"March! TO WAR!" Speaking
"With the strength of 300 Spartans!" Communications.
'THIS IS ATLAS!' Thinking.
Scolded by JBallinR12
Destiny III
"So why are you three here again?" General Orchid ask again, she now sits in a bullhead heading over to the docks to boost moral with some Atlas soldiers acting as her 'bodyguards'.
"General we are here under the orders of General Ironwood for your protection, he insisted that we Specialists should stay by your side in this fight ma'am," The soldier opposite from her explains.
"And who are you?" She asks.
"Specialist Clark Williams General Orchid," Clark introduces himself with a salute.
Clack is 6 feet tall, weighting at 220 pounds he is a brutal man once it comes to war. He gives his enemies no mercy, making sure all of his enemies are eliminated before a mission done. He is a light brown skinned man with brown eyes and black hair. He wears a white trench coat over a white vest, dark blue under shirt, red tie, and white dress pants with silver dress shoes. Truly a Specialist's appeal.
Armed with Twin Kukris daggers hidden in his trench coat, he also keeps an Atlas standard Pistol by his hip just for ranged attacks.
Orchid nods her head and looks to the man next to him,
"Scarecrow," He mumbles with no emotion, scanning outside the bullhead for enemies.
Scarecrow is 6,4 feet tall, 110 lbs, slightly muscular with slightly tanned skin he looks to be the weapons specialist of the three. He hears a more armored version of the Atlas uniform, he wears black knee pads and elbow pads with armor covering his forearms. His chest piece slightly thicker to resist more damage, at his hip is a holster carrying a USP-45. Scarecrow's helmet covers his whole face, not like the standard helmet that keeps the mouth exposed, it is white a sliver with an x-like visor, which glows blue, that makes him see through the helmet. Leaning against his seat is a M-14 EBR in a white and blue camo. Both weapons have silencers to provide more accurate shots with the cost of damage, but damage won't matter if one takes a bullet to the skull.
On his waist is several Flashbangs, grenades, and a satchel carrying claymores, on his right shoulder is the symbol of a dark creature with angry eyes and a sewn mouth, representing a scarecrow.
"Okay, and you?" Orchid asks and looks to the last Specialist.
"Specialist Jason Spartan, but people call me Chief General," Chief introduces himself with a friendly two fingered salute.
Jason is a wolf faunus with just ears, these ears pop out of his blond hair, he has blue eyes and white skin. At his lap is a white helmet that covers his hole face with one large visor glowing blue just like Scarecrow's. His suit is rather thick and bulky with white armor and black under armor at his joints so he moves faster, he also has black finger-less gloves. At his hip is a strange black handle that is meant to be held sideways. On his left forearm is a large white rectangular box. On his right shoulder is a symbol of a burning skull with 'ATLAS' under it with the Atlas symbol behind the skull.
"Okay Chief, Scarecrow, and Clark, change of plans, I need troops on the front line to hold back the White Fang so the civilians can evacuate. I'm sending you three on your fronts," She explains.
"But General, we have orders to protect you," Jason warns.
"Well there will be no one to protect if we lose our front lines, My forces are spread out thin trying to hold the city and I need Atlas Support," General points out.
Jason sighs and looks out the bullhead as he zooms past buildings with gunfire and explosions down below, "Of course General, where do you need us,"
"Good, Scarecrow I need you on the west flank in the Commercial district, Clark you're on the east flank in the Agriculture District, and Chief I need you on the front line in the Residential District, the pilot will take you there after I depart," Orchid explains.
"Solid," Scarecrow mumbles and picks up his EBR.
"As you wish," Clark nods his head while Jason puts on his helmet.
"Hud Online," He says as the bullhead lands in the docks.
The General dismounts and the bullhead takes off again, General Orchid looks around to find many White Fang Bodies scattered around the docks with Atlas and Vale soldiers securing the area.
A man walks up to General Orchid, it's Moroz, "General Orchid the Docks are secured with the White Fang threat eliminated," He reports.
"Good work Frosty," She praises, and notices a familiar face talking to a woman near a medical tent.
"General?" Frosty asks as she passes him and walks to someone.
"REY!" She screams as she stomps toward her friend.
Rey slightly jumps and looks at her, his eyes widen at her approach, "Oh General Orchid, such a surprise seeing you here ha ha," He laughs nervously while scratching his head sheepishly.
"Rey why haven't you evacuated yet!? Don't tell me you're here to fight, you are in no shape to fight, with the shrapnel near your heart you could die by tripping or something!" She scolds with her hands at her hips.
Reap chuckles nervously again, "Well you're not wrong," He mumbles.
"Unbelievable, Rey you have to leave, I can't have you in the field you're wounded," She says.
"General that was months ago, I'm fully recovered with the heart of an Ox, I swear nothing bad will happen to me I promise," He assure and does a few jumping-jacks to shows he's healthy.
"Rey..." She grumbles, glaring at him.
"Besides I got Fallen here to back me up, isn't that right Noah?" Rey jokes and looks to the man besides him.
"What? Hey don't bring me into this!" The man besides him exclaims and takes a step back with his hands up.
"And who might you be?" Orchid asks grimly.
"Noah Sterben General, gun-for-hire," He introduces himself.
Fallen is 26 years old, 5 foot 9, weighing at 168 lbs, he is the cautious type that always expects the worse so he takes it slow. Fallen wears a black skin tight suit that has armor plating around it, on his shoulder is his symbol of a black orb with four white wings hugging the orb.. His helmet covers his whole head with only several blue glowing lines to act as visors for him. On his back is a .50 cal BMG sniper rifle with a black camo with a scope. Even though his helmet can provide an hologram scope, he doesn't like the look of the rifle without a real one.
