The Pajcast

Having just recovered from her wounds from the previous battles Jaina once again took command of her Tunguskan strike force on Novyy cimmeria. Having gotten word that a Morat force were converging on the island she volunteered for the assignment with anticipation and a sense of satisfaction. Over the past few months she had been fighting a lot and mainly the alien threat of the combine army, which had now made a rather apparent impact on her. Her hatred of the aliens had grown and her disgust were showing whenever she were fighting then.

Knowing the operation had to be performed in foreign territory she sanctioned it with the Haqqislam high command before she made for the Duban Prospection site. The relations between Haqqislam and Nomads were for the most part a friendly and fragile one and she didn't want to be the one that jeopardized that.

She directed her forces towards the center of the Haqqislam controlled facility in silence as the Morats made for the site, not a clue that the Nomads were encircling them as the Haqqislam forces missdirected them.

Knowing the nature of morats tactics to be focused almost exclusively on aggression the Tunguskan forces deployed with solid defensive tactics and counter assault units in reserve. One tactic Jaina had seen many times before were Morat troopers going straight for the chain of command so she deployed a bit behind and in cover this time around.

“Rahim, join with Vince and Shukri on our left flank. Thea you cover our right along with Chico and Laverna. Mary and Raoul you have your orders already. Rahel, stay on the right flank but cover to the left, we know morats like to use “diplomatic solutions”. The last part she said with a smirk as she referenced the morats diplomatic corps.

Shukri could make out the form of a huge morat across a gap as she crawled up a container taking position to cover the central battle field with her sniper rifle. The Lunokhod remote moving up coming into sight of more morats. The lines were really close this time around. A perfect opportunity to get swamped by morats.

As one the Morat army howled in anger when they realized they had been played by the coalition of Haqqislam and Tunguskan forces. The rearguard of the morats turned around and started to assault the Tunguskan forces.

Smoke were thrown to cover lanes and other explosives were used to try and pin Mary in place. Though grenades and missiles were thrown her way she managed to escape umharm. As the smoke cleared not a single shot had hit home from the morats and Jaina smiled as her trap snapped shut and the Morats were cornered. The satisfaction in her voice was clear as she opened up her comms.

 

“That wasn’t so bad?! Jaina said with a smile. “Raoul, Mary execute your orders. Rahel take to the left flank and take out the missile launcher. I will take the Lunokhod down the center I have an idea, the rest of you need to keep covering our position. Fire at will!”

 

 

Raoul dropped from the skies just behind a morat fireteam covering the far left flank while Shukri let her sniper rifle sing and one of the morats in the team dropped his head taken almost clean of. Raoul snuck around the building and opened up with shotgun shells at the space monkeys as Rahel circled around and engaged part of the team from the front. Leaving just one trooper alive at the end of it. As she moved Rahel dropped smoke grenades down the center and baited the morats to do the same. Completely covering of the central lane from fire.

 

 

Mary engaged one of her hacking devices and immobilized a heavy armored trooper covering their lieutenant behind some containers.

 

The lunokhod moved up the center, covered by smoke as it set it’s kolas to standby, knowing it probably wouldn’t survive the next move. It cleared the smoke and the container moving up right beside Kornak, the infamous morat commander. It taking fire from chain rifles and feuerbachs as it let lose the heavy shotgun at Kornak who tried to engage the remote. The shotgun shells ripping the morat commander and the nearby immobilized morat asunder and the remote itself were ripped apart in a series of explosions.

 

 

Tamika surveyed the outskirts of what had previously been a Japanese settlement at the Yu Jing base. She tried to calculate the best way to approach the task at hand. She had been tasked with locating and destroying an old remote connection used by the Japanese.

Just as she moved her forces towards the designated location she started picking up movement on her sensors. She stopped and took a closer look, this time through her binoculars. She could clearly make out the garbs of the Japanese secessionist army on the approaching soldiers.

"Take positions, it seems the Japanese have come to claim their old connection aswell. We have to drive them of before we can proceed." I will take the right flank with my fireteam. Chico and Ava, you two need to cover the left. Spread out the zonds across the field. Seline, you know what to do.

Having never faced the Japanese before in regular battle Tamika wasn't sure what to expect. But as the saying goes. The best defense is a good offence.

Chico moved out and started shooting at the approaching soldiers, only to realize they were employing optical disruption technology and all his shoots all missed. He even managed to miss the war correspondent, clearly tagging along to spread the word of the Japanese propaganda machine.

