Chapter 16: Death in the Hanger Bay:

It only took them a short while till they finally reached the hanger bay, which was now as bad as the fighting they had just endured outside the base. When they first entered the hanger bay, Sora had a laser blast fly right past his ear, before he, could yell, "HIT THE DIRT!" and that laser hit two privates standing behind him, and each flew backwards and landed next to the wall of the hallway. Sora got to the floor as fast as he could, and then crawled to the nearest shelter from the shots; which was a couple of parked Humvee-like vehicles with guns on the back and top. His team, split up and went behind different vehicles, for cover as well, but one private tripped and had holes appear in him before he even landed on the floor, dead.

As Sora looked over his side he could see several dead buddies on the ground of the hanger bay, most of which were both Confederates and Federation. He could not bear to look at the lifeless bodies of those, theirs eyes still open wide, showing the pain and anguish that was in their eyes. He looked away and saw someone who was lying nearby, next to the wall, and to his great surprise, the guy was still breathing, but he had some serous wounds to the chest and his left arm. As Sora got a closer to the guy, he gasped, and then ran toward the person, at great speed and then started carrying him back to the safety behind the vehicle, before the laser machine gunners could spot him.

"FIRE, FIRE DAMN IT!" A private yelled, as his fellow soldier got shot several times in the chest.

"I NEED AMMO!" Another private yelled.

Finally he placed the guy down so he was leaning against the vehicle. Sora then through tear filled eyes yelled, "DAMN IT RIKU, ARE U OK?" He shook Riku, who was now acting like a lifeless body. "COME ON RIKU, DON'T DIE ON ME, DAMN IT!" and he pulled out a box that was marked with the medical sign on it. "JUST HANG ON MAN, JUST HANG ON!" and he opened it, and pulled out a spray like bottle which was marked with a sign saying spray for repairs to cuts and any type injuries. He quickly sprayed it all over the wounds that riku had.

"GOD DAMN IT, THIS IS SUICIDE MAN!" another private yelled in the back of a vehicle, before he ran toward one of his fallen comrades to apply some of the medical supplies to the soldier.

The spray, to Sora's surprise, began to heal the all the wounds in an instance and soon, Riku only looked like a guy who got hit by tomatoes, instead of energy rounds. "Ughhh," Riku moaned, before he began to come to.

"OH THANK GOD," Sora and he wiped away his tears before hugging Riku tight.

"OUCH, man calm down, its not like I'm dead you know!" Riku yelled before he pushed off Sora. "I'm not gay either so don't get any other crazy ideas, got it, man?" Riku said as he got out his pistol.

"Yeah, I know, sorry man, just I thought u were, man," Sora said as he let go of Riku.

"Well, I'm not am I?" Riku said back, "besides we got bigger problems, it seems," Riku continued.

"What?" Sora, said, still too gratefully to see his best friend still alive, to notice that his team was almost getting slaughtered while still engaged in the battle for the hanger bay. (The team had only lasted this long because of the medical supplies they raided, from the enemy's sick bay)

"ARRRGGGHHHH!" the yell from a private as he got shot in the leg and had to be dragged by a fellow soldier (who was still shooting off his Rifle) to behind a vehicle. That yell finally snapped Sora out of his daze, and got him back to reality, that was happening around him.

"OH, HOLY SHIT!" Sora yelled as he saw what was becoming of his team. Then as he tried to stand up, Riku pulled him back down as quickly.

"ARE U FUCKING CRAZY MAN, THERE ARE THREE LASER MACHINE GUNS GOING OFF ON US, YOU'LL BE LUCKY IF THEY DON'T HIT U IN THE HEAD TWICE OR SOMTHING!" Riku yelled as he finally got Sora down.

"DAMN, WERE PINNED THEN," Sora said with great anger, "UNLESS!" Sora's eye lit up, as he stared at the turrets on the enemy vehicles.

Riku looked toward the direction that Sora was looking at and saw what sora saw. "AHH, THAT WE CAN USE!" Riku concluded.

"OK THEN, HERES THE PLAN, U PROVIDE COVER FIR, WHILE I'LL CLIMB UP ONTO THE TURRENT, AND FIRE ON ALL THE THREE OF THE ENEMY POSITIONS." Sora proposed.

"WELL OK THEN, I'LL COVER YOUR ASS, BUT DON'T EXPECT ME TO SAVE YOUR ASS IF YOU GE INTO TROUBLE," Riku said.

"I'm not," Sora said back calmly now.

As Sora slowly got up he saw that now more of the federation forces troops began to come through the hanger bay door. "JUST WHAT THIS PLACE NEEDED, REINFORCEM- ARRGGGGHH!" a private yelled as he discharged his SMG at the enemy gun position, only to get shot several times into the chest and arms.

"K, GO NOW!" Riku yelled as he got up quickly and shot 5 rounds at the enemy gunners.

Sora got up quickly climbed onto the vehicles back, and into the gunner's seat. He then looked at the controls, and their were a lot of buttons. "AWW CRAP, WHICH ONE POWERS THIS THING UP!" Sora yelled as he tried to look at the buttons.

"JUST PUSH RANDOM NUMBERS DAMN IT!" Riku yelled as he fired another two rounds at the gunners' location.

Sora then began pushing random buttons and kept going, "DAMN IT, ONE OF THESE WORK DAMN IT, WORK!" Sora cursed.

Riku finally ran out of rounds and then climbed to the seat where sora was. He looked then saw a big shiny button that said "power up". "DAMN IT SORA, U NUMBSKULL, CAN'T U SEE THE BIG SHINY BUTTON THERE!" Riku pointed as he smacked Sora behind the head with his other hand.

"OHHH, OUCH MAN!" Sora said as he pushed the power up button. The gun powered up and began to load in the first chain of energy clips. That got the attention of the machine gunners, and they began to slowly move their guns (which were still firing) toward the vehicle both sora and riku were in.

"SHOOT MAN, WHAT ARE U WAITING FOR, THE GRASS TO GROW?" Riku yelled at sora.

"THE AMMO STILL LOADING MAN, THIS SUCKS!" Sora yelled back.

The machine gun rounds were now 12 meters away from the vehicle.

Finally the ammo loaded, and the sound of a click, as the ammo became ready to fire.

"SHOOTT NOW DAMN IT, SHOOTT!" Riku yelled.

"GOT IT, I GOT IT!" Sora yelled and he grabbed the two gunner trigger controls and pulled both the triggers.

Over 100 laser round went at the locations the gunners were positioned. All the gunners were shot up, and they all fell in a heap.

"Okay now sora, u can let go of the trigger," riku said to sora, which was still shooting like heck. "Sora u can stop now," riku said again, and then finally when sora did not, riku smacked sora over the head again.

"OWWW, ohh sorry man, forgot that they were dead," Sora said, and as he stopped firing.