"Coming in hot, I repeat coming" in hot, a blonde girl called out as she landed on the pavement before rolling over.
"Switching to heavy duty" A semi-automatic rifle appeared in her hand as she began to fire through a wave of what seemed like shadows.
"Captain, captain do you copy I don't have the target in sight over".
"Target is two clicks east from your location" a voice called out the radio as it began to crack up.
"Fuck what kind of suicide mission is this?" she cried out as she continued to fire.
"Language lady! The rest of the squad is moving towards your location soon, how long until you run out?"
"I have just enough for another juice, but that's all I will need a couple more—"
"—fuck I don't think I have enough time to wait for the main squad, I just made contact with a Derived Level VI[6]. I'm moving out."
She slid off the collapsing platform and rolled a couple of times before stabbing one of the shadow creatures in front of her in the throat and shooting down the other one a couple of feet away.
"It is just a scout mission, they say it just going to be a piece of cake".
"Nothing is a piece of cake in this place fuck" she complained as she hid behind a collapsed building hiding from the black like laser that fired towards her.
A loud sound filled the air as she covered her ears and screamed, blood flowed from her ears and nose as she cried in pain.
"Alpha XVI[16] do you copy? Alpha XVI[16] what is your location?" The radio crackled up as she tried to grab it but was feeling too dizzy and fell on her knees.
Two Formless entities resembling shadows approached her from both sides slowly,
They already knew she was cornered but still kept their guard up, the groans of the first one that was sliced in half suddenly drew the attention of the other one which was then frozen in ice before an axe was thrown towards the frozen creature while it scattered into a couple of pieces.
"Alpha XVI[16], you look like shit" the male voice said as he passed her white ears buds.
"Thanks Ethan, I thought I was going to get fried up"
"Who comes to a battlefield and forgets her ears plugs?, meh you are so getting it from the captain".
"You are lucky I mistakenly got lost and wandered to your location" he replied as he helped her up.
"Can you walk? I could call for an emergency evac to pick you up"
"No am fine just give me a minute."
"That's the thing we don't have minute we have to move now, you know what fuck it you can get angry at me later" he said as he lifted her up in a princess carry.
"Tower house this is Alpha III[3] requesting evac for injured, our coordinates are 44-11-300."
"I said I don't need an evac" she cried out as she tried to pull away.
"Sarah put yourself together, you look like crap, and you can't even walk, what are you going to do sing them to death?"
"I know you got shit to prove, but you won't be doing that if you are fucking dead, so heal yourself and get back here, we have a mission to complete."
Sarah knew it was already too late to protest, you couldn't cancel a call for an evac and she was in no shape to continue fighting.
A direct blast from a level 6 echo was like a shot to the head, she couldn't even see further than a few feet.
The tumbling of the ship as it flew overhead was loud, but she couldn't even hear much at this point.
She felt herself being pulled away from Ethan's arm and strapped into an emergency carry bed as she was lifted into the ship.
"Fuck fuck fuck" she screamed as she could feel her body start to jerk on the table.
She was going into an energy drain.
"Alpha XVI[16] is going overdrive, requesting permission to administer E–16."
"Permission Gra—"
As the loud thud blew the ship out of the air, it spiraled before crashing into the ground.
"We have been the hit, the ship thrusters are gone, we are requesting a ground evac team immediately".
"Hold your position contacting ground team immediately"
"The ground team has been held off, how long can you hold?"
Sarah managed to lift her head as she saw the shadow creatures gaining on them and knew they had at most two minutes before they began shadow food.
"This is a hot zone, we—"
"Hey look at me look at me, give me the E–16 immediately we don't have time."
"I can't administer that without permission."
"Who cares about permission? We are going to die anyway, and I'm not going down without a fight" she cried as she tried to lose the straps.
He ran up to her with the injection in his hand as he stabbed her thigh with it.
"You have 30 minutes before you burn out without the E–18 so use it wisely" he said as he helped her lose the strap on her right hand while she pulled the one on her left.
A Glock and knife appeared in her hand as she shot at the closest shadow.
"Fuck, this isn't my day"
She managed to walk as she stumbled a couple of times but still got up.
Her body was covered in blood as she rested her body again a collapse pillar, she looked into the horizon as she had only five minutes before she burned out.
Her eyes were weary, and she wanted to sit, she could see a figure sitting in a pile of rumble.
"Hey, hey you can't be here" she called out as she summoned her last strength and walked up to him.
"Alpha team do you copy requesting to meet with the main team?" she asked as the radio crackled and then followed by silence.
She stood behind the figure as she found the figure was actually a boy as his long dark was tied back, he was young, not older than 18 and was wearing a black sleeve with a black jean jacket that was rolled up with matching pants and boots.
The most disturbing factor was that he looked exactly like her brother as she sat beside him, he was wearing white wired ear phones plugged with an apple shuffle as he nodded his head enjoying whatever he was playing.
"Can you hear me?" she asked as she pulled his jacket
she felt her consciousness faded away as she murmured to herself.
"This is nothing like the simulations."