- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Two tiny C12 charges were placed onto the top of the door that the guards were outside. (Its a big door) The charges went off, and the huge titanium blast door rumbled, then fell away onto the crowd outside.
Easily half the guards were crushed, and the rest ripped to shreds by the high powered rifles that the Marines wielded.
The party ran out of the the base, where a dropship was waiting for them. The ship escaped the planet, and entered orbit around the moon. The Marines high-fived each other, a great feat with the bulky environment suits on. The leading Marine, Captain Gregson, walked over to the silent form of Xeroh.
The Marine sighed, wondering why Admiral Shade had ordered them to rescue one of thousands of people taken away by mercinary companies.
Gregson tried to establish contact with Xeroh.
"Why did you land on this planet? It's the hive of criminal activity in the system. Were you trying to get hired as a bounty hunter, or a mercenary or something?"
She only glared back at him.
"Well, if you dont trust us, so I'll tell you who we are and what we are doing here."
A spark of curiousty passed into her eyes.
"We are the 1st Squad of the Shade's Space Marines. We were stationed here to keep an eye on the place, but when your ship crashed into the park, and those mercenaries captured you, the Admiral ordered that you be liberated from them.
The Admiral is currantly on a highly dangerous mission with the rest of the fleet, to stop a terrible evil from being unleashed upon the galaxy, but even with the help of several allied fleets, victory over the evil is unlikely.
We saw you fighting those bounty hunters, and I am personally bamboozled as to how you survived all that ammo they threw at you. I kept a tally of the weapons that hit you. Here."
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Tally:
8 Helicoptor Launched T-44 missiles
2 Shoulder Launched T-45 missiles
5 RDX-32 Hand grenades
3 RDX-20 Hand Grenades
2,000 standard 13mm bullets, assault rifle
1,500 standard 16mm Bullets, SMG
200 standard 19mm bullets, pistol
6 Standard 120mm Tank Cannon shells
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He stared at her over the sheet, her eyes locked in his solmen gaze.
"I'm not a sceptical man, but that made me look twice. I won't ask you how you survived all that, but I will ask you one thing: Will you help us? This battle the Admiral is at, it's not just a fleet-to-fleet, a-planet-or-two is-at-stake thing, its a three-fleets-against-the-most-powerful-evil-in-the-universe thing . I mean that if this evil isnt stopped, then the entire galaxy will go up in smoke. Nothing will be spared in the aftermath. I'm not going to force you, but if you decide to lend your hands to the fight, then this bunch of planets and stars might just have a future in the future"
His speech over, Captain Gregson of the SSM waited for her answer.