Monday, September 22, 2008

   [Samurai] The Great War
This is just a crazy story I made up in my mind and so I thought I would share it but, I warn you, you dare copy the idea I will go samurai on your ass seriously it is copy righted.

The year, 2817. mankind had practically destroyed there home planet fifty years ago even after all the radical changes. the planet was failing so we fled to another galaxy... and lets just sum it up.. we were not welcome there. the humans landed on a planet that they called home, but, nothing come free even in another galaxy. it was only shortly after we had arrived and built our first city. they called,Odysseus. Od as we call it was soon contacted by another intelligent life form called the Sho (pronounced She~ick.) well that's bug language for you. scientists deemed them insect like because there skeletons were on the out side but, much more human on the inside. to close. things grew intense.. fights broke out. War begun between us for our new home, They have no were to go..the humans... but, not all of us are human as they say. Humans waged war with the bugs, well more like bug hybrids but, natural. Humans were out matched and so then we were, made i don't fully know what i m...but, i can fight a war to change the out come. i just hope that "we" can save one side before it is to late..
So here we are fighting a battle humans can't win on there own..Don't get me wrong i m human but, i m not all human.
At least we are not all human me and my squad.

"Open fire!, We have to hold this line or we are going to fall."
The human commander stood there holding his troops the best he could. The enemy out numbered them, but they were dug in really good, trenches every where and heavy gun implants.
"should we help them?" asked 04. We do not often go by our suit numbers but it helps us when we are in battle.
"Maybe" i said in a cold tone.
"Come on lets go i want some action" said 03.
"Ok, ok we will go."
"Sir look at that what are those guys doing back there?!"
"I don't know i m just glad to see we have some help." "Sir-" As i turned my comrade was shot in half. His guts were splattered all over. Stunned for a moment at the horrific site of the blood. I went to his side and picked him up.

"Don't leave me sarge i don't want to die! i m going to make it right?!" I looked at his body his guts were falling out. He was dead his mind just hasn't caught on yet. I stared in to his eyes and pulled out my pistol. Bam. His body became motionless. i closed his eyes and lay ed him on the trench wall. i looked up again over the trench and saw the four moving from behind. Either they are our hero's or our failure. "Men Hold the line keep firing give them hell! We are not going to give up till every bullet is gone and every sword is broken!...."(to be continued)

The guns sounded like thunder to the lighting fast bullets. "02 and 03 i want you guys to take the left side of the front trench me and 04 got the right. Move." We moved in perfect unison in the dessert sand. Even with 03's heavy machine gun equipment he moved just as fast as us. I guess it is because of those awkward wings he has on his back, little stubby things.
"Keep firing men we have back up coming! Hold the trench. Heavy guns, fire in the sides force them to bottle neck in. Trip the alpha set mines!" Dear god there is so many...thousands. I guess this is were back in the old times on the first earth in old Sparta. Where we are the 300 Spartans and, the Bugs are the Persian empire. History...
"Sir we need heavy gun ammo for the left side we are running low."
"Private go get some back in the underground armory." This is hell my men are being pick off one by one. inch by inch they get closer. the closer they are the closer to death we are. ~thump~ "what's that?" thank god back up is here. "Who are you?" they just keep walking. "Hey answer me!" They just kept walking. I touched one of there shoulders. It threw me on to the ground and just step up to the firing line and started un loading it's rifle. They bore a insignia i have never seen before a phoenix doing battle with a wolf. "~AHHHHHHHhhh~" another terrible scream from one of my men. Pay attention man this is war. "Give me comm private tell how is the left side doing?"
"-Sir apparently two others had shown up on the left side. Similar style in armor with minor differences. One of them carry's a plasma bolter sir. There overall status-The bugs are retreating the enemy is retreating on the left side." Good i thought now we stand a chance. Why aren't they letting up here? they just keep coming. The sight is scary as impressive, they seem like a shadow passing over the mountain side. "Keep firing men! back up has Arrived! we can't give up now! Hold the line." i only hope i can continue to inspire my men to fight with my words.
"Bugs-AAGGGG." I looked at my right and saw my first private get stabbed right in the chest. Blood was drooling out of his mouth as he screamed. He did not let go of the trigger...his gun kept firing in the chest of the Bug. I look at our front lines. The enemy lines were maybe a meter lengths away from ours the only thing separating us is our bullets and there claws....
I pulled out my sword and my machine pistol. i gathered my close combat troops..."Men we are not going to see tomorrow this is our last moment..You don't have to come with me this is no order this is a request."
"We are with you sir!"
"Charge!" i raised my sword and ran in to the front lines i stepped up over the trench wall. We ran in to the enemy line clashing. The unknown troops that came to help hopped up to. They pulled out something that looked like a sword. They ran after us, still firing there weapons. I focused back on my goal and held my machine pistol's trigger and shot the head of a bug. I stabbed my sword in another's head and shot down another that leaped at me. "For Glory men!" I got a reassuring who ha from my men behind me. "For our new home, For the people!"
(to be continued.)

The fool of a leader he charged straight in to the enemy. You might as well of said, here i m on a silver platter. The fool he has no idea what he is doing. He will pay for his mistake. 04 try to pull back what ever is surviving the frontal assault.
04 what a unlucky number i have. Then again compared to the humans with there fool for a leader i may be just as lucky. Now lets see pull back the front line. i pressed my trigger and gunned down one bug in mid flight. I grasped my sword and with a flick of my arm my sword found a home in side the chest of Bug, i pushed forward to kneeling position and cut the bug in half from the chest down. I look to my left only to see one of the marines be decapeted by the blades that grow of the bugs arm naturally. The commander was still hacking away deeper into the enemy lines. Looked like a fork going in to jell. The jell being the bugs and the fork being us. I grabbed a Marine by the back of his shirt and sprinted for the trench. I hopped in the trench in mid air i threw him in. We landed together both of us hitting the wall on the inside of the trench. I stood back up and looked for more to rescue. There were none to be seen at all. (to be continued.)

I looked for the marines that fallowed there leader into combat. I all i saw was massive hordes of bugs, some blood splatters here and there nothing out of the masacre. Then i remembered 01 was still in there. Are so many. I looked for something out of the norm there was just to many bullets and grenades going off. All i can do is hope. "Hey," the marine said, "There going to give us heavy bombbardment a Zeus strike." Well that basically means for the next two minutes they will fire artillery cannons on us. From large artillery cannons based in our capital city 40 miles away form here. I have maybe a few minutes to se if 01 was still alive before it is to late. I looked again. This time a Bug bullet went wising by my head. I ducked then continued to look, bugs were every where the second i saw one it dropped dead or was blown up. Not the prettiest thing to see. I could here the whistle of the artillery shells coming in. It sounded like thunder at the highest pitch possible. Boom,one hit right dab in the middle of the bugs. A sphere of fire consumed a large portion of them. The ground shuttered like a small earth quake. Then i looked deeper in and saw something moving out of the fire. It wasn't a bug to short. It held a weapon. It was cutting through the bug lines running towards the trench. It was 01. She made it! She was running at full speed with the captain on her shoulder. When we run at full speed we can run up to 40 miles in hour. She came running in. Fire was flaming up from behind her. Boom another one went off right behind her. She jumped in to the trench landing right on the back of the wall and as for the captain he hit the wall also but, he had a little fire on his back and shoulder because he was not in one of our awesome armor suits. "Might as well dig in for now in till the shelling stops" i said. She tilted her head in a yes nod. (to be continued)
A couple hours past since the shelling.
"Hey what can you do to get a fire started around here?" said one marine. 04 and i looked at each other. I smiled inside my helmet fully aware that he could not see it. 04 came back with some dead trees about two or three. Thats another awesome feature we have. Amazing strength. He broke one down in to a pile in the middle of us. The marines look at him at him in awe. Not really stunned but, i m sure that they are thinking good thing he is on our side. He pointed down his rifle. He pressed the button on the forward part of the gun. Then in a blink of a eye his super heated bayonet came on. A sharp green color that look furry compared to fiery, the same matter the made our interesting swords. The marines fell back wards in shock. After a few moments one of the marines broke the ice by asking me my name. My name i thought, "My name is Kim.." Then he looked at 04 and asked him the same. He said, "my name is Ryan." The marine thought about it for a moment and then said, "My name is Jim." I looked at him for a little he wasn't scared of me or Ryan nor was he really surprised of what we looked like. We actually have not used our names in months. Then Jim asked again poking the fire with a stick. "Why don't you guys ever take off your helmets?" I did not turn to him instead i got up walked to the end of the trench and look out for emeny's. Ryan answered, "we don't take off our helmets because we are not really human." The marine next to Jim pick up his pistol. "so, so, your one of those bug things???" the marine said pointing his pistol at Ryan. Ryan looked him in the eye through his helmet. "No, i m not a bug." he said in a smooth tone. The marine sat back down and tryed to relax but, became paranoid. Jim on the other hand became fascinated with us. "Then what are you?" he said. I thought about it for a moment i actually do not really know what i m. Im human genetically altered with what though. A chicken?! no i thought that wouldn't work we would be feathery not fluffy. Our hair grows out of us like a human unlike a human our hair doesn't get greasy. It's not all over but, we have more then the average human. I walked back in the campish place. "We are" i said...."we are genetically altered humans. Now see instead of being introduced to new chromosomes to make us super we were altered with a animal. We grew up basically as lab rats. Because of this war. Now we have been fighting it since it has started." Jim sat there for a moment. Then looked back at us. "do you know what animal you were genetically altered with???or could you describe it?"
I thought about it for a moment. Then in my heads up display i received a message. It read. I know the answer to this one Kim.. it was from 03 aka John. Ok i wrote back. He wrote back this. The animal was mean pure white. It had large fangs all the way to the back of its mouth. It had a long snout a slightly fluffy tail and it had mean eyes. Golden color. I told the marine and Jim this as i read it. Jim sat there stumped. "Ahh" the other marine said. Or if you prefer the oh so brave commander. "The animal you speak of is the Arctic Wolf." A wolf i thought that sounds right. I've read about them in books that i got from destroyed settlements out side our main city. "That must be it" said Ryan. His posture changed almost as if he had some huge burden lifted off his shoulders. Jim sat there amazed. He looked like a kid that went to a toy store. He was probably no more then the age of 17 or 18. The commander looked at Ryan then me and looked really confused. "so why don't you take off your helmet" Jim repeated. "because it wouldn't feel right" i said. Ryan turned his head to me with a slight tilt basically meaning, why? I moved on. We were given some food by the chef then. Basically a chef in the trench just pushes a really big cart only small enough to hide under the walls of the trench and move with ease. The marine started eating almost the second he got his food. He said chewing a mouth full, "you did good to night with the chicken soup chef". The chef laughed and continued his journey. The soup was chicken chunks and veggies. A fine meal in the Marines these days. It was hot and it came with bread. Not bad i thought. Ryan looked at me. Then sent me a message in my H.U.D. Can we take off our helmets and eat?...I said back if you want to you can. I will join you if you do. Ryan took off his helmet in what seemed like ages. He had short Gray hair on his head. His eyes were golden. his skin was slightly more white then the humans. He looked over all human. the only thing that makes him really different are his ears and his eyes. I fallowed suit as him. I took off my helmet. My hair was shoulder length. The color of my hair was pure white. My eyes were a baby blue. My ears were not really as pointy as Ryan's but, were still slightly sharp compared to a human. Other then that i looked human. After i removed my helmet and got a breath of fresh air i opened my eyes and looked at the marines. Jim mouth dropped with a little bread falling out, the commander looked at me hipmotized. Ryan stared at me to." What?!" i said. "Nothing" Jim said quickly contiuing to eat. The commander just started to eat again. Ryan smirked and ate. I picked up my bowl and started to eat. The taste of real meat was good. The food was excelent. We continued to chat the night away around the fire. A friend well made i would say.
(to be continued.)

