Raptor One – Chapter 53

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I take cover after looking at the guy in power armor, the way he was giving orders, pack leader, stat count at max non super soldier human count of a hundred.

We got three groups, none with heavy armor nor high powered weapons, a total of fifteen plus one with power armor and energy weapon, my gun rounds may bounce off his power armor.

I don’t get the luck of some idiot running inside, instead, the leader start barking out orders to tighten the three choke points, so i get prepared, they may want to lob a grenade on me, so I'll take some pot shots.

I take three shots, all find their targets, two get hit on the head and one on the chest, they all fall down dead, i get reaction fire from three sides but manage to return to cover in time, i hear the sound a laser machinegun and duck, looking up i see the wall and reinforced door where i was hiding open in two by the leader, this thing is worse than the old terra SAW machinegun!

As the old saying went, ‘it’s how you’ll die, but how many bullets it’ll take to get to you.’, this was the old terra machinegun crew way if I'm not wrong...

I dive into cover with a jumping roll and shoot three more times, all three shots find a head behind the walls as my sensor cross out their signatures, my roll was apparently useful as all their shots miss me and that energy machinegun just chew were my head should be, but keeping a low posture helps with keeping my head where it belongs.

I’m getting out of cover to duck into and i only killed six of the fifteen pirates if i ignore the leader, i can do this two more times before i have to retreat deeper into this depot.

I breath in and give my head some eyeballed sensor data before shooting three more times, two of the three shots was not perfectly aligned with their heads, but it still opened a hole in it, i get behind cover fast as a hail of bullets pass too close for comfort before i jump roll into my last cover as the leader shreds the one i was in to bits.

While in mid air i fire my last three shots, all find a head to sleep into before i finish my roll into cover, i luck out as the pirate leader’s energy machinegun overheated so he decided to take cover, i almost got my tail shot off on the roll as the last group managed to shot very close to me, the last guy on the other hand however gave a pitiful shot that i have no idea where it decided to go.

And it was not close to me whatsoever.

I easily reload my magazine and place the old one into it’s holder before chambering the round.

With that done i get up from cover and take a shot at the pitiful guy and the pirate leader, the pitiful guy fall down dead, no head on his shoulder, while my shot at the leader just get deflected, no absorption, but deflected.

I duck back into cover as a hail of gunfire lands on my cover, i roll out of the cover as the energy machinegun plasma rounds starts landing on my old cover, the last group starts shooting at me as I'm in the open but they miss as i manage to skillfully stand again after the roll, and using my dexterity and intelligence i manage to find cover behind the metal crates i was seated before.

I my breath is rough because of the high exertion, my breathing sounding like growls as i breath and wait for the pirates to run inside.

I do get unlucky as another group of five reinforce the pirate leader, pumping the exhausted group from six back into eleven.

They also did not rush inside and give me a pot shot chance.

I start to think about ghosting out, but I'll ask for the sit rep before acting.

“Whiskey to Alpha, give me some good news.” i say to Jason, my growling voice giving out a sense of anger.

“Alpha here, they are boxed in, i got a tactical squad on the way-” Jason say but i cut him short

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“How long tovarishch! I'm holding the fort here against two groups and a power armor with plasma based energy weapon! And I'm running out of cover here.” i say, my growling getting rougher as i open fire at the rushing group.

Three squeeze of the trigger, two heads out and a body with a hole on the middle before they arrive into the sandbag like cover close to the windows and door, the pirate leader try to give a burst fire at me while running but it goes wide as the roof get some holes in it, big pieces of it falling down close to me as i continue firing, three more shots fired, three heads blown, they are down to five persons as i hide again behind the metal crate as they return fire, a burst of fire pass centimeters of my helmet as i duck, the other burst of fires hit the crate or fly overhead as i keep myself under the cover of the metal crate, that is, before i hear the buzz of plasma hitting dead center where I'm in!

I manage to do a back roll into the metal crate beside me before the ground where i was before get vaporized, i appear on the other side of the metal crate and pull the trigger three times in succession, another three headshots before i duck back into the cover of the metal crate as a burst of bullets fly close to me while the burst of plasma hits the metal crate I'm hiding, forcing me to move again as i continue my running motion and hide into the last intact stack of metal crate beside the two now vaporized metal crates on each side of me.

“Alpha to Whiskey, still alive brat?” i hear Jason ask me

“Da.” i say back, the high exertion giving my voice a rough and more feral growl as i move out of cover to shoot.