On the other side, the fireteam of spread out and took out a few of the Japanese troops covering the approach to the antenna. Slowling shipping away at the opposition range specialists.

Noticing a lot of troopers equipped for close quarter fighting the Lunokhod snuck forward trying to get a better vantage point. It planted it’s koalas in support of the nomad comms relay deployed just in front as it advanced.

Tamika continues to observe the Japanese troopers fanning out and covering angels. She notices a particular trooper moving down the left flank issuing orders while moving forward. She tapped the switch on her comms and issue an order of her own.

 

"Raoul, your are up,! Move in on the left and take out their lieutenant, the trooper in heavy armor on the flank."

A soaring sound erupted as a drop trooper landed just beyond the left flank and started advancing on the Japanese flank. Dodging incoming fire as he did. Unfortunately, he was eventually felled by a lucky shot before he can move on the target.

The silence of the compound is suddenly broken by the heavy noise of a motorcycle engine as a Japanese warrior darted up the road closely followed by a pair of crazy koalas. He was meet with heavy fire but manages to drop a cloud of smoke to cover his approach.

 

In what looks like a pincer move, another samurai emerged on the far right flank but he is eventually halted by stunning him with a flash pulse while the remote actually managed to avoid being stunned in return.

The optical disruption of the Japanese special forces flickered as they advance on the center, shredding the Lunokhod remote as they advance and then ended up each suppressing an area of the field on each flank. On the left flank the heavy armored trooper advanced, still shouting orders to his troops as he did. Apparently getting more aggitated as the battle raged on.

From out of nowhere a silhouette emerged and moved towards the nomad lines. As it approached a billboard it's camouflage cracked a vanished to reveal a ninja taking aim at Chico and dropping him in a burst of bullets.

"Take out those close combat specialists, we can't let them close with our lines."
The nomad force spreads out and focus fires at the three approaching Japanese troopers, the ninja, the biker and the samurai with the flash pulse.
The ninja eventually went down but the biker and the right most samurai is still standing as the storm of bullets subsided.

Seline had watched as Chico went down and on her visor she can still see vague life signs as he clinged to life. She urgeed her zondbot forward and quickly assessed the situation and administered the necessary injections to make him regain consciousness, just as the Japanese special forces shred the zondbot with suppressive fire.

Perseus advances with his fireteam and layed down nanoparticles as the Japanese special forces close by, shredding her with horrified scream as the tiny robots picked her apart.

On the right flank Tamika could hear swords play as the samurai eviscerateed the transductor zond and move on her own fireteam. They try and stop him with bullets and knifes but all for nothing. The samurai was a whirlwind of death as he ripped Tamika and her soldiers apart in an exceptional display of swordsmanship. As was Seline before the warrior halted his onslaught.

Just having seen his fellow soldiers shredded to bits Perseus was assailed by the bike riding samurai. Perseus layed down another storm of nanoparticles as he himself was dozed in them. He managed to shrug of most of the particles in time to see the samurai being shredded by the particles in return, rendering his koalas inert and negating some of the threat.

The Japanese special forces moved up and started shooting at the zonds, managing to take out one but the other one was save by it's somewhat thicker armor and nimbler reflexes.

 

 "hiss... crackle... spark..."

The absence of Tamika’s voice was apparent, and the nomad soldiers tried to coordinate as best as possible. The surviving zond jumped onto the nearby containers and take out the samurai who recently massacred the entire right flank.

Chico took shots at the last of the special forces finally taking her out of action before going into suppressive fire towards the last of the close combat specialists. Perseus and the last survivor of the fireteam also cover the field in suppressive fire, trying to deter the advance of the Japanese forces.

 

Ava, decloaked and moveed out towards the heavy armored Japanese lieutenant and took a shot at the war correspondent but was blinded by the flash pulse. She rubed the flash out of her eyes just to see the warcor advance on her position. She took another shot and manages to take out the journalist.

On the right flank, Perseus and the Grenzer came under heavy fire from a couple of remotes and Perseus eventually fell to the firepower of the holo-remote of the Japanese. But the remote was itself also taken out.

 

As the warriors of the Japanese secessionist fell the Japanese lieutenant emerged from cover, howling a warriors cry, as he threw himself at Ava with his swords drawn and ready to strike. She tries to immobilize the warrior by hacking into his armour, but his defenses prove to strong, most likely supported by a nearby hacker. As he approaches even closer a storm of bullets envelops him and all but a few shatters of his armor. None of them taking him down. Ava was calm in the face of danger as the warrior charged at her in a berserk rage. She squeezes of a shot that connected and the soldier fell to the ground, not a foot from her position. His nine lives all spent.

