No Guns Life X Girls' Frontline: That One Last Noble Act of the Rotten Legend
"...I'm done with this shit. From here on you must find a way how are you going to use that remaining lifespan of yours."
...Why?
Why did he spare me?
I knew he was ordered to go after the rest of us, leaving no one alive after his mission.
I was sure I would never make it out of that hell pit, myself being trapped and too broken to fight back.
I was prepared to be killed by his own hands.
But in the end he stopped in his footsteps and lowered his fists, stared at me and said those words before he left.
I no longer have a home.
I...I don't have anyone waiting for me.
So...
...What's the point?
Why did he told those words to me?
Why... did he let me live?
These are the thoughts of a giant middle-age-looking man while resting his back on the wall outside of a half-sunken apartment. Judging from his tattered trench coat over a pair of black shirt, gray pants and brown boots he's been through a lot of heavy fighting, dotted with bullet holes and cuts all over his attire. His face is pretty much concealed by a worn-out bucket hat, but his large metallic gray chin and jaw is visible on a closer look. He is missing a whole right arm, evidenced by the right sleeve of his coat being empty and dangling from its position.
Looking up on the bright full moon he muttered, "...Just how long am I going to live, anyway?"
...It's a cold and quiet night in this war-torn Russian town. Even if he wanted to sleep his mind won't let him due to these thoughts bugging him every night and a need of being vigilant in a hostile android infested area.
"Huff, huff... Here's some medicine, and some food..." A 10-year-old little girl can be seen running towards him carrying an assortment of candies, bread, canned goods, medicinal capsules, Vitamin bottles, syringes and an assortment of Pocky-like boxes in a basket and presents it to the hulking man. She wears a white T-shirt and brown shorts topped over an olive green mini utility jacket with a matching tattered red sports shoes. Her overall design and facial features are based from pixiv artist infukun's illustrations that compliments her ruby eyes, shoulder-length purple hair tied in a ponytail and dirt-covered fair complexion.
"Mm, good job..." The man reaches out to the basket with his left hand and picks up one of the syringes, "You can have all the food rations, but save a few cans for later. It's a long trip to our destination, you're bound to eat something on the road." and then injects himself with it at the chest.
Sitting beside the man and placing the basket in front of her, "M'okay, Big Bro..." The girl nodded, picking and opening up a can of ready-to-eat canned meal as she proceeds to feed herself with it using only her bare fingers.
Staring at her quietly he then reminisces the time they met. He first saw her as this scrawny little bag of flesh curled up on solid ground and being beaten down by local thugs after a fierce competition over a piece of bread stolen by the girl. Coming to her rescue he easily intimidate and kills off the thugs by his sheer size and strength, but in the middle of it the girl then clings to her pants as if she was begging to stop on his rampage, sparing one of them and letting the sole survivor escape. After helping her for a while to get back being healthy the little girl kept tailing him anywhere he go much to his annoyance, to the point he gave up and let the little girl tag along with him as they collect food rations and medicines on an aimless journey towards safe haven.
"...Don't tell me this is the reason that I've been looking for..." He thought as he glanced at the girl, remembering the line that person once said to him.
"Uhm, what's wrong Big Bro?" In the midst of her meal the little girl nonchalantly glanced back at the towering man beside her, wondering why is he staring at her face.
"It's nothing." The man answered as he pats the girl's head, "Finish up eating. After you rest a little we'll look for more provisions and pack these up to the vehicle before we leave this town."
"Roger!" Doing a salute with a smile the girl continued to indulge on her canned meat dish and finishes up the rest of her candies.
After several minutes of rest they both decided to move out with the large man carrying a gray hiking backpack while the little girl carries the basket still half-filled with medical supplies and canned foods. Treading cautiously the pair navigates through the desolated town with the man as lead, looking out for any hostiles they would encounter. When they've passed through a street leading to a town's southern gate the man saw several human figures lurking around a slightly-broken brick warehouse, signaling the girl behind him to watch her step. Hiding on a building wall just behind the said warehouse the man takes a peek to inspect the human figures.
"Is someone there?" The little girl whispered to him, at the same time also trying to take a peek below him.
"Damn it, seems like we're not alone in this town, after all..." The man cursed under his breath as he observes the security detail that's patrolling around the area.
What they saw are a group of women wearing black skin-tight clothing armed with guns and guarding the broken warehouse. Judging from the design of their outfits, armaments and the 'SF' logo on all of them the man confirmed the identity and affiliation of these women.
