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 3...end.</div> The now smaller group of marines again took up firing positions in front of the door. Barber used his equipment to hack into the high security door system and opened the door. Nothing this time, but the marines treaded softly into the decontamination room.
Torres showed 'two' with his finger, pointed at 2 marines, then pointed his hand into the room. They nodded there heads in acknowledgment, the two marines entered the room together. Torres stepped into the room behind them, followed by the remaining marines. nothing could creep up on them in this room, the entire place was a brilliant white color. Filled with sterilizing equipment and various fusion tools and parts in containers lain on the floor.
"must have been getting ready to test something big before they got hit?" Barber questioned.
"Looks to be that way." Torres replied.
Torres looked around the room again, it was perfect, the only way in was the door they came through, and the only other place to come from was the main decontamination tunnel which lead to the Fusion Room...and the possible Hive, but that was most likely sealed off except for possible vents.
"Comm, were are at Decon., copy?" Torres said over the radio.
"Roger that Sgt." Thompson answered back. "Sending you a Phase Gate now."
The ceiling once again swirled with bright blue and white near Torres, then a PG. dropped from the ceiling, dismantled of course. Next came down a Turrent Factory.
"Comm we have received a PG. and TF, begging construction now." Torres again spoke over the radio.
The marines first began construction of the PG, it was most critical. As soon as it was finished the marines turned to begin on the Turrent Factory. As soon as they began constructing it, a loud blood curling roar came from beyond the decontamination tunnel. Every marine turned and looked down the unlit corridor.
"What the **** was that?" one of the marines whispered.
Torres squinted to see if he could catch a glimpse of what the sound came from. As he peered down the tunnel he still couldn't see anything. The only light was at the end of the tunnel coming from the steel and glass doors. The only thing he could make out were silhouettes that cast onto the glass, but nothing he could recognize.
"Lets move quickly marines. Torres commanded.
They began to work on the TF once again, as they finished it something appeared behind them. Barber spooked and turned with his rifle at the ready, finger on the trigger, and still intent to kill. As he round at what ever it was he narrowly took Strond's head off.
"Hey watch where you point that thing!" She yelped as she walked off of the PG.
She was wearing a Heavy Armor Suit and had a Heavy Machine Gun. Barber lowered his weapon.
"Jesus Strond, you scared the crap outa me." Barber said, still shaky.
"Well, sooooory!" Strond said with a loose grin under her masked helmet.
As she stepped off the PG more marines followed wearing more heavy equipment. Strond plus 7 marines in total.
"Private First Class Strond reporting for duty, sir." She saluted Torres.
"At ease private." He saluted her back. He felt slightly belittled. The armor made her stand and extra 6 inches and practically towered of him.
"Commander Thompson told me to let you know that there is more armor on the other side of the PG back at base for you and the rest of your team, I advise you make use of it, sir." Strond said.
"Yes, thank you Pvt. we'll do that, please finish securing the room." Torres said as he headed toward the PG, waving his team to follow.
One by one they phased in, Torres crossed first, entering the main base. He walked over to the armory where weapons and armor were. He stepped over the heavy armor and it pieced it self together over his body. he then bent over and picked up a heavy machine gun. He then heard the last of his team phase in. Torres walked away from the armory and was saluted my Miller.
"Your still here son?" Torres said.
"That's right sir." Miller replied. "Im holding down the fort until everyone gets back, they needed someone to watch the base, and I chose to stay behind."
Behind them, Barber and everyone were loading up with armor and fresh weapons.
"Your damn brave marine, most people would be to damn scared to want to stay here alone." Torres put his armored hand onto millers shoulder, which completely dwarfed him.
"What's there to be afraid of, ive got my Grenade Launcher, and there's plenty of turrents." Miller pointed around the room.
"That there is son, well good luck." Torres turned to see his marines freshly assembled "time to go to work."
