“Are we slowing down?” One of the gunmen asked as he and his three comrades aimed their machine guns at the door to the next carriage, the sounds of screams and gunfire radiating from inside.
“Feels like it,” one of the others stated as he turned to face the door towards the engine room. “Watch that door I’ll get things rolling again,” he sighed as the gunfire stopped from behind him, although the screams of pain only got louder.
“Get on it,” the first man grunted, just as the train stopped and something heavy hit the floor. “And hurry Karl, we have a schedule to keep, we don’t want the rail inspectors to come snooping,” he added as one of the others turned to see where Karl had walked. Tilting his head, he edged backwards slightly, just before another thud sounded.
“Where you going Michael?” the third gunmen asked as he looked back towards the engine room before walking a few steps.
“Get back here Gustav!” the first gunmen snarled as he turned to see his three comrades seemingly frozen at different points across the carriage. Blinking a long blink, he opened his eyes to see all three bodies slumped on the floor, javelins embedded through their skulls. “What the hell is going on?!” the gunman swore just as the door behind him swung open and a pair of metal arms wrapped around his chest, crushing his rib cage with enough force that his spine was severed.
“That would be Jaculi, and she’s not the one you need to worry about,” Diesel grunted as Jaculi came to a stop next to him. “Flag sent me, we’re to regroup three cars down,” he added as Jaculi arched one of her eyebrows before ripping one of the javelins out of the bodies.
“Then let’s not keep him waiting.” Jaculi sighed as she removed the remaining pair of javelins from the bodies.
“Feels like it,” one of the others stated as he turned to face the door towards the engine room. “Watch that door I’ll get things rolling again,” he sighed as the gunfire stopped from behind him, although the screams of pain only got louder.
“Get on it,” the first man grunted, just as the train stopped and something heavy hit the floor. “And hurry Karl, we have a schedule to keep, we don’t want the rail inspectors to come snooping,” he added as one of the others turned to see where Karl had walked. Tilting his head, he edged backwards slightly, just before another thud sounded.
“Where you going Michael?” the third gunmen asked as he looked back towards the engine room before walking a few steps.
“Get back here Gustav!” the first gunmen snarled as he turned to see his three comrades seemingly frozen at different points across the carriage. Blinking a long blink, he opened his eyes to see all three bodies slumped on the floor, javelins embedded through their skulls. “What the hell is going on?!” the gunman swore just as the door behind him swung open and a pair of metal arms wrapped around his chest, crushing his rib cage with enough force that his spine was severed.
“That would be Jaculi, and she’s not the one you need to worry about,” Diesel grunted as Jaculi came to a stop next to him. “Flag sent me, we’re to regroup three cars down,” he added as Jaculi arched one of her eyebrows before ripping one of the javelins out of the bodies.
“Then let’s not keep him waiting.” Jaculi sighed as she removed the remaining pair of javelins from the bodies.
ISSUE 3
BY
JOHN CHEESE
BY
JOHN CHEESE
Treading silently, Katana crept across the tops of the carriage staking out the far end from the egress point the Suicide Squad had used. Looking across to Sidewinder, she watched the reptilian woman removing a concussion grenade from her belt. Raising her hand Katana counted down from three on her left hand. As she reached one Sidewinder swung the concussion grenade through one of the windows, the grenade detonating with an ear-shattering bang. Before the sound had even cleared both women swung down into the carriage, the six armoured figures recoiling at the sight of the attackers.
Swinging at the first defender with Soultaker, Katana watched the blade slice cleanly through the armour and the arm it covered. Using the momentum from the first blow, Katana swung at the next Herald, this one raising his machine gun to block the blow. With the few seconds, he had brought by sacrificing his weapon, the herald threw a punch at Katana, the blow staggering her. Reaching for her sword, the Herald never saw the blade slice towards his neck or felt the pain when his head was separated from his body.
At the other end of the carriage, Sidewinder had hosed down her first target with the MP5 submachine gun she was armed with. The clip spent, as the Heralds recovered from the blast of the grenade, Sidewinder sprung off the side of the train before delivering a slam into the side of the nearest Herald knocking him to the floor. With an angry hiss, she grabbed his dropped machine gun and opened fire at the two remaining heralds, each of them popping scarlet arm-mounted energy shields that absorbed the impacts of the bullets. Standing back-to-back around a steel container one of the Heralds reached inside and pulled out a red and purple stained-glass bottle.
