Rapido!

Chapter 14

 Elliot, Octavio, Natalie, Mary, Gibraltar, Caustic and Ajay followed Renee.

Octavio stepped out of the doorway and looked over the city. Destruction. Everywhere. A carrier ship was in the sky, and then a huge colony ship just out of the planet's orbit. Local military was rounding up people, but specific people, not just civilians. Most of those people were armed, Octavio guessed they were a resistance. Explosions, smoke and fire covered most of the general area that Octavio was in.

"Tavi!" Natalie called him from behind some rubble, "Get down!"

Octavio sprinted for a rock and crouched down, peeking over.

"Could we go back in the arena and look for guns?" Elliot asked.

"No good, they are simulated." Gibby responded.

"Someone's coming!" Ajay said hurriedly.

Two men with big packs on joged over with their hands up,

"We're here to help!" One said

"Who are you?" Renee stepped out with her fists clenched.

"We are a group of resistance that Tae Joon helped organize."

"Where is the man!" Elliot asked looking around, "He owes me..."

"He's been captured, he knew about this attack and they got to him before he could say anything." The second man said. He looked younger than the first.

"Who's they?" Caustic finally spoke.

"IMC, local government, and so on. This is mostly the doing of a group of Ex. IMC Pilots and Grunts who have made a deal with the system government."

"That is some deep confusing shit." Elliot stared blankly.

"We'll explain when we get to a safe spot. Right now, we have weapons for y-"

A grenade exploded a few feet away from the man, he flew forward and skid across the ground for several feet.

"Clyde!" The second man ran over to him with Ajay. She knelt down beside him,

"He's gone. He's in too bad a condition to try what we tried on Mary. If we tried..."

The other man turned around, "The bags are loaded with guns and armor, put them on!" He turned back around to his friend.

Octavio ran over to the bag and Renee handed him a R-99. He loaded it and grabbed some reserve ammo, and jogged over to the man,

"Oy amigo, what's your name?"

The man wiped away some tears, "Yo soy Cash."

Octavio raised his eyebrows, "Yo hablo Espanol?"

"Si..." he paused, "A little."

"Mucho perfecto amigo" Octavio chuckled, "I'm sorry about your friend, but we should move, where do we need to go?"

Cash hesitated a moment, looking at his friend's body.

"It'll be ok amigo."

"I know." Cash mumbled, "Ok... follow me guys."

They all followed him out to the middle of a roundabout with some trees and bushes.

"We need to get to that building," Cash pointed to a small office building about a block away, "Underneath it is a hangar with two ships we can use to get out."

"That's been there for how long...?" Eliot asked.

"Doesn't matter." Cash said, "We need to move now, get into groups of two. If we all move at once we will be a huge target."