Yet Another Tale Of A Marine
Thardin
Join Date: 2004-01-05 Member: 25081Members
Join Date: 2004-01-05 Member: 25081Members
<div class="IPBDescription">Enter Ecilpse</div> The church the boy whom was in, only five years old, looked upon the double wood doors behind the Preacher's Stand as it was being cracked in several places he shivered in rememberance of what was cracking it....
They were running down a road running from the infestation on the planet called Xabi a small planet...an insignificant planet, a small farming planet that aided the larger of its kind, one whom would question why the aliens called the Kharaa would assault.
He was running down the road seeing buildings collaspe before him, one of his relative's fell down and was immediately set upon by a dozen dog like creatures...his screams still haunted his dreams.
He never looked back niether did his father or mother whom was supposively the only survivors of this abyss.
They headed towards the church at the end of this road I spoke of the skulk army (about twenty) closing the gap behind them with unnatural ease then shrieked in agony, the child heard sniper rifles being shot off with accurate quick firing.
And then the child heard their shrieks of death and smelled the foul smell of death as the creatures' rattled out their deaths, their blood ruining the gravel paved road.
Several marines with sniper rifles came down from ruined buildings, he would later in his life realize them as sniper nests, with cool emotionless eyes even as more of the Kharaa came, to be precise a dozen black humanoids that seemed sadistically human and one really big bull looking thing, the bull thing roared out its defiance further numbing the child as fires crackled on buildings behind him.
'Best move it you three or they'll give you to their hives for nutrition.' The marine almost smirked at the shocked re-action of the child's face and began firing at the approaching wave of aliens.
The trio spoke nothing and kept running, the church was only 40 yards ahead of them now, they heard a building succumb to fire and heard it collasping the smell of smoke was clear now, he also heard several marines cry out in jeers and insults.
They heard the marines last stand as several 'graaaaaaaaack!' noises were heard (fades dieing) their rotten smell coupled with the ruining of the city he lived in his young life made him shake uncontrollably....then the marines' death cries unnerved him and he ran nearly ahead of his parent's....whom were staying behind and then the child looked behind with hurt eyes.
'Son, you must go they know were here!' His father exclaimed trembling even as he climbed one of the sniping houses to grab one of the few weapons left, his mother even helped him, stifling his crying he moved into the church, with just one glance at the fire tinged buildings as night covered the aliens' faces.
The couple were overruned in mere minutes....he heard crashing and thumbing and was out of this violent flashback,
The child then saw several gray metal squares with red lasers coming out of the middle of them above the double wooden doors carefully placed to prevent the destruction of the church itself...a lever was also wired to it, the door was nearly cracked open now.
The child remembered these as mines and did what marines did with them....he pulled the lever even as the onos broke down the surprisingly strong double wooden doors, it had a unholy smirk as human blood dripped down it's mouth as it roared out prey was sighted.
The church shook, the onos shrieked horrifically, the blast deafened the boy's hearing but not his nose as he smelled the pudent smell of the onos'es green blood leaking all over it's crushed ruined corpse beneath hundreds of pounds of cement and building components.
The boy could take no more of the torment and then exhausted beyound extremes mentally and physically he collasped into a dead sleep, he thought though as darkness befell him he heard a church Organ play.
Several marines hours later crept into the somewhat ruined church shaking their heads as they picked the child up.
They were running down a road running from the infestation on the planet called Xabi a small planet...an insignificant planet, a small farming planet that aided the larger of its kind, one whom would question why the aliens called the Kharaa would assault.
He was running down the road seeing buildings collaspe before him, one of his relative's fell down and was immediately set upon by a dozen dog like creatures...his screams still haunted his dreams.
He never looked back niether did his father or mother whom was supposively the only survivors of this abyss.
They headed towards the church at the end of this road I spoke of the skulk army (about twenty) closing the gap behind them with unnatural ease then shrieked in agony, the child heard sniper rifles being shot off with accurate quick firing.
