterwards.

Lock leapt through the portal first, John followed quickly afterwards. Lock was firing at the entrance rampantly. "Shit! We spent too long! They've broken through!" Lock shouted as he fired a bullet into Mandible's back, killing him.

"C'mon let's go!" Lock said and pushed John through the teleport and into the portal room.

Rae pounded Syzgy's body with lead and he slid down the ramp and landed at Rae's feet. "Need backup!" she called down the radio as she saw Corrosion and Cobalt coming around the corner.

She open fired again, and then crouched slightly. Cobalt tripped and landed flat on his face when coming down the steep ramp. Cobalt opened fire at Rae and hit her in the arm.

Rae ducked back around the corner and held her arm tightly, blood seeped through her fingers. She plucked up courage and turned back around the corner again. Cobalt was literally in her face. He hit the trigger and blasted her down to the floor.

At the very instant, Lock and John came through the slightly elevated doorway and shot Cobalt in the chest and neck, making him collapse in the center of the room.

"One minute remains!" the announcer said. John felt slightly relieved when he heard it. But the relief was short lived. Syzgy, Cathode and Rapier came into the room and killed Lock with their miniguns, John was hit in the shoulder and forced to fall back.

Gunther was running towards the gunfire when John came from around the corner with his shoulder bleeding. "Hey! Hey! Don't go round there we got more comin'! John panted as he ran towards him.

Gunther saw Syzgy coming from around the same corner as John had a few second ago. Gunther couldn't fire without hitting John. Syzgy fired first with his minigun. Gunther was powerless to help as he saw John's armour rip open and blood coat his back.

John's body buckled and landed on the floor, in that instant Gunther opened fire, doing the same to Syzgy. Cathode followed in his footsteps and suffered the same fate.

"30 seconds left." The announcer said. Gunther moved behind a box that was level with his head when he crouched down. He propped his gun up on the box and raised his head so he could just see over it. He wasn't going to move.

Rapier came slowly around the corner. He didn't spot Gunther, but Gunther could see him perfectly. Gunther waited couple more seconds, Rapier spotted him. He had to fire early, I made no difference anyway.

Sparks and oil coated Rapier's body as he fell on his side, leaking his fluids all over the floor making it slippery. "20 seconds" Gunther called for backup, he couldn't take on anymore than two people in this position. He turned his head and looked up the ramp to see if anybody was coming. There wasn't anybody there.

Gunther turned his head and heard the all too familiar sound of an approaching bullet. The bullet burst Gunther's cranium wide open, blood coating the wall behind him. Mandible taunted him.

Blood fist had only 10 seconds left, but they were approaching fast, if they kept up the momentum, they could break through with no problem. "Defensive positions!" Lock ordered via radio. John knew what was happening this time.

He positioned himself on the catwalk in the cavern, his sniper rifle in hand. "5...4...3...2" Mandible's head came over the horizon, john aimed and took it clean off. "1...Blue team is the winner!" the announcer shouted. John let out a long breath. The team teleported back into the stadium.

The crowd didn't seem to be so interested in the special tribute match, there wasn't a huge crowd, but the people who were there cheered anyway.

(a/n) So, there you go, hope you liked it. I enjoyed writing it. Please review! :)