One hell of a fall (broke into the wrong colony fool )
Imported from SF2 with no description.
Even through the Pilot helmet Apex was wearing, the sound of machinery and construction, Apex’s higher physical position allowing him to oversee the large amounts of collapsed trees. The artificial clearing being a short distance away from a large cluster of prefab buildings varying from housing and diner’s to garages for Titans and cars, there was even areas around the perimeter of the houses having tarps propped up along with a collection of sand bags and trenches, the defensive line having been covered by natural trees that had been left along to help hide the prospering colony.
“Your clear to move this part, Droz” Apex announced over the com, the hand he wasn’t using to hold onto the shoulder of the Scorch Titan he was stood upon, his over hand holding down on the mic button on the side of his helmet.
“Understood kid” Droz replied over the com as he piloted the Scorch over to a cluster of trees which were picked up and placed on the unoccupied shoulder, the mec then walking through the plane moving to tree’s to a pile of fallen trees with Apex assisting with the movement of the items with call outs of how close the trees were to the other construction equipment being used.
“So how long do we have until we can stop using weapons as construction equipment?”
“Until the clearing has been established for the defensive line” Apex responded as the Titan was moved back towards a large collection of trees that had been cut down, the construction crew being 15 meters away, using a mixture of chain saws and axe’s to clear away the jungle their goal being the drop that was the edge of the small jungle and grass plane that was being fortified. The low hanging trees and shrubbery being favoured over the older trees due to the older trees not obstructing the Titans or any equipment because of how high up the tree branches were that also were wide enough to allow Pilots to wall run on them , this plan leading to the sporadic placement of trees that had met the given criteria.
“To be honest Apex, I reckon that this is pretty clear” Droz responded, his titan fallowing his hand movements leading to the armoured arms of the Scorch being risen as it twirled around gesturing to the area that was now grassland, with large soil mounds being piled up, some of the mounds being in the process of being moved to the defensive line this being followed by the left over sawdust which was being used to cover the floor of the trenches and bunkers.
“Well not really Droz, I mean we need all of this timber for houses and those weird bunkers that are being placed on the defensive line” Apex committed as the Titan picked up a large collection of logs and held them In its arms. With Apex’s attention being drawn to the top of his HUD as Davis’s ID appeared.
“Hey Davis what you after ?” Apex spoke over the com channel.
“Hey kid, brother, did any of you know anything about a shriek skulking around?” Davis asked as Droz’s Titan dropped its cargo down onto the floor and a Grunt waved to get their attention leading to Apex responding informing the Grunt that they were on their way.
“Not a clue brother, did they ask for anyone?”
“Yeah the Titan should be able to assist” Apex responded to the Grunts ask for assistance, the help being needed in the creation of the roof for the large underground bunker, the information being relayed to Droz who was still talking to his brother over the coms.
“Yeah she asked for Apex?”
_“Why would Apex need a therapist, he’s fine” _ Droz’s comment being audible over the sound of the titan moving logs to cover the large hole in the ground, with Apex being stood on the opposite side of the hole insuring that the logs were lined up.
“You can tell that Shriek that i’ve died and been buried” Apex interjected into the conversation as the first of the logs was placed into its position, the squad of Grunts standing off to the side using this chance to take a break from there overworked day.
“Well unfortunately I told her about you assisting with the static defence construction”
“What!”
“Why!” Was the pair of responses Davis got.
“Hey its not like that, she pulled out a load of medical documents and said that the head surgeon was involved”
“She’s only pulling that because she can rant on about anti war BS, she’s only trying to find me because she wants to pull me from active duty and use that to further her carieer”
“That bitch!”
“I know lets hurry up and get this shit done” Apex responded as the last set of logs were placed covered up the hole, leading to Apex climbing back onto the scorch titans shoulder, his cloak ability activating keeping him hidden as he sat on the Titans shoulder, a alarm on Apex’s wrist announcing the ending of the pairs work day.
“Oi Droz were done for today hurry up and get to the garage”
“Yeah Boi” Droz responded, the Scorch Titan increasing its pace as it strode back towards the settlement, passing by the remaining trees that provided an ample amount of shade as the Titan approached the main ‘gate’ of the defensive trench network which was just a pair of bunkers made of a mixture of wood, dirt and concrete which took the form of a wooden box like bunker, with similar bunkers being dotted around the network of trenches all of them overlooking the now open scenery that made any attacking force have to travel across open ground with the only cover available being the remaining trees.
