Chapter Five: Jaeger Gejagt
The Mauler Titan roared again as it corrected itself and gave chase to the fleeing soldiers. "We can't fight that thing, it's too fucking fast!" Shaun yelled out to F/N, who was still way ahead of him. "I know! we need a way to distract it!" F/N shouted back.
The massive beast leapt forward on it's legs, leaving only feet between it and Shaun, who rocketed forward and upward just in time to miss being smashed apart by a swipe from the Titan's hand. He yelped as he swerved to the side to avoid a second attack.
F/N landed on the ground and sprinted full force towards one of the many canons lay strewn across the ground from the 57th Expedition. H/SH skidded round to the canon that was still loaded and aimed it upwards toward the titan's face as it closed in.
F/N grinned as H/SH fired the harpoon from the canon, the steel spear soared through the air and embedded itself into the skull of the Titan as it was running. The beast' s brains were smashed and the creature toppled , blood and steam galore.
"Holy Crap! how the hell did you do that?!" Jenkins yelled as the rest of the squad arrived at the scene. Captain Andrews landed first, congratulating the two on incapacitating the titan. "look, We need to get out of here before it's regenerative ability kicks in. I'm guessing we've got a one minute window till that sonofabitch is on his feet. RUN!"
David looked back at the titan as steam shot from the hole in it's elongated skull as he stared into the tiny, lifelesss eyes of the titan, as if he looked like someone David knew. He turned and rocketed up into the trees on his manuever gear as the Monster's regenerative healing activated. The dying cells in the titan's body replicated and created perfect clones of their healthy form, 10 times faster than any normal lifeform. The brain started working, the blood started flowing through the titans' veins and the beast stood, wrenching the massive harpoon from it's skull as it's face quickly healed. The titan turned and disappeared into the woods, distracted by a sudden 'need' it didn't know what it wanted or what it hunted for, just answers...
Shaun landed near the opening of the forest as the others quickly showed up. "alright, where now? we didn't find our soldier in there, but we didn't check the whole place, plus with that titan lurking around in there, we'll never find out." The Captain stepped forward, "alright, we roll on the castle and search there until it gets dark again, then, when the titan goes out, we look."
A gunshot rang out and the squad ducked for cover. "bloody hell! who's firing on us?!" Sophia yelled as a second shot fired, followed by a third. "Multiple shooters! keep your eyes peeled!" Captain Andrews shouted out to his squad as he quickly dived out of the path of another bullet. Shaun looked up and saw the flash of a sniper scope as he rounded one of the massive trees.
He fired two cables up to the top of the tree, winding them in as he quickly scaled the side of the behemoth oak. Shaun reached his destination and made his way round the tree, right behind one of the snipers. The man stood around 5'9 and had a camoflauged cloak, masking his appearence as Shaun locked his arm round the sniper's throat and tried to choke him. A second gunman must have came up behind him as Shaun felt the hilt of a sword smack against the back of his head before he blacked out.
Get ready for the first major plot twist coming in the next chapter.
STAY AWESOME :)