Annabelle rolled her shoulders, stretched and cracked her neck and chased after the German Forces. They turned around and tried to aim at her but Annabelle closed in quickly, outmaneuvered their aim and closed in to punch out one of them and smash his head to the ground and break his head open! She stole his gun, kicked him away and began gunning down the rest of the Germans immediately around her while another group of them ran into a building to regroup with their comrades and Annabelle chased them inside. She was met by a pair of them armed with Panzerschrecks! They opened fire but Annabelle was too fast for them and she jumped over them while the 88mm rockets missed her completely and continued forward until the sides of buildings and exploded on impact in giant fireballs that blew open huge chunks of the buildings! Annabelle landed behind them and shot them both down before she felt a rain of bullets down on her and she looked up to see the Germans spraying ammunition down on her and the others pulling the pins on grenades and throwing them down on the floor below. Annabelle leaped up to the second floor and the grenades exploded beneath her and shook the building with explosions of flames and smoke! The clouds of flames rose up beneath her and followed her up to the second floor as Annabelle landed on the second floor and gunned down the Germans who fired upon her in vain! The bullets from their own gun ripped through their guts and she continued running upwards while the building began burning down around her! Annabelle opened fire on the panicking German forces on the third floor as they screamed and rained gunfire on her. She withstood their bullets and gunned down a few of them, then she ran forward, grabbed one of them by his shirt, kicked another one of them out of the window and then she dragged the German she was holding onto and then she threw him down to the gathering flames below! The German Soldier screamed in horror as he fell in the growing inferno below and the impact broke his spine. He could only scream helplessly as the flames began to consume him while the smoke choked the air from his lungs. Annabelle paid him no mind and ran and leaped out the window towards an adjacent building, landed on a windowsill and she leaped into the air, grabbed onto the roof and hoisted herself up. Annabelle landed on her feet and leaped over to the next rooftop, landed on it and aimed her gun down on the German Forces and fired down on them. The German fired back up at her in return but it was all in vain. She could withstand their bullets despite the pain from the impacts but hers tore through them until she ran out of ammunition. She looked down at the gun, shrugged and discarded it and simply leaped down to the streets below where she cracked one of the soldiers across the face and knocked him to the ground! Then she turned around and punched another one across the face, stole his combat knife and flung into the throat of another one of the Germans! He staggered back a few feet before collapsing on the ground grasping at his throat in desperation as blood sprayed out of it! Annabelle meanwhile simply obtained a new gun and finished off the Germans around her.
Screams and explosions gunfire echoed through the air as the streets ran red with the blood of her enemies. Annabelle continued marching down the street taking them all out despite their best efforts as they lead her down a long road leading up to a giant tarp covering. Annabelle paused and pointed her gun at them. "What do you have there, boys?"
They unveiled it in response to reveal a giant machine gun nest with German Soldiers at the ready with MG42's, 2cm Flak 38's, MG34's and Panzerschreck's all pointed right at her!
(Oh so that's Plan C!) She realized and towards one of the buildings as they opened fire and she broke through the wall as the spray of gunfire littered the streets. Annabelle rolled across the floor and got back up as the Germans were moving into position now. Annabelle wasn't entirely sure if she could withstand Anti-Aircraft Gunfire and she wasn't willing to risk it if she didn't have to.
As she was getting to her feet the Krauts on either side of the building readied their weapons, took their positions and fired the rockets into the building through the walls! She jumped up to the rafters and grabbed on as the rockets collided down below and erupted into a defeaning explosion that shook the entire building! The resulting fireball incinerating the inside of the building and blowing out the windows! As the building began shaking and collapsing she ran through the fire and smoke and out of the broken window and onto another roof. She climbed up onto it just as machine gun fire from below began chewing up the side of the building. Annabelle ran forward to the middle of the roof and then stopped to scope out her surroundings. The Krauts were reloading and getting into position with the rockets already and the Flak 38's were being wheeled out. However, Flak 38's weren't easy to move and if they were wheeling them forward out of the alley then that meant they would be vulnerable to an attack from behind! Annabelle's smile returned and she took off running towards them, leaping off of the roof and landing behind the German soldiers. They barely had time to turn around before she grabbed one of them and smashed his face into his own cannon, retrieved his knife and then she quickly sliced apart the throats of the German Soldiers around her while they were desperately trying to retrieve their guns, spraying the gun, the streets, their uniforms and her own with their blood. With them dealt with Annabelle ran from the guns at an angle to draw their fire away from the Flak's, just in case they turned out to be useful, and then she ran towards the Germans head-on! They split up and took aim and fired the rockets at her but Annabelle saw this coming a mile away and she leaped into the air to dodge the incoming rockets, leaving them to continue down the street until they impacted against buildings down the street and blew them open. Annabelle's leap carried her through the air, down the street and behind the Germans. She calmly turned back around to face them and the Germans dropped their weapons to pull up their sidearms but Annabelle rushed them dowm, grabbed the first one and drove the knife into his chest, twisted it and yanked it back out and threw him to his comrades before she grabbed the next one, stabbed him twice, threw him to the ground and she rushed down the last two panicking German Soldiers and quickly slashed their throats open. The German Soldiers dropped. She retrieved a gun from one of them as more of them began pouring out of the woodwork.
