Battle Of Our Lives

Boom Boom

Several bombs went off around the environment. It seemed like there was a fight in the air as several war jets flew around the place releasing missiles on fortresses around the area.

It was a duel between two sides who seemed evenly matched. Several structures had being built around the area, all of them were weaponized military structures and bases completely fortified. There was fighting going both on in the ground and in the air.

IN ONE OF THE FOTRESSES

A man was standing on the top wall of the fortress looking in the distance. The fortress had been reinforced with steel and was covered in some sort of force field that protected it from incoming attacks, mostly missiles.

The man smashed his fist on the steel reinforced wall in front of him. He looked up and saw some number of missles headed for the fortress. Once they had reached a certain radius, the force field became visible and large guns planted on the walls of the fortress sprouted up and began to release beams that decimated the missiles on impact. Missiles who were not hit bounced off the fortress once it came it contact with the force field, blowing up immediately. The ripple effect on the force field and the scrunched look on the military officer's face indicated that the force field was not going to last any longer.

"Keep charge! " the officer commanded.

"Yes sir" a fellow officer garbed in same exo suit as every one military person on the wakk was. There were about forty military personnel on the top wall of the fortress. They were all manning the heavy artillery on the wall.

The military officer moved towards the center of the wall and stood. Shortly after, structures from the ground began to join together, creating a portable sized elevator. The ground opened up in a spiral pattern pulling the elevator into it. The elevator traveled in tube like structures until it finally stopped. The elevator dismembered into individual parts fixing itself on the ground as quickly as it had done on the top wall. The room was occupied by several military personnel working tirelessly around computers. Their job was to organize military systems and parameters.

"How's the situation" the military officer who had stepped out elevator asked.

"Not good general, not good at all." a dark masculine man replied. His voice echoed round the room and ideally, the reason was because the room was built in such a way they every sound made was echoed. The dark fellow walked up to the large screen in front of him, among several others which showed the fotress in a lateral view. The lateral view of the fortress kept rotating.

"We can't keep this up any longer." the dark fellow stated. "Nine other of our fortresses seemed to have been taken over by the rebels. Those fortresses has surely given them a foothold. And they are attacking with all they've got. We've got eleven more but it does not seem like tip the scales in our favor. Three have fallen already since their systems were depleted. Soldiers on the ground are not faring any better, probably because all they've got is the exo amour. Most of the jets have been brought down from the skies. We really can't keep up any longer."

He raised his hands and pointed at one if the screens which showed the image of the fighting going on outside these fortresses.

" Take a look general "he said.

The general walked over to the screen and stared at it intensly.

" How's the reinforcements coming." the general asked.

" Soon arriving " the officer by his side replied.

The general turned to look at every personnel in the room and shouted on the top of his voice.

"We can't let the rebels get through us. If they do, Sector G1- 26 is doomed. If at all thus fortress goes down, we go down with it. If at all we lose this fight, we die fighting."

He turned back to the dark soilder and inquired. "Status report"

"Three of our main auxiliary systems are down. Our core system has been damaged pretty badly. The other fotresses are not faring any better either. We can barely hold on..." the report was interrupted with a hush from the general, followed by a heavy and prolonged rumble which came from outside the fortress. The general's eyes were staring at the screen in front of him which showed the fight taking place outside the fortress.

"The reinforcements have arrived" the dark soldier exclaimed.

"And it seems that they sent in the big guns."

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In one of the fortresses already taken over by the rebels, a huge individual was on the top of the fortress with rugged dark iron armour suit who went by the name all accorded him with - General.

"It seems this sector has been taken over already" he proclaimed. "Enjoy your last moments, fighters of the Academy." he said with an evil grin on his face.

"What was that?" he panicked. The fortress began to rumble and loud bangs were heard. Every rebel soldier who was on top of this fortress looked up in shock at the sky.

Large flat ship numbering up to four were hovering in the sky and some pods were falling out of it. Whenever these pods landed on the ground, an uncontrollable rumble would occur. The pods formed structures which constantly emitted waves and after which, shot missiles towards the enemy fortresses. The waves emmited by these structures seemed to power up the exo suit.

Most of the rebel fotresses, had begun attacking the cylindrical shaped structures.

The shops were also shooting down enemy jets from the sky.

"Get rid of those ships" the rebel general ordered pointing at the shops hovering in the skies. All artillery were pointed to the ships and began attacking. However, all attacks on the ships were redirected back to the fotresses.