“Hey bitches, catch!!” the herald swore as he threw the bottle towards Sidewinder. Reacting with inhuman speed, Sidewinder dropped her stolen machine gun and sprung to intercept the bottle, preventing the artefact from smashing open on the ground. Surging forward Katana swung towards one of the Heralds, the neo-Nazi gunman ducking under the blow before throwing her backwards.
Taking advantage of the distraction, the Herald who had thrown the bottle removed a wooden box with two hinged doors. His exoskeleton straining, he wrenched the two doors open, the other Herald freezing as he saw what his comrade had just done.
“Gunther are you insane!?” the Herald yelled as he pushed past his comrade and tried to close the door. As he reached the door, a thick green mist rolled out of the box, a rotting hand grabbing him by the throat. Coughing and spluttering, the Herald doubled over in pain, his armour corroding and his skin decaying.
“Flag we have a breach, the Dybukk is free!” Katana yelled as the infected herald vomited a brown bola of vomit hitting the floor of the carriage. Seconds later, the vomit shuddered and a tidal wave of cockroaches scuttled out in all directions. The remaining herald was swarmed in seconds, the vermin squirming through the cracks in his armour, his screams replaced with gurgling moans, his body collapsing to the floor.
Leaping out of the carriage, Katana and Sidewinder hit the ground hard, the latter clutching the Djinn Bottle close to her chest. Turning back to look at the carriage, the pair saw the bodies of the Heralds they had slain jerk to their feet.
“And the dead cling to the living, and the living cease to be alive,” Sidewinder stated as she got to her feet.
Swinging at the first defender with Soultaker, Katana watched the blade slice cleanly through the armour and the arm it covered. Using the momentum from the first blow, Katana swung at the next Herald, this one raising his machine gun to block the blow. With the few seconds, he had brought by sacrificing his weapon, the herald threw a punch at Katana, the blow staggering her. Reaching for her sword, the Herald never saw the blade slice towards his neck or felt the pain when his head was separated from his body.
At the other end of the carriage, Sidewinder had hosed down her first target with the MP5 submachine gun she was armed with. The clip spent, as the Heralds recovered from the blast of the grenade, Sidewinder sprung off the side of the train before delivering a slam into the side of the nearest Herald knocking him to the floor. With an angry hiss, she grabbed his dropped machine gun and opened fire at the two remaining heralds, each of them popping scarlet arm-mounted energy shields that absorbed the impacts of the bullets. Standing back-to-back around a steel container one of the Heralds reached inside and pulled out a red and purple stained-glass bottle.
“Hey bitches, catch!!” the herald swore as he threw the bottle towards Sidewinder. Reacting with inhuman speed, Sidewinder dropped her stolen machine gun and sprung to intercept the bottle, preventing the artefact from smashing open on the ground. Surging forward Katana swung towards one of the Heralds, the neo-Nazi gunman ducking under the blow before throwing her backwards.
Taking advantage of the distraction, the Herald who had thrown the bottle removed a wooden box with two hinged doors. His exoskeleton straining, he wrenched the two doors open, the other Herald freezing as he saw what his comrade had just done.
“Gunther are you insane!?” the Herald yelled as he pushed past his comrade and tried to close the door. As he reached the door, a thick green mist rolled out of the box, a rotting hand grabbing him by the throat. Coughing and spluttering, the Herald doubled over in pain, his armour corroding and his skin decaying.
“Flag we have a breach, the Dybukk is free!” Katana yelled as the infected herald vomited a brown bola of vomit hitting the floor of the carriage. Seconds later, the vomit shuddered and a tidal wave of cockroaches scuttled out in all directions. The remaining herald was swarmed in seconds, the vermin squirming through the cracks in his armour, his screams replaced with gurgling moans, his body collapsing to the floor.
Leaping out of the carriage, Katana and Sidewinder hit the ground hard, the latter clutching the Djinn Bottle close to her chest. Turning back to look at the carriage, the pair saw the bodies of the Heralds they had slain jerk to their feet.
“And the dead cling to the living, and the living cease to be alive,” Sidewinder stated as she got to her feet.
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Advancing behind a wall of energy shields, the Heralds advanced down the carriage towards where the Suicide Squad was taking cover behind the weapons crates being transported.
“This is going well,” Unicorn snorted as Flag removed a grenade from his belt and rolled it down the carriage towards the Heralds, the blast washing over the shields but not doing enough to cause them to falter.
