Sons of Equestria

Chapter 5: Storming the Base

  I trotted down the lane to the school house; it would be one of a short series of lessons at the building before I would return home.

  I entered and took an empty seat, and soon the lesson started.

  “Good morning class!” said the enthusiastic teacher to all of us.

  “Good morning Miss. Cherilee.” sounded for the reply from the class.

  “Today we have a new student! Will you please come up to the front, Jason?” I hopped out of my seat and walked over to the teacher. “This is Jason Paladin Webster, say hello everypony!”

  “Hello, Jason.” The class said, although for the most part it was unenthusiastic.

  “Wait, Jason Webster, as in your father is Johann?” a certain white unicorn said.

  “Yeah, he’s my dad.”

  “Great! Another weirdo came into town. As if one more geek wasn’t enough, now we have a whole family!” The white unicorn exclaimed as she performed a face-desk

  My flash back ended this the sound of Max’s footsteps. I could only guess being in a place like this would stir up memories of itself.

  “Sir, how are we to proceed?” Max’s voice echoed in my mind as he put his back against the boulder I had been waiting behind.

  “We don’t know what defensive or offensive abilities they have, so I would guess the best plan in most cases would be to wait for reinforcements to make sure we win.” I said over the radio.

  “Most cases, that is.” Max replied. His voice could have been paired with a smile, if he only had a mouth.

  “Aye, most cases, but this planet is currently high priority and arrival of reinforcements coming is unknown so the plan for this one is to make a two man confrontation with a probably high defense rated base.”

  “Just like at Paris, aye, Jason?”

  “Aye, just like Paris, let’s do this.” With that we ran out from the boulder and ran straight for the base, only to stop a few feet away behind a few more boulders created by the crash of the pod. I looked beyond the boulder and saw the door of the pod half submerged under the soil. This meant that their systems were all booted up quite yet; otherwise they would have raised their drop pod base above the surface so that their door was full accessible.

  I turned back to Max and motioned for him to go around the other side of the boulder and cover me. I jog past the boulder and stopped in front of the door and waited for Max. I grabbed the lock of the door and pulled it up, opening the door for both of us, although the aperture was smaller than what I would have liked. I slid in, soon followed by Max.

  I turned by closed-corners sensor on, which basically was a type of radar that detected life-signals within ten feet of the user. I continued to check my corners as we gained ground towards the power generator room. Interestingly enough, there weren’t too many guards; in fact we hadn’t even seen any.

  I found the door with the lighting symbol on it, and pressed the open button, which caused the door to slide to the side. I walked inside and saw the rather small room with an even smaller machine inside. I took out my magnum and placed it against the machine’s side and let the round fire, followed by two others in different areas.

  I looked at the display, all power units disabled in this one, and by the read out the backup generator was warming up, and soon the loud groans of the less efficient gasoline generator was heard nearby. I walked into the next room and shot it out as well. Unfortunately for us, the generator had a shield that detected incoming projectiles, and it set of an alarm. The pod plummeted into darkness. A visor slid in front of my screen, turning on the night vision ability, while as Max had a flip down attachment on his headset. I walked out of the door and saw no incoming guards, but my radar told me they were closing in, also the fact that there was light streaming from their flashlights was coming from one of the adjoining hallways. I turned on my active camouflage while Max hid in one of the darker rooms.

  “Who do think destroyed the generator?” One of the engineers asked as he poked his pistol around the corner into a dark living quarter. Genjalkrahd rolled his eyes at his less brave human helpers. Although some of his fellow Gohoritykah would cower under the gaze of a U.N. soldier, he was Elite, and was trained to be fearless through whatever, even death. Even though he had spent two years with humans learning English and many other languages, he still slightly depended upon his translator unit to help him.

  “Whoever it is, they are very foolish to attack this drop pod base.” Genjalkrahd growled. He was being followed by three engineers and ten soldiers, three being humans, two brutes, and five elites as himself. Genjalkrahd rounded the next corner and saw something that made him smile. Even though U.S. active camouflage could conceal them from human sight, a Gohoritykah’s eyes could see the small shimmers in the suits system, weather just energy waves or the movements of the soldiers. He also saw a form hiding in the closet nearby.

