Fight for freedom
Chapter 7: Life won't wait
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the well-known characters that will appear in this.
Dawn
Adam and Amara in her senshi form clash swords creating sparks and waking up a few people who watch with interest as the friendly battle between Adam and the senshi of Uranus as they catch each other's wrists before Adam puts his feet on Amara's stomach and does a flip over her making Amara drop his sword.
"And I haven't used this in four years." Adam said as he went to pick up his sword.
"Life won't wait."
"I don't have time…" Adam said before an explosion woke everyone up and Adam runs to the north wall and sees smoke coming from a building as Reiko and the others stand beside him. "Tell me, that's not?" Reiko asked.
"Yep, we're royally fucked, I'm thinking of taking my men out and fighting out in the open."
"You do that and you'll all die." Amelia said as Adam started to walk away and grabs his rifle and slings it over his shoulder and stands before his men "what's this all about?" one of them asked.
"They've just freed Serenity, we're going to fight them out in the open."
His men look at each other as Adam walks away and waits by the gate to see if they would follow in which they do "if we're gonna die, we gonna die with our boots on." Smitty said as Adam opens the gate, leads his men outside and they form four ranks and wait, thirty minutes later Endymion's and Serenity's troops meet them head on.
"Well, it's been good knowing you guys."
"Yeah." Another one replied as Adam shouted an order and they load their weapons and pointed them at the enemy before Adam shouted the order to fire and they fire at the enemy "fire at will!" Adam shouted and they fire at different intervals at the enemy ranks even as they go muzzle-to-muzzle and hand top hand for half an hour when the order to fall back is given and everyone runs back inside the school and up to the north wall and return fire as Adam closes the gate and runs up to the wall and they fight for two hours before the enemy retreats and everyone looks around.
"Where is everyone?"
"I told them to go, I'll explain later. Get some men to take down this palisade." Adam replied.
Adam puts down his rifle and takes his jacket and t-shirt off and grabs his knife and starts to cut the ropes holding the palisade together as some of the others help to remove the palisade and puts the pieces of wood to one side and the field guns and other weapons to another side before they start to move the field guns and other weapons and build a barricade around the anti aircraft gun and place a fifty calibre on each side of it.
Elsewhere
The senshi, their children and the rest of the locals stand on the outskirts of town "I'm going." Mirai Hotaru said.
"What about what Adam said?"
"Fuck it." Mirai Hotaru said before she heads back and the others follow her, meanwhile Adam was helping to build a palisade at the west wall before they put a field gun in the middle of the palisade and stack the ammunition for it beside the gun and boxes of ammunition and rations on the wall.
"That should do for now."
"Yeah, but for how long?" Mirai Hotaru said making Adam turn round to see her and the others "you should have gone." Adam replied as he walks down the ramp and grabs his rifle.
"When they come over those walls, be prepared to stand and fight." He said before he climbs over the palisade and goes to stand on the north wall and Mina follows him.
"What's wrong?" Mina asked.
"I'm scared."
"Of what?"
"Dying." Adam replied before continuing, "my lucks running out, that's why I'm scared shitless."
"Luck?"
"I've been lucky to survive the Serenity war and the mercenary war so far." Adam replied.
"Luck has nothing to do with what you've done."
"There's a lot of things I regret doing, if I survive I'll explain." Adam replied, "I've been to hell and back once. Almost died once, we had to stop somewhere to deal with our wounded."
Flashback
Adam sits with his back to a wall with his shirt off whilst people treat the wounded as Adam pulls out a packet of cigarettes, pulls one out and puts it between his lips and lights it before someone comes and takes it from between his lips.
"You know these are bad for you?"
"So? I'm probably going to die anyway. I'm Adam Aino." He replied as the person took away his pack of cigarettes and his lighter and checked his pockets for any cigarettes or lighters.
"I'm Haruka Urashima by the way."
"You got a pair of pliers and a sewing kit?"
"Yes, I'll go get them." Haruka said before she goes and gets the items Adam asked for before returning with the items and Haruka passes Adam the pliers and he places the pliers in the bullet wound in his chest and pulls the bullet out.
"Could you sew the hole back up please?"
"Any particular colour?" Haruka asked as she pulled out a sewing needle and showed Adam the different colours of thread.
"Any colour, as long as this wounds sealed up."
Haruka picks a colour and threads it through the eye of the needle and started to sew the wound up.
End flashback
Adam leaves and goes back to the west wall, grabs a blanket and gets some rest as other people continue to work. He wakes up and sees dead bodies and hears gunfire and screams before he grabs his rifle and runs up the ramp to take up position next to the field gun and opens fire even as the enemy come over the walls making Adam turn it round, load it and fire it into the enemy ranks coming towards him creating a massive hole before he jumps down off the wall and grabs a machine gun and turns round and opens fire killing or wounding the enemy soldiers as they come closer to him when the gun jams.
"SHIT!"
He throws it down and grabs his sword and runs into the enemy hacking and slashing.
Hours later
Adam now covered in blood and with his hands looks around at all the dead including the senshi and his friends before he looks at the floor in front of him before he laughs to himself "just like all those years ago." He muttered to himself before he looks up at Endymion and Serenity standing in front of him, Serenity holding his sword in her hands.
"You fight like a true soldier, to the last."
"If you're going to kill me, just do it." Adam said as Serenity thrust his sword through his lung before pulling it out leaving Adam to bleed to death.
He wakes up and grabs his knife and grabs Smitty.
"Whoa! Calm down."
"Sorry Smitty" Adam replied as he put his knife away and stood up and goes up to the wall and stands next to the field gun "we'll need a fall back spot." Someone said.
"Inside the school, fire from the window and if possible put a field gun in the entrance, there's some shells for a field gun next to the entrance." Adam replied as he looked out.
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