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SORROW

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by Paul Hang

back, the past is only a picture

  A prisoner in the future, and cannot progress

  Stuck there, and doing completely nothing

  She sheds tears from her innocent eyes

  Nothing she can do to get it back together

  A disjointed relationship, an evolution of personality

  Hope is no more, and will never be

  Cold, the rain water is

  But it matches the same temperature as her heart

  Unidentified (Mission VIII)

  Two days have passed, Angela returns to her focused side

  Not completely healed, still damaged, but in control

  She's on a Chopper to Redingville, one of the bigger Bloodhounds' territories

  Using a X-86 and G7, dawn time

  Being dropped, there are only fears in the soldiers’ eyes that are on board with her

  The whole area is another suburban region

  There are eight houses per row, and there are ten rows

  More other houses surrounding the ten rows

  With a giant entry gate near to the tenth row

  Angela is landing behind the first row of houses to get some cover

  There are soldiers dying, medics trying to calm them down

  Soldiers are completely outnumbered, and trying to fight their way to victory

  Hectic firing and battle is going on, something she's used to seeing

  Angela and with the group of more soldiers are the reinforcement

  They all fight their way to take over the region

  It's constant, ducking, shooting, and ducking

  The scale of the battle has to be the biggest she experienced

  Ten minutes straight the battle lasted

  All of sudden, multiple large, unidentified meteor like objects

  Are landing on the middle of the road between the two rows of houses

  Everyone stops fighting, observing what's in these pods

  Within six seconds, there are creatures

  Free from their transporting meteor like pods

  Looking likes deformed monsters, but they are small

  Lizard like, skin color is red, and hostile attitude

  Ellie warns everyone around her, they’re looking for a fight

  Everyone all focuses on the creatures instead of the ongoing war

  There are around like thirty of them coming out of their colossal pods

  More pods are coming down

  And about in a few seconds, the humans are outnumbered

  Bigger sizes of them later on came into action

  Sustaining damage substantially than the smaller ones

  It didn't take the Confederacy too long; the excessive amount of creatures is suicide

  Desperately trying to evacuate out of Redingville

  The base that was part of the Bloodhounds will be no more

  An ample of pods have landed in the area, it's over for them

  A New Enemy

  Another two days have passed and

  War is no longer just the Confederacy and the Bloodhounds

  Creatures or aliens are here to kill any human flesh they see

  No accurate reasons why they're here

  It didn't take them too long to take over Redingville

  More places they also took over, both are former Confederacy and Bloodhounds

  A new enemy has joined the battle

  The Confederacy have gathered resources from their enemy during the invasion

  Voracious creatures they are, they are now called Enthragas

  Enthragas have five different forms of themselves:

  One is the Swarmer, primarily small and weak, always in masses

  Second is the Assailant, much bigger in size, efficient in combat, tougher to kill,

  And they seem to travel in smaller groups

  Third is the Seeker, the only flying Enthraga type, fast, and shoots fire bolts from their mouth

  Fourth is the Brute, bulky and physically powerful, aggressive and heavy resistance

  Fifth is the Guardian, they stand fifty feet tall, and they are the most feared Enthraga variant

  All the names are done from the survivors' experiences

  And the problem only gets worse with more rivalries

  Descension (Mission IX)

  Sun’s shinning, and it’s her time on another rescue mission

  On to Hardver, the city’s descending

  Known for its unique architectures and building design

  Citizens and Confederate troops need to be rescued

  Advancing to the destination alone, but with Dropships for those that need evacuation

  She has never seen any war torn city like Hardver

  Buildings are collapsed; ruined by the warfare

  Confederacy, Bloodhounds, and Enthragas, fighting and dying

  Soon, she’ll be on foot on the battlefield

  Her pilot is about to land, she pulls out her ARSM-26

  She sees a Bloodhound Trooper abusing a woman

  Going for the shot on him

  She hit him in the stomach, his buddies are aware of company

  Landed on the floor, immediately whips out her trusty rifle

  And start going to town

  Fighting a group of Troopers wasn’t something new to her

  Easily taken down by her aim and taken some damage, but none crucial

  She comes up to the lady, telling her to go to the Dropship

  The lady tells Angela that her son and daughter are trapped at a small grocery store

