After Rose talked with Dr. Harting and the other people, they came to the east wall right away.
Gerhard was with Hope, Hayley, and Watson, they had been together as Spencer told them until now, but that was about to change.
Because of their roles during a fight they had to be in different units, sticking together wasn't an option anymore, Hope was assigned to Gabriel's sniper unit, Gerhard and Watson were assigned to the frontlines, and Hayley was with Blake and Milo. The preparations for the battle were ongoing.
Gabriel's unit was tasked to go into a tall building near the east gate and scout ahead using their scopes. Hayley was with Milo helping coordinate everyone.
Gerhard and Watson were laying traps down, Gerhard was assigned to a group in charge of making pitfalls. There were two problems for this, the first was breaking the first layer of the floor, after that the rest of the excavation team worked on making it deeper and that was part was easier.
The other problem was the placement of the holes, because of the sewers it was difficult to know the exact place where to do it, without the risk of an accident, so the construction of the holes was still pending until they found some blueprint for them but it was taking longer than what they thought.
Thankfully a white rat appeared to help. When people noticed a rat appear from nowhere some freak-out, others thought off attacking him, but one person recognized the rat and went there before anyone had the chance to act.
Everyone looked at Hayley walking to the white rat. The rat stood in two legs in front of her and kept doing poses, and exaggerated movement with the hands, after a short exchange she nodded and asked all of those who were near her.
"Can someone call Leon? Pinky says that they can help us avoid the sewers."
Some people thought right away 'Who the F**k is Pinky?', but the people that knew about his existence felt surprised by meeting one of the most powerful overlords of the city.
Luckily it was on their side, for the people that have heard of him knew that Pinky was surrounded by a mystery halo, the people that had met him were few, and for some reason, no one was willing to talk about the white rat…
Pinky's existence was filled with legends each one more amazing and unbelievable than the previous. There was a legend that initially there were more Alpha beasts in the city and Pinky take down all of them, it was said that he rescued humans, and steal the heart of some humans maidens thanks to that. It was said that he attacked the NDR base leaving a trauma that they never forgot, lastly it was also said that his troop already won to the all the other Alpha's forces and his rats ate the dead beasts involved in the attack to the Aurora Clinic, the remaining half ran away in fear.
The most incredible part of these legends is that most of them had some truth in them.
Leon came right away, and after a short conversation, he nodded. From nowhere 5 fat rats appeared and started to run around.
"The teams in charge of digging the holes, follow the rats, they will tell us where is safe to work."
People started to move following the rats with some doubts and reluctance.
Leon kept talking with Pinky and explaining what the general plan was. The people that have heard about Pinky before started to spread the rumors about him, the legend grew, people said that the NDR ran away because of him and that the maidens in love were, in fact, Johanna and Hayley. That the voice in their heads giving orders before was his, and that they were defending the east because his rats already took care of the menace in the west…
It might not be true, but besides the part where their two muses fell in love with the rat, the other rumors and legends helped raise the morale for the incoming fight.
It didn't take long after that for the scouts to arrive as predicted by Rose, finally confirmed by a different source that the invasion was happening.
…
(Two and a half hours later)
*Crack
Gerhard lifted the hammer to see the results of the first strike. He already has done this a couple of times in 3 different streets near the east gate.
"One more."
This time he put more strength on the strike. The giant hammer was lifted and rested on his shoulder after breaking the street, and some goons started to take the rubble away. He might be able to break the road in just one attack, but previously it ended in a hole bigger than it should.
"This one is ready! Someone knows how much time we have left?"
"We should finish this one and go back, there is not too much time left…"
This time the first wave didn't split in fast and slower beasts, so they were most likely going to arrive together.
Thanks to Rose estimate and the scout's description they knew that they had about half an hour left.
5 minutes later they were back at the east gate, some protein bars and water were waiting for them to get ready for the fight.
Gerhard sat on the floor and looked around, the rats that directed them disappeared, and Pinky was nowhere to be seen either.
…
On top of a building, Hope was sliding around on her shoes while drinking water from a bottle. They were taking turns to look through the scopes, the unit was composed of 6 people, Hers and Gabriel's were the only fully functional MRGR, the others were advanced high caliber sniper rifles.
They had boxes of three types of bullets for the MRGR and two different types for the regular sniper rifles. Standard bullets and armor penetrating bullets were for both, the MRGR har some bullet that had a special kind of explosive inside that makes them explode on impact.
Hope moved next to the MRGR, it should be her turn already.
Just as she was about to take her position, Gabriel raised his head.
"Give the alarm!!! They are coming!"
One of the guys that was helping them with the supplies nodded and run downstairs.
Hope looked through the scope and saw a group of beasts running, they were moving in different streets but started to converge in this one as planned.
The blockades make it difficult for them to go in another way, but they had some people in the other places in the case that some beast slip by.
She charged a standard bullet on the chamber of the MRGR, with a thought the shell started to rotate faster and faster. As if an invisible force pushed it the bullet left the gun barrel toward the horde.
"Hey, they are too far don't waste bu…"
The bullet hit the wing of a flying duck that was slightly above the horde. The bullet didn't kill it, but it was enough to make it lose the ability to fly and fall in the middle of the stampede where they lost any signal of it.
Gabriel was with his mouth wide open after seeing the shot, he knew that he couldn't hit a shot like that unless he was lucky.
Hope took another deep breath, she put a second bullet on the chamber and looked for her next target.
…
While the first shot came from Hope's weapon, the people that heard it knew that it was starting. A guy came running from the sniper's building screaming for them to get ready.
The team leaders gave orders. The defense lines were put in place, and everything they needed was waiting for the beast to come.
A second shot sound from the building. The dust from the stampede was now visible for everyone. This time the third shot from the MRGR was followed by the other rifles.
The beasts were visible for everyone at this point. Even if they were scared or trembling everyone here was decided to protect their home and their loved ones.
On top of the school, a worried girl was looking at how the situations in both the east and west were evolving.