And then the child heard their shrieks of death and smelled the foul smell of death as the creatures' rattled out their deaths, their blood ruining the gravel paved road.
Several marines with sniper rifles came down from ruined buildings, he would later in his life realize them as sniper nests, with cool emotionless eyes even as more of the Kharaa came, to be precise a dozen black humanoids that seemed sadistically human and one really big bull looking thing, the bull thing roared out its defiance further numbing the child as fires crackled on buildings behind him.
'Best move it you three or they'll give you to their hives for nutrition.' The marine almost smirked at the shocked re-action of the child's face and began firing at the approaching wave of aliens.
The trio spoke nothing and kept running, the church was only 40 yards ahead of them now, they heard a building succumb to fire and heard it collasping the smell of smoke was clear now, he also heard several marines cry out in jeers and insults.
They heard the marines last stand as several 'graaaaaaaaack!' noises were heard (fades dieing) their rotten smell coupled with the ruining of the city he lived in his young life made him shake uncontrollably....then the marines' death cries unnerved him and he ran nearly ahead of his parent's....whom were staying behind and then the child looked behind with hurt eyes.
'Son, you must go they know were here!' His father exclaimed trembling even as he climbed one of the sniping houses to grab one of the few weapons left, his mother even helped him, stifling his crying he moved into the church, with just one glance at the fire tinged buildings as night covered the aliens' faces.
The couple were overruned in mere minutes....he heard crashing and thumbing and was out of this violent flashback,
The child then saw several gray metal squares with red lasers coming out of the middle of them above the double wooden doors carefully placed to prevent the destruction of the church itself...a lever was also wired to it, the door was nearly cracked open now.
The child remembered these as mines and did what marines did with them....he pulled the lever even as the onos broke down the surprisingly strong double wooden doors, it had a unholy smirk as human blood dripped down it's mouth as it roared out prey was sighted.
The church shook, the onos shrieked horrifically, the blast deafened the boy's hearing but not his nose as he smelled the pudent smell of the onos'es green blood leaking all over it's crushed ruined corpse beneath hundreds of pounds of cement and building components.
The boy could take no more of the torment and then exhausted beyound extremes mentally and physically he collasped into a dead sleep, he thought though as darkness befell him he heard a church Organ play.
Several marines hours later crept into the somewhat ruined church shaking their heads as they picked the child up.
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A kharaa being called commonly the fade was on the gravel paved road in sharp agony as a sniper bullet took him through the heart. He saw several of his bretheren fall to much more serious wounds.
He heard the roar of an onos, fanatical beings of the hive. He then looked upon the carnage first hand grinning through his pain....
The 5 marine snipers jeered even as the onos connected it's mighty tusk into one of their puny bodies and threw him against one of their vile constructions, he heard even from his position, the crack of spine and nano armor, the fires in the city made the scene even more like a freakish nightmare that exists in reality.
The other four now began using pistols, futile actions the now recovering fade noted, as the onos bit one in half and another was stomped beneath it's mighty legs.
The other two marines stood their guard bravely the fade was forced to admit even as his regeneration was near completion and then the onos, normally more brutish, literally ran into a contruc-no....a home the fade thought and the marines confused looked up to late as the onos fell upon them....crushing them into pools of gore, the onos roared out it's victory but then was shot in it's headplate, the fade smiled as it got up.
The onos looked angrily at the other two humans that dared challenged his might and decided to make the male and female couple to suffer, for he saw even in the night the child's couple in a house mere yards behind the marine's stand.
The fade was lazy this night and allowed his 'comrade' to crush the building and allowed it to kill the couple inside in a most uncivilized matter and he noted the onos sniffed the air and continued onwards to a queer looking structure at the very end.
The fade was shocked as a few minutes later as he was returning to his hive located inside a dropship heard an cry of incredible agony and crumbling sounds....he blinked but was to late as he saw moments later that the onos was beneath the rubble of a cleverly hidden trap, the smell was horrible and the sight of a human dropship caused the fade to retreat with survivors to the captured dropship and was lifted off the planet before the humans had a chance to destory this prize.
