Solar Warden

More Part 70

The second machine was passing the fortified door. They had to shut down the sentries again.

"Prepare to retreat when it is out of the cave," the Captain informed.

Suddenly the big door opened.

"In position fast! Use the sentries manually. Switch it on automatic as soon as possible," Pearce ordered. At first there was no one to see. They were further behind on a corner near the wall on the end of the entrance corridor, which had vertical walls instead the trapeze one of the facility. Bigger corridors were going left and right on the back. They were big enough for three of the machines. Also they were as high as the door of about five meter. One sentry was on automatic now, the second followed. A ball like drone came around the corner. The sentries fired at once and shredded it. Further stuff was thrown out which the sentries took care off. Some exploded other seemed to waste the ammo of the sentries.

"Pearce, Freeman better you fall back outside the cave. We can better cover you there," the Captain advised.

The sentries were depleted. They moved with the other bikes back and tried using another two for the cover. Further behind another stuff was thrown and now a shot came in hitting the first sentry. The second sentry was done with reloading and fired again. It took not much time then it also was out.

They still did not use their power shots. But the blasts were enough to screw the electronics. Even the EMP safety they had seemed not to work.

Following the missing fire of the sentries. Two armored aliens came to sight added by two none armored. They immediately opened fire with the rifles. Also the SW teams returned shots as reacting to the sight. Some smoke grenades were used, hoping to disrupt the targeting. One of the armored aliens was hit by a rocket launcher, where the nearby unarmored one was also hit by the blast and fell to the ground. The other armored alien continued firing as he was hit by the high speed projectiles. Two of them seemed to be down. But one unarmored which was now further away stood up again and ran into the smoke while another armored appeared with three more unarmored. Some of them were now moving faster out of the door opening.

Without the sentries the fallback was now difficult. SW-2 was now bringing two in position.

"Lee has been hit," Anderson shouted, while Lee was falling to the ground. One of the front armored enemies was now moving very slowly.

"Get the sentries on. Then get Lee on a bike," Freeman commanded and continued firing with his HK.

The first sentry was hit while the second started to fire and shredded the armored already hit one with some unarmored nearby. Further shoots were coming in and hitting the sentry.

Chavez who was pulling now Lee to a bike, was now getting him over the bike. One of the blasts hit him and both fell to the ground.

"Damn. Now Chavez is out, too. Fallback we have to lure them out of the cave," Pearce shouted.

There were now much more out of the door. About ten were to see.

"They are not dying fast enough. Move faster back," Freeman shouted while he reloaded his HK.

They were already out of the cave while the aliens were close to the fallen. The position of the two SW teams was getting worse as they moved more down the hill.

Bang a loud shot from the sniper rifle and another bang went off. An armored alien was falling.

It did not change the course of the battle yet. But these shoots boosted the morale of the retreating.