Ignavus : City of Blood

Act 18 : Dead Ones to Revel

Shanice peeked towards the western exit for exploring their possibilities against the creature that they were meant to assault. The Brown Caedes was rampaging across the western region of Brathe at the moment. Devouring over remains of the dead citizen beneath its feet, the creature has been growing much larger than before. It is currently reigning akin to the regular size of the white Caedes when they encountered such enormous being on the top of the Police Headquarters.

And it is still growing steadily after feasting upon many fresh-made human carcasses on the ground. Of all things considered, Shanice was gulping against such nerve-wracking challenge. She would have to make a deal against the brown creature first before roving towards the white ones across the south.

“Can I make a dent on that creature? It’s really big, I must say.”

Shanice muttered ahead of their current objective. Her head was bowing slightly to erase negative thoughts that settled inwards. Rather than one natural cause to apprehend, their current case is quite near to define the death sentence of their group in immediate fashion. She turned her head back and forth, facing the bland expression of her fellow teammates and against the brown beast several times in succession,” Yeah, we can do it. We can!” She muffled her yelling chant to diminish any chance to be discovered.

Towards the worrisome feelings of their leader, John Straverman laid a sneer at the front,”Nah, you’re the one to do that for us. Just kidding, though.” The black-haired man rushing in at once to mitigate eventual scold that arrive. Elisa was the first to emit such hostile spark against him, mainly prior to the instant rescue by her husband that goes forth.

Although, the blonde-haired woman still pulled his left ear for impending punishment thereof,” Ow, that hurts, babe!” John shrieked in agony. His protest lead to no bounds for her coercive assault, regardless. She maintained the pressure point towards the upper side and clipped them in for awhile,”It’s for your nonsense tease, babe. Don’t you ever do that again.” Lectured the woman towards her husband, which was leaning towards her by the yank.

“I am envious on you both, sometimes. I wish my husband was alive and well somehow.”

Natasha Gastano remarked. Gads Gilmore watches the auburn-haired woman a little in admiration, but afraid to make her noticed of his advance that the bearded man does so in mild-fashioned ways. The bearded man reverted his look to the left once her glances brandished across him at the most.

After snooping towards Natasha Gastano and peeping a little under the shoulder, Gads Gilmore spanning his device frontward,” By the way, we have to muster our strategy plan before heading towards the beast. I’ve had a complete set-up for the first one, if you all wanted to work on this soon.”

~beep-beep~

The bearded man waited for no one to gain permission. He presses a button on the screen, which eventually augmented the real-time landscape of the brown-beast’s position this time around. A police station building nestled on the northern side position from the brown creature. During these times, the armed officers have been started to unleash their weapon forward and crashing some of the bullets into its skull. Some of them even flanked the beast behind to fire off countless shots onto the non skull-coated area of the creature.

Much to their dismay, however, they were hopeless and prone-headed against the mighty beast. It proves neither damage onto the hide and made them appeared wasting their own supply after beating around the sturdy shell of the beast . Little by little, the brown Caedes snatched their teammates up and splintered them into two pieces by the strength of its jaw.

“Argh!”

The brown Caedes left them bare on the ground for later use. It has another threat looming towards him, a large riot-breaker tank manufactured for dispersing demonstration around the city ground. It has three-layered structure with detachable weaponry at the topmost section of the vehicle. The armed forces usually selected a water-sprayer to knocking off the commotion without murdering them out in the process.

“It’s a pancake for that kind of cavalry, isn’t it?” John Straverman goes excited. Back again, the gleaming eyes of the black-haired man rummaging over the three-dimensional augmentation of the heavy artillery that they have deployed,”Can we control that with your technology, Gads? You’ve got those itty-bitty hacking device, haven’t you?”

Gads Gilmore shakes his head against the query,”Not in the thousand years, man. It’s difficult to locate the weakness of Govenment-made technology, especially one built by the Police.” He denied. John Straverman was unable to hide his own disappointment and frowned before the resolution offered. Yet, the bearded man was contemplating another means to sort out, for him to convert the map into its two-dimensional diagram at once.

“So, we’ve got three pathways to cover.” He draws a circle onto the police station for the first,”This is the blind spot for the brown beast. I will give one of you goggles for shooting a diversion attack onto that silly monster and driven them away from the next spot I will show you.”

~beep-beep~

The bearded man dragged the map towards the opposite area from the Police Station’s direction. It is a residential skyscraper for in-duty officer and the Police Headquarters visitors who were having one less procedure to devise, that is a rigorous body search in a day before their schedule of appointment with one or some high-ranked officers therein,” This is where I want you to do the job, sis. You’ll have the F2000 in the bag, one that I have customised a bit for generating electricity inside the bullet. That’s your leeway to blast that pesky brat into crumpled paper.”

“When did you do that custom thing, Gads?”

Ahead of John Straverman’s curiosity, Gads Gilmore laid a half-lidded eyed onto the man,”Well, I’ve got more than what you think for bullets. It’s the one I have brought since Neatol, added with disassembled assault rifle to be carried easily in my bag. I’ve got a lot of time in the barn for that, too.”

“Ah, so that’s why you were away somewhere in-between. That’s a cunning move from you, man!”

Supplementary to the question that the black-haired man has muttered, Shanice also has one reserved under her belt. She laid out such query once John’s turn is complete,”So, What’s the difference that the beast could tell between me and the remaining two? Also, I suppose your strategy lies on the tank’s performance in that regard, is that correct?”

