Love Struck Delusion
Chapter 224 - No fighting inside the house.
Raptor's POV.
With the grenade going off just above the table, Drake and I hit the floor and began to scramble to the very far edge of the table. Unable to hear a thing with the ringing in our ears, I grabbed him by the arm and dragged our weight forward and into the glass doors; pushing through them in half of a second of the main door being kicked through. Once through and into the safety of the cubicles were we able to focus on what the fuck was happening. Upon looking back through the glass now, I widened my eyes when four men came rushing into the conference room. They were armed but I couldn't make out with what through the glass. With Drake getting his hearing back, he asked with an angry whisper.
"What the hell is going on Voltz!?"
It didn't take long for the men in the room to figure out where we went and seeing them make a break for our door, I reached out to grab him by the back of his shoulder. Drake allowed me to push him away and together we began to move as fast as we could to the other side of the room where I replied.
"I don't know! But this sure as hell wasn't my idea! Are you hurt?!"
With my Glock still in his offhand, Linnen replied while shaking his head.
"I'm okay! But we need to call this in! Surely you have some men nearby!"
Nodding I went to the comm link on my chest to state.
"Voltz to all personal on site of the capital! We're pinned down by unknown assailants and…..?" It took me that long to find out the comms were offline. Static was the only thing that could be heard and with Drake realizing it too I told him.
"Comms are down. What the fuck?"
"What happened to my men?!" He asked in confusion as we heard the doors open. We both shut up at that very moment and hearing footsteps slowly making their way forward, I lifted up my weapon and stared right at Drake as he knew very well we were going to have to fight whatever this was out and together at that.
Stuck behind one of the cubicles together, I used my hand to silently order him to go left. He nodded and quickly got in position as I readied myself on the right. Using the thin walls as cover to hide us from whoever this was coming for our heads, I took a breath and waited.
Zeta's POV.
Everything Raptor requested had been taken care of and the walls were holding just fine now that the riot was nothing more than a parade at best. I had every soldier I passed staring and I'm sure Pepper did as well. In time we regrouped with one another and we also managed to locate Cody who was just standing by the main gate looking out at the cameras. Keeping my sister close, I asked her as we reached each other.
"Everything looks all good. How about you?"
Nodding she replied.
"I didn't see any trouble. Hear anything from Raptor since he went in?"
I shook my head and replied while heading for the capital itself.
"Nah nothing yet. Hopefully he's handling it well. It's hard to see them talking nice to one another."
"Well fuck it then. Let's go see if we can get a front row seat. We're done here and just in case he….?!" Pepper cut off her words as I slammed right into the front door expecting it to move. I bounced right back and questioned.
"Is it locked?"
Now the two of us began to push on it and it was made clear that it was locked up tight. You could hear something on the other side holding it in place. Unsure of what was going on, I went to my comm to try and hail Raptor.
"Raptor it's me. The front door….?"
I widened my eyes as all I got back from the comm was static. Pepper was first to kick it into high gear by stating.
"Comms just don't go down without a reason. Something's going on."
I agreed but even together we had no way of getting through the front door. Looking around the courtyard I began to panic. No one had any idea what was happening and I'm sure Pepper was right. Something's going on and it's not good whatever that is. With Pepper grabbing me by the arm she urged me.
"Let's head around and see if we can get in through there. Come on."
As we jogged around the back Pepper got on her armband and turned on her motion tracker and began to get pings on the inside of the building. However that didn't tell us much considering we knew there were others inside. Raze, Tusk, Blitz, and probably at least a few rebellion troops from what I can imagine. Then there was Linnen's men. As we reached the backside of the building we came to a back entrance which didn't even have a handle to pull from our side.
"Shit." Pepper exhaled as I had an idea enter my mind. Grabbing my cell out from my back pocket, I told her.
"I'm gonna see if I can call his phone. Let's head over there and see if we can get in through the service entrance."
