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Here is part 7 of the story, as always, if you read it, please please please remember to give feedback, positve, advice, or any questions are always welcome. if you have a negattive comment, try to convert it into advice. eg- your paragraph structure sucks, turns into- Try to improve the structure of your paragraphs. see what i mean?
PART 7- Tick tock
The small aliens charged round the corner, pistols raised, making incomprehensible squeaks and grunts as they saw us.
And that wasn't all, as we cowered in fear, two immense, 12 feet tall creatures charged through the group of smaller beings, trampling a few on their way. They looked like they had been cut in a mincer, then someone had reassembled the mince and stuck armour on them.
In their left hands, or whatever they had, they were carrying huge shields made of a strange metallic element, an element I doubted we could shoot through with even a rocket.
Attached to the other limb was a gun as big as us, glowing dangerously.
Even as we dived for cover, a huge streak of green flew past us, burning a hole in the ship as easily as a hot knife through butter.
“Olivia, ready the ship for evacuee now!” screamed Blade into his communicator.
“Affirmative”, came back the as always cool voice of Olivia's.
We were running as fast as we can, the huge, lumbering pair of monsters in pursuit, occasionally firing out the green bolt. One came metres within my face, and even through the helmet, I could feel the searing pain of burning flesh.
We took a right turn down a corridor, and spotted a service shaft, about a metre tall. We crawled in relieved, no way could the creatures fit in there! We were wrong. To our horror, the aliens contorted themselves, so much so, that it would kill a normal human, and edged their way into the maintenance shaft.
Luckily, they couldn't use their guns in such a tight space, but still, one whack from one of those shields, and we were done for.
Det's voice sounded unexpectedly over the communication link
“Only 5 minutes left, quick, we have to get back to the ship, if we're even 100m within this craft when it goes boom, we won't need to worry about being squashed.”
“Olivia, how far away are we from the docking bay?” queried Blade
“About 120m, take the next left and go forward, hurry, I can't keep the cloaking systems up for much longer.....”
We ran a lot faster then.
The creatures were gaining on us, and soon, I knew it was inevitable that they would be level with us.
Suddenly, Det stopped and faced the creatures, drawing a hand size object out from his explosives satchel.
“Det, what are you doing, keep moving!” Blade shouted in disbelief.
“No, they'll catch up with all of us in a minute, better one of us than all of us, I'll set up this small bomb, and take these alien bastards to hell with me....now go, run!”
I felt tears glisten my eyes, he was willing to give his life to save us, when he could have easily scurried away like the rest of us.
“Det...I-”Blade began
“Just go! Now!”
Slowly, we turned our backs on the bravest man I had ever known, as we exited the shaft into the docking bay, their was a muffled explosion behind us, and the man known as Det ceased to be no more.
Switch must have seen I was upset, because he put his hand on my shoulder.
“He's gone on to a better place lad, and it's what he would have wanted, to go out with a bang....”
I nodded, and we walked towards the invisible ship, the area was clear, it seemed all the aliens were elsewhere. It felt strange to be walking on stairs you couldn't see, as I climbed up the stairs, and I felt for a moment like I was going to fall, then regained my balance, and entered the ships hatch.
“Olivia, get us out of here” Blade said, at the same time glancing at the countdown timer, which now read at 45 seconds.
“Affirmative” she said, even as we felt the temporary docking clamps disengage from the hangar, and we sped out into space, back towards the UNSC ship.
And not a moment too soon, because as we just reached our docking bay, their was a huge green explosion behind us, and the whole alien ship exploded into a million fragments, as if it were never their.
Suddenly, the dog-fighting around us ceased, as the smaller alien ships, no longer receiving power from the main cruiser, dropped down into space without a whisper.
We'd saved everyone, but at the cost of a friend......
[Edited on 01.26.2009 12:28 AM PST]