"You good on supplies?"
"Yes sir."
"How about you brother?"
"I am doing splendid on supplies sir."
As squad Alpha-1 is marching into battle, they go through a thick jungle.
"How is it possible that a jungle can exist after the bombs? Do you think they like the radiation? It seems they have gotten even bigger!"
"I wish I could get bigger! I'm always a short king... Last time, Rebecca laughed at me when I asked her on a date!"
"Hey man don't take it personally, you are no laughing stock, you are the bravest of the brave. Because you're walking besides me."
"Sir Noman, are you certain we are heading in the right direction? It seems so weird that their compound is through the jungle."
"The navigation system they provided shows we are heading in the right direction, if you want to take a break let's do so!"
"Yes sir, I am sorry to say we are very exhausted, all this mud has been really fatiguing to walk through!"
Even if they all are the elites of humanity, they are still humans, humans have limitations.
The jungle is one of the worsts parts to be in, thick leaves, insects chirping constantly, you have very low vision, and it periodically starts raining buckets.
The smell, is the worst too, the mud has feces in it combined with bodies of animals, carcasses, any foul smell you can imagine, is here.
"Ah, finally, after all the walking, we can finally rest!"
"Haha, you could've told me sooner, I wouldn't want my men to fight with no stamina!"
All the soldiers seemed very happy, morale is still high even though they are in the worst predicament. Maybe its the shining golden armor of Noman, or his charisma keeping everyone happy.
But one thing Noman knows for sure, he didn't tell his men yet, but he senses, they're being watched.
After a few hours and a few stories, the soldiers started marching in full spirits again
"Man! That felt like I arrived back home to my children! Lovely!!"
"Glad you feel good, everyone, stay sharp. We are close to the base."
All soldiers got quiet, even the jungle got very quiet. It got, eerily quiet. No crickets chirping, no birds singing. Nothing.
"Aim. Your. Rifles."
The soldier aim their guns, the new augmented laser weapons, in the direction where they think the enemy will be, unfortunately they cannot use any rocket launchers as the trees are way too thick and in the way, so they haven't brought any.
From the darkness of the jungle, a laser shot came through.
"OPEN FIRE!"
All the men shot into the unknown, all they can hear is their laser beams, their gunfire, the smell of burning wood and the smell of gunpowder.
"COVER!"
Noman instinctively knew when synthetica strikes, as how many times he fought against them, he gained a memory to them.
Laser beams get shot through the trees, burning through the trunks, leaves falling from all direction, you can practically smell the fear from the soldiers.
"EVERYONE, HOLD YOUR GROUND, DO NOT MOVE. IF YOU MOVE YOU DIE!"
After a couple of seconds, that felt to the soldiers like hours, the synthetica stopped firing.
"Everyone, follow me."
General Noman took off his golden armor to not draw any attention, also his majestic cape. They started sneaking through the jungle perpendicularly to where the gunfire of the synthetica was at.
After a few seconds, synthetica fired again, but at the same area they shot their first volley at.
"Predictable, they seem to hyper focus into one area if they see no activity anywhere else."
But before General Noman can finish his sentence, they stumble into a squad of synthetica right up their nose.
"Don't... make... A move..."
"OR... WHAT?..."
From nowhere a synthetica Bull with warpaint punches Noman right in his stomach, launching him far away
"Ugh..."
Noman coughs up blood, but still fully conscious.
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"YOU... you are the one they told me about, they call you, 'The White Bull' "
"THE... WHITE... BULL?..."
"HA... HA... HA..."
The white bull aims his left arm at Noman, the arm of the white bull is equipped with 4 rotating lasers and his arm can transform into a rocket launcher.
The white bull shoots a rocket and also starts shooting his lasers at Noman.
"AARGH, YOU ANIMAL!"
Whilst Noman blocked the rocket launcher with his shield, it crumbled, even though he blocked the projectile, the blunt force trauma hurt his hands so much, and now he is trying to dodge the lasers while returning fire, but he cannot aim properly.
While Noman is in a pickle, his elite squad is taking care of the synthetica primates
"KILL THEM ALL!"
"THIS IS THE LAST ONE, SHOW NO MERCY!"
The elite soldiers have successfully taken out the synthetica primates of the white bull's squad, but the white bull is still alive.
"YOU... THINK... I... NEED... FODDER...?"
Whilst the white bull says that he rotates his body and in his other hand has a flamethrower, he starts igniting everything behind him.
Noman see this as the opportunity to attack his behind with his laser weapon, but it overheats.
"DISTANCE YOURSELF FROM THE FIRE, DO NOT WORRY ABOUT ME."
Whilst Noman says that, the white bull locks his head towards Noman, and starts sprinting towards him, every foot that lands in the ground shakes the ground, his footsteps shake throughout the entire jungle.
Noman, even gasping for air because of how hard he got hit by the white bull, dodges the white bull strike and sneakily plants a sticky dynamite on his arm with the lasers.
"HUMAN... WHAT... IS... YOUR... NAME..."
"It's... Go fuck yourself."
Even when faced with a proper adversary, he finds the time to insult them.
BOOM!
The sticky dynamite explodes, taking out only his left arm, the white bull seems dazed for a few seconds.
Whilst it explodes it also launches Noman away, and Noman hits a tree.
