55 Natural Selection (2/2)
In that person's rather small hands is a loaf of broken bread and a bowl of transparent soup. It is his daily ration, which he shared with his sister. Foods is hard to come by in what remains of Japan.
”I save this for you, big brother.”
The man speaks up once he is on the scaffold, overlooking a deforested area, separating the research facility from the city. The numerous snipers are watchful of anything approaching.
Each kills will earn them a little bit extra foods, but each wasted bullet will get them punished.
Due to her looks, his sister must disguises herself as man. However, as her chest begins to develop, it becomes increasingly harder and harder to keep her safe from all the men living in the research facility and nearby encampments and barracks.
”I have already eaten already. Those are yours.”
Hans responses despite the faint growling in his stomach.
”Please don't lie to me, big brother. Please eat. You need your energy, so you can take care of me. If you don't, I will not eat either.”
Seeing how his sister would not eat without him, he concedes and takes a few bites. The bread is very hard and the soup is tasteless, but with his current station, he is unable to get his sister real foods.
”How is that boy you have been seeing?”
Hans asks, causing his sister to blush. Before she could answers, a huge explosion rocks the earth. She turns towards the no-man lands, finding one of the landmines has been triggered. Her brother did the same just as another landmine exploded.
The dusts and debris reveals a shape of something bulky.
”What is that!?”
One of the snipers calls out as he looks through his scope. He fires at what appears to be the ground, but the bullet hits a translucent barrier.
The bullet explodes in mid-air as the barrier becomes invisible again. Whatever this is, it is invisible to the naked eye.
”Something is there. Shoot it!”
Before the man can fire again, a red beam passes through him. It looks like a net rather than a beam.
The sniper in his hand breaks into pieces as his body crumple into bloody diced chunks.
The smells of burning flesh could be noticed.
Even the scaffold he is standing on is sliced into pieces by the beam. More red beams shot forth from the air, slicing through each of the snipers with perfect accuracy in rapid succession.
”Brother!”
His sister pushes him out of the way as the red beam passes through his spot.
She looks at him before red lines appears on her face. Her hand reaches towards Hans before her body broke apart along with the scaffolding.
Hans is too shocked to even utter a single word. He stares at what becomes of his sister. It looks like someone cuts her up into perfect-size cubes.
Rapid gunfire masks his anguish screams.
They come from several mounted gun turrets around the base, all concentrating on a single target.
Hans grabs his rifle and turns towards the invisible monster.
A barrage of bullets is crashing against it. However, none of the bullets manages to pierce what appear to be some kind of shield despite being enhanced by magic.
Even magic bullets cannot penetrate their barrier.
The bullets did, however, reveal what is being hidden behind the cloaking field – a silhouette of a tank.
It appears that the Nazis want to test out their new spell. This isn't the first time they have done such a thing. Conducting live test is the best way to get useful data.
From what Hans understands, concentrated fire will eventually collapse the shield. Once that is done, he will kill the person who kill his sister. He finds a spot and takes aim, readying for the moment.
To the side of the monster, something sparks in mid-air.
A lightning flies forth, striking the mounted turret before jumping to another turret and another one until all the turrets are reduced to burning wreck.
That kind of weapon shouldn't be possible – at least not in a single salvo.
More lightning comes, ripping apart towers and killing all the men within them.
Before Hans could get his mind around what is happening, the air pulsates.
The atmosphere then being sucked into a single point before exploding outwards instantly, washing over everyone and everything.
The powerful shockwave knocks down the wall and sends everyone flying.
Hans groans and coughs out bloods after being sent crashing in the wall.
The impact didn't do more damage than the shockwave did. What kind of weapon that could do such a thing to a human body? He knows for a fact that Germany isn't that advance yet.
With all of his organs pulverized beyond help, Hans struggles to look towards the huge opening in the wall. He wants to see what kind of monsters Germany has awoken this time.
There are more than one of those monsters are out there, closing in onto the research facility.
From the gunfire all around him, they are coming in every direction. And with their might, nothing can stop their advancement.
Nazis soldiers are reduced to bloody cubes by laser blasts, being fried by beam of lightning, or being send flying by air cannons.
This is the first time they are so outclassed technologically or magically.
And these aren't the undead. No, they are war machines!
In fact, Hans could see dozens from their tracks on the ground.
One of tank drops its stealth field and channels power into the kinetic barrier, blockings all projectiles as it glows red hot.
Hans saw the Hydra symbol painted its side, glaring deadly at all of its enemies. The tank turns to face him. Its turrets point in his direction.
Intense heats erupt forth from the twin barrels, melting stones and steels like they were butters on a frying pan.
Hans closes his eyes as the flames burns away his sin.
He will join his sister soon, but he regretted not witnessing the fall of Germany for himself.