World War Mars by Isaac Stone

Author:Isaac Stone [Stone, Isaac]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-01-24T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 18

Once again, Harlo swarmed with the other men as they raced to keep up with Bey. Tulpa, as always, stayed to one side and pushed everyone along, always on the lookout for any snipers or enemy troops. It took them two minutes to reach the edge of the next trench.

The entire Legion stooped as they looked down inside.

Inside the trench was a division of ZR troopers in their red armor suits. They were all seated on the benches made out of the dirt of the walls. For a brief space of time, the whole tableau was eerie in that the ZR troops didn’t know what stood over them. Even Bey was caught surprised.

It ended when one of the ZR soldiers looked up and spotted the Ninth at the edge of the trench. He screamed, or at least appeared to, in his suit and whipped out his rifle. In seconds, he began to fire it at the onlookers. Suddenly, it seemed everyone in the trench was shooting at them.

By instinct, Harlo unslung his rail gun and returned fire. Bey was the first to shoot back, but soon everyone on the ridge was shooting down at the ZR troops below them even as the troopers fired back. It was a blistering few seconds of heated close quarters battle, though the high ground and advantage went to the Olympians. Enough of the ZR troops fell down to force the others into a retreat, Bey slid down the banked wall of the trench while still firing is rail gun at the diminished ZR troops. Not to be shown up, the rest of the Volunteers tumbled down the walls, some trying to shoot, while most fumbled over their footing.

Harlo hit the bottom of the trench and fell over the bodies of several ZR soldiers. He regained his stance and brought his rail gun out as he joined Bey and the others who fired into the enemy. He saw a flash as the top of the trench and spotted Tulpa blasting away at the forces that were in a full retreat.

They only ceased firing when most of the ZR side had vanished around a bend in the trench.

“Don’t drop your guns,” Bey warned everyone, “they’ll be back and with some friends. Now let’s get over that ridge.” He slung his gun over one shoulder and began to climb up the other side of the trench.

Harlo followed, but stopped for a few seconds to look at the trench. It was filled with the bodies of dead ZR soldiers. Some of them were still bleeding out from the impact of rail bullets, which had exploded on their way through the suits. The body armor they used didn’t seem to have much of an effect on the passage of the bullets, which he found odd. What was the point of wearing body armor if it didn’t do anything to impede a bullet? Then he looked down at the weapons carried by the ZR troops.

Most of them had standard rifles, although of the latest technology.

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