Chapter 69 - To cull an uprising (4) (1/2)
”AAAAAAHHH I'm so f.u.c.k.i.n.g bored!”
In the capital City of Kingsted 2 young women lazed around with nothing to do.
”Then why don't you follow the training regiment Dax left you with?”
”I already did that, twice.”
”Then how about playing with the royal knights?”
”They keep avoiding me after I beat them senseless the other day.”
”I wonder why?...”
”Yeah it really is the strangest thing..”
”...”
”...”
”I'm still bored.”
”...”
”Hey what is it that you see in Dax anyway?”
”E-EH!?- I-I don't Like h-”
”Just cut the crap please.”
”...”
”...”
”... Aved me.”
”What?”
”He saved my life.”
”Is that all?”
”ARRG! Yeah it is! I'm simple I know but I can't help it!!”
Burying her face in a pillow Alice screamed with all her might in frustration.
”Go ahead and make fun of me, I deserve it! After all I'm just some simple minded brat that falls for the first hunk of man meat that looks slightly attractive!!”
Further self destructing as she screamed out in the middle of the day and scared multiple passing people Terra considered further bullying Alice to kill her own boredom, but more sane thoughts prevailed.
”Don't get me wrong I understand why you find him attractive, but his personality is just… Unappealing.”
”Is it really?”
”Eh?”
”Eh?”
Coming to a greater understanding of her longtime friend Terra put on a teasing smirk.
”Don't tell me..”
”What?”
”Are you an M?”
”EEEEEEHHHH!?”
Coming to a greater understanding of herself and own nature Alice let out a scream that ultimately killed Terra's boredom as they were visited by guards she could spar with.
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Moving forward into the Northern Republic's terratorry Dax had reached the great iceplane, a sheet of permanent ice a few kilometers thick which made about 90% of the Republic's 'land'. Traveling at a brisk pace, Dax lead a detachment of some 20 Reaper drones-
”Daaax can't we take a break?”
- and a single arc angel who struggled to keep up with them.
[”Nope. You're free to stop following me though”]
”So you can start killing unarmed prisoners again?”
[”That would make everything easier yeah.”]
”I told you I'm not never letting you do that!”
Feeling a bit bad for the poor angel, Dax slowed down his run slightly and allowed Solaris to catch up, before stopping completely as he put up his rifle.
[CONTACT FRONT, 2005 METERS.]
[”Yeah I see them, Solaris get behind me.. It's really hard not to notice them on this f.u.c.k.i.n.g ice sheet, how did they know I'm coming?..”]
[CONTACT FRONT, RIFLE FIRE.]
As Dax wondered how the Northern Republic found out he was coming for them his troughs was rudely interrupted when he was hit by a rifle round in the head.
[”Now that's just rude..”]
Brushing off the few remaining fragments from his visor Dax shielded his face with his arm as another round hit right after.
”Dax why are you not shooting back!?”
[”They're not f.u.c.k.i.n.g around huh? ICI assume spearhead formation, activate XMRA active ERA.”]
Completely ignoring Solaris that almost hugged his back as he slowly advanced towards the direction of fire, with the drones also falling in behind him.
[CONFIRMED SPEARHEAD FORMATION, XMRA ACTIVE EXPLOSIVE REACTIVE ARMOR ONLINE.]
With ICI's cold and unfeeling voice as a cue, 2 ports opened on Dax's armored shoulder and 2 small black boxes popped up.
[DOPPLER RADAR ACTIVE, READY FOR INTERCEPTION.]
[”Intercept all hostile fire, ammunition rationing still in effect, limit suppressive fire to 2%”]
[RATIONING IN EFFECT, KILLSHOTS ONLY.]
”Dax shoot back!”
Now completely covering behind his back Solaris started getting teary eyed as gunshots snapped past them.
[”No need. Besides they can't hit us anymore.”]
”Nonono it clearly looks like they ca- hiii!”
As Solaris really started losing it something blew up about 10 meters in front of, almost scaring the crap out of her.
”What was that!?”
[”Explosive reactive armor, or ERA for short. When the suit detectives rifle fire that'll hit it launches a small shard of my outer armor that then blows up and deflects the shot away. Neat right~”]
”Could you just do something to the instead of bragging like that?!”
[”I am doing something, besides are you not the general of the 14th sanctuary? Why the f.u.c.k are you getting scared of a little rifle fire?”]
”Because it's way out of my range! Dax do something please!”
[”Then dig a hole or something.. ICI range to targets?”]
[1464 METERS.]
[”Time to go to work then, ICI leave one alive for intelligence extraction.”]
[DIRECTIVE CONFIRMED, READY TO BREAK FORMATION]
Cracking his neck Dax did a few quick jumps before he turned to Solaris.
[”Be right back~”]