Destiny Sorrow by Rod Galves (recommended ebook reader .txt) 📕

“Continue to the hangars in good condition! They wouldn't blow up the whole base!” The leader spoke without believing in full his words.

They ran across the edge of the courtyard, trying to escape the gunfire and entered one of the hangars, this time with more care. Guards were waiting for them together from a tank. Sorom and Evelin managed to kill the soldiers with their laser weapons. Golbert used all his strength to hold Willys' transport horizontally, shooting and destroying the tank.

“How are we doing?” Sorom asked on the communicator.

“Our robots took the most damage,” Dijo warned, “and not many of them were left. That said you're surrounded in there and the weapons they have look pretty big.”

“What about the safety of the base?”

“I messed with the cameras, but it looks like they disabled all defense robots and automatic towers. On the one hand, I won't be able to hack them, on the other hand they won't be used against you.”

“Right,” said Sorom turning off the communicator. “Jamin, Sliger, set up defenses here with half our forces. The rest come with me, we're going to break into the main building and cover for Willys to plant the bombs!”

Jamin and Sliger took a series of barrier projectors and placed them to protect the entrance. Meanwhile the tanks and cannons fired from the outside, with the group barely managing to hold the damage.

They used the ships and ground transports in the hangar to increase their defenses, but the situation was not on their side.

“Willys,” said Sorom, “do you have something to get rid of these tanks?”

The man smiled and immediately Evelin remembered the explosion of the Dyna42 that destroyed an entire mountain.

“I have the WOOL-3 prototype here with me. We couldn’t use it on the Heart, and I don't know what effects they would have.”

Sorom thought for a few seconds as cannon fire destroyed the hangar.

“Use it! We don't have time to waste.”

Willys attached his explosive to the mortar and fired through a hole in the hangar. The angle was perfect, and they heard a huge explosion outside, followed by silence. The hangar walls bent over and partially melted due to the explosion.

“His explosions never fail to impress me,” Evelin said.

Sorom agreed and yelled at the troops to follow him. He ran in the lead through the middle of the courtyard in the direction of the main building. No more defenses were seen, and he was trying not to think it could be more traps.

Half the Chaos Agents were in the open field running through the courtyard when Sorom received a communication from Norna.

“Sorom! You've got two very large shells headed your way!”

Sorom looked up and saw what he thought were two huge black missiles and despaired.

“Don't stop running!” Said Evelin “They are not explosives! They're the high-speed transport of the Air Temple!”

“What does that mean?” Asked Sorom running as suggested by his colleague.

“That the guardians are coming!”

The two shells fell to the ground and doors opened. From one of them came only one individual, very small considering the size of the transport. On the other came a green tank five meters high, and a person in armor sitting on top of it.

“Keep going!” Cried Sorom, “Willys and Golbert need to enter!”

He could no longer see the individual who left alone, but a laser shot wentthrough the head of the big agent's with tiger tattoo on his face.

Sorom raised his shield and more shots came but noticed that none of them were being targeted at him. The shots had incredible accuracy and each shot knocked down one more agent, destroying their barriers immediately.

“Sniper!” Warned Sorom. “Watch your heads!”

Sorom was a few steps from the entrance of the building and looked back still seeing a line of agents behind, who fired uselessly at the tank. That's when the tank fired, hitting right in the middle of the line. Sorom saw the explosion separating it from most agents, raising a black dust.

He managed to enter the building alongside Evelin, Golbert, Willys and a dozen other agents. He put his hands on his knee and began to breathe flustered.

“Chief,” said the agent with a pink Mohican, “what do we do now?”

Sorom had no answer. They were in the lobby of the main building where there was no imminent danger, but they kept hearing shots coming from outside.

“Sorom!” Said Evelin severe. “Do something!”

He got up and started talking on the communicator, trying to look calmer than he was.

“Those who failed to pass return to the hangar and protect themselves. We're here, and as soon as we disable the cannon, we'll have air support.”

Then he turned to his companions wordless. Evelin noting this decided to act.

“Willys, Golbert, go to the cannon, the rest of us will get their attention and find Janos Sorom.”

“Right,” Golbert said, “I still remember this place when Janos brought me to work.”

The two left and Evelin laid his hand on Sorom in solidarity.

“Are you all right?” Asked the young woman.

“We will lose more than half of our forces,” Sorom said unusually hopelessly. “There are two guardians out there, and if we don't move fast, more reinforcements will arrive. We won't be able to invade the temple!”

“Then we must go fast,” concluded Evelin. “Your father is waiting.”

Sorom took a deep breath and turned to the few agents who managed to get in.

“The situation is not ideal, and we will find several enemies around here. The plan is to do what we do best: chaos!”

The agents screamed and began to move. They stopped at the floors to destroy the opposition, and thanks to Sorom and Evelin's laser weapons, the job got easier. Also, with the help of Dijo disabling the cameras and with defense androids disabled they were not having many problems.

When they were cleaning the third floor, Sorom commented:

“It seems that almost all the soldiers were out there, this will be a piece of cake.”

When he said the last part, the communicator whistled a message from Willys.

“We have been