Battle Earth V by Thomas Nick S

Author:Thomas, Nick S. [Thomas, Nick S.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Swordworks
Published: 2012-07-26T05:00:00+00:00

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“Christ!” Taylor yelled, as a pulse smashed into the doorway beside him, and fragments of burning hot metal singed the surface of his helmet.

“Mitch, this is getting fucking hot!” shouted Jones. He was reloading his rifle only a metre away.

Taylor turned to reply but stopped as he heard something bounce on the ground in the corridor. He turned and saw a metal ball almost the size of a football slide to a halt next to them.

“Get down!”

He had barely enough to time to turn and jump with Jones as a massive explosion erupted in the hallway. The blast burst through the entrance and projected them several metres further along. They smashed into the floor hard and slid into a worktop with debris crashing all around them. Taylor shook his head, trying to regain composure but was stunned from the landing.

“Grenades?” asked Jones. “Are you fucking serious?”

“What, you thought we were the only ones with toys?” muttered Taylor.

Their suits had saved them from the deafening blast, but they were still stunned from the shock of the landing.

“Let’s give them a taste, then,” replied Jones.

He pulled a grenade from his armour and rushed to the entrance. He popped his head out for a second to see where they had gotten to, ducking back as a pulse rushed past his head.

“Christ, they’ve covered some ground!”

He twisted the firing cap and launched it around the corner, looking for any risk of being hit by the continuous stream of fire.

“Have that, you bastards!”

He ducked down as the explosion rang out down the corridor. Taylor quickly got to his feet and peered around the corner to see a dust cloud and three dead Mechs. He smiled, but energy pulses gushing through the fog-like cloud soon washed his joy away. He jumped back and drew out a grenade, quickly throwing it as Jones had.

A second after the explosion rang out, he was around the corner and firing rapidly. Taylor could not make out a target, but he knew behind the dust lay a wall of Mechs that he couldn’t miss. Others of his unit did likewise. They could see the silhouette of two creatures in the smoke be riddled with fire until they dropped, but more continued after them.

“More grenades!” Taylor shouted.

He threw his last one down the corridor and saw several others follow seconds after the blast. Taylor hunkered back inside the room to change his magazine and let Jones take over.

“They’re almost on us, Mitch. We’ve got about thirty seconds!”

The Captain was firing on full auto because they were so close. Taylor looked around to see the platoon they had in the room had taken up defensive positions around the tables and whatever furniture they could find. They waited silently and still. He could see the fear in their pale faces. Their backs were against he wall. They had nowhere to run.

“Jones, come on!”

The two of them rushed back further into the room to take cover. Huge drums as tall as their chests lay in a line that would provide cover, but they had no idea what they contained.

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