Into the Abyss

[Dane Summers]

Ketsu was crouching behind a cargo vehicle, peering up ever so slightly over the top to get a quick look at the black maw that was the blown out entrance of the large AgroProm complex. He saw nothing but shadows, and a few times his eyes flicked to movement but saw nothing.
Something shifted in the darkness, and it was definitely movement. Ketsu jerked his rifle up and sighted down the iron ring, putting the blurry mass into the firing point. He was preparing to squeeze the trigger once it got closer, more clear...

A sharp screeching feedback noise erupted from his earbud, as the voice of Major Forge asked for a check in. Ketsu fell back behind defilade, and ripped the ear bud out, putting it in a pocket, and then popping back up with the rifle. The shape he was sighted on was gone.

"Damn..." he whispered. He put the earpiece back in, and whispered into the throat mic "Copy Major, this is Jr.Lt Ketsu, I'm at...somewhere 5 klicks south of a large town, and outside a complex marked 'AgroProm' - My situation is..."

He stopped as he heard a thumping from one of the car hulks to his right - bringing the rifle up fast, he saw nothing that direction - waiting - nothing. No sound, no movement...nothing.

"...My situation is-"

Stars exploded in his eyes as something heavy came down on his already aching shoulder - Ketsu fell and rolled onto his back, looking into the face of some sub-humanoid...thing...beyond description in only a sliver of a second - it was holding the remains of some plumbing fixture as a makeshift club, and readying for another whack - this one to turn Ketsu's face into a smear on the pavement -

The assault rifle's roar pierced the still air, and the large high velocity ball bearing cracking the sound barrier, echoed for miles - no doubt alerting everything with ears or sensors in every direction. The five round burst cut up the chest of the thing, and sprayed blood out the exit wounds - the body fell - and with it, came the sound of an uncountable number of throats, letting out noises of surprise, anger, and alert, from inside the large structure...the gunshots had given his position away.

"...my situation is extremely hostile!"

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