The fade of Xabi was waiting on the infested transport-there are so few they can ever get to function and the fade overseered gorges that were cracking language files.
The gorge gurgled unintelligentily-a human would say this but the fade knew exactly what the gorge communicated and grew excited as they broke through one of the last nano lockdown barricades.
The Super Computer took up most of the room now lit up and was now useable....The fade was pacing with impatience as some humans would and noticed that the Hive Mind now was controlling the gorges actions as they broke into the file that contained the English dictonary.
The Hive Mind did what a human could do only in years-learn the main tongue of the humans.
The Hive Mind seemed pleased at this moment and turn it's 'glance' at the fade and spoke to it in a unsexual tone, much like a computer's.
'Loyal servant of mine, I will bestow you new gifts but this is the greatest of all, you will be able to understand and even speak the human tongue, know that I now, give you this with several other gifts that even my Royal Guard onos will envy for great time.'
The fade happily accepted and put his claw on the gorge's head for a 'connection' to the hive and was given all knowledge of the English Dictonary-thusly learning every word and meaning giving the fade even more intelligence he therefore named himself smiling at the thought, Commander Kalar.
The fade began to chuckle and would now he knew, be able to avenge his fellow hatchlings that were slain on the planet Xabi....
The child as he grew up joined the Frontier's Men and was sadistic, silent, cunning, and physically powerful. His testing scores and outter coldness kept him number one on the trainee squad he was in and he perfered his privacy from his fellow bumbling marines.
'Sir, I believe it as my job as an overseer to tell you more about Lamdeer.' Spoke the Overseer as he handed documents to a shadowed image of a man behind a old desk, he smelled lightly of cologne.
'Please, titles are for the recruits and when there around, I am listening...' the man's name was Odar and he was growing impatient of this trainer.
'The commander position for this marine is excellent in theory but not to be done in actuality as he is not fit for a commanding officer, he is more as they say, an elite.'
Odar now looks at this trainer with boredom, 'And what do you want me to do? I grow tired of waiting for a flat answer.'
The trainer hesitates and then blurts out in a more calmed voice 'I advise to put him with the more elite of the FS for he is no normal recruit.'
Odar taps a pen, a sign that he was in deep thought, 'Yes, yes...this will do tell him of this assignment through E-mail immediately.'
As morning came to the cold metal hallways of the training faculity Lamdeer awoke to his usual excerises, he has changed alot for this is how he looks now: A striking black hair, his eyes are an ice blue, he weighs around 230, and is 6'1.
Lamdeer got on his labtop upon hearing 'new message has arrived' and as he read a smile came upon his face, not one of joy but something else....vengance.
That's pretty disgusting...I sure wouldn't want to smell like the inside of my butt.
I think you meant 'cologne'
It was a boring day upon the Research Space Station Ecilpse, the scientists have supposivly a most promising proto type suit in their bad smelling and often cold labortory. The manager of the station would look into it later as he sat in his chair in the Computer Core idly monitoring his fellow peers.
He then sat back with a sigh of pleasure as he lit a cigar and filled the air with the obnoxious smell of smoke, watching the five computer monitors ahead of him. "Same stability in Triad Generator....Maintenance perfectly okay, same as usual" the lonely manager whispered to himself.
All was not usual however as an infested space transport smashed into the Maintenance emergency escape hatch and made a tube to allow enterance. As several skulks ran ahead Commander Kalar overlooked his 'troops', 2 onos, twenty skulks, 5 gorges, 4 lerks, and 3 fades. He thought as he overlooked his troops a smile come upon his lips, how much overkill this is he thought but shrugged mentally as he idly issued orders to the gorges to secure Maintenance, as it was a suitable hive location...
"Warning nano-lockdown initated in Maintenance." the computer said matter of factly. The overweight manager spun around in shock as he saw a hatch opening in Maintenance and brought a microphone to his lips. "Security Squad 1 check out the intrusion on Maintenace, <i>immediately</i>!"