  I stayed as still as possible, looking at the Gohoritykah smile in front of me. The Gohoritykah smile was truly always something evil in intentions and appearance. The Gohoritykah would draw back its lips and expose its teeth, which were as sharp as military issue combat knives, while its eyes would turn from blue to red. The Gohoritykah drew out its plasma pistol and pointed it at me. I pulled up my rifle and let off ten rounds at it, while jumping backwards to avoid the plasma bolt it had fired.

  The Gohoritykah shouted commands to its lesser, and soon the small hallway was a battleground. I fired off several more rounds from my rifle, until it clicked dry. I ducked into the generator room and took out the empty battery and replaced it with my second one. I set the rifle to ‘full use’, and with that the front of the gun split open to expose the cooling racks for quicker cool down time than usual. I came out from cover and let of my one shot, which hit a brute, killing it instantly while knocking down two others with the whipping energy that splattered off of the collision. My rifle started to cool down, but soon proved to be too slow for my liking. I replaced batteries and left my rifle to cool down on the ground. I took out my magnum and started to shoot of rounds at the U.N. troopers.

  Genjalkrahd put him back to the wall; already the U.S. men had killed one of his brutes and injured the other two so much that they couldn’t fight.

  “Elites, move up and take down hostiles, we will provide cover for you!” He spewed out the order too his men in their native tongue. They nodded and began to slowly advance. “Try and handle that U.S. scum!” He started to fire into the closet as he said this.

  I saw the advance of the elites. I fired at their heads, hoping my magnum could break through, but the cover fire and suppressive that they had was too much to take them all out, and I ended up only taking down two, while Max took one of them. As they drew near the two Gohoritykah warrior elites took out their energy swords, which actually looked like our old medieval blades turned into energy weapons with retractable blades of white light. When they drew near they put up their rifles and charged into our two rooms.

  The elites tackled me, and forced my magnum out of my hand, he quickly stabbed it, making sure to not let me use it, and with one quick slice he destroyed my rifle. I punched him in the face, trying to get him off, but he wouldn’t give. I drew my knife and jammed it into his chest, which caused him to stand up off of me. I grabbed my last two energy batteries and threw them at the elite, one taking down his shields, the other killing him, although unfortunately, also welding my knife into his burned carcass. I grabbed his rifle off of his back and charged the rest of the enemies, hoping my shield could keep me up.

  I let loose two rounds and the humans, which sliced through them like butter, killing two of them. I grabbed the last of the less armored humans and threw him at the human soldiers. I blasted the other two with my newly acquired rifle, slicing through the shields and metal armor. I grabbed one of the dead soldier’s knives and stab the last soldier in the back. I grabbed the last unarmored human and used him as a shield while firing at the last elite, who displayed much more athletic abilities. I shot the human, and also hit the elite’s shield.

  He shouted into his transceiver and then ducked into the generator room, and I soon heard the sound of his camouflage activate. I turned on my heat vision sensor after turning off my night vision. Soon enough the heat from his suits compact generator showed. I fired of a few more shot, and proved that I was right as his heat signature moved in a rolling motion.

  I continued to fire, and soon his movement stopped in a corner, leading me to believe I had hit. I turned back on my night vision and saw his form. I let off several more rounds at him, and soon his emerald green blood leaked onto the floor as he slumped over dead. His life signature faded from my sensors.

  I turned to the closet room where Max had fought the Gohoritykah, I found the body lying in the front of the room with Max sitting there still, probably absorbing more oxygen.

  “Max, we need to get out of here before more guys come, he got a better chance outside.” Max shook his head while he looked down.

  “I took a plasma round to the leg, I’m not going to be going anywhere for a while, just leave me.” I grabbed his arm and lifted him up.

