Solar Warden

More Part 73

"Freeman is down!" Anderson, which used the alien rifle, shouted.

The aliens where now trying to move the nearby fallen SW soldiers further into the cave. From the higher ground the two SW-1 snipers were doing all they could to prevent that, while the rest of the team tried to assist SW-3. The cover of the trees on the forest border was good. But it did not go to well inside the forest. Still they had no fallen there.

"We cannot hold the forest. We are overrun retreat to the shuttles as fast as you can," Commander Knight ordered.

"Pearce take all troops and retreat at once. We can cover with the combat drones if the gap is broad enough," the Captain ordered.

"What about Freeman, Lee and Chavez?" Pearce asked.

"If you can get Freeman on a bike do so. For the others I see nothing what we can do," the Captain replied and ordered all surface drones, which were assigned to the cave, into the open cave door to scout and distract the aliens.

Ryan and Caine were coming in having the bike of Newman and Samuel with them. Caine jumped of the bike and helped to get Freeman on his while Ryan gave some suppression fire with the Gatling gun. With that he drew the fire away while turning back the bike.

Freeman was now lying over the bike which moved away with him. Some of the aliens were shooting at the incoming surface drones. The SW teams could retreat further. But there was not much to hide here. Which let the aliens advance down the hill ignoring the fallen SW members at the moment. There was no sniper support anymore. But combat drones came in very fast and fire with all they had. Lighting railgun projectiles rained into the ground like meteors. There explosions occurred which blasted rocks and dust into the air. The whole area was turned into a dust cloud where the enemies could not be seen anymore.

This gave the teams time to jump on the remaining bikes and drive faster away. Some shoots were passing them.