The Burning saint: re-created

Human weapons

Gustaw stopped the humvee on a hill about a kilometer away from the small army camp that Leon told him about. After looking around a bit, Leon said, "Alright, it looks like the fields are empty, and the sky is clear, there won't be a better time for an attack mission." Looking through his binoculars, Leon said, "Ok, the wizard is in the middle of the camp, next to the farm house. The guns are probably in the weapons truck on the side of the road. A sniper rifle would be useful right now, but then again, they can take a lot of damage, so maybe it wouldn't be enough." sitting in the humvee, eating canned fish, Gustaw asked, "Ok, what's the plan? Can we get to the wizard? Or do we need to clear out the zombies first?" Leon replied, "The zombies are all around the camp, most are armed with assault rifles, the distance between the wizard and all the entrances is too big for us to drive in and riddle him with bullets, I doubt we can survive very long against them." Gustaw then asked a follow-up question, "So do we look for a different camp?" Leon was looking at the wizard and said, "he's looking at some documents, I want to know what they are, I don't think we can give up on th- what the hell?" He was surprised to see guardian 121 fly above the base camp and dive in the middle of it, stabbing the wizard through its head, causeing all the undead in the camp drop dead.

Leon shrugged saying, "I guess that takes care of that. Let's go, we need to make sure there are no other demons in the camp." The two humans drove inside past all the tents filled with dead people and stopped next to the weapons truck. Before checking the guns, Leon looked at the documents on the table that the wizard was looking at. Surprised he said, "Hey! These are evacuation plans." Gustaw was very dismissive saying, "What's so important about those? I thought it was pretty clear that there was nowhere to evacuate to, and even if there was, nobody got the chance to do so." Leon explained, "Well, we don't know if nobody got to evacuate, or if demons have discovered the planned location, it's possible there is a safe place somewhere on Earth, that said, if someone did get there, it was probably at the minimum a month ago." Not understanding the point Leon was making, Gustaw asked, "So what? You want to abandon our current goal?" Leon shook his head and said, "No, but I do want to take these plans with me, in case our plan does change and we can't go to Russia."

Leon opened the back of the weapons truck, and as expected, it was full of guns and explosives. Leon then turned to guardian 121 and asked, "Do you know how to use guns?" Guardian 121 put he hand on his shoulder and showed him all her experience with human weapons. Leon replied to her saying, "So you know how to point and shoot, there's more to it you'll have to learn." He then gave her an assault rifle and instructed how to use it saying, "Ok, so you hold it with two hands, like this." He placed her left arm on the hand guard. Thinking more about the lack of experience Guardian 121 had with guns, Leon said, "You should probably practice shooting with it." He pointed at the house and said, "Try shooting that wall." As she was told, guardian 121 pointed the rifle towards the wall and fired several bullets. Leon was surprised to see that she was shooting with almost perfect accuracy. After guardian 121 was done shooting, Leon was intrigued and said, "Hang on, try shooting the same spot again." So she did, but this time Leon looked at her hands while she was shooting and saw that she was not suffering from any recoil. Her hands were not shaking even a little as the gun fired.

After that, Leon figured guardian 121 understood the basics of how that gun worked and said, "Alright that's enough. Unfortunately we don't have time to give you proper training." He then attached a strap to the rifle and put it around her so that it would hang in front of her chest. He explained, "It'll be easier to carry it like this along with your other weapons. So now let's see what else we have here for you."

Gustaw called out to Leon, "Yo! Look at this! they have SMGs!" He was holding two small guns in his hands, Leon told him, "Don't Tell me you want to go around dual Wielding guns, there are several reasons why it's stupid." Gustaw replied asking, "Like what? Recoil?" After a moment of awkward silence guardian 121 took the two sub machine guns out of his hands and practiced shooting with them. They were much faster than the assault rifle and the bullet holes left in the wall were smaller. Concerned Leon asked, "Do you really want to use weapons like these? Guardian 121 confirmed that she does with a nod and Leon then asked, "But why?" Gustaw answered for her saying, "Because it looks cool, dude, pay attention. Just by looking at her you can see that she like to look good." Leon shrugged and said, "Whatever." He then put two gun holsters for sub machine guns, around guardians waist and asked, "can you carry any more weapons?" Guardian 121 nodded again.

