The car horns screech as a mass of civilians horde themselves toward the cosmodome, walls, hoping that they could get a military ship to take them somewhere safer. It was my job as Exo E-5670, or Eli as my C.O. called me, to contain the mass while my comrades tried to organize the civies. Mothers and children pleaded with me to help them cut through but all I ever said to them was to wait and that everything would be fine as long as they followed protocol, even as my radio headset picked up that the fallen had broken through our defensive lines in Russia, that Moscow had fallen. An old man with a car pulled over to the side of the line called out to the crowd "we can take the walls! there's only a handful of the guards, join me comrades!" and with that he opened a truck full of weapons, mostly pistols and hunting rifles, but enough to start a riot for sure. I ran to the scene as a few people started to pick up the guns, looking nervously at one another for the coming chaos. "Drop the weapons, sir, you are under arrest for inciting treason, the rest of you get back in line." I said to the group. The old man spat at me. "You're a Titan huh, defender of the people? Well where were you in New York where my daughter was! Where were you when the fallen burned our homes and now you make us sit out here while the fallen come to kill us! You won't defend us so we'll defend ourselves! We'l..." -BANG- I shot him. Right in the head. I barked orders at the civies to get back in line as silence fell and people looked over at the origin of the gunshot. The line was orderly for a good ten minutes until the fallen ships came through. I held the line as my comrades took as many civies out on the evac ships.I didn't think of survival, I only tried to calculate how many lives I saved at the cost of the old man's and my own. I realized that the trade wasn't worth it.Upon my realization, a fallen captain ran a sword through my chest and I made one last request to the sky as I fell to the ground "Let me fix this."