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Snake Eyes - Ash - 01-28-2018
Snake Eyes
Prologue
"Pull your socks up kiddo!" the squaddie across from her shouted. The sound of the engines was deafening. Ellen tugged at her chest guard and reached for the pistol in her shoulder holster. Inhale, exhale, ok. The same man nodded at her and turned his head to look at the squad sergeant standing up at the back of the cabin.
"Ok guys, we're coming up on a major hideout of the Dead Men. We've got intel that says Rattlesnake himself could be onboard. Team A , priority is to disable the central power core. Team B must assume control of the life support systems if we are to force a surrender. Lethal force is authorised but if you see that slippery bastard Rattlesnake you take him alive! You hear!?"
"Aye!"
The sergeant nodded.
"Ok contact in 20, A-team you're up!"
Ellen and five others stood, huddled under the transports low ceiling, and shuffled toward the airlock. Drawing her pistol, she held it low. Peering around the shoulder pads and helmets of her squad mates she stole a glimpse of the approaching station through the airlock window. A rust bucket of an outpost assembled from old ship hulls and deep space storage pods. Inhale, exhale, ok.
"And BREACH!"
Gunfire erupted as the hatch opened, Ellen pressed on behind her team. The airlock was cleared in seconds. Two hostiles down.
"Clear!"
"B-team! Go!"
Following her squad down the weaving narrow corridors her team advanced with expert efficiency. Sweeping room after room for hostiles they encountered no-one, and before long they had made it to the core control room.
"Core control is secured"
Over the radio the sergeant barked orders.
"Team B is held up at a bottleneck a bit above your position. Cut the power and make your way to them any way you can"
Ellen walked to a nearby control panel and began typing in commands. A loud crack and everything went black. Slowly the deep red glow of the emergency lighting illuminated the room. Behind her one of the squaddies was holding a fistful of cabling hanging out of a wall panel.
"Nice one Fergus. Ok, Blake, Fergus and the detective backtrack and reinforce B team. Kristoff, Jacobs and I will climb the maintenance shaft to flank. Let's move!"
Ellen fell in line behind Fergus. Swiftly they moved back down the winding passages. Without warning Fergus halted, tilting an ear.
"Blake!" whispered Fergus. Ahead he was swiftly moving onward and turned a corner.
"BLAKE!"
Nothing.
Fergus turned an ear to Ellen.
"You hear that?"
Ellen focused her senses to make out the noise.
Voices. Aggressive, coming from a passage to their right.
"That's not B team"
Fergus looked ahead in the hopes of seeing Blake doubling back but shook his head.
"Come on"
Slowly and quietly the two made their way toward the source of the noises and it didn't take long for them to understand some of the words.
".....You think i'm a moron huh?"
Fergus and Ellen slowed as they came within sight of a door with small window pouring yellow light into the dark. Fergus pointed at the door and nodded to Ellen. The two of them huddled to the wall on each side.
"What a coincidence I catch your sorry ass high tailing it to the pods while the raid brigade kicks my door in"
THWACK!
"AAAAAAAAAAAAHH.....AAAH GAHD!"
"God damn! So it was you. Delilah, Marco, the Denver deal, MY SHIP!"
THWACK!
"AAAH!.....AAAH!......UURGH!"
By now Ellen had brought an eye to the window to glimpse the scene. Facing the door, a man tied to a chair with a grievous slash across his chest was losing a lot of blood; face baeaten to ribbons. Slouched over him holding a knife to his face was a man wearing a snakeskin jacket. Ellen bolted back away from the window into the dark again. Ellen whispered to Fergus
"It's rattlesnake"
"AND YOU let Mikey take the fall! That's stone cold Tyler. Some of the boys still get nightmares after what I had to do to make a point with that poor bastard"
"I...urgh... (sputtering) Please...."
Rattlesnake digged his blade into the man's neck slowly drawing blood.
"Now now now now now now now now now Tyler. I'll chop your balls off later so it's a bit early to act like you already lost em."
Fergus raised his gun and gripped the door handle. Nodding to Ellen he held up three fingers and mouthed (Three), (Two)
"That asshole Torch is seriously starting to piss me off"
The door bursted open and Fergus put the barrel of his gun to the back of Rattelsnake's head. Ellen circled around behind the victim with her pistol trained on Rattlesnake's face.
"Put the knife down"
For a moment the universe stands still. Not a sound or movement. Every particle in the gloomy, dirty air sits in suspension. Rattlesnake smirks.
With a flick of his forearm he slits Tyler's throat and blood spits laterally. His nose explodes as Fergus' bullet comes through from the back of his head. Together Rattlesnake and Tyler slumped to the ground in a pool of blood and rusted metal.