Into the Abyss

[arvg]

There was always something that went wrong.

Every time the damn Coalition Fighter Corps decided to run one of its training missions to JiangXi, it was always up to the Marine Corps to solve whatever gigantic problem the ill trained, half-witted muppets found themselves up to their neck in.

This time it meant that Marine Lt. Elias had to find a way to distract a horde of hungry white rabbits from devouring a team of hapless recruits.

Naturally that meant running through the city trailing a chicken on a piece of string.

The Lt. sat perched high on a piece of broken concrete column, looking down at the horde that were fighting over the last few chicken bones, searching about for something else to eat. Of course the one thing that Elias actually wanted them to chew on was a little on the unpalatable side for them.

He stared down the iron sights of his automatic pistol at the robot that was assessing him in return.

Shaggy blonde hair, dirty face, worn Coalition uniform underneath an all weather cammo jacket, with a gasmask hanging loose. He looked like any other survivor on the planet, except for the fact that there were no traces of madness. Elias had spent the last two years on JiangXi, surviving in the exclusion zones. He'd survived the worst JiangXi had to offer, and had bested the best of the Volkhan's troops sent to hunt him down during the civil war... and even survived the unending wave of stupid that usually got hurled out the back of a passing Storm gunboat in an effort to turn raw recruits into men the hard way.

"Hello you ugly bastard," Elias said with an up nod. "Take it you are TALOS, the Premier wanted me to say a nice fond hello for him..."

With that he began to open fire, knowing that he could empty the clip before the android could reach the column, and with his aim, it would loose both it's photo receptors in the process.

The bot crashed into the column, as Elias leaped backwards, hitting the rubble and skidding down the rocks. His pistol was up again, plugging a couple of extra shots into the now blinded bot, as the rabbits scattered in shock at the noise and flailing arms of the robot.

Elias didn't wait around, he began to leap rocks and twisted girders on his way down, heading for the jeep he saw parked to the side of the complex side doors. A jeep usually meant supplies, like an assault rifle... and if that bot switched to sonar he'd need it.

Crashing to the ground beside the jeep he was up and scooped up the SEEKER from the passenger seat, using the Jeep's bonnet as cover, he sighted in and began to let bullets fly into the fast moving robot that was leaping down after him.

"I could use a little help here!" he called, knowing that the occupant of the Jeep couldn't be that far off.

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