Sitting cross-legged Fauna tossed a bolt of purple energy over her shoulder, the mystical projectile causing the front line of heralds to stop, their bodies convulsing.
“Take advantage of that stinging hex while it still affects them!” she yelled as Flag and Unicorn sprang into action, the latter charging forwards and crashing through both the first and second wall of Heralds, one of the men impaled on her horn. Swinging and kicking wildly, Unicorn knocked most of the Heralds to the ground, even as Flag opened fire with his pistols, the rounds bouncing off the ceramic armour.
“Unicorn, on your six!” Flag yelled as one of the Heralds got to his feet and grabbed the eagle tipped stave.
Springing around, Unicorn used the impaled Herald as a shield before slamming one of the armoured men into the other.
“And on yours!” Unicorn snarled as the Herald went to smash Flag in the back of the head with his machine gun. Turning around, Flag saw the Herald’s body imploding in on itself as Abyss held his hand out, wisps of black energy flowing off his shoulders.
“Ah, it looks like we missed the fun!” Diesel groaned as he and Jaculi entered the carriage. As he finished Fauna began to convulse and scream, thick green fog erupting from her mouth for a few seconds.
“The fun is over, the nightmare begins,” Fauna cried as she got to her feet, her body shaking as she looked at the bodies of the Heralds.
Walking over to her, Flag suddenly stopped and touched his ear, his face going from neutral to one of absolute horror. Not that any of the Squad was watching his face, instead they stood transfixed as, all around Unicorn the bodies of the Heralds convulsed, their armour decaying to reveal lines of boils across their rotting skin, fragments of bone erupting from their now reanimated corpses.
“That’s not natural!” Unicorn screamed as she stomped on one of the Heralds, its body still convulsing. Backing up the Suicide Squad members watched the stomped Herald get to its feet, the fragments of crushed skull hanging off its decaying neck.
“It’s a regular Dead Man’s Party!” Diesel yelled as Flag opened fire, the pistol rounds coring the bodies with no effect. The javelins launched by Jaculi fared a little better, pinning the Heralds for a brief moment, their bodies ripping as they continued their onslaught. From behind the Heralds, the sound of pounding on the carriage door sounded.
“Don’t open that door!” Katana yelled as she and Sidewinder entered the carriage from outside just as the door was caved in and rolling green fog entered the carriage followed by swarming cockroaches.
“Poison gas, we need to fall back now!” Flag yelled as he removed two concussion grenades and lobbed them down the carriage, the tidal wave of cockroaches swarming over the explosives.
“Wait, you don’t want to go in there!” Jaculi called as Flag opened the door only for decaying hands to reach through the gap. With incredible strain, Flag slammed the door shut, the sound of scratching and slamming fists sounding behind him.
“Then where do we go?” Diesel asked, as Fauna summoned up spectral chains across the carriage, the corpses that touched the magical restraints bursting into purple flame.
“Engine room, two corpses we can toss into the next carriage,” Jaculi suggested as Abyss pointed upwards.
“And we can go along the top of the train to get there.”
“Let’s move,” Flag ordered. “Diesel, your on-corpse removal duty, Sidewinder you’re in the middle, it is prudent that the Djinn is not released!” he yelled as Diesel climbed up onto the roof of the train, the others following suite. Reaching the front of the train Diesel dropped down and entered the engine room and was immediately set upon by the two corpses inside. With a roar, he flung them out into the connecting carriage before slamming the door shut.
“We may have another problem,” Katana stated as she pointed towards the church on the side of the railway before dropping down onto the footplate.
“Easy to deal with,” Unicorn replied as she released the brake, the train beginning to roll forward.
“Fauna, you’re the mistress of magic, how do we stop these Dybukk pawns?” Flag asked as Diesel removed the engineer’s fire axe from the carriage wall and ran it along the edge of his metal arms, clear liquid bubbling up from the self-inflicted wounds.
“That’s the problem,” Fauna replied as the undead swarmed the entrance into the engine, only to be repulsed by a few quick swings from Diesel’s fire axe. “These bodies will keep coming back no matter how much damage we do. Until the Dybykk is enclosed back in its case, the boundary of life and death has no meaning.”
“Then we’re going to be overrun eventually,” Flag snorted as Diesel rubbed his arms against each other, the sparks igniting the blood, his punches burning the attackers. “If the bodies keep regenerating, then our only option is to close the box,” he added as Abyss opened up a portal and dropped a crate from one of the other carriages in the entrance.