They walked over to the phase gate, one by one they entered, Torres waited to be last. He walked over to the command chair and knocked on it in the comical 'dum dum dum dum dum'. a reply came from in side 'dum dum'. Torres silently laughed and began walking toward the phase gate when his radio crackled.
"Sir, your gonna want to get here, NOW." Barber said with urgency.
Torres hauled **** and jumped into the PG. he appeared on the other side to find his team on there knees in a circle around the PG with the guns drawn and lights on. Torres stepped off of the PG and his vision adjusted to the darkness.
He looked around the room, the lights were now off, he turned on his light. The Turrent factory was in ruin, and there was blood, lots of it...every where. There were bodies strewn all over, some half mangled, some crushed. what could do something like this? A fade couldn't cause this much damage in that short amount of time. it must be something with unbelievable power.
Suddenly there was a sound across the room, the marines in the direction of the sound pointed at it, it was a heavy, it was Strond, she was in the decontamination tunnel, kneeling down.
"Oh my god! Sir we didn't see it coming." She spoke. "it hit without warning, it just came running down the tunnel as soon as your team left, we couldn't stop i...."
She stopped talking and blood suddenly started pouring out of the face shield on her head, she stood up, but not under her own power. She started to wriggle then was lifted off of her feet, as Torres raised his weapon her chest plates started to protrude, all of a sudden a huge white horn came ripping through her body. It was enormous! the only thing that had a horn like that was the Rhinoceroses of Earth, but this was easily 4 times larger!
The horn began to shake forward and back ward until Strond flew from it at the marines, it hit them, knocking over the 2 that had been watching.
"Marines look sharp!" Torres shouted! "I need a firing sector!" Torres pointed at the decontamination tunnel, they all turned and cleared each others line of fire. As soon as they were all simultaneously pointing at the tunnel, there lights shown on a huge beast, it was plated with a white carapace, and wielded that gigantic horn, it roared and drew up its for legs and stomped, nearly knocking over Torres.
"Open fire!" Torres shouted. They all started firing there heavy machine gun, the animal started charging toward them. round after round, they fired at the behemoth, but the rounds were ricocheting off the armored face plate. It was just meters away.
"displace!" Torres shouted. The marines dove in all different directions as the alien came charging through the small squad. It swung it horn as it made a path down the middle of them, Barber couldn't get out of the way in time and its head smashed into him, throwing him across the room like a rag doll, he impacted the wall hard. as it ran by it tried to skid too a halt but slid across the steel floor and slammed the wall it self. It roared once more then began to get up, suddenly a marine phased through the PG, it was miller, and he saw the beast and began firing his salvo at it. Four grenades hit the giant Kharaa, making quick work of it, the first round knocked it back down, the other 3 turned it into swiss cheese.
"Glad you could make it to the party, son." Torres said as he used the powerful suits arms to help him self back up.
"Commander Thompson said you could use a little help." Miller said back.
"everyone ok?" Torres asked.
"Yeah, were fine." One of the marines said. "But Barber is out cold though." He was knelt near Barber, monitoring his health. "he'll be ok."
"Good, comm, we just ran into the mother of all hell beasts, please advise, over." Torres spoke into the radio.
"Roger that" Thompson replied. "advise to regroup and proceed with the mission. Ive decided not to have you and your team create an outpost, instead I just want you to enter the fusion room, retrieve the files, and get the hell outa there, reinforcements are not possible at this time, so its all you sergeant."
"Affirmative comm, Torres out." Torres turned to the squad. "Alright men. Looks like its just the five of us, so lets not get messy in there."
"Hoorah." they all grunted.
As they entered the decontamination chamber, the emergency red lights were on. There was no way the chamber could ever work again, not without heavy repairs at least.
With Torres in the front, him and his 4 marines moved down the passageway in to the main Fusion chamber. As they neared the opening a foul smell filled the room, the heavy armors suit began recycling and cleaning the air that came though the mask. They reached the end of the tunnel, the doors slid open and the squad moved into the room.
