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Monday, May 26, 01:52hrs Local Time

 

Sergeant Winters slammed his last clip home into the assault rifle as he crouched behind the late model sedan. He keyed the radio in his ear "Medical, report!"

 

"Jump-Around is still out, Sergeant. I've stopped most of the bleeding, but her head injury is my primary concern. I'm not sure if she is going to be able to regain consciousness."

 

"Keep working, Command has assured us that help is on the way, just do the best you can." He clicked off and checked his right flank. Corporal Veers nodded at him as she ducked back down after delivering a volley of covering fire into the Arachnos forces blocking the exit of the fenced parking lot.

 

"We've got this, Rebecca. We just need to hold on." He said.

 

"Yeah, how do you figure that, Sarge?"

 

He smiled at her. "Because we're on the side of the Angels." he replied as a speck of burnt orange flame approached from the West, high above them in the clear night sky.

 

The battle was fairly straight forward from a bird's eye view. Arachnos forces had the Longbow infiltration team pinned down in the parking lot outside a non-descript office building. Behind a stack of steel crates a Longbow medic tended to a small figure in purple and gold while three soldiers held off a small army of Arachnos troopers. Several APCs raced down tight, narrow streets to reinforce the black armoured troops attacking the infiltrators, but most worrying were the three Arachnos fliers converging on the action. The Legendary Living Hellfire poured on the speed, diving at the airborne attackers.

 

Lightfire sheared through the starboard wing of the first flier, sending it spinning into the abandoned commercial park North of the battle and The Angel on Fire warped the air around him, coming back around to close with the second sending blast after blast of concentrated, kinetic Hellfire into the engine of the craft. The resulting explosion sent the flier into a flat spin that carried it West, over the battle where it came to rest on the beach, a flaming wreck.

 

The third flier had made its target. It circled, according to procedure, looking for a place to deliver its cargo of twelve troopers before shuddering. The pilot tried to adjust, but the OAT meter slammed against the pin and the aircraft lost altitude rapidly in the thinning air. She slammed the throttle forward to climb, but unbeknownst to her, it was already too late.

 

The Legendary Living Hellfire drove his fingers into the titanium of the flier, channeling Hellfire to melt away the top of the craft. He tore away the titanium shielding, passed through the aluminum insulation and dropped down into the troop transport compartment. Men and women screamed in agony as their clothing ignited, revealing blackening flesh. Equipment fried, superheated to the point of combustion, gunpowder exploded in the ambient heat and eardrums popped as communication earpieces exploded. The pilot scrambled desperately to regain control of the flier but she was only denying the inevitable. The last thing she heard was a single word, spoken in a Scottish brogue.

 

"Burn!"

 

The Arachnos flier evaporated in the ensuing inferno, ripped to shreds down to the molecular level. The explosion lit up the night sky and for a moment the gunfire in the parking lot stopped as all heads turned.

 

There, in the sky, surrounded by ash and dust floated a lone figure wreathed in Hellfire.

 

"See, Rebecca? I told you!"

 

Corporal Veers grinned at her Sergeant and popped back up to deliver kinetic retribution on the still stunned Arachnos troopers.

 

"Medical! Status report!"

 

"I think she's coming around, Sergeant! The bleeding is under control for now, but she'll need a hospital."

 

"Good! All units, converge on Medical Sector now! Go! Go!"

 

The Longbow agents retreated towards the crates, laying down blistering covering fire for themselves as they went, finally joining Specialist Medic Alverez as Jump-Around got to her feet.

 

"Hang on... okay, I got this." The Superhero waved her left hand in a circle, opening a portal as gunfire rattled against the steel containers before collapsing into the arms of Sergeant Winters who carried her through, into the safety of the Longbow headquarters.

Edited by Living_Hellfire

-The Legendary Living Hellfire

"The newest person in the room is always the most important person in the room"

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