"Sangvis Ferri, huh? This isn't good..." The man uttered in an irritated tone, "What are they doing here anyway?"
"...Big Bro, there's a beaten-up guy over there." Having a good view on the warehouse's large hole the little girl pointed out at its exposed center, noticing a man garbed in black uniform unconsciously sitting on a chair.
"Hm?" Shifting his focus on where the girl is pointing at, the one-armed giant makes a keen stare at the unconscious person who's been constantly monitored by the Sangvis Ferri units.
What they both saw is a man wearing a military officer's uniform tied up on a chair, implying that he's been held captive by these women. The way he was closely guarded by these SF troops means the captive man is a valuable asset to their enemies.
"I think... I think he's in danger. We should-" Worried about the poor captured man's situation the little girl was about to voice her suggestion, however...
"Ignore him. Let's take a different route." The giant man quickly interjected to deny what she wants to do, "I don't want to tangle with any more trouble in this place."
"Big bro...!" The little girl protested with a soft voice, pouting and glaring at the large man beside him, "Let's help him!"
"Quiet, you." The towering man reprimanded the little girl, doing it as silent as possible making sure that they weren't noticed by the black-themed androids, "Can't we at least avoid making a ruckus at least once?"
"Mmmmm...!" But the little girl continued to puff her cheeks and razor-sharp glare to him as a sign of her resolve to her decision.
"Seriously..."
During their travels, the one-armed giant discovers one quirk about the little girl; her unyielding stubbornness. No matter how much he explains over their circumstances and his choices, the little girl won't budge from her opposing decisions and would even make a bigger trouble if he kept insisting on his actions, and it doesn't even help that most of her decisions often involves helping out strangers. To this end the man would always make a compromising choice that they can both agree on, which he is about to do now.
Rummaging on his large backpack, "I'll take out those girls in black, and you go around and look for any small scouts and hit them with this." The man hands over a steel pipe and an EMP grenade to the little girl, "But if all else fails, just scream for help."
"Roger!" The little girl saluted with enthusiasm, holding the steel pipe firmly using her other hand.
As the black-clad girls are guarding the warehouse's area with admirable dedication the pair executed their plan. Coming out directly from their cover the one-armed giant steps in behind one of the patrolling sentries and took her attention with-
"Hey there. Getting bored?"
"Ah!?"
Taking out one of the Sangvis Ferri Vespid by grabbing her head and slams it to the ground, the one-armed giant creates a diversion by throwing the fallen T-Doll in front of the warehouse. He was then found out by a Ripper, who attempts to fire her submachine guns at the intruder but ends up having her head blown away in a boxing-style quick jab. He then runs into another Vespid, who attempts to fire her rifle at the cloaked man only to be knocked out with a stomp in the face, effectively crushing her head to a brick wall.
"Quite a lax security detail, if I say so myself..." The one-armed man said out loud, standing in front of the warehouse's door with an arm and leg covered with some kind of dark fluid that came from the defeated T-Dolls. Though he's been moving around aggressively his bucket hat didn't even budge from its position, pretty much because he made it so secured to his head with metal pins for concealing his... not-so-usual face.
As the one-armed giant walk towards the door an SF Brute manage to close in and jumps into his back to stab him with her pair of blades at the neck area, but it only made him turn his head at the attacker, grabs her right arm, slams into the ground and deliberately forces her to stab her eyes and neck. The melee-type SF T-Doll grapples wildly for a while against the one-armed giant but she ultimately met her gory end as she was pinned down and overpowered by the hunking giant's sheer strength.
"Too bad, I've gotten used to being ambushed from the back-Guhck!"
A sniper bullet then hits the one-armed giant at his scalp area, seemingly downing him for good. However it turns out that he's just faking it as he quickly reconfigures his balance and taking out the SF Jaeger who fired at him by simply throwing a rock that smashes through her weapon and neck, making her fall from her vantage point on a nearby two-story tall building.
"...And also, my former job requires me to eliminate snipers from afar."
Meanwhile just behind the warehouse, the little girl took out a couple of SF Dinergates and Scouts with a steel pipe as she bludgeoned them to pieces while they're stunned from the EMP grenade she had thrown earlier.
"...Phew, I guess that's all of them." The little girl wipes out the sweat on her forehead, having spent a considerable amount of stamina to swing a steel pipe hard enough to break a robotic drone's frame.