“I can try and run to the…” Jaculi began to say only to retch and cough up a stream of cockroaches, the rest of the Squad following suit before coalescing into a rotting humanoid figure, its back hunched, rotting flesh dropping off its form.
“So, this is what stands between me and my escape. I am not impressed,” the figure belched as the rotting flesh began to transform back into cockroaches. “Still, I will make use of you when you join the dead,” it continued as Fauna clicked her fingers before swinging at the Dybykk, blue energy jumping from her fists across the insects before causing them to burst, its form collapsing into a pool of rot.
“The Cull Insecta,, essentially magical raid,” Fauna gasped as the sounds of fists banging on the case sounded, the metal beginning to buckle. “I have an idea, Katana and Sidewinder used the top of the train to get to the Dybykk Case the first time, what if we try that again.”
“Except the train wasn’t moving, whoever goes up there will be ripped away within seconds,” Katana announced. “And we will need to clear the next carriage to access the roof.”
“I can try, my body is low enough to make it, or at least try,” Sidewinder answered as she began to groan, her body beginning to convulse.
“Heads up we have more bugs incoming,” Unicorn hissed as she took a step away from Sidewinder as flakes of skin began to flake off her legs, the sound of cracking bones radiating around the engine room.
“Not bugs,” Sidewinder hissed as her legs began to fuse together to form a long serpentine tail that thrashed around, knocking Flag and Jaculi to the ground. “Warmth…prey…” she snarled as her body coiled around Flag’s body, her jaw dislocating as she began to line up with his head.”
Placing the blade of the Soultaker against Sidewinder’s nape, Katana was struck from behind as the case was smashed through the door and the undead entered.
“Sidewinder, you told me you were on my side,” Flag groaned as Sidewinder slotted her jaws on his head, her tongue flicking out into his eyes and nose. “If you meant that stop!” He ordered as Unicorn and Diesel jumped into the fray, knocking some of them into Abyss’s mass shadow, their bodies being deposited back into the next carriage.
“Mission, close box, egress point roof,” Sidewinder hissed as she released her coils, a hungry look still in her eyes.
“We need some help here,” Unicorn grunted as she gored a corpse through the shoulder, its undead hands wrapped around her neck. With a snort, Diesel ripped the Dybykk off Unicorn and threw it off the train.
“You need to get the roof, you will have six seconds,” Jaculi stated as she dropped into a crouching position, her eyes focused on the other end of the carriage. “And cover your ears,” she added as she shot off a massive pop echoing around the train, the pressure wave slicing the corpses gathered there with ease.
Slithering forward, Sidewinder clambered up to the top of the train, her reptilian body slung low as she crawled forward.
“Uh guys.” Jaculi gulped as the bodies of the Dybykk’s began to grow new body parts, effectively doubling their number. Rushing in to join their teammate the rest of the Squad pushed the reforming Dybykk’s to the end of the carriage.
“We make a stand here,” Flag announced as Abyss formed a vortex of dark matter across the carriage, keeping the Dybykk’s away by flinging them back against the wall. “Everyone get ready, I don’t think Abyss can keep that going for long,” he added as the starfield on Abyss’s body began to fade.
“Hey Fabia, take this,” Diesel announced as he handed Unicorn the fire axe, just as Jaculi slammed her javelins down to form an adhoc fence in the corridor, before removing a knife from her quiver. Seconds later the vortex faded and Abyss collapsed, rents of light shining from his body, the corpses swarming forward towards the front line of Diesel, Unicorn and Katana, blades flashing under the light of spells thrown over the seats by Fauna.
“Waller it’s Flag,” Flag called as he fired a shot at one of the Dybykk’s severed torsos that had crawled beneath Diesel and was swarming towards him. “You still have Installation Sheba on call.”
“It’s locked on your position and ready to fire,” Waller replied as Jaculi slammed her quiver down on the crawling Dybykk’s head fast enough to crush its skull. “Command word for today is Arquebus.”
“Good, if Sidewinder fails we’ll be needing Sheba,” Flag stated as he watched Katana slice through the neck of a Dybykk, the undead body still pressing its attack on her.
“I don’t want there to be anything left of us to be used by this thing!”