At his hips are two holsters carrying two M1911's. Under his BMG on his back are two arming swords with black hilts and silver blades. He also has several throwing knives placed in specific locations just so he can throw them easily.
"You swear you'll keep an eye on him...Sterben?" The General asks.
"W-what I just wanted to make some money not to-" He rants but Orchid glares at him.
"Yes...I'll watch over him," He gives in.
"Good, what happened to Ashley?" She asks.
"Ashley went to the store to pick up her gear, actually I should head over there now," Rey explains.
"Fine Rey, get over there, just stay safe," She gives in.
"Thanks boss, let's go Noah," Rey nods his head and pulls out his Five-Seven Pistol.
"Isn't that in the Commercial district?" Noah asks as he runs after Rey.
Orchid's eyes widen in shock as she realizes he's going to the front lines, "REY!" She yells with fire in her eyes.
Residential District
Specialist Jason 'Chief' Spartan
"Sorry Specialist I can't go any lower than this, LZ to hot, but I can drop you off a block from here," The Pilot suggests.
Jason looks at her and shacks his head, "Negative, I'll jump," He assures and gets off his seat and leans out the bullhead.
"What?!" She yells.
"Don't worry I'm a Professional," He assures and jumps down, he was trained to fall from higher attitudes before.
"Specialist!" She calls and tries to go spin the bullhead around to see him but Clark sighs.
"Leave him be Pilot, he knows what's he doing, just get us to the next drop point if you don't mind," He suggests.
"O-of course sir, right away," She says and the bullhead moves on to the next location.
With Chief, dropping from a bullhead that was around 100 yards in the air. He only looks at the approaching ground with winds blowing against him. When he hits the ground he makes a small crater on impact, rubble flies everywhere as he stands up. The only reason why he survived the fall was because of his suit, custom made by Atlas for him to fall as high as the Atmosphere and walk it off without a scratch...in theory. They never actually made it to the Atmosphere before, but with some tests with some Human duds they ended up...surviving...the fall to some degree. To a degree that'll they live to see the other day.
Anyway Chief gets up from the crater and looks in front of him. Vale and Atlas soldiers holding a gateway. Behind Jason is a the homes of Vale's citizens, in front of him, the only way in. He slowly walks toward the gate as the soldiers ahead fight this enemy, with each step the sounds of war fill his head.
"They just keep coming!"
"I'm reloading, cover me,"
"Shit, my gun's overheating,"
"COME GET SOME!"
He hears the soldiers yell at each other as he makes his approach. One Atlas soldier turns around and slightly jumps from Jason's sudden experience.
"It's the Chief!" He says and salutes him.
Some soldiers turn around but other soldiers keep on fighting.
"No way, Chief glad to have you," The current Atlas officer greets Jason with a salute.
"What's the situation?" Jason asks as he pulls out his strange hilt with the word "Unending" carved into it.
"Sir we have Grimm hoards hammering our position, luckily the walls are too high for them to jump across, but the Grimm got smart and started to charge the gate. We're at a bottleneck position but the hoards get harder to kill by the wave, Vale soldiers are running low on ammo and our boys are overcharging their rifles,"
"What about the Paladins? The Knights?" He asks.
"Sir you didn't hear? Someone hacked into the system and turned our bots against us. We disabled our Paladin before it could kill us, but we loss many troops from it,"
"We're clear!" He hears and looks behind the officer. He looks through the gate to find only a large black smoke blinding him from whatever is out there.
"A shame, open the gates I'm going out there," Jason orders.
"Sir what? That's suicide, the moment you step out that gate you'll be torn apart," The Officer warns.
This is when they hear something crashing from the skies, they turn around and find a burning jet falling toward them.
"This is Rouge 1, I'm hit and losing control, Mayday Mayday, Rouge 1 is hit-" The Vale Radio relays as the jet flies past the gatehouse and crashes outside the wall. The soldiers flinch from the explosion and watch as a large fireball climbs to the heavens.
The moral of the soldiers drops from the loss of another Pilot.
"Rouge 1 do you copy?! Rouge 1 respond, I repeat, Rouge 1 respond," A Vale soldiers calls the pilot with his radio but only gets static.
"Soldier, open the gate," Jason orders.
"Sir but why, you can't go out there!" He pleas but Jason only walks past him.
"I'm going to recover the body, close the gate behind me, and don't open it again till I return with the body," He explains as he walks in front of the closed gate and waits.
"Sir that crash looks to be in the central park, that's more than 200 meters away from here. On top of that we have no one to back you up if you get in trouble. Also Grimm will be on your tail the whole time. Sir please, don't go out there," The Officer pleas.
Jason ignores him and looks at a Vale soldier inside the gate's control room, "Open the gate,"
The Vale soldier looks to Jason then back to the others, who are all watching him, waiting for him to make a move.
"Open the gate soldier, that's an order from your superior," Jason orders firmly.
Having no other option, the Vale soldier pushes a button and the gate slowly rises from the ground.
Everyone watches in silence as the gate rises then Jason walks into enemy territory.
"Be careful Specialist," Someone mumbles as the gates closes behind him.
