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Chapter 23 - 23: Ambush?

Well we finished moving, just gotta set and arrange some things and unbox. But exams and moving are basically done. Sorry for the wait and delay.

And another broken promise ;-; sorry.

Expect the next pages to be done sometime this week. Again sorry ;-;

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As soon as prima fires her cannon the commander slides next to nelly and asks a question, "Nelly, can i ask you a question?"

With nelly turning to the commander cunfusedly but nods, "sure, whats up?"

"Are all your teammates so brazen??"

Nelly chuckles abit, "I have faith in ther battlefield judgment." Before turning back to face at the incoming horde.

as the commander backs off, 'What a load of crap. How can it be possible they're as powerul as they thing they are?'

As he then signals everyone to get ready and engage. "Form up and take down as many as you can before they get close!"

With the commander ducking behind a corner as the girls fire freely. While i get set up by the commander taking potshots and reloading the cannon behind him.

Boom. Boom. Bang. Boom. Boom. Bang.

With nelly and prima having the longest firing range weapon they are the first one to take out a majority of the beast tanks.

As i watch the girls aim their guns. I then see prima adjusting her aim to hit the bison's legs and eyes. Following that i follow suit.

Due to having the second weakest firepower of the group.

'Alright, i guess those are the weakspots of those rushing bulls.' As anastasia aims and fires shot after shot with relative precision, while johan reloads the cannon and the commander nearby shouting orders to the others.

After a few minutes of back and forth potshots and thinning out the bisons. The last of the bisons fall as lena pumps her arms in celebration, "Mission complete! How easy was that?"

As zoe chimes in with a puff to her chest, "I've knocked down one beast tank."

With lena snickering, "only one? Hah! I got three!"

Prima quietly mumbling in the corner softly, "i got five..."

'Well.... i got a few myself but nelly definitely took out the most out of everyone.'

Meanwhile the commander mutters to himself, 'their fighting abilities have definetly exceeded my expectations, but they just never listen... i guess I'll just have to wait and see.'

As we advance step by step towards the distant fallen bisons, we soon reach a large open space that seems to be outside the institute.

With zoe peeking out and scratching her head, "those bisons came out from here, but now theres nothing... weird."

With lena cutting in, "we could bomb them out, you idiot."

The commander nods and points at some small hills in the open space, "i agree with lena this time. Blow this space up."

As everyone starts shooting at he space and after a while of shelling the space a stra ge vibration could be felt underground.

As nelly gets on a battle stance and shouts, "Something's coming! Get ready!"

As the group prepares, the commander and both of me sticks closer to zoya.

As multiple beast tanks bursts out of the ground a fight inevitably ensues, with the beast tanks pouring out of where the first beast tanks burst out from.

As the commander barks an order, "everyone prepare for qcq! Anastasia, johan! Stay close to zoya, raisa keep an eye on zoe!" Before darting next to johan.

As the fighting starts the brawl becomes hectic with shells flying left and right, zoya unable to properly brawl due to jeeding to protect both of me and the commander could only deflect incoming shells and fire back with her cannon.

While zoe is scrabling along the battlefield with lena, and raisa close behind for support.

Then with nelly, prima being a self propelled gun with frankly little to no armor is letting nelly tank and deflect the shells while the two deal with beast tanks out of everyone else's ranges.

As i cover zoya's back, taking out the flanking racoons and monkeys, i start to worry due to the cannons quickly depleting ammo reserves.

As the brawl continues...

Boom. Boom. Bang. Boom. Bang. Boom

After a long frantic battle the last of the beast tanks finnaly fall.

As the group breathes a sigh of relief and exhaustion.

"Everyone rest up, zoya collect some ammo with the two, raisa keep a lookout." Orders the commander as he walks towards nelly and her group by the majority of the fallen beast tanks.

As he approaches, he spots prima looking down on something by a beast tank corpse.

With prima then walking towards nelly, "Ma'am, a passage has been found near the mass of the beast tanks corpses."

As nelly then nods, "well done." Before turning to the commander.

"Is everyone alright?"

"All good, just a few scratches here and there but thats managable, you?"

nelly shakes her head, "no need to worry. We are all fine, anyways prima seems to have found something. Call everyone over."

With the commander nodding and doing just that.

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After a while, with the ammo for anastasia cannon sorted out everyone regroups towards prima.

"A passage? But why was it underground?" Asks zoe.

With lena thinking, "probably a bypass?"

Nodding, nelly turns to the commander and asks, "well theres only one way to go from here. What say you? Do we continue?"

Chuckling the commander nods, "yes, we continue we need to investigate everything. Especially now that we have gone this far."

With a nod everyone starts down down the passage.

After a while the passage opens up into a dense forest.

With zoe looking around the passage then then forest exit.

"Quite different from the place we wen in from..."

"Be careful, zoe. Something bad is going to happen." Quips lena.

"Oh?" ( ・_・)?

As everyone except zoe tenses up, getting ready for an imminent battle.

As the commander then shouts, "almost here! Zoe, aim at 3 o'clock!"

Bewildered, zoe Jumps and screams, "What? Another battle?!"

As a pack of beast tanks rushes out of the bushes by zoe at astonishing speed before zoe could even finish talking.

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