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« on: January 11, 2015, 10:43:37 AM »
"BREACH!" Asher yelled as Beacon finalized the molecular deconstruction of the door, exposing a long, thin corridor of poorly lit titanium. Has'isos and She'sha stepped away from the door with such delicacy that for a moment they could have been dancer, but a deep chuckle from the two of them signaled something far more sinister. They began unloading their Projectors into the hall, a flurry of explosions sending flames dancing out for flammable materials, but to no avail in the cave.
After a minute's time the two stopped, surveying the damage they had done. If there were any shooters left, this choke point would do them no good - it looked more like a quarry now, the only remains of any construction being a single stone door at the end.
"You could do /all that/, but not blow up a single door? Okay, fine." Bringing her EMRG up to bear, Asher knelt and let off a shot, puncturing the door and sending it flying from its hinges.
Mistake.
A pair of enormous crimson guardians plunged through the rock wall with such ferocity that it shook the squad's feet. They towered over any human being, and had to be at least twelve feet tall, crashing through anything that would make their height inconvenient. Their eyes, of which there were six, shone from pink to a dark red as their sight fixated upon the group, stalking towards them like gorillas. A pair of tusk-like tentacles from each sank into the ground.
"BACK UP AND OPEN F-.." The commander was interrupted by a tugging feeling at her feet, glancing down only to find her vision shot towards the sky as the tentacle grasped her ankle and smashed her into the ground. From the grunts around her and sporadic gunfire into the sky, she could tell her squad mates suffered a similar fate, before the tentacles retracted and left them lying on the ground. She pushed up against the dirt, glancing upwards to find the pair of medics standing their ground (for their had only been four tentacles, and they were stood at the back) firing shot upon shot towards the beings. Each round tore off a large piece of carapace, though nothing seemed to stop the beasts.
She attempted to stand only to find one upon her in moments, feeling a fist crash into her torso with a pang -- a few ribs broken, no doubt -- before being picked up and throttled into the ground. Another round from the medic and the being paused for a moment, its hand having lost a great deal of flesh, though it did not cry out. Asher loosened her rifle from the gap, raising it, and without a moment's notice fired directly into the guardian's face.
And it fell, noiselessly, body caving in upon itself thanks to the hole punctured through its skull down to its core. Its partner seemed to shudder for a moment, though it had not been damaged nearly as much, but fell all the same, its carapace shedding into neat plating as it died.
The group stood in shock for a time, before Beacon suddenly burst. "Evolution is SUCH a /BITCH/." he yelled out, though soon finding himself laughing afterwards, joined by the assaults. The medics shrugged and lowered their handguns, not quite the type for celebration, and Asher's suit had calmed her nerves through a plethora of Glitterworld drugs enough to join the fray.
And so they stood there, six men and women among a foreign world met by foreign creatures, and they laughed -- laughed blindly of what lay ahead.