Agriculture District
Specialist Clark Williams
"Thanks for the ride, good luck Scarecrow," Clark taps the side of the bullhead as it lifts off, leaving Clark in a farmer's compound that is temporary acting as a Vale outpost. The farm is what one would expect, a house for the farmers, a barn for the animals, a shack for the tools, and long stretches of land for the food. The barn is the farthest building into the front lines, the rest is just land. Vale soldiers are using their mental suffering to call the Grimm hoards toward them so they don't flank around them and charge deeper into the district. It has been working out so far, with Atlas Air support the Nevermore and Griffins can't touch them, all they have to worry about is the charging Ursai and Beewolves. Those two are the footmen of the Grimm hoards, breaking down the front lines so when the big Grimm creatures show up, Vale with fall.
Thanks to the Farmer's initial defenses of barbed wire around the compound, Vale soldiers used it to form the front lines in the district. It helps because they are big enough to tangle the Grimm in it, giving the soldiers some easy kills to trim down the hoard. The current unit holding the barn is only a small squad of 5 riflemen and 5 auto-riflemen. Clark can see the many magazines and casings on the ground as he approaches the barn, they've been fighting for a long time now.
One riflemen sees Clark and he sighs in relief, "Guys is a specialist! We finally got our backup!" He reports as he stands up and salutes Clark.
"Soldier what's the status of your unit?" Clark gets straight to the point.
"Sir we're running down to our sidearms here and we lost our armor," He reports and points to a blown up APC with large claw marks on it. The .50 cal machine gun is destroyed with its wheels mostly aired out.
"I see, then all we can do is call in for more ammunition," He says.
"That's just the problem sir, our initial position was 100 yards from the barn, just on top of that hilltop in front of us over there. On our retreat we lost our officer, and 10 others. One of those soldiers has the comms unit, that was our only way of calling HQ," The soldier explains, looking at a wide hill in the distance.
Clark rubs his chin, "Then we must get back that radio, we have no other options on the table and the Grimm won't wait for us to get a resupply. We either die or get that radio," He plans.
"Sir I couldn't of said it any better, but we're not cut out for the charge. Most of us got hit on the retreat while others don't even have the moral to even pop their heads out of the barn. The Grimm keep pinning us down in the barn, it's almost the end of us here," He warns.
Clark only shakes his head, "Then I'll handle it, you just get the others ready for another wave. As one man I can sneak past the Grimm hoard if their focuses on the barn," He orders.
The soldier wants to try to persuade him into another plan but Clark looks determined to fight on his own terms, "Y-Yes sir," He assures and runs to the barn and starts barking orders to ready the men.
Clark looks at the hill and realizes that he can't sneak across a 100 yard stretch of land with no cover with hide him with, he needs to charge the hoard head on. The challenge excites him and he actually likes it, he pulls out his Atlas pistol with his right hand and one of his daggers with his other hand. 100 yards is how far the radio is, and in that 100 yards is a pack of Beawulves and Ursai. That grunt was right, it's a suicide mission...a textbook suicide mission.
Williams smirks and lowers himself to the ground to ready himself for what could be the longest 100 yards he ever ran in his entire life. Time seems to slow down for him as he readies himself for his big moment.
'100 yards, just 100 yards, kill everything in front of you and you'll be alright. Just get the radio and get back to the barn, get the radio then back to the barn,' He readies himself as he clears his mind so he can only hear himself breathing.
Inhale
Exhale
Inhale
Exhale
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"HOORAH!" He screams his war cry as he runs toward the big hill.
As he past the barn, he can tell that the soldiers are watching, "Cover the Specialist! Weapons FREE!" He hears as an approaching pack of Beowolves are gun down but the soldiers. For the first 30 yards the soldiers covered him with no problems, but as he moved further out it became harder to keep his six covered.
In sync, Clark watches as flanking Grimm as shot down, leaving him only with the Grimm in front of him. He starts his dance of death by throwing his blade at the Beowulf in front of him. The dagger flies through the air like a boom-a-rang and slices the top half of its head clean off. The wolf bursts into smoke and Clark sprints right through it with his pistol raised in front of him.
The second he sees an enemy he pulled the trigger,
BANG
A Ursa drops to the ground and Clark jumps over it, just to have his dagger soar right under him as it tries to return to its master. He rolls when he lands and stabs another beowulf in the chest then shoots it with the barrel of the pistol just below its chin.
That all was just another 20 yards with 50 more to go, Clark keeps a move on and runs 30 yards just shooting his enemies in the head. Making every shot count because if he didn't, he would die instantly. The heat of battle is putting a lot of pressure on Clark but lucky training has put him cool as ice under pressure.
Bang
Bang
Bang
20 yards past and Clark finally makes it to the hill top, but he doesn't notice that during those 20 yards, Grimm reinforcements never came. Clark searches the bodies quickly, ignoring how mutated the bodies were and how some were torn into two, ripped open like a cardboard box. or simply in pieces scattered all over the hill.
Clark finds the radio man dead at the tree on the hilltop, back against the tree bark. He quickly loots the dead solder for the radio and finds it in his hand. After a few moments of struggling with its stiff hand, he takes the radio and looks back at the barn.
"I got it...now all I have to do is get back to the barn," He mumbles to himself but the sounds of a mechanized beast puts him on guard.
He takes cover behind the tree and peeks his head out of cover, his eyes widen to find several White Fang occupied Paladins walking toward the hill with infantry walking behind them. It clicks in his head that they're going to bombard the Barn so the Grimm can charge deeper into the district. With no other choice he makes a break for the barn while he turns on the radio.
"GET OUT OF THE BARN!" He yells into the radio as he runs down the valley of crops.
All he gets is static, he tries to wave at the soldiers in the barn but gets no response.
