Hey, sorry it took so long to get this up. It's been written for a while now, just haven't gotten around to putting it Up. Hopefully you'll like it, and I'll get chapter 6 ASAP.
Chapter 5: Separated*Delta*After they managed to land their helicopter, before it crashed, Tommy, Simon, Samuel, and Tess stepped out of the helicopter. The driver had been killed by a piece of shrapnel, so Tess had managed to land the King Raven.
"Man, can you believe it? Max? Alpha?" Tommy said as he stared towards where Max fell, several miles away.
"I understand Private Nave, but we can't worry about it now. We need to find the place where Alpha crashed. We need to get the resonator." S. Johnson said.
"Well we can't use the K.R., it's totaled." Tess said as she examined the helicopter.
"Damn, this sucks." Simon said angrily.
"Yeah it does private, but there's nothing we can do about it. Luckily the Kryll don't come out over in this region. We should get moving though. The locusts aren't as shy about being here." Samuel told the other troops. The four grabbed their lancers and headed off into the darkness.
*Alpha*
"Argh, my head." Abel said painfully as he crawled out of the partially destroyed helicopter. Amazingly all he had was a huge gash across hisface and some debris stuck into his left arm. He slowly pulled it out, groaning as he did.
"Is anyone still alive?" he called out.
"Yeah, I am." James said as he climbed out. He had his helmet on. A chunk of the upper left of it was missing, and blood was oozing near the opening.
Yeah." Tyler called out sadly, as he dragged the body of Jon out of the helicopter.
"Damn man, Jon?" James said as he took off the rest of his helmet and threw it too the ground.
"We got another one too." Abel said as he pulled the body of the driver out.
"Those motherfuckers killed my best friend. They're going to pay. Come on." Tyler said with anger in his voice as he headed for the partially destroyed door leading out of the room.
"Tyler, I understand that your angry. We're all angry, but you can't just go out charging or you'll die as well. We need to get the resonator and see if it still operating." Abel said calmly.
"Fine." Tyler said sitting down on a piece of rubble.
Abel and James made their way back into the helicopter and managed to get to the resonator. They picked it up and carried it out.
"It seems to be ok." Abel said, examining it. He then picked it up but James took it from him.
"I'll carry it." He said
"Are you sure?" Abel asked him.
"Yeah." He replied.
Abel then helped him put it on his back.
"Ok, we should get out of here. The locusts are stupid, but they'll probably going to check for survivors." Abel said.
Before leaving he went over to the driver ad Jon and pulled of their Cog tags.
"They should be remembered. Lets's go." He called out and they left the room. Moments before the rest of the helicopter caught fire.
*Max*
Max sat up suddenly and a jolt of pain quickly ran thorugh his skull.
"Ah, damn." He said as he rubbed his cranium.
He sat there for a few seconds as he remembered what happened. He remembered seeing his brother's helicopter crash into a building, and Delta's helicopter spinning wildly as he fell. He knew his brother and Alpha were most likely dead. What about Delta? Did they survive, or were they dead as well? How did he, himself, survive a fall from a vehicle hundreds of feet in the air? He stood up, and looked at his surroundings. He stood atop a building, no skyscraper. He had survived because he had only fell a couple of feet. Not enough to even break a bone. He went over to the edge and looked down. There were several lights at the bottom, enough to attract the blindest of insects.
"Shit, that's high!" he said to himself.
As he was about to turn, he saw a lone locusts heading into the building, probably to check for any living beings. The lights probably attracted it to the building. Max was a little confused. Usually they traveled in swarms. It was strange to see just one. He ran over t the door leading into the building, but stopped when he realized something: the only weapon he had was a hunting knife his brother had given him when they were kids.
"Shit.' He said to himself as he debated on what to do. He could stay up there and wait for the locusts to either leave or reach him. But he could be trapped and killed up there. He could go down, risking getting killed as he made his way to the bottom. He decided to go with stealth. He opened the door and went down the stairs. He quickly knelt down beside a wall and looked past the wall. He saw no sign of a locust so he continued to the next floor down. He headed down another eight floors before he heard a deep grunt. Stopping and crouching down beside a wall he saw the locusts about 10 yards from him.
"I guess it's now or never." Max said to himself, and as he took a step toward it, he tripped.
"Crap!" he called out as he hit the floor, in view of the locusts.
"Ground Walker!" it yelled in a deep grumbly voice.
"Crap, crap, crap crap!" he said as he stood up, and dove back behind the wall. Narrowly getting shot. He looked past the wall and saw the locusts start to move towards the wall.
"Die!" it yelled as it shot again.
Max rolled to another wall and jumped in the hole in it. He ran until he was opposite the wall the locust was at. It looked past the wall an was surprised not to see Max there. It panicked and quickly retreated back to the middle of the room, with its back still turned to the person he was hunting. Max saw this as his chance. He quietly crept behind the locust, with his knife in hand. He jumped onto its back and rammed his knife into the base of its neck.
"Die motherfucker!" he yelled as the locust fell to the floor.
He pulled the knife out of its neck and wiped the blade off before re-sheathing it. He sighed and sat down on the ground. His relief was short-lived when he heard several grunts from below. He cursed to himself as he grabbed the lancer from the locust, that it had probably token from a fallen COG. He stood to face the approaching threat.
Chapter end.
Again sorry it took so long. I should have chapter 6 up some time this week.