The explosions started rapid fire as Max and Xanthiana charged the bunker. Some of them were from Max's grenade launcher, most of them were the mutants. Xanthiana didn't recall seeing mortars from when they did a quick scouting of the area, but obviously the mutants had some. Elly was tracking trajectory and showing Xanthiana the safe places to run, but she was moving at a high speed and trying to course correct in the midst of gun fire and mortars striking was a little bit harder than just avoiding the very widening circle of doom. Xanthiana slammed into a piece of burned out cover and took a mintue to catch her bearings. Max was well behind her crouched down near a burnt out car, he motioned her forward.
"He has a leg injury his EGO unit informed me he will not be able to make the final push on the bunker."
"Well that's just great, he does realize the point was to at least get two people inside correct?"
"Correct. Xan I'm beginning to suspect the planning for this operation lacked in some aspects."
"You don't say, how are the twins doing?"
"Kill counts are high, ammo counts are running low, their egos are informing me in that we have to 'shit or get off the pot' to borrow a nice earth saying."
"So how much of a chance do we stand, be blunt I can take it."
"We have a 15% chance of making the bunker door, and if I'm being generous a 2% chance of making it out alive."
"I lied I can't take it, tell me we'll make it Elly." Xanthiana shouldered her rifle, she hadn't fired a shot so the magazine was full, but she knew that too would not last.
"We will be 100% successful Xan, so successful the enemies will just give up in the face of our success."
"You are not very good at this lying thing Elly."
"I hope to get better Xan."
"Don't worry you will." And with that Xanthiana pushed herself off the burnt out wall and rushed forward. The first mutant she came across she hit with the butt of her rifle stunning him long enough to spin him around and use him as a human shield from some of the incoming fire. The mutant spun in place as his comrades lit him up, Xanthiana returned fire and kept running. One of the deadly circles came too close to her, the ground erupted to Xanthiana's right and knocked her down.
Her vision was swimming, ears were ringing, and she felt what had to have been a pretty ugly injury to her right leg. She struggled to get back to her feet, in front of her no more than a hundred feet was the bunker, its large blast doors which would be impossible to blow open save some serious ordinance were closing. She gritted her teeth and charged forward, she hadn't come this close to get held back now. She felt the rush of adrenaline, each footfall caused her pain but she grit her teeth past it. The final two mutants between her and the closing doors recieved the rest of her rifles magazine and then the rifle as she threw it aside to not slow her down. Just as the doors were about to close she dove forward and came made it inside, the the loud clang of metal a punctuation mark on her victory.
"What was that Elly?" Despite not having to actually hear the EGO device, the ringing prevented her from focussing on it.
"I said we'll probably need that rifle."
"Right." Xanthiana looked on, the bunker looked pretty deep, there wasn't anyone there to greet her yet, but she knew they would be along shortly.
"Chance for success just went up half a percet Xan!"
"You're such an optimist Elly."
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