Dust to Dust
A not so awesome end (Edited)
Load Full StoryNext ChapterMy ears rang as white hot pulse energy took chunks off of my shields thanking my luck that I had bought those complex cardiac modulus as I jumped over a sand dune and into a conveniently placed piece of cover, my shields barely holding, the weakened protection quickly returning to full power as my trusty shield regulators kicked in,glancing towards the hostiles from behind cover my eyes widened when I saw a forge gun pointed at my face.
Quickly rolling out of the way as he fired the Caldari tech I drew my Nova knives stabbing the plasma coated blade through the other soldier's wrist making him drop the deadly handheld railgun before putting them in his throat,not noticing the man behind him until his rifle was aimed at my head ,I clenched my jaw sure I was inbound to the C.R.U when his head exploded.
I glanced back to see one of my squad mates Wanger our CQC expert, our Galente in a Matari army, reloading his shotgun before getting back into cover; while there were no hostiles around at the moment there was always the chance of a pesky sniper being up high and as a scout I couldn't risk getting hit.
"Bout time you slow assaults got here." I quipped,and while I couldn't see his face due to his visor I just knew he was rolling his eyes at my comment.
"Next time I'll let um pump your face full of thermal rounds." he replied dryly, never did have a sense of humor that one, like someone sent him to boot camp as a kid, or never let him have ice cream, or they sent him to boot camp as a kid at which he could never have ice cream.
I uncliped my trusted mass driver from it's strap on my back and switched the safety off as the rest of the squad rushed to our current position. I smiled as my squad set up around me,there was just something about knowing someone had your back. I took a glance as my passive scanner, improved through the range amplifier modification on my suit, picking up nothing I almost went back to paying it no mind until I glimpsed a fast moving signal to the north of us blinking on and off of the scanner.
"What the hell?" I mumbled catching the attention of my squad.
"Something wrong?" Wanger asked.
"Don't know what this is but it's moving fast as hell." I replied.
Not even a second after I spoke a scout lav zoomed past us the gunner turning to fire as we all scrambled to get away from the deadly railgun, the searing heat of the super sonic rounds impact scorching the cover we had been using for protection not a moment before as I turned towards the fast moving vehicle.
I aimed my mass driver as the driver turned for another pass firing a single accurate shot that hit the lav's gunner in the chest the explosive round scattering everything above his waist in a beautiful bloody shower that almost brought tears of absolute joy to my eyes.
I grinned to myself as Wanger destroyed the lav with a well placed packed av grenade sending the light vehicle up in flames,that grin left my face as I heard an all to familiar rumbling sound of heavy armor coming from behind me; fearing the worse I turned to a horrifying sight that I would have given many things up for not to be seeing: the businesses end of a railgun tank's cannon. I blinked knowing this was the end of my latest body as my squad scattered.
"Well ain't that some shi....
*Clone body terminated inserting consciousness into a new body*
My eyes opened as I...dropped from the sky?
"Oh Crap!" Was the only thing that came out of my mouth as I activated my inertia dampeners hitting the ground with enough force to crumple steel.
I stood up feeling like a boss; until my mass driver hit me in the head and I landed on the ground face first.
Grumbling as I removed the weapon from the back of my head I stood, again, and cracked my neck to remove the pain my only solace that the explosive rounds didn't go off when it hit me, I glanced around looking at the dense lush forest still active though this world's bright moon stood high; I had landed in a much different place then the barren wasteland I had been in moments before of that there was no doubt.
I glanced at my passive scanner through my H.U.D. picking up nothing whatsoever making me let out a frustrated sigh as I activated my tacnet to find a map and one again got nothing,in fact there was nothing on the tacnet even working including my comms ; well besides the frequency codes used for detonating the remote explosives I had on me in another pouch and I'd be stupid to make that mistake again.
Shrugging I did the only thing I could at the moment : walk in a random direction until I find something interesting and or dangerous, my plan of action for most things.
Walking to who knows where I took in the land around me,it was lively to say the least little furry animals that I couldn't place the names of scampered off as I approached and howls of some beast echoed in the wind. A predator perhaps, I'd no way to be absolutely sure but sharpened my senses just in case of an attack.
The survey of my surroundings came to a screeching halt when I heard something that had no rights whatsoever to be in a place like this, the screams of a woman, no the screams of multiple women.
Knowing that no soldier would scream like that, unless there was an orbital bombardment on their position and i'm sure I didn't see anything hitting the ground at supersonic speeds; or was dead again for the second time today.
I rushed through the forest towards the sound moving through the dark and sure enough found 6 women fighting a large predator with wings and a deadly looking barbed tail on it's back end,one of the women flew around the......wait what the hell!
I did a double take as the woman whom I'd just noticed had bloody wings due to the darkness flew circles around the beast like she had a drop ship's rockets stuck up her ass; this however didn't stop the tail of the beast from smacking her to the ground in front of the others in an ~~funny as hell~~ extremely painful looking landing.
It was then as I drew my blades and rushed forward I decided it was time for this proud Matari scout to enter the fray.
Author's Note
English is not my first language so if anyone can point out any grammar/spelling mistakes that would be great
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