Morning was just over a hill from us. The suns beams were barely over the hill. Because we are not on Earth the days are different they are twice as long. No enemy's in site everything for once was nice. The marines were still asleep. My helmet was back on and the same with Ryan. He walked up next to me. "do you think we should leave?" Said Ryan. "i don't know let me ask command what the next step is before we leave this place defenceless." I went to my H.U.D. or heads up display. I sent a message to command asking for the next move. Command replyed with sit tight untill resupply comes along about mid day. I turned back to the sleeping marines. The fire was out just ash now. Behind them were huge gun implants. "i looked at Ryan and opened comm with him. "We sit tight till resupply comes." He nodded and i got a reassuring a o k from my other team mates in the left side of the trench. This trench is highly re guarded by the towns people behind it. It is two miles wide enough to block off the canyon. The smaller city infront of out capital city four miles behind it. With nothing stirring, i was on the edge. Kind of paranoid really. I looked out into the vastness only to see a few thousand or so bodies of dead bugs. a site not ever forgotten in fact a news crew was here to get it to bost moral in the people about the war. (to be continued.)

The resupply trucks were almost to the trenches.
Ammo and food. That's what this place needed bad. The trucks arrived and the news crew was wrapping up the sun was over the mountain and in mid air like a rabbit jumped but, got stuck. That movement. At first i thought it was a illiusion but, it was bugs regrouping for a another massive attack. "John, do you see anything on the left side?" i said franticly. "That's a big N....O over here." he said softly. "Get Sam and your butt over here we have a huge attack coming." I said gearing in to my combat mode. I raised the attention of the commander, "what is it?" he said. "Bugs...." i said grimly. His eyes widened and he yelled "Load up and kick it, gear up we got enemy in coming." A few more marines ran out of the under ground bunk behind us. The marines got up in there gun implant and raised the turret. The supply crew hurried there unloading. Some cars to and tanks. Not your run of the mill titian class tanks no. these were bigger and bader. One drove right up next to the gun implant. It read on the sides. "Hell's Gate Keeper" It had dual barrel turrets on the top, On the sides of that at a 45 degrees angle it had two missile launchers nine missiles total in each. then under that it had one huge cannon. Then on the frontal part of the base it had 2 repeating hi impact plasma rounds like John's, only this was on a tank. The tracks were Twice as thick about six inches thick. It loaded with a nice plump sound of the cannon shell. There were six tanks that i could see. I'm sure there are more for the rest of the trenchs as well. As i looked out for bugs to start swarming over the hill, the sun began to become blocked out. It was to fast to be a cloud. ~screeech~ six war hawks aka fighter jets flew at the cloud lanuching there missles. Well that answers that. A marine yelled "Sir we are cut off from air support to many bugs." great i thought things cant get anyworse but, of course they do. The bug hybrids were not the only things that lived here they are other things as well giant things. ~thump......thump.....thump~ a almost perfect heart beat the ground shook. It was a Dosga aka one giant bear with adituide to kill. The bugs made armor for it to. Then the swarming begain, bugs poured over the hill like water over a ball..Shells started to rain on them. "Kim" someone shouted. I looked it was john aka 03 and Sam. Amazing they got here in the nick of time to die. (to be continued.)

Shells rained like lighting in a thunder storm. Plasma shells fired out of the auto cannons. Fire ripped through the air. I looked over the trench walls and saw bugs being burned by the shots. There chests turning in to ash there scream terrible. Red blood boiled on the ground from the bug hybrids. They keept coming "dam it!" someone yelled. His voice quietly disappearing in the sound of heavy tanks shells. All The tanks top two sides opened up and underneath them was huge speakers. They played music. Never really could understand the words but, i like the guitar parts. Why we do this, it disrupets the bugs comm between each other. They use sound waves at hight pitches to comminicate. Thus causing them to runn around with no clue. "Bow chicka chicka bow wow" sam said as he started firing on the coming swarm. One bug jumped at him but, with out even missing a beat he pulled up his gun and fired the secondary built in grenade launcher feature. It found a home in side the chest of the bug and blew up. Limbs and red blood went every where. Even all over me. I guess that was bound to happen because i m standing five feet from him. John laughed and continued shooting at swarms. "Can you try to keep things a little less messy?" i yelled. Sam laughed. Ryan threw two grenades at a in coming swarm and before i could count to one they blew up burning the sand. Turning it in to glass. I looked at the gaint Dosaga in the distance. It was mean and it was big. kind of furry not really though. It held a tank in its claws the tank was still shooting at it. A few good shots found home in the shoulder and the creature dropped it. Screaming in a deep roar as the tank fell to the ground. (to be continued.)

The roar of guns continued endlessly as the swarms that ran in to the fire. John, Sam, Ryan and me Kim. Heh names. We stand here to die for human kind alike. Ryan do you think we have a chance?
"Would you prefer a lie or the truth?" he said yelling over the gun fire. I thought about it for moment. Better i don't know. "Open fire" the commander yelled behind us. I have forgot about him and Jim. Jim ran up from behind us this time he was in full gear. Metal body armor. bulcky blocks really. helmet and shoulder armor. The green color it was painted. Numbered 869. I guess he is like us more then i give him. He fights for the weak. He stands for rightness of his people. A oath i had to take when i was made and released into first combat. Werid how i remembered it now. Jim fired his basic assault rifle. he stood there un flinching just as us. A roar of a tank behind us made us look up. As i looked a tank ramped off the higher wall behind us and over us. i ducked and pulled Jim down. Sam was already ducked, Ryan jumped out of the way. John just stood there and watched it fly. "Thanks", Jim said. I nodded at him and then got back up. The tanks had all run in to the front lines. They were charging the bugs. A nice neat line of tanks ran in to hell firing there weapons. The bugs jumped on them to get shocked by the eletic armor sheilding. One landed on the top and got blown off landing right in front of me. It was smoking and twiching. Ryan fired his weapon in to its head. I looked at him. He replyed with the universal what look. The commander came back up behind us. "The trench line has been broken we need to fall back!" I looked at him and thought about it. Stay here and die or die where it matters protecting the poeple. I nodded and we went. Jim was allready getting the hell out of there almost the second the commander said fall back. Back at the very back of the trenches was hq. They had a on live active feed of the battle on a holografic display table. The bugs broke threw the cornor of the trench line from the look of the feed. A transport tank came right up. The commander walked over to it, "Get in". he said in a sadden tone. I walked in. Sam was next then Ryan and John. Jim started running up the ramp of the transport. He stopped and helped a few other marines hop in. And a couple more and then he got in. "Commander what are we going to do now?" said one marine. "We are going to defend the town what else would we do?" said the commander sitting down. A few marines were looking at us. I just sat there unmoving. I looked over at Ryan and Sam and they were doing the same. The trasnport moved with massive speed. The motor roared to life. The wheels spined and we were off. It is really amazing that these things can drive over sand dunes even with the high transport weight.(to be continued.)

As we road along in the transport. More like a sea boat from the up down side to side shifting of the transport. A sea of bugs fallowing us. The six turrets on the transport began to move and shoot. one was on top another was in the rear to were on the front sides and the last two were in the mid section. Shells dropped inside the hull of the ship ringing constantly on the floor. "We are about one mile away from the boarder of the town troops, once there you will be unloaded to defend. You shall defend sector tango 212. As for us we will be heading in to the inner part of town to defend the main hall for the citizens." Said a piolet of the cruel machine. Cannons on the out skirts of the town started firing past us. The transport stopped and turned skidding to a halt. The back door dropped down but, the guy manning the turret still stood were he was the turret was well crafted to work while unloading too. That was helpful. Once we ran down the ramp of the transport, we were greeted by the commander of sector tango 212. "Welcome to the second line boys. Now this is not the first line so i m now your new commander if you do not fallow me speak now. Good." He walked by me, Sam, Ryan and John and stopped. "You are not apart of the federation!" he said with a surprised look. I wrote on my interface arm computer "yes but, we are here to help hope you don't mind here is my rank." My rank was not military but, higher up then a five star general. Kind of funny really. He nooded. "Then move out and welcome to bug country." (to be continued.)

My squad. Sam, Ryan, John and me, Kim. We were set on top of a brige covering the main street in to the town. As we stood here we could see hundreds of Apcs coming back to the main town on the east corner of the lower end of the country. Although the humans are out matched by both numbers and brute force, the humans win by smarts. The main city in the sector which we are now defending is called, "hells gate". Odysseus is actually another 40 miles behind us. Here we in front of a dessert in a city about to be rolled over by a tidal wave of bug hybrids. Not the best day ever if you ask me. Tanks came rolling out from in side the city four for every sector. 36 sectors. Not much to spare. What is really interesting is that a tank from the twenty first centaury is here. One of the old school tanks. 700 years old and still capable of working amazing. Every thing is silent to silent. Sam walked up to me. "We hold our breath before the fall." he said. I looked at him and thought. "Do you think we stand a chance or are we going to go here?" John walked up. "I m not going down as long i have bullets in my gun." he said cheerfully. I similed forgetting that i was wearing a helmet but, i think he knew i was though. Ryan stepped up. "I think it is there time not ours, we are just here helping them. I think that we will find a way to live this round too. We always do." I looked forward out towards what use to be trenches. Bombs, mines missles, long range cannons and a a Zeus strike were hitting them. The last transport drove in this one was beat up and had bug all over it. "I guess this is it." i said. "The breath before the fall." sam repeated. (to be continued.)

We stood there all as one. And over the flat lands came the black tide of bugs. The tanks rolled out in to a straight line. Jim shouldered his rifle. "Here we go again". He said. i looked at him, then at us, we stood there calm and relaxed Jim was tense and nervous. The commander walked by stopped behind me and turned. "Open fire!" he yelled. and bullets started raining out of guns. Sam pulled out his rifle and started shooting. We fallowed suit. The bugs were 20 meters away racing towards us. There charge started to slow as our bullets found home in there armor. The tanks Fired there cannons and fired there plasma repeaters. The old tank fired its one cannon and its fifty cal. turret on top. The bugs raged on wards they started taring apart the tanks. The tanks still kept firing, Jim. started to pick off the bugs on top of them. The old tank was torn in to and the screams in it were horrible. "Don't stop firing men." the commander yelled. A trooper ran up to the commander. "Bugs started climbing up the walls!" " There climbing over the tanks to us!" Jim Yelled. I turned to him and he was stabbed in the shoulder. He screamed and pulled out his knife and stabbed the bug in the head. I ran to him and grabbed him. I pulled him back and lay ed him down. He looked in to my visor, "Don't let me die." he said with blood gushing out of his mouth. i looked back over my shoulder back at the wall. my squad was shooting the bugs down. i pointed at it and he nodded. I got up and grabbed my rifle and started shooting. The commander came yelling, "Full retreat to the inner city pull back. No transports, go on foot travel fast and make sure you have ammo." I looked at the commander weridly pulling back so soon? why? I helped Jim up and we started to fall back.(to be continued.)

