2Chapter 5
In space, no one can hear you scream
A pair from squad 2 composed a of a shock trooper and an engineer, were making their way to the dormitories, at least that is what was assumed according to the scanning from the 222.
It was located a Dec below the broken port observation Dec where they entered the derelict along with the other squads. However the way to enter the dormitories was blocked by a refrigerator sized like alien equipment along with other miscellaneous items.
"Seems someone tried to prevent people from exiting the dormitories, I wonder what would cause the alien crew to do this." Said Victor Chase (shock trooper)
"Any ways, our probes have made some progress it is quite interesting, however most of them has been rendered useless now that gravity is back online on some part of the ship." Said the engineer Vargas, while fiddling with the map in his heads up display.
"Then I assume our probes haven´t seen what on the other side of this door" Replied Victor while lifting his rifle and leaning it to his shoulder.
"Altus im an engineer I have always been interested in aliens, I wonder what kind of personal belongings we can find in there, just finding something will tell us much about them." Said the Vargas while pushing aside the fridge/vending machine looking thing. Victor helped with his other hand moving other things blocking the way.
After a few moments
Once the blockade was cleared, Vargas went straight to reroute some power in order to open the door. Once the door opened air flowed out and a very disturbing sight greeted them. The entire dormitories was filled with symbols, walls floor even the roof. What made more disturbing was the fact that the symbols was similar to the one in the GTC Duke, only that the blood seemed dark blue, bordering purple along with two corpses near the wall. However Vargas didn´t seem affected by the scene apart from slowly approaching the corpses near the wall and stretching out his left hand.
"Emm, are you alright?" said Vargas while approaching one of the corpses.
"Hey... Vargas, are you alright we are the only ones here" Said Victor while taping his hand to his shoulder, what he saw where corpses, why did Vargas ask something like that thought Victor?.
Well Victor assumed these two as corpses at first but then they started to move.
"Aren´t the alien supposed to be dead!" Said Victor while raising his rifle and shoot a warning shoot.
"What are you doing? They are afraid, we got to get them back to Solace!" Victor shrugged Vargas off and raised his rifle. "Stop it, we got to help them" said Vargas while turning against Victor and trying to take away the rifle.
"What is wrong with you!, behind you.. watch out!" replied Victor when he suddenly couldn't get in touch with Vargas only back ground burst and static, moments later the two necromorph charged.
The first necromorph looked rotten scaly with one the razor sharp arms, Victor didn´t exactly know what to do. However he successfully wrestled and pushed away Vargas. Knocked him off unintentionally towards the embrace of the first necromorph and made both to fall to the ground.
Victor aimed for the head and blew off the second attacking necromorph, He felt for a moment relief, but it was short lived, it charged forth like a headless chicken. It didn´t took long for the headless creature to enter melee range with Victor.
Victor kept firing and narrowly avoided the razor sharp blades from hitting him by strafing to the right and stunned the enemy by stamping the back of the knee, he just kept firing all over the necromorph body until the mag was depleted, he reloaded quickly. It stopped to move, by simply stiffening the flesh with plasma burns.
Meanwhile (Vargas)
A flush of pain rushed to his mind, time slowed down when Vargas felt a razor sharp blade pierce his armour. Suddenly the female human he was attempting to help turned in to an abomination, he was probably hallucinating. Vargas panicked and held firmly the blade that stabbed him with his arm. Shortly thereafter he took out the plasma torch from his utility belt and attempted burned off the arm of the necromorph.
Vargas was in a frenzy state and successfully cut thru the arm and rolled away from the alien, just some moments later after Victor recovered from the shock he unleashed a hail of bullets to finish the blade less necromorph off.
Meanwhile (222.)
"What is the Elyseum shuttle doing?" Said Corely while sounding a little bit stumped
"What the fuck, abort mission I saw an alien attack one of our operatives and did you guys see the symbols in that room?" Said Taylor while looking thru Vargas head cam.
"What are we going to do?" Replied Corley worryingly
"Don't know but I'm going to run a diagnostic on the transport, Corley, get in touch with Sarge and get a status report." Said Samuel while trying to remain composed.
"Affirmative give me a sec…. WTF… emm.., Bei, I can´t get in touch with Sarge or any of the extraction team for that matter." Said Corley
"Samuel I can´t reach Sarge, by the way what does the custom installed red light next to the control panel means?" Said Taylor
A sudden realization dawned Samuel, he was shortly briefed about a new revolutionising software in the new aurora fighter craft. It was supposed to help communication between pilots despite being disrupted by jamming equipment. The red light essentially meant that the aurora fighters where running a restoration software automatically in order to make sense of the disrupted communication between the pilots.
The Elyseum transport front faced Bei while the light where playing a sequence that Bei recognized as SOS.
