The fallen soldier

Chapter 9

Explosions
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You made your ways through the ships interior, carefully stepping over wires that still had large amounts of electric running through it. You hoped your 6 companions did the same, you weren't sure what would happen to you if they managed to get hurt on your watch. Maybe Celestia would come back and use her princess magic shit on you or somethin'.

You had the feeling that the princess's magic was something to worry about, your armor could protect you from many things, but, It does not make you invincible. . . Just really hard to kill. Surviving training and the great space war is a perfect example of your ability to survive, for the first 14 years you've been in the military, you didn't have access to a AMAHS suit, so you were an average soldier, yet you lived.

Maybe it's because of the one thing that you always had on your side.

Luck.

You've always had luck on your side, it worked against the bad things, and worked with the good things. That's how you managed to survive everything life threw your way. So getting killed by magic isn't exactly the way you want to go, you figured you'd die by getting sniped when your helmet was down. This happened to another AMAHS agent when he was on the field.

A grenade that blew up next to him completely trashed his helmet, therefore trashing his comm system amongst other things, so when he brought down his helmet to issue an order, he was shot directly in the head by a alien sniper, he was killed instantly. You knew the guy too, his name was Phillip and he was 2 years older than you, he was an alright guy that was hoping to get honorably discharged when the war was over. He had a girl he was sweet for, he never talked much about her, but hey, it really wasn't your business anyway.

Refocusing back on the task at hand.

You found yourself standing in front of the cargo room, the door was already half-way open, so you crouched and made your way beneath it. Once in the room you looked around, for a cargo room, it had only 3 boxes laying here and there. One box was laying on its side, it's contents spilled all over the floor, which was nothing but ammunition. You remember seeing several men load these boxes into your squad's ship before your journey to the space station.

Exactly what was in that space station? It was a research facility, so maybe we were supposed to play exterminator with whatever caused the place to go radio dead? Something had to go terribly wrong there, unless we wouldn't and shouldn't need 3 moderately sized crates filled with ammunition.

Now that you think about it, during briefing you do remember something being said about a strange alien artifact? What ever the hell it was, you had a sudden sense of confusing happiness when you realized you won't get to see it for a while longer.

You crouched down and started grabbing as much ammunition as you could physically carry, rounds for the Gs38 came in small boxes of 60, while rounds for your Sas-24 came in smaller boxes of 24. You grab several 5.56mm boxes and many 45.Acp Boxes, eventually you have a small tower of boxes in your arms.

Sadly, unlike video games, these bullets will not load themselves into what few magazines you have, you're gonna have to load them yourself, maybe one of these boxes have empty magazines, you, oddly enough, have no idea what was in these boxes.

You set down you tower of leaning ammo boxes, and pull up your left wrist, this would be the first time you've used it so far, so after a quick confirmation, you found yourself able to summon your plasma sword.

The blade had a green tinge, with purple undertones at the hilt of blade, many would say it seemed like electricity was crackling on the blade. This weapon was a nightmare to the enemy combatants, mainly because it was reverse engineered from their own variation of the sword.

While their version had limited battery, the humans figured, "hey, how about we make some changes and give it a bigger fucking battery."

When AMAHS agents wield the blade, it's normally hooked up to the suit itself, giving the swords limited battery the ability to recharge itself if removed and have a practically infinite battery when it's attached and used on the armor itself.

You summon the blade and examine it, checking for any deformations in the blade. None showed, so you brought your arm down and carefully stabbed it into the boxes lid. You ran your blade through the side and discharged the blade.

With your own two hands, you grabbed and pulled the lid off, inside was a bomb.

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Wat?

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You look away and look back into the box.

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The bomb was still there.

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There was a timer, it read 8:56 and was currently counting down. You've seen this model before, it can't be disarmed.

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"FUCK! "

You jump back into action, grabbing your tower of ammunition before dashing out under the door. As you ran though the corridors, you nearly slip on several puddles of water. But alas, nothing stops your mad dashing.

You run past the engines room, shouting for the 6 woman that accompanied you to this ship. When you begin nearing the hole that you entered through, you get a response. It was quiet and distant, but you heard it never the less.

It came from outside, you turn down a hallway and spot the six women crouched by the entrance. When you neared the group, Twilight whispers something on how there was a mans body outside and how it attracted something called a manticore.

"What? A manticore? What the fucks a manticore? Actually never mind tell me later we gotta leave, NOW!" You try to leave but Applejack stops you by standing in front of you.

"What Twilight's tryin' to tell ya is that we got some trouble outside." She points outside at a large beast that was nearing the corpse of your pal.

"Fuck! Fine then. Here Applejack, hold this." You hand her the tower of ammunition and jump outside.

The women express there doubt in you by saying you'll get mauled, but frankly you didn't have time for this. You grab Lewis's rifle and switch it to full-auto, you whistle and attract the creatures attention. As soon as it's head faced you, you unloaded the entire magazine into its face, it collapsed and wasn't going to get up anytime soon.

You didn't bother looking at the women and simply reholstered the rifle, you quickly grab the corpse of your fallen friend before turning and running past the 6 women who had their mouths open.

All the while you professionally tell them to follow you, "BOMB, SHIP, GONNA EXPLODE, RUN NOW! "

Luckily they understood panicked soldier and took off after you, Rainbow used her wings to fly high into the air, Applejack held her own and she still had your stuff, Twilight ran as well, Rarity was surprisingly fast on her feet but she still complained, Fluttershy was running as fast as her legs could carry her.

Pinkie ran up next to you before running ahead, in your own defense you was carrying a man who weighed at least 165 pounds, while still managing to run pretty fast. After running a good distance from the ship you slowly came to a halt, you looked behind you and patiently waited for the rest to catch up.

Applejack was first, then Twilight, then Rarity, and then Fluttershy, Rainbow and Pinkie were probably half away across the world by now.

"So *huff* when is the ship gonna *huff* gonna explode?" Twilight managed to speak through her heavy breathing.

"Any second no-" you was stopped by a large explosion that went off on the distance, seconds later a gust of wind blew through the woods.

"Never mind." You look in the direction of the ship before turning and walking away.

"That's it? We're just gonna leave?!" Twilight stomped beside you.

"Yep." You reply.

"What was with the manticore?! I've never seen anyone dispatch of one so quickly! How does that weapon in your back work? Who's the guy on your shoulder? Is he dead?" Twilight spoke a millions words a minute.

You respond with, "The manticore was in the way so I got rid of it. I'm trained to get rid of problems quickly. Simple explanation- it works by launching metal shards at very fast speeds. His name his Lewis, and yes, he's dead." There was a gasp followed not long after.

Twilight didn't ask any more questions for the whole way back to town.

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Twilight, Rarity, and Fluttershy went back to town, Applejack gave Twilight your tower of ammunition and had her take it home with her.

You and Applejack went to her house to fetch a shovel, you buried you friend in the fields outside town and fashioned a crude cross from sticks and some string Applejack lent you.

You honored his death by firing his rifle into the air, afterwords you placed his dog tag on his cross, took a few steps back and saluted his grave.

Applejack and you separated and you returned back to town, once back at the treehouse Twilight welcomed you inside and you stayed the night. (not like that.)

Another day in the life of a A.M.A.H.S. agent.

Author's Notes:

In honor of the only guy who commented a place.

Anyways, Sorry I kinda half-assed the end, I was feeling lazy and didn't want to write much more.

I'll fix it later.

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