*R-18 Violence, Physical Abuse, Profanity*
The looks on everyone else's face filled with anxiety washed away any doubts I had. The Erlkings' forces were coming.
I turn looking towards my soldiers, checking their resolve and noticed a face was missing.
'Where the hell is Suites?'
I give another sweep of the men in my vicinity before hopping on my com.
"Suites, where are you?"
There's a pause before I hear a response.
"Uh.. Nature called if you really want to know." He clears his throat and I can hear some shuffling movement from his end.
"Hurry up, we got company. I don't want us getting caught with our pants down." I know my smirk can be heard and I swear I feel him blush himself.
"I'm finishing up. I feel the tremors. See you in a minute."
The drones start beeping and the screens pop up on our visors with the movements of their forces. It doesn't look like there is a lot of ground troops heading our way, but there are plenty of tanks heading our way. I zoom out and follow down two miles to where John and his men are and it's the same thing. I pull out farther and it looks like they are indeed attacking as we thought that they would.
The air force jets can be heard, screaming across the desert, dropping fire and explosives along the enemies lines. They put a dent in the numbers here, then head north to drop off the rest of their pay loads farther up the line. As soon as the jets were gone, one of the soldiers pointed at something off in the distance.
"What are you pointing at?"
"Look off in the distance. There's black dots forming in the sand!" He shouts and I it doesn't take long before I see them too.
Dots are springing from the sand like gnats on rotting fruit. Using my visor to zoom in, I see it's enemy soldiers.
"Shit!" I exclaim.
'They're getting this show on the damn road already.'
"Sin! Are you seeing what I am?" John's voice comes over the coms.
"Yes! I think we need a tipping weight sooner than we thought!" I tell him before turning to my men and instruct them to get on the big guns and ready themselves. There's a flurry of activity as others are doing the same.
"What did I miss?" Suites comes up to me looking at everyone running around.
I point to the chaos approaching us and Suites jaw sets in a determined line.
"Grab a RPG and follow me." I instruct him as I pick one up for myself, along with a case of the missiles. I take him to the building behind us, up to the fifth floor, running up the flights as quickly as possible.
Huffing behind me, Suites keeps pace and I can only smile at how he's going to give me hell for making him run up the stairs.
Once there I immediately load a missile and take aim.
"The tippers are on their way." John's voice comes on.
"Got it. I'm having some fun first." Even I could see the wicked smile in my voice as I fire the RPG.
Soon the air is full of others firing into the mass of soldiers heading our way. Once Suites and I have depleted the RPG rounds, we're quick to run back down to the rest of our platoon. Just in time too.
I came around the armored wall and hear the shout.
"INCOMING!"
I grabbed Suites and yank him into the armored area, just as the building we were in, explodes.
Concrete, glass, and metal come raining down on us. The reinforced suits protect us from being pierced, but cries still ring out from the force that breaks limbs.
"Mary! Have your MU's snap everyone to us! The tippers are coming to get everyone out."
"Copy." I huff standing checking the perimeter for immediate hostiles.
"All MU's! You are to immediately snap your surrounding team members to Lacroix's position immediately!"
I brace my hand against the wall of armor plating as the earth trembles and begins to roar and shake. I do another scan and see Lars and his brothers are already snapping people in and out.
"What's going on?" Suites does a scan and see's our troops and allies vanishing in massive amounts, along with equipment.
"We were not prepared for this area to be attacked. We're getting out of here." I tell him, reaching for his arm.
"DO what? We're leaving! BUT WE NEED TO BE HERE!" He grabs his helmet and points in the direction of the Erl's forces.
"We're not surrendering the area Suites. NOW, WE NEED TO GO." I reach for him again and the shaking of the earth intensifies, making both of us hit the ground and try to take shelter as more of the buildings begins to crumble around us.
A thunderous crack, ripped through the air.
Fear filled me as I struggled onto my hands and knees. Behind our location, looking at the rest of the town, a giant hole had formed.
Buildings were still crumbling into it's gaping maw.
The dust was still heavy in the air, as the giant, clawed paw of Vartonix joined with the other. His horned head came up slowly after that, his eyes squinting under the harsh light of the sun.
"What the hell is that?!" Suites yells, staring at the behemoth jumping out of the hole that held Vartonix.