  “Not happening, you’re coming with me.” I slung him arm around my neck and began to help him to the door.

  I had been making my way to the door when a line of Forward Soldiers and Aggressors came out. The Aggressors charged us, fortunately the fact they only had metal covering them made them prime targets for my plasma rifle, allowing me to take down all five of them.  I let Max down against the wall, and charged the Forward Soldiers, and if it wasn’t for their ‘loyalty until death’ policy they probably would have run from my charge. I shot one up the chest and grabbed his plasma dagger that he had been holding at ready and jammed it into the other’s back. I grabbed one of the Forward Soldier’s neck and slammed him against the wall and grabbed his pistol and turned to the last two of the Forward Soldiers and shot off three rounds, which finished them off. I then turned to the last and blasted his pistol’s last shot into his shaking body.

  “Don’t forget to loot them. My stun repeater got destroyed and my magnum is out of rounds.” I nodded let the Forward Soldier I had been holding up drop to the floor. I popped out my rifle’s empty battery and put a new one in. I grabbed two belts of plasma batteries that some of the Forward Soldiers had been carrying, I also took the plasma knife and turned off the beam and placed it inside my knife holster on my shoulder. I grabbed three plasma pistols, one for me and two for Max, being as there was no rifle in their mix. I also grabbed Max a belt of plasma batteries. I tossed Max his plasma battery belt and pistols. He put the belt on and placed one of the pistols into a holster and kept the other out as I continued to search for anything useful.

  The Forward Soldier who had the knife also had three plasma grenades, which I placed onto my tactical belt. I lifted Max up and began to start making progress again. We finally made it to the door, which still was mostly underground. Suddenly a troop of Gohoritykah Elites came out with a bunch Forward Troops, Runners, and Aggressors.

  I shoved Max through the hole and turned back to my new enemies. As tradition, the Aggressors took up the first line as a wall of anger and power; the Runners stayed kneeled, firing and yet ready to run at the enemy; the Forward Soldiers were right behind them with their pistols or grenades; while the Elites provided suppressive to all with their plasma rifles and full-use plasma pistols.

  I sprayed the Aggressors with a battery’s worth of plasma, and after quickly reloading; I tossed a grenade and the rest of the line. Five of the ten Runners fell dead, while all of the Forward Soldiers died because the blast was right under them, however, the five Elites still stood and fired.  My shield meter was flashing as my shield fell to 25% capacity.

  Max began providing support, and took down two of the charging Runners, while I shot the three others down. Now came the hard part.

  As the final Runner fell dead, the five Elites jumped behind cover and began giving me heavy suppressive fire. I grabbed my second grenade and jammed it into the wall as I activated my drop shield to a smaller, more concentrated field. As I had planned, the grenade blew a hole I the wall and provided me with some smoke for visual cover and some metal and concrete barricades.

   I sprayed plasma at the Elites’ general direction, hoping for the best. I ducked behind my newly made cover and switched out batteries, leaving me with only three more batteries on my first belt and five on my second, thus totaling eight more volleys against the Elites.

  My radar showed one of them dying as his life signal faded out. I turned on my active camouflage and started to sneak through the smoke in a crawl. I soon made it in front of one of the bunkers, but as usual, the Elites started firing right at me. I came out from my cover and took out my plasma pistol in my left hand and began to let out my rounds at the Gohoritykahs. My shield dropped to zero and I began directly receiving hits, first to my left shoulder, which sent a jolt of pain that caused me to drop my pistol. My armor’s status started to flash red as I continued to receive fire.

  Suddenly an icon flashed up on my H.U.D. signaling my drop shield was fully charged.

  I jumped backwards and threw it at the Gohoritykahs and hoped my plan would work. The fragile crystal slammed against the solid group fast enough to shatter the crystal and leave a dent in the panel. The massive energy field contained inside suddenly whipped out in a vortex, draining the energy from my suit, and by the looks they bore, the Gohoritykahs were probably having the same problem. Slowly the Gohoritykah began to be dragged into the whipping vortex of plasma energy combined with controlled electricity set on the loose. I was able to get behind my bunker and waited out the energy flux.

