5HA773R3D

Chapter 6- Moving Out

The hanger was even more busy than before. People loading weapons into drop ships, gearing up in the exo-suits, and stocking ammo. "You ready for this?" Melinda slapped my shoulder. "Yeah, but I didn't realize we would be going so soon." I looked across the organized chaos again. "Well you'll do fine, I saw ya with that bow, and you seemed to do well." She walked over to  a drop ship, "This is ours, it'll be you, me, John, and Kimberly." Then an Asian woman walked up in an exo-suit and a silenced rifle on her back, "Heya, I'm Kimberly." She unwrapped a lollipop and stuck it in her mouth, "Don't get yourself killed out there K?" Then Kimberly walked into the ship. "Alright, Black Leader gave us the all clear to go. Lets move out!" Melinda jumped in the ship, and the engines burst into life. I hopped in and looked around. John was already strapped in with an assault rifle, and Melinda had a fucking mini-gun sitting next to her. "This puppy's name is Betsy, show her some respect and she'll be nice." Melinda chuckled. The Hanger doors opened, flooding the room with a dull sunlight. Every one of the drop ships raised on cue, and flew out. We passed by a larger ship than our own and I saw a figure in a black and green cloak and mask, and they stared at me as we passed. "Hey Melinda, was that the Black Leader?" I said still thinking about them. "Yep that's her, our grand leader. No one actually knows her name, so that's what we call her." She went back to polishing Betsy. We passed the thresh hold of the hanger, and the doors began sliding close behind us. "Guess we aren't going back" I thought aloud. "HAHAHA, what's wrong pipsqueak, wanna quit now?" Melinda was laughing. "No, just that if no ones left in there, how are we to get back in?" I turned to Melinda. "Well we ain't planning on coming back kid, so that's why." We spent the next couple of hours flying over the No Man's Land, then eventually reached the Smelting district, when we began to land. "Wait a minute, why the hell are we stopping here? Can't we just fly into Lexicon straight to Chiron?" I really hated the Smelting District. "As effective as it would seem, after our last mission, they would no doubt have their guard up and blow us out of the sky." Melinda replied. Everyone hopped out into the sweltering heat. The entire district was built near a volcano, used to be called Mount Saint Helen's or something, then it blew up, killed a bunch of people, and became the Smelting District because of the abundance of lava. Then probably the worst thing of that day happened, the Black Leader walked straight up to me. She held out her hand, and I didn't know what to do. "The PDA," Melinda whispered, "Give her the PDA idiot." I handed it over and they swiped through the files, then they spoke. "Remember our main goal is to bring down Chiron, but we do have another goal." She turned around, "Our secondary goal to rescue my Red General, secondary leader of my troops." She walked away after this, to the large drop ship she came in. "Well, you ready then?" Melinda asked, "Cuz things are about to get a whole lot harder."