An empty wind blew over the defended city. Quite the contrary to what most people might think upon sight, the city was ground zero for a conflict that had been raging on for nearly a week. It had become routine, right about 9 or 10 in the morning it would start up again and the girls would begin their march North. The boys' buildings and bunkers were more heavily defended, but nothing could deny the sheer numbers that continued to grow as the girls took more boys with every shot and shipped in more converted victims from other battlefields across the former nation with overland transports or helicopters...
Alisha Strade stood at the very top of the tallest skyscraper controlled by the girls, binoculars at her eyes and a smirk on her face. They'd gained so much ground yesterday it made up for the couple days before that. "They won't know what hit them..." she said as she looked back to a couple fold-out tables that detailed their secret tactics...large red x's here and there scattered amongst the suspected HQs of the boys...
Calon Weaver hadn't slept, but sat up head in his hands the whole silent night. He hated what the girls did, pound them with waves of battalions over and over all day long until right about 8 when they draw back to their holds and, it was obvious from the noise, conducted slumber parties. It was either psychology or just fun the way they pumped their Brittnie Spears and Spice Girls at irresponsible volumes... He'd tried some attacks at night, but no unit had ever returned. He looked at his watch once again, lamenting that it was about the right time for another volley of artillery fire from the girls. "Gas masks." he ordered his ward who'd been up, who then set to relay the order to the four remaining bunkers. If they couldn't gain ground today, they would once again set up a blockade to ensure the retreat of most of the boys...
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Upon the battlefield...
-A large, rumbling, bumbling tank of a machine stood silent, hidden from sight at the edge of the battlefield. It had been another easy night for Isaac Grumm and it was clear the girls weren't intending to throw their forces at the boys in the dark. Some of the boys had come with threats that if the mechanically inclined mercernary didn't do what they said, they'd kill him. It was all fluff, though, and they never followed through, letting the empty threat hang. As the sun had been up for a while, the alarm that signified whenabouts the girls were about to begin their march started to ring in the boy's ears...
-Sean Harmand's support squad had worked through the night without rest and had come up with nothing. The twelve sedated boys had their limbs strapped together...their boyhood wouldn't survive the day. The lead medic, Harvey Sansburg, walked up to the working boy, "Let 'em sleep...their done. We need to get closer to the frontlines again..." he spoke, his voice dead of hope. Next to Sean's bed was a briefcase full of the last of the small Femme X deterrent's the boys had whipped up in the last couple months...it would slow it but not stop it.
-The kitchen was bustling, attempting to feed the massive number of boys that were going to be doing nothing but fighting for their lives all day. In rummaged Alex Tate for food and getting meals started. The music that rang out all night had kept most of the boys up, but Alex would find that he slept like a baby, being able to give most of the groggy boys a good, strong meal of eggs and bacon. Their gratitude, however, was overlayed by their distaste for the cook...Alex was always the butt of many a girl joke. "Thanks girly, hope you don't convert on your own in that kitchen." one boy joked as he took the tray, slapped a helmet on, and went to eat what might be his death breakfast as it was now called.
-Richard Stanton had found his way to the battlefield easily enough, a plea for help and promise for money and supplies had attracted him in the first place...At the tip of the battle, there wasn't much action going on but already the telling fire of artillery and gunshots promised The Crow another day of work. It didn't matter whether or not who won, he'd be on his way out before there was any chance to be caught. Its what he did, survive. And that was the legend everyone knew him by...a symbol of defeat and death...
-Micheal Hara knew this day would eventually come...they'd taken cover in a discrete parking garage below a skyscraper and carved them out a particularly liveable environment. The population consisted of 22 boys and a couple captured girls. One of Hara's peers had suggested rehabilitating them to avoid the inevitable extinction of humanity. They weren't having any of it.
In any case, the sound of the roaring battle echoed in the far distance once again. There was hope that the battle would happen without their discovery, but the girl's slow progress over the last week had promised a different reality. They were going to eventually find the conclave of survivors and they likely would end them just like they ended every other boy...
-A light hand gently touched Damian Bosley's shoulder as the battle was starting, Brian Jones had been up for some time preparing the rest of the squads for combat, but it was finally Damian's turn to make the boys proud. Brian was a lithe specimen of a boy, very nearly feminine in his own right without any sort of help with makeup, "Are you ready?" he asked, no words needed to tell Damian what he was ready for, but the suitcase in front of him revealed enough. Filled with the trips, trappings, and equipment of a girl, one captured with the approximate description that Damian could dress up as, the suitcase had everything the boy needed to sabotage the girl's operations...problem is there was a 38% survival rate of the B.I.O spys. A fact Damian had not forgotten.
The order for gasmasks came around as the wind blew a light fog of pink mist throughout the empty and filling streets...