Storms Of Steel

"See if you can patch his suit and save him!" I screamed hoping that I was fast enough.

The medic ran over and pulled a patch from her pack. It was applied to his suit before a filter pump was attached. He kept choking on his own breath as the process continued. His breath seemed to steady out as time passed, but it soon stopped.

The medic detached the pump and threw it against the wall. "Fuck! Sorry sir we couldn't save him."

The pump luckily didn't break. I picked it up and put it back in their bag before having him put in a body bag. We couldn't get him out of the area yet, but we needed to find a way to keep him safe until we get out. I took a group of men to move forward while two stayed behind with our dead friend. As we pushed forward the buildings around us shook as jets split the fog above us.

Down the road a bright light blasted with a thundering shockwave. The buildings around us seemed to scream as the shockwave passed. I could hear one of my men scream out in fright. Something about a warzone did that to the strongest of men when they arrive in the depths of the deepest dangers.

A flash of light came from the top of a building in front of us getting my attention. "Get down now!"

I could hear them all dive into nearby dumpsters and piles of trash. I waited until the light went away, but it didn't. It just fell to the ground in front of the building. I waved for everyone to get back onto the road and push forward behind me.

We pushed on when the radio stopped us in our tracks. "We are sending in a full armor unit. We want to get you guys out of there. We can't take back New York as it is. We need to go at this with the old flare. New York has been condemned."

Those final words caused me to get a chill. That was when more jets flew over head followed by more explosions. More shockwaves came causing more buildings to scream out in pain. This was a sign for us to leave as fast as possible.

"Get the fuck back to the others! We need to leave right now!" I yelled so loud that my mic quit working.

I could hear buildings collapsing in the distance, and it was followed by dust sweeping through the streets. We barely made it into a building and got the door shut before the windows went dark. After that a thundering roar was coming down the street accompanied with lights.

"Get your men out of there so we can get you out of here." It was words we had been waiting to hear as a set of lights came to rest outside of our building.