CHAPTER 372: QUICK RESOLUTION

Bang!

The truck skidded back as a boot imprint appeared on the grill of the truck. The pieces of table that used to be Jace’s cover flew through the air as Jace ran forward. As the truck skidded it caused the rear of the vehicle to topple over and collapse on top of the enemies who were taking cover near it.

Jace ran forward as he took aim and began firing. The enemy was off balance when the entire truck moving surprised them. The closest of the enemies were just outside the window so he shot past them.

Jace hit the first one in the midsection and they flew through the air and slammed into the side of the truck. There was a cracking noise before the body fell to the ground. The second person was in the middle of reacting when Jace kicked the side of his leg.

"Arrghh!!!" The woman screamed in pain as her bone was sticking out. It was broken completely as she started falling to the ground. But Jace just grabbed the front of her throat and held her. Using her as a shield as he moved toward another group that had begun shooting at him. She shook as the laser bolts began melting into her back.

After a few seconds Jace just tossed the body at an enemy once he was close and grabbed another one’s gun. He unloaded the last of the shots in the laser pistol into the enemy who was holding the gun’s head. Once that was done he tossed the gun at an enemy further away and watched as Cain jumped up and tore out an enemies throat with his jaws while lasers bounced off his shell.

Jace pulled the gun out of the collapsing enemy’s hand and crouched down as he fired at a group that had taken cover behind some sandbags that they seemed to have pulled out of the truck. There were still about twenty enemies left and at the moment they were not focused on him. So he checked on the others.

Cain was literally tearing through the enemies. Using his mechanized jaws, his retractable claws, and smacking people with his tail. But he was moving too fast, jumping from enemy to enemy using groups of them as cover against the ones who were hiding and firing from the back.

It was the same habit Jace had picked up when fighting a large group of enemies. Using their allies as shields to pick off enemies. It was an idea born out of sentiment for his own allies. It was also why he kept his own allies separated when they got into a fight, so they could not be used against each other.

Jace rolled to the side as another few shots of lasers flew right past him. He kicked up a body and used it as a shield. The body’s throat had been torn out, which must have been one of Cain’s kills. Jace felt the body shaking as more lasers hit the body. But he looked over to see the former republic soldiers had moved up and grabbed some more weapons that Cain had been sliding over to them. It looked like Cain was out doing Jace.

Jace grinned as he noticed something else the Dwarf was tinkering with a few weapons that Cain had tossed back. While also taking sips from his beer. It looked like he was having the time of his life having to tinker under the threat of death.

Jace looked forward and took a deep breath as he saw the enemies. They were opening a few crates in the back. He activated his electrical vision and could pick out intense sources of energy coming from those crates. Something reminiscent of an energy based grenade. But they were far too intense.

One of them was thrown toward Cain, Jace jumped out and grabbed it with its hand as an electrical pulse began to be released. Jace quickly absorbed the energy and he frowned. He ran forward as he tossed aside the empty grenade. Electro Magnetic Pulse grenades on a space station?

What kind of suicidal nutjob handed these out. He knew that no weapons broker would be that stupid. Especially to sell them in bulk. Jace jumped forward using the excess energy to do a trick he had been dying to test. A faint layer of energy spread out in front of him. Burst of energy spread out across it as lasers hit it.

He could feel it working as the electrical layer absorbed the attack and strengthened the shield he had made. It was working as intended and then some. He could feel his body getting stronger but he felt like he was so close to something. But it just would not click into place for some reason.

Jace landed and punched the closest one in the neck before pulling a knife out of the person’s sheath. He then moved through the enemies who were too close to shoot at him and began slicing throats and stabbing hearts.

As he moved he could feel his body get covered in blood. Then he saw one of the enemies’ attitude do a complete flip as their look of terror switched to one of neutral emotionless precision. They aimed toward Jace with their rifle despite there being a few people between them and let loose a barrage of heavy laser fire.

Jace grunted as one tore through his shield, it was not quite ready. He let his focus slip and this foe managed to hit him with a laser because they took advantage of that. Jace’s eyes switched over to electrical vision and he realized this one is a orius.

Jace threw the knife as he grabbed an enemy and ran toward the orius. The orius fired at the person he was using as a shield while using the laser rifle to deflect the knife that Jace threw. Then Jace reached through the enemy he was using as a shield and into the orius’ body grabbing orius’ core and pulling it right out of their body.

As soon as he did the liquid fell to the ground in a globby pile. While the core he was holding was still glowing green. Still alive but it was now in a dormant state.

"What the hell!" The last living enemy yelled as he scrambled for a gun that was on the ground. The others had been killed when the orius tried to kill Jace or had been killed by Jace. This last one barely got his hand around the gun before a mechanical tail smacked him on the side of his face and there was a loud cracking as he fell unconscious. Not dead. Just unconscious.