The computer in the aurora fighters are very versatile to handle a variety of task, he turned on the morse code software to make sense of the SOS.
Slowly but surely text started to appear on the screen
SOS SOS COM DISRUP, TRIANGLE LOC SOS SOS (and keepth repeating)
Samuel was impressed and partially amused, he knew the Elyseum didn´t had the software for send morse code based messages, it meant a knowledgeable crew member was doing it.
"Cor, Taylor, spread out around the wreck and tell me where the direction of the jamming signal is coming from." Said Samuel while writing in the holo pad an answer back to the transport.
"Are you telling me taht something or someone is jamming the extraction team" Replied Corley worried
Meanwhile (Sarge)
Sarge could tell they would not make it unless he dumped the slow moving Kid after all he carried most equipment. They were running thru a corridor with a lot of doors, he quickly choose one that seemed functional, opened a door to an unknown part of the ship he threw in the kid along with his the rifle. He closed the door and dropped his utility belt with ammo and other equipment while running away from the huge necromorph.
What he had left was his pistol, knife and some grenades. He turned around to see if the creature was still following him. It wasn´t, probably turned his attention to the Kid.
"No way, over here your asshole!" screamed Sarge, while raising his pistol and firing the huge hulking creature depleting the mag , he knew the creature would not hear him but still felt partially satisfying watching it bleed, since that meant it could be killed.
He knew the only way to make it, and that was to regroup with squad 2, hopefully they would have enough firepower to take down whatever he just pissed off, the creature looked like it was roaring and then charged towards Sarge. Sarge felt bad about partially leaving the Kid when he started to run away again, he knew the Kid would not dare to wander alone in the wreck aimlessly. That he would probably use the map and return to the Elyseum transport and warn of the danger to Narobi, she would know what to do.
Well that was the plan he came up with in the heat of the moment, he was now just hoping that his reckless move would pay off. Since he ahs heard whle he was a kid that the victory would always favour the bold, he could however honestly remember in what context he heard it from.
After a few moments later his legs started to give in, while running. Sarge cursed for not have been given his exo suit yet, he looked in the heads up display for the last location of squad 2, he assumed he was running the right way, however it turns out he clearly didn´t. He has to go back and turn to the left.
"Well this is it… im fucked thought Sarge, he staretd to think back to his sister…. Im sorry that I won´t meet you big sis" thought Sarge monologicaly while a tear feel down his cheek behind his helmet, a feeling of sorrow gripped him, he has been told he had a sister that lived the Jovian moon of Europa before the Lucifer cataclysm that happened 50 years ago. He was only 7 years old at that time. The only reason he signed up was to reunite with her and he was about to throw it all away.
After mentally preparing himself, Sarge turned around to face the creature, he would not give in without a fight and quickly thought out a plan with his knife. The creature was an abomination with 800 pound of flesh (about 370 kilos) with two massive arms. There was a trail of dark blue blood behind the creature, no doubt it was inflicted by squad 3. The the end of the arms where red blood covering the fist. Sarge tried to supress his thoughtabout squad 3 final moments.
Meanwhile (Kid)
Kid was afraid and he didn't know what to believe or do, was he abandoned? No that could not be true, Sarge would never do that, since he gave him his rifle. He was probably trying to save him.
Slowly rose Kid from the floor, the room was dark he had only his helmet flashlight. He looked around to see if he was in any immediate danger. Turns out the room seemed to be a storage or armoury area, there were some unknown rifles hanging on the wall along with metal crates with different kind of alien equipment. This made the place a area of interest so he marked the location in his heads up display, which he was told to do during the briefing Sarge gave him before the mission began.
He picked up the rifle given to him and stood next to the door and took a big breath... pressed the button on the middle of the door and awful atmosphere greeted him. A trail of dark blue blood along with circles of red blood on both sides of the long blue blood trail. Rookie assumed that squad 3 inflicted these wounds before being KIA.
Along the blood trail Kid could see some more equipment dropped for him, he recalled that among the last thing Sarge told him he should be able to be thrown like a rag doll and not complaining.
He has never been holding a rifle before, except in the shooting game simulations but this was the real deal. However it seems Sarge attempted to save him, His breathing became more intense while slowly picking up the equipment dropped for him.
After partially recovering from the shock, he started to follow the blood trail, he felt like he should at least attempt to return the favour.
Meanwhile Squad 2 (pair)
Vargas pain started to decrease, however he still screamed while coughing up blood and desperately trying to stop his own blood pour out of his shoulder. The blade from the necromorph was still in him and stabbed down vertically, no exit wound. The attack narrowly missed his left lung but by the feel of it, he could tell that several of his ribs was broken along with his left collarbone.
