Fight for freedom
Chapter 5: No hero
Disclaimer: Do I look like I own the well-known characters?
At dawn Adam stands up and looks over the wall and sees movement before bringing his rifle to his shoulder and fired at the nearest soldier waking everyone up, they grab their weapons and open fire. Smitty fires the field gun into the ranks assaulting them before the ranks retreat.
"They're gonna hit us like that every now and again."
Morning
The senshi walk into the compound and see people going about their normal business and see Adam talking to someone before they walk over to him "what do you want us to do?" Michelle asked.
"Set up hospital in the hall, treat only the ones you can." Adam said.
"What was all that gunfire about?" Mina asked making Adam look at her, "whilst everyone was asleep I was awake, if I hadn't been we'd all be dead." Adam said before he goes back to his position and the senshi go to the south wall where their children from this timeline are, Hotaru looks at her older alternate self as she comes down the steps with her rifle in her hands.
"They're using the buildings as cover."
"I say we flatten the town." Reiko said from the wall "we've only got one field gun on the walls…" Amelia said.
"WE GOT A RIDER!"
Everyone runs to their positions, on the west wall Adam, Smitty and the others on the wall see a messenger "this is the will of his excellency King Endymion of Crystal Tokyo, all rebels occupying the school will leave, you reply?"
"I killed Endymion at the battle of Nerima, so you can go and tell your general to go and fuck himself!" Adam shouted back.
"Very well, no mercy shall be shown."
"Let's give him a help hand in going back, fire the gun." Adam said, Smitty was ready long before what Adam had said and aimed the field gun at the messenger and fired it killing the messenger before Smitty reloads it.
"Can't be." Adam said to himself as he runs to the north wall and sees Endymion standing behind a row of field guns. Adam brings his rifle to his shoulder and fires watching the bullet only to have it shot down.
"EVERYONE DOWN!" he shouted.
Everyone ducks as the enemy field guns fire simultaneously Adam looks at the school and sees the damage done before the guns stop firing and everyone stands up.
"WEST WALL!" someone shouted before Adam runs back to the west wall and stands ready to fire on the ranks charging at them "wait for it!" Smitty shouted as he looked at Adam.
"LET 'EM HAVE IT!"
Everyone on the west wall fires a volley killing everyone in the first rank "FIRE AT WILL!" Adam shouted and they fired simultaneously at the ranks before they fall back as the senshi watch from the east wall.
"RUN YOU CHICKEN SHITS RUN!" someone shouted as they look at the dead and the dying "Smitty, get all our guys together, meeting inside the school in thirty minutes." Adam said before Smitty goes off and tells the rest of the mercenaries, thirty minutes later they all sit in the hall.
"Who was that guy?"
"Thinks mighty big of himself." Smitty added.
"True, it all started at the battle of Nerima, I was in the thick of the action back then. It was the second year of the battle of Nerima; both sides had taken a lot of casualties. We had set-up home at the school." Adam said.
Flashback
Adam stands behind a barricade with some of his brothers and sisters in arms "hand me that sniper rifle." He said before someone hands him the rifle and he brings it to his shoulder and looks through the scope at Endymion before squeezing the trigger. The bullet pierces Endymion's lung and watches as he staggers and Adam fires again and watches the tracer round pierce Endymion's other lung and watches as Endymion falls to the floor.
"Holy hit, he's killed Endymion."
"Get everyone out here." Adam said as someone ran inside as Adam puts down the sniper rifle and grabs a machine gun and loads it before he cocks it as everyone runs out and stands behind the barricade.
"Here they come."
"Wait for it, wait… NOW!" Adam shouted and everyone behind the barricade opens fire slaying the front rank, Adam continues firing at the enemy as they make it to the barricade and soon it turns into hand-to-hand combat.
End flashback
"I remember hearing about that, the hero of Nerima." Smitty said.
"I'm no hero never have been, never will be."
"I don't know about the locals, but I think we can arrange for them to limp back."
"It can be arranged." Adam replied before they go back outside and go back to their positions and clean their weapons, Adam pulls out his knife and his whetstone and begins to sharpen his knife.
"Hey man, can I ask you a question?" Smitty asked.
"Sure."
"You grew up here right?"
"Not really, grew up in a refugee camp, spent three years as a prisoner." Adam replied as he sharpened his knife "relax, everyone I grew up with is dead, as long as I live they still live on."
"Any way, I was thinking about settling down here when this is all over." Smitty replied as Trista walks over to them and throws Adam's sword to him, Smitty watches as Adam catches it and unsheathes it.
"Just like old times." He said as Trista walks away.
"What's with the sword?" Smitty asked making Adam look at him.
"This sword has saved my life on several occasions."
"Really?"
"Yeah, on the scabbard it says cede nullis, Latin for yield to none, and also has several bullet indents in it." Adam replied as he started to sharpen his sword.
Later
The senshi sit around a fire talking amongst themselves, Adam sits at his position with a six-pack of beer beside him "you've developed a little bit of a drinking problem."
"So, whelps to try and forget our situation." Adam replied.
"You don't talk about your past much."
"What's their to talk about, I always knew I was an orphan, practically grew up by myself and saw everyone I knew die." He replied before grabbing a beer and opening it and downs the contents before he moves onto another can and doing the same, Mirai Hotaru walks over to the senshi before sitting beside them.
"What's the situation?" Serena asked.
"Well, we're surrounded on all fronts."
"What do you think the casualty rate will be?" Ami asked and the senshi look at her.
"High."
They all look at Adam as he walks past them into the school and returns half an hour later with a fifty-calibre machine gun and belts of ammunition for it and goes back to his position and sets it up.
"This is like the battle of the Alamo, one hundred and eighty five men making a desperate stand against thousands of Mexican soldiers for thirteen days." Adam said as he finished setting it up.
"What happened?" Smitty asked.
"They were all killed."
"Way to kill the mood Adam."
"What? I'm only telling the truth." Adam replied.
"And when was this battle?" Smitty asked and everyone looked at Adam "Eighteen thirty six."
"That was centuries ago."
"Something like the battle of the Alamo happened to me once, back during the Serenity war I helped to defend a school. The battle lasted for seven days before everyone except me was killed. Seven days of glory." Adam said as he finished off another can.
"What's glory for when you're dead?"
"They were good people that died, my friend Ricky…"
"You knew my cousin?" Smitty replied.
"Ricky was your cousin?"
"Yeah, after the Serenity war ended my family never heard from him." Smitty said, Adam looked at him "I buried him and everyone else myself, after the war ended I went back and gave them all proper gravestones." Adam replied before opening another can.
"You'll have to show me where you buried him sometime."
"That's if we survive this." Adam replied as he stood up and looks out over the wall at the enemy camp.
Authors note: Cede nullis is the motto of the light infantry… R&R