Vartonix lands making me rock on my hands and knees and the buildings still with bones standing, finish crumbling to the ground. Each thunderous step was like a heart beating inside of our ears.
The sound of guns and missiles being shot at Vartonix filled the air as he roared, charging head first into the midst of the Erl's forces.
"Come on Suites, enough already. Let's go. We don't want to stay here...."
I stand and turn only to pause as I'm greeted by a black hole. It's the barrel of a gun, aimed directly at my unprotected face.
"Suites?" I look past the barrel into the furious face of Suites, one that doesn't hold a shred of the man I called my friend.
"Yes, I agree enough is enough already, Sin. It's about time we ended this farce of a war, don't you agree?" He cocks his head and gives me a malicious and disgusting look, his gaze flowing over me.
"Why? How?" I'm utterly confused, why would he be the one to betray us?
"I guess it's hard to recognize me like this, after some plastic surgery and a little help, how could you? Does the name Douglas ring a bell? Daniel Douglas?" He waits gun still pointed at me, as confusion sinks in.
'I know that name..Why do I know that... ' Realization washes over me.
"Daniel?!"
One of ex boyfriends. I had found out that he was married. As he declared his undying love for me, I had a restraining order placed on him. He was the one who had punched out a window and wouldn't leave me alone.
'He'd be in his eighties by now though. Plastic surgery doesn't turn back time.'
"That's impossible!" I shake my head not believing it.
He grins arrogantly. "But is it? Look at Johnny boy. He's alive..."
'He's right, it's not impossible, as long as he had some help from... the fae...'
"You're the mole?! You're working for the Erlking?! WHY?!"
"Do you really not know why, Sin?" He looks hurt as I shake my head trying to wrap this information around me. All the times we had hung out, laughed together, how many times he had helped us...
"We trusted you! You signed the contract! WHY?!"
"Sin, my dear. I thought it would've been obvious to you by now. It's because I am still madly in love with you. He promised me, I could have you, stay young and fit like you forever, plus have my own position of power in return for feeding them information and sabotaging supplies. I know you still love me and now you have no worries. We can be together forever." He moves closer to me and still holding the gun to my face, tosses some cuffs at me.
"Put them on."
"No. You'll have to shoot me, before I put them on." I defy him.
"I shoot you with this gun...You'll not regenerate, dear." He chuckles.
"But then what would have been the point? You'd lose me, right?"
He gives a dry laugh and yells, "Janet! You can come here. Now!"
I hear the scuffle of boots on the dirt as a tear stained, barely clothed, blonde comes around the corner, hands cuffed together with explosives attached all over her.
"What the hell! I thought this was your girlfriend?"
"Oh yes, well... you're off fucking John. I had to do something with my free time. Plus, Janet here... she likes it rough, like the dirty slut she is."
Fresh tears start falling down her face as she mumbles around her gag. She shaking in terror as Suites still keeping his eyes on me, walks over to her and plays with Janet's hair.
"Her life is in your hands, Sin. Put on the cuffs, or you'll get a show and fireworks." He presses Janet's head down as she screams through her gag. Making her bend over. He yanks what's left of her clothes off her, exposing her genitalia to our eyes.
"You're a sick fuck." I say grabbing the handcuffs slowly as he keeps the gun trained on my and begins to mess with Janet, making her scream and tremble in fear.
Just as I'm about to slip the cuff over, I see Bavarthos behind them. He shakes his head and winks at me.
'I'll take that as my cue than.'
"No, I don't think so." I toss the cuffs over my shoulder as Janet stares wide eyed at me and Suites' jaw drops.
Suites picks his jaw up and smacks Janet's exposed cheeks, "Damn it! Do you not think I will kill her?!" He asks pulling her up by her hair with the barrel now pointed at her.
"No, I don't." I say flatly.
A gun shot rings out and Suites groans as he leans forward, blood leaking out of his neck as he lets go of Janet and grips his bleeding neck. Janet runs from him still crying and screaming trying to get the bomb off of her. I quickly grab her and smack her.
"Stop struggling. I am going to help you." I tell her as she wiggles to get away. I pull her gag out as she's keeps trying to say something.
"LET ME GO! WHEN HIS HEART STOPS THE BOMBS GO OFF!" She yanks herself free from my grasp and runs as I look at a twitching Suites.
He looks up, smiles with a mouth full of blood and flips me off as his eyes go dull and he drops.
*BOOM*