Can You Taste The Fubar?
Blinx_Fury
Join Date: 2004-02-02 Member: 25986Members
Join Date: 2004-02-02 Member: 25986Members
<div class="IPBDescription">Part 2...</div> As the door slip open Torres could see the lights had been knocked out in the room, the ceiling was raining sparks, and as the door widened he could see they were raining on a skulk. It leapt forward with incredible speed, right into Torres's shotgun. *BLAM!* he fired off a shell into the creatures face, and it practically exploded and the tiny rounds shredded through its body.
"Now your the one who's rain you piece of Kharaa ****." he thought to him self
"Fire in the hole!" Mathews shouted. he threw a grenade into the room and everyone took cover. *KABOOM!* the loud sound of the grenade could be heard throughout the facility, but only the team head the shriek of numerous Kharaa detonating in the room with the explosive.
"good one!' someone shouted.
"Clear it out!" Torres shouted.
The team moved into the room, spiting off two directions, some left some right upon entering the room. Flashlights on they checked around every green splattered and flame scorcher corner, and also the walls and ceiling. a crippled gorge began to drag itself away, a marine with a light machine gun made quick work of it. Torres walked over after the marine waved him over.
"This isn't good" Torres said "its one of there worker drones. That must mean they have a hive close by, and that's very bad news."
"Comm this is Torres, please come in"
"Go ahead sergeant" Thompson spoke. "Yeah we just smoked a room full of our friends, and from the blood stains and scattered carcasses I think we may be nearing a hive, one of the marines just put a bullet in the head of a Gorge as well, please advise."
"Damn" Thompson snarled " i was afraid of this. Torres, the office where the files are located is right near the main fusion room, and if the machine still active there's a good chance your hive is in that very room. Siege technology may not be possible at this time, but i am having more marines phased in. i am going to have you move on until you are near the main room, then I am going to try and create a couple phase gates, do not, I repeat, do not proceed into the main fusion room, please comply."
"Affirmative, comm, we will proceed as planned until we reach decontamination and hold there until further instructions. Over and out."
"So what's the Op?" Mathews questioned
Torres turned to him and spoke. "Same as before, we proceed to the fusion room but we will be holding out in the decontamination room until further orders, Intel suggests possible hive in the fusion room."
Whispers and uncomfortable movement flowed through the squad.
"Lets move" Torres said.
Back at base Thompson was busy planting the last turrent. he knew it was going to get bad, real bad, he could taste the FUBAR. More marines had phased in and were busy finishing securing the room. One had a welder and was fixing a panel in the room, if they could get it working again they could seal up the vent that was letting the Skulks in, so far just Skulks, but Thompson knew there could be worse things in this station, a lot worse.
Thompson had been working on it now for 2 hours, but he finally broke through the nano lock and activated the heavy armor and weapons, not a second to soon too, Torres said he'd seen a gorge, so he knew the new heavy equipment would be a huge advantage if they came apon a Hive.
He had the computer to start nano construction of several Heavy Armor Suit, Heavy Rifles, and Grenade launchers, they would all be ready within the hour, also he let down a phase gate. The sooner the better. he scanned the base, no bogies, but several more marines warped in, good. He could start arming them as soon as the equipment was finished.
As Torres and the team pushed ahead they encountered more and more skulks. Mathews had just looked into a side room and saw nothing, the room was empty with no way in or out except, the door he came in through and the glass windows around half the room. Torres thought he saw something move in there as they watched Mathews through the glass, but no...it must have been a reflection of something else and his mind making it into the shape off an alien.
As Mathews was exciting the room, he saw it again, it was moving toward Mathews!
"Mathews get down!" Torres shouted. Mathews instinctively turned around with his gun ready but saw nothing, the marines looked into the room but were confused because they also saw nothing. Suddenly a large black figure seemed to fade into form, like it was uncloaking, as it filled in Torres could see it had a blade raised, it was a <!--emo&::fade::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/fade.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='fade.gif' /><!--endemo--> Fade, and Mathews didn't stand a chance. The Fades razor sharp arm came down on top of the helpless marine and connected between his shoulder and his neck, the sheer force of the beast made quick work of the titanium plated armor and began its pass into his body slicing him all the way down his torso at and angle from left to right and continuing down, stopping right before it could completely exit to the other side.
"NOOOO!" Barber shouted in a long horrible shout.
Mathews looked motionless, then his head looked at us with an indescribable look, perhaps fear, or confusion. It didn't matter, the powerful alien pulled its blade from the marine out and upwards, knocking his now separated upper body over and he fell beside himself, barely still attached by what remained of his suit, skin, and loosely connected internals, then his body fell over completely. His lifesign readings appeared into Torres's HUD, then went completely dead.
