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Authors: Eric S. Brown, Jason Cordova
Tags: Science-Fiction, Horror
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full auto fire from his cannon meeting their forward ranks head on.
“West. . .” He heard Smith say. “I'm sorry. There's no other way.”
“What. . .” he started and then realized what she meant as he saw the icon of her suit on his tactical display screen shift from a green dot to one of pulsing red. Smith had set her Mark II to self-destruct. He forgot about the Dog Kaiju and whirled to race towards the Overmind. He saw Smith charging it. She dodged tentacles that slashed out at her and slid like a baseball player between the Overmind's legs. As her armored form skidded to a halt directly beneath the Kaiju Overmind, the world went white. West felt the heat of the blast as his retina were burnt away and the armor of his Mark II melted into nothingness, taking his flesh and bones with it.
He never did get to tell her that he had loved her.
****
The once-grand streets of the city of Lemura had become a veritable warzone. The turtle-shelled Mother Kaiju, whose continued march towards the city proper could not be stopped, had shattered the dome surrounding the city. Yeltsin stared at the monitors in the command post with a mixture of anger, disgust, and fear. For all their effort, the main cannons couldn't stop the monster. The Mother Kaiju was missing an arm, and Yeltsin was convinced the beast was half-blind from multiple hits to the head. The arm on its right side ended in a stump of blackened scales and its face and legs were scorched to the point where the thing's tissues were charred beyond recognition, and yet the beast still stood. There seemed to be no stopping the lumbering Kaiju. The monster limped along, striking at buildings with its one good arm and crushing whatever was unlucky enough to be under its feet.
A division of ancient tanks moved down the primary road to meet the Mother Kaiju as it headed for the heart of the city. In a last-ditch effort, Yeltsin ordered them to target the monster's already wounded legs in the hope of bringing it down. Blasts of flame and smoke erupted from the barrels of the tank’s main guns as they thundered in chorus. They struck the Mother Kaiju in its thighs just below the edge of the shell covering the beast's torso. The monster reared back its head in a howl of pain, dropping to one knee. Its remaining arm swiped at the tanks. One tank's side caved inward as the Mother Kaiju's pincer made contact with it. The blow sent the tank rolling into the tank next to it before both exploded in a fiery blast of orange and yellow flames. None of the men and women inside managed to escape before a massive secondary explosion signaled the rupture of the magazine rack within one of the tanks. The second explosion vaporized both vehicles.
Yeltsin was tied into the comm channel the tanks were using. He heard the division's CO screaming for the tanks to withdraw. Both heavy vehicles kicked it into a hard reverse as they fired again. This time, their shots slammed into the hardened armor of the Mother Kaiju's shell with no effect. The Mother Kaiju tried to get to its feet, but failed. Its massive body rocked the street as it collapsed back onto one knee. The two tanks were in the process of turning around for a full out retreat when the giant beast swept its arm through a nearby building breaking apart the top half towards the tanks. The shower of debris hit them before they completed their turn. One tank was covered entirely, the other barely escaping the same fate.
All around the battle with the Mother Kaiju, platoons of infantry engaged the flood of Dog Kaiju that had poured into Lemura through the opening that the massive beast had made for them. The bulk of the infantry troopers wore basic combat gear. Only a few were in Dogkiller armor. Most of the Dogkiller suits available had been lost, along with the men and women wearing them, during the failed attempt to hold the
“West. . .” He heard Smith say. “I'm sorry. There's no other way.”
“What. . .” he started and then realized what she meant as he saw the icon of her suit on his tactical display screen shift from a green dot to one of pulsing red. Smith had set her Mark II to self-destruct. He forgot about the Dog Kaiju and whirled to race towards the Overmind. He saw Smith charging it. She dodged tentacles that slashed out at her and slid like a baseball player between the Overmind's legs. As her armored form skidded to a halt directly beneath the Kaiju Overmind, the world went white. West felt the heat of the blast as his retina were burnt away and the armor of his Mark II melted into nothingness, taking his flesh and bones with it.
He never did get to tell her that he had loved her.
****
The once-grand streets of the city of Lemura had become a veritable warzone. The turtle-shelled Mother Kaiju, whose continued march towards the city proper could not be stopped, had shattered the dome surrounding the city. Yeltsin stared at the monitors in the command post with a mixture of anger, disgust, and fear. For all their effort, the main cannons couldn't stop the monster. The Mother Kaiju was missing an arm, and Yeltsin was convinced the beast was half-blind from multiple hits to the head. The arm on its right side ended in a stump of blackened scales and its face and legs were scorched to the point where the thing's tissues were charred beyond recognition, and yet the beast still stood. There seemed to be no stopping the lumbering Kaiju. The monster limped along, striking at buildings with its one good arm and crushing whatever was unlucky enough to be under its feet.
A division of ancient tanks moved down the primary road to meet the Mother Kaiju as it headed for the heart of the city. In a last-ditch effort, Yeltsin ordered them to target the monster's already wounded legs in the hope of bringing it down. Blasts of flame and smoke erupted from the barrels of the tank’s main guns as they thundered in chorus. They struck the Mother Kaiju in its thighs just below the edge of the shell covering the beast's torso. The monster reared back its head in a howl of pain, dropping to one knee. Its remaining arm swiped at the tanks. One tank's side caved inward as the Mother Kaiju's pincer made contact with it. The blow sent the tank rolling into the tank next to it before both exploded in a fiery blast of orange and yellow flames. None of the men and women inside managed to escape before a massive secondary explosion signaled the rupture of the magazine rack within one of the tanks. The second explosion vaporized both vehicles.
Yeltsin was tied into the comm channel the tanks were using. He heard the division's CO screaming for the tanks to withdraw. Both heavy vehicles kicked it into a hard reverse as they fired again. This time, their shots slammed into the hardened armor of the Mother Kaiju's shell with no effect. The Mother Kaiju tried to get to its feet, but failed. Its massive body rocked the street as it collapsed back onto one knee. The two tanks were in the process of turning around for a full out retreat when the giant beast swept its arm through a nearby building breaking apart the top half towards the tanks. The shower of debris hit them before they completed their turn. One tank was covered entirely, the other barely escaping the same fate.
All around the battle with the Mother Kaiju, platoons of infantry engaged the flood of Dog Kaiju that had poured into Lemura through the opening that the massive beast had made for them. The bulk of the infantry troopers wore basic combat gear. Only a few were in Dogkiller armor. Most of the Dogkiller suits available had been lost, along with the men and women wearing them, during the failed attempt to hold the
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