“Attention passengers we are now reaching our destination, if you look to your left or right you will see the 5 star accommodations available on the colony we haven’t came up with a name yet” Droz voice crackled over the com line as the Scorch titan began moving through the colony streets, the roads being made of dirt with improvised footpaths flanking road along with the collection of buildings and houses, some having been constructed with the houses being built out of wood looking similar to 2 story log cabins with the other more public buildings such as hospitals and other key buildings being made from the prefab supplies such as quick set cement and metal panels making the buildings look more like the buildings in Angle City.
“Droz please never say that again” Apex responded as a couple of civilians quickly crossed the road ahead of the Titan, their gaze failing to leave the Titan until it was outside of the garage.
“Why is this even named the Garage to begin with” Apex committed on what was a single large mechanical bay being a large rectangular concrete building with four windows on it allowing the internal actions of the mechanics to be viewed weather it being M.A.R.V.I.N units moving parts of machines or actual mechanics repairing titans and other vehicles. The back of the garage having 4 landing pads cut into the ground, 3 of them being for Crow transports, the fourth being for the large brother of the crow that ferried Titan back up to orbit without the need of a capital ship making landfall. The large shutter to the Garage having already been opened allowing the noise of heavy work to permeate through.
“Oi kid go get yourself sorted out ill meet you back at the barracks” Droz announced from the now open seat of his Titan leading to Apex hopping off the Titan and wall running to the barracks, the use of his jump kit allowing Apex to cover the distance in minutes until he landed in a court yard that was surrendered by a rectangular U shaped building, the fourth wall of the courtyard being made from a metal plated fence, the north and south parts of the building being accommodation and storage, the west wall being the small showering unit that was constructed.
“Hey kid, you up for what’s happening tonight?”
“Why whats happening today Bear?”
“ Some Grunts found a herd on animals we can eat”
“Wait, fresh meat, when and where?” Apex responded.
“At the Fire pit pub at 9.00pm, that leaves you 4 hours to get cleaned up”
“Why Bear, everyone’s going to be wearing their combat armour”
“Yeah but theirs will be clean” Bear pointed causing Apex to look down at the bits of dried dirt plastered on his shin plates causing Apex to reach down and scrape it off.
“There done”
“ Just clean your kit properly kid”
“Sure thing Bear, Sure thing” Apex responded heading into the showers determined to clean his equipment.
(3 Hours and some amount of minutes later)
“Wow kid you know that that armours second hand with how you’ve cleaned it”
“Dam Davis, that’s a hell of a backhanded compliment” Droz responded as the group of pilots walked down the improvised roads, the make shift lamppost’s providing a useable amount of light as they approached the building in question, which consisted of a collection of tarps that covered the large collection of seats that were already occupied with a large fire pit in the centre with a collection of skinned animals being roasted above it.
“Dam what the hell’s that”
“Some sort of deer, though it tastes like beacon so don’t complain kid” Bear responded as the group of four sat down, their helmets being removed and placed onto the tables, the low light from the fire revealing the beard on bears Russian face, with both Droz and Davis seeming to be of slight Asian descent.
“This is the first time I’ve actual seen you’re two’s face’s” Apex announced whilst looking at the brothers, Apex’s helmet having joined the other three in a pile on the centre of the table.
“Seriously?”
“Yeah “
“But ...”
“Nope Droz, ive always seen you two wearing a helmet, I thought you were horribly disfigured or something” Apex responded as a collection of plates were placed at the table.
“Wait, was that the reason why we didn’t see you that time you were ill, you were scared of use?”
“if you mean that time when I was 8, because that was I saw invasion of the body snatchers and five other horror movies and I was freaking out because of being ill”
“What do you mean by that kid”
“Well Bear apparently I had a fever high enough to cause hallucinations somehow, called igni frigus ”
“I guess that explains why Gates went to the hospital on that day” Bear responded as food was delivered to the table, consisting of stakes of the strange animal that had been cut up.
“Dam the whole colony must be here” Davis announced as he looked around.
“There probably having to rotate the perimeter guards, watch the meat be laced with ricin or something” Droz joked.
“Nah, we checked this stuff it’s the same a steak” Bear responded as the group started eating the given food.
“Out of anything Droz, these deer things are probably an endangered species or something”
“Who cares, they taste good enough” Apex responded to Davis, the group happily eating the given food along with the drinks that had been given.
“Dam this reminds we of when we were on Vulpix-7”
“Sure does Bear other then all of the alien Fox’s running around”
“What’s wrong with the Fox’s on Vulpix-7 Droz?” Apex enquired.
