Broken Blade

Projective Fanfic

By: Projective Otaku

Chapter 5

New Comrades

-"Alright..." Narvi said, standing up and surveying the town square, littered with architectural debris, mech hulks, and human corpses. After a pause and a sigh audible over her loudspeakers she continued, "The main enemy force probably heard that, even if they didn't, they defiantly saw the dust cloud our friend here made." She gestured to me "We need to get out of here before the Athenians double back."

-The other four mechs looked at her, nodding there heads with a chorus of "Yes, ma'am"s. Girge, in the red mech, gave a sound of disgust before standing up on the roof.

-"I'll scout ahead, find a place to make camp." he said as he bounded off to the south-east.

-"No, wait!" Narvi said. Either Girge didn't hear her or he ignored her as he kept going on his course. Narvi began to curse under her breath and clench her fist. The Green Mech and Black Mech exchanged glances and looked away, and Rygart seemed to shrink at Narvi's anger. All these signs I had seen many times, when the CO is angry, a junior officer wants to be any where but in her presence.

-As Rygart began to shy away slowly, Narvi abruptly turned her gaze to him, you could almost feel the anger emanating from her optic lenses. "I haven't forgotten about you!" She screamed. Mental note – never get on Narvi's bad side. "As soon as we get clear of danger, your gonna be goat fodder!" She continued to give off anger as she fell silent.

-Goat Fodder, that was a new one. I looked around in a daze. I was still lying on the ground. This was the first time in my life that I didn't have a goal, a path to follow. Get accepted to the academy, get to flight school, get to mech school, always a goal, always a plan. Fight the Chinks, win the war, always another step to take. Now, as I lay on this patch of soil, not only foreign in distance, but in time as well, I became confused, truly confused, for the first time in my life.

-Narvi seemed to come out of her skulking about then. She looked around again, sighed, and turned to her three remaining soldiers. "Let's get going then." She said in a fairly resigned manner. "You there, Marine." She said, looking in my direction. I turned my head toward her. "You might want to come with us, you may be good, but a few hundred Athenian Golems may be to much for you." She said.

-Golems? That's what they must call mechs here, most countries called them different things. Britain called them Gallogiah, Germany called them Jaegers, and most of the Eastern European nations called them Titans.

-"Well?" She asked, looking at me expectantly.

-"Oh, ugh, yea." I said as I got on my feet. I must have been lost in my thoughts.

-"Let's go then." She said, and we all began to move away from the remains of a once thriving township, with nothing but the wind to speak for the dead.

This is the end for now guys. This whole thing was a clusterfuck from the start. It was my first Fanfic and I learned some valuable lessons along the way. I think I'll do a Fairy Tail one next...