"I... see... stars..."
Norman loses consciousness for a moment, due to the impact he experienced, he is experiencing troubled breathing too.
"NOMAN! START TREATING NOMAN'S WOUNDS!"
"IT'S ALL INTERNAL, HOW CAN I EVEN FIX THAT NOW?"
"IF THERE'S A WAY FIND ONE!"
Noman's soldier scurry to find a way to treat his disabilities, to their luck, it works.
"HA... HA... HA..."
"YOU... PEASANTS... MANAGED... TO... DAMAGE... ME..."
All the elite soldiers started shooting collectively at his head.
After they stopped shooting, to no avail, the white bull has a face shield.
"YOU... THINK... I... CAN... BE... KILLED?..."
"IMBECILES..."
The white bull started charging at the squad, with his flamethrower ready to fire.
Suddenly, I big laser shot came and shot the white bull, launching him a few meters.
"NO..."
"What was that?"
Out of nowhere, a seemingly robotic individual with a suit came forwards.
He had a laser rocket launcher, probably way more potent than our weaponry.
Noman became conscious again.
"Who, is this, fine gentleman? *cough* *cough*."
Even in the face of death, Noman cannot but be at awe that a soldier can dress so fashionably.
The head of the suited gentleman, is like a fiery furnace.
You can see him emit gas after he shot his laser rocket launcher, it seems he empowers the weapon more with his face.
He's also big, built like Noman, like an absolute unit.
" *Flame sounds* "
"Uh... I guess he doesn't speak our language."
Then another unit came into the picture:
"Greetings soldiers. It seemed like you needed our assistance, your general over there... Was at life support I presume."
What we can describe is someone very proper, incredibly tidy suit rocking the color white.
"Have you been the individuals that saved us from countless battles?"
"Who so to say, I cannot answer that. We are Resonants. We have come forwards to propose a deal with the humans."
"Oh, what kind of deal so to say?"
The white suited resonant looks at the white bull, whilst the furnace head aims his laser rocket launcher again:
"THIS... WON'T... BE... THE... LAST... TIME... WE... MEET... RESONANTS..."
The furnace head releases his fire that gets absorbed by the laser rocket launcher, it glows orange and shoots towards the white bull.
The white bull dodges the fiery laser shot, there's a chunk of his left torso missing due to the first shot he took.
"THIS... MERELY... DELAYS... T HE... INEVITABLE..."
The white bull starts running the direction of the base, and shoots his flamethrower behind him.
"Do not follow him!"
The white suited resonant told the furnace head to back off.
After standing up, I can see the face of the white suited resonant clearly.
His face is like a mask, a blank white faceplate. How, does, he talk?
"My offer is, that we as resonants join the human side. Be an alliance."
"Is there a catch?"
"We do this of the benefit of each other. We learn from your technological advances, you from ours."
"It's hard to say no, can you not come to one of our bases?"
"We do not know the location of your base, and wouldn't you have shot us thinking we would be synthetica?"
He's completely right, if he came to our research facility, we would've been hostile on the get go, so this was the best case scenario to them.
"Discuss this with the researchers at Miracle Bay. These are their coordinates."
"If that is what you wish. We recommend you to retreat from the battle for now."
"Why's that?"
"You will not survive here, nor will we, if we stay any longer."
Then, what we heard was the jungle being chopped up, trees fell quickly, and we kept hearing clean slicings.
"Retreat, NOW."
"... You must stay alive too, for your people."
"Will do, we will buy you as much time, my own men will escort me, furnace head will stay here till his final breath. It's what he wish to do."
"They don't have their titan in this location. But I'm afraid they still have a formidable foe, you will not win this battle."
Suddenly, we see a massive robot, having a blade as arm and the other, within the palm of his hand a laser cannon.
Furnace head starts blasting the massive robot, but to no avail, it but tickled him.
The robot primed his laser cannon, and absolutely demolished furnace head.
We started running, it is near impossible to be quick with all the mud.
But then, tons of smoke grenades are being tossed behind us, a saving grace.
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They have stronger units than the white bull??
And if he wasn't a titan, how big would their titan be?
I guess he is classified as a semi titan then.
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After hours of fleeing, we have finally gotten out of the jungle. We are back in the wasteland, for some reason, it's a breath of fresh air.
"Finally, we're out."
"Noman, what was that?"
I lost a few of my elite soldiers, but the majority remained, they of course seem very confused and shocked by all the events that just happened.
"I have no idea myself. This mission was classified as 'suicide' by the scientists. But, we survived in the end."
"If we tried fighting that thing?... What would happe-"
"We would die."
Everyone got quiet, but they also got relieved, to get out of this alive is a miracle.
"Those robotic people that called themselves the resonants, they said, that thing... isn't their titan?"
"Let's go back to base, we have a lot of good news, and... Bad news."
"Didn't that white guy tell us the synthetica had a titan?? And the one we just faced now, wasn't a titan??"
"Guys I know, I know. We have a lot of improving to do if we ever want to take out something like that."
Me and my men started talking even more.
The sun started setting.
In such a moment, you cannot but appreciate, how beautiful life still can be.
Even through all the hardships, through the nuclear fallout, the sun will still shine through.
Suddenly Noman collapsed.
