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SORROW

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by Paul Hang

hung up nearby to buildings

  The rotten smell of death only attracts Death himself to collect their poor souls

  In a block of houses, she checks for any sort of hostile forces on her sides

  Cautiously walking, nothing, everything is dead

  A storage house for the corpses, Bloodhounds only want to fear their enemy

  Forward on the road are three more houses

  Placed on the right, middle, and left location

  It is a dead end, but there are two locations she had to choose

  Without having any clue which is the correct path

  She takes the right path

  After some minutes of walking, Angela is lead on an avenue

  Something catches Ellie's attention, the sound of screaming

  Sounding like a clan of people are getting tortured

  Ellie shows Angela where she is detecting the sound

  She sees them on another avenue which is the left of her position

  There are six soldiers she has never seen before

  An EMD-52 Plasma Rifle is equipped

  It uses high damaging plasma bolts, with a magazine shaped like a cylinder

  The magazine can make the gun user shoot the rifle thirty two times

  But it's only flaw is its projectile speed-it isn't effective in medium to long range fights

  In Angela's mind, these men didn't look like they're amateurs

  Dressed in a special designed black uniform with extra protection from bullets and plasma

  And a mask to fear those that opposed them

  There is also a Vanguard with them

  She's planning on a plan to rescue the innocent civilians

  She notices there are around twenty five civilians in her vision

  Twenty of them are begged to look on the road with their hands

  Five of them look like they are beaten up by knives out of pleasure

  She watches them to see what they're doing

  A soldier asks this lady in her late thirties if she is willing to please his men

  Such bravery to decline his answer, she only gets more trouble

  The man pulls out his knife from his knife holster

  He grabs the woman by the jaw and stabs her in gum on top of her top teeth

  The lady bleeds rapidly, and cries helplessly, the man shows no mercy for forgiveness

  He stabs her from the back of her elbow

  Angela can't take anymore of this madness

  She charges in, cocked her B-72, and shoots the torturer as much bullets she can put

  Five or six shot she put, he's down, attracting the Vanguard and the other soldiers

  They're going after her when she runs away

  The civilians gather up in their location, clueless of what their next move is

  She stands there calmly

  Without any worrying about anything

  One of the Bloodhound members talked

  They are part of an elite force of the Bloodhounds

  She questions him to find Cody

  He gives her an answer of a threat

  These people only want hostility

  Where there is no other choice to make

  Five soldiers are ready to shoot their guns, she thrusts a grenade

  Impacting the two soldiers that were close to each other

  Two of them are caught off guard by the explosions

  One is injured by the explosion

  She enhances her movement speed to climb up on the Vanguard's back

  The mech tries to knock her off-shaking itself with force

  Pushing her blade into the mech's back, three times

  The machine dies, only three more soldiers she has to fight them

  In small numbers, Angela can easily take them

  She pulls out her Carbine, and put her energy into one of the gang member

  He rolls out; making Angela’s aim thrown off for a few seconds

  Running and gunning with a jump shot and immediately prone shot her

  Took critical damage from him, but she can live

  Finishing him when she uses Enhanced Armor for extra defense

  His buddy tries to avenge him; she dashes around him three times

  Arm locking his neck while behind him and with a stab in the heart

  The remaining one is too hurt to fight

  Curious of her brother's location

  Cody is in a hotel, room 256

  Leaving him to die in a slow death as she continues her journey

  The civilians are free, they can runaway and look for their safety

  It's starting to rain, but the rain doesn't slow Angela down

  On 910 Telliwards Avenue, Prantosin, all Angela has to do is go to the hotel

  It is down on the street, and he is waiting for her

  She knows he has some sort of plan to stop her

  On the middle road, there's another road on the left

  Couple of buildings on the side of the middle road, there are noises

  A tank is coming dauntlessly

  Equipping the EMD-52 Plasma Rifle she stole

  Also scavenged some ammo from her last battle

  There's the tank about to turn its gun towards Angela

  Running energetically to the tank

  It fires at her, she teleports to the side, and continues running

  Once she is on top of the tank's hatchet, there are soldiers behind it

  Approximately twenty five to thirty five men, she fires her Plasma Rifle at them

  The bodies quickly drops in numbers, she's getting damaged, but with Enhanced Armor on