Barber finally stopped shouting and opened fire, unfortunately the glass was bulletproof and he was unable to hit the Fade, when he was done firing the Fade was gone from the room, a trail of red blood dripped out of the room for less then 2 feet then suddenly ended.
"Look sharp people!" Torres ordered. The squad snapped there weapons up, though you could hear some of them shaking a little. Barber ran into the room to see about his now disfigured friend. The squad followed behind him as Torres waved hand signals to proceed with the worried marine.
Barber got into the room and Mathews was bleeding profusely all over the floor, he was definitely dead, the perfectly sliced body and pool of blood couldn't suggest otherwise. Barber began to sob then realized it wasn't the best thing to do at that moment. He whispered a few last words to his long time friend, unclipped his dog tags, stood up and saluted.
Barber exited the room with intent on his face, intent on finishing this mission, and killing everything that wasn't human.
"Good to go, marine?" Torres asked.
"Affirmative" Barber responded.
Static flooded Torres's headset. "Come in Torres. Sander, what's going on down there, I just got a flat line from Mathews health monitors."
"We encountered a Fade, John. It was cloaked, we didn't see it, it snuck up on him and split him in two."
"Jesus. Will you be continuing ahead." Thompson said it, but it wasn't a question.
"That's affirmative comm, Torres out." the sergeant said.
He looked at the shaking squad, they were definitely getting close, and they could use those reinforcements now, but there was no chance of that. The fusion room isn't far, but they went 2 rooms since they last broadcasted to the comm, and suddenly they encountered a fade and lost one man. Things weren't looking good. They moved on to the next room.
Thompson reported the death to HQ. They could care less, that was Brass for ya, they had a head full of it, and there hearts were just as hard. No matter, they would all die eventually, that made him smile, and it even made him chuckle when he thought of all those suits being here, just trying to survive. They'd probably demand he exit the console so they could hide inside it.
"Sir?" a marine asked.
"Oh, yes, sorry private, I was busy with some tech work. What do you need?" Thompson realized he had a job, to do, no time for childish fantasies.
"We finished constructing the phase gate and the remaining turrents, is there anything else?" the marine said.
"No that will be all for now private, just place everyone at there posts and watch the perimitar." Tompson ordered.
"Hoorah" the marine grunted.
They were safe, for now, he only hoped Torres and his team would be able to make it to the decontamination chamber successfully.
Torres was reloading a shot gun when the Fade suddenly appeared in front of him, he quickly rolled to one side as the animal made a vicious swipe with its arm, narrowly missing Torres. He leapt up, finished loading his last shell and raised his weapon to see the alien blink out of existence, it was just...gone. Was it cloaked, no he'd see the thin silouete. He heard something behind him growl, he looked to the right of him and saw Barber aim his rifle at him.
"Barber, what the hel| are you doing!" Torres shouted
"Sarge get down!" Barber called
Instinctually Torres dropped to the floor again avoiding another deadly swipe by the Fade...that was now behind him. Barber pulled the trigger and sprayed his LMG at the beast, it took 7 rounds in the side and turned to face Barber, suddenly his gun stopped firing.
"Jammed!" he snarled
The Fade raged and gurgled a hel| raising scream, it raised its arms and crouched slightly getting ready to pounce at Barber. He suddenly had the same look that Mathews had. The Fade was about to leap, but a metallic sound came from the floor. The Fade looked down in time to see Torres returning the slide on the shotgun forward. Even though it was an animal it knew what was going too happen, its eyes widen with its mouth and Torres pulled the trigger of the powerful gun. *BOOM!* The weapon rocketed dozens on tiny ammunition at the black beast, shredding its skin like the gun had done to so many other Kharaa before it.
It stumbled back and slammed into a wall, still screaming it vanished once again.
The room was still full of gun fire from the other marines killing various skulks and a lerk was flaying around the room, Torres watched as a marine from across the room drew his pistol and shot the airborne beast in the head. It the impacted a wall, and fell onto the floor dead.
Barber helped Torres up.
"Remind me to put you in for a promotion, son." Torres bellowed.
"Your welcome sir, but I was glad to do it, im sure that was the same Fade that got Mathews, I only wanted a piece of it." Barber said, then he grinned. "Instead he got a piece of me, a whole 7 of my bullets!"
They both laughed, still knowing that the Fade could still be alive.
In that confrontation another marine had died. The marine that had shot the lerk said he saw it come out of a vent and swoop down to one of the marines, chomping his head off right below the helmet.
