Construct: Reverse Eclipse

Chapter 2

I'm in the air for a good 4 minutes then the force of the impact with the ground almost crushes me. The ground around Ragnarok's impact point is broken and shattered. I get up from the kneeling position as the other 'Spades' land around me.

"WHOOOOOOOOOOOO," Zero shouts as he hits the ground, "Wow! I hope we do that again."

"WHY?!" Yukka shouts back.

"Guys! Quiet!" I look around, there are constructs everywhere, some of them destroyed or barely intact, and some are scanning around the area.

"This is Feild leader Corelline! You guys are Spades?" A voice calls over the radio. A construct walks up to us, there's red blood all over it.

"Yes! That would be us!" I respond.

"Great, we could use the assistance! We have 4 confirmed omega in the area, as well as 2 jumpers! We need to kill them before they reach the camp...they could cause cataclysmic damage!" She says urgently, "You guys are green still, I understand that! But we really need help around here..."

"No problem we'll help however we can!" Yukka says.

"Thanks, i've already lost 13 units...it's nice to have some talent join us on the battlefield!" She whips around, "Turn on your heat detectors, everything with a construct tag will be highlighted blue on your tracker, everything else will be red. They move fast, so pay attention to where they are!"

"Valk?" I call for my AI.

"Yes?" She responds.

"Turn on the thermal radar!" I command not knowing what the thermal radar was.

"Sure thing!" The thermal radar. Appears on the bottom right of the HUD in Ragnarok. There's a single red dot right behind us, and about 13-15 blue dots in the area, slowly 4 of them turn green.

"Ummm, Miss Field commander?" I ask.

"Yes Karl?"

"What do the green dots mean?"

"Green?" She thinks a second, "Oh yeah you're a special ops leader? That's YOUR team. They'll show green, so you know if they're in trouble or not. I understand that thermal radar in constructs is new, but did they teach you this in school?"

"No, Our instructor said that it didn't exist yet so we didn't need to know it," I respond, thinking of instructor Gideon who was incharge of technical gear at Silver Spire.

"Okay, Green is your team, Blue is an allied unit, and red is an omega!" She briefly summarizes. Constructs are still hitting the ground from orbit.], as they hit the ground they turn into blue dots on my radar. They must have installed the radar while the paint was being put on, it never put it in that's for sure.

"So what's the deal? What are we fighting?" I ask.

"Omega!" She responds while scanning the area.

"I know that! What type is it? You said that you lost 13 units to it!" I clarify

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"A single foot soldier!" She pauses, as if she is waiting for an answer, "What? Where you expecting something worse? If it was we would all be dead by now! There aren't enough garrison units to deal with these guys...and what garrison we do have are all fresh pilots!"

"One foot soldier?! You're telling me that a garrison is full of fresh pilots that haven't even seen a real omega yet?! What the hell is the military doing?!" I pull the Rifle off of my back.

"They use our best units on recon, only about 60% come back and they are in bad shape too. The Omega take advantage of this and strike right after we get our units back in or when they are away." She says, still looking for the one Soldier around here.