"Looks like you're also done here. Good job out there." Moments later the one-armed giant calls out to the little girl, throwing a pair of fallen SF Rippers to the side as he walk towards the little girl.
"Big Bro!" Upon hearing his voice the little girl ran towards the towering one-armed man, smiling as he's still intact even after beating up those SF T-Dolls by himself.
"Now then, let's go wake and greet our sleeping beauty over there." Said by the one-armed giant, pointing his thumb at the warehouse behind them.
"Yeah!" The little girl nodded once, following the giant man from behind as they get inside the warehouse.
As they entered the warehouse and finished clearing it for any other guards still active the two approached the captive man in haste. The one-armed giant then undone the rope that ties the military man on his seat starting on the wrists, and then he noticed something odd on one of his arms.
"Hey, you still alive? Heey..." Meanwhile The little girl then goes in front of the captive man and taps his face a few times to wake him up, in which she succeeds as he slowly opens his eyes.
"Ugh...Ah!? W-Who are you people?" That was the first thing the captive man said to the two of them. Upon closer inspection his face and physique pretty much suggests that he's of Asian origin, resembling any blue-eyed and black short-haired bishounen drawn by artist CLAMP. His attire had knee-long military coat with pouches, collar and cuffs, gold buttons, a red exterior and a black interior, a golden insignia on the right shoulder and a large black belt with side straps. Under the coat he wears white shirt and black tie with black pants paired with leather shoes.
"Just a pair of passing-by beggars and scavengers." The one-armed giant answered dryly as he finally untie the military officer's feet, "Looks like your captors weren't expecting you to escape on your own."
"Have you seen any girls being held captive the same way as I am somewhere?" Looking around him the man in military uniform asks with a worried expression, implying that he had comrades with him prior to his capture.
"Other than those things that were guarding you, nope." The one-armed giant replied as he pointed at the broken Dinergates and Scouts along with bodies of Sangvis Ferri T-Dolls lying beside them, "Aside from that sniper from afar this is the only building that they were hanging out in this area."
"They've done this much with just the two of them?" The military officer thought to himself, but for now he felt relieved from what he heard and said, "I see. So they escaped safely, huh?" and then faces the two and bows saying, "Oh, right. Thank you for rescuing me."
"Don't mention it~" The little girl makes a peace sign with her cute small fingers, "In these hard times we should be helping each other, right Big Bro?" and then elbows the towering one-armed man beside her.
"We'll be on our way exiting this town. What about you?" The one-armed giant ignores the little girl's gesture and gave a straight glance at the military officer, albeit his face is still being obscured by his bucket hat.
"I plan on re-uniting with my team, so I'll stay a little longer in this town." Fixing his uniform's collar and necktie the military officer replied with a stern look, "For now I'm going to look for any communication modules I can use to contact them."
"We passed by on a satellite station just beyond that building past the town square." The little girl informed while pointing at the direction of the town's central area, "Though I doubt you can find anything useful there, since it's been trashed and looted badly. If you want we can help you find your friends for you~" and then she offered at the military officer.
"Seriously, do you plan on helping EVERYONE you would encounter!? One day you'll find yourself in a pinch you'll never get away at this rate..." Massaging the back of his neck the one-armed giant procrastinated, "I'd say let's leave him be and we should get going to another city. Given that those things are here means this town's going to be a battle zone anytime soon."
"Big Bro!" The little girl pouts again at the towering man beside her, with arms at her waist as if she was scolding him.
Picking up several firearms scattered on the floor the military officer then told the little girl with, "I see, thank you again. But you should follow your Big Bro's suggestion. You should leave this place as soon as you can-"
However before he finishes his sentence the military officer was interrupted with several gun shots and explosions that can be heard just beyond two blocks from the warehouse, at the central town square's edges. This commotion are caused by an army composed of heavily armed human soldiers accompanied by giant mechas engaging the Sangvis Ferri forces. Both the one-armed giant and military officer identifies the military forces that's attacking a platoon of SF Aegis, Vespids, Rippers, Dragoons, Strikers and Guard T-Dolls.
"Tch, this time it's KCCO!?" The military officer cursed under his breath while taking a peek from the warehouse's door, "And they're going for a Shock Action approach..."
"Looks like we won't be able to get into that satellite station anytime soon, huh?" The one-armed giant said as he also takes a peek at the skirmish between KCCO and SF.
In a Russian dialect one of the KCCO's commanding officers shouts his orders to his men as he pins down several SF T-Dolls to their cover.
