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Zephyr-Wind13 — For the Sake of Love Ch 23
Published: 2012-11-09 01:48:34 +0000 UTC; Views: 300; Favourites: 1; Downloads: 1
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A leopard and a gray cat-like dreamkeeper walk through the halls of a house in Theophanies. The leopard is dressed in a neat blue suit with a white tie and the cat in a red one-piece dress.“And your plan to bring me the bastard dragon is…” Sethos turns to Marzena.
“Why must there be a plan, Mr. Vorey? He will come to us.” Marzena walks over to a large datascroll tv and plugs in a small transmitter. The screen suddenly lights up with a map of Anduruna and pinpoints of every squad of shock troopers within the city. “But, if you insist, I have teams of shock troopers sweeping Anduruna.”
Sethos looks over the map and strokes his chin. “This is… Legal?”
Marzena closes her eyes and smiles. “Yes and no. Yes in that Kiaran is on Anduruna’s Most Wanted Bandits list. No in that I’m technically not allowed to mobilize troops without consent from my husband or against just one man.” She turns and starts to leave. “He will come, Mr. Vorey… And you can kill him yourself.”
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The crack of a revolver tears through the evening air as Jacov fires several rounds into a shock trooper’s skull. “Okey.” The bear clicks in new rounds into his gun and flicks his wrists, realigning the drum in the barrel. “How come I am only one vith kills?”
Kiaran steps over the mangled shock trooper and peers around the corner, quickly returning from his look as several carbonite rounds tear up the wall. “Because you’re on point… All the fucking time… Let me take point.”
Jacov melts his guns and two other metal blocks down and forges a shield and longsword. “Fine… I take rear.” He taps a commlink in his ear. “Hanoi. How is lookout position?”
“Fine.” Hanoi replies through the comm. “I’m watching that squad around the corner. They’ve got two manekales, a groundcar, and nine soldiers other than the one you mutilated…”
Kiaran clicks the bolt on his modified rifle. “Okay… Go time…”
The dragon breaks cover suddenly, leaping out into a combat roll and taking cover behind a pile of wooden crates nearby. As a result, the troopers quickly train their guns on him and open fire, their rounds starting to tear away mercilessly at the crates. “Hanoi! Start sniping, you asshole!!”
“I am!!” Hanoi shouts through the comm. “They just won’t get through the armor!!”
Kiaran roars into the commlink. “The hell kind of sniper round doesn’t pierce armor!?”
“I’m using hollow points!” Hanoi replies exasperatedly.
Kiaran roars again, obviously angry. “WHY THE HELL DID YOU USE HOLLOW POINT ROUNDS IN A RIFLE AGAINST ARMORED OPPONENTS!?!”
The dragon jumps from behind his cover, barreling straight for the nine remaining troopers. “DIE PUTAS!!!”
Jacov, seeing Ki break cover, joins in; using his shield to bulldoze into the nearest troopers. “COME GET SOME!!!”
As Jacov barrels into the enemy line, the troopers’ groundcar suddenly opens from the back and several soldiers run out with heavy cannons. Looking over, Kiaran’s eyes widen and he jumps into the air and struggles to gain altitude. “JACOV HEAVY TROOPERS AT YOUR NINE O’CLOCK!!”
Looking over, Jacov sees the threat just in time to dive out of the way as a volley of rockets fly at where he was just standing. “HOLY SHIT!!” Jacov hits the deck just as the explosives hit the ground and detonate, blanketing the area in a smoke cloud.
“Guys!! Get out of there!!” Hanoi shouts over the comm. “Trooper goggles can cancel out smoke!!”
“Shitshitshi—” Kiaran quickly moves to his right as another volley of rockets flies up from the dust towards him. “Jacov!!”
Through the commlink, Kiaran can hear Jacov grunting and roaring as he staves off trooper after trooper. “VE HAVE TO RETREAT AND REGROUP!! RALLY AT COMRADE KIARAN’S APARTMENT!!”
Kiaran quickly dives into the dust and lands on top of a Heavy Trooper, snapping his neck with a twist of his legs. “NO! We’re not leaving you!! Hanoi! Can you set your scope to cut through the smoke!?”
Hanoi calls out over the comm. “No! Pure visual scope only!”
The dragon takes the dead heavy’s rocket launcher and runs toward the sound of fighting. “Fuck it! Next time, I’ll snipe and you fight with Jacov!!” Kiaran runs into the fray and bashes a soldier in the face with the rocket launcher. “Jacov!! Let’s go!!”
The bear, his halo glowing, punches a trooper with a red-hot metal glove. “Right behind you!” Jacov says as he starts retreating. “Ja! I’m clear!!”
Kiaran quickly runs after him after whipping his tail into another trooper’s stomach. “Fire in the hole!!” He turns back around at the remaining pursuing troopers and fires the rocket launcher. The explosive flies straight for the target when all of a sudden.
WHAM! The rocket suddenly stops midflight before being thrown into a nearby building to explode harmlessly.
“What the…” Kiaran and Jacov turn around as Hanoi drops in from his sniper point atop a nearby roof. They all turn to see the smoke clear and a large golem-like creature towering above the shock troopers behind it. “It can’t…”
The golem falls to the ground in pieces as a familiar face walks over it from behind the remaining soldiers. “Hello… Meat.”
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Aaron and Ran walk behind the twins as they wind through the streets of Kojiki. Suddenly, Marx stops and checks his datascroll. “There’s a skirmish going down in Margate… A squad of ten shock troopers and three heavy troopers was attacked by a sniper and two unknown gunman…”
Aaron walks up and takes the scroll from Marx. “Hey!”
“Can it, fool.” Aaron taps a few keys on the scroll before Ran hits him on the head with one of her warfans. “Oww! Hey!!”
“Don’t. Be. Mean. To. My. Kids.” Ran hisses under her voice.
Aaron growls and returns to his work. Tapping a few more keys, he hands the scroll back to Marx mumbling. “Little pricks…”
As Ran hits Aaron on the head again, Marx looks over the scroll and his eyes widen. “How did you… I couldn’t hack like this if I tried! You’ve got through all the security clearance barriers for gogglecams on each of those troopers!!”
Aaron looks at the wolf, rubbing his head gingerly as Ran gives him an I’ll-kill-you look. “That’s because I’m the best shock trooper there is. And I get that clearance.”
“And why,” Ran interrupts. “He’ll help us find his brother so he doesn’t have to deal with idiots like Marzena.” She shoots the dragon the evil eye again.
Aaron sighs and stands. “So I can find my brother and won’t have to deal with idiots like his girlfrie—”
Marx quickly moves to cover Klara’s ears as Ran starts swearing and beating Aaron down into the ground. “You’re too young to hear these words, Klara…”
Klara crosses her arms and puffs out her bottom lip. “Stupid Marx with his stupid overprotecting and his stupid head…”