"Enemy paladins inbound! Get out of the BARN!" He orders again and grits his teeth as he goes into an all-out sprint to warn the others before it is too late.
He can see the soldiers in the barn waving at him but he only yells at them again, "White FANG INBOUND!" He tries to yell but the sounds of rockets silence his warning. The night sky brightens from the swarm of rockets clouding the heavens, this finally gives the Vale soldiers the warning and they begin to abandon the barn, but they were too late.
"NO!" Clark yells as he reaches out to the barn as 50 rockets bombard the barn, the explosion creates a shockwave so powerful that it pushes Clark off his feet and on his back. He lands on the dirt hard and air escapes his lungs as a ringing sound fills his ears. He failed to warn the others in time and now they are all blown to bits. As he lies on the dirt, his vision blurs and the only thing he can see is the fire ball that ended the lives of many Vale soldiers, can gave Vale only another entrance for the grand assault.
Amity Fly-zone 10 minutes earlier
Atlas Computer Specialist Gizmo
"Sir it seems that the only rouge airship is the AAS Indigo, the White Fang must of got the prisoners out and they assumed the ship's command," Gizmo reports as the Atlas Dropship flies toward the AAS Indigo with General Ironwood's ship flying right beside them.
"Then we must eliminate the threat ASAP, Sargent, breach from docking bay Sierra and clear out this threat. The Knights and I will land in docking bay Alpha and push our way to the bridge in the meantime," He hears Ironwood order on the comms.
"Affirmative sir, the men and I will regroup with you once we're done clearing out the White Fang," Gizmo assures as he watches a flaming bullhead fly past them with a Nevermore on its tail, another lost for the Atlas Military.
Gizmo punches the closest wall to him, "Damn it," He mumbles, whoever took over the ship has killed many Atlas soldiers and civilians. He vows to avenge their deaths by retaking the skies, starting with the AAS Indigo.
A minute later from flying Gizmo hears an alarm from his hud, it shows a black queen chest piece and videos of Knights and Paladins turning red then attacking friendly troops. The impossible was yet again made into a reality and Gizmo immediately calls Ironwood," Sir the Knights there-" He starts but he watches as the General's ship explodes and starts to loose altitude.
The pilot and the men on the ship watch as their General crash toward the ground, as it falls out of site, Gizmo feels rage take over his body, "Those bastards!" He yells and looks behind him.
Five Atlas soldiers look at him with fear, they just lost their highest ranking officer and they look to Gizmo for answers, he's the only officer present in the ship, "Gizmo...what is your orders?" One soldier asks.
The ship is filled with silence as the 'death' of General Ironwood sinks in but it doesn't take long before Gizmo takes the initiative, "Men, we are taking that damn Airship down, those were HIS last orders and we will complete them. Pilot get us to the designated docking bay, men, get ready for combat," He orders as he picks up his M134 minigun resting on a custom stand just for his gun.
"Hoorah!" The men yell as the dropship invades the docking bay, Sierra. Filled with determination they will avenge their General's death and kill whoever stands in their way.
Entering the docking bay, they can already see other bullheads with the White Fang emblem as they land. When they land, White Fang sentries call in the retaliation of Atlas troops.
The squad of six men storm the docking bay with the soldiers already firing at the white fang units calling in their invasion. The docking bay sounds an alarm as the white fang soldiers are eliminated from the small firefight. The pilot pulls out her magnum and follows Gizmo off the dropship. With the docking bay cleared, she jogs across the docking bay to reach some stairs to get to a control room.
The squad all stack up on the second floor of the docking bay right next to a door that leads into the airship. Gizmo walks in front of the door then looks at the pilot.
"You stay here, you are our only way out once we blow this ship from the inside," He orders.
"Yes sir, I'll make sure the white fang don't send in more reinforcements," She assures and presses some buttons on the console of the control room, it closes down the docking bay by trapping the room from the rest of the world with a steel hanger gate. She repeats this with the rest of the docking bays so they Airship can't deploy or receive any more bullheads or dropships.
Gizmo nods and looks back at the door then raises his minigun at the door, "Open it," He whispers and a soldier hugging the wall goes to the keypad next to him and punches in a six-digit code.
The door opens with a satisfying beep and the door opens by sliding upward, instantly Gizmo spots White Fang infantry waiting for him in the hallway in front of him and he opens spins up his minigun. He can see the fear in the soldiers eyes as the points his weapon of death at them.
"JUGGERNAUT!" He hears as he watches four tangos run for the other door at the end of the hall.
In a flash the minigun sprays a load of dust bullets at the soldiers, casing fall from the gun as bullets either hit a wall or a body. He makes one single strafe attack and one by one the soldier fall to the ground dead with their blood painting the walls or the floor beneath them.
Gizmo walks down the hallway for a few steps then the squad behind him starts flooding in to assist him.
'That's one room cleared, a whole airship to go,' Gizmo jokes as he steps in another room and repeats the incident of the hallway all over again.
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Room by room Gizmo and his team cleared out the Airship, they didn't know how many White Fang units were in this ship but it was enough to take this ship out. It didn't take long as the white fang soldier ended up like the dead Atlas crew of the ship. Now the squad is just in front of the bridge's entrance, stacking up on the door same as they did in every room they have cleared, but this room is different, it's the final room they have to clear to capture the ship. Gizmo stands in front of the door for a few moments to calm his nerves then he takes a step forward, but a voice makes him freeze.
