The Piller Of humanity

Location: Planet mersar, Time: 5:25 am Standard human time. Sector: Minos, Sub-sector: Golden wasteland

POV: Max

Max shivered and shook his wings to remove them of snow that had recently settled in them, the rest of his squad behind him were sitting around a campfire trying to keep warm.

"Sarge, why don't you come over and join us," Grey, the teams sniper, said as he noticed Max shiver, "it's really warm here and I'm sure your wings are getting stiff,"

"Yeah Max, come and join us." Ikaros, the teams Combat Field Medic and Max's Girlfriend, said as she rubbed her hands together trying to get as much warmth into them through the gloves. Max grumbled as he stood up and walked over to the fire, his D45 Assassination Sniper in his hand, his Armor was painted a mixture between snowy and Forest camouflage, his helmet had the telltale light on the side that said he was currently looking through the camera drone that was stationed on a mountain behind them. Max looked at his squad as he had flash backs of when he first met them.

FLASHBACK: Playing Video file: 3-0-3 or as designated by owner: "Meeting Grey"

Max woke up to a beeping as his alarm clock which was currently playing "Requiem for a dream", He looked over to the source of noise before smashing the top of it which turned it off.

"Why can't I get a bloody break and just sleep," He moaned as he sat up, the blanket he was under fell of his chest revealing a Lightly muscled but still muscled body, A scar ran from his left shoulder to his right eye, a result of the torture at the hands of the ponies when he was captured with Ikaros.

"Nice scar," A voice rang out as Max jumped and fell off his bed, he got up and looked to his door only to see a boy around the age of 15, the thing that caught his eye's were the grey wings on his back, they were fairly for someone so young but the main thing about them was the cybernetic lines running along them.

"Whats with your wings," Max asked before grey chuckled.

"They're Implanted with cybernetics, mean't to increase my suits scanners and thermal vision or something, didn't really pay that much attention," the boy replied with a laugh, "Names grey, mind telling me your's?

"Sure, it's Max Hunter,"

"You meant the survivor of the Zero station attack?"

"The one and only,"

"COOOOOOOOOL,"

FLASH BACK END.

"Sir, You kinda blacked out on us there," Ground-side said, his heavy armor making his voice sound even more threatening which was already quite scary considering his huge size.

FLASH BACK: Playing video file:  3-1-0 or as designated by owner: Meeting Ground-side

Max blocked another punch, sweat dripping off his face, he quickly sidestepped a charge and kicked his opponent in the back which did nothing to this behemoth of a man.

"Just give up, you know you can't beat me," the man said, as he kicked Max, "I'm not even breaking a sweat,"

"I'm fine, and I won't surrender," Max replied with venom in his voice, her quickly dashed forwards, his speed faster then the man expected as he used his wings to dash faster, he dodged a quick kick and knee'd the man in the face before roundhouse kicking him out of the ring.

"Good... fight... my names... James... but most... just call me... ground-side."

"Cool, I'm Max,"

FLASH BACK END

Max looked at Ikaros, not needing a flashback as it was too painful.

"Grey, whats the status on the Designated target?" Max asked as he sat down, his Sniper put down next to him as he started to get an MRE out of his Large backpack.

He quickly ate his meal before grabbing his sniper and moving back to his ledge that covered the enemy base, and just in time as a large group of vehicles pulled into the base.

"Sir, targets inside," Grey chimed in over the Team COM, "I suggest setting up and using the laser setting,"

"Roger that, and maybe you could have alerted me earlier," he replied as he deployed the bipod for his rifle and set it down in the snow, he laid down next to it and synced the scope to his helmet CAM. A small square of static appeared in his VISR before being replaced by an image of a window, he quickly panned down to the second floor and started to search for his target, he scanned the windows three times, his frustration mounting before he switched to thermal, the target highlighted in a red diamond on the edge of his screen showing that the target was up a floor. Max quickly panned the scope to the window his target was in where he found his target  on the balcony, he quickly lined up the shot as he, he held his breath waiting for the signal to fire.

*BOOOOM*