"Alright, listen up! Squads 1 and 2 will deal with these Sangvis Ferri units here with me! Squad 3 and 4 will be going to the town's northern area along with a Kratos and a Minotaur to scour it out of any enemy forces! Squad 5 will go around and secure a pathway for our reinforcements! And the rest of Squad 6 will search in that area for that man captured by Sangvis Ferri! If we can take a hold of him we can snuff out the rest of G&K forces, understood?"
"""Sir, yes, sir""" The KCCO soldiers responds with high vigor in loud voices, arranging themselves to their assigned positions.
"So they're after me as well, huh?" The military officer narrowed his eyes in frustration and readying his pistol for any combat confrontation.
"Russian soldiers in this dump, and they're coming after you?!" The one-armed giant then directs his stare at the military officer, "Just who the hell are you anyway?"
"I'm the current Commander of Griffin and Kryuger PMC." The military officer answered in a stern manner, "After most of our bases of operations fell I was supposed to rendezvous with the other units until I was ambushed en route to this town by Sangvis Ferri, and as you've witnessed earlier I've been held here for sometime. Guess KCCO caught a wind of that and started their own moves to look for me."
"Tch, I knew it you're a troublesome guy at first glance...!" The one-armed giant can be heard snarling in a barely audible metallic voice, massaging the back of his neck out of exasperation.
"Big Bro!" The little girl glared at her one-armed companion, trying to insist that they made the right decision of assisting the captive military officer.
"For now let's leave this place while they're pretty occupied shooting at each other." The G&K Commander suggested to the two and adding a sworn statement, "I'll make it up for the trouble of helping me out here by getting us out of this situation in one piece once I got back to my team."
"It better be. From the looks of it we're in for a really tight situation..." The one-armed giant retorted sternly and gestured, "I'll take the lead. Follow me."
With the one-armed giant taking point the trio escapes to the warehouse's backdoor and made their way to a nearby residential block, passing through in its maze-like path walk making sure that no one from KCCO or Sangvis Ferri would spot them. It was all smooth sailing until they were found out by a scouting KCCO detachment unit at a pathway exit, which made the trio froze in their tracks and had no choice but to engage them in a CQC situation.
"Tch, spotted already?!" The one armed giant quickly punches one of the KCCO Cyclops at its central chest area that is about arm-length away from him, slamming it to ground and then he stomps on its head unit to disable it.
"!?" Another Cyclops carrying a shotgun attempts to shoot the one-armed giant at his chest, but the Armored Doll's weapon was immediately snatched away and ends up incapacitated after its opponent literally kicks its torso to the ground and stomps repeatedly until it broke.
"Khhhk, frigging bastard!" The three KCCO human infantries then aimed and fire their rifles at the one-armed giant, but the latter remained unfazed from the gunfire's receiving end even the bullets were outright hitting him at critical places like the chest area, neck or his face.
"...How in the!?" The G&K Commander had his jaw hanging in disbelief, as the one-armed giant just shrugs off the rifle rounds that could've torn a normal human to pieces.
"Hmph!" As a counterattack the one-armed giant then kicks the disabled Cyclops' body towards the three human soldiers, slamming it into them and pinned down by the infantry bot's heavy frame. The whole thing happened all too sudden for the KCCO units to react, unable to evade it in time and ends up knocked out cold.
"Big Bro, are you okay?!" Though frightened from what she saw the little girl runs toward the one-armed giant, worried from the dark fluid that's been staining his clothes and dripping from his body.
"You idiot! don't come out yet!" The one-armed giant yelled at her, as it was too early to confirm that they're already safe.
"E-eh!? Wha-AAh!?" Stopping on her feet the little girl staggered from the giant's voice, but it was too late for her to realize that someone is already standing behind her, "H-Hey!"
"Khh...!"
One of the KCCO soldiers manages to wriggle his way out of the Cyclop's body and grabs the little girl by her ponytail hair, pulling her towards him then does a neck lock and aims his pistol at her temple.
"B-Big Bro!" Trembling in fear the little girl had an expression of screaming for help on her eyes whilst looking at his one-armed partner, even though she's trying to look composed in this situation.
"Dammit...!" The one-armed giant was frozen on his position, unable to do anything but to ready his fist for any chances he can rescue the little girl.
"Tch, you bastard..!" The military officer was about to aim and fire his own handgun at the KCCO soldier, however...
"Don't even think about it...!" The KCCO soldier tightens his grip at the girl's neck, readying the hammer mechanism of his service firearm as a deterrent against the two men who would attempt to harm him.
