Things moved quickly. Hawk and Eagle loaded up their pulse rifles with a fresh magazine and slotted more grenades into the pump action grenade launcher. Fox and Snake grabbed their weapons and pulled on their armour. Puma sat this one out because of her shoulder injury. HQ took her to the infirmary to patch it up. Cheetah pulled out some magazines for Ryan's Desert Eagle pistol and put them in Ryan's pocket. He then put his hands on Ryan's shoulders.
"Now it's time for you to take part in the fight. I think you can do it." He said.
Ryan looked at him. Cheetah could see the fear in his eyes and he hoped he would overcome it. Ryan was hoping the same thing. Well, I'd better start getting used to this new life and nows as good a time as any, he thought. He loaded a clip into his gun and pulled the slide back to lock in a bullet. Cheetah smiled and collected his own weapons and the group left the room.
The group now stood in front of the gate into the complex facing the street. Hawk and Eagle had tailed off to the top of the wall to get a good shot. Ryan stood terrified behind the group holding his gun limply in his hands.
Cheetah pressed a finger on his ear piece and spoke into his mouth piece.
"HQ, what's the enemy's position?"
"Two hundred metres and closing." HQ replied.
"Check; Hawk, Eagle, what's your status?"
"I got nothing yet Cheet." Hawk replied.
"Me neither." Eagle added.
"Ok," Cheetah looked at the others. "You guys all get that?"
They all nodded. They also had ear and mouth pieces, Ryan had one too.
"Ok people, look sharp." Cheetah said.
HQ sat in front of the super computer at the 3D map of the city. The pack outside were shown in front of the gate and the mass of aliens were shown coming towards the gate quickly, about one hundred metres away. HQ grabbed his headset in fear.
"Here they come!"
The aliens came pelting from everywhere in front of them. The pack leapt forward to repel them, Ryan stayed back not eager to fight. Hawk and Eagle opened fire on the hoard; they guessed that the alien pack was at least twenty five strong. The noise of there pulse rifles was gigantic as the shots rained down on the aliens; five aliens just dropped to the ground and stayed down.
Ryan heard chatter over the radio.
"Let's rock!"
"Fox! Behind you!"
"Damn it! There everywhere!"
Ryan saw the pack in action and it was spectacular. They were jumping around and wielding their weapons at lightning speed. Cheetah picked up an alien by shoving one end of his staff through an alien and then he flung it into a group of aliens, knocking them all over. He then shoved the other end of the staff into one of the downed alien's head and pole vaulted off and whacked an alien that was standing up square in the face, slicing it off. He then twirled his staff around and pulled out his spear. Then he was attacked by three aliens and he began to parry the strikes of all three of them at once.
Ryan looked over at Snake. He was creeping behind an alien. He grabbed it and sliced its throat and dropped it to the ground. Another alien looked around but Snake was all ready behind it and he removed its head in one stroke. And then he was gone in a flash elsewhere. Ryan was amazed.
Suddenly an alien spotted Ryan. It hissed and began to run for him. Ryan gasped and aimed his gun at it, his hands shaking. He turned his head away a bit and squinted ready for the gun to go off. He pulled the trigger. The bullet hit the alien in the leg; because of the Desert Eagle's power it took the leg clean off.
The alien fell to the ground and writhed around. Ryan fired again only he didn't look away this time. He hit the alien square in the chest, this knocked the alien over but it was still alive. Ryan fired until the empty clip dropped from the gun. The alien lay in a pile of its acid blood; it was the head shot that had killed it. Ryan realised that to kill one of these things with a pistol it took a shot to the head.
HQ listened to the radio communication since on the radar the pack and the aliens were mixed.
"Ryan, this is Hawk, good shooting!"
"Thanks."
"Damn! Here come more of them!"
HQ looked at the radar. Surly enough, another twenty or so aliens were arriving on the scene.
"HQ, this is Eagle, are there any more coming?"
"No there's no more on the radar."
"Good- Hey guys…where's Cheetah?"
Hawk and Eagle were firing their pulse rifles to no end on the battle below them. Aliens dropped like flies but they could only shoot so many at once. Eagle went dry and grabbed another clip, Hawk was running low on his clip too but he covered Eagle's ground as best he could. Eagle slammed her clip home, loaded it up and opened fire.
"Hey guys…where's Cheetah?" Eagle said into her mike.
"I dunno, I lost sight of him a few minutes ago." Snake replied.
"Damn!" Eagle said.
Ryan was hiding behind cover. He would occasionally step out and shoot an alien or two. He stepped out now and aimed square at an aliens head. He pulled the trigger and the aliens head exploded in a shower of yellow acid. Ryan shot another alien in the head and ducked back to suddenly find an alien staring him in the face at point blank range.
The alien opened its mouth and the second mouth was poised, ready to strike. Ryan thought fast, he shoved the barrel of his Desert Eagle pistol into its mouth and pressed against it hard.
"Suck on this." He said and pulled the trigger.
The alien was flung away from Ryan and landed on its back, dead. But acid from its head splashed onto Ryan's leg. He screamed, the pain was immense as it ate away at his skin. He stood up and he swayed from the lack of strength in his leg. He hobbled to the gate and rested inside a small indent in the wall.
Suddenly a voice came over the radio.
"Everyone this is Cheetah."
"Cheetah where the hell are you?"
"I'm coming and I've got a plan. There's a whole more horde of them about fifty metres ahead of me. Now I'm going to lead them to the gate to the rest of them; when I say 'Now!' Hawk, Eagle, I want you to blow them off the face of the Earth."
"Rodger that Cheetah." Hawk replied.
"Now Ryan," Cheetah went on, "I need you to watch my back as I lead them there. Where are you?"
"I'm resting against the gate. One of those bastards bled on my leg." Ryan said.
"Ok can you see the whole battle ground?"
"Yep."
"Ok, when I come running around the corner I want you to shoot any of them that get close to me, clear?"
"Clear." Ryan winced.
Ryan looked around the corner. Cheetah came running around the street corner and soon after about fifty aliens came pelting around. An alien leapt at Cheetah, Ryan aimed and fired. He hit it in the chest and knocked it back. Cheetah had reached the centre of the battle and was still going strong. Snake and Fox pulled out and dived for safety. Cheetah was about five metres from Ryan when he grabbed his mike.
"Now!" he yelled.
"Fire in the hole!" Hawk bellowed and pumped the grenade launcher on the pulse rifle. Eagle did the same. Then they both fired.