TL: To those who have or have not noticed, I combined both the premise chapter and chapter 2. regardless, heres the next one aka the new chapter 14/15. enjoy
*Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam!
As Thomas continued to lay waste to the clones, another announcement came.
"The unknown type is headed for the solar generator! all units converge there immediately!"
'Crap!' he thought as he swiveled his scope. Sure enough the huge chunk of white was heading for the most dangerous part of the facility. If the generator was destroyed, the energy released would be more than enough to wipe Alaska from the face of the Earth.
'Dammit... I don't have anything with enough firepower to take it out in one hit. Might as well try diverting it's attention...' he thought as he leveled his carbine and fired three rounds at the Nova's "face".
However, the Nova continued on it's path of destruction and just swatted it's "wing", launching seven humanoid forms straight at Thomas.
Thomas aimed his weapon and shot at the targets but the clones dodged them in midair. "Shit!" reloading, Thomas then grabbed a plasma pistol and fired both weapons at the incoming enemies.
*Bam bam bam bam bam bam bam bam bam bam!
Two of the targets were shot down, their bodies veering off course before smashing to the rooftops around him. The other 5 survived the rain of plasma and touched down on the tower Thomas was shooting from.
'They're stronger than the ones down below!' he thought as one swatted away his carbine. He responded with a kick to it's face, sending it to the ground several stories down.
Grabbing a plasma rifle this time, he fired his two weapons, dropping the pistol as the charge count read zero. Another fell to the swath of plasma; it fell off as well- smoke trailing from several holes in it's body.
The fifth tore the rifle from Thomas's hands, hurtling it down the tower, and received a decapitation in exchange.
'hah...hah... crap, I'm gonna run out of weapons at this rate..' Thought Thomas as he engaged the sixth and seventh humanoids with his energy blade. With his back against the railing, he managed to stab one in the chest before suddenly being pulled down.
"FUCK!" realizing that with the absence of his shooting, a few clones had scaled the tower. One in particular had his arm.
"Not on my watch." He said as he plunged the blade into it's face. However, it's hold on him wasn't released. He was pulled down along with it.
"Oh Come On!" He shouted. Grabbing the tower's rail at the last moment, he shook of the dead humanoid, albeit losing the blade.
"Ngrhh" with a grunt, he tried to pull himself up- except the last humanoid on top poised to strike him, along with several others below, their arms reaching out to grab his legs.
'To hell with it...' He released his grip on the rail. As he fell, he threw a plasma grenade-which struck the seventh dead center in the face. - 3 seconds...
"Pressurize to maximum!" he shouted, allowing the voice command to adjust his ballistic layer. - 1 second...
The humanoid nova attempted to remove the plasma burning into it's face. Too late.
The grenade exploded, incinerating the other clones below. Thomas, caught in the shock wave, crashed down to Earth faster. Lying on the ground below, he opened a comm link.
"Control room... This is... West... Genetics... Thomas Shubaltz. ... Sniper... support is...down.." He uttered as he crawled to prop himself up against the tower's wall.
"...Sniper...support is...down.." The voice over the com link said.
"even the sniper was taken out..." uttered the second in command
"A loss indeed lieutenant, although no one would care at the moment. For one, that person is still probably alive. Secondly... " replied Dr. Aoi, as the control room's attention at the moment was on the first Nova. With no fighting force to hold it off, the destruction of the base was assured. At least.. until 5 signals appeared.
The screen focused to reveal Chiffon, Eugene, Satellizer, Rana and Kazuya standing against the unknown type. A sixth joined them - the e-pandora Jiina Purpleton.
/on the battlefield/
Jiina, making the most of her newly acquired pandora skills, jumped across the rooftops. She was following the Nova - the one calling out to her.
*Thump... Thump...
her heart began to beat harder than usual, but she shrugged it off,
*THUMP THUMP
"Grahh!" her heart suddenly contracted, causing her to stop and fall to her knees.
