Chapter 19 – One man against a legion

I came out into a corridor leading straight out of the big room where I had a conversation with the UFR trio. Amazing how there were no more soldiers left in there. I then started making my way in the other direction of the corridor – towards action. A few of UFR soldiers got on my way so I shot them down without any hesitation. I had years of armed combat experience, so I was good at headshots and therefore could take out a target pretty quickly. Also from so much experience I knew likely hiding and ambushing spots, so none of the UFR soldiers really surprised me.
I then entered another big room. It was full of crates and other junk and some fighting was happening here. I could see some soldiers trying to bring down a pack of Maliffs and a few Vagros. Well I wasn’t gonna get in a way of course and just kept on trotting across the room where hardly anyone will spot me.
Suddenly I caught a glimpse of someone. It was a sniper and he was aiming at me. I quickly ducked behind one of the crates for cover and here I heard him shoot and miss me.
- “Phew! One more second and I could’ve been a corpse.” I thought to myself.
I had nothing else on me but a V pistol and a V submachine gun that I picked up from one of the guards I killed earlier. I had no more grenades left.
I peeked out and began to shoot in sniper’s direction with my V pistol while aiming as much as I possibly could, but he was too far away and I kept on missing his head by just.
After a few failed attempts I then heard screams and when looked at the sniper saw him being eaten alive by some Vagros.
- “Always there when you need them.” I said and came out of cover.
I continued going through the room towards one of the doors that was furthest away from the massive battle of some UFR soldiers and pack of Maliffs.
The door led me into another room. It was empty, yet I could feel someone’s presence there. Suddenly I saw a grenade fly in my direction. It was a lime grenade. Lime grenades spray many tiny droplets of lime water into the surrounding medium and as Venus’ atmosphere is so filled up with carbon dioxide (even in climate-controlled areas) the lime water would turn milky and will obscure the visibility. It was our alternative to smoke grenades. I momentarily hid behind one of the doors so then I wouldn’t be a sitting duck in the middle of the room.
When the droplets cleared off and visibility almost returned to normal, which was about 20 seconds after the explosion, I saw someone stand in front of the other door leading out of the room.
I came out of my cover and approached. When the visibility got completely normal I could see that it was Troy.
- “So impatient to fight me again, eh?” I asked him.
- “This is where your life ends.” Troy said menacingly.
- “Bring it on then.” I challenged him.
At this moment Troy pulled out a V pistol and shot in my direction. I ducked in time and opened fire on him from V submachine gun. He rolled out of the line of fire as he usually does. At this moment however some creatures burst into the room from the entrance I came in. There were pretty much all the different kinds. A few Maliffs and a Crept went for me, while two Nixes and a few Vagros went for Troy.
Troy was still shooting at me though, considering the creatures cornered him. I tried to avoid his fire while making sure none of the creatures comes close to me. I quickly reloaded my V SMG and began shooting. The Maliffs went down quickly, but Crept was tough as usual. I then began leading him in Troy’s direction. Troy was also fighting his deal of creatures, but I could see that he wasn’t as good as he was in those thieving missions when we failed to catch him. I understood that he was not currently charged with Adreno-man, so knew that he wasn’t much of a threat. Crept stopped going for me and began going for Troy. Troy took out a shockwave grenade and threw towards Crepts massive mouth. Crept bit the grenade as it came close causing it to explode. This happened pretty close to me and Troy and so both of us were sent back flying by a shockwave.
As I began getting up, Troy pounced on me and was trying to stab me with something. I stopped his arm in time and took a better look at it. It was one of the advanced versions of electron stunners. These actually could kill a victim, so I was trying my best to keep it away from my throat. I then kicked Troy in the chest and this pushed him back. I began getting up quickly. Troy took out his V pistol and said:
- “Sleep well, hero.”
He then was about to shoot when one of the Nixes rammed into his back, stabbing its shoulder spikes deep into Troy. The spikes even came out of Troy’s chest.
- “Kind regards.” I saluted him as he began dying.
The remaining two Nixes began charging at me. I then started running for the exit that I came through initially, back into a big room. Looks like the soldiers won the fight there and there were even more of them. All of them aimed at me, but I knew that I couldn’t stop as two deadly beasts were right behind me.
I blindly ran into a crowd of UFR soldiers. I was not on their mind anymore. All of them were more concerned about the two Nixes that hit the same crowd a few seconds after I did, giving those soldiers a similar fate as Troy.
I finally managed to make my way out of the mob and ran for the next door I could see. It led into a smallish corridor with a couple of doors at the sides and a stairs at the end. The two doors were locked, so I just proceeded up the stairs. Three guards spotted me, but I shot them all down. Right after that I heard a familiar buzz. I looked up and saw two UFR soldiers being chased by some Ganos.
- “Isn’t that a nice sight?” I commented.
I then picked up a shockwave grenade from one of the recently killed guards, activated it and threw into a group of Ganos. The explosion killed many Ganos, as well as those two cowardly soldiers. The rest of the Ganos scattered away.
I continued along the corridor until I reached a fork. To my right I could see an entrance into a room with one of the exits out of the base and there was a really massive battle happening there between the creatures and UFR soldiers. I decided not to disturb them and therefore headed left through one of the doors.