Raptor One – Chapter 47
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Walking through the twists and turns of the ship i found myself in, i follow the nail heads as they run past me to the sortie area.
Not much time later i find myself on the hangar bay, there was already a platoon ready for sortie, but what was more interesting was the five drill like pods, probably used for ship assault.
Stopping where i should be i wait for the big guy to talk.
When there was three platoons ready, a total of a hundred and fifty units, excluding me and the big guy in star craft marine armor.
“Alright, most of you are still mama boys, but as of now you are going to get your first baptism by fire, we have a colony ship infested with xenos, the orders are simple, get inside, open the hangar bay for us, after that get the bridge safe, that done, sweep the cryopods for untouched civilians, the rest is the task of the captain of the ship, are my orders clear?” he ask in a low tone
“Sir yes sir!” i wince at the volume.
“Alright, each assault pod can carry up to fifteen of you, you, feather brain will act alone, they can’t get a lock on you anyway so you will take the place of a rookie. The rest, hear my advice, don’t waste ammo, you don’t want to face one of those things with am empty gun, just look at my face and you’ll know why.” he say and open his helmet, the burned and scarred face looks hideous, the two mechanical eyes give a sense of dread as you look closer.
I sigh. “You can get this treated you know commander?” i say, jets of smoke leaving as i sigh at the sight.
“Huh, and what can you do?” he ask back
“Revive the dead if he got am intact brain, so your face is just a bonus treatment.” i say back
“Then leave your skills to the rookies, they will need it very soon.” he reply before shouting to the platoon to get ready.
I’m cranked into a pod with the rest, an entire platoon of fifty is being sent, from the neck sensor of which Sigma can only help with data, i got the assault data, after a brief glance i connect to platoon one comms and start talking.
“Alright Nail Heads, the assault pods destination is simple and direct, duh. If thing go right we will land on the middle deck of the colony ship, all three pods will blast a hole besides each other, the colony ship show signs of being active, so the anti decompression shutters should close and lock the area, that means some of you may be lucky and not suffocate to death.” i say the last part as if it was a good thing. “I hope you all got your trusty sentry turret to lock the area as soon as you can, if things are as bad as i think it is, we’ll need it, and lot of ammo. Pray that the queen is not inside the hangar bay, as the commander said, well need it spotless for the rest of the party poppers. Hey platoon leader, care to give a word?” i say.
“The extra information will be of help for those newbies, what’s your plan feather brain.” the platoon leader ask back on comms.
“Simple, I'll secure the bridge’s black box and deliver it to a hopefully secured hangar bay, then I'll help scan and secure the civilians, and lastly the survivors, don’t worry about getting infected, as long as you’re alive i can help you, no cancer later too, so... what do you say?” i ask back
“No man left behind! You got it nail heads!?” the platoon leader say on comms, he got my intentions very clearly.
“UH! HA!” I hear on the comms and from the ones besides me.
I just chuckle as i feel the sudden kinetic energy, the boys and gals groan, some even flat out lose consciousness from the sudden speed.
“WAKE UP SISSIES! IF YOU LOST CONSCIOUSNESS FROM JUST THIS, THEN WHAT ABOUT YOU ALL BEING ELITES BEING DROPPED FROM AM VIKING!?”
My booming voice startle everyone awake, they get down for the first second before bouncing back again with higher morale.
“UH! HA!” i hear their chorus and give a feral grin back
“THEN LET MOW DOWN THOSE OVERSIZED COCKROACHES!” i yell again and receive another positive shout
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“SIR YES SIR!” their voice loud enough to make the hull of the assault pod vibrate.
We did not wait long, my sensor started beeping, so i open the comms and yell
“BRACE FOR IMPACT!” my booming voice surprise the platoon leader before he repeats my words on the comms.
The landing on the colony ship was ultra shaky, a milkshake has it easier than us right now, my long Avali themed metal boots is anchored on the ground by the magnetic lock, and the extra training Jason gave me helped me stay in top shape, but the rest did not have the same pleasant ride.
They got no time to breath before i started booming out again amidst the howling of oxygen being sucked out as the corridor depressurizes
“GO GO GO!” I just got enough time to boom out only three words before my mask locks and i sprint forward, scythe in hand, ready for activation.
Things looked clear as i ran inside the corridor and jumped on the ceiling for better vision, eyes open and feathers ready.
It did not last three seconds as i saw the troops run out of the assault pods and the xenomorphs try to overwhelm us on the first seconds, i got time to give orders before i needed to attack.
“I want four nail heads from each pod to detach the pods ASAP!” i give a fast command as i watch the approach, i had time for another one “FIVE BY FIVE SPACED! EACH SIDE ASAP! GET THE SENTRIES READY! BISTRO!” i boom a second order.