As a pack of skulks hid on the ceiling of the very room the ill fitted squad of security officers-mere civilians with minimal gun training and no armor.
As four of them walked out into the room nervously the skulk heard but did not understand what they spoke.
"This is giving me the creeps man!"
"Shutup, you're scaring me now....just a bug this is!"
"A bug? It is much m-
At this point the three skulks jumped down and chuckled. The security officers turned to late around as their bodies were ripped to ribbons by the pack quite effectively....
The manager looked in horror at the security forces demise and shakily screamed out his next message, "Ecilpse MEN AND WOMEN, THERE IS A KHAARA ATTACK, Security forces begin barricading immediately in all areas Squad 3 come to the Computer Core immediately!!!"
Another skulk pack converged upon the labortory and chuckled as scientists locked the door, a simple process of tearing a hole in it to allow access....many human shouts came within yet again the skulks could not understand what was said
"I've locked the proto type, they'll never get it!"
"Good....now what do we do!?"
As the skulks bit through the doors a bomb ticked away as they finally got through the head scientist activated it...destorying all items and living beings besides the locked chest in the room.
Commander Kalar walked into the Space Station breathing in happily the corrupted air as a minor hive was being created by busy gorges he walked by ignoring them to the dual onos.
"Destory the barricades, the lerks are destorying the communications along with skulks, get fades with you and inform me when you break into the Computer Core."
The intelligent onos pair nodded and happily complied with fade helpers to eliminate all humans in the Station. "It is good to be a Commander." thought Kalar.
The station was overruned in a mere 20 minutes the doors crumbled beneath the onos pairs' might, the ground was littered with marine corpses and several parts of marines in crimson pools and then Kalar appeared behind them.
"You may rest now, I will deal with their leader." The onoses seemed to agree and ran off with the fades, casualties were minor only three skulks died from an intense explosion, "I will look into that later." thought Kalar.
An overweight human in a stained white shirt was cowering in a chair in front of several monitors, Kalar's lip quivered due to holding his alien laughter in.
"Give me the password to open the nano-lockdown and you may live."
The man looked shocked at the fade's ability to talk and then said unhesitatingly;
"Oma....its Oma!"
"Well done, you shall now live.....or as we term it be 're-born'."
Kalar blinked in front of the betrayed human and slashed him in half before he could think and then Kalar chuckled as the hive fed on his corpse to provide nutrionates to new skulks....the marines on Xabi were right.
Two days in a transport made all the raw recruits on edge as they uneasily and impatiently awaited their goal at the science Facility Hera, for it was their training mission.
As the strike force is made up of, 10 heavy armor, 3 JPs, 15 LA or 'scouts', and any weapon you want. Lamdeer himself was a JPer and chose the a proto type rifle, it was a mix of a HMG and a sniper rifle, it can shoot rapid 1 shot bursts and it can zoom in, the best of both weapons.
They were under strict orders to pratice constantly but the heavies seem to be lazy and never did but Lamdeer knew it was wise to practice, even with HA you are quite vulnerable, and not to mention heavy.
Ironically Lamdeer often was the one, not his commander, to calm his fellow nervous raw recruits. The captain as headquarters believed this was an excellent 'training mission'.
They were now after having a cold meal of bread and beans awaiting the final briefing from their commander waiting in the briefing room, the men twidled thumbs, whispered, and otherwise were annoying.
The room itself was 30 feet by 30 feet and a large projector was in the middle of it to allow holographs for a more realistic look at their objective, Ecilpse Science Facility, the rest of the room had 30 metal cold uncomfortable chairs.
The commander walked in with a snub aura around him as he turned on the projector, then silenced the men with a wave of his hand.
Electricity activated a green mirror image of Hera in the middle of the room.
"Men, this is our first mission the objectives are quite obvious." He then points at the hologram exactly the way the aliens came in with their transport...."this is where we enter, supposively a hive is on the over side so therefore the Heavies will go in first." there was some light cheering and then he stared at Lamdeer even though he addressed three of them.
