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SIEGRETRON CHAPTER 4-6

***Chapter 4: Stronghold battle***

I immediately took cover to what looked to like a sniper bunker. It was situated on the upper left side of the HQ. The bunker was small, reinforced with steel, has 2 fireports, it was a good spot. Away from shooting range, and quite stalthed. It blends good with the surroundings. At this point, it was not anymore about the defending for me. It was about survival.
I will defend the HQ for as long as I could, if we get overrun, I'll hide in the jungle in hope of the assimilators leaving.

I got in the bunker, and to my surprise Tang was there!
"Hey! Walder! Good to see ya again! Glad you survived that shooting out there!", Tang said in a quite cheerful voice
"Yeah well, No assimilator can kill my ass", I said, joking. "Anyways, where's captain?"
"I don't know. But I bet he's still kickin' ass on space"
"Well, I hope he's ok"
"Yeah. Anyways, have you heard? One of them scientists have developed a gadget to harness the gravity. now ain't that just fancy"
"Yep. I flipped out when I heard that", then the bunker was filled with laughter.
"Anyways, we got 2 more people here, lemme introduce them to 'ya"
"sure"

Then Tang grabbed something on the floor. It was another buker. A safe house if you must. I thought to myself that this was the safest it could get. We then walked down the stairs and saw two other men preparing their guns.
Inside the underground bunker was another 2 firing holes. Probably hidden on the surface since it's covered with these leaf like objects. It was a good spot, although sight range is limited only to the ground. Nevertheless, a safe spot.

"All right, here's Private Depp, a medic"
"Nice to meet you", Depp said
Depp was a normal guy, clean shaved, has a short hair and has a european accent when he speaks.
I shook his hand then Tang introduced me to the other soldier.
"And this is Private Townes, a sharpshooter"
"Glad to meed you mate", Townes said.
Townes wears a pair of glasses. Despite those glasses he managed to be a sharpshooter. He is arranging his Particle rifle in place for the upcoming attack. He is quite old looking, I bet he's an expert at what he does.
I greeted the two soldiers then Tang lead me back up the bunker. We prepared our Plasma rifles. We were given three pieces of thermal detonators.
These things contain a lot of pack despite their size. It can probably explode like 2 packs of C4. I'm always fascinated of what is hiding inside these little things, but I never really got the time to know it.

Minutes later we were finished preparing our rifles. We checked downstairs to check the other soldiers if they were also done, and we also checked our food supplies. It can probably last us for 4 days. We went back up to our posts then the radio buzzed.
"Our armada is completely destroyed, we have a couple hundred survivors, We will be sending them to the corner bunkers. The rest will help the construction"

Then the radio buzzed out.
"I'll bet you 16 rounds of these EMP pistols. We're gonna make it out today", Tang swaggered.
"You're on bud", I said.
"By the way, how'd it go up there?"
"Well we were hit by two rounds of particle cannons"
"Anything else?"
"Particle cannon ain't enough for 'ya?", I laughed, so did Tang. "What about yours?"
"Let's just say our captain whited out"
"I'm sorry"
"No need", Tang said, a slight shaking in his voice. "It's not your fault"

Silence then filled the bunker. Minutes later a troop arrived at the bunker. To my surprise, it was our captain, Captain Ace.
"Boy am I glad to see you both", Ace said with a delight in his voice.
"Me too", Tang said. "So, how many was it?"
Ace then chuckled a bit then answered, "Took out 2 rounds of missile then crushed an entire fighter division"
"Wow. What turret division were you assigned to?"
"The Plasma turrets"
"You cheater"
"Life is always unfair my friend", he said. He then turned to me,"So ,what about you son? How many did you take out?"
"Just 4 fighters", I said.
"4 Fighters? I haven't seen you killed a bug before and you killed 4? Nice job man!"
"Yeah well, the armada was thick, how could I miss anything?"
"Good point"

Our conversation was then cut short by an explosion on the south-east bunker. About a mile from the HQ. The assimilators were approaching ground.