“You mean the strange 8 tailed fox’s that can be a story tall?”
“What they weren’t dangerous” Apex responded, the conversation between the four soldiers continuing throughout the night and into the early hours of the morning, the visible duel suns casting the early morning light as the central fire used early that night had died down into a small pile of ash and embers.
All that information being ignored by Apex in favour of sleep as he was face down on the table, His helmet not displaying its usually blue glow do to his current state.
“Oi, kid get up” the voice was punctuated by nudging causing Apex to rouse form his slumber, his helmet lighting up with a distinctive blue light at the noise originating from the armoured figure next to him.
“Oh hey Bear, why are you here?” Apex responded, stretching and standing up.
“Because you fell asleep, and im here to inform you that you have been given your first solo mission as well” The answer gaining Apex’s attention instantly.
“Well what am I to do then?”
“Gate’s has given you some recon to do, i guess you already loaded for combat?” The question getting Apex to pat down his magazine pouches and checking other parts of his equipment.
“Yeah, fully equipped, even got ordnance as well, just need my rifle ” Apex responded, as Bear held out said rifle which Apex grabbed a hold of.
“Best of luck kid, though you shouldn’t need it, just follow the Nav point and have a look around” Bear responded getting a nod from Apex who set off following the small blue trail displayed on his HUD. The small blue line leading Apex through the camp and past the defensive line that was manned by Grunts whether being those belonging to the 6-4 or those that had been on one of the ships that ended up wherever this planet is.
“Well time to go” Apex muttered as he stood at the lip of the incline before jumping and sliding down with ease, his armoured boots digging through the lose pebbles and rocks that lined the incline. The speedometer built into his helmet displaying he was moving down the incline at 10MPH, the speed only increasing as Apex jumped into the tree line, his jump pack flaring as he began running across trees and the large ancient tree branches, his helmet displaying 25MPH as he bounced and slide across the open air and wood.
“Hey kid you there?” the voice of Davis crackled through his helmets Com line.
“Yeah i’m here, what you contacting me about”
“Because im bored and i want to see how your first recon mission is going” Davis responded as Apex suddenly pushed off of a tree and fell towards the ground, the impact being countered by the role Apex performed.
The clearing where Apex had landed being nothing special then the a small ravine with a stream running through it, the ravine walls leading to a small waterfall, Apex’s Nav system drawing a blue trail of light on the walls.
“Apex?” The sound of a feminine voice being followed by a ID panel appearing in his HUD displaying Gate’s helmeted face, her higher rank causing the helmets protocols to prioritise her message over Davis, leading to him being disconnected.
“Yeah Gate’s”
“ Alright listen up Nephew, we’ve just got a unidentified jump ping”
“Wait, what!” Apex shouted back stopping instantly and looking up to the sky.
“It wasn’t IMC, there were 3 shuttles there were too small to be even counter as a cruiser and for some reason fired on us ,they got slaughtered but a few drop ships got away along with what we can only guess as escape pods” The announcement of conflict causing Apex to draw his rifle and switch the fire selector to full automatic.
“ One of the escape pods is predicted to land near you, The rest of our forces will either be moving into contain the landing sites or are manning the defensive line, I want you to move to these new coordinates where its predicted a small unit will make land fall ”
“Im on it Gate’s”
“A word of warning Nephew, one of the drop ships seemed incredibly keen on following the escape pod so keep a lookout, Gates out”
With that word of warning Apex set off towards the northeast as a balls of fire became visible, the objects being bits of wreckage off of the enemy cruisers that had tried to go against the 6-4 fleet . The scene similar to what happened to Troy.
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( Unknown POV)
“Hey is everybody ok” a voice shouted through the heavily damaged escape pod, the interior having panels and wires hanging from the roof, the five other occupants being in the process of dethatching themselves from the harnesses.
“I’m fine dear” A male Fennic fox responded to the question, the group of 5 Cornerians having just managed to have escaped, having answered his daughters question.
“Miyu, are you ok” Fara asked, walking towards the escape pod’s pilot seat, the a set of ears were visible.
“What the hell did they jump into” Miyu responded, still sat in the seat and holding the detached flight stick, a notable tremble in her arms. A wide eyed expression on her face from narrowly dodging death.
“Miyu?” Fara responded walking up to the shaken Lynx and placing a paw onto her shoulder, the action snapping Miyu out of the trance she was in.
