Last Hope

Chapter Sixteen

Tucker fell to one knee, he held the brute shot. He didn't want to take it out, he knew what would happen then. He just knelt there, fighting off the pain. Sabre jogged up to him, putting a round into the chieftains head with his pistol as he went by.

"Where is it stuck?" Sabre asked getting right to the point.

"My gut," Tucker said breathing heavily "I don't think it's that bad. Just get me some bio-foam, I'll be fine."

Doc jogged over to him, took out the blade, pulled out a bio-foam canister and filled the wound, but didn't patch it.

"S-sir," Thomas said hesitantly "you're not fine."

"What do you mean?" Tucker asked.

"The blade has," Thomas said in a puzzled tone "it's broken the suit. Your stomachs armor is depleted, but the rest is undamaged. Bio-foam won't fix the armor, as for your body. You have a lot of bleeding, the blade is the only thing keeping you from bleeding out at this point. We need to get you to the Armageddon and fast."

"Heads up," Ashley said through the radio "shuttle coming in."

"And there's your ride," Sabre said.

"No," Tucker said "your ride is here, not mine."

"You're wrong there," Chy said "you're getting on this shuttle and staying on this time."

Sabre put his arm around Tucker and helped him stand up. Frost walked over to help, but he didn't have a chance to help. Tucker shrugged both of them off. He reached, scratched his neck. Sabre tried to support him again, but Tucker pushed his hands away. Sabre looked at his hand afterwards, and clenched it into a fist.

"Logan, Ashley, Calvin," Tucker said walking out onto the battlefield. "Get these people to the shuttle, and make sure they stay on there."

"Yes sir," all three of them said.

"Let's go you guys," Ashley said.

"No," Frost said "we're not leaving him."

"We have orders to get you guys out of here," Logan said "we have to follow them."

"I'm not leaving him," Chy said.

"Chy," Sabre said "we're getting out of here."

"Maybe you are," Chy said walking away "but I'm staying."

Chy jogged to catch up with Tucker, when she finally did he turned to look at her. He was holding the spot where he had been stabbed.

"I gave you an order," he said turning away still walking.