"All right, get ready to hunt some assimilator scumbags!", the captain said, a full determination in his voice.
Moments later there was another batch of explosions, then guns started shooting. We can hear the heavy rattle of our artillery.
Then the transports arrived.
It carried five tank like creatures known as Desolators. These desolators have a long nose like tube, probably resembles an ant eater, only this one is as big as an elephant, and is armored.
It then began firing on the walls.
We then began firing at the desolators. The desolators stopped firing at the walls then began firing close to us. The cover of the bunker was working.
We used up a clip or two but then we realized something.
The Desolators have new armor. These lasers aren't enough to penetrate them. Without a though, I grabbed one of the detonators then threw them beside the group of desolators. All of them exploded.
Their armor may be new, but these thermals can destroy just about anything.
But we need to conserve our thermals since this battle is just beginning. We need to know what their weaknesses are or it's the end of us.

Moments later their artillery arrived. This was easy since we only have to shoot their thrusters.
"I got three of 'em", the captain said.
"C'mon no fair I only got one", Tang yelled.
"keep up Tang and Walder", he chuckled.
I looked out of the window, but then out of nowhere one artillery launched a grenade like thing inside our bunker.
"Grenade!", Tang yelled.
All of us on the upper deck of the bunker got out of the bunker to get away from the grenade, but the blast radius swept us all of our feet.
I was for a moment muted in the world. I saw our captain lying on the ground, moments later, my senses became clear. I approached our captain.
"Captain, you all right?"
There was no response.
"I need a medic!", I yelled.

And then again, out of nowhere another of these creatures appeared and smacked me unconscious on the ground. I thought to myself that this was the end of me.

***Chapter 5: Stronghold Battle pt. 2***

I regained consciousness when I was woken up by Tang. I can hear him faintly screaming, "Wake up! Walder wake up!"
At first I though I was going deaf, but then my hearing slowly returned, the first thing I've heard was explosions, one after another explosion sounds are everywhere. My sight also turned normal. Just in time to see our captain being rushed back to HQ.

"Is he gonna be okay?", I immediately asked.
"Yeah, he'll be fine, who wouldn't he be? He's a bulky man", Tang replied.

I can now clearly see what smacked me unconscious. These things were not like anything I've ever seen before. They were slim and carry four blades, one on each arm. They have eyes everywhere. This assimilator is cloaking.
The assimilator's arsenal of gadgets keep on improving each year by a lot.
I wonder how they do these things.
"Okay, come on now. Let's get back to the bunker", then paused to look at the ruined bunker, "Okay, let's go to the underground bunker"
The underground bunker was made of tough steel, titanium, and a pinch of diamond. It could easily survive a dozen thermal blasts.

We rushed to the underground bunker, I picked up the captain's weapon just in case we run out of ammo.
When we reached underground, I can see Townes and Depp are trying to fend off all the incoming assimilators, but despite their best efforts a lot of assimilators are getting through. The only thing killing those assimilators are the turrets. But these ammo will run out sooner or later.
"These things are tougher than before!", Townes immediately said
Tang escorted me to a wall, let me go then told the medic I needed help. I have several bruises and a bleeding arm. The medic then approached me to fix me up.
"I know, our weapons are primarily useless against these things. Only way to knock 'em out are these thermals, but these are just to precious to use", Tang said.

The two troops just keep on firing, shot after shot after shot. None of the assimilators they were shooting are being destroyed. It's like these things are impenetrable. Those guns we were using are just crumpled paper being throwed at them. How do we hope to succeed the defense from these, things?

Right now we are safe from the shooting outside. The cover was working perfectly, the debris is also helping with our cover. Moments of waiting the radio buzzed.
"Troops return to HQ, we got reports that these things have new armor. Return to HQ, we need you to produce ammunition for the turrets. It's the only thing that can stop them"
"About time", I said.
"C'mon now, lemme help you up", Tang offered.
How could I refuse? I got a badly bruised leg. So we checked the upper side of the bunker, see if it was clear. It wasn't. There were a lot of troops rushing back to HQ. A lot of them were being killed by the assimilators. I had a slim chance of making it to HQ, there were a lot of shots being fired. But this was not about life or death. It was for the human race.

"Let me go, I think I can run", I requested.
"You sure bud?", Tang asked.
"Yeah, I can handle a little bruise"
"OK, but when you fall I'm not getting you", he joked.
"Sure, and now I'll bet you. 24 rounds of EMP I can make it back there"
"You're on", he said. "All right, in the count of three", he then turned to Depp and Townes, they nodded. "1, 2, 3! Go, go, go!"