None of the forces are in any shape to continue fighting and withdraw. The nomads managing at least to try out a new formula for battle field medical procedures while fighting the Japanese secessionist army for the first time.

 

 

The combine army had stuck the Kurage station hard from the North as Ava and the Tunguskan strike force were approaching from the west. Ava snuck past the Japanese sentries and into the base to scout ahead of the Tunguskan strike force. She could make out a few troopers here and there, clearly only a token force. She Climbed up to get a better vantage point of the field. In the distance she could see a Combine army vanguard force breaking of from the main force and heading their way.
As they did, the last of the Japanese troops took of towards them.

"Look alive people, incoming hostiles. Spring the trap!" Ava, signaled to the remainder of the force as she took up position in a central location close to antenna they are trying to secure.

"You heard her, take positions and fire on my mark"
Goliaths voice echoed over the comes as he lumbered forward in his heavy armor. Next to him, his partner Natalya took up position on his right flank.

The Kriza Borac duo had been deployed in response to the increasingly heavy resistance from the Combine army. Having secured the aid of Perseus the Rogue myrmidon for this mission a group a Securitate followed him closely to aid in covering the right flank. Juanita snuck forward a bit and activated her limited camouflage close to the Krizas to offer some protection.

The nomad force took positions and watched from cover at the approaching combine army converging on the antenna. It seems they too were looking to gain access to the JSA network from here. Mariah trained the scope on her sniper rifle and traced an alien remote as it ascended the stairs and took up position on a roof top in the distance.

"Now!"
Goliaths voice boomed over the comms and within seconds Mariah had put three bullets through the chest and head of the alien remote, not even triggering a response from the robot. The remote were shredded apart and thrown back against the railing as the bullets struck home. A similar robot carrying a sniper rifle covering the approach were also shredded in bullets as Phillipe unleashed on it with his heavy machinegun from just below Mariah’s position.

Juanita scurried forward but her camouflage was canceled by some interference from the approaching aliens. Though she did make it to cover before her cloaking ability shut of.

Natalya moved to intercept an alien remote and unleashed the full power of the fully automatic reloading system of the Kriza configuration, shredding the alien remote in the distance as she backed up some and took a suppressive position along with Goliath who followed close behind.

A airborne trooper drops close to the nomads lines and snuck past the main defense to attack from the side. Bringing a shotgun to bear on the covering nomad troops. Though it didn't count on the coverage of the fireteam to aid the nomads as much as it did. Shotgun fire starts flying in both directions and as the smoke clears the alien troopers lays lifeless on the ground as Vince causually reloaded his own boarding shotgun.

From her vantage point Ava can make out movement in the back lines of the alien force and soon the previously neutralized remote was back up and running again.

"Hostile incoming at 10 a clock. The remote is back up again."
Ava’s voice cracks through the static just as a bullets starts raining down on the Kriza Duo. Goliath took a hit to the chest and ducked out of fire as the impact shattered a plate on his armor. Natalya fared better but still consolidated for cover as the machine keept firing across to their position seemingly ignoring their cover.

Having turned his back towards the once harmless remote, Phillipe was attacked by surprised from behind as the machine sprays him with bullets, but only managing to hit once, which fortunattly was absorbed by Phillipe’s armor as he too consolidated his position.
The remote continues and rounded the central position before taking up position to take out Mariah as she tried to duck out of the way, the alien support ware protocol making short work of whatever protection she was carrying and dropping her dead to the floor.

Ava climbs down from the containers and moved for the alien remote readying her hacking device as she went. As she crosses a gap in the containers her camouflage was jammed by another alien remote, but at this point it was already to late. She moved closer to the remote and immobilizes it.
"Phillipe, the remote is immobilized, take it out."

Phillipe leand out and the remote was easily shredded by the combine effort of hacking programs and machinegun fire.

Ava’s voice crackles over the comms as she speaks again with a satisfied tone in her voice.
"All their main pieces are taken out" We are free to move in hard."

"Everyone, fire at will! Send the alien bastards back to where they came from. " Goliath yells over the comms.

