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Battlefield: Konu
Part Four
Hellion Escape – Part One
Sirens blare all around him. Commander Weihan Liang bolts out of bed, eyes wide and alert. Next to him, Nisha groggily wakens and stretches. Chaos all around them – guns blasting, people screaming…someone yelling at Cadet starwars again. He quickly begins packing his bag, preparing for a quick exit. It is one year earlier…his squad has not been formed yet. It is just him and Nisha. She rouses quickly after hearing explosions go off, gets dressed and packs quickly.
They exchange a glance – if this is the last time that they will see each other. Weihan slings both bags over his shoulder and grabs the keys to his Cobra. Nisha grabs two shotguns from the utility closet and they open the door.
Inky blackness, filled with screams from the soldiers. This was it. The total invasion of the two Faction Planets – Hades was the first to fall. Now it is Hellion's turn. As they race down the twisting corridors, they hear the wet slapping footfalls of Sha'Kahr grunts. Pausing to catch their breath, they wait in ambush.
A blur of motion punctuated by two shots later and the purplish grey aliens are dead. This is only a scouting party of two. More are outside, coming in – forcing their way through the waves of defenders at the door. The Faction HQ shakes as a meka is destroyed outside. Just ahead, he can make out the form of Supreme Commander Frizz screaming out orders.
An aftershock from an explosion knocks them down before shards of white-hot metal rip through the air. If they had not fallen down, they would be dead. Looking back, he extends a hand to his girlfriend who takes it. They crawl past bodies of friends, commanders and aliens alike…hoping to get out of the base alive.
As they pass a control hub, they stand and look at the central screens. The images they see chill them to the bone. Smoking husks of Mekas litter the outside soil, hovertanks and their crew being obliterated instantaneously. All through the haze, the Sha'Kahr advance. Bizarre units trudge through shattered wrecks firing an array of brightly coloured beams, torching everything in their path.
One screen goes dark, then another. A sign that they have to leave now. Helping Frizz up, they continue to the underground garage – where their units await. Frizz screams into his headset for a dropship to come down, a garbled scream answers him. Sirens still blare out, now slowly dying out.
The power is failing.
They only have a small window to get out.
The lights go out.
Their window has closed.