We rushed back to HQ running for our lives to protect our clan. While running I can feel my bruise eating my energy. I can sense the pain sharply everytiime I tried to run. I hear explosions everywhere followed by the sonicboom produced by the turrets. I was almost back to the HQ, glad to made it alive. I turned to look at the grueling sight of the battlefield. I saw Depp, he was lying down on the ground. He died trying to run. I've got no time to mourn, although deep inside I wanted to help him.
I ignored my feelings then rushed back to HQ, inside there were medics standing by, one medic tried to help me but I told him I'm ok, so he let me pass by.

Moments of waiting the President arrived, I haven't seen the president for quite a while. The general was always the one briefing us, but since the president is here, I believe it's something important.
"Greetings everyone. You have done a good job defending the base out there. But right now, we all know that these things have improved armor. The only way to keep them off bay is our turrets. But soon though, our turret ammunition is gone, so I want all of you to produce ammunitions for our turrets. While you troops are on to producing ammunition, part of our science division are", then an explosion cut the president short but then he continued, "part of the science division will be working on ways to know the weakness of these new assimilators. So, our graviton will be slightly delayed, what was two days of preparation will now be moved to five days. I'm terribly sorry for the long delay, but this is all for you troops, and all for our race. For humanity. Now proceed to the ammunitions bay to produce ammo"

Right after the president left, we all rushed to the ammunitions bay. What was a room full of weapon was now entirely converted into blank space. Probably now resembles a factory. After being awed by the new conversion, we rushed to work. I'm assigned at the production of Gauss ammunition since I don't know how to handle chemicals and those sorta stuff. I began working.
In just about 4 hours of work, we produced a total of 73 rounds for our gauss cannon. I know this was not enough, we have to triple our efforts if ever we want to live for another day.

The general came in the bay and began his announcement.
"Good job in defending the base and producing ammunitions today. We've received word from their leader a ceasefire. I assume they will be producing newer troops, so we cannot just celebrate just yet. We have to keep producing ammunitions for our turrets to keep us alive. Anyways, carry on working"
Then the general left, there was a huge relief that made some of the troops in the bay shout for joy. I also wanted to shout, but I managed to control my emotions and just put out a smile. We humans are here to live another day.

***Chapter 6: Calm with a chance of storm***

Night came along, but we were still working our asses off on making these ammunitions, by now, we produced a total of 281 rounds of gauss ammo. The general then came to the bay and said.
"All right troops, you fought hard and worked hard today. Now, you party hard!"
Then other troops came in along with the president, then dropped the boxes. The general then opened the boxes one by one. There were crates of beer, crates of jerky, and crates of other stuff. Guitars, Video Games and the like. The room was filled with joy. In a long time we haven't really had the time to be happy. We are gonna party like mad here since this might be the last time we'll ever party.
I grabbed 4 bottles of beer, and a guitar. Man I've been wanting to play one of these since earth was destroyed.
I met up with Tang hours later then went to check in on our captain. He was asleep, but was woken up by the cheering of the people outside.
"Whats with the racket outside?", the captain asked.
"Oh, people are partying outside, the assimilators gave us a ceasfire", I said.
"Well ain't that just fancy"
"Beer?"
"Sure", I gave him the beer then began speaking, "What happened to your arm?"
"Little bruise, it's nothing"
He chuckled, "Ha! About time you've manned up"
"I know"
"Say, I need a lieutenant while I'm away. Tang you up fo it?"
"Oh, me? no. no. I can't take that, what about Walder here? He's the one that saved your ***", Tang laughed.
"All right then", then the captain turned to me, "You up for it?"
How can I refuse him? I've been a private all my life, I'm willing to try something new.
"Okay, I'll accept", I said.
"Good. You're in charge of Tang now", he laughed hard. So did both of us.
We then bid farewell to our captain, then headed back to the party.

