Path of Totality; A TDS Eclipse Event Story

🌘Chapter 17🌒

      Heavy fan blades began to spin rapidly as the pursuit choppers warmed up their engines and gained speed for take off. Rangers and snipers jumped in trained with scopes and binoculars ready. Engineer jumped into one of the choppers as well with enemy device in hand. The thing was able to pick up abnormal lifeforms when near.

      "Attention, objective is to locate the gravekeeper titan. If found, keep it in you sights and do not engage," the controller radioed the pursuit pilots, his voice scratchy and monotone.

      "Pursuit 1, clear for take off," the same controller gave the clearance and the pursuit was out of there with its towers inside already on the lookout.

      As the choppers rolled out, ground units were getting ready. Soldiers, militants, and scouts piled into the trucks, all of them equipped with ammo and flares. Even poor Freezer was tossed into a truck despite the excessive whimpering and pleading not to be added to the search party.

      It honestly looked like one of their normal routines when they would go fight a titan, but this was different. They were instead searching for one that could be anywhere.

      With Umbra being a huge threat, they didn't want to risk her finding it or even worse, it being killed. Grief was still strong, having the gravekeeper titan be killed again would just have someone die from a broken heart.

      While the camp was busy moving out the search parties, investigations were going down at the graveyard Scout was buried at. How the hell no one felt the ground split was a shock because there was a hole the size of a double decker bus.

      Scout's gravestone was busted and bits of his coffin were strewn about. Luckily, there was minor damage to the surrounding headstones, but it was still astonishing how this kind of big event was missed.

      One thing is for certain, Commander was rightfully pissed. Commander, Medic, Swordmaster, and Void Reaver were all there, checking out the damage. The already stressed enough leader looked like he was going to have an aneurysm.

      "How could you not tell about this? I could have had Engineer keeping track of this!" Commander screamed at the two titans. Swordmaster was clearly not understanding Commander's anger as he just rolled his eyes and crossed his arms, "Oh please! Titan business is not your business!"

      Commander turned red in the face with anger as he gripped his hat and gritted his teeth, "It is my business when my damn boy's body is now some creature who knows where!"

      Medic rushed over and had Commander taking deep breaths. Last thing she needed is for him to start having a seizure with how angry and stressed he's making himself.

      Swordmaster was about to say some more, but Void Reaver stepped in and shot him a look. Swordmaster simply scoffed and looked the other way.

      "It was wrong of us to keep it from you, we should of told you out of everyone here. However, he had spawned early, throwing us off our plans," Void Reaver apologized as Commander calmed down. Commander huffed and slapped his cap back on, "That makes two of us because now we have to waste time and resources to get this situation under control!"

      As Commander bickered with the void titans, Medic was checking out the crater left behind. It was like something had dug up from the ground and just scurried off. Scurried off...

      "Hey! Quit being a bunch of babies and come here!" Medic called to them. They stopped arguing and walked over to see what Medic had found. The doctor pointed around the crater and towards scuffed up bits of dirt leading to the heavily forested area.