"Godamn it, Alexi, where the fuck is your gun?!" Razor screams. The veterans have already overwhelmed the enemy positions.
I scrambled around to look! I have dropped my rifle during the dash.
She started to look at her surroundings. She yanked one off the hands of a dead conscript.
"Can you still recall how to use the Arbalest?!" She asked
"Y-Yeah!"
"Well carry on soldier!"
The battlefield has moved fifty meters away as the Remnants retreated deeper in the settlement.
As I looked inside the trench where the Remnants were hiding on... Despite our soldiers being experienced most of the casualties are ours. Their equipment is way too good.
The brown mud of the trench was stained red with blood.
"Oh oh fuck!" I yelled as I tried to bring words out of my mouth.
"I said push forward recruits! To glory! Go! Go!"
As I marched on I saw just how deadly a skirmish can look like. The buildings have been all shot up many of the stores have been burned. As I turn around Renegade troops pour down in districts.
But the Remnants are putting up a fierce fight.
"Shoot them they are right there!" Razor screamed and pointed to a building which was being shot up by many people. Thing is I don't see any enemy movement!
"Uhm." I cleared my throat and asked, "Where are they?"
"THEY ARE RIGHT THERE YOU BLIND FUCK!"
So I just kept my mouth shut and just fired at the building.
Soon I could hear bullets hitting our position. I could hear the lead tip of the bullet colliding with the cement around us. It sounds like 'pewsh!' I know I sound retarded by trying to copy the noise but my fucking god my heart was pounding.
"Where are they shooting us at?!" one of the recruits yell.
As the bullets land close to us we all ducked and took cover. I was hiding behind a bunch of sandbags with strangers but they are friendly troops.
"Get some bitches!!" One of the recruits yelled and deployed his Machinegun above the sandbags.
He was firing plenty of bullets at a short span. Is it suppressing fire or a waste of bullets? Well fuck I have no idea.
Suddenly. I heard a sound that I will never forget. When you crack open fruit with a hard shell. Like a coconut? Something like that. But you strike it with a machete with a lot of force.
The same guy firing his machinegun his cap was in midair for a few seconds. When a person gets hit by an AK their face remains intact but behind their heads, you see a red mist as blood and skull fragments fly. And the same sound I described that was the sound of his skull shattering.
I got some on my face.
"NOOOO!!!"
"HOLY FUCK HE IS ALL OVER ME!!"
The place was in utter chaos. Morale has absolutely disappeared in the eyes of these young men who were just singing praises for the Renegades hours ago.
I tried to wipe off the blood on my face but my hands have jelly-like substances on it. As I examined it I came to realize it was pieces of his brain.
My stomach felt like it was filled with nails. I wanted to puke and shit my pants all at once.
"STAND YOUR GROUND DAMN IT!"
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MELTDOWN 1
Aksi"Man is condemned to be free."- J.P Sartre Set in the distant future of Post-Apocalyptic Ukraine. The story centers to a young man named Alexi Orlov a man conscripted into the Faction Wars it has thrown countless lives into a cycle of violence best...