"Jet Packers will then destory key chambers so the aliens do not benefit from them," He once again pointed at a tiny object underneath a computerized hive, "This movement chamber -must- be eliminated or if they use it the invasion will be known, now marines any questions?."
There was a shout of, "No Sir!" even though Lamdeer said it along his fellow marines he smirked as the projector went off by itself, it was the time they suited up and get away from this stuffy almost barren room.
The commander then told the men to be ready as the transport shuttered with nearly colliding with the station, it shot out a tube for a connector and an 'anchor' to allow the marines through safely.
The emergency hatch door had to be kicked open with HA.
The door opened with a 'creaaaaak' the small room was about 20 feet across and 15 feet apart, the door on the other side was to the Maintenace room itself, this was the staging room. The ten heavies awaited for the computer to open the unpowered door, oddly the lights were on not the emergency but normal regular lights.
The rest of the company followed in after an 'All safe'. They were all on edge as the air was awful and the lighting frightened them...
"Listen, JPers I will give a command to when you go in and you will -not- go in before hand!"
The commander motioned for the heavies to go as the door opened.....Lamdeer awaited his signal.
The HA spotted moldy corpses as they entered, they looked like civilians but had weapons on their straps, their bodies seemed to of been ripped apart...
They looked around cautiousally and saw no hive....no chambers, nothing!
The onos slowly approached these foolish inturders making not a sound for he perfered silence as a hive gift and then slowly moved behind one of the HA, the hive provided his cloaking. He almost chuckled but quickly thrusted his horn into the fool's turso.....noting that a dozen of skulks were now dropping from the ceiling.
A scream was cut short as Lamdeer heard a spine crack and then a roar of gun fire shot off, the air in here was awful but the HA had filters....Lamdeer almost envied their overweight suits but decided it was time to go, making sure his commander gave the order he then went with his three fellows into the vast room. Lamdeer saw that alot of fighting had taken place as the HA were in a corner while several skulk corpses littered around them firing at what seemed to be nothing, then a Squirt! as the HA destoryed the Sensory Chamber and revealed the 7 skulks and Onos, the onos seemed enraged and began to tear through their ranks.
Lamdeer had no time to gape as his allies did and quickly began firing at the Movement Chamber, it did not take the hits happily, then a skulk was running at unbearable speed to it....then collasped as a sniper bullet went through it. Lamdeer quickly reloaded and finished off his objective and saw that only 7 HA remained and a very bloodlusted onos was slaughtering the rest.
To be Continued
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I cant wait for the wrest!
Lamdeer laughed at the onos and began firing an entire clip of 20 rounds into it's hidious face as it charged at him. Lamdeer then quieted his laughter as the onos would run him through but he powered his pack up and easily dodged it then reloaded with the ease of one who knows his capabilities. Gun fire began to shoot off once more and then fell silent from the HA squad dumbly observing the fight with their fellow JPers. The onos seemed quite ill as the rest of the skulks were turned into corpses due to the HA rookie's work.
Lamdeer continued to damage the beast with only 8 reserve clips left and he then remembered the one grenade issued to each of them....Lamdeer awaited the onos's charge and when it stomped the ground to stun him for a brief mere moments that would get him killed, he easily flew backward just a few feet and then the enraged onos resemebled an enraged Bull as it charged Lamdeer again.
Lamdeer threw the grenade in it's mouth as he hit the Jet Pack button.....there was no fuel left in his Pack! The onos knew it would die here and continued it's charge even as it's head imploded showering the room with green blood and gore, Lamdeer was hit by the motion left by the onos's corpse and crashed against the back wall sliding down it hearing ribs crack....
He awoke to see a dead hive and many dead Khaara....the dead HA were stripped of their Armor for the LA to use. He doubted himself as his eyes opened to see he was in the Mainteance room....his jetpack was on a make shift table, he noticed how crushed it seemed and realized it was the only thing that saved him from the impact, no doubt he suffered several cracked bones but he would of been treated at this point so he drifted off again....
