Forsaken

[Whesto]

"Alright, helmets on people. Prep for Zero G, oxygenless combat. By the looks of it, the state of this ship is rapidly deteriorating. Let's just hope people follow my orders and keep it intact.".

Whesto acknowledged his Guildmaster and rapidly re-attached his helmet and unsecured his rifle. Even if there had been a pause in the hangar his adrenaline was still pumping. All the explosions and shooting outside, the rumbling and obvious damage to the Overlord, everything kept him on edge. He was eager to get to action himself, especially knowing his compatriots were out there doing it already with determination and unrelenting violence.

He noticed the Guildmaster picking up a rifle from his boarding vessel. It was the same weapon Whesto had in his hands. He'd only practiced with it before on a temporary shooting range on Planet Nauru. It could do some serious killing.

Whesto listened to his Guildmaster who was about to say something;

"Here's the plan, we make our way towards the bridge and we RV with any marines that made it onto the ship. When we get there, Hackett is mine. We leave no survivors. None whatsoever. Our objective is to take over the ship. Not destroy it. We're taking this piece of junk home. Any questions? Good".

Moving down the corridors of the Overlord with Daniels on point, Whesto witnessed the brilliance of the Guildmasters armor and augmentations. Seeing him glance the enemy laser fire, as well as explosive charges, was astonishing. Whesto had planned for augmentations in the future since his promotion, but now he was eager for them. When he witnessed how the enemy got slaughtered he had to process what just happened. He had never seen Daniels in combat before.

The small group fought their way forward, now with Lea on point. Bullets were flying both ways, Whesto's Ravager rifle was laying down covering fire when Lea moved out of cover and surgically put several bullets into an enemy marine. It was a decisive kill, but Whesto saw Lea was out in the open and four enemy marines took aim for her. "DOWN!".

Magnetically accelerated and superheated tungsten rounds rained down the corridor from Whesto's rifle above Lea, flying over- and tearing through the relatively thin enemy cover and threshed into the enemy. Molten shrapnel, visor composites, armor fabrics, ripped flesh and blood bounced off the back wall and gave the Overlord a new interior design.

Clear for now, Whesto saw that Lea was in one piece and ran past her and took position on their side of the enemy cover. He took a look back at Lea and the Guildmaster. "800 rounds to remember me by!" he said as he reloaded his Ravager, smirking inside his helmet.

The Overlord shook violently, erasing the smirk on Whesto's face. "Magboots on! We're about to go Zero G! Brace!"

It was too late, Whesto was flung back down the corridor and while in the air hit his shoulder on a wall beam, spun around and landed into the opposite wall further down the corridor. The Core battle armor took most of the brunt. Whesto had no augmentations to tank all of the force and was incapacitated for a moment as the pain raced through his nerves. Getting his senses back, he couldn't say if he had passed out or not, but he was still on the floor trying to recover himself.

He heard the Guildmaster shouting down the corridor but couldn't make out the words. Whesto having lost his breath managed to let out a low grunt of pain over the comm. At least the combat suit had allowed him to hold onto his rifle and he managed to get up on one knee, still trying to recover from the abuse he just took.

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