It opened into a very large room, a plat form went on ahead with a few stairs that went down into the main floor. off to the right there were more stairs which again only went up a few, but connected to the main control room.
'That must be the office.' Torres thought to him self.
But at the moment Torres wasn't concerned with the files, he was more concerned with what was in the center of the room. A large long metal encasing on struts was in the center, that must be the prototype engine, more then likely on stand by, thats why it was still slightly humming. and above that, there dangled the Hive. It was also quite large, then again, there wasn't such thing as a small Hive. That must be why that giant Rhino creature was in the other room.
The squad pressed against the wall and Torres signaled them to make there was toward the office. They were persistently quiet. it seemed to be that no one was home, they were almost to the office when they Hive suddenly began to move and quiver.
Then it created a deep moaning sound and spat out a small glob of goo, it looked like a big piece of spit, but no. It had just laid a new skulk. There were then other noises around the room, strange evil laughs, growls, and grunts. like the way wolves might howl before attacking an animal. Then it came, a skulk leaped from a wall, it was near impossible to see, it blended in so well with the similarly colored wall. One of the marines opened fire, every round connected with the flying Skulk and it disintegrated in mid air.
"Cover me! Im goin in to the get the files!" Torres shouted.
The marines all took up firing positions near the office door and Torres ran in. as he searched the room he could hear firing from out side, he cam across a computer. He activated it and slipped in a memory disk and cued the entire hard drive to download onto the large disk.
Out side the marines had there hands full. Skulks were coming from everywhere, keeping the well trained marines on there toes. a Skulk tried to drop in from above, it landed on one of the heavily armored soldiers but another marine bashed the butt of his rifle into the face of the alien, it smashed in the aliens skull and sent it flying off the marine.
The information finally finished loading onto the disk and Torres pulled it out in time to see a skulk come crashing through the window knocking him over, it began to chomp on his arm, unable to slice through the armor on the first try in held onto him. Torres used his free hand to pull out his combat knife and dug it into the aliens head, pinning it onto the ground, it wriggled for a moment then die.
Torres collected him self, threw the Disk into his RUCK SACK (Thank you IACA Commando), and proceeded to the door. He ran out to the room to find his marines still fending off Kharaa, when something slammed him in the back, he went flying across the room, slamming into the fusion engine, still semi conscious he watched as two fades appeared from where hed walked, unable to react in time the Fades began tearing through the remnants of the squad.
Miller managed to get off one grenade, and Torres saw the Fade explode in a glory of fire and green blood. Though the second Fade fired a blob from its shoulder and hit Miller right in the head, he watched as the helmet steamed then melted off, Millers body fell over, his right leg twitching. Torres vision blurred and his eyes closed.
"Torres, Torres come in, god damnit sergeant, DO YOU COPY?" a voice said.
Torres's eyes opened once again. "Torres are you there?" Thompson said in the radio.
"Go for Torres." He replied groggily.
"Oh thank god your alive, what happened, everyone is flat lined except you." Thompson said.
"We got to the room, I have the files, we were ambushed by fades, one was killed I don't know where the other one is..." Torres stopped mid sentence.
"Torres, hello? Torres!" Thompson shouted.
Torres looked up and saw a Fade start to make its way forward, it stood right above him, looked at him then cocked its head. Torres cocked his head straight and met the beast in the eyes. He looked the animal up and down, it had numerous scars on its chest.
"Your that **** I shot in the chest! Kill me you piece of ****! finish it!" Torres shouted. Thompson could hear him through the radio.
The Fade roared and drew up both arms, ready to come down on him like a ton of space **** that the beast was.
Thompson heard a scream through the radio, he knew it was over, it was time to abort the mission.
"Good bye Sander." Thompson said with sorrow in his voice.
"Good Bye? Why Good Bye John? This parties just getting started." Torres said on the other side of the radio.
Barber collapsed next to Torres and sat back up. He looked across the floor at the Fade with the knife stuck in the back of its head.