  Localizing to the right of her, all the way down the lane

  Angela sees a group of Bloodhounds and Enthragas fighting

  She can’t tell who’s particularly winning the fight

  Hearing footsteps, she’s met with some Assailants from the corner

  Four of them, aggressive and hostile

  She shoots one of them, but its moving fast while walking on the building to her right

  She dashes her way back, her blade is going to do some affliction

  Kills three of them, the other one runs back to its corner

  Equipped with her rifle and she hears loud footsteps

  She sees her first appearance of a Brute

  It has black and red skin, looking like a deformed mammoth

  Spikes around its mouth and chin, and two large red eyes

  She shoots at the creature every time it rushes at her, shooting at its back

  After wasting a plentiful amount of bullet, Angela doesn’t think her rifle can take it out

  The blade is taken out, waiting for the right time; she hops on its back

  She stabs it in the eye and its yellow green blood starts splashing out

  The creature is dead and Angela is back to focusing on the grocery store

  Bloodhounds are falling back, a good amount of Troopers

  Backed by three Leaders and two of those elite soldiers

  A group of Assailants and Swarmers are trying to break in

  With a toss of grenade, it damaged most of them, but she finishes the remaining easily

  Now it’s the Bloodhounds turn to get hurt

  A sniper headshot kills on one of the elite soldier

  Another grenade has been tossed, taking out a couple of more enemies

  She’s charging with her rifle, going on a killing spree with her Enhanced Armor

  Taking damage, and losing a lot of shield power, but she’s confident of surviving

  The remaining elite soldier attempting to throw a frag at her, but she shoots it

  Impacting the grenade and himself

  Just a few more and she’s done killing

  She sees the group of civilians that are tied, she freed them

  The daughter and son asks her about their mother

  Leading the location of the dropship, they start running to her

  All the other citizens did the same

  Angela continues to do her mission to save marines and civilians

  Aft
er doing six of them, she has one more task she needs to do

  Three Vanguards are ordered to take down the remaining Dropships

  She eventually finds the three Vanguards through communication

  In the city, and they’re moving to their destination

  She sneaks up behind one of them and stabs the user through the mech

  Both of them are on to her, one of them fires it pulse laser, she forces it back

  Finishes the second off with her X-86, and it’s just the third one

  A combination of strafing, and shooting her X-86, she gets the last one down

  It took a hefty amount of bullets, she runs to the last Dropship

  Safely it’s taking off; she takes a look at Hardver

  There’s no answer of what the city it will belong to

 

  Decimation (Mission X)

  A day later, the Confederacy is ready to make a full attack on Pendula

  A Hive is placed in the city, if they can destroy it

  Enthragas reproduction can be reduced

  Disabling the signal from the Enthragas’ world to the humans

  Getting Pendula, there’s one city that needs to be companied

  Their locale: Chayra, a former city of the Confederacy

  Angela isn't going alone in the night, five extra troops going with her

  Their objective is to study the lifestyle of the Enthragas

  Keeping themselves from distance and danger to their region

  Their objective to destroy the Enthragas anti air turrets

  They didn’t look like turrets to the Confederacy, but they’ve seen it in action

  And knows what it’s capable of

  She decides to use her usual X-86 with an EMD-52

  They're dropped off on the sides of the city

  More forests she has to go through again

  The view they can see, is unexplainable

  Alien textures attached to its building

  No reasonable answer why they were there

  The Guardian is walking around within the territory

  Keeping its view from danger and any anonymous guests

  Many pods they have seen, it's scattered everywhere

  Inside the pod, there's movement-what’s inside is breaking out free

  Some of them are hatched, heavily guarded with an ample of Swarmers and Assailants

  One of her marines is scared, it’s his first mission

  With the addition of being one of them or being eaten by them

  Panicking and being paranoid

  One of the soldiers

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