The Legacy Of Humanity - A Splatoon Fanfiction

3.10 - The Day of Hell part 2

"Are you seriously doing that, too?" Kirk asked.

"DUCK!" heeding Starhearts advice, Kirk ducked just as a charger stream passed overhead. Briki returned the shot.

"There, now I'm only one behind," Briki said.

"You've gotta be kidding me." Kirk turned back to the field, but saw something that shocked him. "W-what? They're running?" Kirk felt uneasy by this, as The Chaos had only lost 100 of their 1000 strong force. Though, they also had only inflicted 22 casualties on the defenders.

"I don't know why they are running, but don't let them get away!" Marie yelled from another tower.

"Hold your seahorses, Bucko," Cuttlefish said over the communicator. "They were just probing us. You can expect another wave any minute."

"Rollers! Get that ink covered!" Starheart yelled. Bass, Callie and the other rollers went to work re inking the hill. Soon, many more figures appeared at the hilltop.

"What? Marie! Otome! You got Octostrikers moving in!" Kiril yelled. Stopping just out of reach of their own Octosrikers, the enemy flight starting locking targets for their missiles. A flight of Octobombers moved in to support, and fresh Chaos troops moved in on the ground.

"Bass! Get your ass back here!" Frost yelled from his tower. Bass and the other rollers quickly jumped back in the trenches.

"Whoa! That was a close one! Thanks for the cover, guys," Bass said to the Octarians manning the ink cannons. Several enemy missiles hit the trench, but did little damage. However, one missiles hit one of the sniper towers, instantly splatting the Inklings within, and caused Reggie to fall out. He landed in the trench and went unconscious. He was seriously injured. Justin pushed past the line to administer aid. Another missile was launched, and this time it hit one of the ink cannons, killing the gunner and causing the weapon to cease functioning.

"They're going for our emplacements! Are those damn howinkzers ready yet?!" Cuttlefish growled over the communicator.

"Just a little longer!" Tanner responded. "Just a few more minutes."

"We don't have a few minutes, and we can't risk any of our Octostrikers! We need those cannons ready, now!"

"I think I can get a shot on one of them!" Citra said from another tower.

"Make it quick, Citra. I have a feeling we're next on the chopping block," Sandy said. Citra lined up the closes target with her e-liter, and brought one of the strikers down.

"Shit, we need to get out of here," Frost said, as another ink cannon was destroyed by an ink strike.

"J-just give me a few more seconds," Citra said. Just then, their automaps lit up.

"Citra, we have to go!" Sandy said. The approaching missile got closer. "TOO LATE!" Both her and Frost grabbed onto Citra, and tossed her out of the tower. The last thing Citra saw before landing on her head, was the figures of Frost and Sandy being absorbed by the ink tornado.

"Damn it! They got another tower! All human forces, engage the airborne targets!" Drake said over the radio. The remaining humans turned their weapons to the skies, and dropped a few of the strikers and bombers, but they soon started performing evasive maneuvers, and avoided most of the gunfire.

In one of the APCs, Hiragi was trying to take down one of the strikers with the heavy machine gun. After taking down a few bombers that had tried to make a pass on him, he noticed the shadow of an approaching missile. "Marco! Get us out of here!" he yelled.

"Right! Just gotta... oh.."

"Shit! INCOMING!" Hiragi quickly retreated inside the APC, and closed the top hatch. The missile hit the carrier, and caused it to quake in place. "What the hell, Marco?"