On the way back to the party Tang and I had a short conversation.
"So, what are your orders, Lieutenant?", he said sarcastically.
"Shut up!", I said.
"Seriously, don't try to be bossing me all the time man", Tang said.
"Ha, I don't even know how to give orders"
"And I'm the one that's gonna save your *** all the time", he laughed.
"I'll try to look out for myself"
"You better"

We headed back to the party for another 3 hours. By then, I decided to go outside. I remembered Depp. I thought of giving him a proper burial. It wasn't right to leave him there.
I went outside then did what I thought of doing. I gave Depp the proper burial he needed. Then looked around my surroundings. There were lots of other bodies lying around. It was impossible to bury them all, so I let them be. I looked out the night sky. It was filled with debris. It glowed using the moons reflection. There were 3 moons here, although two are only visible since the other one is hidden from Eisley II aka sun.
I noticed that the assimilator armada was gone, maybe they'll return some other time, when they've learned how to counter our turrets. But we now have a graviton cannon. Gravity can't be countered. It's like shooting a 20 meter black hole into space. How do you expect to counter that? This will be the ultimate weapon. Although we have to be extremely careful because I've read the reports. If the graviton cannon is destroyed it might backire on us and turn the entire planet into a black hole. Yes, it would destroy their entire armada, but it would wipe the human race out. So now, we should develop making a shield dome. But that project was scrapped long ago.

Anyways, it was getting dark. It's time to end the day. It's not going to be another ordinary day tommorow.
I was going to the bunker to sleep until I heard something out of the ordinary. Some sort of twig cracked. I thought it was one of those alien animals, so I just ignored it.
I slept for four hours or so then there was a sudden explosion.
I woke up then grabbed my EMP pistol and combat knife then went outside. I have no time to grab the rifle since it was heavy, and this was an emergency.
I got out of the bunker to see 3 clouds of explosion rise above the night sky. I still have a slight hangover from last night's party so I couldn't think straight. I just stayed in my position to check if there are nearby enemies. As soon as it was clear, I rushed immediately to the nearest bunker where the explosion occured. There were bodies lying everywhere.

From the distance I can hear screaming. The assimilators lied in the request of ceasefire. They sent their spies to do some damage to the base. Those creatures. Suddenly, one of the creatures approached and knocked my pistol out of my hand, lucky for me, I got a chance to grab my knife just before the creature attacked.
I tried slashing their heart since it was their weakness but these things were faster than other assimilators. The assimilator grabbed one of my arm and raised me about two feet in the air, then revealed a short blade from its other arm. Without a thought I struck the knife on the arm holding me, and the creature retreated for a short moment.
I noticed that this creature is unarmored unlike its other teamates, this would be easy if only it weren't for their speed.
I then tried to stab the creature's heart but as I got there, he was already on my back then slashed me.
Luckily I avoided the attack and only slashed me on my arm. The pain was horrible, but I easily ignored it.
I tried to stab the creature's heart again, but now he's on my side.
He knocked me off and threw the knife away from my hand. I saw my EMP pistol and crawled fast to grab it but the creature also threw that away from me.
Another second, he's not crouching under me. It revealed it's short knife to stab me, but then the creature was shot in the head and fell down. Seconds later, it died.
I tried to stand up and grab my weapons before another of these creature comes. I grabbed my pistol but then another of these creatures sprung out of nowhere. I immediately shot about five rounds of my pistol. The EMP took it's effect and the creature died.
I ignored finding my knife and hurried to the nearest cover.
I reached the HQ, all the exits were covered with troops. One by one the creatures died. This was easy since they weren't armored. Minutes later the attack ceased.
But we didn't stop our firing positions. We were on halt to prepare for another attack.

About two minutes later we heard some kind of wind rushing towards us, then a second later it was inside the HQ killing at least six men in its surroundings, we immediately fired on the creature until it's dead. Twelve more attacks came killing a total of eighty-six soldiers. We still held a position for another two hours, but no other attacks came. So we stopped at our combat positions to help the wounded soldiers.

We were then commanded to the waiting bay for another speech. After all the troops were in, the general came in and began his speech.
"These were some new technology of the assimilators. The attack was completely unexpected. What all the other generals thought, the ceasefire was true. But we were wrong. Right now, half of the troops will be in patrol and the other half will be in ammunition production, each in that troop, half will be taking a twelve hour break, while the other half will be working, and vice-versa. The scientists are still making that graviton cannon so hold on. Never give up. For humanity. Dismissed"

As usual I was assigned with patrol. I took my position in the bunker where an assimilator blew the top bunker up. I went downstairs on the guard bunker which was safe from most attacks and hidden from enemy sight.
These things were unfair on fighting us. I guess it's their technique. I wonder what other tricks are up on their sleeve. I hope I don't encounter them. And they better hurry up at that graviton cannon. All I wanted was to live peacefully, without these things distracting us.
I wanted the old world back. Full of crime, but safe to live in, unlike now. No crime, but never one bit safe.

To be continued...