With disgust Lamdeer tried on his JP, it sputtered briefly and Lamdeer managing to nearly escape death by throwing it away and it exploded due to poor repairment.
The commander screamed 'All Ranks!' and Lamdeer fell in.
'Alright, the operation is a success. Although we lost to many men already we have secured our location much swiftly then first thoughted and we will proceed to the original office (this is the Marine Start on the Ecilpse map) and scavage all useable equipment before going to the next hive....any questions?'
'NO SIR!'
The commander then told 5 LA to stay at base for further protection and stayed there with them, the rest went to march to MS.
The commander however told Lamdeer to hold back and motioned him over.
'Yeah?'
'Apparently only you can use this sort of equipment....' The commander mumbling to himself tore off a camera from the mutaliated civilian gunsmen.
'I want you to watch this and report what you see....'
Lamdeer had no chance to reply as he placed the gore spluttered camera to play inside his head, almost a projector it shot a playback beam, that is invisible, directly into his forehead.
Diary Recordings of Banoth:
Day 1, captivity: The Khaara allowed me to live oddly enough, they have me imprisoned in some sort of organic made prison and are constantly growling outside.....
Day 2, : One of my fellow captives, only 2 left was taken away, I hear his screams far off then they broke off....my sanity is being lost.
Day 3 Sacrifice: I see another of my fellows taken away and I noticed...his body was slowly liquifying by gorges spraying him, his screams are nerve racking.......
Day 4 : The man that was liquidfied has now turned into a movement chamber and I pray to the mighty one that his spirt was set free....I am the only one left.
Day 5 Death: They have me now...mercy upon my---AHHHH!!!!..............................................................Unable to register volume, switching to video mode.................
Video of Day 5: The scene was disgusting, Banoth was kept alive barely then was shortly slain, the normal lights were turned on, a door opens off into the distant....the onos is now hiding with several skulks.
Lamdeer's breath was taken away as the camera stopped and he merely looked at the commander.
The Habon (inferior hive) began to violently spasm, Kalar knew what this meant. Kalar immediately reached into his inner mind to picture the Computer room and vanished within it, the move costed him but that didn't matter at the moment, Kalar with a human like grace quickly slided into a computer chair, Kalar then frowned in frustration and then rememberance of what the hive taught him came to him.
Kalar quickly accessed the Maintenace cameras......the hive was utterly destoryed and even one of his prized onos laid in it's own gore while several turrets were already forming.
Kalar then noticed with his advanced senses an unconcious man, Kalar immediately realized this man from some world. . . when he was an inferior. Kalar growled with anger that slowly formed a very human smile.
"This will finally give me the chance to test this facilitie's true strengths, thank you fate for this assignment." Kalar then growled his amusement and began to summon forth several gorges....his first assignment as a commander.
"Damn. . . this entire station is on full power, this isn't usual." a veteran of previous Khaara elimination missions commented.
The commander's normally harsh voice was very soft when he spoke to the group, "Men, First Class Private Lamdeer is meeting you at your position, however you are parasited, please remain calm." However, the commander's voice seemed a bit panicked....
"Dear god....help us!" one of the living HA rookies began to shake in pure fear, the monitors in the walls around them hummed more quickly.
"Take it easy rookie." the veteran seemed to notice the humming and went over in his LA and began looking more closely upon it.
The rookies that glanced at their surperior saw his head blossom as the defense turret shot out of the disguised monitors....
Kalar chuckled at the scene he watched as several of the marines die a most horrific death, Kalar almost smiled, then they finally de-activated it. . . that is, by shooting out the turrets.
As Lamdeer approached his nose noticed the iron from blood in the air, then noticed several carcasses on the floor, very fresh. One's head seemingly shot open and was laying in front of a still smoking defense turret.
