Full Metal Panic! Volume 3 by Shouji Gatou

Author:Shouji Gatou [Gatou, Shouji]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Published: 2019-09-07T16:00:00+00:00

4: The Venom Spreads

28 August, 0411 (Local Time)

Berildaob Island, Perio Archipelago

“Time to get this party started... Dance for me!” Gauron laughed in a voice that crackled with madness. From the roof of the building, his AS fired its Gatling gun wildly. A Gatling gun was like a wheel of six connected gun barrels; it rotated at high speed to fire each in rapid succession, letting it rain shells down on them faster than any rifle.

“Uruz-1 to Uruz-6!” McAllen called. “Can you snipe him?”

“Negative,” Kurz responded. “I can’t get a shot from my current position. I’m on the move now.”

“How about a Hellfire, Uruz-10?!”

“Out of ammo, sir,” Nguyen replied tersely.

“Piece of shit!”

The 35mm shells shredded buildings and asphalt like confetti and sent the ground-locked machines scattering. Blinded by fragments and white smoke, the M9s continued to run at full speed.

“Uruz-7, advance! The rest of you, fall back! Give him cover!” McAllen called over the radio.

“7, roger,” Sousuke responded shortly, running the Arbalest forward in a crouch. Gauron... He didn’t even bother telling himself he was supposed to be dead. All he could feel was bitterness and exhaustion.

He was so sure he’d finished him back then, in the mountains of North Korea. But he’d been wrong. He didn’t know what kind of devil’s luck had kept the man alive—but regardless, here he was. He was inside that machine—the Venom—that stood between Sousuke and his goal.

In a situation where every second counted, he’d had no time to check if the enemy was dead. Perhaps his assumption had been mere wishful thinking?

Gauron. What are you doing here? he wondered. Was this a trap after all? The man was talking like he’d expected them. But if so, why would he show himself so readily? None of it made any sense.

Sousuke’s feeling before the charge began—that fear—began to well up again from deep inside him. He felt an itchy sensation at the top of his head. His breathing became labored, and he felt panic rising. He urged his nerves to return to their finely honed state, but they wouldn’t budge.

This wasn’t good. He couldn’t stay like this. He remembered that destroyed Dark Bushnell he’d seen, and imagined it as one of his allies’ M9s. If he messed up... If he failed... If he lost...

There would be no going back.

It’s Gauron I’m facing. I made it out of Sunan, but he... he’s come here to kill my allies again. Just like the last time. Three years ago, in Afghanistan...

“Uruz-7!”

McAllen’s voice snapped him back to reality. He realized with a gasp that he must have slowed down.

“Look alive over there!” McAllen ordered.

Gauron was firing grenades from a launcher attached to the Gatling gun. Small bombs rained down on them, bringing calamity in their wake. Explosions burst and popped like bubbles. Sousuke propelled his machine in a zig-zag motion, managing to weave it through the grenades.

“Uruz-7! What are you doing?!” The M9s of McAllen, Mao, and Dunnigan, which had pulled back, all fired their rifles at Gauron. Their indiscriminate

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