Chapter 49 The Showdown Between Keila and Alicia
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Keila stepped out of her shuttle and realised that the artificial gravity on the Moreno outpost was very limited. This worried her as her troops had never trained for low gravitation combat. While the gravitation was still enough to prevent her from flying off when she walked there, the recoil of the weapons could prove to be a challenge for her troops. She instructed her men to activate their Zetan ballistic energy absorbers but hold off with the Zetan bionic chip disruptors. Handheld devices had limited battery capacity, and she did not want to waste it before combat.
She entered the main lobby of the Moreno outpost and was greeted by a blood-soaked floor and Josh’s head on a pike. Under Josh’s head hung a sign: “Welcome Keila, you are next”. Keila looked up, and out of nowhere Alicia swept in with a plasma sword and decapitated the soldier next to her. Before anyone had time to react, Alicia grabbed the head and jumped away to the cover of darkness. “Hey! Your friend lost something!” she screamed mockingly and threw back the head. As she screamed, some of Keila’s troops lost their cool and started shooting randomly towards Alicia’s voice. This was the cue for Alicia’s operatives to hail bullets and grenades against Keila’s position. The ballistic energy absorbers absorbed most of the impact, but some of Keila’s soldiers fell as they had misdirected the device. Keila dropped to the ground and activated her Zetan bionic chip disruptor. This turned the tide of the battle as Alicia’s operatives lost all ability and started acting very erratic, shooting randomly once their microchip implants were disrupted. This made them easy targets and Keila’s fighters eliminated them quickly.
Alicia, however, was still at large and unaffected by the disruptor as she, opposite to most Terrans, relied solely on her wild animal instincts and not on bionic microchips. She swept in another time and decapitated another one of Keila’s men. On her third swoop, she got hit by multiple bullets and was unable to jump away. Instead, she quickly crawled behind one of Keila’s female troops, grabbed the woman and pointed the plasma sword to her throat. Then, Alicia screamed out to Keila.
Alicia White:
- I have one of your soldiers as a hostage. Face me in hand to hand combat, and I’ll let her go.
Keila:
- You are surrounded, injured, and all your men are dead! Surrender, Alicia!
Alicia White:
- Oh heee hee hee hee!! The ever mighty and brave Keila, the poster girl for the insurrection movement The Martian Humanist Alliance, the ever so famous guerrilla-fighter girl, too afraid to face me huh!
Keila:
- I’m not afraid of you. Challenge accepted, b***h!
Keila stood up and threw away her rifle and grabbed her knife.
Alicia White pushed away her hostage, hissed and said “Excellent”. She stared in shock as Keila swiftly pulled up her pistol and shot the exposed Alicia right between the eyes. Things went silent. Alicia paused for a second and suddenly screamed in agony. “I’ll get you Keila, I will get my revenge! Revive me and fight with honour!” after shouting that out she dropped dead to the ground.
Keila:
- Thanks honey, but I prefer to do things the easy way.
Keila gently blew the smoke away from her pistol, and she smirked with a sweet, bright, and intelligent look in her eyes. After killing Alicia, Keila and her remaining troops quickly dragged all the wounded and dead friends and enemies back on the shuttle and went back to Eden. They brought back their own troops to try to revive them while avoid being detected, and they brought back the fallen enemies to try to restore them and then extract intelligence from them.
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