I fire three times again before taking cover, the last pirate goes down leaving only the pirate leader as he takes two shots, one on the chest and one on the head, the power armor fail to receive both shots as i hear it struggle as it absorbs the kinetic energy of my high energy railgun pistol.

I hear his grunt as his energy machinegun burst go wide and hit the ceiling again because the energy of the hit on his helmet jerked his head up.

Got three bullets left before needing reload and the guy’s dazed, I'll focus fire on his arm.

“We are almost on your coordinates, we are meeting some resistance, ETA three minutes.” Jason say after some time.

I dive out of cover and open fire three times at his arm, one bullet hit his chest before being deflected, another meet the same fate on his left arm, but the last one get a full hit, i hear the armor on his left arm scream as it absorb the full blunt of the hit, if this continue it’ll take three full hit’s before i can disable his arm.

The pirate leader tries to shoot me but fail as his shots go wide again as i keep running and avoiding his line of fire.

I manage to reload while running, but i take precious time off from firing at the guy firing back at me, i think of a crazy idea, so i try holster my pistol but fail as I'm running trying to keep his aim out of me, but i manage to holster it after another attempt.

The pirate leader open fire at me but i manage to jump out of the line of fire into close distance using my wings to glide, as i touch down on the ground i hit the vaporized spot of one of his bursts and trip a little but i manage to recover and sprint into close quarter combat range before he manage to react and fire at me again.

“Privet priyatel’, welcome to CQC 101, ready?” i say before diving in for a kick.

My kick hit his left arm, because i don’t have that much height i had to fly kick him, that allowed me to dexterously spin over his head into his back.

The armor on his left arm absorbed all the damage as it get more mangled.

He try to hit me but instead lose his grip on his energy machinegun while letting me land on his back.

I fail to find a port where i can give him some unhealth care and he starts to shake himself, but fail to get me off, so i manage to find his medical port, all sealed power armor have one, my engineer knowledge is coming in handy.

I get careless and he manage to land a hit on my right arm, but fail to grab it, i manage to divert the force so the impact wont damage my armor as it soak the damage, so I'm off with no damage but got only one hand to stabilize myself on him.

“I’m gonna kill you for this!” i hear the pirate leader say as he try to hit me again, but fails at hitting me, this allow him to shake me off his back so i had to jump off, which go poorly, but having wings help a lot as i manage to right myself and land on my feet as we get face to face again.

The pirate leader go for a punch on me with his right arm but i dodge under it to his left side and punch back on the same damaged spot on his left arm, the armor fail to soak the damage and i hear him grunt in pain.

“Why are you going against our plan? Won’t you thrive better under chaos? Anything you wish, woman, man, resources, just take by force! Why worry about a nonexistent rule! We are on the void sector! There's no rule in here! So why!” the pirate leader use his bullshit ability on me.

His left arm come flying my way but i dodge, take hold of it and give it a strong smash using my right hand, the armor cave in, so damaged that it almost can’t sustain the power of the punch.

He owl in pain as metal starts digging into his left arm, almost making it useless.

I look at his face behind the power armor helmet. “I am born to fight, not for chaos, but for peace, peace that you are being a threat to.” i say as i dodge his kick and smash his left arm again, the plates in it go flying or dig into his left arm more as his left arm is left unprotected.

He recoil back with a cry of pain but i don’t let him breath, i dive in on his left side, he tries to protect it but fail as i avoid his slap and give a needle punch on his exposed left arm, the needle pierces his left arm with no resistance as i watch one of the six capsules with neurotoxin empty out in less than a second before i jump back out of his range of attack.

The pirate leader owl of pain reverberates again as i land out of CQC range, his final try got me by surprise as he got a hold on a railgun pistol and shot me on the chest, but reacting quickly i manage to give a angle, of which the slug deflected off into a wall.

I just watch as he tries to shoot again but his body fail to follow his order, his body convulsing more and more as the power armor fail to keep the pirate standing, i watch him try to resist as he falls on his back, clattering of metal resounding higher and higher along with the melody of steel before not long after the clattering of metal stops completely, the melody of steel also reaching it’s end as the sound of gunshots get lower and lower, i kneel before the pirate leader's body and pray.

Jason and a team of heavily armored security arrive in the middle of my prayer for the lost souls, they watch in silence as my voice resound, the melody of death coming to a end along with my prayer as i get up from my one kneel stance and nod back at Jason and the guards.