The hivemind is conquering for me?

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That could easily sum up the last 5 minutes. Shouting, firing, wailing, profanity and explosions. I had been to war before and understood how loud things could get, but this felt different. These people around me were civilians, screaming insults as they fired from cover.

The drug dealing crew, though almost doubling the amount of attackers, were clearly less well trained and organised as the attackers were precise in their shots and suppression, firing when and where needed. Nothing was going to waste.

I was holding behind a concrete pillar, taking pot shots every so often when I thought I saw an opening. To my left was a ganger who was spraying his machine gun blindly, clearly scared, yet fighting for his left the safest way he could.

“Hey, I am going to try and find a better position to cover you, can you peek real quick?” I yelled, despite him being right next to me due to the noise. The simple question shocked him, making him remember that other people were still alive and that he was still alive and not just a being. “Um, sure, but you got to have my back ok?” He shouted back at me while his hands began to shake.

I nodded at the man and he proceeded to peer around the corner. He stayed where he was for quite the amount of time. I was starting to worry he would tempt fate, so I brought him back into cover, only to realise half of his head was missing and his body weight had kept him in place.

“Shit.” I muttered before finally having enough of my fa?ade. I dropped my laser rifle and closed my eyes and started to concentrate. I began to block out the noise. The shouting, the firing, the wailing, the profanity and the explosions.

Eventually, after all was gone, I began to exert myself. Psionic energy began pouring out of my body, forming a perimeter around me. It started small with one meter, then two and then three and so on.

After a short while, My area of influence reached 8 meters and I finally felt a presence that my energy deemed Hostile. Sweat began to trickle down the side of my head at this point, but I was far from tired.

I began to manifest a Psionic bullet in front of my body and charged it up for only a moment. The enemies we were facing had insane metal augmentations, definitely illegal judging by what I knew about Ares and the Phobos and Deimos. However, unlike the metal warriors, these enemies still had a very obvious weakness.

The amount of energy I needed in my bullet was miniscule, but what made what I was about to do difficult was the manoeuvre I had to take as I had never done this before. From my cover, I released the bullet and instead of it flying straight, I took control of the Psionic energy withing the bullet thanks to the field I put up and began guiding it round the corner towards the target.

…

The gunfire halted in this small portion of the room as the invading squad had managed to clear out the room from assailants. “Move forward and secure this room, we can use it to flank the other rooms.” The leading man said.

As soon as he said that however, he suddenly fell down dead as the back of his head exploded outwards, clearly having just been shot. “Take cover!” A woman yelled and the highly trained group did just that.

“Do we have visual on target?” One yelled. “Negative.” Another said. Just as that person said that, Another head popped. “Shit, do they have an anti-material rifle?” The woman from earlier yelled as she bravely rounded a corner on her knee and began suppressive fire.

“Not sure, but I know for a fact I did not hear any fire coming from the room- SHIT!” A man shouted as the woman firings head followed suit and exploded out the back. With an unknown weapon taking out three highly skilled operatives in a short amount of time, the offence turned to defence as they attempted to come up with a solution.

“Del, we need visual. You are closest to the doorway, can you sacrifice yourself and shout what you see?” A man from further back yelled out. Del cursed his luck. “Fine, but you cocksuckers better look after my mom!”

Del then took a deep breath before saying sorry to his mom as he rounded the corner prepared to fire and scream whatever he saw. But what he did see left him so confused that he could not react before his head was bitten clean from the rest of his body.

In a fraction of a second later, The doorway suddenly exploded, sending debris and dust everywhere. The attackers were quick to recover however, and what they saw left them flabbergasted. Even flabbergasted one of them screamed. “What the fuck is that!” Before they all began firing their weapons at the giant blue beast that had no reason being in this building.

…

With Sapphire being the big distraction that she is and with the dust yet to settle, I sprinted forward through the room and within seconds, I shoved my gladius through an unprepared assailants throat and pulled to the left, leaving the head to dangle on a strand of tissue as it tumbled over.

I managed to kill two more in a similar fashion before they noticed me and a few of the hostiles disengaged my cute kitten to deal with me. With my quick thinking and my Psionic awareness, I noticed a burner in front of two of the women that had turned to engage me.

Wasting no time, I willed my Pyrokinetic energy to flow through the burner and watched for only a moment as it turned into a flamethrower and began melting their faces off in seconds. The two women could barely get a scream out before the fire licked away their throats and tongues, leaving only charred heads as they collapsed to the ground.

The others who pulled way from Sapphire did not just sit there and let me throw fire around willy-nilly and began firing at me with a revenge burning brighter in their bodies than the flames that just killed their allies.

There were three men who were circling around the cover I had hid behind, all firing in intervals to keep me pinned down. That would usually work for a normal person, but for a man who can see everything that is happening around him right now?

On the corpse next to me, I clutched at the mans body armour and pulled off a grenade and its pin before throwing it towards the man on my left after a second.

The man saw the grenade and was quick in his reaction to find cover as the grenade turned out to be an emp and fried all his augments, killing him due to system collapse.

As the other two were getting closer, an idea popped into my head causing me to smile evilly. ‘Oh I am so glad I can remember certain parts of my last life, I always wanted to do this.’

As the two men were getting closer, they suddenly felt their windpipes become restricted. They thought perhaps they got snagged on something so they clutched at their throats, only to realise they could not feel anything.

Panic began to settle in as they dropped their weapons and began clawing their throats red, trying desperately to cease their suffocation. That is when, though their tear ridden eyes, their target left his cover with his hand extended in front of him while clenching his fist.

The man then suddenly raised his arm above his head while keeping it outstretched and the two men, who were already suffocating, felt their bodies lift of from the ground like they were in a noose.

The last thing the two men saw was a smile of what seemed to be joy before the man tensed his fist hard, snapping their necks in the process.

As I looked over to Sapphire, she was bleeding quite a bit, though had taken out the rest of the attackers while I had my fun. I was not worried about her bleeding out as when she ‘dies’ she just returns to my Mindspace to recuperate.

Knowing I was safe, for the time being, I looked back at the two men I just killed and pondered as I went into Psionic scientist mode. ‘I wonder why those two felt so much easier to lift of the ground then just myself? Is it to due with their lack of Psionic energy in their bodies? Could be, as I have only tried lifting myself up since my little power increase and I am a heavy boy and the Psionic energy would only add to that. Hmm, something to talk about with Jewel when I get back to her next month.’

As I was thinking, a big bloody tongue licked my entire face, bringing me back into the ongoing combat situation. “Sorry girl, you did well. You can go and sleep now as you being out will just bring up questions.”

Sapphire roared softly before Dissipating before me. I then turned my attention to the gun fire a few rooms over and ran to provide any aid I could now I have a flank on the attackers.