I looked over my shoulder to see a trio of bugs running after us. I turned around with Jim hobbling with me and we Fried at the bugs. Are bullets made home in there bodies and they fell down halting and screaming. With out a second look we turned and continued running. Sam and Ryan were a little ahead and stopped every now and then to wait for us. John was in the back slowing the bugs down. The town was engulfed in complete chaos. The center of the city was coming in to view and the transports tanks were in sight. One marine was pointing behind us. We turned around in unison. A bug was flying at us claws shown. It mouth was open druling over the ground. I herd the sound of gun fire behind the bug and the bug splattered all over us. "Gorse", Jim said. i laughed and he laughed too. Ryan was standing behind the remains of a bug, gun smoldering. He walked up to me covered in dirt and bug blood and human. "Lets move", he said. We ran past the line. "We made it", Jim said he was happy. His laughter was silenced sunndly. i look over at him and he had a bug bullet shot through his stomach. Blood was flowing out of him rapidly. "Medic!", I yelled! A medic came running. "He is still alive, hardly, he is just in shock and past out from lack of blood." the medic said. "Lets get him in to the genic pool. He will be fine." No sooner then the medic said that he lifted him up and had him taken to the genic pool. Basically what a genic pool is, is a nano bot liquid that reconstructs you from a genetic to a celluair level. Sam, Ryan and John were already here next to me. We lined up and decieded to guard the main entry point to the citys capital building were all the cilvilians are. "Here we go again round three," Ryan said grimly.(to be continued.)

The transports were neatly lined up to defend the last of the city. Concreted walls were here and there scattered all over the field, neatly though. A few marines behind each one. Some were stone cold others were shaky and others were just plain quite. Behind that, is one tower with two 220 cal plasma repeating cannons. And behind that was a elevated building. Were the people are held up. Were we Ryan, Sam, John and I, Kim are holding. A commander or two were walking up and down there lines to hold the inner city. The roar of screaming people in the streets beyond the line of transport tanks grew close. As it came closer the roar of the turrets on the transport tanks came to life. More proud to fire then a loin is to roar as king of the jungle. Flashes of bullets ripped though the air. Blood was splattered every where from what i could see. Bugs as we call them. Were jumping up the buildings and scaling them. When they were jumping from the roof i thought they were human because they were really close looking to us. When they landed on the transport tanks and lived i was worng. The towers cannons flamed to life insinerating every bug they hit. The marines stayed behind there ten foot tall concreat walls hiding waiting for the right time. The bugs lifted the center transport up on to its hind wheels causing it to do a wheely. It's tires scream and screeched to move forwards running down a couple bugs. Then a bug charged it from the side and knocked it over rolling six times hitting a building to stop. It lit fire and became a flaming bomb. ~Booooooom~ it expolded killing every bug with in twenty feet. the remaing transports were knocked back and a couple fliped. The marines poped up and and opened fire on every thing. The remaing transports fell behind them and reopened fire on the bug's. Bug bullets were flying every where. Marines where screaming as they died pain full deaths. No retreat this time no order to fall back this is it, Stand or fall. Run and be shot by your commander for abdonment. The marines held there ground for twenty minuets. They were over run. Conreat walls were chiped apart one part at a time others were knocked over crushing a marine. The rest had bugs climbing over the wall and stabb the marine in the skull. Our guns roared to flaming hell, at the bugs. Bullets finding homes in anything that moved towards us. Sam threw his grenade at the bugs blowing them arpart. A limb went flying by my head. I remained focus on my targets gunning them down. A bug lunged at me screaming and screeching at the top of its lungs to impose fear on me. I pulled my triger. the hammer hit repeatedly but, no bullets came out. The bug drew closer and closer with nothing to do i pressed my bayonet button. The bug landed dead square on my super heated plasma bayonet blade. It screeched in pain as it struggeled to get away from it. It was useless i burned out it's cheast cavity and it's stomach before retracting my weapon. I reloaded my gun. I continued to defend my ground not moving for anything. I seemed to inspire hope in the marines and they stepped up beside me and started fighting. I took a one sec look to see who walked up beside me and my squad. It was Jim and the commander from the trench! Jim was fine didn't even look like he had a scratch on him, although twenty minuets ago he had no stomach to speak of. He looked at me, "What?! there good at what they do!". I laughed loudly and continued holding my ground. The emeny's drool and teeth clearly seen. The yellow of there eyes all visiable from where i stood!(to be continued.)

They drew closer and i became tenser. Jim Screamed widly and shot everything that moved in front of him. The flashes of guns started to increase in rate. John the heavy gunner was the only thing stopping the bugs. They were begining to horse shoe around his fire and ours pushing them back. I reloaded. Sam threw another greanade at them the bugs. They fell back more. Again though they began to push back at us getting closer. Much like tug a war but with pushing and guns....ahhh never mind. A couple bugs leaped at me. I didn't panic i pulled out my plasma bayonet stabbed them square in the chest in mid air. Then using my gun like a sluge hammer i smashed the bug in to the ground. I glanced over my shoulder and saw the second one. I pulled my gun out of the human bug thing and preformed a one eighty smashing the bug across the head with the butt of my rifle. Quickly turning the gun over, i satbbed it in the chest. I pulled my gun out and looked across the battle line everyone was in a sort of hand to hand combat using rifle to hand combat. Jim came up behind me running, slid under me and shot down two bugs in mid air coming after me. "Someone has to watch your back". He said. I looked over his shoulder and pointed at the bug running up behind him. he turned around. He was stabbed twice in the chest, then the bug pulled out its one huge claws and cut off Jim's head. His blood was ozing out of his neck. I screamed and ran at the bug, with it's friends close behind it. I jumped at it kicked it in the head doing a spining kick. It fell over side ways. At the end of my spining kick i came flying down puching it in the skull and neening it in the stomach. I nocked the wind out of it i think. Rolling back to my feet i picked it up by the legs and spun it, throwing it in to other bugs. I lept at them. They stood there frozen that someone would do hand to hand combat with them with more feriosity then them. I grabbed my gun using its sling and pulled out my plasma bayonet and gutted the thrown bug like a fish! It screamed in pain shaking it's body side to side in pain watching it's organs turn to ash from the heat of the bayonett and finaly roaring wtihs it's mouth drooling sending spit on to my helmet. The ones that were stunned were trying to get up. I rolled over the gutted bug cutting off ones head.I turned and shot the other two in the head. I peaked over my shoulder and ducked, doging a beheading claw swing. I stabbed the bug were a groin should be it's skin turned to ash. It fell back wards rolling down the stairs. I looked to find nine more standing around me. John came from no where and shot one bug in half in one bullet, and smashed the other in the head with the front of his gun. I charged the bug in front of me and shot it in the chest killing it. Using its body as a sheild with my spare hand i blocked a deadly stab. It's black redish blood poured over my arm and chest. I pushed the body forward off; on to a one arm hand spring and landed on the bugs sholders and stabbed it's head before it even new what hit it. I watched the skull colaspe as it was insinerated. I looked back at John. He shot a bug in the gut barrle touching the skin of the bug. The torso and legs where seperated flying apart with bloody spraying. Then doing a one eighty he kicked another bug in the head. How does he do that with that huge ass heavy gun is amazing. although he has those stubby little wings on his back. I get it those arnt wings those are mini jet eninges that help counter his heavy weight so he can move as fast as us. The bug went flying to the side hitting the railing on the stairs. Another bug was about to cut him across the back. I cloudn't do anything, but watch. Sam came from the sky flatning the bug sort of. You could hear the sound of its spine snapping. There bones are on the out side though they are as hard as rocks and when there bones break it is not that bad for them. Then he pulled out his 75.cal pistol and shot the bug in the back of the skull. It's blood splattered every where all over Sam's helmet. We went back to back, surrounded we prepaired. Then Ryan jumped over the horde of bugs and rolled to his feet. He stood back to back with us. "You guys wounldn't leave me out of the fun would you?" he said happly as if notihng was going to happen and this was just a simiulation back at boot camp. "No" i said. "Why would i leave you out of the fun, are the cilivians ok?" i continued. He nodded. The bugs didn't move they just stood there. In perfect unison un moving.
"What not good enough?" I said. "Hey maybe they are sending a better challenge at us." Sam said. "Yea something worthy of us killing." John continued. Ryan laughed. Then in great odd they turned away from us and spilt. A larger bug then normal came out. More claws too and thicker armor by the looks of it, Sharper teeth, Taller more pointy armor. It laughed at us. Waited about one second sizing us up, it's puipules went tiny. It's mouth dropped with thinck drool pouring out and charged me! I doged it by side stepping, Ryan rolled between its legs. Sam jumped on its back, John shot it. It's armor pinged and burned with all of our gun fire. It's armor barely looking like it was taking damage. Sam pulled his knife out and stabbed it under the jaw a weak spot in bug armor. It grabbed and threw Sam at me. I cought him and set him on his feet. It pulled out the knife out, covered in black red blood as the blood poured out from the wound, it licked it's blood with it's tounge. dropping the blood soaked knife. It charged me and Sam again. This time i pulled out a greande pulled the pin luanched at it crashing into it i climbed on to is back. It's arm reached for me, it's spikes scarping my armor. Kicking it in the back of the nee. It buckled over, i shoved the grenade in it's mouth and jumped off of it and rolled in to John. The creature got up and pulled the grenade out of it's mouth and looked at it. Not one second after it looked at it, it blew up in it's hand insinerating it's body in a hot charcoal action. The other bugs mouths dropped. Taking advantage of this moment of sirprise. We opened fire cutting through the bug line. Escaping. We made it back up to the top of the stairs gunning down the bugs. There was still at least six hundred bugs in veiw of our fortifications. About sixty of them on the stairs. Sirprisingly there were still marines out there alive holding up in small fliped over car baricades. "John,Sam,Ryan lets get some steeds." They nodded and we ran to the Military auto shop across the street. Inside of it was nothing at all all empty. "Hey come here guys", Sam said. "Wow", Ryan said, happly. John walked up, "Woooh!" he said. I walked over and i found four military large heavy armored mortor bikes. Guns equiped in, emergency thrusters in the rear for jumping large gaps. Every marines dream to ride. "Do they have keys?" i asked. "Uhhhh", Sam went. John walked over ot the cabinet next to them. "Found em!" he said. "Lets ride!" Ryan said. no sooner then he said we all hoped on a bike guns on our back's and started the bikes. The engine sounded like a lion's roar. We opened the gate to the street and road off in to the bug hordes! "Charrgeeee!" Ryan Screamed!(to be continued.)