"I told you I'd kill you, you freak." Barber snarled and pointed at the dead Fade.
"OK sergeant, im gonna need a no BS assessment, can you get back here?" Thompson asked with a newly rejuvenated energy.
"More then likely not, I think my left legs broken, my suits reading it as broken in multiple points." Torres said.
"Yeah, and my back feels a little funny, ive got no ammo." Barber added.
"Im sorry, but the grid locks to bad in the room, I cant send you guys and supplies, your only chance is to make it too the Phase Gate, ill give you guys some scan sweeps but thats the best I can do." Thompson said.
"Roger that, we'll do out best." Torres replied.
Torres and Barber both used each other to stand up, Barber waddled over to the Fade and yanked the knife from its cranium. Torres pulled out his pistol and cocked it once.
Bright blue circles waved across the floor like ripples in a pond. The radio began to crackle.
"You two need to move fast, the room your in now is clear, but there are other Kharaa in the structure and moving toward your location." Thompson said.
Torres put his arm around Barber to support him self and they slowly began to walk toward the decontamination tunnel. They made there was to the doors and they slid open, sparking and falling off, hitting the floor loudly.
Another ping rippled across the floor.
"You guys gotta go, NOW!" Thompson shouted.
Loud snarls and scratches filled the room behind them, they limped hastily toward the next room, the sounds got louder and louder behind them. They could hear the tapping of a skulks talons on the metal floor when they reached the phase gate. Torres shoved Barber through and he warped back to base. Torres then turned to see a skulk running on the ceiling, he began firing his pistol, he missed once, then again, then he struck the skulk, but then it leapt at him, digging its forearm into his shoulders, pushing him back into the gate.
Together they warped trough to the other side, Torres fell to the ground, the beast still attached, he dropped his pistol and grabbed the animal by the arms and pushed it forward putting them out of his shoulders. IT began snapping at his, going for his head but couldn't because it was to far away. The turrents in the room turned toward the skulk but could not fire because there was a human too close to it. Torres' arms began to give, the animal started getting closer to his face, snapping, snapping...when 4 shots came from the side of the room and knocked the animal off him, the turrents took care of the rest as Torres rolled away. he sat up to see that Thompson had gotten out of the chair, smoking pistol in hand.
"Thanks." Torres said.
"don't mention it" Thompson said. "Barber had fallen unconscious again after he'd fallen though the teleporter, so I figured id play hero."
several marines warped in though the infantry portals. and aided Torres and Barber. Thompson got back into the chair and rang up command.
"Command this is Commander Thompson, mission accomplished, we have the files and are exciting the facility."
Seconds later a voice came through, "Roger that. good job commander. make it off that station alive and proceed to HQ for your debriefing."
Thompson again excited the chair. The 3 marines and Thompson put on the remaining heavy armor suits. They threw Barber onto a stretcher and began the short journey back to the drop ship hanger.
It was a safe journey, it only took them 3 minutes, a lot quicker then when they got there. Instead of clearing room after room they just jogged the quickest path back.
As the drop ship reconnected to the station they loaded on and took there seats and locked Barber in a stasis chamber for safe keeping.
As they rocketed off they removed there helmets. The 3 marines were quarreling in the corner. Torres and Thompson looked at each other and shook hands.
Torres suddenly had an angry look on his face.
"What's the matter?" Thompson asked.
"Bah! Remember how you couldn't get the med packs to us and how it mad things that much worse?" Torres asked Thompson.
"Yeah?" Thompson said.
Torres looked down his own side at his pack, keyed in a couple numbers then stuck his hand into the Ruck sack pulling out two med packs.
They both laughed at how he had some all along. Torres used one on him self and grinned, thinking out loud...
"Yeah...FUBAR."
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Torres showed 'two' with his finger, pointed at 2 marines, then pointed his hand into the room. They nodded there heads in acknowledgment, the two marines entered the room together. Torres stepped into the room behind them, followed by the remaining marines. nothing could creep up on them in this room, the entire place was a brilliant white color. Filled with sterilizing equipment and various fusion tools and parts in containers lain on the floor.