To Be Continued
“This is going well,” Unicorn snorted as Flag removed a grenade from his belt and rolled it down the carriage towards the Heralds, the blast washing over the shields but not doing enough to cause them to falter.
Sitting cross-legged Fauna tossed a bolt of purple energy over her shoulder, the mystical projectile causing the front line of heralds to stop, their bodies convulsing.
“Take advantage of that stinging hex while it still affects them!” she yelled as Flag and Unicorn sprang into action, the latter charging forwards and crashing through both the first and second wall of Heralds, one of the men impaled on her horn. Swinging and kicking wildly, Unicorn knocked most of the Heralds to the ground, even as Flag opened fire with his pistols, the rounds bouncing off the ceramic armour.
“Unicorn, on your six!” Flag yelled as one of the Heralds got to his feet and grabbed the eagle tipped stave.
Springing around, Unicorn used the impaled Herald as a shield before slamming one of the armoured men into the other.
“And on yours!” Unicorn snarled as the Herald went to smash Flag in the back of the head with his machine gun. Turning around, Flag saw the Herald’s body imploding in on itself as Abyss held his hand out, wisps of black energy flowing off his shoulders.
“Ah, it looks like we missed the fun!” Diesel groaned as he and Jaculi entered the carriage. As he finished Fauna began to convulse and scream, thick green fog erupting from her mouth for a few seconds.
“The fun is over, the nightmare begins,” Fauna cried as she got to her feet, her body shaking as she looked at the bodies of the Heralds.
Walking over to her, Flag suddenly stopped and touched his ear, his face going from neutral to one of absolute horror. Not that any of the Squad was watching his face, instead they stood transfixed as, all around Unicorn the bodies of the Heralds convulsed, their armour decaying to reveal lines of boils across their rotting skin, fragments of bone erupting from their now reanimated corpses.
“That’s not natural!” Unicorn screamed as she stomped on one of the Heralds, its body still convulsing. Backing up the Suicide Squad members watched the stomped Herald get to its feet, the fragments of crushed skull hanging off its decaying neck.
“It’s a regular Dead Man’s Party!” Diesel yelled as Flag opened fire, the pistol rounds coring the bodies with no effect. The javelins launched by Jaculi fared a little better, pinning the Heralds for a brief moment, their bodies ripping as they continued their onslaught. From behind the Heralds, the sound of pounding on the carriage door sounded.
“Don’t open that door!” Katana yelled as she and Sidewinder entered the carriage from outside just as the door was caved in and rolling green fog entered the carriage followed by swarming cockroaches.
“Poison gas, we need to fall back now!” Flag yelled as he removed two concussion grenades and lobbed them down the carriage, the tidal wave of cockroaches swarming over the explosives.
“Wait, you don’t want to go in there!” Jaculi called as Flag opened the door only for decaying hands to reach through the gap. With incredible strain, Flag slammed the door shut, the sound of scratching and slamming fists sounding behind him.
“Then where do we go?” Diesel asked, as Fauna summoned up spectral chains across the carriage, the corpses that touched the magical restraints bursting into purple flame.
“Engine room, two corpses we can toss into the next carriage,” Jaculi suggested as Abyss pointed upwards.
“And we can go along the top of the train to get there.”
“Let’s move,” Flag ordered. “Diesel, your on-corpse removal duty, Sidewinder you’re in the middle, it is prudent that the Djinn is not released!” he yelled as Diesel climbed up onto the roof of the train, the others following suite. Reaching the front of the train Diesel dropped down and entered the engine room and was immediately set upon by the two corpses inside. With a roar, he flung them out into the connecting carriage before slamming the door shut.
“We may have another problem,” Katana stated as she pointed towards the church on the side of the railway before dropping down onto the footplate.
“Easy to deal with,” Unicorn replied as she released the brake, the train beginning to roll forward.
“Fauna, you’re the mistress of magic, how do we stop these Dybukk pawns?” Flag asked as Diesel removed the engineer’s fire axe from the carriage wall and ran it along the edge of his metal arms, clear liquid bubbling up from the self-inflicted wounds.
“That’s the problem,” Fauna replied as the undead swarmed the entrance into the engine, only to be repulsed by a few quick swings from Diesel’s fire axe. “These bodies will keep coming back no matter how much damage we do. Until the Dybykk is enclosed back in its case, the boundary of life and death has no meaning.”