“Fara, did you see those ships, they were bigger than anything i’ve seen” Miyu responded, getting out of the chair with the help of Fara, the broken flight stick being discarded to the floor.
“I know, but are you ok I mean you seemed pretty shaken”
“Yeah Fara im fine, guess that interceptor training paid off eh girl” Miyu responded as the door was forced opened by two canine’s both of them wearing battered combat armour.
“Mr Phoenix we need to get going”
“Understood Phill” Mr Phoenix responded as the small group exited the escape pod to the light of the planet and the extreme humidity of it.
“Wait we landed on Fortuna?” Miyu exclaimed at the sight of the small pond and waterfall they had landed in, the water ruining further away from their landing location down as a reasonably calm stream.
“Seems like it” Fara responded as the pair walked across the rocky shore they had landed at.
“You know Fara, I wasn’t expecting this weekend to end up like this”
“What Miyu, you mean getting take hostage by some slavers who were after weapons and then escaping said slavers only to crash land on Fortuna, yeah id say i was hoping to that that assignment done “
The conversation being silenced by the heavy rustling, the noise only ending as a group of other Cornarians walked out the main difference being the fact they were armed with blasters along with wearing a collection of outdated armour. The canine leading the group wearing armour similar to the two guards that were with the group of escapee’s.
“Im afraid that is going to be the least of your worries, especially after the stunt you lot pulled” The unknown canine sneered as his colleges aimed their blasters.
“You good for nothing traitor Remeerez”
“Oh please Tom , I was just offered a better amount of pay, along with the included benefits of having a little fun with misbehaving prisoners” the now named Remeerez continued, finishing his announcement with a all too telling look towards Miyu and Fara.
“Like hell you are!!” Mr Phoenix retorted, placing himself in front of his daughter and Miyu, with Phill and Tom following suit.
“Im afraid you don’t get much of a say in that Mr Phoenix, once our drop ship is here i’m going to be having lots of fun when we return to Sargasso”
“Really, you actually believe those ships in orbit will let you pass?, because those are not Cornerian” Mr Pheonix responded.
“Im pretty sure i can work out a deal to get us past, After all other pirates can always use with new high quality ‘Toys’ like your daughter could become infact—“
“Sir the drop ship needs to speak with you” one of Remeerez’s colleges stated, interrupting the explicit ranting, the radio being handed to Remeerez crackling as the drop ships’s pilot spoke through, as the sound of a drop ship became notable.
“This is transport 5, Captain I’m going to need you to guide us in, the tree canopy is too thick for --- ‘Thud’ Hey what the, Unknown contact!! What the---“
The transmission being cut off to the sound of screaming and explosions, the distinct whine of engines getting closer and closer, with Remeerez being oblivious to focused on trying to regain contact with the shuttle.
“Wait, what happened to the engine noise” a random pirate questioned, the pirate beginning to wander away from the group as a whistling became noticeable . _ _
“Get down now” Tom shouted, pushing Mr Pheonix t the floor, his college Phill pushing Miyu and Fara to the floor as the missing Drop ship suddenly reappeared, the ship consisting of a angled rectangular body with a standard pointed cockpit having its left side engulfed in flames as its left trusted failed being followed by the right causing the transport to plummet nose first into the ground no further than 100 meters away, the crashed transport skidding off into the tree line leaving a trail of flames behind.
“Fara are you ok?”
“I’m fine Dad” Fara responded as the group pulled themselves up from the floor, the area around the escape pod having avoided most of the danger from the crash. The crash resulting in Remeerez and some of his men having moved closer towards the group, some of the pirates walking up and grabbing a hold of Fara and Miyu, separating them from the rest who were forced onto their knees with their paws behind their head .
“Well looks like its not going to plan for you idiots is it” Miyu announced, targeting her harassment towards a ape pirate that was stood guard of the pair, the verbal jab causing the ape to turn to face her.
“The more you misbehave, the more fun we get to have ‘Kitten’” the Ape responded.
The threat failing to work as Miyu prepared to retort until the sound of rapid blaster fire and blood chilling screaming, the sound of desperate running causing the pirates to aim their blasters in the direction the drop ship had crashed at. The small collection of bushes suddenly parting allowing a heavily burnt lizard to tumble down into the water, the lizards flight suit being burnt to him at some points as they raised their partially molten blaster and fired it again into the path they had just emerged from.
“Sereph! What the hell happened!” Remeerez shouted towards the panicking lizard who struggled onto their feet .
