Chapter 148: Spread

• 56 held on to the trailers side with great excitement. Joining up with the Hunters Clan had been the best decision he had made on his trip too Moab City. Fighting insane monsters and dodging the AFR capture efforts had been the rush he had been missing. After the Cyborg Units rebellion things had been rather dry. Trying to secretly manage rebel forces, gather support and resources, it just was not all that appealing to him.
• The Hunters closed in quickly onto the fallen and mortally wounded Hoard Mother moaning and crumpled on the sandy, dust strewn earth. From above they witnessed something odd, it looked to 56 like the Twisted were ants running in a mass counterclockwise rotation as they tried to protect their Hoard Mother. Twisted of all kinds, many he hadn’t yet seen before, were swarming around her into an attempt to protect her, but they couldn't stop those approaching from the air. Even the elastic Land Octopus's couldn't use their long arms to swat away the approaching humans.
• "Everyone, get your Armadillo armor buster bombs ready!" One of the older looking Hunters shouted over the sound of whizzing air and hover bikes. "We need to do this now or the healing capacity of the Hoard Mother will eventually overpower the liquid nitrogen wounds!"