The City that Never Sleeps

Rockefeller Center, Manhattan, New York
March 6st
12:00 AM

Racing my motorcycle through the city, I go through the center of the street, as fast as I can. I look at my wrist, the battery only has 2% left, I will never make it. With one hand I reach for one of the locks of the backpack with the thrusters, despite the fact that the ammunition compartment is in it I need to get rid of it to save battery. A group of soldiers comes out of one of the buildings, I reach for my gun and start to shoot, I don't think I even hit anyone, but I made them move away, I accelerate the motorcycle, even more, to leave them behind as soon as possible. It seems that somehow the Empire did manage to enter the bunker in the UN building, despite the fact that my mother was assaulted, a group of Dolls managed to kidnap the president, mom asked me to rescue him because it seems that I am the only one capable of doing it around. Although I don't want to do it, I'd better do it because I don't want to be listening to her complain about why I didn't rescue him the entire flight back to Japan. 

A stupid enemy tank appeared in an interception two blocks from my destination, but its turret was not looking in my direction so I managed to maneuver to pass behind it without being noticed. I was doing the building, several soldiers come out of all places to shoot me, I put away my rifle to use it when necessary, a little ahead of me my great sword appeared, with my free hand I hold it on my back to protect myself from the shots. Due to the abruptness of the situation and the need to act quickly, the truth is that I don't have a plan. Just get in, shoot, search, and get out shooting more, the perfect recipe for something to go wrong.

I get to the stairs that lead to the lobby of the building, I do not stop the motorcycle at all, and with the impulse, I throw it to destroy the entrance. I can barely see the inside and immediately I saw a group of soldiers waiting for me, I grabbed Avalon with both hands, turned, and threw it inside, it was a devastating attack to see 6 soldiers cut in half because of that. I pick up one of the weapons on the ground, a shotgun, because of its weight it seems to be loaded. Without seeing the corridor or that there was there I shot blindly from a cover, I could hear shortly after someone screaming, just in case he did it again, another continuous scream where the other left him.  After seeing that the place was free, I picked up a bag with shotgun shells from one of someone's remains, reloaded the shotgun until I no longer accepted myself, and started walking down the hall. Suddenly my ears catch something, behind a door, someone reloaded his weapon, immediately I brought mine to the door and fired. The attack was so powerful that it created a huge hole in the wooden door, from which I could see the soldier falling backward, but it seemed that his vest had protected him, so I hit it again to finish it off.  On another watch I heard someone walk running towards my position, I picked up a chair and threw it down the hall where I was listening. As soon as he came out, the flying object received it, distracting enough for me to shoot it a couple of times.

I kept running down the corridor that that soldier had left, reloading the shotgun as fast as I could again, several shells dropped but I didn't have time to pick them up.  I came across a T-cross, I approached the end of the wall to look in one of the directions, it is clear, but on a pillar that was bright enough, I could see the reflection of how one group created a barrel to the other side. I pull out Avalon again, use it as a one-handed shield, and start running with it. As I do the barricade I started to shoot, pumping the shotgun with one hand very difficult and I did not get the trick, so I better throw the gun to one of the soldiers. I took out my pistol, from proto I received a couple of hits on my back, I shot at the front and threw myself to turn around and shoot the one from behind. I quickly check if I was injured somewhere but it seems that the armor managed to save me, I picked up the shotgun and continued running.

"No, I like the plan, I did it regularly in my days."

"Excellent"

We kept running down the corridor, back up, but we didn't run into any more soldiers. It seemed strange to me, but then I noticed why. Crossing the T-connector to go to the main hallway at the entrance was another group of Dolls, the time could not be worse. They pounced on me to try to stop and recapture my companion, but I was not going to let them. I pushed him back, and I threw my last grenade. After the explosion, I got out of there and fired with the big gun I was keeping. I only managed to destroy two with all that but I did not have time for more. I grabbed the president and with my sword, I ran towards the lobby of the building.  The bike was still there, I tried to pick it up but someone shot me from somewhere, it didn't hit me, but it passed close to me. The president used his rifle and started shooting more or less where the shot came from. Without stopping we ran from there to the street trying to get as far away as we could. 