"Receiving heavy damages" a rebel soldier reported to the general.

"Keep attacking." the rebel general ordered violently.

Suddenly, a different sets of pods began to fall from the large ships. As they did, it began to open up revealing the humans in them. Somehow, none of the attacks from enemy fotresses were reaching the pods.

While in the air, the pods disintegrated and began to reform on the humans.

Large dark mechas, 12 foot tall landed on the ground. Several of the mechas began releasing targeted missiles from their arms at the rebel fotresses. The difference between the mechas attacks and the ones before was clear. The rebel fotresses began taking heavy damages from the assault given by the mechas who were releasing all they had in their arsenal.

The rebel general's countenance changed after receiving reports that some of the fotresses they had taken over had gone down, which was the termination of the fortress systems, leaving it to be reclaimed with the help of the mechas.

"No no no. How?" the rebel General questioned. However, the look on his face worsened when he noticed the emblem on the chests of the mechas.

"Why the hell was an arch lord sent?"

A pod began to fall from one of the hovering ships. This pod was golden in color and when it had finally landed, a golden mecha was formed, a falcon emblem on its chest. The mecha wasted no time in attacking the enemy fotresses by sending out missiles of its own. More of the enemy fotresses came down giving access to the Academy forces to reclaim them.

The chest are of the golden mech opened and a sturdy figure jumped out of it. The figure vested a military suit different from the exo suit. Whereas the exo suit comprised of a chest piece strapped across both shoulders, covering both sides of the chest and back leaving the middle protected by a what looked like a transparent material, the legs and arms covered by steel pads. The suit vested by this figure was a body fitting amour, covering all parts of the body in black material, some parts which included the helmet, chest, back legs and pubic area coated with steel.

The new fighter on the field was a war machine as he bulldozed through the rebel fighters killing them in an instant. The fighter pulled an eskrima stick planted on his back which was sharp at both ends and continued his massacre. He stabbed the sharp end of his weapon at the chest of a rebel fighter and pulled out the weapon leaving the blade in the rebel's chest. He kicked the fighter into a group of rebel fighters whose aggro he had drawn to himself. No sooner had he done that than the blade blew up sending the group of rebels to hell.

Bullets looked to be merely nothing more than a target practice show in the eyes of this fighter. He deflected all bullets with his weapon and avoided most of them by a hair's breadth. He was too fast for the rebels and his presence alone seemed to tip the scales in the side of the good guys. The golden mech who was also actively involved in the fight was doing a good job. The eight mechs that had joined the fight had caused quite the stir. However, all aggro were drawn to this fighter on the war front.

"Arch lord, there is a missile lock on you. You have to get out of there" the voice notification sounding in the fighter's ear which coincided with the flashing light the fighter could see on the digital display screen the inside of the helmet provided. With his eyes, the fighter had activated his mecha whose structure was displayed on the display screen.

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"Are you sure we should deploy the missle" a rebel soldier asked the rebel General. "Deploying a missle on the war field can be very dangerous." the rebel soldier cautioned.

"Do it!" the general commanded standing in fury on the top wall of a fortress whose systems were offline. "I want that Arch lord dead"

"Target locked and ready to release in 3 2 1..."

The missile had collided with the target killing a lot of warring soldiers in the process.

Out of the destruction, a yellow glow shone brightly, after which, several yellow swipes from the destructive pile and dust screen.

" What was that?" the rebel general asked as the fortress shook uncontrollably while it seemed like it was falling.

Soon after the swipes, three warheads were seen flying out of the destruction towards the fortress.

Seconds after, the fortress had become a huge pile of rubble after a great explosion. This was the first and only fortress to be completely destroyed.

Seconds after the dust had cleared up, a large golden mecha could be seen standing with a fierce look on its face and seven other mechas behind it. This was an iconic sight to behold.

The rebels on seeing that their general had perished along with the fortress he claimed began to retreat. There was no need for the Academy forces to pursue the rebels any longer, but to bask in the glory of their victory.

Loud shouts resounded in the air as the rebels were making their way to the escape pods.

"We did it sir. We defended the sector" the dark soldier stated to the general, happiness evident in his voice.

"Yeah." a calm voice resounded. "But I do have some few questions of my own"

Every person in the lower section of fortress froze on seeing who entered the fortress.

'How did he get up here? ' the general wondered.