Ice woke up to the rattle of sub machine guns and chainsaws. As he looked out from the inside of his hidey hole he saw the D.O.G taking on three of the type 3 Theriopes while the small cat-like Drone helped.

The beetle-like Industrial drone however seemed to be absorbing the corpse of the first Type 3 that had nearly killed him before the drones arrived.

His arm still hurt. When he looked down his shirt was ripped and seemed to have been used along with some pieces of the doglike drone that was destroyed in order to make a splint.

"Oh good. You woke up." Raven said this time from the industrial drone. "I took the liberty of splinting your arm although we will need to set it and apply a Bone Kit once we get back to the ship."

As the AI was speaking, Ice watched as the D.O.G latched it's chainsaw like jaw on a Theriope's neck where the teeth cut through it like it was made of cardboard, sending yellow blood splattering everywhere.

He felt sick from both the pain and from watching the gore splattered drone turn its sub machine guns on another type 3, firing into its side, the bullets digging small craters in the hard flesh.

The small cat like drone was running back and forth dodging the last type 3. It would close in and slash with its claws before running away dodging between the tree trunks. It looked like it was more annoying the creature then hurting it.

He heard a clicking noise. The D.O.G's submachine guns had run dry. The type 3 it was facing tried to take advantage of this charging in and crunching down on one of its legs nearly biting it in two. The D.O.G didn't even seem to notice it's jaw once again closing on a neck and ripping it to pieces. It then moved over to the type 3 distracted by the cat-like drone and bit it in the center of its back cutting threw its spine.

As all three were finished off the beetle like drone moved to Ice and used one of its many appendages to help him up before moving to absorb the other bodies.

He heard a ratcheting sound from the D.O.G.

Ice looked around just now realizing he was lost. As he began to panic the D.O.G bumped his leg and pointed off into the trees with its back mounted weaponry. Ice started walking in that direction cradling his broken arm.

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As he walked through the strange forest he looked around himself in wonder. It really was an alien world different then anything he had ever seen. The leaves on the trees were round and much more spread out then on any trees he had seen before.

The ground under his feet felt spongy and soft. He hadn't spent a lot of time in the woods, so Ice did not know if this was normal.

One distinct oddity was the trees looked like something had been biting the trunks taking chunks out of them.

He walked over to one of the bite marks and looked closer rubbing the bare wood with his hand. It felt rough. Not to mention it was also bigger then his head. He tried not to think how big the creature was that had done that as he quickly moved on following the D.O.G.

As usual the cat-like drone was nowhere to be seen but the beetle drone was right next to him. He debated sitting on it and trying to ride it but quickly changed his mind as the drone bounced over a fallen log.

Shortly they were back on the beach and once they got to the ship Raven directed him in where to find the first aid kit and how to inject the Bone Kit in his arm by the break. It hurt. A lot. He may have screamed. A lot.

Once the pain stopped he poked his arm where the break had been. It was tender. There were 4 small dots where he had injected the Bone Kit.

Ice noticed the blinking light that meant he had notifications pending and sighing he swiped them into view. More points. About ten per creature the drones had killed and a note that he had a reward for killing five of them.

He opened the reward box expecting another drone upgrade token but a small pistol dropped out of the air instead.

He stared at it waiting for the tooltip to come up:

[Imperial squires pistol]

9mm pistol 10 round capacity magazines fed by Matter Eater Ammunition Factory: External

Ice frowned. He had fired a pistol exactly one time before. He thought he remembered the basics his friend had shown him. He carefully looked around the pistol for the magazine release dropping it out and fumbling the catch bad enough it hit the ground. Sighing he left it there while he checked out the small pistol. It wasn't quite a perfect black more of a darker grey color. It had a weird sight on the top that popped up a small red X when his finger touched the trigger. He did not squeeze the trigger. He found a button that seemed like a safety on the side near the trigger guard and engaged it before putting the magazine back in and shoving the gun in his belt.

Ice really hoped he would not need it.

After that he pulled the store up in his HUD checking his point total, 75. He set the store to search for combat drones since he only had the two left. He groaned seeing that even the cat-like drone cost 65 points. Right under that was another drone for 75 points and reasoning that more expensive automatically means better he bought it.

[Intermediate Scouting Drone - Covert Actions and Tactics]

Equipment:

Class 1 Plasma edged claws X 8 Retractible

Class 1 Suppressed 10mm pistol Recessed in body Ammunition supplied by Matter Eater Ammunition Factory: Internal

Class 1 Optical camouflage Unit

Class 2 Recon AI

As the white light disappeared a bobcat sized and shaped drone appeared in its place for maybe a second before vanishing.

Ice groaned looking at the name before facepalming. He just bought a C.A.T.