"must have been getting ready to test something big before they got hit?" Barber questioned.
"Looks to be that way." Torres replied.
Torres looked around the room again, it was perfect, the only way in was the door they came through, and the only other place to come from was the main decontamination tunnel which lead to the Fusion Room...and the possible Hive, but that was most likely sealed off except for possible vents.
"Comm, were are at Decon., copy?" Torres said over the radio.
"Roger that Sgt." Thompson answered back. "Sending you a Phase Gate now."
The ceiling once again swirled with bright blue and white near Torres, then a PG. dropped from the ceiling, dismantled of course. Next came down a Turrent Factory.
"Comm we have received a PG. and TF, begging construction now." Torres again spoke over the radio.
The marines first began construction of the PG, it was most critical. As soon as it was finished the marines turned to begin on the Turrent Factory. As soon as they began constructing it, a loud blood curling roar came from beyond the decontamination tunnel. Every marine turned and looked down the unlit corridor.
"What the **** was that?" one of the marines whispered.
Torres squinted to see if he could catch a glimpse of what the sound came from. As he peered down the tunnel he still couldn't see anything. The only light was at the end of the tunnel coming from the steel and glass doors. The only thing he could make out were silhouettes that cast onto the glass, but nothing he could recognize.
"Lets move quickly marines. Torres commanded.
They began to work on the TF once again, as they finished it something appeared behind them. Barber spooked and turned with his rifle at the ready, finger on the trigger, and still intent to kill. As he round at what ever it was he narrowly took Strond's head off.
"Hey watch where you point that thing!" She yelped as she walked off of the PG.
She was wearing a Heavy Armor Suit and had a Heavy Machine Gun. Barber lowered his weapon.
"Jesus Strond, you scared the crap outa me." Barber said, still shaky.
"Well, sooooory!" Strond said with a loose grin under her masked helmet.
As she stepped off the PG more marines followed wearing more heavy equipment. Strond plus 7 marines in total.
"Private First Class Strond reporting for duty, sir." She saluted Torres.
"At ease private." He saluted her back. He felt slightly belittled. The armor made her stand and extra 6 inches and practically towered of him.
"Commander Thompson told me to let you know that there is more armor on the other side of the PG back at base for you and the rest of your team, I advise you make use of it, sir." Strond said.
"Yes, thank you Pvt. we'll do that, please finish securing the room." Torres said as he headed toward the PG, waving his team to follow.
One by one they phased in, Torres crossed first, entering the main base. He walked over to the armory where weapons and armor were. He stepped over the heavy armor and it pieced it self together over his body. he then bent over and picked up a heavy machine gun. He then heard the last of his team phase in. Torres walked away from the armory and was saluted my Miller.
"Your still here son?" Torres said.
"That's right sir." Miller replied. "Im holding down the fort until everyone gets back, they needed someone to watch the base, and I chose to stay behind."
Behind them, Barber and everyone were loading up with armor and fresh weapons.
"Your damn brave marine, most people would be to damn scared to want to stay here alone." Torres put his armored hand onto millers shoulder, which completely dwarfed him.
"What's there to be afraid of, ive got my Grenade Launcher, and there's plenty of turrents." Miller pointed around the room.
"That there is son, well good luck." Torres turned to see his marines freshly assembled "time to go to work."
They walked over to the phase gate, one by one they entered, Torres waited to be last. He walked over to the command chair and knocked on it in the comical 'dum dum dum dum dum'. a reply came from in side 'dum dum'. Torres silently laughed and began walking toward the phase gate when his radio crackled.
"Sir, your gonna want to get here, NOW." Barber said with urgency.
Torres hauled **** and jumped into the PG. he appeared on the other side to find his team on there knees in a circle around the PG with the guns drawn and lights on. Torres stepped off of the PG and his vision adjusted to the darkness.