"Little Red, you came to save the day once again oh aren't you just a hero this kingdom needs," He hears a voice, a voice of a man he can't forget. Roman Torchwick, that bastard,
'So you are the one that took over the ship...this is going to be fun,' Gizmo jokes and he points to the door, commanding the others to breach with him.
The solders quickly run past him and they breach the room with rifles raised, "Freeze! Drop your weapons and get on the ground!" The soldiers bark orders as they find three people in the bridge, surrounded with the dead bodies of the officers that once commanded the ship.
Roman raises his hands teasingly as he looks at the woman at his side, who is Neo with her weapon drawn, pointing at the last person...Ruby, "Oh the cavalry finally arrived," He jokes, but he slowly starts to walk backwards toward an open window.
"Roman it's over! Surrender now or we will shoot you!" Gizmo orders as he aims his minigun at Roman.
Torchwick only smirks and looks at Ruby, waiting for him to make a move, "Sorry Red but it seems it's our time to leave, Neo," He calls to his partner in crime.
"Not so fast!" Gizmo yells and spins up his minigun then fires at the two.
Ruby takes cover as the bullets fly, but Gizmo's actions were in vain as Neo covers the two with her umbrella. The other soldiers are firing at her too but they can't get a shot on Torchwick.
"TORCHWICK!" Gizmo calls as the two jump out of the window with Roman smiling brightly of his grand escape. The men run to the window to find Roman and Neo free falling from the Airship, but they won't die because they are wearing parachutes.
"DROP YOUR WEAPON!" He hears and turns to find two of his men pointing their rifles at Ruby, who is scared out of her mind.
Gizmo puts down his minigun, which is out of ammo, and shakes his head, "Stand down, she's a friendly," He orders, remembering Ruby from the group of kids he saw back on the Amity.
"Sir," The men mutter as they salute him then begin to check the bodies around the bridge.
"What in god's name are you doing here?" Gizmo asks.
Ruby scratches her head sheepishly, "Well I was here for a reason, but that reason jumped out of the window," She jokes.
Before Gizmo could respond, he hears a beep on the main console, he finds the main screen covered in the same chess piece he saw on his hud when General Ironwood's ship exploded.
He quickly gets to the console and begins to check the whole system to find out what is wrong with the bots. He types on the keyboard as they hear an explosion somewhere in the ship.
The men stagger from the blast, "Sir we're out of time we gotta to go!" A soldier warns, the White Fang had a trump card if they failed to keep the ship, blow it up to Hell. They didn't have time to defuse them all so they decided to disarm a few then head to the bridge to stop the bots from going rouge.
"I can't disarm this virus...shit I need to manually fight it with an anti-virus," Gizmo mumbles to himself as he takes off his helmet drops it to the ground then continues to type an anti-virus to fight the virus.
"Sir!?" He hears but he ignores him, this virus is tougher than he thought and it's going to take him longer than expected to clean it up.
"Get out of here, I need to take out this virus!" He orders, typing faster and faster to keep up with the virus.
"But sir we can't just leave-" A soldier insists to stay.
"LEAVE! That's an order soldier, get out of here!" He yells.
The squad of soldiers look at Gizmo as another bomb goes off, "Sir it's been an honor! We're leaving, stack up on me!" A soldier takes command and leaves the room with the other soldiers hesitantly following him, but the last soldier looks at Ruby,
"That means you too, let's get out of here," He says.
Ruby only looks at him and shakes her head. The soldier grits his teeth and runs after his unit. She watches Gizmo type on the console determinedly.
"Why aren't you leaving?" He mumbles as he wipes some sweat off his forehead.
"Because you're aren't leaving," She says.
This makes him stop typing and the screen turns blue, the virus is erased, but he can't leave, once the anti-virus has fully scanned the system, he has to put in a code so that the anti-virus will stay to make sure the bots don't lose control again, but that process takes 5 minutes. In 8 the ship will be a giant steel graveyard.
He sighs and realizes he's going to die on this ship, but he won't let Ruby die on his watch. So he walks over to a storage container and takes out a fresh parachute then walks back to Ruby.
"Wait! What are you doing?" Ruby asks, taking a few steps back but finds a wall stopping her in her tracks.
"I am a soldier, my job is to protect the people," He says as he straps the parachute to Ruby's back firmly so she can't take it off.
Ruby tries to resist but his grip is too strong, "Stop it! Come with me, you'll die if you stay here!" She cries.
Gizmo only looks at her with soft eyes as Ruby finds herself in front of a window, "Sometimes you can't save them all," He says as he rips off his Atlas dogs tags and puts them in Ruby's hands.
She looks at him with fear as she realizes what he's going to do, he's gonna make her jump off the ship without him, "Wait don't-" She pleas but Gizmo only makes her catch her scythe.
He then picks Ruby up by the collar the looks at her straight in the eyes, "Tell 'em to make this count!" He orders and throws her toward the window.
Ruby screams as she crashes through the window and begins to free fall off the airship like Roman and Neo did. She watches as the AAS Indigo turn into a fiery ball of death as she falls down to the ground slowly but surely.
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Gizmo braces himself for impact as the airship crashes to ground faster and faster with each passing second. He watches as the screen in front of him prompts him to put in the code that made him stay.
He quickly puts in the code but stops half way as a bomb goes off in front behind the console, he flies back and feels his back crash right under a platform that overlooks the bridge. He screams in pain, he breathes quickly as he looks down to find his chest filled with shrapnel, it was so much that it even pinned him to the wall behind him.