"Gyaahhh!" first her heart, now her mind was being assaulted
"...MAKE IT STOOOPPPP!" she screamed, now lying down, although no one could help her.
then all of a sudden, silence... The pain stopped. Jiina stood up shakily and stared at the Nova
"...no way... Amelia?" she realized "My god.. how could this have happened?!"
The Nova fired a beam - however, it was not aimed at her; instead at a group down below. Which to her surprise dissipated with no serious damage. Taking a closer look, she recognized Kazuya Aoi and one of the pandoras, Chiffon Fairchild.
"I'll fight alone." Chiffon said after activating her weapon, the Anti-Nova, and blocking the beam fired at the group; scattering it around the battlefield with exception to it's target- the solar generator. Unlike other pandoras, her volt weapon covered part of her body, particularly her arms, as well as floating pieces of armor- allowing her to float in midair.
"WAIT!" Jiina shouted as she landed at the ground beside Kazuya and the others. "Chiffon-san, please... that's Amelia... Don't kill her..."
"I can understand how you feel but not everyone can be happy." She said sadly. To protect her fellow allies, she would have to destroy the nova, destroy Amelia. The nova, as if it understood, charged another beam to which Chiffon blocked once more. She responded with a punch to it's armor, cracking it.
"NO!" Jiina shouted as she drew her own volt weapon. however, her feet never left the ground. She crumpled on the floor unconscious as Chiffon materialized behind her, delivering a blow to the back of her neck. Chiffon then turned her attention to the Novalized Amelia, who then fired several beams at Chiffon.
Dodging them with her 'illusion turn', 'It seems, I must also pay a price for stopping you...' Thought Chiffon as she combined the floating parts of her armor into wings and fired her own beams at the nova.
"hah...hah..." Katelyn was tiring, and she knew she wouldn't last much longer. The line was falling, and to make matters worse... there were no signs of reinforcements.
The line had grouped to fire
"Not... Today... I'm not dying today YOU SON OF A BITCH!" she shouted the last words out as she jumped into the air, poised to destroy the core.
"Katelyn, NO!" shouted her squad mate whilst fighting off a clone. but it was too late, the girl was poised to spear the core with her weapon... Only to be swatted away with a tendril.
"Ahhhh!" Katelyn managed to avoid a fatal blow with her weapon; but the force of the blow smashed her through a wall. She stood up shakily and poised to rejoin the fight... before a stray energy beam crashed onto the battlefield, causing the ceiling to cave in and burying her under rubble.
"...I'm... not... done...y...yet..." she managed to word out before passing out. her team could do nothing to help her- they were too busy fighting for their lives. Moments later, another squad came as reinforcements, leveling out the playing field for now...
"...nghhh..." Thomas breathed in and out, easing the pain caused by his injuries. The ballistic layer held, keeping any extra wounds to a minimum. He looked up and saw a humanoid clone limping towards him amid the charred remains of it's companions. He recognized it as the one he kicked down earlier. No surprise it wasn't dead yet. Drawing his last plasma pistol, he squeezed the trigger once, the bolt passing cleanly through it's head. He stood up shakily and looked for his fallen weapons.
"Dammit..." after retrieving them and conducting a quick inspection, his rifle was blackened and cracked- unsafe to use. The carbine as well was no longer functional. The energy blade however, survived the impact- leaving him with a half spent energy blade, an almost full plasma pistol, and two plasma grenades. Not the best loadout he could have for the battle; but it would have to make do.
"I'm not of the fight yet..." he grunted as he stood and limped his way to the battlefield.
TL: well... here's the next chapter, have fun
Feel free to review if you want
dudewithanm4a1: unfortunately I haven't planned any major covenant appearances so far but thanks for giving me the heads up. I've got a few new ideas in store and I'll see where they can fit in :D
Mizuki00: hope there was enough Thomas action for the chapter
the rest of you: as usual , have fun as well and look forward to the next chapter! Ciao
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