Apocalyptic Rebirth: With a repairman system space, she rises again.-Chapter 532: The battle in Ferry Island....1
The heat in Ferry Island didn’t just rise, it multiplied. It became a physical weight, thick and heavy, mixing with the sudden, sharp tension of two thousand soldiers drawing their breaths almost at once. The air tasted of salt, old metal, and the impending scent of ozone.
A united team of Ferry Island fighters and Fortress four squads had rushed to the entrance of the town, to keep Emily’s soldiers from invading. It would buy time for Sunshine’s people to continue their search and recovery of the missing children while the rest dealt with the enemy.
As the two armies faced off, the temperature jumped, making the horizon shimmer and dance. Every breath felt like inhaling steam from a boiling pot. For those without solar suits and other means of protecting themselves from the sun, it was hell.
Emily Stafford hadn’t come for a small skirmish; she had come to delete Ferry Island from the map. Her men marched across the dry, cracked earth, their boots kicking up a cloud of dust that choked the air. The super humans among them flexing their powers.
Sunshine watched them, calculating the odds of the battle. With the exo suits, victory was in her hands. None the less, she did not want to take chances. Some of her superhumans did not want exo suits, they preferred raw fights.
"System, check the thermal bands of my superhumans and make sure that their prime cores have not been depleted. If they have, swap out the old ones for new ones."
[On it host.]
"Other than the superhumans I want, leave no one alive. With the exception of those who surrender willingly. Give this fight your all." Sunshine’s voice crackled through the comms, sharp and commanding.
With a series of heavy mechanical clicks and the hiss of pressurized air, the Fortress Four team in the sky activated their exo suits.
"Sweet." Vicente said. "Can I get one of those?" His chin jutted towards Nimo’s glowing suit.
Sunshine tossed him a dragonoid. "I doubt you can afford one but ditch your gun for this."
As the faceplates of the suits slammed shut, the world inside their helmets shifted into a tactical wonderland. Glowing blue lines traced the terrain, and heat signatures bloomed like orange flowers in the dark. They marked foe from friend quite clearly.
"Engaging flight thrusters," Siegfried shouted, his voice full of adrenaline. He roared into the air, the Adaptive Gravity system making the thousand-pound suit feel like a second skin. "Man, I love this feeling! It’s like being a bird, but with more aura!" He flew into the air like a rocket.
From the enemy lines, the woman controlling the lions stepped forward. She let out a piercing whistle that felt like a needle in the ear. On her command, the pack of mutated lions got into formation, each the size of a small truck with jagged bone-spikes growing from their manes, charged toward the broken walls of the town which led directly to the slums.
"Hunter, handle the cats! I don’t want them anywhere near the civilians!" Sunshine commanded.
"Yes ma’am." Hunter shifted and transformed with a metallic whirring sound. Fur slid back to reveal a missile pod on her spine and a rapid-fire gatling gun in her chest. She stood her ground, paws planted firmly. Then unleashed a swarm of micro-missiles that whistled through the air, turning the lead lions into red mist before they could even reach the first line of shacks.
"Good girl, Hunter!" Sunshine shouted, though she didn’t have time to celebrate, a fire ball was coming at her.
Above them, the sky darkened as flying serpents dived, they were being controlled by the beast master that was beside Emily.
"Take her out." Emily shouted, pointing at Sunshine.
One massive serpent, its wingspan wide enough to cover a house, slammed its talons into the shoulders of Sunshine’s exo suit. The impact was like being hit by a freight train. It gripped her tight, its muscles bulging as it tried to lift her into the sky.
"Nice try, snaky, but I’ve been on a diet," Sunshine grunted. She activated the Weight-Anchor. Suddenly, her suit weighed as much as a mountain. The serpent’s wings beat frantically, kicking up a storm of dust, but it couldn’t lift her an inch. Then, she triggered the Retroactive Spikes. Long, glowing needles shot upward and sliced it in half.
Another serpent tried to flee but it shrieked in agony when she electrocuted it, letting go as it spiraled toward the ground. Sunshine didn’t watch it fall; she raised her hand and fired a Laser Ray, a beam of pure yellow light that sliced through the wings of incoming serpents’ mid-air.
"This is too easy, frankly, I am disappointed Lord Emily." she yelled. Her voice, amplified by the suit’s sound enhancer was carried across the battlefield like thunder wrapped in fog. This was because of all the frost being emitted from Sunshine’s exo suit. Like she was a walking freezer.
The battle around them swarmed. Some superhumans from Emily’s side had made to the broken walls and crept into the town from other accessible areas. In the narrow alleys of the slum, the fighting was a nightmare. Vicente’s men were being pushed back by three superhumans that could condense their bodies into living stone.
"Suni...we have walking stones over here." Nala reported.
"Shit!" Sunshine cursed. "Why does she have powerful superhumans? Use acid grenades and shoot their eyes. They are vulnerable around that area." She had met many superhumans like that before.
Vicente, meanwhile, he had abandoned fire for poison, and it was working effectively. All the enemies trying to get past him were on the ground, writhing in agony. "Sweet." He said as he watched them suffer. His eyes scanned for Emily because they needed to take her out.
In every battle, capturing the general was always the fastest way to end it. When last he had seen her, she had been barking orders at her men. Now, there was an empty space where she had been.
"Where the hell is she?" He bellowed.
"I have got her." Sunshine announced. She was in pursuit of Emily. The woman was trying to enter the town, bending and warping air so that she could move unnoticed. But Sunshine had noticed.
Emily raised her arms, trying to use pressure to pull the battlefield down. Sunshine countered, slamming her hammer into the ground and releasing a surge of electricity that shattered the gravity well. Emily was flung back, pursued by bolts of lightning that illuminated the sky.
The same sky was darkened by a thousand drones, they scurried over the reserve soldiers on Emily’s side and dropped acid grenades. Hades was sending help anyway that he could. He was also itching to join the fight. He was not alone, Ariel also wanted to join and so did Ala. 𝑓𝘳𝘦𝑒𝑤𝑒𝘣𝘯ℴ𝘷𝘦𝓁.𝑐𝑜𝑚
Smaller drones came from Kingsbridge, covering the small nearly flattened hill that separated it from Ferry Island in seconds. They dropped grenades and bombs in the slums, one too close to where Hadrian and the kids he had rescued were. He vanished with them and landed in the middle of a collapsing street with a heavy thud that cracked the pavement.
"Toby lives in there." One of the kids pointed at a burning building, screams were coming from inside.
Hadrian cursed, shoved the kids towards Nala and flew into the burning building.
