MagAAFSzine October 2019 Issue 9¾ | Page 14

A guard notices a division of troops covered completely with shields marching over a bridge towards the Area 51 gate with a massive battering ram. “CAUSEWAY!” The guards start shooting bullets and arrows at the troops, but they only bounce off the shields harmlessly. Several guards, including the leader, make their way behind the gate and start building objects to reinforce the gate to resist the battering ram. BANG! BANG! The battering ram crashes against the gate.

Just behind the wall, several guards, including the short guard with an axe, recover their strength and charge into the raiders. As they fight, they notice some guards being overrun by the raiders and a commander is brought down by a berserker. A guard runs up to the commander, who then dies in his arms.

Meanwhile, at the gate, the Area 51 raiders attempt to smash through the gate with their battering ram, while more were shooting grappling hooks at higher areas of the wall to raise ladders. Two guards, one being the small guard, sneak around. The smaller guard whispers, “You have to toss me. Don’t tell the sniper.” The larger guard says, “not a word,” and tosses the smaller guard towards the raiders. He puts up a fight before retreating. The raiders smash a hole right through the gate and pour in. The leader of the guards says, “the fortress is taken. It is over.”

“You said this fortress would never fall while your men defend it!” yelled the guard. “They still DEFEND it! They have DIED defending it! Is there no other way for the aliens to get out of the base? Is there no other way?!”

“There is one passage, it leads into the mountains,” another guard says, “but they will not get far. The invaders are too many!”