We road into the bugs over the remainder of concrete walls. The side of a bug horde turned towards us looking at us confused. Ryan did a wheely and ran down one of them. It's chest cavity inpounded and it's orangs and blood splatered out. spraying and the bone platting snapping sounds. John came riding up, gunning a few of them down. One of the jumped at me. I stood up on my bike pulled out my rifle and shot it. My bullets found home in its skull. Sam Came riding up to me. He pulled out a spiked grenade. He slammed it in to a bugs stomach as he drove by. We turned towards the entrence of the city that we came through. We looked back and saw the bug expand with blood gushing out and it's limbs flying in all directions insinerating the rest of its corpse. somke went sky rocketing high. I pulled a wheely and pushed my thruster button excellerating in to a bug. It took the blow and spinned to the side. The bug grabbed my bike's back tire, a high screech sounded as the tire wanted freedom. Smoke began to billow out, the bug chucked me. As i was flying through the air. I looked back to see if anyone was there. Crash landing into a car, my intire body stopped with bone jaring action as i heard a pop. I looked up at the buildings. The roofs were covered with bugs that were closing in around me. I stood up and rolled my shoulders. One poped back into place. I prepaired to stand as Ryan came leaping off the roof! he was shooting his turrets as he went. A trail of flames fallowed his bravery and valour. He landed next to me. Then he pulled out hie rifle and shot six or seven bugs. He offered me his hand and pulled me on to the back of his bike. Sam and John came riding up. Sam parked on top of a bug. He pulled out his .75 cal pistol and shot it in the head. "Were to capt'n" Ryan said in a phoney english acent. I chuckled. "How about back to the trenches?" i said in a humorious mood. "Ok" John said. We road on wards. The city behind us in a dyer state were it wouldnt matter if we were there or not. All we can do is draw the bugs away. I guess that is why we are in a happy mood. We lough at death and dont care about the rest. Ryan revd his engine the roar of a loin once again came to life. And we peeled off the tire screeching and melting in to the road. I pulled out my rifle and fired at bugs as we went. Sirprisingly marines were still alive at the entrence firing what ever they had at the bugs. Blood was spalttering every where, human and bug alike. It was a meat grinder. As we got closer to the exit of the city from where we entered bug hordes became thicker and thicker. We ramped off of a flipped transport using out bosters. Flying through the air felt so nice, a moment of true happiness for once in my life. Then war clicked back in. I grabbed two grenades on my belt. Pulling out the pins i let them go in to the horde of bugs beneath us. I looked back and the sphear of fire comsumed the bugs. John and Sam looked like they were driving on it. As we came down for a landing A bug grabbed our front tire. Spining Ryan and me it threw us in to the horde of the other bugs. i went flying off the bike. Landing on the ground rolling. I rolled to my feet and instintly jump instictively. I spun doing a spining kick to the head of a bug. I landed on the ground and pulled out my rifle and shot it in the chest. I looked around me surrounded completely alone. Then feeling a hard hammering sound on the back of my head i flew to the ground my legs and arms jello my eyes fading. My vision went black. (to be continued)

My vision was blury. I cloudn't really see what was happening around me. I cloud feel my arms being held up around someones sholders beside me.
i was being dragged, my legs were just dragging along. I shook my head and my vision cleared. I looked up and saw a bug hybrid was leading us somewhere. I kept my cool and tried to relax. I looked back at my feet and i could see another one of my team mates feet two maybe four or five of us. Did Ryan and them get captured too? I wonder...
I tried moving but, all my limbs were unresposive and i was too tired to try to move. I passed out again. I was awaken by Ryan shaking me. "Glad to see your alive" he said. I tried to stand up but fell over becuase i tore almost every muscle in my body. I looked back at him. "I rather be dead then in a prison...." i said.
"Well you may want to recall that," John said. I looked up and saw him walking towards me to help me up. "Oh do i now?" i said. "It could be worse," Sam said. Although we were in a sad place; us being all together made me smile again. I was placed against the wall sitting up. "Hey do we still have comm with command they would love to know that we are in a bug city...." I said.
"No," said Ryan, "I tried that about in hour ago...something is blocking us or we are out of range..." he continued. A bug with some sort of weapon in its hand walked by us. "Guard" i asked.
"Yup.." Sam said.(to be continued)

Two bugs guards walked up to our cell. A some what leader looking bug walked in. he was wearing ordaments not seen on any bug that i have seen. It wore a neckless and a crownish thing on its head. They were a silviery gold color to it. He walked towards me and spoke to me. All i herd where simi high pitched squeaks and words that sounded like they were being said back wards. I looked at the bug dead in the eye and did the universal i do not understand thing. It rasied it's finger to, i guess say give me one minuet. It said another werid thing and a guard walked up with four things on what appeared to be a pillow. It was purple and made nicely. It picked up one of the things on the pillow and slamed it in to my shoulder before i even understood what happened. Ryan came to my aid and so did the others pulling me back. Prepairing for a fight. I got up a couple seconds later and told them to back off i m all right. "Do you understand me now creature?" it said!i do not believe it clear as day i understood it. Then it picked up another one and put it in it's arm. "Please speak" it said.."Let me go beast" i said. Its funny really in any situation i m always mean.. "Ahhh now i understand you." it continued. It seemed not even to care that i m well trained fighter or anything. "I now own all four of you." he continued. "You will now fight for me or die trying. If you run i kill you, if you disobey i kill you, if you dare attack me i kill you. These are my rules you live by em or die." It said in a humble tone. Thinking over my options i stood there unmoving. "Ohh really? well how about this you go take your rules and shove it and i will stay in this cell." i said staring in to the beasts eye. "How dare you insult me! kill it!" it said. One of the bug guards walked in its spear foward in the kill postion. I didn't move. It thrusted it's spear at me and i grabbed it. Sprialing with a kick i sanpped it in half. With the half in my hand i leaned forward and stabbed the bug in the gut. It nelt to the ground in pain and i kicked it in the face sending it flying in to the bars of our cell. "Well, it seems you still have some fight in you creature. Nor are you human it appears. My name is Kashem. You will be fighting for me rather you like it or not today in the arena. All four of you will. You have only hours to be, before it is time." Kashem said as he walked away and the guards closed the cell pulling out there wounded comrade.(to be continued)

A couple moments passed by i stood there motionless. I looked down at the ground and saw the blood from the bug. I turned around and walked up to my team mates and we stood in a circle thinking of what to do. Standing there like statues on a building unmoving. "So why dont we just break out and make a run for it contact command and nuke it..."said Sam. I thought about running the operation over my head. Were in a jail locked in, guards probly every where and if we were to take out the guards there is probly a army waiting out side for us. "that wont work Sam," i said. i wish it would though. "It looks like our only option is to go with the flow this time." Well then all we can do now is sit and wait and play Kashem's game. "I do not like it but, it makes the most sense" said Ryan. "So we sit and wait untill we are called to go in to the arena..." sam said.
"yup" i replied.
"ok then i like it but, once we are out there then what" Sam contiued on. I thought about it. We could try to fight our way out and call command for a emerngcy evac. I played the plan over in my head. It was our best shot and the only one we have. Not much to pick from.
"ok so what is going to happen if we play the game, we fight our way through the crowd and we get the hell out of here, get command on line and get evac, nuke or bomb or what ever the hell will work to kill this place is the plan." i said with hopefullness.
"ok" they all said at once. We sat in our cell for about a hour. Then two guards came up to the door. Behind them was another ten or so. Kashem walked up to the door. "Are you ready creature" he said. I got up and looked at him. Although my helmet made my expression blank i think he could feel my anger. "Ready to kick your arse!" i said angerly. One of the other guards walked up behind me and tied my hands together. They did the same to Ryan, Sam and John. We walked single file all the way to a entrance of some sort of arena. Wow he wasent kidding he really is going to put us in a arena. As we walked in i could see thousands of Bugs in the seats watching us. Although we call em bugs they really are human just another form, a form built to live with almost next to nothing. The crowd cheered as we walked to the middle. The guards removed our restraints. Then the other four guards walked up to us each with asortment of weapons. There was a spear, a reverse blade, a staff and a stabbing dagger. I picked up the stabbing dagger. Sam choose the spear Ryan choose the same. John picked the reverse blade. The guards walked out of the arena. Kashem stood there he turned to us and walked towards us. "Today you shall be fighting the infomous leigon, Black tide. The very same poeple that took your city yesterday." i said nothing and flexed to see if any of my musscles were swore. My intire body screamed at me but, i had to manage. I looked to my left and saw a large tower, It stood like a rectangle on its side above the crowed. Some sort of leader bug person stood up. "Today these creatures that are non human nor us shall fight the black leigon to the death!" The crowed roared with word death. "let the games begin!" and the gates close no sooner then kashem left. Then the gate infront of us opened. Roughly thirty black leigon bug people walked in. They stood in a square formation of five by six. The five infront weilded spears the rest went with the natural weapons. The blades that grew along the side of the base of there arm and there long and sharp, hard as stone... claws. "FIGHT!" was yelled from the bug person on the tower! The legion charged us! Ryan, and sam made a simi front line with there spears. John stood behind Ryan, I stood behind Sam. "For the fight of human kind!" i yelled!(to be continued)