As I hit dial, Pepper ran for the service door to begin pushing. It was locked and with the second and third ring going off I began to worry even more. Then it just cut off. Letting out a sigh I decided enough was enough and told my sister who was probably a second away from shooting the door down.
"Fuck this. I'm not taking any chances."
Looking back at me Pepper watched as I sent the butt of my rifle into one of the many first floor windows. The glass came down and more than a few people around the building heard us do it. By the time I climbed inside we had a few other soldiers following us.
Using all I had I found the nearest exit into the hallways and began to run for the entrance.
Raptor's POV.
"Vrrrrrrrr! Vrrrrrrrr!" My eyes widened as I felt my phone vibrating in my vest. However that wasn't the problem. The problem was everyone could hear it and in less then a second I had bullets being sent through the wall I was hiding behind. It was nothing but cheap plaster so the second the bullets hit it everything just broke. Drake jumped in place as I was now crouched shouting at him.
"Return fire!"
Peeking out from my position, I lined my M1911 up with what I soon discovered to be rebellion troops.
"BANG! BANG! BANG!"
It took more than a few shots to drop the first attacker. The armor was too thick that they were packing. But the second the first soldier toppled over was the last second shit stayed quiet for us. Soon we had suppressed shots showering the cubicles and together Drake and I had to remain down as we heard from deeper in the room.
"Flash out!"
My eyes tried to find the grenade, but among the chaos I was unable to find it in time before it went off blinding both my vision and my hearing. Then with one of my eyes coming back to me, I panicked when one of the soldiers rounded the corner and opened fire on my position.
"Toof! Toof!"
I moved as fast as I could but by the time I got a grip over the target he had already managed to get two shots off into my chest. The vest I wore took most of the punishment and using all my power I tackled him over into one of the other cubicles. For a moment I questioned what was happening. Why were rebellion troops trying to kill me? However in seconds of getting control over my comrade I heard shoots cap off back where Drake was. A mixture of suppressed rounds littered the whole office and now in a struggle to maintain a hold over the man under me, I jumped for my knife and made quick work slashing at his throat. Blood sprayed out onto myself and partly onto a desk and it's neighboring computer. With the man no longer a concern, I picked up his suppressed MP5 and got up to leave the cubicle. Once around the corner, I lined up with two more soldiers who were already aiming at me. I widened my eyes and slipped back inside as their rounds began to tear the office apart around us. Papers flew all around my head and once I heard a break in the fire I ran out to see them reloading.
"Toof! Toof! Toof! Toof! Toof! Toof! Toof!"
Full auto fire was all I needed right now. One of the soldiers I managed to hit jumped out of the way leaving the other to deal with the rest. Dropping the hedgehog in place, I pushed up to reach the one who ran. He struggled to get back on his feet in time and by then he was already too late to react.
"Toof! Toof! Toof! Click!"
With his head snapping back and his blood covering the floor, I tossed the MP5 away as it ran dry and reached back for my M1911. Taking aim back into the main room, I lined up with another man who came around one of the cubicles with his finger already on the trigger opening fire.
"BANG! Toof! Toof! BANG! Toof!"
We both took some hits. I caught one to my right shoulder and he caught one to his neck. By the time I ran out of rounds in my handgun, he had already fallen down and I began looking to my belt for a spare clip.
"Aghhhhh!" My head lost it's focus when at that moment I was tackled from the left side by a bigger looking purple wolf. He slammed me right through a cubicle wall and together we went rolling to the ground. By the time I had a chance to fight back I was already under one of the desks in the office and he was sending down hammer fists. I ate one to my chin and began to block as best as I could. Keeping his pressure on, another soldier rushed in to begin kicking my side. Together they kept me down and once they clearly had the advantage did the wolf shout over the chaos.
"We got him! Get over here!"
Reaching up to grab him by the neck, the wolf returned it to me with another hammer fist to my mouth and skull opening up a large gash just above my right eye and more blood covered my teeth as another soldier came running in to join the attack.