He looked around the room, the lights were now off, he turned on his light. The Turrent factory was in ruin, and there was blood, lots of it...every where. There were bodies strewn all over, some half mangled, some crushed. what could do something like this? A fade couldn't cause this much damage in that short amount of time. it must be something with unbelievable power.
Suddenly there was a sound across the room, the marines in the direction of the sound pointed at it, it was a heavy, it was Strond, she was in the decontamination tunnel, kneeling down.
"Oh my god! Sir we didn't see it coming." She spoke. "it hit without warning, it just came running down the tunnel as soon as your team left, we couldn't stop i...."
She stopped talking and blood suddenly started pouring out of the face shield on her head, she stood up, but not under her own power. She started to wriggle then was lifted off of her feet, as Torres raised his weapon her chest plates started to protrude, all of a sudden a huge white horn came ripping through her body. It was enormous! the only thing that had a horn like that was the Rhinoceroses of Earth, but this was easily 4 times larger!
The horn began to shake forward and back ward until Strond flew from it at the marines, it hit them, knocking over the 2 that had been watching.
"Marines look sharp!" Torres shouted! "I need a firing sector!" Torres pointed at the decontamination tunnel, they all turned and cleared each others line of fire. As soon as they were all simultaneously pointing at the tunnel, there lights shown on a huge beast, it was plated with a white carapace, and wielded that gigantic horn, it roared and drew up its for legs and stomped, nearly knocking over Torres.
"Open fire!" Torres shouted. They all started firing there heavy machine gun, the animal started charging toward them. round after round, they fired at the behemoth, but the rounds were ricocheting off the armored face plate. It was just meters away.
"displace!" Torres shouted. The marines dove in all different directions as the alien came charging through the small squad. It swung it horn as it made a path down the middle of them, Barber couldn't get out of the way in time and its head smashed into him, throwing him across the room like a rag doll, he impacted the wall hard. as it ran by it tried to skid too a halt but slid across the steel floor and slammed the wall it self. It roared once more then began to get up, suddenly a marine phased through the PG, it was miller, and he saw the beast and began firing his salvo at it. Four grenades hit the giant Kharaa, making quick work of it, the first round knocked it back down, the other 3 turned it into swiss cheese.
"Glad you could make it to the party, son." Torres said as he used the powerful suits arms to help him self back up.
"Commander Thompson said you could use a little help." Miller said back.
"everyone ok?" Torres asked.
"Yeah, were fine." One of the marines said. "But Barber is out cold though." He was knelt near Barber, monitoring his health. "he'll be ok."
"Good, comm, we just ran into the mother of all hell beasts, please advise, over." Torres spoke into the radio.
"Roger that" Thompson replied. "advise to regroup and proceed with the mission. Ive decided not to have you and your team create an outpost, instead I just want you to enter the fusion room, retrieve the files, and get the hell outa there, reinforcements are not possible at this time, so its all you sergeant."
"Affirmative comm, Torres out." Torres turned to the squad. "Alright men. Looks like its just the five of us, so lets not get messy in there."
"Hoorah." they all grunted.
As they entered the decontamination chamber, the emergency red lights were on. There was no way the chamber could ever work again, not without heavy repairs at least.
With Torres in the front, him and his 4 marines moved down the passageway in to the main Fusion chamber. As they neared the opening a foul smell filled the room, the heavy armors suit began recycling and cleaning the air that came though the mask. They reached the end of the tunnel, the doors slid open and the squad moved into the room.
It opened into a very large room, a plat form went on ahead with a few stairs that went down into the main floor. off to the right there were more stairs which again only went up a few, but connected to the main control room.
'That must be the office.' Torres thought to him self.
But at the moment Torres wasn't concerned with the files, he was more concerned with what was in the center of the room. A large long metal encasing on struts was in the center, that must be the prototype engine, more then likely on stand by, thats why it was still slightly humming. and above that, there dangled the Hive. It was also quite large, then again, there wasn't such thing as a small Hive. That must be why that giant Rhino creature was in the other room.