The bugs roared as they charged at us. We stood there in perfect stright formation. Backs ramrod stright. No movement in our musscles. The bugs where three steps away and we broke our frozen posture. John and i jumped on to Sam and Ryan's backs and flung our selfs in to the air over the bug spear men. They looked up distracted at us. Sam and Ryan took this moment and stabbed the bugs in the neck; blood gushed out of the throats and there jaws dropped as they grabbed there bone plates on there neck. They fell back, tripping the others. John landed first knocking down about six of them. I landed on one of there skulls. The head stayed under my foot till i hit the ground grushing the skull and purple brain bits flew out. The body jerked for a movement and then stopped, blood poured out from the crushed skull. John rolled up on top of the bugs. He pulled out his well crafted reverse blade and stabbed a bug in the head. He rolled back and stabbed another about three times in the back. I looked to my left and saw a bug running at me. I reversed my stance and thrusted my stabbing dagger in to its gut. I then crouched and threw the bug over my back. rolling back with it pulling out my punching dagger. I stood herd a screech from the back of my armor. The force knocked me over. i rolled to my feet facing the bug. I charged it and rammed the dagger in to it's chest plate. The Blade split the bone plate crudely. Fragmenting the bone armor gushing blood out, The bug screamed. It's yellow eyes stairing into to me. Drooling it fell over. A bug grabbed me by the shoulder and turned me to face it. It punched me stright in the face. My head jarred back and blood began to run out of nose in my helmet. Regaing my footing i grabbed its arm with my free hand. I cut off its arm with my dagger crudely. The bone split with high pitched snaps the blood and flesh dropped out of the freed arm. Spining with it's arm i slamed it across its head knocking it over and all the blood out of the arm. Sending it flying to the ground rolling. Blood sprayed every where, My once white armor was a darken red black. John put his back to mine. He was blocking and doging many claw strikes. Three bugs came at me while the others grouped around us. I Charged at them, retarcting my arm and releasing in a fluid motion i punched it the throat and knocked it down as it gaged for air. Side steping the falling bug i dived between anothers leggs and rolled up. It turned around, staired me in the visor and slashed at me.I leaned back watching sparks fly as it scraped against my metal armor. I quickly stepped back to counterbalence and i punched it in the face. The bugs head jutted and it placed's it arms in the way. My second punched colited with the rock hard bone plate. The metal of my armored fist became bent. The bug took a swing at me and i ducked doging it. I returned with a upcut to the chin sending the bug on it's back to the ground. I jumped up on to its chest. I grabbed my dagger with both hands and stabbed down as hard as i could in to it's throat. It coffed up huge amounts of black red blood all over my wristes and hands. Blood also squited out of it's wound into my visor. The other two bugs got up and looked at me and there bleeding comrade. Then they looked at each other. Then at the same time there blades on the base of there arms shot foward forming horazontal swords attached to there wristes. They charged me. I flung my self at them. They didn't miss apace steping on there fallen comrades or watching me fly at them. One of them lanched it self at me! In mid air we crashed into each other falling we punch and stabbed at each other. Our armor screeched and hissed as we stabbed. I rolled over on top of the bug landing on top of it as we hit the ground. I took my daggar and cutt off it's arm, and used it's blade of the arm to stabbed it in the skull. The top of it's head fell off like a hat revealing the purple brain. The other bug retreated. The bugs formed a perfect circle. From each one i could see there were at least three behind it. I turned back to John. He was covered in blood and scratches. He had two bugs in arm locks. He jumped up pulling on there arms kicked them in the faces sending them flying back. He flipped back to his feet. His blade was gone. I saw it snapped in two. Each part sticking in a different bugs chest cavity with blood oozing out. I looked back over my shoulder. There was a bug one step away from hitting me on it's full charge! It punched me in the helmet. It's claws had torn part of my face mask off sending blood out all over my armor. I was flying through the air as i looked down at the ground i could see a trail of blood coming from my cheek. All the blood flowing like rivers. Why? i asked my self in shock. I hit the ground. I focoused back on the war. I rolled side ways doging a sword stabb at the ground. I got up. The bug looked at me. "Deamons can bleed, Deamons can die!" it said with anger. It tried to move it's amr and couldn't pull its arm free. "fuck" it said. And i cut off its head with my blunted dagger. It's head dropped to the ground and rolled as blood poured out of the base of it's skull. The body fell perfectly on it's arm. I stood my ground un moving facing the bugs. A couple of them had there mouths open in awe. I peaked over my shoulder at John. He was right be hind me. Fists up and ready like he was in a boxing match. One bug stepped forward at us. It pulled it swords foward from underneath its arm. A sword slashed at me from the side i side stepped it. A thrust came at me. I blocked it with my arm. The armor screeched and grew red hot from the friction. I could feel my flesh burn from the heat. I threw a right hook stright into the bugs face. It's check bone snapped and it's skull became deformed. It's eye flew out and hit my visor. The body became limp. I let go of the dagger in my right hand that was clunching the dagger so tightly. Releasing my hold on the blade it fell to the ground my knuckels were sore and felt broken.. The circle line broked in fear. Sam and Ryan came running in thinking there was more bugs but more sirpriesed at the massive amount of bodies John and i stood on. They were begining to pile up. John touched back with me again. I ducked. Because that is usally what that means. And a bug sword made a skidding sound across the back of my armor. I felt water run down my back. John kicked it in the kidney, with a just as fast punch to the face and another to the gut and repeating untill the bug was a bloody pulp. It hit the ground as a a thick mud like bloody substance. The bones of it's head and chest where smashed to bits. Ryan grouped up with us. "looks like you guys were busy." no really i thought i mean come on Jhon is covered in blood and scratches and im bleeding, burned and hurt. Sam came running up."shall we then?"
"yes we shall" said John. We charged in to the bug mobb as one and made our break for freedom! (to be continued)

My heart beat was in my ears. My blood rushed to my body. My head was clear and all was quite. The bug wall stood in front of me unmoving. For a few seconds everything slowed down. Sam and Ryan where to my right. John to my left. I look foward again and time sped back up. Pushing off my front foot i lept in to the air. The bug looked at me and tryed to defened it self it was to slow. My other foot landed on its face. I leapt off of it before it went crashing in to its teamates behind me. I landed on the other side of the mob and ran for the wall. Sam was infront of me Ryan was next to me and John was a step behind me. The wall went up for fifty feet. Not even slowing down i ran my foot in to the wall at full speed then i picked up my other continuing my run up the wall. My arms shot side to side away from me. My breathing grew intesnse. I slipped at the rim of the wall my hand quickly grabbing the edge. my knuckles screamed at me. Ryan and John did the same. Sam was no where to be found. Then i flung my other arm up and started to pull my self up. A bug body guard went flying over us. Falling to a sad death. I got up and rolled over the edge. A spear came flying at my bloodyed, spit on visor. I grabbed it with my good arm. I tired to push it away but, it was failing the spear grew closer, trying to use my other hand. It sreamed at me more and more. The spear began skratching at my helmet. The plexy plastic almanium began to crack apart. I then kicked the bug inbetween the legs sending it over the wall. Ryan kicked away another bug about to stab me in the gut. It's legs hit the wall and it tripped over the edge and fell. John helped me up. Sam was standing there waiting with a spear he got off a guard. Sam nodded and went running. We fallowed him through the complex hallways. Some of the hallways were nicly designed with gold sides and some sort of writen stuff. Others were just grey and flat.
we came to a set of stairs two guards on each side. With out stopping; Sam chucked his spear at one. The guard went rolling down the stairs. I jumped on to the other one sending it down the stiars. With every stair a new bone craked open releasing blood and fragments. At the bottom of the stairs the bug was crippled and dead. We came to a out door city. We were on some sort of step prymid. The sunlight was brighter then the inside of the arena although that was a open roof. I looked at Sam "you sure you know where the hell we are?" He looked at his feet. normaly that means no or who said i did know. There was large trees and rich green grass every were. With out a second thought i sprinted as fast as i could to the tree line surrounding the city. A few bug citizens took cover from my wake. Holding there items they carryed tighter. One step from the tree line someone shouted, "get them i want them dead! i own them kill them!" it was probly kashem or someone that thinks they own us. We ran for about another 10 miles and took a break. We sat down. "where in name are we!" i said in breathless out rage. Sam tripped over a rock and landed on his knees as if he intended to. "We got G.P.S but, according to this we are about six hunderd miles from anywere near human zone. We are in the heart of the southern bug count-" his voice went in coherient and i fell face first towards the ground.(to be continued.)

Screams of ten year old kids were all around me. I looked to my left and there was John, Sam and Ryan to my right were some more kids. I looked at the sargeant who was standing at the back of the air ship. Some straps of above me jiggled. All the kids were laughin and talking to each other as if this was another day. The sargeant walked in to the middle of the air ship. "Ok you troopers we are going to drop you in emeny military controled zone. I want you to go and nuetrilise the emeny armor so we can roll in do you get me!"
"We get you sir!" we said in unison.
"One more thing you will not be in your normal teams." We all looked at each other. My comrades James,Matt and Max gone. UHoh. "Kim, up. John up, Sam up and Ryan up and center." He yelled loudly. He handed us parashoots and opened the rear hatch. "Go, go, go!" We jumped out. After fifteen seconds we Pulled out our parashoots and we droped slowly after the sudden jerk to the ground. We landed and cut off our parashoots with pocket knifes. We took off in to the trees. I crouched and we circled up. We could see no base near by of any sort. We looked around. "theres a river" i said. They looked and shook there heads. A Rule in behind emeny lines rivers are fast ways of transporting supplies and or drinking water. We looked up and down the stream. We could barely see a chicken wired fance and some lights. We ran closer sticking behind a thick wall of trees untill we could hear the roar of tank engines. We slowed our run to a sneak walk. I looked at the guards checking there cars and transports for stole aways. Ryan chucked a rock at the fence. I looked at him angry. "What are you doing tard." i said. His veiw didn't change. I looked back at the rock right when it hit the ground. A land mine went off. ~Ka boom~ instient confusion to the emeny. "nice" i said. The emeny rasied there guard and left the posts on the outer fences running for there guns. We sprinted as fast as we could towards the nearest transport. We slid under its thick set frame and clung to the bottom of it. The transport moved in to the base with speed. It stopped and the fences pulled shut. It turned left and parked in a underground hut thing.
We let go hitting the ground with a slight thump. "ow."-"shut up" i said. I looked around the transport. No feet. We crawled out. Sam went up to the driver and pulled his smiley face. The driver stepped out and went "hey". He grabbed his pistol and shot him in the leg. Poor driver. "It is ok, it is a stun gun." Sam said. I went in the drivers side and put it in to reverse. "anylast thoughts guys?" i asked. "none" they said. I picked up a rifle and jammed it in to the gas peddle. The transport speed off in to the distance. Up the ramp it went down and out the exit ramping on the last bit. A bright flash of light went. Someone yelled "put out that fire". We climbed in to a air vent. we crawled in it for a bit. I herd the sound of troopers voices. I stopped. "you think it is right that we are about to use live rounds on these kids?" one of them said. "yeah, captain said we lose we better hope god has mercy." I reached in to my pocket. I pulled out a few flash bang greandes and wired them together and placed them under the vent in the baracks. I continued on my way with sam and john fallowing. We crawled out of a vent in a bathroom. We closed it and hopped out the window. There was a tree right by it and we took cover behind it. We looked at the two rows of tanks. We could see two other squads going trough them removing any guards quitely. Probly fire team and gold strike, they like doing that. We are team bang. Usally because i cause booms and leaders are named for there traits.
I popped back behind the cover of the trees. I chuckled on the inside. The old general will never see this coming. Team Gold strike finished and ran over to us. "What where you doing to the tanks?" i asked. There leader looked down. His name was Ahmad. "I placed flash bangs in them." Team fire walked back to us and joined us. "well are we set to steal the tanks that are not rigged?". "ya" i said. We turned the corner and ran for the tanks. A guard saw us and shouted. The baracks blew cutting the guard off. Up with a large lighting light bright shot out from the windows. The door blew off its hinges and marines screamed but still unharmed. Team fire and team gold made it to there tanks and took off. I hoped in mine and john and sam did theres and we started the engine with a thundrious gas chuging engine. We drove off and ran over the fence.

~Slap~ another plam tree leaf hit my helmet as i was on the shoulder of Ryan. Not exactly the most fun thing ever ridding on someones shoulder through the jungle with my path not cleared but, it is not like i had a choice. Sam was right behind me and John was behind Sam, Ryan slowed to a dead hualt after about three miles panting and gasping for air. Sam and John came skidding to a halt behind Ryan. Ryan placed me down not realising i wase awake. I watched them catch there breath. "hi" i said. "AHHHHHHHHHH" yelled Ryan. "what?" i said. "I thought you where dead!". I chuckled and listined for fallowers. The jungle was as slient as it was normal. Meaning bugs beasts and what ever else was here screaming there head's off 24/7 was gone. The sun was setting to a long day. Night was coming. I got up and pulled up a tree about my height and broke it in to two. My face flexed in force as i broke it. It was far tougher then it looked. After that i Picked up and rock with a rather sharp edge and started trying to sharpin it. John and Sam looked at each other then at me. Ryan just sat there. I looked up at the rising moons. One to my right and one to my front. That is different normaly they are to my left and back. That is because i never look back at mankind, i always looked for them. How things can change. I looked at my team, "You guys want to get some rest?" There heads nodded in response. I nodded back and they lay ed down. I sat down my back to a tree and continued my mindless task of sharping a stick with a rock. It is a old school trait though.(to be continued.)