Things got south fast however, the guys in charge of detaching the pods are slow, and so was the rest to react to the orders, i managed to save seven rookies, but they got space exposure and acid before the rest finally managed to close up the gap, three KIA, right before minute one.
The other side was as bad as the other, but this time they delayed enough for me to flash their way using the loss of gravity and my strength.
I’m met with two warriors, managing to dodge the second one’s claw and countering the first warrior’s attack with a combo, the first slice digs deep but the second one, powered by the motion of the first strike as i swirl and bisect it’s head, acid and green brain matter slowly drifts off it’s dead body as i continue the motion to perfectly parry the tail attack from the warrior xenomorph and behead it with my scythe before adjusting my stance and jumping back into the roof of the corridor and liberate the newbies firing range.
Landing on the roof of the corridor as i feel it cave a little by the power of the impact i watch as the situation stabilize, the pods are out, the blinking red light from the windows that the pods was attacked turn green and slam shut, the feeling of ears popping as the corridor’s pressure return to standard living condition and the sound of gunshots resounding starts to get louder and louder again.
After the situation was somewhat stabilized the sentries was operational in no time as i treat the seven injured.
I chuckle “You’ll all live, it’s just a simple acid burn and minor cuts, easy patch, the space exposure is also treated, now get up SISSIES and start working!” i give emphasis to the word sissy.
“Alright nail heads, my part here is done, I'm off. Watch you heads and don’t forget your backs, these things love to toy with their food.” i give one last hint before heading south, disappearing in front of the platoon as i walk off.
“Remember me to install gravity nullifiers on the cloak.” i say as i sprint on the roof, the cape not helping much in this situation.
“Already on the upgrade list.” Sigma reply as fast as I'm sprinting.
Even with a compromised cloak i manage to pass by the xenos as they sprint into the soldiers, some trying to bypass the sentries, others trying to sneak by it.
Arriving at the struck door i look in awe at their strength, the door is caved in, pretty sure it was a headbutt followed by forced prying.
Easily jumping down and sprinting inside before anything manage to catch my presence was easy, the cloaking device paired with the Stalker cloak is doing a very good job despite being prototypes.
Managing to do a sudden stop as a xenomorph drops right in front of me, as it rights it’s posture, the feeling it gives feel like it’s sniffing around for me, I'm sure it know there’s someone here, it just don’t know where as it pass around the area before losing it’s curiosity and disappearing under a ventilation duct.
“Creepy.” Sigma say
“Shh, you’ll give us out, mute any sounds, only light is allowed.” i mutter in low voice as i carefully move forward.
The ship is big, so much so that it’s hard to get a bearing together so i can get to the objective, it’s long corridors full of blood, both human, android, and xeno, mixed with the destruction and hole ridden hull make the place very creepy, the damaged lights don’t help too as i sprint forward, trying to find a place somewhat untouched, or even a guard post with am intact console.
Most of the areas on the middle deck of this colony ship looks like to be essential areas for the ship well being, as i fail to find anything to connect to.
I sprint out of the non counted room, but as soon as i move further south of the ship, a xenomorph drops out close by, my stop was not that good this time as my feet kick a frigin pop can!
It’s eyeless face rotates my way and i get a better look, this one looks, feel and seen tougher than the rest.
The number zero and all it’s scars don’t help me have a positive thought as i try to sprint out of it’s detection range.
It’s of no help as it feels like it’s heads locked on my presence as it sprint close to my location and try to get a better feel of where i am.
I try to disengage by jumping on the roof of the ship, bad move, i know, but if this don’t work the fight won’t be far off anyway.
As soon as my feet lock to the roof i watch it’s head move my way, i know it’s faster than me, so all i can do is activate my scythe and get ready for a bloody battle as the warrior xenomorph sprint my way.
“I’d like to have some stealth lesson with Zeratul, this guy was a legend when it came for stealth.” i say and chuckle as i swirl and deflect it’s claw, my hands go numb because of it’s strength as i swirl back on a counter, my slash is ferocious as i gouge blood out of it before using the energy to jump down, trying to disappear as it screeches in pain and anger.
I do manage to lose it as i jump again out of the place i landed, using the time it was distracted with it’s pain to duck out on a wall, some distance away from it as it slash open a hole where i last landed, it’s acid blood spraying around, the sizzling sound of melting stuff clear.
Luckily i was on the side wall, not on the ground, or I'd have to watch out for acid rain on my weather forecast app.
The bugger don’t look happy by it’s wound as it search for me like a blood hound from hell, hellbent on taking a piece of me.
I thought it was going to search another place after a while of not finding me, but I'm sure it knows I'm here, it’s wound no longer leaking acid as it somewhat closes while it roam around, making sound, two others joined it, drones, which accentuates even more it’s slight bigger build compared to common warriors.
“Fuck.”
A very natural curse sound comes out of my mouth as three heads lock on my presence.