"Get his hands!" His buddy ordered as I struggled now to keep a grip on the wolf. Once I felt my hands slip did my eyes shut to the sounds of more suppressed rounds. Blood splashed my face and the wolf and his friends came down on top of me like bricks. Looking back up from under the bodies, I saw Drake standing a foot out with one of their MP5's in his hands. Unsure if I was okay, he came in to ask.
"You good!?"
Spitting up some blood and beginning to push the dead guy off me, I replied as he reached out with his right hand.
"I'll live!" Drake had me at a loss for why he even bothered to help in the first place. But all that confusion left my mind the second I saw and heard a burst of rounds hit him in the upper part of his chest and lower right leg.
Drake fell right to a knee as I stumbled for my spare magazine once more. The second I got it loaded I widened my eyes as another burst sent Drake down on his back. Using all my speed, I leaned out to open up on another rebellion trooper who was unsure just where I was up till then.
"BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!"
My third round hit him in the skull and as his body fell back into one of the many cubicle walls, I jumped to my feet and moved in to Drake who was at this moment unable to move. Blood oozed down his pants and his vest was torn in the places he had been hit. However more blood could be seen leaving his mouth as he groaned in agony.
"Can you move?!" I asked him as I heard more men break in through the conference door.
Drake didn't really answer and I was left with no choice but to try and move him on my own. Grabbing him by the right hand, I leaned down and began to drag him down towards the very back of the office where I knew there was an exit. The door was of course shut and by then he begged me.
"Hold on Voltz! I can move! Just buy me some time!"
"I don't have the ammo for this!" I replied as I knew I only had a few rounds left in my current mag. Reaching into his vest, Drake handed me another clip and begged again.
"Just a minute!"
Taking the clip from his bloody hand, I nodded and moved a few feet away to get an angle on the area I knew the rest of them were coming from. The second one appeared, I dropped him with the few remaining bullets I had. By the time the receiver slid back, I ducked back behind cover to the sound of more rounds just barely passing me by. Reloading the M1911 I looked back to see Drake grunting with gritted teeth. His eyes were red and I knew why. I just refocused on the main issue and peeked when another break in the fire occurred; lining my sights back with a soldier who was rushing forward to get cover behind a nearby photocopier.
"BANG! BANG! BANG!"
I only managed to hit the machine and sparks began to fy as he leaned out to open fire back on me. The wall I had as cover I gave way too much credit. By the time I decided to move I had taken another round, but this time it hit me in the back. I felt the force slam me forward and as I attempted to move away from the position, I widened my eyes as another round slipped through the soft wall and hit me right in the back of my neck.
"Aghhhh!" Drake who was focused on himself up till now panicked as he heard me yelp. Letting my gun hit the floor, I fell forward grabbing the back of my neck where I felt all the blood coming from. Seeing what had happened, Drake jumped into action and scrambled to get to my side pulling me by the back of my vest and dragging me away from the corner. The pain was enough to get me to question everything I had felt at this point. With the powers Marcus had given me I never really had to feel much come from injury. Now for some reason this hurts. It had to be because the bullet hit me so close to home. It went deep enough to where I could feel it hitting my spine. Doing my best, I used my other hand to grunt and crawl my way towards the exit. Drake made sure to cover my back as I spit up a large chunk of blood onto the carpet.
"Frag out!"
When I heard that being yelled out, I looked back to see a grenade bounce off the wall and right between Drake and I.
"Move!" I screamed at him as I had just enough strength left to roll to the door. However when it went off you felt the floor shake and the ground tremble. The few cubicles that were around us were shredded into pieces and the power of the blast knocked me against the door head first. Again my ears were ringing and with dust and smoke clouding the air, I reopened my eyes to see the few remaining soldiers come around the corner. Their weapons pointed to me as I showed my hands. Instantly I got hit with another spike of pain and had to grab the back of my neck to keep more blood in. With two of them coming right up to me, the last who was standing where Drake once was ordered.
"Knock him out and let's get out of here. Our exit is closing any second now."
