Resistance

The combine swarmed into streets. Kicking and shooting civilians out of their homes. The group was defending an outer wall into the castle, if a strider got near it they combine could swarm into the castle. Overall, 6 striders were killed either by rockets or explosive magic. They took down 2 gunships, the pegasai kept them distracted from the rockets at hey shot it down.

“Combine in the street!” Dan yelled, firing a dark energy ball at them. There was a long strech of concrete going around the outer castle wall. The only way onto the street was to drop 2 chains at each end of the wall. Or a strider could blow the gate down. The rebels split themselves in groups to cover the walls, the gun-mine, H and the vort were all out in the city clearing out combine and searching for the other rebels.

Dan, Amanda and Chris covered the chain to the far left of the wall, connecting to the mountain. Damian, Noah and a small group of royal guards covered the one closest to the cliff. The main gate was protected by an army of guards and the hunter chopper. Set on autopilot, the chopper was placed on the roof so it could cover the whole courtyard. They needed a fallback plan.

The combine soldiers ran across the street to get to the gate as fast as possible, but were swiftly sprayed down by a tornado of machine-gun fire.

“GUNSHIP HEADING FOR THE CLIFF CHAIN!”

Noah spotted the gunship and it spotted him. Fuck. The gunship prayed its pulse cannon in a rapid succession, demolishing the chain and hitting Noah's chest in the process.

“OH SHIT!” He tripped off the wall and fell off it onto the grass. Just as the gunship was about to kill everyone else at the (destroyed) chain it was hit with a combined blast of flèchetts, bullets, and green lasers.

H, the vort and the gun-mine’s combines attack did enough damage to the gunships propellor, making it sag heavily to the left and eventually succumbing to gravity and getting dropped off the mountain.

“CLIFF CHAIN IS DOWN! MAKE THE LAST ONE OUR PRIORITY!”

The pony making the alerts said, they informed him about each combine synth and to just call their soldiers overwatch.

Damian ran down and grabbed Noah, sprinting his way to the other chain across the courtyard along with the ponies was no easy feat. Especially when the walls keep getting penetrated by strider bullets that cut down half the squad of ponies. Eventually they reached it though.

“2 STRIDERS APPROACHING THE GATE!”

“Shit.” Damian said, dropping Noah in a position where he could cover himself and the ponies with the RPG. Damian also left behind a med-kit. Then went back over to the last chain. Overwatch soldiers were spraying at the wall, but didn't have an exact position of where the chain was.

“Dan! Amanda! Chris! You okay?!” Damian said, running up the stairs.

“Yeah were fine! But we could use some help!” Amanda said, they were all crouched behind a wall, if they popped up to return fire they wouldn't even have heads. So… Good choice. Damian crouched his way over to them and beat a small hole to feed the sniper into. He found a particularly ‘old’ bunch of bricks and kicked them down, making a sizeable hole for the sniper.

Taking aim he was about to shoot until a strider stomped through the soldier he was about to shoot.

“No way…”

All the other soldiers looked to shoot the strider, until it shot down the next 2 soldiers in line.

“No goddamn way.”

The strider kicked one of the soldiers away and killed the rest. What happened next was amazing. The strider dropped down so it touched the ground and the middle carapace shell opened, showing the brain and the combine microchip in it… But it had the lambada symbol on it… Like the antenna thing on H’s back…

The strider pooped back up and a swarm of rebels ran out of the ally leading to the Main Street connected to the wall.

“THERE HERE!” All the other rebels heard Damian's war cry and dropped the half dropped gate, the 40 rebels ran across the bridge and sat down, most of them tended to the wounded.

There was no way they were taking this city.