Chapter 113: {Holding The Wall} (2/2)
"Class 5? Youto be saving us, old man!" said a hero "I could scrap five of those botsto save the day!?"
"Why aren't you fighting, Seismic!" shouted another hero "You're supposed to be an A ranker! Show us how great you are, you fucking coward! I thought you were different fro rong, but in the end, you're just as much of a fraud as he is!"
Seis, his expression turning esture silenced the rooain
"The point of a class 5 response isn't in how strong each drone is It's in their sheer nu us breathing roo in a horde of scaly bodies," said Seismic His ain "But we need to wait until it comes
The Plasma Anemones fire in intervals of ten ate coo down there We hold out for twenty minutes
Twenty et here, and that'll give h room to kill the leaders of this army
All the rest of you have to do is to hold the line
Make sure the one hundred and fifty thousand plus civilians holed up behind these walls don't get ripped apart piece by piece
Is that so fucking hard?"
There was a moment of tense silence as the crowd of heroes remained still, still unconvinced
"There are a few thousand HCPD still here as well They live here This is their ho they've built up with their lives is here Many of thereater ht than to know the life of your child depends on your fists" Seismic scanned the room of heroes "That leaves h four years of training and two years of apprenticeshi+p to call yourselves heroes
About half of you live in Haven"
Seis an ice the your file You live here, don't you?"
"Y-yes You…actually read my file?" said Icicle, the hero in question A C- ranker ould have never expected an A- ranker like Seisive him the time of day
"I had Rocket Man compile your files e holed up behind the walls So I would know the ht with," said Seis man, who do you have here?"
"A wife And a son," said Icicle
"And you're going to leave them just like that? Even if you run, is that what you want to show your kid? Your back as you run away? Not as you fight?" said Seismic
Icicle shook his head
"About half of you have planted your roots down in this city," said Seismic "You are the trunk of support for your loved ones Do you want to leave now? Do you want to let these variants tear those roots you've worked so hard to plant?"
"I'm…I'm scared, but I won't let my dad's last moments be in fear and pain," said a hero, a woh already with ht with you, Seiso too," said Mothman "Don't have anyone I love here, but I'iveI can!" chimed in another hero
Like this, Seis him Most of them were those that, as he had pointed out, lived in Haven However, half of the heroes were rotating transplants that went froned them
"Yeah, screw that, I'm outta here," said Racefield, one such transplant "Don't have anyone I care about in this shtty little city, and sht down here because of you knohat art looks like"
Racefield started to walk out of the control rooe to file out behind him