Amongst the pile of the dead

c*****e:1

Kaden grabs the gun lying beside the desk and hesitantly rushes by the door, then Kaden heard the whistle of a missile coming from right above, he immediately jumps outside, escaping death by the second. Kaden felt blood crawl from his ears, a small piece of shrapnel hit his left arm. A barrage of missiles rain from the sky as one of the jet powered mechs land right in front of Kaden, the machine was completely different from what they had, it was completely encased in armour and had a more round base instead of the triangular look of what he remembered, just a single look at it, made it clear that it was a force to be reckon with, painted with a red and yellow hue, while covered with dents, scratches and blast marks, all this and two massive guns and a rack filled with rockets also unfamiliar.

My date with this menace of a machine had my chest aching, but alas, I know it won't be long untill notices me. I need to hide.

One of the mechs guns started revving and the men on the other side knew it meant death a sound louder than thunder awakened his ear as if lightning struck the exact same spot a million times, Kaden crawls to the trench rolling in sideways landing in pool blood flowing from a c*****e. Kaden noticed something protruding from its back, a part connected to the two different guns it's wielding, looking around Kaden remembered the railguns he saw from before, he then looks for the one of the firebay's with a rail gun attached. He began to search deeper into the trench, taking a turn he suddenly found himself under fire by one of his alied soldiers mistaking him for an enemy, almost killing him

"FRIENDLY, FRIENDLY!!!" Kaden shouts out

The tense soldier takes a look at Kaden, his own uniform reassembling kadens, having a pattern of green and ash grey.

"Why are you still wearing that crest" said by the soldier while pointing his finger.

"I was going to remove it but this happened" Kaden replied

"Where's the rest of your squad?"

"They're at the back of the convoy, I need to get to them"

"Do you have comms with them"

"Wait, I don't have time for this do you happen to have a functional railgun"

"Yes but what for, we tried shooting them up front but instead half of our squad got oblirated, plus one of us lost an arm"

"I think I found its ammo port"

"You sure that'll do the trick"

"Yes, I think" said Kaden

"Well there's only one way to find out, follow me"

The chaos from before turned into an eerie silence with occasional gunshots and explosions.

"Hey, what's you're code" said the soldier

"My code?, Zed-612"

"So you're a Zed too, I'm Zed-386 but you can call me Zeke"

"You can call me Kaden"

"Is That your name?"

Kaden catches a glimpse of enemy infantry.

"Get-down"

Kaden hides himself among the dead

"Wait, let em pass" Kaden whispered

They waited for them to pass, but instead the enemy headed in they're direction. One of them noticed kaden

The enemy, shocked by Kaden wasn't quick enough, for he already had a bullet in his head

More enemies poured in hearing the gunshots

"Run!, quickly run!" Zeke shouts while shooting in burst mode

Kaden was dragged by his newly acquainted Ally into a section of the trench,

He then got up and proceeded to run over the blood soaked mud.

Running and running they come across another enemy squad Immediately putting them under fire as they come across a cross section

"SPLIT!" His comrade shouts

His ally takes the left leaving him to go right, but he had stumbled upon the enemy.

Seeing his enemies, guns pointed, ready pull the trigger, Kaden had to think fast, but he knew, that whatever he does now won't be fast enough... Kaden had seen his life flash before him countless of times, taking him to the times when he was innocent, to the times he was dumb and made a lot of mistakes, from the colorful days in my grandpa's cabin,or when we climbed Mount Nebo and went fishing on a lake, to my wife and son in Toronto...

All seemed hopeless...

But then...

"Don't worry, I got you"

Kaden heard his voice but once again not his words.

Kaden plants his right leg to the ground leaping his left leg to the trench wall and doing a spinning back kick to hitting the enemy's nape knocking him down, he then tackles the other rolling forward then into a sideward prone gunning them down, he rolls on his back and gets back up taking a left turn, turning to a dead end,

*KAPOOOM!*

Amongst the thick of the smoke, three eyes glow, as the smoke clears, it's gun revs ready to kill. Kaden dashes through and slides between it's legs and a deafening roar followed, looking around, he had found himself railgun mounted to the firebay, as he pulls it off the mech had already turned around, seeing this, Kaden somersaults out of the trench dashing around the mech dropping his first gun and uses the railgun to shoot what he assumed is its weak spot.

The railgun charges, Kaden aims for it then...

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And Kaden fires the gun, knocking him back to couple meters,

*KABOOOM*

The mech was destroyed, it was now nothing but ash and rubble, Kaden relaxed himself an let out a sigh of relief.

His job wasn't over yet he needs to contact his squad, checking his comms, it appears that shrapnel from the missile rendered it useless he had to find onother way. Kaden struggles to get on his feet exhausted of what he didn't know he could do, jumping back into the trench, then picks up gun and continued march to the rear of the convoy.

Kaden took a rest in the nearby dugout, a couple of corpses lie on the floor accompanied by spent cartridges, in effort to tend the shrapnel that struck his left arm, Kaden searched the shelves for clean cloth or bandage and hopefully disinfectant. The shelves hold nothing but cans an dust Kaden also checks the boxes on the floor and it was filled with supplies some he took he also saw bandages and antiseptics Wich he used. Removing the shrapnel that's about the size of his index finger and applied the antiseptic which he then covered in bandages, afterwards he sliced open a MRE pack, Kaden really dislikes the taste of Mare's though he had gotten used to it over the years.

Kadens exoskeleton was running low in power, he removed the  upper part of it leaving only the brace and took the battery and attached it to the backup power source only for the leg part, he then took one of the armor of his fallen enemies, it looked like what the Russian's called Kevlar which also had one short range radio, kadens face enlightened, for he can now call for help...