Turn 10 - Wave
Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2011 8:30 pm
Unidentified Asteroid, near space trade lane, In vicinity of communications relay
Mission timer: 01.12.58
Lt Ericson got to her feet, her M41 was gone, swallowed by the depth below. Her heart was racing and she felt clammy from pure fear. "I'm ok, I'm ok!" she said to the marines who where checking her out, rather roughly. She clasped after her pistol and felt a slight relief as her gloved hand closed around it.
The door on the other side of the bridge slowly went up into the ceiling, a deep black hole now gaped where the entrance was. "We still have a contact in that corridor, could it be the other marines?" she knew the answer to that question herself. But she said it more or less to comfort herself and the marines around her.
The answer came seconds later when a black spindly creature dashed out of the darkness, followed by several others - In fact it looked like the mouth of a stirred hornets nest.
"Oh shit!" Ericson shouted for the umpteenth time in less than three minutes. "Covering fire!, fall back, fall back!" she shouted while waving with her pistol in the direction of the arc.
She started moving back as the marines started laying death on the swarming creatures. 3rd squad take point, 2nd and 1st cover our retreat!
She rushed back past 3rd squad and waved them on, all while the burps and bursts from pulse rifles and machineguns rattled behind her. She pushed a marine forward, and moved to the side. She was almost at the start of the bridge now when she halted mid step. A chill went down her spine and when she thought she couldn't get more afraid than she already were she saw several of the black skeletal glistening shapes coming rushing at them from the other side as well.
"It's a trap! We're trapped! Back to back! We take our stand here! Don't let any of these fuckers get through or we are dead! Watch out, over there!" Ericson screamed while she furiuosly pumped rounds into the nearest black shape charging at them - The pistol jumping in her hand, muzzle flashes of light shimmering in the black exoskeletal armor that evolution had shaped into the perfect assassin over billions of years.
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Mission timer: 01.12.58
Lt Ericson got to her feet, her M41 was gone, swallowed by the depth below. Her heart was racing and she felt clammy from pure fear. "I'm ok, I'm ok!" she said to the marines who where checking her out, rather roughly. She clasped after her pistol and felt a slight relief as her gloved hand closed around it.
The door on the other side of the bridge slowly went up into the ceiling, a deep black hole now gaped where the entrance was. "We still have a contact in that corridor, could it be the other marines?" she knew the answer to that question herself. But she said it more or less to comfort herself and the marines around her.
The answer came seconds later when a black spindly creature dashed out of the darkness, followed by several others - In fact it looked like the mouth of a stirred hornets nest.
"Oh shit!" Ericson shouted for the umpteenth time in less than three minutes. "Covering fire!, fall back, fall back!" she shouted while waving with her pistol in the direction of the arc.
She started moving back as the marines started laying death on the swarming creatures. 3rd squad take point, 2nd and 1st cover our retreat!
She rushed back past 3rd squad and waved them on, all while the burps and bursts from pulse rifles and machineguns rattled behind her. She pushed a marine forward, and moved to the side. She was almost at the start of the bridge now when she halted mid step. A chill went down her spine and when she thought she couldn't get more afraid than she already were she saw several of the black skeletal glistening shapes coming rushing at them from the other side as well.
"It's a trap! We're trapped! Back to back! We take our stand here! Don't let any of these fuckers get through or we are dead! Watch out, over there!" Ericson screamed while she furiuosly pumped rounds into the nearest black shape charging at them - The pistol jumping in her hand, muzzle flashes of light shimmering in the black exoskeletal armor that evolution had shaped into the perfect assassin over billions of years.
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