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TERRA NOVA EPISODE 30

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TERRA NOVA
EPISODE 30
MAELSTROM

Joseph slips the riot shield over his left arm, the holsters on his body armor all loaded with weapons. The ever lowering light of the sunset tints everything yellow “Tell me how long we have before we reach the planet?”
“We have one whole day…” Laura says, standing on a patch of rubble.
“Time flies when you’re preparing for war.”
“Indeed we have prepared, and we will finish it today.”
The hover-tanks lift off of the ground and proceed over the barricades and into the city. Nobody looks out their windows at the parade of arms marching through the streets; Brian had held to his word and moved everyone out of harm’s way. The purple armored soldier in front of him holds up her hand, gesturing for them to take cover behind the battlements in the center of the street. A howl can be heard from far away, near the center of the city, near their ultimate goal: the Spire. The shell lands at the other side of the street, marking the beginning of the chaos, gunshots ring out as both sides converge in the street.
Joseph smacks a soldier with his shield, pulling the trigger on his combat shotgun to turn the person’s chest into a cavity, “ATTACK!” The husk of a car flies over his head, propelled by fang’s mechanical arms, and plows into a group of hostile humans.
*******
Kara looks around the room, wearing a set of clothing purchased from the shops in the newest town. The tube top, pants bound above her knees, and glove on her left hand all made of white tiger-skin while the silver band on her right wrist and her left ankle shimmer in the candlelight of the room.
Chris lies back on the roof of the inn, seeing he didn’t order a place to stay, watching the stars high in the heavens, “I wonder how everyone else is doing…”
“I’ve wondered that too… but I think they’ll be okay. Knowing them, they’re out of harm’s way, oblivious to all that happened that day.” Kara says as she climbs up onto the roof.
Chris had changed from his combat armor, which seemed to be no longer functioning, into a gray leather shirt and pants, which were bound below the knees. His hands and feet were covered in bandages seeing as he didn’t want to spend any of their money on shoes, “You’re probably right…” he turns to look at Kara and notices how different she appears. It takes some time for him to notice what is different, but eventually it clicks in his mind what it is that he had never seen before. The female wolf is actually wearing makeup, “umm… you look nice…”
“Well aren’t we observant…” She says with an honest smile.
“Just a little bit today…” He points a finger to the stars, “you know what?”
“Hmmm?” she looks up.
“I think stars stand for a person’s journey through life. Whenever one disappears then that means a person has been completely forgotten. Why else would there be so many up there.”
“Where are you going with this?”
“Let’s just say that I know that we all will die… that’s an unavoidable truth. The one thing I hope for is that I can keep my star up in the sky as long as possible…”
“Sounds like you’ve got a full life ahead of you then…”
Chris lets out a sigh, “I certainly hope so…”
*******
A purple armored combatant grabs a human by the face and slashes him in two with her gigantic claws, only to have her arm cut off by an energy-saber wielding commander. “STAND YOUR GROUND OR I WILL KILL YOU MYSELF!!!” He shouts to the forces beside him as he raises the weapon for a killing blow.
Joseph aims straight for the commander with a charge, trying to spare the experiment he sees. The human sees him and raises a cruel handgun, lining it up perfectly with the center of his head as reinforcement helicopters come toward the battlefield.
Unfortunately for the commander he hadn’t noticed that the helicopters didn’t bear any known symbol of the military. The 20mm cannon on the nose of the leading one opens fire and rips his body apart in a shower of flesh, blood, and bone,  troops drop down and pick up the fight, certain ones picking up the wounded and transporting them back to where Laura is. Joseph watches this, amazed, before noticing someone pulling on his shirt, turning around he sees Brian, “The hell are you doing here?”
Another artillery shell blasts the ground as the military retreats further into the city, “I can’t trust you keeping yourself alive if I leave you alone!” Joseph comes to realize that the other troops following Brian are common humans and spliced citizens. “Besides the city is in an uproar over the information you gave the police, an as officers we can’t let them get themselves killed.”
At the back end of the battlefield the N.E.O. speaks to herself, watching Sihii treat the wounded, “A grave error has been realized in the decision I have made… They are in more danger than ever before.”
*******
The seaside city rocks beneath the party, knocking Dixon off his feet. He grabs the ground, only getting up after the earth has stopped moving, “What was that?”
“I’d say it was an earthquake.” Jeffron responds, standing up from just having grabbed hold of the base of a lamp post.
“Just what is it with this place?”
*******
The earthquake tears a hole in the roof, causing Chris to fall into the room below. Kara looks over the edge as an aftershock occurs knocking her straight onto the wolf. They open their eyes at the exact same time, realizing their lips had connected, then get up and begin spitting. “It’s POISON!”
“You’re telling me!” She shouts back as Chris runs out the door, disappearing in the shadows. Kara stops for a second and presses a finger to her lips, her cheeks a slight red, “Actually… it wasn’t half bad…”
Going back to school tomorrow, so this may be the last update till the contest is over.
The Battle for City 13...
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*is looking foward to seeing more chapters* =D