Ryan got up form were he was sleeping. guess twenty minuets went bye. He walked over to me and sat next to me. i leaned back against the tree to relax a little more now that i m not alone. "do you think we will make it?" He said in a mono tone.
"i do not know." i said. He took off his helmit. He placed it over to his right by a bush. Man how things change. Frist dessert where there are scattered trees, a concrete jungle or a city if you prefer and now a fricking rain forest. I grew transfixed on one spot on the ground thinking. Ryans head turned to mine looking at me. At frist i was unaware but, i turned to his. My helmit still on and beaten and bloodyed as the moment of the battle. He placed his arm over my sholder. My body went in to a flush of goose bumps. I looked at him. He smiled and continued looking in to the forest. I took off my helmit letting my white hair drop back covering my simi ponity ears. I placed my helmit on my knee. Stairing at all the holes and cuts in it. I grew confortable. Slowly i relaxed in to his arm and leaned against him. He turned towards me again. he looked me in the eyes i looked back in to his. There was a rusle in the bush. I ready my self and flung my self out of his arm in to impeneding danger. I jumped into the bush and landed on a marine! out here so far! He screamed. Ryan luaghed! I helped the marine up. "who are you" i asked. The marine dusted off his scout uniform. "pleasure finding you...My name is Alex Adrogious Sixth company tango squad." He looked back at my helmit on the ground rolling. I picked it up and placed it on my head refolding my hair. I looked for Sam and john. They were not in there slumber postions. Figured they were this sinsetive. "ok guys come out" i said. They came out of the bushes and trees weilding sticks. Big sticks. I turned back to the marine. "what are you doing this far in bug territory?" He looked grimm. He looked me in my cracked helmit visor again. "The city you defeneded was a distraction for the bugs... We took our armor and rolled it in to there capital in the sounthern half of the country and they flew after it in that massive swarm..." he continued after a momnet. "our armor was destroed before it, two tanks. Then we rolled in there capital defenseless practicaly and took it over. This is why we are here not to far from here is that building. I guess there is two but, i m glad that command in formed you to us before the bugs found you." I guesterd for the marine to move forward. The marine did so with absolute stealth.(to be continued)

We fallowed the marine moving the occasinal branch in our way or bush. We came to a clearing after thrity minuets of walking or so. It was another bug city. Just as big just as amazing as the last. When we took two steps out to see on top on the pryimad, it was our flag of our countries. In fine bold it bore the Phenix with its wings arched up it's head down. Then to the side of the central structure there was the HQ in thick cement and steel re-enforcing. A few turret mounts here in there in the high places other than that nothing much for a defense on the out side. We walked forward. I was fallowing the marine closely. We came to the steps of the central building. We started out walking up the steps. As we went up i could see a couple dosen marines wounded and being patched a few screamed from the agony. We continued up and i looked back up at the marines back. "Defenseless those bugs still had fight in them." he said in a grimly tone. We came to a the HQ a soon to be new tactical head quaters if this place holds. In the room there was one man standing with his arms behind his back. To his left was a tactical map display. to His right was a counsle feeding the information of local area and marines. He turned to face us. "What a hornor it is to meet you at last the famous, rumorious and finaly amazing four. Phenix Squad." He said with a smile from ear to ear. I looked at him square in the eye. For some reason he was truely happy that we are here.
"We are glad you are alive command would of had our ass if you wernt. Command is going to send you a party favor for tomorrow. For now you will rest relax and take a load off... Alex here will guide you to your bunks."
"Sir" said Alex.
We turned the corner after Alex. He lead us downt the stairs through the hall way of the wounded. It was worse then i thought there was more then a dosen or two there were hundreds of them from deep single cuts to missing limbs. As we walked the moral of the troops seem to increase. A couple cheered to us. After the hallway we turned left. Alex opened a bug made door that was large and stone to uncover a two bedish room. There was four beds in it and a few bullet rounds in the wall. "laters" said Alex. I nodded in thanks and walked around the room. A couple blood stains and a few bullet rounds. Looks like a house but, like in a hotel. All connected all in one huge building. I walked in to the back. There was a human installed shower there. Installed recently too. "So who's frist?" Asked Ryan. I sat down and took off my helmit. "One of you guy's can go i want to get a few hours of sleep." i said starting to does off.
"I will" John said. He walked over to the side of the shower and began to unplug and take off his armor. Taking off the chest peice first. By entering the code in the sholder to hit the release clamp. I fell alseep with my hands behind my head and my legs sticking off the bunk. "Hey, Wake up." Said Ryan. His hair was wet and he was wearing a towel around his waist to cover him self. "Your turn" he said. I got up with a yawn. I walked over to the corner and began entering my four digit combo to unlock my chest peice. 1991 is my combo..The air seal blew open and the chest peice released it's tight clamp on my body. I grabbed the peice and set it to the side next to my helmit the armor was cut deeply and had holes in it. I grabbed the back peice and placed it on top of my chest peice There was a cut through all 4 inchs of steel but, i had no wound on my back just dryed blood. I paused to think about the leathal death that was stopped by it. I was now in my bare shirt. I took off my sholder peices,my guantlets and the hands. My fist was completely brused still but, didn't hurt. My intire top half was bare accept for my tank top shirt. i looked in the mirror in the corner to examin all my wounds. My cheeck had dried blood on it but, no cut. My shirt was torn in the back and covered in blood all the way down to my underware. My should was brused and my fist was brused. Then i took off my tank top and found that my abdomin was brused as well. Then fallowed the underware. I closed the shower cover to cover my body. I turned on the hot water. For once in a long time the shower was real hot water not cold water. I enjoyed the shower so much, i stayed in there for a hour. I grabbed a towel out side the shower cover turning off the water i covered my self with it and got out. I grabbed a second one and dried my hair. I threw it on the ground and left it by the shower. I walked over to the bed lifting the blanket up. I sleepted under the blanket nicely. warm in a bed not my suit it was nice. I looked over at Ryan, Sam and John they were all asleep under there blankets in towels same as me. I fell a sleep. A deep sleep.(to be continued)

I herd some shuffling around the room. I opened my eyes and look around. It was Ryan getting dreesed. I smilied at his built body and went back to sleep. Later i was shaken on the sholder. "Hey sleepy head get up." it was Ryan again. I looked at him yawned a little. I did a sit up and got out of bed. There was a creat at the base of my bed i hadn't seen at all last night. I walked over to it my towel still on covering my body. I released the two seal clamps. The lid of the crate opened with a creat clunk. It was new armor. A fresh new suit and wepons. Looked the same as our olds ones too. I picked up the armor and placed it on my bed. Besides the new under knife that was installed under my left arm gaunlet retracts in to the guanlet nothin appeared to be new. i grabbed the new underware and tank top and put them on. Then I started with the feet. I picked up the armored boots. Unlocked the clamps on them and opened them from the middle. I placed my foot in it clamped the sides together and buckled the tounge down. A perfect fit as always. i did so with the other, the shins and the up legaments. I placed on the pelvis pecice and clamped it. IT tightened as my last one did with pressure pads around the hips. I picked up the front and back sides of the chest peices and placed them on my front. Then the back on the back. When the clamps were close enough the automaticly hook on and tightened to my breasts, chest, abs and my back. I picked up the sholder peices and placed them on. Then the guantlets. Then comes the gloves which armor for every little part of the hand and finger. Last and not least in fact really important my helmet. I picked up my helmet. the helmet sealed my body in the armor capable of holding me in space and living for a good day or so before something else got me. I turned to my bed. John, Sam and Ryan all got there suits and stuff together long before me. I walked out side our bunks to the hallway to be greeted by Alex the scout who found us last night. "Will you come this way with me" he said kindly. I fallowed him down a series of halls and coradors. We went out side. I found my self in the center of the town. Ryan and the others were showing off there new weapons and aiming skills by the looks of it. I shook my head boy's will be boys i thought. Alex picked up something and turned around. "Command wanted you to have this and this." It was a plasma rilfe and a plasma bayonet fixing for the rifle. I placed the bayonet fixing on it and walked over to the range. The gun looked no different then my last one. I aimed at a target about 45 meters away the regular distance we shoot at. I pulled the triger. The shot came blazing out at the target at the speed of light it looked like. The target was insinerated and the wall behind it. Amazing. Alex and the others mouths drop accept for John's and my comrades they were firing theres all morning so they were use to it. John as always was, had a huge support gun. It was the same almost as the frist one acception instead of firing plasma bolts like the old ones did repeating or no repeating the gun shot over 900,000 rounds a minute and the shots traveled faster then lighting. always hiting the same spot. The shot was refined like mine to a thin cylinder but about as wide and tall as a base ball. the shots seemed to last forever because his made a stright line of fire non stop. It looked like a laser cutting through a wall of ship from some sci-fi movie. The general walked up with a grim look on his face. "The bug army is coming back" he said. "this time though we cant lose and there is no retreat there is no escape." Ryan and us looked at each other. We placed our rifles on our sholders barrel facing the sky. "Were ready sir" (to be continued.)

