They told us that The Terran Republic would be too occupied dealing with border battles with the Vanu Sovereignty and the assault on the crown to adequately defend Ti Alloys, Inc. We felt comfortable, another routine base raid. We thought "First we take it, then the stream of soldiers behind us will clean up what was left." we thought it would be easy, we were wrong.
As we rolled into the base I took notice to how calm everything was, not even a peep to be heard. Behind a large tree our driver elected to park and deploy the sunderer, a sound strategy we'd implemented many times. Bullshitting with the boys I sarcastically yelled "Haha, don't work yourselves too hard! This one looks like it's gonna be a real battle!." If only I had known how right I was and what was waiting for us on the other side of the metal plating. Me and the other soldiers hopped out of the sunderer and quickly scanned the area with our guns in hand. I was armed with an NC Bolt Driver bolt action sniper rifle and an infiltrator suit. Realizing I had foolishly forgotten to reload my clip from the previous scouting mission I quickly ejected the old clip and replaced it, but that was the only courtesy this mission would gift me. After swiftly replacing my ammunition everything took a turn for the worst, my squad was never going to be the same again.
Out of the corner of my eye I saw a Terran Republic heavy assault soldier with rocket launcher in hand, he was creeping out from the other side of the tree. Before I could even summon the air in my lungs to alert my allies he had fired his rocket directly at the sunderer. The rocket flew past me and hit the armored transport some distance behind me, while I popped a round off in his chest. Suddenly aware of the situation my squad mates turned and opened fire on him ripping him to shreds. I swiftly turned around to see what damage had been done, the damage to the sunderer was minimal, but laying next to it was our engineer and our medic. They were both very, very dead. Then over the hill past the damaged machine I could see two tanks rolling towards our location.
The adrenaline took over, I remember hearing the sonic boom of tank fire and I remember seeing the sunderer exploding, annihilating several members of the squad. We turned around as fast as we could sprinting towards our objective, but a sniper round from the top of the building hit our leader dead in the head. As I ran forward the impact of the bullet launched him behind me, I didn't bother stopping to see if he was okay. Out of the windows flashing could be seen, bullets whizzing past in every direction, kicking up the dirt beneath my feet. Miraculously I was not hit, my friends were not so lucky.
Ducking under cover when I could, sprinting between anything that would be between me and the bullets. If it wasn't for the stealth function on my suit, I probably wouldn't have made it that far. I ran through the front door of the building, in the main room I could see a glowing console "That's our capture point!" I thought to myself. But my rest was short lived, the security systems had alerted every enemy in the area to my presence and I could hear their footsteps on the floor above me coming closer to where I was hiding. I took a brief moment to look back, to see who else had made it. I should've saved myself the trouble, all I got to see was the remnants of our squad getting killed like diseased dogs.
My instinct kicked in "FUCK THIS! I am not going to die here!" I yelled at the top of my lungs. And as if motivated by a higher purpose I began to sprint to the other side of the building, because surely this place had a back door, my only chance to escape. So I ran, ran right past the set of stairs the had a bunch of Terran Republic soldiers scurrying down to execute me. I hear them shoot, but I didn't get hit. "Clink clink clink!" the sounds of both their footsteps and my own. But there it was waiting for me, like a gorgeous woman waiting to stick her cold daggery claws right into my naive heart. I saw the back door, I knew they had to have had one and as I made an attempt at my hasty escape with Terran Republic soldiers hot on pursuit I started to hum I got a golden ticket.
With one swift motion I dodged weapon fire and leaped through the door way into onto the sandy path. With the agility of an eagle I hurdled an obstacle and swiftly made my retreat into the beaten desert path. Ducking adroitly to the left I simultaneously activated my suit and witnessed as multiple rounds of assault rifle ammunition barely missed me. BOOM! A huge explosion landed about fifteen feet in front of me. I did not halt my movement, I persisted. Running through the thick black cloud of smoke it happened again. BOOM! One of the tanks firing at where it thought I might be, a shell whirring past my face as I desperately ran. Still humming I ran up over a short berm, the enemies doing a bang up job using the boulder to the right of me as target practice. "Haha are you even trying? I'm home free now, you motherfuckers!" I thought to myself with delight, but what was waiting for me on the other side of the berm wasn't freedom, no, not at all.
Before me I saw it, a swarm. Dozens upon dozens of Terran Republic soldiers diverging onto my location as fast as they could. As far as the eye could see troops scouring the land towards me, there is no mortal sinner who wouldn't have felt fear, not one, except for me. I knew what I had signed up for, I knew that I would die like this from the very beginning. From the moment I set foot onto the scorching sands of Indar I knew, I would die here in this fucking hellhole. And what better way to die then to have one last standoff with the enemy against insurmountable odds?
My suits stealth rapidly depleting, I raised my trusty Bolt Driver and aimed it at the nearest Filthy Terran Republican scum I could find. The moment my suits stealth dropped I pulled the trigger, right between the fucking eyes. As if his spirit had instantly ejected from his body, he collapsed like dead weight. "Come get some, you sons'a'bitches!" I challenged. However, before I could even pull back the lever on my rifle they all turned in unison and returned fire.
I was eviscerated, shot to shit. Words do not even adequately describe. The last thing I saw was the boots of the Terran Republic and the last thing I heard was the soothing sounds of war off in the distance as my blood was absorbed into the sands of the god forsaken desert of Indar.
How long had I laid there? Who knows? Only god. But somehow a medic "Probably using ancient black magic" had revived me from the dead. By the time I came to I could see the Terran Republic on the retreat being bombarded by tank shelling. What a splendid sight it was. When I asked "What did I miss?" The medic informed me that we had captured Ti Alloys, Inc and because of the success here we were well on our way to capturing the crown. Once again I thought to myself "Even a raindrops ripple can turn into a tsunami."
But I'll never forget that medic,
I'll never forget you "DoucheSlayer666"
