And they expect us just to wait here and die. I just don't know what I'm going to tell my little girl. Leave it. Sergeant Hunter? A soldier in your platoon suggested me your name, Jesus Barrera. El Jesus. I need soldiers for a mission. A mission to destroy the enemy. What enemy is that? The Enemy of Man. I don't expect that any of us will survive, but it's a chance... a chance to save mankind, a chance to save the world. Maybe the last chance. Well, fuck mankind. Fuck the world. Fuck you. Corporal Barrera told me you would say that. He also said... how did he put it? That you needed a 'get out of hell, free' card. Well... these won't get you out of hell. But they may put you on the right road. If I don't make it out of here, can you look after the girls? Here, put your hat on. The tickets were life. Everyone wanted one, but who would take such an offer? Jesus Barrera. He wouldn't go unless I promised his mother... it meant he would go to heaven. I did. God forgive me. John MacGuire. The only soldier who refused the tickets. The sort of a man we should be saving not sacrificing. Valerie Duval. A single mother with sixty-one kills... so young. Juba Kim Wu. When I told him that none of us would be coming back, he smiled. Maximillian Von Steiner. An officer and an aristocrat. A leader, but would he follow? The Chronicles foretell of the release of the enemy... the ruin of the world, the final days of our age. But, they also prophecy the survival of Man... that Neachdainn the Deliverer... shall walk reborn among us... and deliver us from destruction. It is in the service of that prophecy... that we are now irrevocably bound. Brother? - How's the leg? - It's good. Six weeks ago, in artillery exchange between Bauhaus and Capitol... That's your friend. In the ruins of the Imperial City of Canaan... there's an old cathedral. It's catacombs open onto a network... of subterranean tunnels... you will travel along these tunnels, find the machine and blow it up. Is that all? We just blow it up? We have a device. A device? From the first Brotherhood battle with the mutants... ripped from the Machine before the Great Seal was laid. So, it's a bomb? We don't know, but we think it is. You think so? Our information comes from ancient schematics, Lieutenant. Not an instruction manual. The device is as ancient as Neachdainn itself. The Chronicles show it placed in the centre of the Machine. It's covered in symbols which we think are warnings. - How safe is it to transport? - Does it matter, MacGuire? You can call me Captain, Steiner, and yes. Bombs don't get stable when they get old. It's a two stage device. You carry the trigger separately. Without it, the bomb's just dead weight. - What type of trigger? - Mechanical. Place it in the device and turn it with a key... which we don't have. - You'll have to find it. - Are you kidding me with this guy? It looks like this and it should be in the Machine. And if we can't find it? Then the mission will fail... and every man, woman and child on this planet will die. Why don't we throw it down that big, fucking hole? The Machine is 10,000 years old. It has survived earthquakes... pressure changes, plate tectonics. Then why the fuck the bomb? Because, Corporal, one of us will place the bomb inside the machine. - The Deliverer? - That's right. What pendejo drew that short hair? I did. That's a very handy book, but we'll be doing some killing on our way down. Does your Chronicle offer any suggestions there? I can. Courtesy of the Bauhaus Corporation. Keep to the near wall. As you can see, individual bullets are largely useless. Mutants don't feel pain... or go into shock. How can it move at all? We believe there's changes to the mitochondria... which ------------------------------ Читайте также: - текст Посейдон на английском - текст Раздел территории на английском - текст Омега Дум на английском - текст Иван Грозный: Боярский заговор на английском - текст Сети зла на английском |