He coughs up blood as he looks at the console he grits his teeth, 'I'm not done till I say I'm done!' He tries to rally himself as he slowly moves forward. Each second is unbearable, he ignores the view of the approaching ground as he tries to free himself again, but it's all in vain. He's too weak to move, he lost a lot of blood already and he can feel his end approaching soon.
'I'm sorry everyone...I fail-' He gives up but the airship slams crashes into the Emerald forest, the impact sends him flying forward and into the console. He grunts in pain too tired to scream, his face slammed into the screen and the glass scattered and blinded the left side of his face. In the final moments of his life he slowly inputs the remainder of the code with his bloodied fingers. He hears the same satisfying beep and feels relieved that he completed his final mission, his final order.
'Nevermind...' He jokes to himself then lets out his final breath. then falls on his back with his arms wide open, he died before he hit the floor.
Gizmo lies with his eyes closed with a smile on his face. In the corner is his helmet,
"Gizmo! Gizmo do you copy!? You did it! You lucky bastard the knights and paladin are all deactivated!" A soldier's voice echoes in the dead bridge, destroyed with fire, blood, and shrapnel everywhere.
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It's a shame that the dead can speak.
Commercial District
Atlas Specialist Scarecrow
A hour before the AAS Indigo blew up
"Dropped him!"
"Sniper on the rooftop!"
"Got 'em!"
"Deploying smoke!"
Vale and Atlas soldier yell at each other kills and orders while Scarecrow jumps out of the bullhead. It flies away as soon as he touches the ground.
"Good luck Metal 1," The pilot says and returns to base to refuel.
He doesn't say a word as he looks around. He finds himself in a mall, a big one in fact, three stories high. He stands in at a side entrance into the mall, in front of the mall is where the fight is at, but the soldiers are falling back to his position.
He takes cover behind a concrete barricade with is M14 ready for action, "Retreating already?" He mumbles to himself as he watches a platoon of men (30 troops) from Vale and Atlas run out of the Mall and around the entrance.
An Atlas soldier jumps over Scarecrow's cover and hides with him, his eyes widen when he finds him, "Specialist?! How long have you been here?" He asks.
"I just got here, why is everyone retreating?" He gets straight to the point.
"The plaza...we lost it, the SWAT team that was set up there, all of them are dead. Titan company had to back off because of those damn Paladins. If we took out one of their paladins they took out three of our tanks. We are the reinforcements but they just keep coming...fuck...they keep pushing us back and we keep losing more and more-" The soldier reports.
"Shut up, stay focused, you'll bring the Grimm into this firefight if you keep thinking like that. I'm taking command of this front line, orders from General Orchid," He explains.
Atlas nods his head instantly, "Yes sir, just tell us want to do,"
Scarecrow pops his head out of cover and notices that no White Fang are running toward this position and he can still hear gunfire in the mall.
"Who's still in there?" He asks.
"It's VPS sir, shit they wanted to hold off the White Fang so we can retreat...crazy sons of bitches," The solder explains.
Scarecrow tilts his head as he spots an APC behind their cover in the middle of the street.
"What's wrong with that APC?" He asks.
"Engine's shot up to hell sir, but I think the gun is still working," The soldier gets the hint Scarecrow was giving off.
"Then get a crew in there to man that gun, then I want everyone over watching this entrance to cover VPS when they fall back, is that understood?!" He orders sternly.
"Y-yes sir, I'll get right on it! Hey you two, on me!" He assures and starts barking orders as the Atlas soldiers.
He watches as the Atlas and Vale soldier wait for VPS to retreat as three Atlas soldiers get in the APC.
"HERE THEY COME!" A Vale soldier reports as he reloads his M16.
Scarecrow spots the famous Vale recon unit sprint after them, "Vale soldiers, conserve your ammo! Atlas soldiers cover them!" He orders and changes his current firing mode to semi-auto, changing the ammo to piercing blue dust rounds.
Vale soldiers help out with spotting while Atlas soldiers fire at the faunus soldiers that are engaging the retreating VPS. The retreat is a success, but Scarecrow immediately spots one of the soldiers is limping because of a bullet hole behind his right calf.
"Holy shit...you made it!" One of the Vale soldiers cries in joy.
He watches as a woman with blue hair orders the squad behind cover on the left side of the entrance, where all the Vale soldiers are located.
"How's your leg Jack?" She asks the bleeding man.
"Oh this scratch? I never felt so alive! When's the last time I actually got shot!? This is awesome!" He jokes and gives the lady a thumbs up.
The armored soldier of VPS talks to a Vale soldier about ammo while another soldier, with a Vale version of the M14 in his hands, checks his ammo supply, but one soldier catches his eye, another woman with an Atlas rifle in her hands but a VPS uniform. She even has a beret of the Atlas unit ASTU.
He remembers her instantly, "Nila Indigo," He mumbles and Nila looks at him.
"Scarecrow? You're here? Ironwood put you on the front lines,"
"Sounds about right," He mumbles.
"Are you ready for another wave?" Alice, the VPS leader, interrupts.
"Yes ma'am," Nila assures as Alice looks at Scarecrow.
"I thought you were supposed to be protecting General Orchid, did she sent you out here?" She asks.
"Yes," He answers bluntly.
"Thought so, anyway we got another company of White Fang on their way..." She starts as an explosion in the Mall shakes the Mall.
"After they shake off that blast, we got 5 minutes to set up, anyone need ammo? Need to patch up? Do it now because we won't have time during the firefight," She warns.
People start to prepare for the next wave while Nila looks at the Amity in the distance. Ashley notices this and she rubs her shoulder, "I'm sure Rey's alright, Atlas has that whole stadium covered," She assures.