  She takes a couple of more bullets while standing in one position

  Some troopers trying to get close to her, but only died

  Making a hole from her blade on the hatch, chucking a grenade

  And before it explodes, she jumps away from the tank

  Sprinting her way closer to the hotel, there is reinforcement

  The sound of the helicopters has gotten her attention

  Two of them she can see, and later on she can see two more

  And more, and more are on their way

  Her trusty X-86 is taken out, survival is the only way out of here

  Furiously makes her way to the hotel and the helicopters

  She fires the groups of Bloodhounds on the first helicopter before they can land

  Managing to get some kills, but the forces from the second Chopper aren't damaged

  Throwing a grenade in the helicopter room, killing everyone on board except the driver

  She's abusing her dashing ability to easily kill the Troopers from the first Chopper

  Completely surrounded, and outnumbered by the endless waves of reinforcement

  She throws her rifle down, and brings out her blade and shield

  The next two Choppers-trying to land their passengers simultaneously

  Rushes up into the passenger's room if she can

  Blood, and nothing but blood and human pieces are being sliced in front of her face

  Taking damage from behind, she quickly blinks out and takes cover behind the helicopter

  While healing her shields, another grenade is tossed to slow down the other soldiers

  Ropes are starting to come in action from the Choppers

  They didn't want to give her time to rest

  She kills, kills, kills-it is the only way out of here

  After about ten minutes of fighting, there are about over eighty bodies that are on the road

  Covering up in blood everywhere on her suit

  Mostly caused by her up close fights with her blade

  A fine mess of slaughtering soulless foes

  Immediately trying to find room 256

  Cody is there, just watching T.V. the whole time while Angela is fighting to survive

  He's watching a show called "Happy Times and Days"

  It's a kids' show that Angela and him used to watch when they were young

  A face th
at's written in disappointment and despondency while watching the show

  Angela finds the room and breaks it down by a punch in the center of the door

  Damaging it, and opening the door

  Saving him is what she wants

  There's nothing to be saved

  He cries defeat to his own sister

  A no one, and cannot match the quality of her

  Angela only wants to help, confused and lost

  Powerless, weak, shamed, a nobody, he describes himself with full spirit

  Upset about the fact that he cannot kill her at what he's best at

  It shocks Angela, and she immediately realizes, he's infected

  She tries to claim that he's been drugged

  He refuses anything what she said to him

  "Pain is pleasure and the pleasure the key to live

  But with no sense of glory, it may be better to live somewhere else."

  His quotes identifies a strong thought of suicide

  Angela doesn't know who he is anymore

  Letting his agony take the best of him-praising Angela, and hurting himself

  He asks her to look at the rain

  Staring at the rain for his order, and wondering what his next move is is

  A suicide is done by a shot from his pistol to his brain

  Frightened by her brother's death and choice

  Ellie feels pain for her

  The AI decides to leave Angela alone

  Letting her have the space

  Alone in peace and woe

  Scar upon a Scar

  What can possibly calm her pain down, only increases it

  She looks at her brother, upset and clueless

  Instantly having flashbacks to her foster dead parents

  The same sentiment is back

  Coming close to his corpse

  Just looking at her dead brother

  Doesn't have any words to say to him

  Traumatized by sorrow, appalled, and her control is lost

  Tears is dropping from her eyes, but she refuses to cry

  She gets out the hotel room

  In the need of wanting some air, feeling weak

  Taking her helmet off, using her time to feel her emotion

  Raining Tears

  Within the mind of despair

  The questionnaire of resolving the emotion

  Wanting to have spirit, confidence, and comfort

  Saddening philosophy coming in play:

  The young girl asks her if she can come back

  There's no turning

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