"Khh..."
"Grr..."
"Big Bro..."
In this silent stalemate however a female voice suddenly interrupted the whole situation.
"Commander, get down!"
"""Ah!?"""
A sniper bullet then smashes into the hostage taker's head, killing him instantly and letting go of the little girl at the same time. The bullet came from a sniper rifle wielded by a young woman dressed in black, kneeling in one knee and in a perfect aiming pose.
"Big Bro!" Quickly getting away from the KCCO soldier's corpse and running towards the one-armed giant the little girl cries hard in relief as she hugs her partner's hip tightly.
"You're really a troublesome girl..." The one-armed giant then head pats the little girl to soothe her trembling small body.
"Girls!" The G&K Commander yelps in excitement, putting away his gun and jogs a few meters toward the group of women who were approaching them.
"Darling~!" One of these young women then jumps into the G&K Commander's bosom and said, "I was so worried about you~"
"Seriously, we're still in the middle of a crisis here!" Another young woman, the one who sniped the hostage-taker earlier scorns at the one who's been rubbing her face into the G&K Commander's chest, "Learn to read the situation, Mk23!"
"Come on, WA2000. This might be the last time I can do this with Darling." Turning her head at the black-themed sniper Mk23 makes a remark, "If you want I'll let you have him only for tonight after this, since you're the one who took the spotlight this time~"
"S-Shut up!" Blushing like a red tomato WA2000 makes lashes out like a panicking kid, imagining things that only she knows.
"Ufufu~ quite the innocent one, are we?"
"Glad you all made it safely in here!" The G&K Commander slightly pushes away MK23 and asks, "How did you all managed to escape from the enemy's pursuit?"
"Uhm, actually Commander..." Another one of these girls walks up to the Commander, named HK416, narrows her eyes and answers the question in a reluctant voice, "We didn't really escape from them..."
"Huh...?"
White-themed robotic soldiers came rushing into the streets, indiscriminately attacking anyone they can find, whether they are Sangvis Ferri or KCCO forces. Wreaking havoc almost everywhere in the already battered Russian town, the group is now getting nervous as the skirmishes and damages in their vicinity escalates even further.
"Oh, come on!" The G&K commander grits his teeth as their situation is getting even worse, "Now Paradeus joins us in this place!?"
"Shortly after our escape from their base they've sent an search party to hunt us down." This time UMP45 was the one who explains Paradeus' actions as she scratches the back of her head, "We were expecting only a small unit to chase after us, so we lured them here to ambush them along with the other teams. Never we thought they would be bringing a whole army in tow, sorry about that..."
Massaging the center of his forehead, "Oh, I see..." The G&K Commander lets out a sigh, "Out of the frying pan and into the fire, huh?"
"..!?" *Beeping Sounds*
"""...AH!?"""
A Strelet squad discovers the group as one of them makes a turn to its right, and alerts the rest of his white allies with a device on his helmet of the enemy's location.
"Shit! Don't let it call out its friends over here!"
As the armed female group opens fire at the enemy squad unit who quickly takes cover on a large building debris, one of the Strelet continues to send signals for reinforcements. After being informed of their status and location several footsteps can be heard approaching the vicinity, in which the white robotic soldiers assumed to be their comrades coming to their aide. However...
"...Fire!"
"!?" The Strelet squad was caught off guard by the fact that the incoming personnel weren't their allied units, as they don't have the same uniform and armor designs that they use. Caught between the two G&K units the Strelet squad succumbs to their combined firepower and ends up defeated one by one.
""""Commander!""""
"So he survived, huh... That's one good news for us..."
After the gun fight another group of armed women along with several personnel who had similar Military uniform designs rendezvous with the ones along with the G&K Commander.
"It's the other base commanders... with Cmdr. Kryuger and Kalina!" The G&K Commander exclaimed in relief, "Also the other T-Dolls... Springfield, M1918 and G36 too!"
"Glad to see you safe, lad!" One of the military personnel greeted the G&K Commander with a hearty smile and a big hug, making the latter a bit uncomfortable from being embraced by a man who's as muscular as any Russian body builder.
"The AR Team will be joining us shortly. They are currently en route to rendezvous with us coming from the town's western side." Kalina, who's holding her right earpiece informs everyone in the area, nodding at the G&K Commander assuring him that everyone in their PMC group would be seeing each other soon.
