"Roeyka I need your report." The voice of Cobb was in her head, the sound of rockets and bandits was behind her as she kept fleeing, Xanthiana had not exactly figured where she was running too, but away seemed like the best option.
"Kind of busy right now." The rocket launcher bandit was at least slower than his other comrades though no less able to chase after her. Xanthiana could see a farm house in the distance, she hoped it was abandoned for the inhabitants sake.
"I sure hope you're not fleeing from a group of bandits as that would pretty much be in direct contradiction to the orders I gave you of observing bandit camps not engaging them." The farm house was closer and Xanthiana could see people who looked horrified at the hell she was about to bring down on them, her luck had not held at all.
"Nope not engaing bandits Cobb, I'm training for the Paradise marathon, tough competition this year." The farmhouse group had moved into their home and locked their door, which was smart and safe for them, but left Xanthiana without a place to bunker down, the only other area there was a barn and it would have to do. She ran inside brought both of the barn doors closed behind her just in time for Bandit fire to almost take her ear off.
"Roeyka." Cobb almost sounded like her dad if she could remember what he sounded like.
"Sorry Cobb losing you signal isn't strong enough to maintain soon as I get back in range I'll get in touch bye." It was weird trying to fake transmitter issues with a radio she couldn't just simply shut off, "Elly disable the feed to Cobb."
"Already done Xan, though I think Sgt. Cobb will clue in we aren't having signal issues."
"We have to live for that to be a problem Elly." Xanthiana scampered up to the second level of the barn, the livestock were apparently still in the fields as aside from her and some hay bales the barn was empty. She used the hay as makeshift cover and waited for the bandits.
"Options?" Xanthiana had a moment while the bandits themselves considered their tactical options.
"Run keep running? We're in a wooden structure behind hay bales and one of our enemies is wearing armor we can't penetrate."
"We can't keep running Elly I'm already tired and if we leave these bandits here the people of this farm will get murdered." Xanthiana saw the front door of the barn open slowly and then shut, the bandits were apparently being cautious seeing as she had killed four of them while running already.
"The family of this farm was all set to leave you to die anyway, self preservation Xan." Xanthiana couldn't exactly find fault with the logic the AI was using, the world was a harsh place and most people would leave you to die rather than help you, but Xanthiana held herself better than one of those people. The barn doors exploded in a hail of wood announcing the arrival of the metal man Sensoth. Roeyka figured it was better to go out on her feet than fleeing and so she opened fire on the bandit and his group, the bullets cascaded off the Sensoth but found their mark on the two bandits with him, the death throes of one of his companions messed up the Metal Man's aim and his rocket went low and blew out the back wall of the barn, she heard a creak from the roof up above.
"Xan."
"Not now Elly kind of busy." Xanthiana looked around but there weren't any windows up in the loft section of the barn.
"Xan, the structural integrity of this building is compromised, if we..."
"Make it worse we can bring it down on that asshole and his friends." Xanthiana snatched up one of the grenades she had, they were incendiary which would have done shit against the Sensoth, but if he was trapped under flaming wreckage he'd be in considerably more trouble. The Sensoth fired another rocket up her way, he missed but punched a hole out the back wall Xanthiana could escape through. She tossed her two incendiary grenades down below at the places Elly highlighted and then lept out the hole the Rocket had made. The grenades did their job, exploding and weaking the other support the barn had and it came crashing down on the bandits and their Iron leader. Xanthiana was about to check on the farmers to make sure they made it through fine when the Metal man emerged from the wreckage, his rocket launcher appeared busted but he was still a very large menacing figure.
The partially on fire, very pissed off Sensoth slowly made his way out of the burning wreckage. Xanthiana opened fire on him hoping the barn has dislodged a piece of his armor but nothing stopped the creature. He was about on top of her his hulking fist coiled up to crush her when a bullet pierced his head. The Sensoth went rigid and then crashed to the ground in front of her, Xanthiana heard the boom of the Sniper rifle right as he landed.
"Roeyka can I assume now you have fixed your communications issue and ceased training for your marathon?" Cobb's voice sounded smug, Xanthiana couldn't blame him, it was a hell of a shot.
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