The squad pressed against the wall and Torres signaled them to make there was toward the office. They were persistently quiet. it seemed to be that no one was home, they were almost to the office when they Hive suddenly began to move and quiver.
Then it created a deep moaning sound and spat out a small glob of goo, it looked like a big piece of spit, but no. It had just laid a new skulk. There were then other noises around the room, strange evil laughs, growls, and grunts. like the way wolves might howl before attacking an animal. Then it came, a skulk leaped from a wall, it was near impossible to see, it blended in so well with the similarly colored wall. One of the marines opened fire, every round connected with the flying Skulk and it disintegrated in mid air.
"Cover me! Im goin in to the get the files!" Torres shouted.
The marines all took up firing positions near the office door and Torres ran in. as he searched the room he could hear firing from out side, he cam across a computer. He activated it and slipped in a memory disk and cued the entire hard drive to download onto the large disk.
Out side the marines had there hands full. Skulks were coming from everywhere, keeping the well trained marines on there toes. a Skulk tried to drop in from above, it landed on one of the heavily armored soldiers but another marine bashed the butt of his rifle into the face of the alien, it smashed in the aliens skull and sent it flying off the marine.
The information finally finished loading onto the disk and Torres pulled it out in time to see a skulk come crashing through the window knocking him over, it began to chomp on his arm, unable to slice through the armor on the first try in held onto him. Torres used his free hand to pull out his combat knife and dug it into the aliens head, pinning it onto the ground, it wriggled for a moment then die.
Torres collected him self, threw the Disk into his RUCK SACK (Thank you IACA Commando), and proceeded to the door. He ran out to the room to find his marines still fending off Kharaa, when something slammed him in the back, he went flying across the room, slamming into the fusion engine, still semi conscious he watched as two fades appeared from where hed walked, unable to react in time the Fades began tearing through the remnants of the squad.
Miller managed to get off one grenade, and Torres saw the Fade explode in a glory of fire and green blood. Though the second Fade fired a blob from its shoulder and hit Miller right in the head, he watched as the helmet steamed then melted off, Millers body fell over, his right leg twitching. Torres vision blurred and his eyes closed.
"Torres, Torres come in, god damnit sergeant, DO YOU COPY?" a voice said.
Torres's eyes opened once again. "Torres are you there?" Thompson said in the radio.
"Go for Torres." He replied groggily.
"Oh thank god your alive, what happened, everyone is flat lined except you." Thompson said.
"We got to the room, I have the files, we were ambushed by fades, one was killed I don't know where the other one is..." Torres stopped mid sentence.
"Torres, hello? Torres!" Thompson shouted.
Torres looked up and saw a Fade start to make its way forward, it stood right above him, looked at him then cocked its head. Torres cocked his head straight and met the beast in the eyes. He looked the animal up and down, it had numerous scars on its chest.
"Your that **** I shot in the chest! Kill me you piece of ****! finish it!" Torres shouted. Thompson could hear him through the radio.
The Fade roared and drew up both arms, ready to come down on him like a ton of space **** that the beast was.
Thompson heard a scream through the radio, he knew it was over, it was time to abort the mission.
"Good bye Sander." Thompson said with sorrow in his voice.
"Good Bye? Why Good Bye John? This parties just getting started." Torres said on the other side of the radio.
Barber collapsed next to Torres and sat back up. He looked across the floor at the Fade with the knife stuck in the back of its head.
"I told you I'd kill you, you freak." Barber snarled and pointed at the dead Fade.
"OK sergeant, im gonna need a no BS assessment, can you get back here?" Thompson asked with a newly rejuvenated energy.
"More then likely not, I think my left legs broken, my suits reading it as broken in multiple points." Torres said.
"Yeah, and my back feels a little funny, ive got no ammo." Barber added.