"Master, let me tend to your injuries..." Walking straight past by the muscular man one of the T-Dolls that is dressed in a maid outfit attends to the G&K Commander, surprising the two men as she checks the G&K Commander for any cuts and bruises throughout his body.
"T-Thank you, G36..." Slightly blushing the G&K Commander had a wry smile as he lets her inspect his body willingly albeit somewhat antsy from being caressed so affectionately.
"It's my duty, and pleasure to serve you at the best of my abilities..." The maid faintly smiles at the G&K Commander as she cleans up his wounds on the left wrist, forehead and cheek with a handkerchief in a seemingly intimate way.
""This womanizer..."" Meanwhile the two T-Dolls, Mk23 and WA2000, quietly observes the interaction between them with a mean glare directed at the G&K Commander, evidently irritated at the way he reacted from G36's actions.
"""...""" Meanwhile the rest of the T-Dolls and G&K personnel remained also in silence as they observe this current development.
"Over there!"
*Rifle Gunfire Ensues*
"Target in sight! Engaging!"
*Grenade Explosions*
"Weapons hot! Fire in the hole!"
This moment of awkward atmosphere was later interrupted by another round of gunfights ensuing the whole town, in which the voices of soldiers, multiple guns firing and huge explosions can be heard from their current location. As the skirmishes are too close to their vicinity this prompted the G&K PMC group and the odd pair to move out southbound in hopes of getting out of the town with little enemy encounter as much as possible. However this proved to be increasingly difficult as they encounter more and more enemy formation on their way to a safer location that made most of the combatants slowing down due to fatigue and/or damages incurred and their overall ammo stock are getting smaller by the minute. In a last minute decision...
"Everyone, let's get inside that building and take positions!" Taking a glance on his left side the G&K Commander gave out a suggestion to his allies, "We'll wait for the AR Team to rendezvous with us over there and plan for our next move!"
"""...Roger!"""
Agreeing to his suggestion the G&K group along with the odd pair quickly entered a run-down two story apartment, and as soon as they enter some of the G&K T-Dolls and human personnel take up positions that would be their vantage point from the enemy while others uses the chance to fix up any injuries and repair damaged equipment. Finally having a breather after a long course of continuous gunfighting some of the T-Dolls finally showcases their odd human-like personalities and made the whole tension earlier somewhat lighter.
"G11! Wake the hell up right this instant!"
"Hnnngh..."
"Hey! Who's been eating my Snackers rations!?"
"Waah! I got a cut!"
"There, there..."
"Ugh, I've missed the Doujin sale for this year..."
"...No more Potato Chips for tomorrow, huh..."
Walking towards the black-themed sniper the purple-haired little girl greeted her with a bow and said, "Uhm, hello, pretty Miss. Thank you for saving me back then from that bad guy."
"Hm? Oh, it's fine, really." Slightly fidgeting WA2000 smiled at the little girl, "I'm just glad that you're safe and sound after that..."
"Look at you, getting all too riled up over a little girl's token of appreciation~" Said by Springfield with a tender smile as way to tease her fellow sniper.
"S-Shut it!"
From that point several other T-Dolls gather around the tomboyish-looking little girl and bombards her with questions, most notably HK416's team members.
"Hello there, I'm UMP9~ What's your name?"
"Hey, do you like some sweets or snacks?"
"I have a spare handheld console here. Wanna play some games with me?"
"I, uhh, uhm..." Overwhelmed by the number of T-Dolls surrounding her the little girl had a hard time keeping up to interact with them.
Also taking a rest on a counter table the one-armed giant then looks around him, observing the interactions between the T-Dolls themselves and several G&K human personnel.
Taking an overall view of the T-Dolls from his position, "So these are the Tactical Dolls..." the one-armed giant mused to himself, "Quite the mix of a lively bunch, huh?"
"Not to mention they're a bit hard to manage, especially their antics..." The G&K Commander cuts into his monologue, sitting next beside the towering giant and joins him on observing these female android soldiers, "Though I admit it's their unique traits are the very reason why I fight under the banner of this PMC and continue to protect them..."
"Heh, I can see someone like you having a reason like that..." The one-armed giant nodded once as a sign of amusement towards the G&K Commander.
Both of them took a glance of the little girl talking with several T-Dolls, smiling and having fun as she does so. For the one-armed giant, it was quite a spectacular sight to behold as he rarely see something like this during the Third World War.