“I don’t know Remeerez, something jumped onto the drop ship and killed the pilot, just me and the gunner survived the crash until” the lizard said jumping to the flight of a large flock of birds causing the terrified Sereph to point the visible glowing blaster pistol in the direction.
“.. Whatever took down the drop ship got the gunner as well, and its going to get use if we don’t ‘BANG’” whatever was going to be said was cut off by an invisible force throwing the lizard Sereph to the floor close to Miyu and Fara, the lizards blaster falling in the stream near the pair as its owner laid on the floor clutching their throat as blood leaked through with a depressive gurgle . The sudden act of violence causing some of the pirates to bunch up, with Remeerez grabbing a hold of Miyu and hiding behind her as a shield.
“Hey get off me arsehole” Miyu shouted, struggling to get out of Remereez’s grip, until a barrel of a blaster was pushed into her head.
“Shut the hell up and maybe you won’t be physical scared when we leave. Hey!, to the bastard that’s just killed one of my men! If you don’t surrender im going to start killing hostages starting with her!” Remeerez shouted, slowly backing up towards the escape pod.
“You have till the count of 10!” Remeerez, unaware of the distortion of light perched on a tree branch, the invidible weapons reticule being set on his head.
“10!”
“9!”
Only 2 seconds were shouted out before the sound of running revealed the location of a armoured figure that flickered into existence seeming to have jumped from the tree line, a strange blaster in their hands as they landed on the floor with a role, the glint of metal giving away the throw knife, that sailed directly into Remeerez’s blaster slicing through some of his fingers and causing him to drop the blaster and release Miyu, screaming in pain.
“WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR SHOOT IT” Remeereze’s shouted, grasping whats left of his hands fingers as Miyu attacked him causing the two to struggle, The sudden order causing the group of 5 other pirates to begin firing at the figure whose identify was hidden behind a strangle glowing helmet. The bright plasma rounds missing the figure who somehow jumped and began running on the trees, the figures strange blaster being fired, the weapon having the sound of thunder echo throughout the clearing, the weapon lacking the visible plasma as a pair of pirates were riddled with the weapons ammunition there bodies being thrown from left to right till the fell to the floor.
“Oh screw this” A desperate Pirate shouted, attempting to flee breaking away from his two companions, until the strangely armoured figure leapt forward away from the tree and collided with the fleeing pirate their armoured boot colliding with the fleeing Ape’s chest the sound of breaking bones overpowering the noise of the skirmish, the now dead pirate then being thrown back towards his colleges, a trio of short electric beeps originating from the thrown pirate before the three were engulfed in plasma. The plasma grenades primer being visible in the figures hand before they were thrown to the floor.
“Get off her” Fara shouted as she attacked Remeerez only to be shoved away, the distraction Fara caused allowing Miyu to grab a hold of a rock from the floor and slam it into Remeerez’s face causing the wolf to stumble back.
“Oh what, you going to shoot me with my own blaster” Remeerez shouted towards Miyu who had a hold of a single bladed blaster pistol, the weapons trigger being quickly pressed by the lynx causing a bolt of ionized plasma to slam into the wolfs chest throwing them to the floor dead. The fired blaster being thrown towards the floor.
“Fara dear or you ok” Mr Phineox said grabbing his daughter into a tight hug.
“Yeah daddy I’m fine” Fara responded.
“Hey what are you doing?” one of the guards shouted as the unknown figure walked up to the dead Remeerez and retrieved the dead wolfs wrist com, the figure seeming to hold it up to their face before plunging a knife into its memory slot, the top of the blades handle creating a blue circle before the figure discarded the wrist com and sheathed the knife.
The guard’s question continuing to be ignored as the figure walked over to Miyu and wrapped a strange reflective blanket around the lynx and held out a small black container of some sort, the armoured figures other hand making a drinking motion causing Miyu to reluctantly accept it as the armoured figure pressed on the side of their helmet, seeming to speak to somebody , having walked away from Miyu who was now being looked over by one of Mr phineox’s remaining guards .
(POV SWITCH)
“Gates, this is Apex hostiles have been dealt with, got what looks like civilians here over”
“Understood Apex, drop ship is inbound ETA 5 minutes”
Gates voice responded as Apex looked over the strange collection of aliens that consisted of 3 presumably adult males and two teenage females, their conversations being automatically translated wither it was between the farther and daughter or the guard helping the lynx like alien that had a ear pricing in, the poor sod obviously struggling with the fact she had just killed someone, but still seemed to have improved, the aliens ears twitching as the sound of the drop ships engines cut through the faint sounds of combat.