“Then we’re going to be overrun eventually,” Flag snorted as Diesel rubbed his arms against each other, the sparks igniting the blood, his punches burning the attackers. “If the bodies keep regenerating, then our only option is to close the box,” he added as Abyss opened up a portal and dropped a crate from one of the other carriages in the entrance.
“I can try and run to the…” Jaculi began to say only to retch and cough up a stream of cockroaches, the rest of the Squad following suit before coalescing into a rotting humanoid figure, its back hunched, rotting flesh dropping off its form.
“So, this is what stands between me and my escape. I am not impressed,” the figure belched as the rotting flesh began to transform back into cockroaches. “Still, I will make use of you when you join the dead,” it continued as Fauna clicked her fingers before swinging at the Dybykk, blue energy jumping from her fists across the insects before causing them to burst, its form collapsing into a pool of rot.
“The Cull Insecta,, essentially magical raid,” Fauna gasped as the sounds of fists banging on the case sounded, the metal beginning to buckle. “I have an idea, Katana and Sidewinder used the top of the train to get to the Dybykk Case the first time, what if we try that again.”
“Except the train wasn’t moving, whoever goes up there will be ripped away within seconds,” Katana announced. “And we will need to clear the next carriage to access the roof.”
“I can try, my body is low enough to make it, or at least try,” Sidewinder answered as she began to groan, her body beginning to convulse.
“Heads up we have more bugs incoming,” Unicorn hissed as she took a step away from Sidewinder as flakes of skin began to flake off her legs, the sound of cracking bones radiating around the engine room.
“Not bugs,” Sidewinder hissed as her legs began to fuse together to form a long serpentine tail that thrashed around, knocking Flag and Jaculi to the ground. “Warmth…prey…” she snarled as her body coiled around Flag’s body, her jaw dislocating as she began to line up with his head.”
Placing the blade of the Soultaker against Sidewinder’s nape, Katana was struck from behind as the case was smashed through the door and the undead entered.
“Sidewinder, you told me you were on my side,” Flag groaned as Sidewinder slotted her jaws on his head, her tongue flicking out into his eyes and nose. “If you meant that stop!” He ordered as Unicorn and Diesel jumped into the fray, knocking some of them into Abyss’s mass shadow, their bodies being deposited back into the next carriage.
“Mission, close box, egress point roof,” Sidewinder hissed as she released her coils, a hungry look still in her eyes.
“We need some help here,” Unicorn grunted as she gored a corpse through the shoulder, its undead hands wrapped around her neck. With a snort, Diesel ripped the Dybykk off Unicorn and threw it off the train.
“You need to get the roof, you will have six seconds,” Jaculi stated as she dropped into a crouching position, her eyes focused on the other end of the carriage. “And cover your ears,” she added as she shot off a massive pop echoing around the train, the pressure wave slicing the corpses gathered there with ease.
Slithering forward, Sidewinder clambered up to the top of the train, her reptilian body slung low as she crawled forward.
“Uh guys.” Jaculi gulped as the bodies of the Dybykk’s began to grow new body parts, effectively doubling their number. Rushing in to join their teammate the rest of the Squad pushed the reforming Dybykk’s to the end of the carriage.
“We make a stand here,” Flag announced as Abyss formed a vortex of dark matter across the carriage, keeping the Dybykk’s away by flinging them back against the wall. “Everyone get ready, I don’t think Abyss can keep that going for long,” he added as the starfield on Abyss’s body began to fade.
“Hey Fabia, take this,” Diesel announced as he handed Unicorn the fire axe, just as Jaculi slammed her javelins down to form an adhoc fence in the corridor, before removing a knife from her quiver. Seconds later the vortex faded and Abyss collapsed, rents of light shining from his body, the corpses swarming forward towards the front line of Diesel, Unicorn and Katana, blades flashing under the light of spells thrown over the seats by Fauna.
“Waller it’s Flag,” Flag called as he fired a shot at one of the Dybykk’s severed torsos that had crawled beneath Diesel and was swarming towards him. “You still have Installation Sheba on call.”
“It’s locked on your position and ready to fire,” Waller replied as Jaculi slammed her quiver down on the crawling Dybykk’s head fast enough to crush its skull. “Command word for today is Arquebus.”
“Good, if Sidewinder fails we’ll be needing Sheba,” Flag stated as he watched Katana slice through the neck of a Dybykk, the undead body still pressing its attack on her.
“I don’t want there to be anything left of us to be used by this thing!”
To Be Continued