"Im sorry, but the grid locks to bad in the room, I cant send you guys and supplies, your only chance is to make it too the Phase Gate, ill give you guys some scan sweeps but thats the best I can do." Thompson said.
"Roger that, we'll do out best." Torres replied.
Torres and Barber both used each other to stand up, Barber waddled over to the Fade and yanked the knife from its cranium. Torres pulled out his pistol and cocked it once.
Bright blue circles waved across the floor like ripples in a pond. The radio began to crackle.
"You two need to move fast, the room your in now is clear, but there are other Kharaa in the structure and moving toward your location." Thompson said.
Torres put his arm around Barber to support him self and they slowly began to walk toward the decontamination tunnel. They made there was to the doors and they slid open, sparking and falling off, hitting the floor loudly.
Another ping rippled across the floor.
"You guys gotta go, NOW!" Thompson shouted.
Loud snarls and scratches filled the room behind them, they limped hastily toward the next room, the sounds got louder and louder behind them. They could hear the tapping of a skulks talons on the metal floor when they reached the phase gate. Torres shoved Barber through and he warped back to base. Torres then turned to see a skulk running on the ceiling, he began firing his pistol, he missed once, then again, then he struck the skulk, but then it leapt at him, digging its forearm into his shoulders, pushing him back into the gate.
Together they warped trough to the other side, Torres fell to the ground, the beast still attached, he dropped his pistol and grabbed the animal by the arms and pushed it forward putting them out of his shoulders. IT began snapping at his, going for his head but couldn't because it was to far away. The turrents in the room turned toward the skulk but could not fire because there was a human too close to it. Torres' arms began to give, the animal started getting closer to his face, snapping, snapping...when 4 shots came from the side of the room and knocked the animal off him, the turrents took care of the rest as Torres rolled away. he sat up to see that Thompson had gotten out of the chair, smoking pistol in hand.
"Thanks." Torres said.
"don't mention it" Thompson said. "Barber had fallen unconscious again after he'd fallen though the teleporter, so I figured id play hero."
several marines warped in though the infantry portals. and aided Torres and Barber. Thompson got back into the chair and rang up command.
"Command this is Commander Thompson, mission accomplished, we have the files and are exciting the facility."
Seconds later a voice came through, "Roger that. good job commander. make it off that station alive and proceed to HQ for your debriefing."
Thompson again excited the chair. The 3 marines and Thompson put on the remaining heavy armor suits. They threw Barber onto a stretcher and began the short journey back to the drop ship hanger.
It was a safe journey, it only took them 3 minutes, a lot quicker then when they got there. Instead of clearing room after room they just jogged the quickest path back.
As the drop ship reconnected to the station they loaded on and took there seats and locked Barber in a stasis chamber for safe keeping.
As they rocketed off they removed there helmets. The 3 marines were quarreling in the corner. Torres and Thompson looked at each other and shook hands.
Torres suddenly had an angry look on his face.
"What's the matter?" Thompson asked.
"Bah! Remember how you couldn't get the med packs to us and how it mad things that much worse?" Torres asked Thompson.
"Yeah?" Thompson said.
Torres looked down his own side at his pack, keyed in a couple numbers then stuck his hand into the Ruck sack pulling out two med packs.
They both laughed at how he had some all along. Torres used one on him self and grinned, thinking out loud...
"Yeah...FUBAR."
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Only downside is the miss spellings and grammar errors. other then that it was very cool.
SEE THATs HOW THE ONOS SHOULD BE!! 4x size of a rhino... big horns and tusks that can penetrate through HA....and can be killed with GLS!!! easily
Thats how the Onos should be!
and what does FUBAR mean?
Haha, thats the $64,000 question now isnt it? Anyone want to help him out?
1. ****ed up beyond all reason.
2. ****ed up beyond all recognition.
3. ****ed up beyond all repair.
fuc*** up beyond all recognition
fuc*** up beyond all reason
fuc*** up beyond all redemption
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I LOOOOVVVEEE the ending! ROfl, 2 meds in his arse pocket!