Short Story (Part 8)
Posted By: Jamie<halodevotee@hotmail.com>
Date: 20 August 2002, 5:55 pm
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The marines felt immortal with their new gifts. They now planned to engage an Andensum battle ship, (the one which called them). The plan was to all be completely invisible sneak into the interior of the ship and with Heltars help they would rewire the data matrix so that all systems would be rerouted to the engines forcing the ship to travel at immense speed through space with no lights, no navigation and even no life support. But the cherry on top of the ice cream in this plan is that the ship will head straight for the Andensum home world, Anden. Heltar had already volunteered to be the one who flipped the final switch, so that the marines would have a chance to escape.
The Battle ship wouldn't destroy Anden. It would only destroy one half of the planet; fortunately the side that will impact is the only half which is habitable. One half of Anden is a thriving metropolis where life flourishes, however the other is an icy baron land where no life can survive.
The marines are now within sight of the Battle ship.
'Holy shit!' said Plachecki 'That thing is enormous'
'Your right Plachecki' said Prao 'It's about eight hundred kilometres long'
Dobree was psyching himself up.
The ships docking bay was huge it must have spanned a least two kilometres. They searched frantically for an empty airlock.
'This is just like a busy car park' Plachecki said
The humour didn't translate to Heltar.
They found themselves a space eventually. The red light in the cockpit flashed above Placheckis' head. It was just the warning to the pilot that the airlock doors were open and that the ship could be left.
As protocol demanded two armed Andensum marched towards the door to inspect the ship. However normal protocol also stated that all passengers aboard the ship should stand by the door and wait through the inspection. But due to a lack of knowledge on Prao's part the Marines senselessly beat the two Andensum. They stole the weapons and gave the Armour to Heltar.
The motley group of covert saboteurs transformed into their camouflaged state. Sneaking past every Andensum they met. Until Dobree slipped. He fell into an Andensum. It quickly realised there was an invisible stranger around, he bent over and was able to clutch Dobree. Plachecki quickly responded and shot the beast dead.
Unfortunately every Andensum in that corridor had realised what was going on.
There was a brief fight, an easy win for the marines. The Andensum were unarmed and in plain sight, the marines had the advantage in every respect.
The marines were now four kilometres from the ships interior, they knew it would take them forever on foot. Heltar told them of a vehicle they could use to travel there in a matter of minutes. He called it a Denkad, essentially it was a powerful hover craft with a flat top, it had enough room for six but an unmanned Denkad would be highly suspicious so they waited for people to board one.
They killed each of them with a shot to the back of the head and held them up like puppets; it gave the appearance of four live people talking on a Denkad. A successful piece of espionage. They reached the core; it took thirty minutes by Denkad. The room was full of people some unarmed, unshielded, and completely unaware. But there were a lot of guards. Each had eight horns.
The marines weren't stupid, they knew that the Andensum would see them messing with the Matrix. So they started a surprise attack.
Heltar went down to the control area and began the alterations. Dobree made sure nobody left the room and called for anymore support. Plachecki and Prao started the assault on the armed Andensum.
'Hurry Heltar!' squealed Dobree
'Prao watch out!' Plachecki cried as an Andensum lurched behind Praos' back.
The confrontation had begun quickly and the accuracy shown by the Andensum gunmen was outmatched by that of Prao and Plachecki.
Although the sheer mass of plasma shots from the Andensum caused a small problem for the marines.
Heltar suddenly de-cloaked.
'What are you doing Heltar?' shouted Dobree.
Heltar had been still too long and become visible. He didn't have a hope of re-cloaking in the midst of a battle.
He took to the air, so did two of the other armed Andensum.
Heltar swooped down towards the ground above Prao. As the other airborne Andensum followed Prao jumped, he managed to catch on to one of them.
He realised his mistake as soon as the Andensums' spines came out into his knees.
'FUUUUCCCKKKK!' he roared.
He started to shoot holes in the Andensums' wings forcing it to land. Just as it neared the floor Prao snapped its neck and ripped it clean off.
But whilst that was happening Heltar was still trying to outmanoeuvre the Andensum on his tail. Plachecki finished it with seven shots through its stomach.
The field was slowly being littered with Andensum bodies.
Dobree ran from his post at the door and used his assault rifle on the unshielded Andensum.
The last enemies standing were three heavily armed Andensum; they all folded their wings around them. Plachecki ran towards them and yelled only to be flung to the other side of the room by the wing of the Andensum.
They were making use of their bio-implants in an extraordinary way.
Prao let a round of plasma bursts off, only to be disappointed when none of them made contact.
The marines were stunned the guards were so highly trained and they didn't seem to be able to do anything.
The encapsulated Andensum began shooting spines from their body in the direction of the marines.
Prao got a spine in his neck, but Heltar ripped it loose and threw back at the enveloped Andensum.
'I work you must leave now!' said Heltar
The marines unsure of what to do began to flee; however Prao suddenly understanding what the Andensum were doing threw a fragmentation grenade. As he expected the Andensum dodged it and returned to his position, the grenade exploded and the unknowing Andensum had been thwarted.
The marines left Heltar to it; they got back on the Denkad and returned to visibility, the Denkad sped along to the destination, all the time the marines were under fire. They were not deterred; they started the final mad dash to the Tendark. It had been left unguarded, they got into the ship and Plachecki fired up the engines. As they left the docking area they shot down a few of the docked crafts, just to make sure it was harder for people to escape.
As they looked back they saw the ship go dark. The lights were replaced with a loud humming, Heltar had done it. The ships engines were powering up. It disappeared from sight almost instantly, the acceleration was so powerful.
'It's a long way home!' said Prao
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