"Heh, she seems already making friends with them pretty quick." The one armed giant commented in a somewhat relieved tone, "This should at least made her feel at ease even if there's going to be a guns hellfire awaiting for us in here..."
"Worry not, my girls would be more than willing and capable to protect that little girl." Assuring the towering giant beside him the G&K Commander replied, "You have my full respect for taking care of that girl in this chaotic era all on your own..."
"...Contrary to my expectations, I've managed to keep her safe so far." The one-armed giant stated in a stern voice, "If only we can find a place to settle where she can be this cheerful all the time then I can make peace leaving her there for good..."
"Well if that's what you want, then I can arrange something-"
Before the G&K Commander can finish up his sentence one of the G&K human personnel alerted the PMC group with grave news.
"Incoming emergency transmission from M4A1 of AR Team!" Holding a PDA Kalina reports, "It says; We've been pinned down by several Sangvis Ferri units at the town's southwest area and unable to proceed any further. And be advised; They've located your position and a whole armada of them being lead by Agent herself are now coming your way!"
"...Seriously!?" One of the G&K human personnel shrieks in fear after hearing that one name who's leading SF units' assault.
"Another enemy units spotted at 10 o'clock!" Observing movements from her vantage point on a window Type 95 alerted everyone on the apartment, "KCCO infantry and mechanized units are advancing towards this area! and they're coming in hot!"
"Well, looks like your joyous celebration for reunion has been cut short, not to mention having a peaceful rest for tonight either..." Rubbing the back of his neck the one-armed giant intentionally whines in frustration as more and more enemies pour over in their vicinity.
"...Over there!"
"Fire! Fire!"
Rounds and rounds of gunfire echoes throughout the streets and to the night, as the G&K and KCCO began exchanging bullets right after they've set their sights at each other. Using the apartment's walls as cover the G&K T-Dolls and human personnel return fire against the advancing KCCO forces to deter them from entering the building.
"Engaging the enemy! Firing now!"
"Heh, come on! Come and get some!"
"And I haven't even gotten any sleep lately...!"
As the G&K T-Dolls fires are busy fending off their less human-looking KCCO counterparts one of them notices something on her digital tablet that's been giving off a red warning signal.
"Paradeus troops movement detected!" STG44 also makes another alarming report to her comrades, "ETA 30 minutes, coming from the town's northern area!"
"Grr, Fuck this shit! I should've quit before all of these happened!" Momentarily taking a break as he reloads his assault rifle one of the G&K human personnel exclaimed as he learned of this one more piece of bad news, "At this rate we're going to be surrounded by three hostiles on all sides!"
"There's no use complaining anymore in this situation, right? You're not helping with all that yapping of yours!" But the little girl scolds the G&K armed personnel with a scowl on her face, "You're holding that gun because you don't want to get yourself and your friends being in that situation, right? Then stop whining and fight!"
"U-Ughh, err..."
"Hah, jokes on you! The kid shows more backbone than you do!" UMP45 makes an insulting remark at the G&K personnel, grinning in personal amusement as she winked at the little girl.
"You hide in here, okay?" UMP9 had the little girl tucked herself behind a hastily arranged furniture as her cover along with several other non-combatant and/or wounded personnel, "Big Sis and the others will beat up those bad guys so you don't have to worry a thing~"
"Okay!" And then the little girl nodded as she obediently followed the friendly T-Doll's instructions guiding her to a safe position from enemy attacks.
Witnessing this scenario several G&K human personnel and the T-Dolls themselves voiced out their reactions out loud even when under KCCO unit's heavy gunfire.
"...Well, that was kinda funny."
"You only get to see those kind of things here in G&K. That's why we all want to be here."
"My exact same sentiments..."
"Heads up, there's still more of them coming!"
"Nnnhhggrrhh...!"
As the raging exchange of bullets becomes more intense it's getting harder for the G&K PMC group to fight back against the overwhelming numbers of KCCO forces that constantly advance to their location little by little. With the last ammo stock mostly spent, defense barrages going thinner and their defeat evidently getting imminent several of the T-Dolls and G&K human personnel is now gritting their teeth out of frustration and already considering desperate measures for survival.
As the hulking G&K Russian personnel rattles out his Minigun wreaking havoc at the Cyclops formation, "My Comrades! I am deeply honored to have been able to struggle alongside you all to the bitter end!"
However the rest of G&K human personnel weren't amused to his supposedly final words and retorted to him with, """SHUT UP!"""