The noise increasing until the drop ship hovered over the clearing Apex was at, the back draft from its engines sending small bits of debris airborne as the ships landing struts made contact with the ground, the back ramp opening up to reveal both Davis and Droz armed forms, their L-STAR energy machine guns still holding faint red glow to them.
“Hey kid, made some friends” Davis bellowed over the noise created by the drop ship, his announcement visibly confusing the aliens. The only response Davis got was the shrug of the shoulders from Apex.
“What have we told you about picking up strays off the streets” Droz continued, the joke receiving a blank stare, indicated by the sarcastic tilt of the helmet Apex was wearing.
“Ok, well back to business, what you find out?”
“They don’t speak English, got updated translation software that should be sending to you now, other than that nothing really other then one of them seeming to be in shock I guess must have been her first kill” Apex responded, nudging his head towards the Lynx like alien that was sat down , a emergency blanked wrapped over her shoulders and a flask in her hands.
“ Really kid, frontier treatment” Davis asked gesturing to the warm and burn method that was used on the frontier that somehow countered shock through the use of a emergency blanked to keep the body warm, and a strong alcoholic drink to draw the individuals thoughts away from the emotional trauma they faced along with calming them down .
“What you give them, you now alcohol could kill them right?”
“Not likely Droz, one of the hostiles I killed reeked of the stuff”
“So what you give the then”?
“Well Davis my whisky flask is still in my room so she’s sipping away at Port”
“Wow, breaking out the good stuff”
“Yes Davis I only carry the good stuff, anyway what we going to do with them ?”
“Gates wants them back at camp, so we can plan are next move” Droz responded, pressing down on his wrist PDA as he turned to address the group of furry aliens.
“Ok, judging by the attention I just got myself I reckon you can understand me, anyway I’m going to need you to come with us”
“Or you can wonder around here until you friends find you again as our friend here won’t be nearby to bail you out again” Davis finished as Apex walked into the drop ship and sat down, his rifle leaning against the seat he was at, the short sound of conversation being followed by the aliens that had decided to go along with the pilots, having taken seats opposite to Apex, Droz and Davis, weary expressions on their faces.
“Not like we have much of a choice” one of the guards mutated, suddenly freezing up as his comment drew the attention all the 3 Pilots.
“Oi kid you may wanna deal with that” Droz said, holding out a rag and gesturing to Apex’s boots, more specifically the one that caved in an enemies chest that had a collection of blood on it, the revelation causing Apex to quietly curse to himself as he tried to wipe off the mess.
“Christ how hard did you hit the poor fucker?”
“Hard enough”
“Really kid, that’s what you’re going to say, hard enough isn’t really that descriptive” Davis continued.
Only to get a shrug of the shoulders from Apex ,response getting a laugh out of Droz and a disapproving shake of the head from Davis.
“The kid just mugged you right off” Droz said, winding up his brother.
“Uh excuse me” a female voice drew Apex’s attention away from his partially bloody boot to the lynx sat across from him.
“I think this is yours, thanks for you know lending it me” The lynx responded, holding out the flask that Apex had given the Lynx, the flask being accepted by Apex who gave a nod of appreciation, the flask still holding the majority of the weight meaning they had probably drank 2 mouthfuls at most.
“What was in that anyway, that’s the first time I’ve seen anyone treat shock like that” the male fennec said, getting a blank look from Apex’s visor.
“It’s called frontier treatment, mix alcohol with an emergency blanket and it pretty much fixes shock” Droz responded as the shuttle shudder as it began to slowly descend, leading to Apex standing up and facing the doorway, as the drop ship landed and the doorway opened to reveal a collection of Medics, all wearing full seal armour.
“Come on kid, we need to go through screening” Droz said leading Apex towards a notably smaller group of medics, the one in charge of the group approaching the pilots with a PDA held in hand.
“Ok Pilots, the sooner you get scanned the quicker you can go eat, just walk through it” with those instructions given, the trio of pilots walked through a deployable pathogen scanner that was basically a metal arch, a small electric chime being announced as Apex walked through it.
“Ok you two are clear, you over here” the medic announced leading Apex to a plastic shower tent, where he was quickly hosed down by a collection of chemicals.
“There you clear, try not to get blood on you next time” one of the masked medics said, being ignored by Apex who exited the tent to find both Droz and Davis waiting for him.
“Come on kid, lest get some food seeing how were on standby for a while” Davis said, as the trio left having completed their task.