Natalya broke cover guns blazing. Firing for a good few seconds while advancing, never staying the spray of bullets and shredding target after target. An alien hacker was caught in the onslaught but manages to dodge out of the way. When she finally released the trigger and surveyed the battlefield half a dozen remote husks stood motionless in the distance as did the lifeless corpse of the alien medtech.

The combine forces were taking heavy losses and were now converging to the right flank to assault the nomads again. A pitcher came flying through the air and landed near Ava who immediately prepared to be assaulted. Though the force of the alien hacker was to much for Ava and she fell unconscious to the ground as the alien advanced and peppered Phillipe in plasma fire. The few aliens remaining took up defensive positions close to the center and prepared for the nomad counter assault.

"We have them were we want them, advance on the centr

al position and takes them out. Perseus, Juanita and Natalya, you are with me." Move out.

Goliath approached the center and furiously sprayed the alien position with bullets. Not noticing the plasma blast that hit him hard in the face and his vision vanished as he fell unconscious. Meanwhile Perseus threws a smoke grenade and activates the antenna while taking cover behind the nearby oil drums as he does.

Seline, having stayed back until now hurried up to Goliath and examined his wounds. She administerd some injections and staples up the worst of the wound as he regained consciousness.

 

A crackle of energy leaped over the alien remote and a spark of intelligence erupts in its eyes. Facing of against Perseus the remote sprayed with its plasma carbine as Perseus ducked for cover and droped a smoke grenade. The grenade failed to detonate, and Perseus was blasted in plasma fire as he ducked away.

Seline watcheed in horror as the remote opened fire at her. She froze, and a plasma burst struck her side, she wiggled for cover surprised to be alive. She found that she had only been hit with a fragment of superheated plasma as the container took the blunt of the impact.

Over on the other side Natalya dodged for cover as the alien hacker rose from behind some barrels and sprayed her position with plasma fire. One blast impacted her armor but didn't penetrate as she steps aside.

The remotes having tried to make a last push towards the antenna but fell short and was stranded in the crossfire from the Kriza Duo, securing the network connection for the nomads.

Having retreated from her crushing defeat at the Aleph base Jaina were being flown back to Johnny-5 on the landing craft. The craft were just breaking through the clouds when they saw firefights on the Johnny-5 base. Jaina, barely conscious stood up and addressed her soldiers.

“So it seems that our duty is not done just yet. An invading force have assaulted the Netzknot.”

Just as she silenced the comms relay of the craft erupted in static and a voice echoed through the hold.

“We are under attack! I repeat we are under attack. Aleph forces are assaulting the Netzknot trying to access Arachne.” It went back to static and then silent again.

“I know most of you are injured and not ready to fight just yet. You will stay here and guard the ship while the rest of us try and kick those blasted Aleph out of here.” Jainas voice raised as she almost screamed the last part.

The landing craft hovered over the battle field for a few seconds as the strike force jumped out, and then flew of a bit and landed nearby.

Jaina took cover on a building far back so as to best survey the battlefield without getting into to much trouble. Her wounds sure as hell hadn’t healed yet. Without a word a large portion of her force advanced and took up forward positions as the rest prepared to move out. Jaina watched her forces on the heads-up display in her visor and smiled as Chico and his hecklers to up position along the front line. A couple of zonds were positioned on either flank to cover the sides. Having learned from the airborne deployment of the combine army in the last battle Jaina wasn’t going to make that mistake again anytime soon. Rayden and his zondbots took up positions to aid were needed be. With heavy footsteps Amaya fell in line in her Szalamandra armor. Without a second to spare the aleph start showing up on Jainas display.

Just as Jaina summarized the battlepaln to herself she saw movement in the distance. A huge figure carrying and obscene hammer rushing across the field towards Amaya. He crosses the field fast and as he approaches the Tunguskan lines a Hecklers reveals from camouflage and isolates him with his jammer as the bullets shreds the poor heckler to ribbons.

Across from him a pair of figures moved along, one a blur of motions and the other nigh unnoticeable.

With a loud thud the Szalamandra steped forward and lets loose a hail of hyper rapid magnetic rounds at the huge myrmidon warrior but he managed to dodge out of harms way for now. What he didn’t know was that he had dodged into range of the repeater on a zond. With a smile Mary lets loose her Icebreaker program and the Myrmidon was soon frozen in place as his armor stops responding.

“The Myrmidon is helpless for the moment, move on his position.” Mary’s voice crackled over the static filled comm-link.