"Go back. . . before you regret it...!!!" the HA that spoke this voice rasped in breath, no doubt his life was being sucked away as a gaping hole in his side revealed gruesome bleeding, the marine himself was slunked against the wall. Only 3 others were left alive in any condition to fight and their voices showed that they were the rookies.
"Come with me, I'll get you some med..." Lamdeer's voice trailed off.
The light's turned off, it was pitch black.
Something growled.
Next chapter will come when I get home.
If it was training excerise or the howl Lamdeer didn't know, Lamdeer naturally side rolled as the speeding lerk bit nothing but air as it flew by, the darkness engulfed Lamdeer making his rifle obsolete.
"Rookies, I need you to turn on your in-built night googles on immediately." Lamdeer noticed the tension, either from the rookies or another fly by was about to occur, Lamdeer tried without success in straining his eyes to see down the corridor from where they came from.
"Um sir, the lerk is about to come back, we'll turn our light scopes on our weaponry on." a click was heard as they hit the primitive switch on the flashlights.
"Of course, a flash light! How foolish I am." thought Lamdeer and flashed his down toward the way they came from.....
And barely dodged as the lerk screeched by, it's talons slashed Lamdeer's shoulder.
Lamdeer gave a grunt of pain, a shallow but a serious wound if left unintended. Instinctly swirling to where the lerk flew into, the vent, it was about to come again.
In fact it was.
Quickly firing a round Lamdeer heard the satisfaction of the lerk's pained screech as the bullet went through the wing it only slowed down a bit though and began flying toward Lamdeer again.
"Shiiiiaaaat!" commented a rookie as Lamdeer was broken out of his daze and quickly fired the wounded wing into uselessness, the lerk fell down upon the floor and limped toward him.
Lamdeer had the satisfaction of seeing a rookie's HA boot crush it's skull from behind.
"Well, now what sir?"
The lights came back on at this comment and showed only 3 HA were left alive, the one that was bleeding died during the battle due to blood loss.
"Mmfff..." the wound was bothering him, he had to get to the Office to find medical supplies.
"Follow me."
Commander Kalar was startled at there progress, bemused by the lerk fight and monitored them closely, they were going to the office which exploded during the secession of this station.
Kalar touched the hive's mind thusly touching his gorge worker's minds.
"Danger. Gorge hide. Incoming marines in your office, don't fight."
Kalar then sat back in his chair, with a sigh of triumpth, he'd finally see what the locked chest would reveal.
"Lamdeer, the coast is clear in the room." one of the HA spoke, there communicators were down by odd static.
Lamdeer went into the room, noted also it was immensely devastated, the floor completely blackened from an immensively powerful bomb. Lamdeer also smelt an odd smell, somewhat like the hive smell but simply dismissed it.
Lamdeer couldn't get over the feeling of some sort of tension in the room, "Meh must be the rookies." thought Lamdeer.
The only thing worthy of interest was a chest on top of a platform to the left of the room. It obviously was guarded over for many ruined security systems were by it.
"HA, cover me." Lamdeer then went to the box and saw that it had a standard TSA lock and entered in the code, H7NMZ.
The box opened, Lamdeer then gasped.
The thing in the box was a suit, it appeared to be a weaker HA uniform...but it seemed to be a second skin instead of hardened fibers which were HA.
"Hmmm..." Lamdeer then decided to put it on, it was easy, the suit fell around him, much heavier then he thought it would be. A voice spoke.
"Welcome to experimental suit XL2, as you well know testing procedures comfirmed this suit has the flexibility of all three known FTM suits." the voice spoke in a emotionless genderless tone.
Lamdeer then grinned ferally....he knew now why the tension was in the air as this proto suit allowed him to adjust to three vision types: normal vision, heat vision, and x-ray vision, however the third option seemed to be under construction.
The gorges screeched as Lamdeer shot in-built gauntlet machine gun weaponry, accurate as a LMG but as powerful as a HMG.
The rookies stared in awe.
Lamdeer smiled in joy.
Kalar hit the self-sealing device for the doors....