The battle of Line Ark

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In the following weeks after Strayed's battle at the Arteria Capales, it was a living hell for the corporations. Hunting down a madman responsible for the deaths of billions. The corporations thought it would be easy to just send in their 5 top-ranking LYNX to kill Strayed and Old King but to their surprise, they were wiped out leaving the only surviving participant being strayed. With no way for the corporations to stop him, Strayed did as he pleased finishing the job that he and Old King started. Taking down the cradles with each cradle stricken from the sky his death toll rose by another one hundred million. Each time he went over it again and again in his head that it was for the betterment of humanity so that the corporations would abandon these foolish ideals and work together to free us from this polluted planet. But he was foolish to believe that.

That's where we find ourselves today. Line Ark a place free from corporations. But it was only a short while until the league turned its attention back to the city-state. But their war with ORCA had bought Line Ark enough time to build its forces back up but it wouldn't be enough there only LYNX wasn't in any condition to fight. But a week before the attack Strayed came to collect what he was owed. Line Ark would never imagine that Strayed would ask to join them wishing to help the city state. They couldn't reject his offer they still owed him a favor after the attack that initially crippled them taking their only NEXT out of combat. And so for the sake of their survival, they made a deal with the devil.

"Shit, Larry get down" A rocket flies just overhead of their makeshift fortification "These corpo bastards don't know how to give up" Larry pulls out an RPG from his back and steady himself lining up on the closest normal "Back blast clear" he calls out "clear" as soon as he heard those words he pulled the trigger letting the rock fly. It streaming straight at the unlucky league normal hitting it right in the cockpit. The fiery remains lean over as they cook off. That was the last of the current wave of league normals trying to break through their fortifications and it bought them a small break. Commander Jackson helped the wounded up and on a truck that would take them deeper into their territory for medical attention. "Larry was that are last rocket," the commander asked concerned about the state of his squad "Yes, it was sir" The commander checked the ammo on his rifle it wouldn't do much to an MT or a normal but he would be damned if he was going to die without a fight. His radio crackled to life with the sound of a woman's voice "This is Command to B company what is your sitrep over" Jackson relieved to know that the commander hadn't fallen yet reached for his radio "This is B company we're holding the line but we just ran out of AT, most of my men are either dead or injured. At any rate we're going to need more reinforcements over" there was a slight pause from the other side until his radio crackled to life again "B company you'll have to make do with what you've got we can't spare any units to come to help you and most of our MTs or normal are already busy with other areas. I'll see if I can dispatch a NEXT to your location until then hold the line commander" his radio falls silent 'what the fuck does she mean to hold the line I have about 4 men left and we're out of any weapons that can deal damage to MTs and normals from his left he can hear his men talking "was that miss July, oh she has the voice of an angel" that solder quickly shuts up after getting a smack to the head "shut the hell up Sweetwater" the other 3 men laugh at their comrade's misfortune. A man by the name of Pristen Marlo looks towards Jackson "Boss are we going to die here" Jackson didn't want to admit it but he knew deep down there was no way out of this "Yes we are Marlo, we're out of AT, we're the last remaining members of B company and all we have left are some rifle rounds that won't do jack shit, but like hell am I going to let some corpo bastard kill me without a fight!" The moral of his men seemed to improve a little "shit MTs and normals approaching" Sweetwater called out while they scrambled to get to their positions "light that mother
Fuckers up" Jackson ordered the squad unleashing a hail of gunfire. That just bounced off the armor of the MTs and normals not slowing them down at all.

Line Ark checkpoint Alpha

Strayed pov

Sitting inside of his NEXT named Morrgan he was looking over the remains of checkpoint Alpha. It was a blood bath. Of the large group of soldiers that were guarding the check point only one survived and he was currently on the ground dying. His gas mask was cracked most likely from being flung by an explosion. The man reaching out for someone, anybody to help him as he gasped for air but the only thing that filled his lungs was the polluted air on the surface. Strayed knew there wasn't anything he could do for the man so he maneuvered his machine as close to the man as he could so he wouldn't die alone. Strayed could see that this calmed the man. Strayed stood by him for a few more seconds until the man went limp all life draining from his eyes Strayed stared into the nothingness. Until a crackle from his radio snapped him back to reality.

"Command to Strayed over" Strayed clicked the reserver "This is strayed over" a short pause from the other side "What is the status of checkpoint Alpha" Strayed looked around to make sure he didn't miss any survivors "Checkpoint Alpha has been wiped out there are no survives" a long pause came from the other side nothing but silence filled his cockpit "shit! Strayed we just picked up a massive signature on are radars spotters confirmed it to be arms for Answerer. Strayed you have to stop it even if it gets one shot off it will kill hundreds from radiation poisoning" Strayed activating his over boost blasts off in the direction of the arms fort.

When he reached its location it was hovering just above HQ picking up more speed he blasted his way to the answerer but he was too late right before the answerer fired strayed and line Ark personnel were overcome by a bright white light and the answerer found its self floating over an empty ocean

UNKNOWN PLANET

strayed found himself outside of his NEXT somehow suddenly strayed was rocked by a massive headache and feeling a hot liquid rise in his throat he did what most would call foolish ripping off his mask and hurling over the side of the bridge after calming down he realized what he just did in desperation he tried to grab his mask and put it back on but he stopped realizing that he's not choking to death only one thought comes to his mind 'I...I can breathe".

(So that was my first chapter I feel like I did good at least for my first book that is but if you have any suggestions or I made a mistake somewhere please point it out so I can fix it)

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