  Slowly the energy faded and the area again was darkened. I looked over my cover and saw no sign of the Gohoritykah Elites, apparently the vortex of energy had done its job. I took a scan of my condition and saw that my armor’s right side had sustained heavy damage, so much so that I could see it by just looking at it. My shoulder pad had several holes in it and my right side was bleeding through the damaged armor.

  “Max, go to my father and see what he can do, Orion is on the hill I was watching the town from.” Max nodded and stood up and began using his wings to help him on his way. I stood up and began walking through the maze of hallways. Even if the generator was off, it was possible they were going to repair it, and it was my job to make sure they couldn’t.

  I had been fighting my way through the base for some time, and my wound was beginning to inhibit me. My left shoulder also received an injury that only began bleeding after I had been jogging for a while. Usually being a W unit as I was, I would carry a small medical kit with me, but because we had only so much time on our hands after I shot the Ion cannon, I never picked one up.

  I rounded my next corner and found a door that had a cross above the frame. Usually this would mean relief, but being as I was in an enemy base, I still had to take caution into this place of sanctuary. I opened the door and quickly found no one inside. I found the medical robot, and quickly flipped him on.

  “Medical robot EDG-764, how may I be of service?” The robot said in an obviously robotic voice.

  “I got some wounds that need some tending, no stitches, just some heal gel.” I told the robot, knowing stitches would take too long for me.

  “Aye, sir, here you’re, healing gel, have a nice day.” I turned the robot off and took the gel and put it on my shoulders and side, and as I did the bleeding stopped. I snuck out of the medical office and started down the hall.

  I had just dodged around a corner as I tried to shake of a group of Aggressors that had chased me for around twenty minutes. I saw a doorway leading to a dark room on my left. As I came to it I jumped towards the doorway and shoved the door closed, and as soon as I did, several dents appeared as Aggressors either ran straight into it or began beating it down.

  I turned around to see what type of room I had gotten myself into, and upon looking around, I decided it was the best place for me to be, the explosives store room. I smiled as I pocketed a few more grenades and two flash bangs. I also grabbed a few more batteries for my current weapons that were lining the walls in several racks that were almost ceiling high. I grabbed a few pounds of C-4 and slammed them into one of the walls, and did so as well with the others. I also placed the detonators with a few primed, yet not activated, grenades into the explosive plastic compound. I placed a large lump of C-4 in the center of the room and stuffed it with detonator, grenade, and every other type of available explosive, and stepped back from my master piece. I set the master control to detonate in one minute, giving me time to run away from the base. After I made sure all timers were ticking, I crushed the controller insuring no interference could be run on me.

  I walked up to the door a placed a small piece of C-4 on in and pressed a smaller controllers detonator, setting the charge to active and blasting the solid metal door out of place with a group of Aggressors being smashed behind it. I ran out the door with my rife in my arms, hoping no interference would come.

  My H.U.D’s timer counted down and showed me ten second were left to escape, but apparently it was well off by the sound of booming explosions that echoed throughout the halls. I crawled out of the door way and began running away as fast as I could.

  I had only made around three feet of distance between me and the ship when the fuel supply was struck in the raging explosion and caused the entire ship to blast apart. I was thrown off my feet as the shock wave threw me off my feet and into the ground. I rolled across the rubble that the pod had made upon its crash, and soon was assaulted by more rubble as a pod crashed not ten yards from me, accompanied by the explosions after affects.

  I looked up and saw a man working a few yards from the pod with what appeared to be a beacon. I got to my feet and started to sneak up to him as I turned off ‘close quarter’s radar’ and turned on my ‘all-out radar’.

  I peaked around the pod to see what I could see. The man who I had seen earlier was talking over him radio, but no matter how hard I tried I couldn’t find which frequency he was using. I stood up and began to make my way closer. As I did, he turned to me and simply starred at me.