Chapter 11
Fallen Depths
Locust had become more and more alerted knowing Gears have entered their homes. Now Locust go full strength on the hunt to extinguish them. Gears desperately try to fend them off and have little knowledge of what's below.
3 Gears ran behind Joey and Jack as they were outnumbered and put towards the point of an edge. Jack gasped looking downward seeing only everlasting reloaded his lancer, other gears took in deep breathes. The 3 Gears took cover behind some broken ammo boxes, and Mauler shields. The cliff was wide enough for them but they wouldn't be able to run anywhere anymore. Joey took in silent breathes calmly. Jack began to wimped even more about this situation, gunfire was heard from all around. Jack tried to hold his Cog pistol calmly but he kept shaking as he tried to reload but it got jammed instead. The other 3 Gears looked at him then said nothing.
"Right then I take the left" said the 1st Gear
"I'll take the right" said the 2nd Gear
"You 3 there be our support" said the 1st Gear
Joey slammed down the Mauler shield and took cover behind 3rd gear struggled to reload his jammed sniper rifle. Jack grabbed ahold of his pistol and took in slight breathes. That moment they waited to see if any other small fry Locust was coming and they heard nothing. The 1st Gear fired his lancer into the blackening darkness, and heard wretches fall dead.
"Seems clear" he said
Within that moment a the ground below them shook wildly as a massive spider leg stabbed through and into the 3rd Gear sitting beside of them screamed wildly and moved aside as they fired at the armored leg. Bullets bounced off as it did nothing,Joey dropped his shield and stood his back facing the darkness. In the darkness a beast rider rode in as his beast bit the right leg of Joey in front of Jack. The rider shot the 1st Gear's head as it exploded. The beast held onto Joey's leg as Joey screamed in pain, Jack cried aloud shooting randomly towards the beast as it charged towards him, dragging Joey.
The 2nd Gear ran and stuck a grenade into the beast rider's back as the Gear didn't get enough time to run because the beast rider shot his foot. Within that moment Jack could see his brother in large amounts of pain, being chewed on by a massive beast. Reaching out to Jack, screaming loudly his hand couldn't reach at all. Jack was so shocked by this he couldn't react except by running towards could almost get to him, Sarah and Bronx arrived only to see them in this situation and then the grenade exploded. BOOOOOM.
Bronx stood shocked by what happened. Sarah had fallen back onto the ground as limbs flew all across the edge. Jack was faced down on the ground, he was okay his body ached in pain. He didn't move as Bronx fell to one knee, his heart was rapidly pounding at this near death moment. Sarah sat up slowly grunting and saw Jack struggling to stand up, her eyes went wide seeing all the blood and limbs. Jack sat on his knees with his open hands lying on the bloody dirt ground. His tears stopped, his whimpering too. Sarah slowly stood back up taking it all in slowly Bronx stood up too alongside her. Fade ran to them from the darkness and saw Jack staring at the top half of his brother didn't say a word as he walked passed Sarah then she grabbed his right hand, Fade stopped 2 feet away from her looking down. Bronx grabbed Sarah's arm and nodded as he walked back giving Jack his space. Fade continued to look down.
"Sarah….he needs this" said Fade
"Okay…just don't push him too far" said Sarah sadden by this moment
Sarah let go of Fade as she walked back with Bronx, both gave them space. The utter glowing light in the distance shined. Fade walked passed Jack and said nothing as he walked towards the edge of the cliff looking at the view. Jack stayed frozen wishing he could have done something to save his brother last of his family that he had, the last reason he fought for. Fade's thought and memories of what similar circumstances that had happened to him .During his early career in the C.O.G. military was about the same. Fade continued to look forward as he let Jack take it all in for this moment of sorrow.