Just when we went to another block, what I dreaded so much happened. One beep and the next moment I felt my body drop weight so absurd that my feet could not support it and I fell immediately. Momo was right, it's impossible to move with this thing off. I have to do something immediately or they will catch up with us shortly. 

"Girl what happened !?"
"Need help!?"

"Take off my armor, I can't move"
"Move the red locks up fast!"

"Working on it"

But as soon as he said that, from the ground, I could see how one Dolls that I did not finish destroying flew out and found us. She was coming straight to where we were. Damn what a terrible time. We are finished if I don't do something NOW !! 

"Remove the one from the right arm first"
"Do it now, god damn it!"

"Ready now!"

" HAAAAA!!"

I fired my gun as soon as I let go of my hand, but the recoil was brutal. I only fired like twice before the gun flew out of my hand. By sheer luck, I managed to hit her in the head and she ended up crashing against a wall, but the price was high. The pain was unbearable, it was horrible, it was hard for me to breathe again, whatever happened to my arm I can give it up for lost. I couldn't even move to see how I was hurt. 

"Good shot"
"Hold on there I help you!"
"Fuck, you weigh a lot!"

"Just drag me into the alley and finish taking off my armor!"

"It is not so easy!"

"Da ist es! Schnell Verstärkung anfordern!"
(There it is! Quick call for reinforcements!)

"Fuck you! in your language!" The president stopped dragging me and started shooting at the soldier who appeared 

Fearing for my life because I couldn't see what was happening around me, I summoned Avalon in the direction I thought the shots were coming from. The president took advantage of that and also looked for cover behind him, reloaded the gun, and fired again.

"Okay, clear!"
"Nice trick, very convenient"
"how do you do that?" The president started pulling me again.

"Having a lousy streak of bad luck"

"So I'm close to having mine today!"
"I want it to be blue!"

"You know something funnier"
"When I was young I never imagined having to rescue the president of the United States."

"Well, when I was a child and I clearly knew that I would be the president, I never imagined that a girl in costume would rescue me."
"we're on the same level"

Finally, when he finished taking me to a "safe" place, or what is the same, where they cannot kill us immediately as soon as they see us. He put my back against the wall and immediately went to work to remove my armor as fast as he could. It was not an easy task, in fact, this was one of the points in which the Arksuits had to improve the most because for fear that it would disarm in mid-flight it had too many secure joints.

"I'm almost done, hold on a little longer"

"My arm, how is my arm?"

"Calm down, the arm is still attached to you!"

"How bad is it?"

"About ten weeks probably"

"Shit, it's the arm that I write with"
"I have to go back to school next month"

"Fuck girl relax"
"One step at a time, take it easy"

"Believe me I've tried"

"Ok done, that was the last one!"
"Now what?"

I put my good hand on my chest and pushed I managed to remove the armor, the rest fell on their own accord. I took my belt and turned it so that now the gun was close to my left arm. Take the gun, press the button to release the magazine, with the gun open I put it back in its holster, take a new magazine, put it in the gun, and take it again, use the slide lock, ready to fire again. 

"How long have you been in this?"
"A little girl shouldn't know how to reload a gun with just one hand"
"Everything is good at home?"

"More or less"
"We are improving little by little"

"Sie sind dort! Lass sie nicht entkommen!"
(They are there! Do not let them escape!)

A group of soldiers appeared entering the alley. We went out and started shooting, but even if we took them by surprise they would be too much, easily a full squad. I ran out of ammunition and I don't think Jhon was capable of taking care of them alone.  The situation was so bad that he was really thinking of doing one more crazy thing in order to get out alive.  But just in the last second a helicopter appeared flying and the soldiers of the empire began to shoot them, those who did not die ran away looking for refuge. The helicopter immediately landed in the middle of the street and when the door was opened, several Alliance soldiers came out, as soon as they saw us they picked us up and got into the vehicle to get out of there quickly. It turns out that Charlotte never lost sight of me and as soon as I went out to the street, she saw through the satellite that I had the president with me, so my mother got approval to send the helicopter on an almost impossible mission to rescue us. Even though they shot us a bit, we managed to get out of there without any casualties. Quite a damn achievement to close this horrible day. As soon as the helicopter touched down, the doctors treated me, not long after, my family also arrived to see my condition. But as soon as I confirmed that all of them were well, I fell unconscious from my horrible fatigue.