Annabelle gripped her knife and resumed the battle.
Gunfire, explosions and screams echoed out of the town as the battle waged on but while Annabelle was busy a pair of soldiers rode out of the town on motorcycles until they reached the outskirts of the town where a General was waiting.
<Report. What is the situation?> Hildebrand Wendell asked his men.
<It's a nightmare. A horrible nightmare! She's slaughtering us like pigs!> The exasperated Tobias Busch gasped and collapsed to his knees. <We've tried everything, we've thrown everything at her, still The Devil Woman persists!>
Koloman Kerner took off his helmet and ran his fingers through his hair. <Nothing we've tried has worked so far. Our men are being butchered and we can barely slow her down!>
Hildebrand nodded and looked out into the distance as the battle waged on. It was almost inconceivable to think that all those screams of rage and fear were the result of a single soldier tearing them apart. If Hildebrand had fought The Devil Woman himself in the last war he would find it equally impossible. But he did survive a fight with it, albeit barely, and he knew better than any of them how dangerous she could be. His men would not be able to hold out forever against the monster even with their weapons and superior numbers but they would be able to hold out long enough to lock her down in one place and that was all they needed.
It would be a shame to kill so many of their own men but if they were up against her they would all die anyway. At least this way their deaths would be for something. He snapped his fingers and the others began to wheel the Nebelwerfers into place as he got out of the way with the others and walked until they were all well behind them.
<Sir? Sir what are you planning to do?>
<Simple. We are going to gas the town. All of it.>
<WHAT? S-Sir, our men are still out there!>
<I am aware. But they won't stop her. She'll kill them all. I called in an air strike ahead of time but it will be a while yet before they arrive, we'll need to slow her down first of all while we gas the town. Believe me I do not make this decision lightly but I know better than anybody what we are up against. This is our only option. These are specially designed rockets. Once they land they will release clouds of gas into the air. The entire town will be consumed by the gas. She will have nowhere to hide. We will cover the entire town in it until we have no more weapons. Then our Jetpack troops will scout ahead and rain bombs down on the ruins. Then, after we've exhausted every other option, and if the planes haven't arrived to bomb the remains into rubble, THEN I will send our men in gas masks into the ruins to find her and finish her off, assuming she survived all of that.> He clenched his hands into fists. <I do not reach this decision lightly but it is our only option. YOU MAY FIRE WHEN READY!>
A hailstorm of artillery was fired from the Nebelwerfers and they soared through the air and came crashing down on the village where she was right in the middle of fighting off the swarms of German Soldiers. By the time she heard them coming it was too late and the rockets exploded releasing clouds of poison into the air! All hostilities in the town stopped as both sides collapsed to the ground coughing and hacking and gasping for breath.
A violent coughing fit took hold of Annabelle and she collapsed on the ground gasping and holding her throat. She coughed and coughed and coughed endlessly, gasping for breath, trying desperately to breathe, only able to weakly stagger away from the German's who had already collapsed. She was staggering and stumbling around now, barely able to walk, unable to see, she crashed into a wall and collapsed to the ground again, still gripped by the violent coughing fit. She could only reach up and fumble around until she grabbed the wall and pulled herself up. She felt along the wall while keeping herself pressed against it until she managed to find a doorknob, pushed it open and fell into the room and slammed the door behind herself. She collapsed on the floor and when she tried to push herself up again a wave of nausea washed over her and she began to vomit. "BLARGH PHLAP HUUURRRK MAAAAAAAAAAAARP!" She collapsed to the side and rolled away, hugging her chest and ducking her head down, making horrible, faint wheezing sounds in between her bouts of coughing.
(Dammmit....dammmit....dammmit....wh-what...what...hap-ha-happened? Think...poison...gas...gotta be. Dammit...th-that's...that's...their...own...men...why?) Annabelle rolled over onto her back gasping for breath. (Calm down....calm down....just calm down. I-I can beat this...there's...lot of it but...I can beat it. I-I can survive this...I just...need to rest...hide out here...catch my breath and heal.)
Annabelle rolled over onto her stomach and weakly reached up to a table and pulled herself up onto it and collapsed against it. (Gotta...keep...going.) She pushed herself up as much as she could and began feeling her way around the room, sliding her hands off of the table and around the room. Coughing and hacking the whole way while she listened the German army outside do the same desperately hopelessly breathing their last. Betrayed by their own commanders in a hopeless attempt to kill her. (Idiots...bastards...your own men...) Annabelle mused weakly as she felt along the wall until she reached a set of stairs and she fell against them. Still wheezing for breath she dragged herself up the entire staircase until she could reach the next floor and she weakly dragged herself across the floor. Coughing and hacking violently until she reached a bedroom, pushed open the door and continued crawling across the floor until she reached the bed and hid under it.
For now it was all she could do. Just hide and wait until she could recover as the artillery fire continued shelling the town.