Split seconds later a pair of missiles streaked along and impacted into Ajax’s chest obliterating the Myrmidon. Chico emerged from his camouflaged state from around the same area as the missiles originated from. Leaning out to fire with his red fury at the post-human proxy securing the antenna for Aleph, shredding it in a shocking display of bullets.

Rayden moved up and secured the closest antenna of the Netzknoten as he and a couple of others layed down suppressive fire.

A smoke screen appeared near Amaya and from within the smoke she could see the vague form of a remote. Knowing what is coming she drops the suppressions fire and started reset her system to stop the Aleph from possessing her Szalamandra.

With horror in her eyes she froze as her controls shuts her out and locks her inside the armor. On the display in front of her she could see the giant gun of the Szalamandra leveling out towards her own forces. She closes her eyes and braced herself as the suit unleasheed hail after hail of hyper rapid metal slugs across the Tunguskan lines. She did all in her power to get the controls back but she couldn’t stop the onslaught for now.

The Aleph controlled Szalamandra managed to take out both Rayden and a zond across the field. Though it tried to take out Abdullahi’s hollowman remote body, the shots failed to pierce the thick armor. The remote tactically retreated behind cover. Just as the Szalamandra was about to shoot once again a familiar voice erupted in Amayas comms.

“Would you like your toy back?” There was no mistaking Marys voice, a sigh of relief washed over Amaya as she smiled.

“Yes mam!” Amaya replied as a static chock shook the TAG and Amaya was in control again, though not with all the controls back to normal just yet.

The Aleph assault continued as a tactical remote was air dropped just beside the Tunguskan lines in an attempt to advances on their flank. Having learned from last time Jaina quickly issued the order.

“Chico, on your right! Take it out before we are surrounded.” The confident was clearly noticeable in Jainas voice as she barked orders over the comms.

The remote didn’t do more than land before it was shredded with rounds from Chico’s suppressive fire as it descended.

Switching from pure assault to a more tactical approach the thermal optical trooper in the center reveals and moves to control the central antenna.

“Amaya, Take over control of you monster! Chico, we need to advance on your flank, push forward. Lets show these bastards who is in charge here.” Jaina smiled as a chorus echoed in her comms when her forces confirmed the order.

With a crackling sound and a thud of static Amaya forced the controls back, leveled her gun at the remote that had made this mess possible. With a hail of bullets she ripped the remote apart.

Chico pushed on the advance on his flank firing left and right at all targets and eventually taking out a good portion of the defending troops on that side. Though he couldn’t really go head to head with the post-human guarding their back field so he retreats back into cover again.

 

Juanita broke her protective cloaking and backed up towards the antenna to at least even out the field against the intruders. Just as she activated the antenna she can make out the form of a thermal optical trooper revealing far behind her. Not having time to properly aim she just ducked and threw of a shoot in that direction as she felt the sniper bullet grazing her cheek when she hits the ground. She lifted her head and spy in the distance, surprised as the post-human shell lays lifeless on the container with a clean bullet hole straight through the head.

Not having much of a choice anymore the aleph forces go all out for the antennas to secure the connection to Arachne. The back field was covered by a hacker and some protection. On the right flank a robotic engineer patched up the remote and then drops prone next to the antenna as it fiddles with it to gain access. Most of the Aleph troopers started laying down suppressing fire to stop the nomads from pushing them of the antennas.

“Arachne is compromised, all out offence. We need to secure those antennas before Aleph gain access to our network. Priorities are antenna three, four and five.” Jaina spoke calmly and with steadfast determination as the orders were given. All of the troopers under her command knew what that meant, things were really tense, and no room for errors.

Chico peaked out from behind his cover and fired a salvo at the engineer that was trying to bypass their defenses. His shock rounds easily shredding the intruder.

Abdullahi jumped his remote up the building and fired at one of the invaders trying to gain access through an antenna. He launched a missile just as he was hit in the shoulder and the projectile veered of into the sky before detonating harmlessly above. The shot hadn’t damaged him, just made him miss. The balcony cracked as he jumped once more onto the roof of the building, firing at the hacker that was accessing the network as he ascended the building. A missile struck true and the troopers was blasted apart, but the covering trooper manages to damage the hollowman. Though this lead to securing the second access point for the Tunguskan forces. Abdullahi rerouted all movement to the legs and jumped straight up gaining sight of the central trooper that previously emerged from thermal optical camouflage. And it to was shredded by missile fire as the hollowman suit was severely damaged before hitting the ground and disconnecting.