They finished clearing the room, and while the marines mourned for a moment Torres reported that another marine had been killed. But he also reported the good news, the next room...was decontamination.
To Be Continued <!--emo&::marine::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/marine.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='marine.gif' /><!--endemo-->
"Now your the one who's rain you piece of Kharaa ****." he thought to him self
"Fire in the hole!" Mathews shouted. he threw a grenade into the room and everyone took cover. *KABOOM!* the loud sound of the grenade could be heard throughout the facility, but only the team head the shriek of numerous Kharaa detonating in the room with the explosive.
"good one!' someone shouted.
"Clear it out!" Torres shouted.
The team moved into the room, spiting off two directions, some left some right upon entering the room. Flashlights on they checked around every green splattered and flame scorcher corner, and also the walls and ceiling. a crippled gorge began to drag itself away, a marine with a light machine gun made quick work of it. Torres walked over after the marine waved him over.
"This isn't good" Torres said "its one of there worker drones. That must mean they have a hive close by, and that's very bad news."
"Comm this is Torres, please come in"
"Go ahead sergeant" Thompson spoke. "Yeah we just smoked a room full of our friends, and from the blood stains and scattered carcasses I think we may be nearing a hive, one of the marines just put a bullet in the head of a Gorge as well, please advise."
"Damn" Thompson snarled " i was afraid of this. Torres, the office where the files are located is right near the main fusion room, and if the machine still active there's a good chance your hive is in that very room. Siege technology may not be possible at this time, but i am having more marines phased in. i am going to have you move on until you are near the main room, then I am going to try and create a couple phase gates, do not, I repeat, do not proceed into the main fusion room, please comply."
"Affirmative, comm, we will proceed as planned until we reach decontamination and hold there until further instructions. Over and out."
"So what's the Op?" Mathews questioned
Torres turned to him and spoke. "Same as before, we proceed to the fusion room but we will be holding out in the decontamination room until further orders, Intel suggests possible hive in the fusion room."
Whispers and uncomfortable movement flowed through the squad.
"Lets move" Torres said.
Back at base Thompson was busy planting the last turrent. he knew it was going to get bad, real bad, he could taste the FUBAR. More marines had phased in and were busy finishing securing the room. One had a welder and was fixing a panel in the room, if they could get it working again they could seal up the vent that was letting the Skulks in, so far just Skulks, but Thompson knew there could be worse things in this station, a lot worse.
Thompson had been working on it now for 2 hours, but he finally broke through the nano lock and activated the heavy armor and weapons, not a second to soon too, Torres said he'd seen a gorge, so he knew the new heavy equipment would be a huge advantage if they came apon a Hive.
He had the computer to start nano construction of several Heavy Armor Suit, Heavy Rifles, and Grenade launchers, they would all be ready within the hour, also he let down a phase gate. The sooner the better. he scanned the base, no bogies, but several more marines warped in, good. He could start arming them as soon as the equipment was finished.
As Torres and the team pushed ahead they encountered more and more skulks. Mathews had just looked into a side room and saw nothing, the room was empty with no way in or out except, the door he came in through and the glass windows around half the room. Torres thought he saw something move in there as they watched Mathews through the glass, but no...it must have been a reflection of something else and his mind making it into the shape off an alien.
As Mathews was exciting the room, he saw it again, it was moving toward Mathews!
"Mathews get down!" Torres shouted. Mathews instinctively turned around with his gun ready but saw nothing, the marines looked into the room but were confused because they also saw nothing. Suddenly a large black figure seemed to fade into form, like it was uncloaking, as it filled in Torres could see it had a blade raised, it was a <!--emo&::fade::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/fade.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='fade.gif' /><!--endemo--> Fade, and Mathews didn't stand a chance. The Fades razor sharp arm came down on top of the helpless marine and connected between his shoulder and his neck, the sheer force of the beast made quick work of the titanium plated armor and began its pass into his body slicing him all the way down his torso at and angle from left to right and continuing down, stopping right before it could completely exit to the other side.
"NOOOO!" Barber shouted in a long horrible shout.
Mathews looked motionless, then his head looked at us with an indescribable look, perhaps fear, or confusion. It didn't matter, the powerful alien pulled its blade from the marine out and upwards, knocking his now separated upper body over and he fell beside himself, barely still attached by what remained of his suit, skin, and loosely connected internals, then his body fell over completely. His lifesign readings appeared into Torres's HUD, then went completely dead.
