Fallen

The End?

We sit here taking fire as an enemy crawler, a giant four legged mech vehicle, steps right over the church we were in. I get down lower watching the last leg pass over the room debris falling from rotted planks.

"JASON! THIS PLACE IS FALLING APART." I yell over the sound of gun shots and plasma bolts flying through the air.

"YA I KNOW." He shouts back flinching as a jagged plank of wood falls next to him, "JESUS!"

I look around, there's 4 of us, 4 under trained, under equipped, and under experienced soldiers that were sent to check out a distress beacon left at a research facility 2 miles west of our current location. They sent us in as a training mission but the place had been over run with Griffians.

That's what they're called, those things out there, they're called that because 76 years ago they came to Earth and introduced them selves as the Griffians saying they were looking for peace but we gave them war.

Anyway now we are here in this church taking fire and trying not to get crushed.

I look at one of my crew, " David find us a way out."

"Ya I'll get right on that captain"

"Captain."

"What Fred?" I say a bolt of plasma hitting the frame of the front window I crouch next to.

"The radio's working!"

"Brilliant. Take my window."

I slide over next to the radio and sleek into into it."Delta bravo to Echo 1 this is charlie team do you read." There's a moment of silence, "Echo 1do you read. Can any one here me." There's static.

"Charlie team... Echo 1 wha... Need?"

"We need extraction."

"Roger that. What are your coordinates?"

"Our coordinates are (138,231,23)."

"Roger that... Wait we can not make a pick up at those coordinates."

"Wait why not ."

"Too many hostiles. It's impossible to make an extraction."

"What... Well can you make a carpet run."

"... Yes we. Can but we need you to mark the beginning and ending of were you want us to do the run."

"I have a blue and red smoke grenade. I'll put them were I need you to lay out the carpet."

"Roger that Echo 1 out."

"Charlie leader out."

I get up and jog to the exit holding on assault rifle close to my chest. I take a deep breath and jump out the side entrance of the building. I run behind the main structure keeping something between me and the Griffians. I sprint three buildings down turn into an ally and throw the smoke grenade. I turn around and head to another building on the other side of the church. I pick out an old apartment building with a big hole in the back of it about five buildings from the church. I run inside and go strait upstairs and throw the grenade.

I turn around and start to head back to the church but an 6ft being with 4 legs, grey skin, and arms that could bench press a body builder, stands before me. with a light sword in his hand. A Griffian general.

He grabs me by the throat lifting me in the air his 3 fingers wrapping around my throat. He pulls his arm back and is about to impale me when an explosion goes off. The second floor of the building collapses beneath us. I roll over getting away from him. I stand up and jump onto the Griffian's chest, there's a loud cracking sound. I then punch him in the face repeatedly. I pull out my secondary and put the side arm to his chin, "I bet this is the last time you pick up a human." I say with a smirk. He lurches forward and I pull the trigger, little bits of brain matter and skull fly out the top of his head.

I stand up and holster my secondary. I step outside expecting to see the transport landing next to the church but instead I see the crawler shoot a beam of some sort of plasma up destroying the transport. I run back to the church into the window the boys jump up pointing their guns at me. "Hold on it's only me." They drop they're guns.

"What's going on?"

"Did we win?"

I look down at the floor ".... No.

They just stair at the floor swearing. Then something hits me in the back. I look down pick it up and examine it. Then it explodes immediately spraying me with blue mist and hurtling me across the small room we were in. I hit a bench it practically crumbles under me only increasing the pain. I can't breath, my skin is burning, and I can't feel my right arm or leg. The roof caves in and the front of the crawler appears facing down at us. Two Griffians generals jump down one lands on David crushing his head and spine. The other one goes for Jason stabbing him in the chest and tearing him off the blade of his light sword. Fred picks up an assault rifle shooting at the first one, the bullets crumbling against its armor. The second Griffian jumps up over the first Griffian and cuts Fred in half strait down the middle. Then then turn to me the one that killed Jason grabs me by the head and drops his sword, "This one Killed SLAHGLE."

"Let's make this one suffer."

Then I see the crawler start to glow. I close my eyes. There's a loud screeching noise and then everything's silent.