Demise

[Boss]

0:52

"We turned a corner and saw decimation. There were blast marks, holes, carbon scoring on all the walls. Blood too, near the holes. That's when the base AI let us know that the turrets were coming online ahead of schedule. The outermost ring of defenses was working and clearly lethal. The problem was, we had to move to get out."

"Captain Mason, I need you to run towards the hangar as fast as you possibly can. Don't think, don't look back, and whatever you do, don't stop running! Whatever you might...hear...don't stop." I gave him a shove and he took off like a bat out of hell. We were right behind him.

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Private 1st Class Jones

"I didn't look back either. We all knew the risks. We all knew the chance of us getting killed was pretty high. It's what we signed up for. We didn't sign up expecting to get shot in the back by a remorseless AI that we told to kill anything that moves.

"But we went anyways. We did it to get Mason out alive. And we got him out. Me, Hollis, Commander Mathers, and Lieutenant Johnson. Everyone else was cut down either by the turrets or by the Marines on that gunboat. Those who died kept their creed: Semper Fidelis - Always Faithful."