Gads Gilmore applied several rubs onto his braided beard whilst scrolling over to the tank across the west,”If you asked me, then yes. That tank would become a good distraction for us to make headway towards the two designated position that I have mentioned.” He zooms into the layout of the blue-tinted tank for a closer look upon its construction.

Now, it has been adjusted for a new kind of weaponry once the regular explosion shell shows ineffectiveness onto their grid. A pulse cannon, one might say, which would produce invasive thrust energy towards the body of the brown beast and pushing them away accordingly,”See? It’s programmed to withstand the riot, so I’m kind of takin’ a wild guess that it could be useful for our needs.”

~clack-clack~

Shanice quickly withdraws the customised F-2000 assault rifle in her disposal. Without further ado, the curly-haired woman inserted the special-made bullet magazine into its socket and looking upon her fellow combatant in utmost confidence,” Okay, what do we waiting for? Our guns would never be empty by itself.”

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~boom~

It is vain and useless for the anti-riot tank to blast an air-powered pulse onto the beast’s body. No matter of how much pressure mounted onto its every discharge, the damage sustained has no effect upon the beast anyhow. By the squad’s interest, however, it is important for the tank to maintain such assault and keeping the brown beast goes side-tracked by its emergence.

~tap-tap-tap~

“Wear your goggles and do your job only if the beast tried to attack Shanice, John. You can use a grenade if you want.”

Gads Gilmore placed himself close-by, crawling under the well-trimmed bushes at the front yard of the Police apartment. Shanice gets on the main entrance and springs over on the staircase for nestling around the third floor of the building as requested by their strategic plan. Meanwhile, John and his wife got accompanied with Natasha Gastano for the distraction assault to be maintained in a larger composure than the actual attack that Shanice has commenced.

They move straight-forward onto the fourth floor for maximising the impact taken on each bullets spent. As anticipated by their strategic plan ahea, no people could be found rested inside the Police Station anymore. They could make headway into the highest floor they can reach in whichever position that the three of them will be most comfortable with.

On the other way around, Shanice has to force her way into the hotel room for a better perspective of the brown beast up above. The electricity-powered bullets will produce heartfelt injury upon the skull by the increased velocity fabricated by the extra ailments of the current. Its exploding discharge developed additional knockback for the bullet and bringing them into twice the speed of regular shoot-out.

~bzzt-bzzt~

“I’m nearly on the spot. Wait for my signal, Gads.”

Shanice was the only one left on their apparent tactic. This time, She carried a new sort of device to bust open one of the hotel room on the third floor. It is locked by the automatic mechanism of a key card and there is no other way available for the curly-haired woman to enter otherwise,“Engaging with the door key. I’m gonna use the flat screen like you have given me, Gads.” She announced.

“Roger that. I’m going on standby.”

~beep-beep~

Two clicks on the flat screen. One to deploy highly-adhesive substance down under, whilst the other used for setting up the timer of the liquifying process in profound manner. Shanice applies two seconds on the clock as she wanted to make a comfortable position for the assault,”Awaiting the door to be opened now.” She informed into the radio receiver afterwards.

~bang~

Its intricate substance could break down the lock in mere seconds. Because there is no hard-wearing metal applied on the door handle, It is relatively unnecessary for her to destroy the device and activate its intricate melting system in corresponds to the trigger,”Okay, I’m letting myself in. Will approach the window in a blitz.”

Shanice entrenched herself near the edge of the window. It is the prominent position for shooting the brown beast while being relatively obscured against the monster’s vision at the same time. When discovered, she could conceal below the window pane or leaning sideways onto the wall with ease, then the distraction squad will do the job for getting its utter attention immediately.

“Do the bomb, Gads.”

~ka-ching~

Gads Gilmore throws down the smoke bomb once knowing of her readiness at the top. The bearded man unloads three of them at once.

“Fire in your hole!”

Despite the yelling phrase that announced, Gads Gilmore muted himself and does so in rather-inaudible manner. He never wanted to be discovered near the hotspot of the beast and being eaten up as a complementary meal instead. The thickness that produced by three smoke grenade could cloak the black shadow of the beast in entirety. Against the sudden wrapping motion of the fume, the anti-riot tank could still fired its weapon forward regardless.

~zuu~

“Graaaa!”

One shot brought the beast to be pummelled backwards by the mounting air pressure. It attempts to leap upwards, but the anti-riot tank could capture its motion and splashing its content in point-blank accuracy with ease.

“Now, Shanice!”

Gads Gilmore released another smoke grenade to cover the forefront of the anti-riot tank. Shanice, on the other hand, has been wearing the goggles that made it accessible for her to shoot the beast with ease,”Die, you bastard!” She muttered whilst firing the assault rifle in her hand.

“Graaa!”

They could never be able to discern over the results. Shanice relished its absolute outcome, but apprehended by the white vapor that has blocked their vision towards the beast. As long as it is struggled, the curly-haired woman continues to shoot until her own ammo goes depleted.

“Hyaaa!”

Its reverberation made her own arms a little sore during the weapon-firing sequence. Shanice has gradually gotten exhausted and wanted to lay down a bit. However, her commitment instilled vitality into the veins, for the woman to keep blasting the electric-powered bullets into the head of the beast.

“What?”

Shanice observes the beast on her goggles, but no further movement detected on its entire body. It is her second reload and the last one for her arsenal. Because of such unexpected reaction from their target, it made her slightly stuttered and tried to analyse closely over the beast’s contour.

And the smoke disappeared, showing the lifeless body of the brown Caedes on the street.