Nile nods her head, Rey has been on her mind this whole time she's been out here fighting. When the Amity was attacked she only got more worried for him. She wants to be at his side fighting but duty calls, she'll find her way to him, one way or another. If she was going to die in this fight, she wanted to die with the one she loved. The five minutes to set up flies back quickly and the first White Fang soldiers is seen rushing his enemies hold up at the entrance.
The firefight begins with bullets flying, it didn't take long before the first White Fang soldier to die from catching an unhealthy dose of bullets. Both the attackers and the defenders begin to lose some of their fighting force, with the defensive force holding out longer than the charging attackers. So much death surrounds the outlet that White Fang bodies are starting fill up the entrance. It was a miracle that the White Fang didn't flank the defenders yet. If they did, the faunus would have to go around a whole other block to get behind their enemies.
Down to 15 troops, including VPS, the survivors are having a hard time holding the line. This isn't a surprise for they have been fighting for one hour straight and on the battlefield that is a lifetime.
VPS still stand strong with Scarecrow as the remaining soldiers begin to lose their moral from all the dead bodies around them, it didn't help either that Jack is trying to patch up a soldier that got shot in the chest by a sniper.
As bullets threaten to take his life he continues to wrap bandages around his wound, "Come on damn it, you'll be fine alright, you still need to buy us a beer once this is over!" He jokes, trying to lighten the mood.
An Atlas soldier is engaging the enemy infantry right behind Jack. He pops out of cover just to get shot in the right shoulder, he spins from the force but his finger is still on the trigger. He fires his rifle as he falls dead on the ground, the bullets makes everyone panic as some friendly troops are shot from him. Jack is one of them, the bullet storm runs over his bad leg, putting two more bullets to add to the damage. He screams in pain and drops to the floor.
"Arh! Fuck my leg...WHERE'S MY COVER!?" He yells as he draws his pistol and blinds fire from his cover.
He looks to his patient to find him dead with a bullet caught in his neck, "...He's dead," He reports then begins to patch up his shot up leg, luckily it isn't bad enough so he couldn't walk, he could get up if they had to retreat but hell he's gonna be slow as a turtle if he had to run.
"There's just too many of them! Where are they all coming from!?" Cobra yells as he fires another fresh magazine into the faunus troops.
"Keep shooting! They're going to learn sooner or later that they won't take us down!" Alice rallies and throws a grenade into the outlet.
They hear a group of enemy soldiers yell to run as the grenade goes off, many hostiles die from the shrapnel of the grenade.
"Ha ha take that you sons of b-" A soldier taunts but the sounds of a larger explosion catch his and everyone's attention.
They turn around to find one of the Atlas Airships crashing toward the ground in a ball of fire, "Oh shit...that's the AAS Indigo!" An Atlas soldier explains and points to the falling ship.
Instantly everyone realizes that they just lost their air support and it's only a matter of time before Nevermores and Griffins start invading their position. They have to retreat as soon as possible if they want to continue to hold the district.
VPS continues to hold off the White Fang while Scarecrow organizes a mass retreat, but he's having a hard time finding where to set up. He stands in the open looking for another place to capture, exposing him to a sniper with its laser pointed at his head.
"Get down!" Hybrid orders and tries to take out the sniper but the bastard is just out of his line of sight.
Scarecrow ignores his call and turns around, spotting the sniper lying prone on a rooftop overlooking his position. He hears a sniper round clack in the air, but he doesn't catch a bullet. He watches the prone figure lay there not moving as his rifle falls to the ground floor. he's dead. He looks around to find where the other sniper shot from but finds no one.
"That one was on the house, how about you guys haul ass out of there yeah?" He hears on his comms.
"Where are you?" He asks.
"Down the street, you see the parking lot compound, get out of there I'll cover your retreat," The sniper orders.
"..." Scarecrow doesn't respond but he does start command his troops to make a full retreat deeper into the district.
This savor sniper is the gun-for-hire Noah Sterben, he lies prone on the rooftop of the 5 story parking lot compound. His sniper nest has the whole outlet entrance covered. Down below he has all the cars and alleyways filled with C4 all connected to one detonator. That's his trump card once he has to retreat. For the ambush, he has the sidewalks hiding several claymores while the main street has a few anti-armor mines for any Paladins that feel lucky to chase after the retreating company of Vale and Atlas troops.
"You sure this is gonna work?" Fallen hears on his comms. He looks down to the ground floor to find Rey scouting out the outlet with some binoculars.
"I got this whole compound loaded with explosives, I think I can hold out for a few minutes," He assures.
"Okay, but if I just stay I could help you out a bit," Rey offers, he knows that the mercenary is going to stay back after the retreat is finished to keep the White Fang occupied before air support arrives.
"No you need to get back to Ashley at the store, aren't you her husband or something?" The sniper asks as he fires his rifle, which makes a poor faunus lose his head.
"W-we aren't like that," He explains and waves his Five-Seven pistol at him sheepishly.
"Well I don't care if she's your girlfriend or your mistress, she'll have my head if you don't survive this fight. So might as well get with her now before you get killed," He suggests.
Rey takes a moment to plan his next move. If he leaves then Noah could die defending this compound, but if stays then Ashley probably will be looking for him, leaving Mia all alone and in danger. He has to choose who he wants to die with basically, Noah, or Ashley. Rey knows that Noah can handle himself, but Mia can't she's just a child. That's when he clicks in his head that he wants to return to Ashley.
