The shattered edge

[Jayce]

"ME? Why ME? I just ran down a corridor, blasted a bear-zombie-alien-thingy in the face with a shotgun-turned-flamethrower, fired a Razor INSIDE of a hangar bay, and the Credit is now upside-down! And you're going to tell ME to go outside!? I've spent enough time outsi-" Jayce was cut off as Pasha pushed him out of the door. He stumbled around outside, yelling up at Pasha.

"You'll be fine sir... Here, take this..." Pasha said, tossing a bottle out to Jayce.

"Wh-wh-wh-what?" Jayce stuttered out against the cold. "You better get out here with me, or I'll smack your face off!" Jayce drew a set of knuckle dusters out of his pocket and slipped them over left hand. He climbed up the side of the craft to Pasha, and began to grapple with him. He smacked the side of Pasha's face right as Pasha's punch connected with Jayce's side. Jayce began to wind up for a swing right at his opponents jaw, when a loud roar interrupted them.

'Wait wait WAIT!" Jayce shouted, spinning around and drawing his sidearm. He let loose a blast right into the face of one of the bear aliens, which reeled back in pain. Not long after, what had to be 3 dozen smaller bears sailed out of a door behind the Credit, crawling over boxes and ramps to get to the downed ship. "Close the door! Close it!!" Jayce bellowed, as he awkwardly started the gunships engines.

"What's your plan this time, then?" Pasha yelled over the roar of the engines.

"Bigger flamethrower!" Jayce screamed, as he maneuvered the Credit's landing gear to right the craft. The entire port side of the gunship was mangled and torn, but the starboard side was still fully operational. "Watch this, Pasha!" Jayce said, as he flicked a switch on the main control panel. The gunship lifted off the ground, all of its maneuvering thrusters firing at once. A few seconds later, the cruise engines came online, blasting the entire pack of hungry bears back to whatever hell they came from. "HAH! How do you like that!" Jayce yelled triumphantly, as the Credit rose back up to the deck above like a Phoenix from the ashes, settling down once again on a patch of hangar that was not mangled and torn.

"So, what now, Pasha? You still think your stupid Vodka can solve your problems? Oh, and by the way..." Jayce wound up and connected a punch right into Pasha's ribs. "Don't hit me there. It hurts. See? Now, let's go find everyone else."

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