The Other Side

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Location: Briling County, Earth, BCPD 1st PCT

Chief: The fuck do you mean by "no leads?" The mayor is having an aneurism with every missing person. I need these people found right now.

Captain: Sir, I need you to listen. This is above us, we do not have the resources to continue this operation alone. NOHP, WFM, they all have been looking for two weeks and we have nothing. We have had more people go missing every day. Every detective agrees on one thing, this is a god damn serial killer and we need to call in NOID. 

Chief: If this is what you say it is than alright. But I swear to fuck if you don't find these people fast we are going to have to explain to a lot of families how their relatives are dead.

Captain: Yes sir.

1 day later:

A convoy of blacked out SUVs rolled into the town, behind them were NOHP and NORD units. The number of missing people had hit 16 already and the New Orderian government intends to cordon off the entire county until they are all found. Firefighters, cops, agents, would all search every inch of forest. Helicopters would circle the county constantly and a curfew was put in place. Checkpoints were established on all roads entering or leaving a town in the county, the highways would also have checkpoints. Until the disappearances stopped and a suspect was found guilty NOID would not be backing down.

Location: Forests, after 4 days of searching

A row of firefighters, police officers, highway patrolmen, agents, and park rangers walked through the woods with dogs. A SAR dog from the NOHR ran forward and the search party followed. The dog had stopped and began to look at a few trees. The smell of rotting corpses was obvious the closer they got. 

Firefighter: Holy fuck.

Four bodies were piled in a small ditch. The ditch had two inches of blood in it and the bodies had been partially eaten by bugs and animals. There were slash marks on the corpses and what looked like bullet holes in the others. Medical examiners were called in and the search was concentrated in that area. No fingerprints were found on the bodies.

The rest of the week more bodies were found with similar injuries. Everything seemed to be going nowhere when a radio went off.

Radio: 4-Adam-11, shots fired, officer down! I need 32s to my location, we just fired a flare.

A NOID helicopter spotted the flare and a SWAT team fast roped down. When they touched down they saw cops with gunshot wounds and missing limbs. Most had died but one was slumped against a tree coughing up blood.

Agent: Officer? Can you hear me?

Officer: I hear ya. Listen. That thing ain't fuckin human.

Agent: What do you mean?

Officer: Silver, metal it looked like. Had blast marks on it. Robot.

Agent: What?

Officer: This thing is a robot. Get the firefighters away, evacuate the town. It was heading east.

Directly east of the officer was the largest concentration of people in Briling, 20,000 people. The agents immediately radioed to command what had happened. You see, not every Guardian at Dalnax had been destroyed. This one had managed to escape after being hit by an RPG. The blast had destroyed the thing's jet pack and it's rockets but it was still armed with machine guns and one of its arms had been snapped off and the bent metal formed a blade. There was a robot with a machine gun and a sword for arms running at 20 thousand. NOID intends to put everything it can between the two.

The military had been requested but they would arrive after the Guardian already got into the town. The NOID officials came up with a basic plan, the BCFD and DOT would dig up as much as possible and form an artificial lake, only two feet deep and 20 feet across, 1 mile wide, but hopefully it would slow it down and the mud might get the robot stuck. The dirt would be piled up and make a wall that should slow it down more. On top and behind the wall would be every officer, trooper, deputy, agent, and ranger there. The fire department and DOT would ditch anything that couldn't be used to evacuate people, bulldozers and cranes, and head down the streets to pick anyone up. Every bus in the area would be going around doing evacuations and box trucks were commandeered by the police to carry people. Helicopters would follow the robot through the woods and give updates. If they couldn't destroy it the helicopters would pick up the surviving defenders. When the announcement was made about the robot nearby play enforcement units responded so the number of guns was increasing. They have 1 hour to prepare.

The barriers had been constructed and the officers pointed weapons at the tree line. The helicopters had reached the edge of the woods and spotlights shined into a cluster of bushes. A glint of metal appeared as the armored robot stepped out. Immediately every gun opened up on it and the Guardian returned fire. Multiple officers were hit and were dragged away by firefighters. The robot waded through the water and mud while bullets rained down on it. Unfortunately it had minimal effect on the android.

When the robot got out of the water the defenders retreated and waited for it to climb over. When it's head poked up it was lit the fuck up to no avail. The defending forces backed up while opening fire trying to buy time for the civilians. 

Meanwhile the buses had returned for the fourth trip out while more highway patrol cars arrived and drove toward the gunfire. Firefighters were loading in the injured officers to ambulances which were shuttling them to a triage center on the highway 10 miles outside the county. In order to maximize the evacuation everything was overloaded with people. An ambulance would carry 3 injured people and 2 healthy people along with the ambulance driver and the paramedic in the back. A few civilians had taken up arms to form a defensive line near the evacuation sites and as the gunfire approached they prepared for the worst.

A group of NOID agents walked backwards into the evac site while firing down the street. The militia members opened fire on the robot as it killed some police officers. The buses were filling up the fifth load which had civilians pushing each other to get in first.

Radio: Pharaoh 1-5 to evac site 1, do you copy?

Police chief: Evac site 1, we hear you.

Radio: Mark the target with red smoke and your defenses with green. We are coming in for a bombing run.

Two CAS bombers passed over and started to turn around. The police officers grabbed 40mm grenade launchers(for teargas and rubber rounds, not grenades) and fired a smoke grenade in front of the Guardian while some NOID agents pulled the pin on a green smoke grenade. The bombers approached and lit up the street with their 20mm and when they passed over the entire block the robot was on exploded.

The jets circled above while the defenders cheered about how they had actually survived the perfect killing machine. Military helicopters flew in and soldiers ran forward to the burning street while evacuations continued. Combat medics began to treat the injured in the helicopters and a convoy of military vehicles rolled into the town.

The death toll was 112, 20 civilians and 92 NOID, BCPD, BCSO, NOHP units. The military began a more thorough search of the counties around Dalnax for any remaining Guardians that escaped the city