"Yes sir." One of them replied as I tried to sit up.
With more blood slowly leaving my mouth, I felt my heart jump out of my chest when all the sudden Drake came out from the shadows to tackle the officer off his guard.
"What the…!?" Drake was more than capable of lifting this guy off his feet and I watched along with the other two men as he slammed him right down onto the now exposed concrete floor. Upon slamming his knuckles into the base of his nose, Drake stood back up and refocused on the other two who raised back up their weapons. I had to do something. Reaching forward, I grabbed the nearest guy by the belt and yanked him down getting both him and his gun to start firing off randomly in all directions.
"You….?!" Wrapping both my arms around his neck I began to squeeze as hard as I could as he managed to get a hold of his knife and started to attempt to stab me. Thankfully he couldn't get anything other than my arm which he drove the blade in as deep as it could go. I held strong and just kept choking. Soon he began to fade and I knew I had done more than enough to see him dead.
But Drake was still opened up by the last trooper who used maybe half his mag to send the venom indulge wolf back to the ground one final time. With the trooper in my arms long gone, I reached to his hip and pulled out his M9 and lifted it up to aim at his back.
"BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!"
Once it was all said and done, I was left with nothing but bodies. I had no energy to move from where I was, but I found enough left to push the guy I choked out off of me. Once the body rolled to my left, I tried to focus on if there was anyone left to worry about. But my senses got nothing back, so I just dropped the M9 to my side and went back to breathing. My neck was still gushing and my head at this point couldn't turn on it's own. I was stuck here as I looked up to see Drake's boots begin to move. Then I heard him grunt and groan. Blood was covering everything around us. Between him and I we could paint half the capital.
As time passed I began to hear more shots. They sounded further in the capital, but I was still not too sure what just happened. Only able to move my eyes, I looked at one of the bodies. He was definitely part of the rebellion and if I had to guess this had to be Archer's handywork. It's the only thing that made sense right now. Fuck if it wasn't perfect timing to try and fuck me like this, but how did they breach?
As the shots continued to go on within the building, I decided enough was enough and I tried to get to work on sealing my neck. Thankfully I had enough practice behind my belt to get this to work and in time the round dislodged from my neck and came out onto my palm. I didn't bother with my shoulder or anything else. I just needed to move. Even if just a little.
"Ughhk! Ughhhhkk!" Coughing up some more leftover blood, I managed to get on my hands and knees and begin crawling my way towards Drake who I was unsure if was still alive at this point. When I got there I saw his eyes were open and he had his right hand on his chest and another on his throat. His breaths were short and it looked bad. He got hit all over and for what? For me?
"Can you hear me Drake?" I asked him as he nodded very very slowly. Looking around to make sure we were alone, I urged him.
"Move your hand. Let me see where you're hit. Come on."
I had to move his hand for him and once I did I saw he had taken four or five to his upper chest and two to his stomach. Some of the wounds weren't bleeding and I'd wager that's from when he used his venom to get moving once prior. Unsure of his neck, I then urged him.
"Let me see it."
His hand moved on it's own and I saw he indeed got one good to his throat. With blood rolling down my face from the beating I took, I tried to grasp his neck after taking out the knife that had been stuck in my arm. His fur was soaked but it didn't matter. I used everything I had to make sure he lived through this. The whole time I stared at my hands as his eyes were looking at mine. He was unsure of what was going on and in no condition to say a word as I soon had the bullet out and in between my fingers. Quickly I tossed the lead aside and used that hand to start patching up his chest and stomach. Halfway through the process he shut his eyes leaving me to wonder if he had died or just passed out from blood loss almost like I was about to do.
Once I had finished I tried to go to comms again.
"Voltz to….ughhhk! Voltz to any rebellion forces in the AO of the capital." Again I got static.
"Fuck it." I groaned as I decided to just sit back down and pin myself along what was left of the wall. Drake remained a foot away from me as I just shut my eyes and tried to regain some strength.
mT Shadow.