“Good work everyone, the aleph troopers are all but routed. We just need to clean up a few stragglers before the base is secure.”

 

 

Jaina curses loudly and opens the comm-link.

“Defensive positions! The combine army have us by the throat. I need a good spread with clear fire lanes!” Jaina barked while swallowing her own surprise from the attack.

“Tiamat take the right flank, Abdullhai you take the central buildings, Rayden and Seline you spread out to cover the force with support as needed, you will be on your own today. I need Mikkela in a central position waiting for further instructions, hidden. Rahel, deploy to the left!” She didn’t have time to register the advance of the rogue Fraacta advancing in cover on the right flank as she ordered the remote pilots to deploy the zonds.

Jaina stoped for a moment to assess the situation. Through the Lunokhod sensors she saw a Fraacta emerge on the far-right and take out the Stempler zond deployed there. The zondnaut drops a smoke grenade to protect itself. The lunokhod arms not able to reach just held its ground for now.

From his position Tiamat can see the morats advancing on him. He raised his heavy machinegun to fire back only to see a couple of missiles steak towards him. Desperately needing to get out of the way he dropped his gun and dives for cover. But alas to late, in a series of explosions the Kriza is obliterated.

The Fraacta moveed up further and toke aim at the Lunokhod, knowing it is doomed it put the koalas on standby as its armor plating was ripped apart by spitfire rounds.The fraacta the advanced on the Tsyklon who tried to respond with an explosive round from its feuerbach, but it too was shredded by the alien. Over the radio Jaina heard the screams of Rayden as he to was gunned down by the alien trooper.

With a heavy heart Jaina noticed her force already severely decimated and she need to start thinking about retreating with what she had left. Though letting her pride get the better of her she screams over the comms.

“Abdullahi, fire at will! The same goes for you Mikkela.”

Jaina moves about on her vantagepoint and toke aim at the Fraacta now advancing on her position, she caught it in the open and let loose a volley of fire at the alien intruder. Bullets scatter harmlessly around the alien, not one hitting its mark as the alien fires back. With a earsplitting sound Jainas helmet was knocked of by the impact of the return fire, her vision turned to black and she fell unconscious.

 

 

Hearing the chain of command ripped apart Abdullahi grabed his spitfire tighter and shreds the morat heavy weapon troopers in an attempt to stay their advance some. Getting both the missile launcher and the heavy machinegun down before he needed to reload. Meanwhile Rahel dismounts her bike which morphed into a small combat remote. They both fired at an alien remote taken covering position over on the left flank, covering the supply crate.

In a last-ditch attempt to halt the alien advance Mikkela reveals from her thermal optical camouflage and fires at the Fraacta, but her focus being of and she missies with all of her shots. She sighed in relief as the alien did the same.

The alien force responding quickly to the flow of the battle with the morats and their Umbra master advances on the Tunguskan lines. Mikkela was almost caught by surprise as the shotgun shells starts flying. She dodges to the side but a blast to the stomach sends hear reeling and she sags to the ground her vision fading as her consciousness escapes her. With a roar the Umbra jumped on her and sank its fangs into Mikkela and drank deep on her lifeblood invigorating itself in the process. Leaving her a dead husk on the ground.

 

Not knowing what was coming from behind, Rahel continued to cover forward with her zondmate as the umbra thrashes her in the back with its spitfire leaving her in a pile of blood. Pressing on the morats open one of the boxes and extract the vital supplies inside. It jumped into cover with it as the umbra jumps up on the nearby building and jamed the vorpal sword through the spinal cord of the Hollowman construct as it tried to defend with its pistol.

 

Seline left all alone on the field, the comms eerie silent, she shook the worst of the effect and advanced on the morat unit. She took careful aim across the field at the one holding the supplies, she would need a miracle to take it down. She slowly squeezed the trigger as the morat saw her and dodged for cover. With a stroke of luck never seen before she hit the morat as it maked for cover but the armor of the alien shruged of the round. As the noise of the firefight settled she noticed a wound in her right lung as she fell over, grasping for air. The Fraacta had gotten to her just as she fired at the morat, trying to save the day.

“Jaina, come in?! JAINA! Answer me god damn it.” Marcus yells over the comms as the landing craft approaches the scene. Just as he exits the craft the morats leave with their spoils and he is left gazing over the field of battle, the bodies of his fallen friends littering the place.

This is truly on a Dark day. Marcus thought as his heart and soul ached for the fallen.