Leon picked out the next weapon from the truck. This one was a sniper rifle. He gave it to guardian 121 and said, "This one is different from the other weapons you have, there's no point in shooting at the wall with it, we need to shoot something further away for you to understand how it works." He then climbed on top of the truck and looked in the distance with his binoculars. After a few seconds he said, "Alright, get up here, I found your target. When guardian 121 jumped on the roof of the truck, Leon pointed in the direction he was looking and said, "There, in the distance there's a demon walking along the road, it's coming our way, probably because of the gun shots, which is one of the reasons I picked a camp that was so far from any populated areas, the risk of demons finding us here any time soon is very low."

He then proceeded to instruct guardian 121 on how to use the rifle, "Now, you hold the sniper rifle the same way you hold the assault rifle, it's not automatic, you'll see when you shoot, but before you do, make sure to aim by looking through the scope, it'll be easier if you remove your helmet." Her helmet disappeared and she looked through the scope. Leon explained further, "I didn't get sniper training myself, so I don't know all the details, but I know that from this distance the bullet will probably land Bellow the target and because of the wind it will go a little to the right." As the rifle fired with a louder noise than the previous guns, two seconds later, the demon in the distance had its foot explode. Guardian 121 fired again this time hitting the demon in the knee. The demon got behind a nearby boulder and for cover. Leon was planing how to deal with this saying, "it's hiding, we could wait until it pokes Its head out, or-" Guardian 121 flew up into the air so she could see just a little bit of the demon behind the boulder, and with the next shot fired, the demons neck shattered to pieces and its head detached from its body. Seeing what happened Gustaw yelled, "damn, that was cool!" Guardian 121 landed on the ground. Leon climbed down from the truck and gave guardian 121 another weapons strap to attach to the sniper rifle. He then explained, "You probably won't use this as often as your other weapons, so have it hang on your back."

Gustaw asked, "So, do you want to overload her with more weapons, or are we moving on?" Leon looked into the truck and found some frag grenades. He grabbed them, and said, "Take a look at these." He gave one to guardian 121 and told her to follow him. They walked just outside the camp and Leon explained, "these things are called grenades, you need to be more careful with these than the other weapons, if you don't use them properly, they can blow up in your hands. That would kill an average human, and I'm guessing it would do significant damage to you too." He proceeded to demonstrate how they work while saying, "Ok look, you use them by first pulling this thing out, and before you do-" Leon freaked out when guardian 121 pulled the pin out of the grenade she was holding, he immediately yelled, "WHAT THE FUCK! THROW IT NOW!" Confused guardian 121 just stood there, looking at Leon, then looking at the grenade. Then Leon grabbed the grenade out of her hand and threw it as far as he could.

As the explosion happened in the distance, guardian 121 grabbed Leon and tried to shield him from the blast by standing in front of him. It wasn't necessary, the explosion didn't reach them, but she didn't want to take any risks after her mistake put a living being in danger. After she held him tight for over 20 seconds after the explosion, Leon figured they need to get on with things and said, "I understand, you're sorry, I forgive you, you can let me go and now listen to the full instructions before messing with a dangerous weapon." From the distance Gustaw yelled, "You guys still alive?" Leon replied, "Yeah! We're fine!" He then proceeded to explain to guardian 121, "Ok, now listen and don't do anything. The pin you pulled out is what keeps this lever in place, so when that flies off you have about 4 seconds to throw it away before it blows up. Did you understand all that?" Guardian 121 nodded. Leon then said, "Alright then, try using it. Guardian 121 took a few steps away from Leon, pulled the pin out of the grenade and threw it in the distance. A few seconds later an explosion happened in the field, about 70 meters away from them. Leon looked at the blast and said, "That's a pretty good throw. I could barely see the blast from this distance." His words made guardian 121 proud of herself.

Gustaw called for them saying, "Yo! We need to get moving, there's a big cloud coming our way, it's probably full of those flying things, if they catch us sitting on our asses we're screwed." Gathering up as much ammo and food they could fit in the humvee, they drove east, killing off any demon that would chase them.