Full Metal Panic! Volume 10 by Shouji Gatou

Author:Shouji Gatou [GATOU, SHOUJI]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Published: 2021-02-20T00:00:00+00:00

“—ruz-6 here! Engaging enemy AS—” Kurz was reporting the status of the battle over the radio, but Sousuke was in no position to follow the back-and-forth. A helicopter was on the verge of falling right into the shaft they were still trying to climb.

“What in the...” The helicopter showered sparks as it creaked downward through the large, open space above them. It seemed to be tangled up in the pipes and girders of the plant, which acted like ropes, keeping the helicopter suspended... But they were breaking, one by one, under its weight.

Sousuke had maybe ten or twenty seconds before it plunged into the shaft. There was no time to lose.

“We’re going down! Grab on!” he told Tessa, and fixed the remaining slack of the rope to a nearby girder with the carabiner before kicking off of the wall. They didn’t have time to climb out. He’d have to drop swiftly to the bottom and flee into a cross-shaft.

Each kick took them down two floors. One kick, then another... He wished he could drop faster, but to do so was impossible while holding the weight of two people.

There was a crash from above as the helicopter collided with the entrance to the shaft. It sounded as though it had just barely caught on the edge, but was slowly tilting their way.

Shards of machine and plant showered down on them, grazing past Sousuke. A shadow loomed in his night vision scope: a metal fragment the size of a throw pillow was plunging towards them. Planting his legs hard against the wall to brace himself, he tilted his body upwards to protect Tessa and shielded his own head with his left arm.

The metal grazed his arm as it flew past. “Ngh...!” Sousuke forced himself to shake off the pain and return to his descent, kicking off the wall a third time, a fourth.

Tessa simply clung to him with laudable silence.

How far to the ground below? He looked down and saw the ring-shaped bottom approaching: there were three floors remaining. The helicopter fell at just that moment, and sparks filled the shaft as it raced towards them. Sousuke felt like he was inside the barrel of a huge gun with the ravaged machine serving as the bullet.

One more kick... he told himself. Then suddenly, the rope lost its hold; the helicopter’s fall must have dislodged its support.

Sousuke exclaimed wordlessly, and Tessa shrieked. The distance of their fall was about one story, and he just managed to twist his body to avoid crushing Tessa beneath him. Still, his right side hit the floor hard, which expelled the air from his lungs and sent his head spinning.

Sousuke sucked up the pain, removing the rope and straightening up. It’s coming. No time to look up. With Tessa still on his back, he ran for the corridor just ahead. The helicopter’s coming. Almost there. Four steps— three steps—

“Ngh...!” He hurled himself forward, with a blast of wind and an ear-splitting crunch that came from behind them. Sousuke turned back to see the remains of the helicopter blocking the entrance to the corridor.

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