The general gave us a crisp salute and left the area. Alex looked at us. I turned to him "orders?" i said. He looked somewhat sirpirsed but, overal seemed normal.
"Fallow me to the field command." he said, turning towards a concreat bunker to the west of the shooting range. We fallowed him in. The bunker was recent as well the concreat was still somewhat damp and the building remained unscared which is very abnormal for frontal field commands. In the center of the room there was a table with a halo display. Is showed the out side jungle for at least a couple miles. It also indecated wearther or not what was a alli or a foe. In there we could see heavy turret set ups alaround the compund that we have never seen before. A helpful note to keep in store. Not only that we could also see the even more forward postions of trenches built or in process of being built around the area. Alex hualted and turned towards someone near the map display. The man he was talking to smiled as if he won a race. Alex then said a few more things and came back to us. "You are to be depolyed with 1st rifle divition sharp shoots squad one, that is with my squad. Our objective is simple take out as many of the bugers before they hit our lines."
"So we are a sinper squad?" John said with disaproval. "Yes" Alex said. I nodded and he started to walk away "ohh one more thing, meet back here in ten minutes." He turned and left before i could say anything. I left John, Sam and Ryan in the feild commmand. I walked in to the mess hall and grabbed some supplies incase we get cut off, which happens it fair share and being safe is better then sorry. On the way out i saw a bake potato which i commandeered. I enjoyed the potato as i walked back to the bunker. When i walked back there was Sam, John, Ryan and Alex but, there was also three others that i would probly get to know out in the field. I walked up to alex finishing my potato. "why arnt we leaving?" He looked at me funnyly. "Because our ride isnt here yet" he said with humor. I looked at him and didnt answer. ~VOOommmmmm~ A sonic boom came sounding as a jet copter came flying by. They are extremly queit untill they fly by at fifteen fight above your head. "Show off!" one of the men yelled. The Jet-Copter blades streched out in to the normal looking helicopter style and started to rotate while the heilicopter glided to a safe landing beside us. The blades then slowed to a hault. "Here is our ride." Alex said. Wow a sonic cop as the marines say. The four sinpers including Alex hopped on. I fallowed suit as them and the rest of my squad did the same. The Jet-copter began to rotate its blades again. The landing gear picked up of the ground and folded in to the Jet-Copter. We were about two hundred feet and the roatation the blades stop and motors sounded. We began to fall. My stomach rising in my body. Amazingly the Jet-Copter thrusted with life and propled it self forwards gaining spped fast. My body slaped the wall as did others with a loud thud. The craft began shaking. The forest below became a blur and sound faded after a loud boom. It flet like i was going to upchuck all my organs in to my helmit. The another boom hit. The craft slowed dramaticly. Motors sounded again but we did not descent like last time. The roators began to spin to life. Even as sleak as the craft was smooth on every edge it was not all that quiet on the inside. The craft haulted to a stop in the air. Alex handed me something. "I almost forgot to give you this." he said with a lough. It was a parachute. He opened the side door with great ease. The he looked back at us and fell out loughing. The other marines all jumped out differently. I fallowed doing the normal marines jump. I fell to the ground at a fast rate. I reached for my parachute line and pulled it. Then with a sudden jerk the speed slowed and i safely landed. No sooner that i landed, Sam and Ryan and John did too. I cut off my parachute and walked towords Alex.(To be continued)

Alex turned to face me. He looked me in the visor of my helmit. "Command also sent a gift." A second loud sonic boom sounded and a crate came flying at us. The heli-jet turned around as the creat flew. The creat was ona crash colsion with us. Then a parachute ejected from the back of the container. The front of the crate lit to life with fire. It slowed and leveled out as it landed with a thruster on each corner. The creat hit the ground with a loud thump. The firing bolts released on teh top corners and the thrusters fell releasing the sides of the crate, revealing a buggy for eight. Alex hopped in the driver seat. "Lets ride we have a couple hundred miles to go before we even get in to postion." Alex said. I nodded at Ryan and Sam and they hopped in. I turned my hed to face John and pointed to the back. He nodded and went the rear seat. I sat next to him. Alex started teh engine. It was rather quite for a engine. The rest of alexs squad hopped in the front part of the buggy. Alex floored the gas. We took off witha jerk motion. The trees and bushes slaped and grabbed at out buggy as drove through them. We hit bumps every other second the roots of the trees that were above the ground. I looked up. Birds where flying. The sun was shining. The jungle screamed with life. It was amazing the beauty the land held. It was ashame that the land would no longer hold the same beauty as before. I turned twords john who as well was enjoying the sites. I set my rifles but on teh floor of the passenger back of the buggy. Alex marines where talking about something. One of them mentioned going back home. Home...a place we dont have. One marine loughed and turned away. His smile left his face a little too fast he must of been lying about something. I looked at the barrle of my rifle. We drove through jungle not to a happy place to a to a sad place.(to be continued)

We pulled through the thick jungle out in to the open flat land. the grass waved in the wind and the trees shook. leaves flew through the air. We pulled up to a cliff. The buggy turned to face the valley we had pulled up to. Large yellowish grass covered the ground, one foot tall. waving, dacing in the wind. Alex hopped out of the driver seat. He pulled out a decive from his vest. "We are in postion." he said. Looking out in to the sun. I picked up my rifle and hoped out of the back. John steped off the back with his huge gun shaking the back of the buggy. Sam and Ryan hopped off the sides and joined us. Alex's troops where busy gathering camo for the soon to come war. When i looked out to my left i saw another buggy pull forward. Another and another. Then to my right. More pulled up. One pulled up right next to me. It stopped it didnt have any troops in it. instead the back of it poped off landing on the ground with a loud thut. Four legs poped out from ever corner. The center of the large square opened up lifting the center of it. With it the sides lifted folding out at a diagnol. The center of the risin block angled and two turrets poped out. the marine driving the buggy hoped out and connected large bullet chains from the two diagnoled boxes in the back of it. He pressed a few switches and the turret activated. turning back and forth on its base. Alex turned to face me. "looks like command wants to give them a fight here, at least a stall fight." Sam turned to face me from my side. Jhon and Ryan did the same. I looked at them both turning my head back to Alex. "Right." The buggys all pulled back in to the tree line. Alex took the pleasure of doing so. His troops unloaded a heavy mount sniper rifle. The bolted it down in to the earth. The sniper file was easyly twice my size, as i looked around i saw other marines doing the same. "ETA 10 minuets till contact." someone yelled. Alex quickly ran out with some camo tarp and hiw troops covered the rifle with the grass and leaves they had picked as camo before. Ryan nelt by the marines next to there rifle. I went and kneeled beside him. Our heads turned towards each other and for a split moment i felt a rush. my hair stood up and i felt my checks turn red. Ryans head quickly turned tword the valley as did mine. Sam and John took postion a couple sinpers plants away from us. "See you in hell" one of the marines said cheerfully to us. on the edge of the valley we could see the grass spread open and shift weridly. Black shiny armored human looking things walking in the place of the waving grass. Bugs, as the marines love to say, Sniper fire began to poor from the giant guns. Shell after shell after shell droped from the rifle. Sparks of fire flew with the shells. Bugs were blown to bits. Not exactly a friendly welcome home. The bugs confused... charged. The bugs ran at us. held back by our fire. A sonic boom sounded. A jet-Heli came flying in. It droped a bomb right in to the middle of them killing a huge amount of bugs. Limbs flew in the air, others insinerated from the blast. the Jet-Heli turned no faster then it had arrived. The bugs grew closer and closer. 25 meters, 20 meters, 15 meters, 10 meters, 9 meters, 7 meters contact! Ryan took no hesitation and fired his weapon at the bugs cutting a fine line through them with his refined plasma weapons. I fired mine. I fired stright down a bug. The bug split in half with molten scale armor. I pulled a greande and threw it. ~boom~ one bug was flying in the air as it fellows burned on the ground. Even at this close range the snipers didn't stop firing at the bugs. Even point blank. One bug flew at a sniper. I ran at it. It landed on the ground next to alex where i checked it off its feet. Pulling out my .75 cal pistol i shoot it in the heart or at least where one should be. It fell over dead. Alex turned towards me and smiled. "Thanks" he was still firing at the bugs. I turned back firing volleys madly as the emeny. The bugs began to lose distance between us. Then with out a second they returned in great number. one flew at Ryan. He smacked it with his rilfe up side the head knocking it down and shot it. Another flew at him and landed on him knocking him over. He rolled with it and snapped it's neck. They kept coming. I turned and fired down one that was at his side. I slowly grouped up with Ryan. He got up and continued firing. The bugs were beging to horse shoe around us. Closing us in. The atuo turret was flying through the air smoking and sparking. "Fall back" Alex roared. He was first to run to the buggy. He hooped in the driver seat. Then the trooper guarding the sniper took a couple paces back. The sniper got up to run. No sooner then he stood he was decapated. The troop guarding him roared with fury and shot down as many bugs as possibly. Ryan ran to the troopers side and grabbed him pulling him back. I ran to the tree line fallowed by a small horde of bugs. I looked over my sholder. counted nine. I turned back and shoot back at them. My fine plasam beem cutting through them like a hot knife through butter. I turned towards the buggy. It had started rolling away. With Ryan gunning down bugs and the trooper kicked off one. I ran as fast as i could after the buggy. Not even caring about the branches smacking my body as i ran. I turned in front of the bug horde running after the buggy just a few paces ahead of them. I put my rifle in one hand and grabbed a grenade. I pulled the safty pin and chucked it behind me over my sholder. I ran after the buggy with my arm out. Ryan put his arm out for me. our fingers brushed and with one great stride i grabbed his hand. He grabbed on to mine and pulled me up. I flew in to the seat. The bugs that were fallowing us, were blown up by the grenade. I put on our personal messenger. could have gone worse. i got a response. ya but, it is ashme we lost so many marines. i thought about it. Didnt we only lose the one. another response. Sam and Ryan counted thrity five were lost on there side before the retreat was issued. I looked down at my gun on my lap. "at least we made it. At least one more chance for something better." Ryan nodded in agreement.

The engine roared as Alex floored the gas peddle down. I looked out at the trees moving. One of the marines. Pissed off. "What the hell was that for, we did nothing!" I looked over at him. He was right what was the point of a small engagement and then run away after we are about to be over run. Yet not to re engage to try to gain back the land this is not making much sense. There is something more fowl coming. Much more. What ever it was if it can make the U.N.P.F (united, nation, people, federation) turn back with there tails between there legs and go back home... "KIM!, KIM!" yelled Ryan. I shook my head. "What?"
"What is it?" asked Ryan.
"I dont know" I answered in a awe tone.
(To be continued)

The buggy pulled in to the front of camp flinging mud and dirty every where behind it. Alex did a slide to a stop infront of the commanded. "Wlecome back" said the commander. Alex hopped out of the buggy with out missing a beat, he walked up to the commander and punched him in the face. The commander failed backwards in to the muddy earth. "What the hell was that for!" yelled the commander.
"For your cowardance at the valley!" said Alex
The commander got up brushing him self off.
"Well there are more toubling matters coming ahead." said the commander.
"ohh, and what might that be." ALex said.
"We dont know. We do know they carry more fire power then us and the bugs combined. They are also marching stright towards us."
Alex looked like he didnt believe it. Then a bug turned the corner. Alex rolled back going for his rifle. I flung my slef on the buy grabbing its throat and pulling out my pistol and shoving it in it's mouth. "Now, now that is no way to treat the guest." Said the commander. "Guest!" i yelled. "This is Kashem! he tryed to kill us!" I continued yelling. Alex now with his rifle walked up to us. The commander walked up to me and Kashem on the groud. He grabbed my pistol and removed it from my hand and grabbed my arm making me release my grasp on the creatures throat. Kashem stood up the same as if that never happened. "Kashem was the only one to respond to our message we sent him." the commander said. I walked up to Kashem and faced him. He was about 1.5 feet taller then i and i m 6.11 feet tall. Kashems eyes bore down on my own. "Beast, i m no longer your emeny. The Old ones are." he said. Old ones? what the hell is a old one i though. "Kim i thought you may find this interesting that a intire bug battalion is stationed here." said the commander. I just stood there and regained my posture. "Well then, what is a old one." i asked. "That is what your going to tell me." the commander said.
"What!"i yelled at the commander!
"We have a craft ready for you." the commander said relaxed.
"Fine." i said.
We marched out to the main building in the city. Marines where in the groups and bugs where in there. Staying away from each other. One group oddly though was talking with the bugs and the bugs where talking with them. "How is it they can talk to each other?" Asked John.
"Our race learns extremly fast and remembers for generations to generations." said Kashem.
We walked into the center of the collective buildings there sat the ship. NightStar. A small recon ship light weight fast and fairly well armed. Its small body almost undectable to emeny radar. Its armor and angled structure perfect for deflecting shots. The landing gear was out and the ramp into it was down. We walked towards it. "This is where i say good bye." Kashem and the commander said.
"This is where we say hello." said some odd voice. I turned towards it. It was a sqaud of bugs no more than four. They wore armor made by the U.N.P.F, It was not as blocky as ours there helmits where long and angular compaired to ours to fit there head. The armor went around there bladed arms and there hands were removed of claws so they could fit in the suits. They had jet packs and carryed standard rifles with fifteen spare clips. "As a show of good faith and that of you people we offer you our finest with the help of your people" said Kashem. As if things couldnt get any worse now we have bug team mates, great. A creat was dropped by us. It had three jet packs in it. John alreay has one. It also carryed two small black boxes. We lifted them up and hopped on the ship. I walked in to the cock pit. As did one of the other bugs. "what are you doing?" i said.
"Helping you pilot the ship" He replied.
"Do you even know the first thing of flying?" i asked. After flipping a few swtiches he grabbed the controls and the ship flew off.
"Everyone is abboard and we are getting out of here." He said. I pressed the "burn" button. The engines flaired to a firey hell and we flew off in to space.
"Begining to enter atmosphere." The bug said. The hull and cock pit began to burn turing red hot. Leaving atmosphere. The ships computered sounded. The bug looked confused looking for the voice but, soon refoucsed. "What was that?" He asked. "Computer." i said. He looked dazzled.
(to be continued.)

