The Talon Family Bloody Snow Part 3

The Talon Family

Bloody Snow

January

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By: Chase L. Currie

They landed on the still dark ship sitting in the middle of an icy sea. There were a few blacken planes on the main deck of the advanced aircraft carrier designed for the Paladin Division. It had an A.I which could take out most incoming enemies or at the very least alert the crew of an incoming attack, but no such alert seems to come to the crew. Many of them lay dead and frozen in a mad panic to get to their weapons. The ones who did make their combat position didn’t last long before they met their ends. The enemy who attacked the ship was quick and kept the crew dazed and confused.

Gabriel and Raphael walked the hall to the bridge in their snow combat gear with their weapons at the ready. Their suits made from their father were white and looked a lot like armor you would see a video game. The suits had plates folding over each other with rivers of light running between them to keep the suit warm in the cold. The rivers of light were white like the armor of the suits but could change colors to let another know what was going on with the wearer. Blue meant the wearer was hurt but still able to move or hopefully fight, while red meant they needed help now and was close to dying.

 Raphael and Michael loved wearing the suits; it made them feel like superheroes. Gabriel couldn’t stand them because she had to wear a skin-tight suit under the armor which left nothing to the imagination. She nor any of them could wear any underwear while the suits were on. The undersuits had to have complete connect with their skins. She hated it and her sister, Helbis could careless most of the time.

Raphael tapped her on the shoulder pointing his rife railgun to a locked the door. The rife they both knew could punch a hole through the steel of the door if they had normal projectiles in their chips, but they did not. Inside the chips of their sciences, fiction weaponry was stun rounds design to knock an opponent out, not kill them.

“It’s locked,” He said into the radio of his smooth mask. A mask he painted a smiling face stick out its tongue on, a little joke they all did.

Gabriel nodded moving the winking smiling face up and down and said, “We need to clear it.” She stepped behind him placing her hand on his shoulder pad and turning them both invisible as Raphael placed a small door charge on the lock of the door. A moment later a loud popped echoed down the quiet halls followed by the thunders sound of steel on steel as the door fell.

He waited for a second stepping into the room with his weapon up. The armor around him would stop most bullets from getting through but would only work for a short among of time. The armor hiding under his skin given to him by the meteorite would stop anything from hurting him. It was stronger than anything on the Earth but sadly, if he brought forth from under his skin then the suit keeping him warm would be damaged. His armor might stop any object from hitting him, but it would still be cold inside the dead ship.

He didn’t have to worry about anyone shooting him everyone in the room was dead. Gabriel let go of him causing her power to fade and stepping around the room to see the room full of people who were at computers and looked to be shot in the back. To their side was the Captain of the ship dead and looked as if he locked the door trying to stop anyone from getting in.

“What happens here?” Raphael asked shaking his head at all the death.

“I have no idea,” Gabriel said heading for one of the computers and pulling a small tablet from her side. She hooked it up to the computer and hacked into the ship systems with far too much ease then she planned. She scanned the files looking for any sign of an enemy ship but nothing.

“So,” she started to explain the ship got a call from Neptune’s Hall long before it went dark and days before the storm hit. The people at the base had found something in the ice and brought it back to the lab.

“Sounds a little too much like the Thing,” Raphael said.

“From what the reports say it looks like it was a Nazi crate,” Gabriel told him. “It had some armor in it. After they open is when the base went dead.”

“Great, and who attack the ship?”

“That’s what looks bad,” Gabriel said shooting videos of the attack onto the main screen in the war room. The foes on the screen marched through the ship late a night shooting and killing everyone they saw, but the worst part of it all was the foes were Paladin agents.

“Crap,” Raphael said in horror. “They are killing their people.”

“Let’s see what any of the Knights have to say about this,” Gabriel said trying to open a communication line to the main base of Paladin somewhere in the United States. Then the line blinked on, but the voice that coming out of it was not one the Knights.

“Now, now,” the hard growl said, “I’m not ready for people to find out who I am.”

Gabriel located the source of the voice only to find out it was coming from Neptune’s Hall.

“I can’t let you tell the world, Gabriel,” the voice said making her quickly look at her brother. The screen in front of them switches to a demon samurai face with a glowing green eye as if someone changes the channel on them. Raphael stepped back as Gabriel did the same growing closer to the door. “That is the God of War has returned.”

“I wish,” he said, “we could meet again but you have forced my hand, and I would have to have to kill you anyways.”

“I’m not sure we have met,” Gabriel said.

“We have but we won’t’ again.”

The floor under their feet lifted in the air with a scream from an alarm. Bombs started to go off thought out the ship letting the water under the ice pull the steel haul down like an angry brother ducking their little brother. The ship tried to fight back, but the hand of the sea was far too strong for the steel. It was being eaten alive by the water as Raphael and Gabriel race to get free from the watery tomb.