A the counter table, "Khh, this is getting more troublesome by the moment...!" As his assault rifle is spitting hot lead against the attacking enemy forces the G&K Commander glances at the one-armed giant beside him and said, "Looks like I won't be able to repay you for rescuing me at this rate..."
"..." The one-armed giant kept himself calm and silent all this time, as if he was gauging the situation and assessing whether now is the good time to make his own contribution to the skirmish itself.
"Big Bro..." Staring at the one-armed giant from afar the little girl had an eye expression that once again she looked like it's going to be the end of their peaceful lives together.
"..." And this stare finally made the giant cloaked man chose his next course of action.
Taking a deep breath the one-armed giant psyches himself up and unloads his backpack beside him, and then calls out to the G&K Commander.
"Hey, kid. I have a proposal to you."
Having an annoyed expression the G&K Commander takes time to listen to the one-armed giant while he reloads his weapon with the last remaining full magazine, "I'm actually 25 but whatever. What now?"
"I know a way to get ourselves out of here..." The one-armed giant told him in a stern voice, "...Though it's not much of a plan, since it'll just be mostly me wrecking these guys myself."
"...Huh!?" Quickly turning his head at the one-armed giant the G&K Commander pauses for a while and asks with desperate-looking eyes, "What are you-?!"
"However, I want you to do me a favor." But before he could tell his plan the one-armed giant also presents his condition, and as he was about to state his demands...
"I'll do it!" The G&K Commander answered in a heartbeat, barring out any further arguments out of the deal.
"But I haven't said anything yet..." Pausing for a while and sighing in response the one-armed giant retorted with a dubious tone.
"I don't know what kind of tricks up on your sleeve but whatever you're going to offer if it's going to make me, my girls and my comrades go back home alive, I'll take my chances!" The G&K Commander replied with a determined facial expression, "And I'll even make sure to pay you in any way afterwards if we can survive from this predicament!"
"Okay then." Confirming his words the one-armed giant then stated his demands as follows, "First of all you guys will stay silent on everything that you're going to see from here on out. And second, when you guys go to your 'home' take the little girl with you and make a place for her in there."
"Granted!" The G&K Commander replied with a thumbs up and grin as guarantee, "And if you like, I'll even give the two of you a nice shack with a promising job offer after all this shit! Now, what's your plan?"
"Good." Nodding once the one-armed giant then suddenly stands up from the counter table and runs toward the apartment's door even though there's still bullets flying everywhere. When the KCCO infantry dolls finally broke through inside the apartment the first thing they saw is the one-armed giant rushing at them, making him a prime target of the three Cyclops and an Aegis-GA, firing their guns and readying its shield respectively.
"H-Hey, what are you-!" The G&K Commander yelped in surprise and out of avoiding friendly fire he shouts, "Khhn...everyone, cease fire! CEASE FIRE!"
"""...AH!?""" In the combination of following orders and astonishment of someone on their side running towards the enemy units both G&K human personnel and T-Dolls stopped attacking and observes the one-armed giant's almost suicidal stunt.
Jumping towards the enemy's line of fire and throwing his trench coat at the KCCO T-Dolls to distract them the one-armed giant proceeds to close in while evading their gunfire. Within grappling range of the unsuspecting Aegis-GA infantry doll the hulking giant grabs its right hand, twisting it until it breaks off and steals the shock baton at the same time kicking its legs causing the armored KCCO T-Doll to fall on its feet.
"I'll be borrowing this..."
As they remove the trench coat from their faces the Cyclops trio was greeted by one powerful smite to their heads, effectively decapitating all of them and simultaneously falling off their feet. Making sure they won't get up again The one-armed giant stomps their backs one by one, crushing their chests and causing sparks to fly around its inner workings.
"Heh, this is pretty handy. I might keep this for a while..."
Just beside the one-armed giant the KCCO's Aegis-GA already gets up on its feet and attacks him with a shield tackle, in which he evaded in a smooth side wheel-cart action. However it followed by a swift right straight with a broken right forearm, which connects to the one-armed giant's left cheek. Though this doesn't faze him and counters with a mighty pommel at its torso to take out the Aegis-GA for good, it tears apart the head accessory that's firmly secured on his head and concealing his face.
"Seriously, now I have to find another hat again..."
"""A-Ah..."""
Shredding his bucket hat in the process his face is then revealed; an unusual head design that looked like a firearm placed on top of a metallic mouth, or more accurately speaking a sawed-off shotgun that had a serrated toothed jaw attachment below it as his head...
Part 1 End