“Warmachine, you’ll be dropping further from the action with China and Pretty Boy. Widow, Queen and I will scout ahead, figure the situation out.”
“Rodger that..Spartacus.” Clarissa said, then thought to herself “Get ready, you butt-kicking aliens.”
When the door to the Hermes opened and the ramp was shown to be jutting out into the night sky, Clarissa was about to follow Leon to the edge, when suddenly the cabin of the vehicle started to shudder and shake wildly, while below, you could see the fireworks like effect of enemy fire, that was lighting up the night like blazing flares, only more dangerous. The simulation had begun, with a woman’s voice heard on the comms. The alarm raised, and Leon screamed out; “GO!GO!GO!” She knew she was to stick close to Widow and Leon, but knew also that he would jump last, so she grit her teeth, and took off from the ramp, diving into the air, with her shield and jet boots the only thing to stop her from crashing to her death.
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“Warmachine….China…Pretty Boy…Spartacus…Widow…do you copy?”
Again nothing but silence and the odd electrical static. She couldn’t even get her coordinates, since the visor computer system had malfunctioned. Clarissa was on her own. “Something about this…was not right. This is supposed to be a simulation, but they were never like this.’ Clarissa thought, now certain that the mission had been sabotaged. But by who…and why? Trying to get her bearings as best she could, she looked up to the star constellations, and using these, she judged her position, and ran to where she thought the rendezvous point was. <3>
“Warmachine….China…Pretty Boy…Spartacus…Queen bee…does anybody copy? I repeat…does anybody copy?”
Silence. That was not good. She sighed, about to begin a search when a pair of Inglai came charging at her. Using her enhanced dexterity and flexibility she dodged the first, flowing around him like water. The second however used this as an opportunity to slam into her, knocking her back. As soon as she touched the ground, she flipped back up, firing her gun, killing them both. As soon as she knew they were dead, she ran off, activating her tactical cloak as she searched for the others, though unbeknownst to her, she was the farthest away.
*The elite made a last ditch effort to force Leon to the gorund on his back, succeeding in it’s effort. However, Leon used the momentum to flip the beast over his head using the pure strength of his legs and it landed on it’s back with a thud. In one smooth motion, Leon rolled backwards, grabbing both his energy sword hilts then using his fists to push off the ground when he reached a point in his roll that brought his head level with the ground. Using this momentum and the push of his hands, his body effectively landed over the Inglai’s chest. Now sitting on top, Leon activated his blades and just in time to deflect a swing for his neck. He roared and removed the Inglai of his arms in a smooth motion. Then brought one of the blades up as the Alien cried and squeeled loudly beneath him, wiggling about, then brought the pointed end into it’s head, melting away brain matter as it cleanly pierced the skull. the matter slithered from it’s ear and nostril holes, and the Inglai stopped moving.**Leon stood, lifting his blade from the body’s head and deactivated them both, but made sure to keep the hilts in his hands. That’s when Harver, his suits AI, spoke up within his helmet’s speakers.* “Picking up a hailing signal from…the Sergeant Major Steele. figuring it’s location aaaand….” *Leon waited a few moments, hearing the roaring of more Inglai as they came to investigate the silenced screams of their commander, or one of them.* “Got it. East of our position, moving towards our landing place. Bringing up the radar holo on your HUD and marking their signal.” *Leon took off in the direction of the green dot on his radar moving quickly and skill fully through the trees at intense speeds.* “Activate ours. It’ll let him know we read and he’ll likely figure to just wait for me.”
The Elite charged at alarming speed. Thinking quickly, Roger knew he had a sore rib and wouldn’t match the Elite in strength head on, so he dropped to his belly and did a pushup tripping the Elite inot the tree head first. There was a loud crack and some sparking on the Elite’s helmet which was now split open. It roared something unintelligible in Inglai language and tossed the helmet aside. Roger’s helmet was bothering him, but might be the only thing to let him survive a punch from an Elite to the face. He had lost the plasma blade, but then remembered that in his boot he had the antique K-Bar. The Elite had already recovered and was charging again. This time Roger wasn’t fast enough and caught a hard knee to the torso, coughing and tasting the copper taste of blood in his mouth. The Elite grabbed him by the collar of his armor and lifted him to it’s face. There was a sickening clicking sound from it’s mandibles just before Roger mustered his strength for a hard head butt. The Elite screamed in pain and frustration, dropping his grip. The Elite hammered a fist down on Roger’s head, sending a crack down his visor and splitting the helmet completely off his head. Roger’s bell was rung for a moment and everything went white. But he didn’t need to see for this part. With the ringing in his ears still, Roger used being hammered down to his advantage as he slipped the K-Bar from his boot and bounced back up in the same momentum, driving the blade all the way up to the hilt in the Elites chin. Dark purple blood poured down Roger’s arm as the incredibly heavy Elite sagged against him and he nearly fell with it. He managed to pull the K-Bar free and throw the dead Elite aside in a single fluid movement, and then stood there a moment regaining his senses and breathing heavily.
“Uh oh.”
Spinning around she was confronted by a massive Ingali who roared at her loudly, showing off its teeth and foul face. Clarissa found herself doing the same. “RAAAWWRRR!” back at it, as she went for a full on punch to its stomach, causing it to double over. Bringing both her fists up, she slammed them down on its head, so it would fall further forward, then her right knee came up swiftly, to knock it flying back, right into another Ingali that had charged up behind it. “Two for two..” she said breathlessly, taking out her dual energy swords and swinging them in a double rotation as she spun around, eyes glowering within the helm. A sound of static came into her ear piece and then she heard a voice that she had been aching to hear. “Got it. East of our position, moving towards our landing place. Bringing up the radar holo on your HUD and marking their signal.” It was Leon, and Clarissa activated her radar halo within her HUD, as her own signal would have been illuminated.
No time to waste, she took off at speed, running through the forest like jungle, sprinting and then leaping over fallen logs and rocks, in a bid to reach the others. She spoke in her mic, in between breathing hard. “Queen Bee still buzzing…copy? Had some bad company. On route to the Landing place, out.”
The figure of Clarissa’s suit darting through the jungle could be seen by the enemy, and the question was, how long could she out run them?
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