Victor picked up the plasma torch that Vargas dropped after the attack, he knew only one way to help considering the limited treatment he could do in a vacuum and Vargas would probably not like it.
He he placed himself on Vargas stomach and sat down and pressing his chest down with left arm, while holding the plasma torch in front of Vargas helmet with his right arm. While panicking Vargas saw the torch and what felt like an eternity it slowly dawned to him what Victor was about to do.
"No waay…, no... I dare you, you won't do it! I swear you wont!, Don´t do it, please no, no please... oh my god noo!" screamed vargas while the latter he started to sob and cry and desperately attempting to push Victor away with his right arm.
Victor kept him down and started to seal the wound with the torch and quickly placing the hull sealing wax. Amen to the fact he would not be able to hear him scream.
During the procedure he saw Vargas right arm flopping like a fish against him and desperately trying to stop him while Vargas head was moving side to side expressing a never ending NO, but suddenly he stopped to move, probably passed out. At least that was what Victor was hoping for.
Meanwhile (Sarge)
The hulking Necromorph mindlessly charged forward, confident to win the fight with brute strength, if the necromorph could be surpised it would probably be since it saw a humanoid creature charging forward to with a knife along with two balls attached behind the knife.
Turns out that Sarge attached some grenades behind his utility knife, the plan was reckless but simple, stab the creature and let the grenades to do the work, the question is if he would be able to distance himself from the creature after all he was exhausted by running.
While charging forward Sarge could see his life flashing through his mind and sad moments, the feeling of despair, fear, anxiety, and loneliness all washed away by the heat of the moment, he had made peace with himself and accepting his possible unfortunate end.
The necromorph slowed down, raised it´s left arm and knocked away Sarge with brute force, he flew across the corridor like a ragdoll and crashed into the left wall panel denting it and it fell off with the impact.
It was about to charge forward and crush him with the right arm. Suddenly a burst of bullet flew hitted the necromorph back and stopping it in the middle of it ´s track. The necromorph turned it´s attention to the direction of the bullets.
"Your mother fucker Im going to kill you!" Screamed Kid while he raised the rifle again kept firing until the entire magazine was depleted. However he later found out that reloading the rifle was a lot harder then he thought he panicked while fiddling with the rifle and slowly backing off and seeing the creature charging forward towards him.
Meanwhile (Sarge perspective)
Sarge coughed up blood, he turned his field of view to the necromorph expecting to be killed right off the bat, but he saw a stream of bullet tearing through the flesh of the necromorph. "Kid?"... "What the fuck are you doing here" he thought.
In deed it was kid who shoot..."You damm you, bastard, you were supposed to return to...!(chough more blood)"screamed Sarge while forcing himself up and saw the steam of bullet stop. He forced himself up despite the pain and charged forward with the knife and plunged it deep in to the right upper arm of the necromorph shoulder while it turned it attention to the Kid.
The necromorph knocked off Sarge again and threw him along the length of the corridor while charging Kid at the other end and being hit by more bullets.
Sarge entire body was screaming with pain, every move and breath felt like his last one probably got his lung punctured. He smiled bitterly with bloodied teeth and partially laughing while taking forth the remote detonator from his utility belt. And forced himself to say "Sayonara mother fucker" and pushed the button.
Moments later huge chunk of the creatures right upper torso was blow off along with the arm while the dark blue blood splatter reached Kid while the rest of the dead meat fell to the cold floor, Kid freaked out while falling to the ground and dropping the rifle in front of him. Despite this he quickly recovered and went straight to evaluate Sarges wounds, he could tell by look of dried blood the helmet glass that his condition was critical. He was still moving thus.
Kid took his arm and forced him up along side him and went straight back to the transport, he needed to place Sarge in the med bay and fast.
Meanwhile (with the rest of squad two)
The rest of Squad 2 was working in the corridors when the extraction team lost the coms. The coordination to achieve their assigned task was near impossible when they were working, some of the operatives started panic, However there are protocols to these situations.
"In the event of communication blackout the operatives has to regroup in to a safe area in order to coordinate and restore or establish an alternative working information sharing system…"
That was at least the beginning of the protocol what Sarah Parker could remember, she felt surprisingly calm despite the situation. But the same could not be said to her fellow squad mates. They were all trying to communicate with each other things went from bad to worse when they saw Victor dragging Vargas back to them. and using hand signal of regrouping back to the transport. Everyone realized the mission was fucked and aborted.
They did what only made sense, in other word return to the transport and re-evaluate their situation. Sarah Parker went to Victor and helped him carry Vargas back while making her way to the transport, the other shortly followed.
Wow this is by far an interesting chapter, I hope I kept the expectations high, This is also among my first written fighting scenes I ever done so, I doesn´t know what to think about it, but I really look forward for more reviews
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