Mist

A Universe of Stories

The night is high, All the aliens soldiers shoot grappling hooks onto the cliff, digging into the vertical white cliff as dirt and pebbles fall down, A harness covers the front of my body as the grappling hook is in the middle of me, I fire it up and It connects to the top, I yank at the cord and it stays, I look back and see the black coat looking all over. with the which slowly elevate them to the top. I gently walk on the side of the cliff with a rifle in my hand. Tanks and weird vehicles slowly scale the mountain. It’s silent and dark. The only thing I can hear is my breathing.

Suddenly, grappling hooks spring from the top. “Unity base knows we are here.” the browncoat yells, All hell breaks loose as a large alien force start coming from the top and the bottom, but they aren’t silent like us, they’re shooting. We’re a considerable distance from them, but explosions from their vehicles start raining down upon us. My visor says, “RUN.” We’re all sprinting up the side of the cliff, gaining speed as our grappling hook pull us up. Our vehicles start firing. I can see the individual soldiers now. I’ve been in a mosh in the simulator, but this is my first time in real life.

Time slows down because my brain doesn’t want to do it. I shoot forward, trying to get rid of any advancing soldiers I can before I meet them. I pull out my knife and magnetize it to my gun. By the time I reload, they’re about two meters away from me. Then, we meet.

I jump and throw a grenades down before I advance.  I land on the side of the mountain, hitting my face against the hard rock. I shove my weapon to the front of me and fire, as my body bounces around the cliff. I reach for the cord and pull down swiftly and slide across an enemy vehicle that is slanted up shaped like a triangle, my armor shreds against the metal, I feel for a grenade throw it back behind me, as I spin off the tank, I wrap myself in the cords and my weapon tightens around my abdominal. I cannot breath as the cord tightens my body, I spin rapidly in the other direction of the spin, flinging into the air,  as fallen soldiers hang from the cliff bouncing onto me. The cord unwraps me, I free fall downward as the world blurs from the speed, the string prevents the fall to the ground, as it pulls everything in my body up, I dry heave and cough and sputter trying to the air in my lungs, I take off my helmet and gasp the sweet air, the string starts to pull me up, I quickly put back my helmet and elevate quickly. I dig my feet in the ground and move it to the side, and run back and forth on the cliff. I continuously shoot, bumping into many enemies along the way.

My string snaps. I fall down and my heart starts racing. Another string shoots up and connects itself to the top of the cliff. I get right back to fighting. I shoot whatever's not white and looks like me. A storm of of Unity soldiers with the falling death. Service troops still advancing. Dead bodies whack me as they fall down the cliffside. Living bodies flail around in the air as their cords snap and wrap them, I accelerate up into the air and slam down to cut the line of a soldier. My ankle bends in a strange direction and I bounce high into the air, the wind pushes my arms down, the inertia turns down and the cord bends with the air, I flail wildly screaming into the air looking down. I look up to see the edge of the cliff and barely any enemies. I fall on the cliff edge and my body jerks to the harsh land. I gasp in pain as I pull my sore arms on top of the cliff. I reach my hand out and help soldiers up the cliff, We point our weapons down and shoot at the Unity below us. As more and more service soldiers get up the wall, we fire down at the advancing soldiers trying to hurry back up. Most of our vehicles were destroyed and we didn’t bring a lot of heavy weaponry, so their vehicles were mostly intact.

Large red letters appear on my visor again, “INVADE THE Unity BASE.” All of us run towards it. The base is a weird hexagon shape that juts into the sky. The land we are in right now is tall white grass so we are well camouflaged, especially if we have anti thermal suits.  I walk through the tall grass slowly looking at the large entrance gate slowly open A 6 ft tall lanky humanoid wearing shiny golden medieval armor holding a walks out of the main entrance with a gun that is equally shiney, large tubes connect together to form a large unified tube. A gas tank looking object is connected to the back of the gun. Bullets hit the alien and makes tiny sparks, it looks ineffective to the bullets. and shoots a tiny bright ball out of the gun, the slow moving ball rolls around the grass, burning it slightly causing a wildfire. The top of the base reveal a turret that fires into the burning grass. I get up from my position and try to not catch fire, a squish sound is made and I feel a sharp pain in my side. The heat from the fire burns hot and I feel miserable as bullets of all kinds rain down upon us.