He looks up to Fallen on the rooftop and waves, "You go kick some ass for me yeah!?" He yells.
"Yeah for sure, I got this under control, you just get back to Ashley," Noah assures and fires again, killing another White Fang soldier.
Rey then hops over the concrete wall that surrounds the compound then jogs his way back to Blades-N-Bullets, where Ashley is waiting for her, with fire in his eyes, this is going to be the fight of his life.
Noah on the other hand is calm and cool as he covers the retreating soldiers, hell the White Fang are too scared to pop to their heads out for they already lost 5 guys from him already. Some try to search for him but the concrete jungle around them is too thick for them to spot the lens flare from the rifle.
'I hope I get a bonus check for this,' He jokes and lets his rifle cool down.
The Afterlife
A bloodied chibi man walks in a realm of pure white with blood trailing behind him. This man is Syrian, the goat faunas that got shot up at the beginning at the fall. He finds a large building and walks in, strangely he doesn't feel the pain of the bullets that make him ooze out blood from his body. He walks and finds it empty.
"That sucks...am I the first one to die?" He mumbles and looks around the room after he closes the door behind him.
It's a bar with many games to play from, like pool, Time Crisis, darts, and even karaoke. He takes a seat at the bar to find a woman on the other side looking at some papers.
She hears him sit down, "Syrian right? Cause of death was a bullet to the heart?" She asks and turns around, it's Grayfia.
"That sounds about right, so when do the others show up?" He asks.
"Depends when they die, we'll get this party started once everyone gets here," She assures and marks his name off her list of name that die.
"So what do I do now?" He asks.
"We'll go choose your fancy for now, you got this whole building to yourself so go have some fun. You did die after all," She explains then goes back to her list of names.
The faunus nods his head and makes himself a glass of water before he explores the building. It's a shame he didn't ask about his broken body as he pains the floor with his blood as he looks around.
"This place is pretty big," He mumbles, a lot of people must be dying today to have this big of a building.
After playing some of the arcade games he checks out the karaoke game, he picks up the mic and looks through the songs.
"Wow they got all sorts of genres on this...but how can you sing daycore?" He chuckles to himself then picks a song.
The room darkens and a spotlights shines on him, a slow guitar starts to play and the screen in front of him starts popping up with lyrics.
"She seems dressed in all of me. Stretched across my shame. All the torment and the pain leaked through and covered me," He sings a slow yet sad song as he beings to remember what he left behind after he died.
"I'd do anything to have her to myself, just to have her for myself. Now I don't know what to do, I don't know what to do, when she makes me sad,"
He pauses as he hums to the tune of the song while the next verse comes up.
"She is everything to me, the unrequited dream. A song that no one sings the unattainable. She's a myth that I have to believe in, all I need to make it real is one more reason,"
"I don't know what to do, I don't know what to do, when she makes me sad,"
"But I won't let this build up inside of me, but I won't let this build up inside of me, but I won't let this build up inside of me, but I won't let this build up inside of me," He repeats himself, starting feel a little sad from singing this song.
"I catch in my throat, choke, torn into pieces I won't, no. I don't want to be this,"
"But I won't let this build up inside of me (Won't let this build up inside of me) I won't let this build up inside of me (Won't let this build up inside of me) I won't let this build up inside of me (Won't let this build up inside of me) I won't let this build up inside of me (Won't let this build up inside of me, won't let this build up inside of me)," He repeats softly with the voices of others singing in the background.
"She isn't real! (Won't let this build up inside of me) I can't make her real (Won't let this build up inside of me) She isn't real (Won't let this build up inside of me) I can't make her real (Won't let this build up inside of me)," A tear runs down his cheek as he finishes the song and the music softens to a close.
He puts back the mic and looks up to the ceiling, "I'm sorry everyone..." He whispers and wipes the tears off his face.
Here's the next installment of the fall of beacon and Atlas lost a lot but this is only the beginning.
This is slightly longer than usual 'cause of the Airship scene, that one I actually knew what was I doing for once, surprising yes?
Anyway I would like to thank everyone who joined up to fight and I hope that they like their parts in this chapter, those who didn't get shown will have their glory, I'll make sure of it next chapter for sure.
Does anyone know the name of the song in the chibi? short that Syrian sang?
Reviews:
MaxwellOverdrive: That sounds like a chibi short to me...*initiate planning Gentlemen!*
Guest: Natsu will unlock dragon force when he gets more training from a certain buddy of his that been at his side since the beginning of this story. He won't go as far as becoming a dragon 'cause he's just beginning in dragon force. Will Natsu save Pyrrha and KILL Cinder? Whoa Cinder is Natsu's mate he won't cross that line. As I hinted at before...Natsu never takes sides between his mates. Two dragon will take care of the Grimm Wyvern...or will they? They might die but hey that's war for ya. Don't worry about Adam, Natsu will have his showdown with him for hurting a very special woman to him. That is true Natsu isn't affected by dust so Adam's basic attacks won't do jack against him, who knows their fight might be won before it even begins.
Natsu won't meet Salem yet, she is planning to capture him but I already said too much...whoops.
The reasons why I haven't been working on TPHH was because of my others stories Beyond The Summer Season and my NEW story Sweet Release Of Death. On top of that I am also working on a coop story with my Beta Reader JBallinR12 in the story Family means Everything. If one didn't know yet...I'm advertising my stories...hehe I'm BAD!
Codeword: Vermillion
If you like this chapter then I thank you and I hope to catch in the next one!
Till Next Time!
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