Barber finally stopped shouting and opened fire, unfortunately the glass was bulletproof and he was unable to hit the Fade, when he was done firing the Fade was gone from the room, a trail of red blood dripped out of the room for less then 2 feet then suddenly ended.
"Look sharp people!" Torres ordered. The squad snapped there weapons up, though you could hear some of them shaking a little. Barber ran into the room to see about his now disfigured friend. The squad followed behind him as Torres waved hand signals to proceed with the worried marine.
Barber got into the room and Mathews was bleeding profusely all over the floor, he was definitely dead, the perfectly sliced body and pool of blood couldn't suggest otherwise. Barber began to sob then realized it wasn't the best thing to do at that moment. He whispered a few last words to his long time friend, unclipped his dog tags, stood up and saluted.
Barber exited the room with intent on his face, intent on finishing this mission, and killing everything that wasn't human.
"Good to go, marine?" Torres asked.
"Affirmative" Barber responded.
Static flooded Torres's headset. "Come in Torres. Sander, what's going on down there, I just got a flat line from Mathews health monitors."
"We encountered a Fade, John. It was cloaked, we didn't see it, it snuck up on him and split him in two."
"Jesus. Will you be continuing ahead." Thompson said it, but it wasn't a question.
"That's affirmative comm, Torres out." the sergeant said.
He looked at the shaking squad, they were definitely getting close, and they could use those reinforcements now, but there was no chance of that. The fusion room isn't far, but they went 2 rooms since they last broadcasted to the comm, and suddenly they encountered a fade and lost one man. Things weren't looking good. They moved on to the next room.
Thompson reported the death to HQ. They could care less, that was Brass for ya, they had a head full of it, and there hearts were just as hard. No matter, they would all die eventually, that made him smile, and it even made him chuckle when he thought of all those suits being here, just trying to survive. They'd probably demand he exit the console so they could hide inside it.
"Sir?" a marine asked.
"Oh, yes, sorry private, I was busy with some tech work. What do you need?" Thompson realized he had a job, to do, no time for childish fantasies.
"We finished constructing the phase gate and the remaining turrents, is there anything else?" the marine said.
"No that will be all for now private, just place everyone at there posts and watch the perimitar." Tompson ordered.
"Hoorah" the marine grunted.
They were safe, for now, he only hoped Torres and his team would be able to make it to the decontamination chamber successfully.
Torres was reloading a shot gun when the Fade suddenly appeared in front of him, he quickly rolled to one side as the animal made a vicious swipe with its arm, narrowly missing Torres. He leapt up, finished loading his last shell and raised his weapon to see the alien blink out of existence, it was just...gone. Was it cloaked, no he'd see the thin silouete. He heard something behind him growl, he looked to the right of him and saw Barber aim his rifle at him.
"Barber, what the hel| are you doing!" Torres shouted
"Sarge get down!" Barber called
Instinctually Torres dropped to the floor again avoiding another deadly swipe by the Fade...that was now behind him. Barber pulled the trigger and sprayed his LMG at the beast, it took 7 rounds in the side and turned to face Barber, suddenly his gun stopped firing.
"Jammed!" he snarled
The Fade raged and gurgled a hel| raising scream, it raised its arms and crouched slightly getting ready to pounce at Barber. He suddenly had the same look that Mathews had. The Fade was about to leap, but a metallic sound came from the floor. The Fade looked down in time to see Torres returning the slide on the shotgun forward. Even though it was an animal it knew what was going too happen, its eyes widen with its mouth and Torres pulled the trigger of the powerful gun. *BOOM!* The weapon rocketed dozens on tiny ammunition at the black beast, shredding its skin like the gun had done to so many other Kharaa before it.
It stumbled back and slammed into a wall, still screaming it vanished once again.
The room was still full of gun fire from the other marines killing various skulks and a lerk was flaying around the room, Torres watched as a marine from across the room drew his pistol and shot the airborne beast in the head. It the impacted a wall, and fell onto the floor dead.
Barber helped Torres up.
"Remind me to put you in for a promotion, son." Torres bellowed.
"Your welcome sir, but I was glad to do it, im sure that was the same Fade that got Mathews, I only wanted a piece of it." Barber said, then he grinned. "Instead he got a piece of me, a whole 7 of my bullets!"
They both laughed, still knowing that the Fade could still be alive.
In that confrontation another marine had died. The marine that had shot the lerk said he saw it come out of a vent and swoop down to one of the marines, chomping his head off right below the helmet.
They finished clearing the room, and while the marines mourned for a moment Torres reported that another marine had been killed. But he also reported the good news, the next room...was decontamination.
To Be Continued <!--emo&::marine::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/marine.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='marine.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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