>>5891829You watch it make its way down the street like a lumbering metal giant holding the biggest goddamn gun you've ever seen. Holy shit that's a big gun. Would anything of you even be left if that thing were to get a direct shot on you? Would it even need to shoot you when it could crush you under foot in a heartbeat? No, stop. Focus, Jag, focus.
"Adjust your angle by .025 and -06." Yunnus says as he monitors the Zaku closely through binoculars. You comply, and continue watching the Zaku stride down the block. One more step later and it's now squarely in your sights. "Now!" Yunnus says suddenly, just as the Zaku raises its left leg for another step. Without a moment's hesitation you pull the trigger and begin controlling the trajectory of the wire-guided missile.
It's the most agonizingly nerve wracking few seconds of your life that stretches to what feels like an eternal moment, as you carefully and precisely adjust the missile's trajectory with precise flicks of your wrist on the controls to ensure the missile finds its mark.
You keep a close, unblinking eye on both the missile and your target. It feels almost like when you were a child, pressing your pencil against the paper and dragging it across the page, connecting the dots in a drawing book to form a coherent line that becomes a whole image. The whole image you see in your head that you were trying to trace becomes reality as the missile hits the back of the Zaku's knee and your efforts are rewarded with an ear shattering explosion, and you cover your ears without thinking. Somehow, the sound was completely different from the explosions you've heard in training, more powerful. More.. real.
"Hah! Great shot!" Yunnus shouts out with joy, giving you a strong pat on the shoulder.
You smile and feel yourself brimming with pride as you see the impossible giant fall to one knee, looking less mighty than it did just a second ago. You can do this. You can win. You can stop all of this. You can--oh shit. The Zaku's monoeye shoots to its left, and you feel it somehow make eye contact with you. The smile on your face quickly fades as you see it point its giant machine gun at you, and you feel your heart stop.
"Move move move!" you hear Yunnus says as he gets up into a sprint heading deeper into the tunnel for cover. You try to get up, but you can't. You're stunned, and you can't get your legs to move no matter what you try to do. Your eyes can't tear itself away from the giant green monster about to end your life. You watch it, and time feels like it's slowed to a crawl. You can feel it, the Zaku's finger slowly pressing into the trigger. Through the corner of your eye, you see Gaspa drop his gun and lunge at you to cover you, and it all feels like it's going in slow motion.
