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[Erex]

An older man walks an eye white as milk from an injury he sustained in his youth during the Volgran Wars, he walks up to a podium and turns his attention to the group of soldiers sitting at their desk awaiting their briefing. He looks up from the podium after displaying a holographic map of a city. As he began to speak he coughed a little. “Listen up Marines, it appears that our capital building has been taken and captured, and I’m infuriated that our capital building was captured after an entire battalion of ground troops held it. That’s where we come in ladies, to show the ground pounders how it is done. We will not allow them to have that building.” He zooms in to the area surrounding the structure. “Aurec company you will enter through each entrance there are four located around the structure, we will not let these sons of bitches have our capital. You will find all insurgeants, and you will kill them all is that understood marines.” The marines at the top of there lungs yelled back “Sir yes sir!” The old man yelled at them “Then get your asses moving you have 48 hours to take the capital city and building back, you will not receive backup.” The Marines in full combat gear get into the Ironfist Dropships, with the pilot saying something as they usually do. “Alright thank you for flying Iron Fist flights taking you to the shittiest places in the galaxy, barf bags are underneath the seats, and if your afraid of flying well grow a pair and say your prayers.” With that said they all bowed their heads and prayed to their various deities being from different planets. One soldier stood up Gunnery Sergeant Sergei Kroshkinev coming from the New Moscow settlement on Lunias, in his deep and bellowing voice with a thick Russian accent says “Amen.” The Marines proceeded to put their helmets on when they felt the boom from the dropships entering the atmosphere. The pilot looked down at the console when she heard an alarm go off, she reached up for the switch “Alright ladies looks like our own planets defenses are targeting us so hold on.” Some of the marines looked out at the other dropships through their portholes only to see a few explode and through their helmets they could hear their brothers dying, the explosions they heard and the sight of the bodies falling to their death shook a few up. When Sergei yelled “Don’t look at that, keep your eyes ready and peeled. We lost our brothers yes, but now we get the opportunity to make those Sons of Bitches pay for taking our brothers lives. We will not allow them to hold that city, we will die before they hold it. No retreat…” The rest of the marines over their comms yelled in unison while stomping their right foot on the ground “No Surrender!”. The remaining Dropships landed just outside the terrace of the capital when the doors opened. Marines poured out of the dropships like ants out of ant pile. The Iron fist began to open fire with its plasma cannons onboard giving some cover fire when all marines departed the doors closed and began to lift off, the squeal of the engines began to become thundering when a missile hits the Iron Fist bringing it to the ground in flames and fuel a few of the marines were set aflame when the fuel splattered. The screams from them was intense agony. Sergei pulled out his pistol and opened fire on the marines that were burning alive, the smell of burnt flesh and blackened husk was unbearable. Sergei behind his visor began to tear up and cry as he saw the name tag that had his best friends name on it. He with all the hatred he could muster up took control of the situation once he heard that the Lieutenant was dead. “Alright lets move in!” Yelled Sergei, followed by “Eyes peeled, and frosty watch your aim and kill some. We will debrief in 1800 hours in deepest pits of hell, We got a ride out now!” The soldiers began to run into the building yelling and a firefight began between them and the enemy who was still unknown. Their soldiers had undecipherable markings on their armor except the lotus. Sergei charging in pulled out his MJ-5 Knife and hurdles over a barricade landing on a enemy soldier he thrusts the knife into the soldiers neck as he hears him scream from the pain, he then twist the neck until he heard the snap, the twist of fate as he ended the soldier. The Marines began to make quick work of the enemy. One of them charged in to provide backup for Sergei jumped in front of him as a sniper rifle rang and his head was blown off his shoulders, blood was all over the pristine walls and floors of pure Telothian marble. As the marines fought harder and harder they were losing men left and right. Sergei was trying to be combat medic and still fight. He helped a fellow marines arm when he realized it was hanging on by a ligament, the soldier was screaming, he with his knife cut the mans arm off and stopped the bleeding. Over his radio he heard “We’re being torn to pieces, what the hell is that thing!” He then heard a loud and guttural scream as he saw a beast charging in. Sergei stood up and picked up a Heavy machine gun he found lying on the ground, and proceeded to charge at the beast. Screaming at the top of his lungs as he pulled the trigger, the beast threw him against the wall with its large tusk and tried to trample him with but with his tusk hitting the wall it was impossible to get close to him. The beast then screamed out demonically as it fell to its side after a large explosion hit it from a shoulder mounted missile launcher. The enemy became desperate as they were being torn to pieces by the marines. Only a few minutes later Sergei over his comms hears the best news all day “This is alpha Team we have captured the throne room sir, the building is secured. “ Only to be downtrodded with “Beta Team come in, Beta Team come in! Ceti Team do you copy?” Sergei responds “This is Ceti team leader I copy, we are close to Beta we will move in and find them. We don’t leave our brothers behind.” Sergei and the rest of Ceti move in to Beta teams location only to find them in pools of blood and bodies everywhere. The walls blackened from the firefight, he looked at their bodies and saw their internal organs been stabbed out much like a feral animal. “This is Ceti Team, Beta team is KIA, I repeat Beta team is KIA.” After entering the throne room Alpha team had a prisoner an alien soldier with a twisted and demonic smile on his face. Sergei runs up to the alien and starts punching him yelling “You Son of a bitch!” After his burst of anger leaving the aliens face bludgeoned and unrecognizable he looked at his fist, there were pieces of flesh stuck between the plates on the fist joints in his armor. He gets on his comms “Admiral, we have taken the capital and we have a prisoner.” The Admiral replies a few seconds later with “Good job marines come on home.” As the teams exited the structure seeing more reinforcements entering the building, the alien began to laugh uncontrollably and yelled “You fools” the alien placed his hand on his chest activating a self destruct when a younger marine jumped ontop of him as the alien detonated, throwing Sergei off the platform only to land in a pool during a pool party the water turned to blood red as everyone screamed and ran out of the pool. Sergei then woke up he had the same nightmare for the last 4 years his wife woke up when she felt the rustling the bed as she saw him sitting at the side. She draped her arms around him and kissed his neck “Your ok, its fine, its only a dream.” Sergei with his eyes bloodshot as tears ran down his face “I lost everyone I knew and loved that day.” His wife hearing the same thing every night whispered “Not everything, you have three beautiful daughters who adore you and a wife he loves you more than all the stars in our galaxy. You’re a hero for liberating our capital, and the man I love is now in need. Sergei began weeping as he said “And yet the people don’t appreciate the sacrifice, I fought in the Colony wars only to come home with people angered that we went to war with our own kind.” She pulls Sergei by his arm under the covers, he fell asleep and it was over. His wife Quorra felt a tear run down her face as she knew she would have to do this tomorrow night, as she fell asleep she got close to her husband, a man who did the unthinkable for the ungrateful and went unappreciated. What you guys think?