Chapter 4: Rescue mission
The Resolute quickly flew towards the residential sector which was currently being bombarded by the voidwalker cruisers. Pyro focussed on flying and drowned out all other noises including Arcan's complaints about him going too quickly. As they reached the tall skyscrapers the ship came to a bumpy halt and hovered in the air as Pyro looked around in the chaos for the building where his girlfriend and he had been staying. The towers stood tall above them, monuments of modern science. "Where is she?" Arcan asked wanting to get this over with as quickly as possible. Pyro didn't answer and continued to look around for the right building until at last he found it and began flying towards it.
As they moved towards it a purple missile slammed into the tower ahead of them causing it to begin falling down. Pyro pulled downwards on the joystick controls taking them beneath the chunk of dropping skyscraper. Arcan gripped his armrests tightly as they moved underneath a falling building. He let out a deep breath of relief when they made it to the other side safely. They looked back and watched the tower slam down onto the ground in an explosion of dust and debris. "The underground hangars have been sealed shut, you'll have to find a landing pad on the building itself" Arcan explained looking down at the tightly closed titanium doors beneath them. Pyro nodded and finally reached the tower where he had woken up not too long ago.
Arcan surveyed the building as Pyro hovered them around it. "There's nowhere you can land" he reported with a grim look. Above them the cruisers opened up and thousands of small black blobs began dropping out of them. "Enemy drop pods, bombarding the city" Arcan said watching the blobs smash down onto the ground beneath them. Suddenly several pods flew straight past them and smashed into the tower a few floors beneath them. "Dammit, they'll be full of voidwalkers, Lillie is gonna die" Pyro said with panic racking his brain for a plan. Arcan turned to him with a look of shock and surprise. "You've never told me her name before" he said smiling a little. Pyro let out a small grin and then slammed his hand on the dashboard with success. "Arcan, take the controls" he said getting up out of his seat.
Pyro walked back towards the rear door and pressed a button opening it while Arcan slid over into the pilot seat. "No point in trying to stop you so...good luck" Arcan shouted back over the noise of the wind rushing in. Pyro nodded and ran off the back of the ship leaping off without a second thought. The wind hit him like a punch to the stomach as he fell through the air spreading his arms and legs out to try to steady his fall. His T-shirt was blown up almost blinding him and he aimed himself towards the building wanting to get in as soon as possible. He smashed through a window straight into a private room. A woman stared at him only wearing pink underwear. Pyro looked away and ran over to the door. "I'd recommend evacuating once you've got clothes on" he said moving out and into a long corridor.
As he looked either side of him and explosion rocked the building and caused all the lights to flicker and turn off. "They must have hit the building's power supply...great" he remarked sarcastically pulling a concealed knife out of his pocket and moving cautiously down the corridor towards a set of stairs. He reached the staircase and groaned when he remembered how tall the building was. "No power, no elevator" he moaned beginning his long trek up the stairs.
A few minutes later he reached a corridor and let out an exhausted moan. "I'm on the right level now" he stated to himself looking at the room numbers. As he ran down the corridor he noticed that one of the room's door had been taken off its hinges and thrown away. He cautiously stepped inside and found glass shards spread all around the floor. Blood ran up the walls and Pyro looked away in disgust. At the opposite end of the room was a voidwalker drop pod embedded in the wall. He backed out of the room and crouched when he saw a large figure twice the size of any regular man stood a few metres ahead. The figure was wearing black armour with a concealing helmet that revealed only vicious purple eyes. It held a weapon in its hand and was stood over the dead body of a man laughing. "Voidwalker...shit" Pyro whispered to himself wondering what to do.
He stuck to the shadows and crawled along the ground towards the voidwalker trying to remain as silent as possible. If he was detected then he was dead for sure since the only weapon he had was a knife. When he was about three metres away he stood on a shard of glass making it crack underneath his feet. The voidwalker quickly turned and fired several purple shots just over his head. Pyro rolled underneath them and leapt onto the voidwalker bringing it down to the ground. He spun the knife in his hand and sliced it into the creature's throat causing black blood to spurt out. For a moment it remained still giving Pyro a false sense of security but then it stood up throwing him off and pulling the knife out. Pyro clasped his hands together and produced a fireball shooting at the voidwalker's chest turning it into a burning corpse.
Another voidwalker quickly ran up from behind him and kicked him to the ground before he could react. It stood above him aiming its weapon down at his head laughing. Pyro closed his eyes and awaited his fate knowing that if he tried to use his powers he'd be dead before he managed it. PTEW! The sound of laser echoed through the corridor and the second voidwalker's body fell onto Pyro lifelessly. He kicked it off and stood up eager to find out who had saved him. Lillie was stood a few metres away holding an SMG with smoke gently rising up out of its barrel.
They ran up to one another and hugged tightly. "You found my weapon stash" Pyro remarked looking at the SMG in her hands. She nodded and before they could discuss the matter further Arcan's voice came through Pyro's earpiece. "The voidwalker army is landing down and I'm gonna join the fight, you'll have to get to it on your own I'm afraid" he said cutting out into static afterwards. "You might need some more weapons if we're going into a warzone" Lillie suggested pointing towards their room. They strolled in and opened up the oak wardrobe retrieving armour. "If you are coming with me you will need armour, my old suit should fit you" Pyro said handing over a set of black and yellow armour. Meanwhile he pulled out a black and orange set and scoured the bottom of the wardrobe until he found his assault rifle and shotgun.
A couple of minutes later they were ready for combat and Pyro pumped his shotgun looking down onto the flaming city. He saw that the voidwalkers had deployed their army on the plains just outside the city and decided that that was his destination.
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