The ship, Nightstar floated through space the abiss of life perfectly. The bug looked through the cock pit so close to the glass his breath made the glass turn white. "So where to cap." i said in a humorous mood. The bug turned, "Cap?; my name is Sah mi (Shas Me) you know. Anyways we are to travel to the far moon beyond the fifth planet. We will use the second planet to fling us around the planet at high speed at the fifth reducing our travel time by 96 hours." Sah mi said.
"Ok then how long?" i asked feelin cramped all ready.
"One hour, 30 mins arrocding to this magic screen you call a computer." Sah mi said.
i loughed how he understood somethings but, also thought others were magic. Sah mi sat back down in his chair. He grabbed the controls, The second planet rose to veiw from the bottom of the cock pit veiw. Then blocking out all other sites. The ship gradually began to gain speed. The wires began to shake as gravity came back. Speeds grew stronger and faster by the second, i could feel my body being pressed in to the back of my seat. Making a drastic turn the ships roof faced the ground of the planet and our thrusters kicked back in building more force. My stomach felt like it was in my throat. The force became less painful as we made the orbit around the planet. "Breaking gav sling now" said Sah mi. All the force came back in one rush as the roof thruster fired flinging us out of orbit. 0 gravity setteled back in and loose wires began floating back up. "restoring gravity to ship" with the press of a button the everything fell to the floor of the ship. "Wow, crap that was fast." i said. Sah mi looked at me weridly as if nothing happened. I guess his body is stronger and built to endure more everything, then mine. The ship flew at the fifth planet to where the second moon came into veiw. Be side the moon was a station of some sort and large ships where docked on it. The lines of pannels glowed with a light blue white light. Hundreds of little ships swarmed from the planet to the station back and forth as a constant supply for something. "this is our target. objective one make conmunication possible peace, second objective nuetrillise threat with package." said Sam entering the cock pit. (to be continued.)

"Receving comm from station" Said Sam.
"Open channel, accept all bands, all forms." i said.
"opening" Sam said as he read the code.
A screen came on in the controls dash board in the co pilot seat. "You are invading Xaso space, do not fight we will escourt you to docking bay 6 and place you under arrest, any forms of resistance will result in your demise." a calm voice said.
"Well what should we do?" Said Sah mi said.
"We either be taken captive and die or fight and die? you pick" i said.
His helmit hid his expression but, i knew he was more angry then scared. Defeat never sits with bugs. Sah si looked at his feet then at the gun he was give and the ammo. "We fight." he said ina proud tone.
"Quick hand me controls we are goning in." i said. i got up and ran over to the main pilot chair and hopped in. Sah mi hopped in the co-pilot chair. "Nine emeny ships in bound at our sector heading at 23,000 km per minute." Sam said. "Dam think they could send more to escourt us?" I placed my hand on the throttle and slamed it forwards. The engines began to humm and the thrusters burst to life with a loud roar. The eight emeny ships broke off while one ship stayed on us. "Emeny ships circling around us." Sam said as he watched the raydar screen. "In commming comm." said john. "Slow down or we will be forced to fire." said the same voice as before. "Give me fire codes." i said. "Granted." said Ryan. I pressed the auto cannon trigger. The shots ripped through space faster then the ships. Streaks of fire battered the front emeny ship as we flew full speed at the ship. Like a game of chicken. The ships life support lit to flame and the cock pit burst in to a firey hell. The fighter blew up afterwards. The Nightstar flew through the ships remains well. Thut thut thut, "emeny fire" said a bug. "no breaches." it continued. I threw the ship in to a barrel roll pulling back on the thruster force. The ship reared in to a emeny fighter with a loud thut and a jolt of force. The emeny fighter came flying over the cockpit with it's tip bent into a 85 degree angel spining out of control. "Ship reads a nick on the upper right corner of the rear, no bad damage." said Ryan. I pressed the trigger again and ripped the emeny ship into with the auto cannons. Slaming the throttle again, NightStar flew through the burned wreakage like a meteor. Quickly pulling back on the controls i put the ship on a 90 degree angle with another emeny fighter. Thut thut thut "More fire, sectors 7 and 8 have been breached sealing." said a bug. "We cant win this" Said Sam. spinning the ship i rammed the emeny fighter. The twisting metal ripped on both ships shearing off into the cold of space. The emeny fighter leaked a misty gas of some sort and self destructed from expolsive decompression. "More fire on the rear, gas line 2 brust leaking fuel." said Ryan. "Roger that" i said. i pulled back on all the throttle i could. Gas leaked out into space and froze as it did. The emeny fighters began to circle around. "Surrender now or die." the voice said on comm. "Heh fat chance in hell." i said. Slaming the throtle to one hundred percent again the engines roared. Flame spatt out of the engines exploding in to a firey phoenix. The NightStar erupted into a fire meteor from hell flying stright for the Xaso space station. Pulling the trigger back the auto cannons flamed to life. Shots ripped through the black of space like firey needles. The shots ripped into the station pounding harder and harder after every shot with every foot we came closer. "Rear engines 1 and 2 gone. Back end serverly damaged, Emeny fighters none. We are a free dead stick in other terms." said Ryan "Well we are about to find out what is on the station hold on." i yelled. Smoke began to billow out of the hit station. The cock pit became clouded with somke. "Proximity aleart collision in t minus 3..2" the computer sounded. The ship Bumbed and rocked with termendous force. stopping as soon as it began i lost my footing and flew in to the glass of the cock pit. My vision blurred, fading into darkness. (to be continued.)

I awoke to the alarm of the ship sounding. Redlights blinked in the corner of the remaining ship. The hull was torn in two rebar and electric wire hung out. I Stood up and grabbed my rifle. Voices in my head began speaking. "what is that", "who the hell, what the hell...". I fell to my knees as the voices grew more in number and in volume. Someones hand was placed on my sholder. It was Ryans. I couldn't tell if he was speaking the voices in my head were to loud. His head turned to Sam and then back to me. The voices began to fade. Drawing in to nothingness my hearing returned. "What the hell just happened." i said in pain. "What do you mean?" asked Ryan. "No time to find out" said John firing his machine gun out side of the cockpit. "Were are the bugs?" asked sam. Sah mi came running around the corner firing his rifle. "We didn't black out like you humans." said Sah mi. Sash mi reloaded and peaked the corner. Being returned with fire. Streaks of orange steam looking beams flew by. "What was that." i asked taking cover behind the corner with Sah mi. "From what we could tell almost the same weaponry you hold now. Just more effective." said Sah mi. More shots flew by. "Where is the remainder of your squad?" i asked. "Dead, fine warriors they were." said Sah mi enraged. The cock pit of the ship was well armored and great thing too i could hear shots ring off it constantly. "We need to move." said Ryan. "That we do, what do you say, Human" said Sah mi. (to be continued.)

"We move!" i yelled over the growing foot steps and gun fire. "Sah mi with me Ryan with Sam John take point. Count to three then go." We set our selfs up against the wall of the cock pit ready to turn the corner and open fire. John Turned the corner and ripped open fire with his repeating plasma cannon. The shots ripped through the air seemlessly cutting down two creatures i couldn't quite make out because of the smoke. As we ran across the hallway were the two dead creatures lay now. We ran stright continuing till we hit a dead end. "quite humans movement is near." There was a two meter dip in the wall near a window. We quickly took cover in it. John peaked the corner. John then placed his hand on his visor quickly removing it. Hand signs. That meant he saw no emeny. I started to lean to peak the corner. Rifle held in hand pointing up. I saw two large standing creatures. The appeared to have a dog's head and feat. The creatures stood up like a human but, with a slightly arched neck to compensate for the head. They wore armor. It was black covered. Golden power lines or energy glowed from in between the cracks in the joints and plating of the armor. The visor on the dogish helmit had eye visors instead of a stright bar visor like the bugs had and us. The Creatures staffs that had a small light blue lining at the top and there left arm bore a strange box that appeared to be a mounted gun of some sort with a orange glow to it. Assuming from our last incounter, The gun fire was orange that must be a mounted auto weapon of some sort. The creatures turned towards me. I quickly ducked back behind the wall. The foot steps grew louder. They where coming closer. The tip of the staff appeared around the corner and they noticed john. "Zaire fash de'st" The tip of the staff light to life with a fire golden blade. My thermal sensors indecated extrem heat increase right next to me. Thermal weaponry probly super heated plasma. The corner of the white station grew red with hot intestity. John Opend fire with his auto cannon ripping one creature into. Orange blood flew every where. A horrible scream came from the creature extremly high pitched whimper as it's legs fell and the chest flew the other direction thumping the ground. The other creature stunned looked at John and roared with great power. It thrusted it's spear at John. The spear was no more then twenty centimeters from stabbing John when Sah mi grabbed the shaft of the weapon. The creature aimed it's mounted weapon at Sah mi jecked the weapon with such strength it sent the creature flying into the window landing on all of us. Sah mi quickly rolled to the top of the creature. With a roar of anger sah mi grabbed the creatures head and turned it until a loud cracking sound and the creatures body stopped moving. It's jaw opened and it's tongue fell out. The body became limp. "What should we do?" Asked Ryan. "Leave we dont have time humans." said Sah mi coming down. "And go where?" said Sam. They began to argue. "Shut up. look we need to get off of here and quick. Are mission has become a failure and thus a new one is going to be in placed. We are now under the objective of capturing a creature alive or dead and getting back to Od, two before these creatures do. we need to know what we are dealing with here." No one said a word after that. I pointed to the hallway infront of us. Best shot, if there where there they where guarding something or coming from some where important and i hope it isn't the mess hall.(to be continued.)

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