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Battle of the Zzuragg

Chapter 3

By

Dustin Feyder

Commissioned by

Rogueybear

The condition that the remaining members of the S.M. team find themselves in is an embarrassing one. Eight men with best training, best weapons and most modern armor the United Coalition can afford beaten back by a dozen 'bugs' with barely animal intelligences. Eight are now five barred up in a cargo room.

Corman takes Elion's radio her voice replacing the other Lt. "Privet Dover, Turn your radio on to announcement mode then turn to face Privet Kauri" Dover fallows instructions as he has been programed to do "Mr. Kauri. By the power vested in me by the United Coalition Allegiances I, Lieutenant Hester Corman, hereby bestow upon you the title of standing Corporal, with all privilege and responsibility attached there to. In the eyes of this court, and in the precinces of all those that hear my voice Corporal Emmit Dawg is labeled as missing in action and it will be your first priority to complete his final mission. On your safe return, and that of your team, you will be given this tittle officially and fully. Should any see why this order should not be carried out you may speak now."

Dover speaks out "The Hyena? He is next in the line of succession?"

Huston calls out "Lt. Corman, I believe that I hold the title of privet first class and have seniority."

Corman retorts "Negative, according to coalition official documentation although you do possess the most number of years of active service a 1 tour and 3 years Kauri logged in 42,000 hours of extracurricular training, and both Dover and Maize have 17,000 hour of EX drills which is equivalent to 9 and 6 bonus years of service consecutively. If it is the feeling of this gathering that Kauri is not capable of preforming all duties that may be required then the job falls onto Dover next."

Dover needs only a second to think this over before he calls out "Let the hyena do the job."

Huston ask "what is your major Dover?"

"Rugbee"

Huston looks confused as he thinks about it "you play soccer? That is not a major."

"yeah by thee guys that work at the curriculum center don't seem to have picked up on that."

Chin approaches Kauri "give me your helmet."

"is that atmosphere stable in here?" Kauri ask

"If it isn't I'm sure you will find out soon." Chin yells out to the team "Everyone, Helmets here!" the team fallows instructions discarding their helmets. Chin picks up the helmets one by one exsamining the visor and radio units searching for salvageable parts. With some work, she is able to disassemble four helmets and get two up and running again at full power. "looks like there are five of us and three working H.U.D.S." the coyote explains "unless one of you doesn't mind me cannibalizing your M.G. for a power relay coupling."

Kauri orders "Disregard that request. No one is trading a gun for a radio."

Dover looks Kauri up and down "By the way cprl. What happened to your rifle?"

Kauri looks to the boarded up door to the room "Dawg took it."

Maize holds her rifle out to Kauri "Take mine, I'm rubbish at 20'+ anyway"

"Thank you." Kauri excepts "Everyone count your round and call them. I want to know what we have for assets before we open that door."

The party quickly counts out their inventory Huston is the first to call out "3 stacks of 32 50/50's, 1 round of 76 plus 6 loaded."

Maize is next "2 50/50's, 4 76's, and 2 concussive, 6 shape chargers." She then hands the rifle rounds over to Kauri

Dover calls out "50/50 is dry, 4 76's, full stock of corrosion."

Kauri throws a clip of 50/50's at Dover "now you have 1, hold on to it."

Chin counts out her load "I have a box of 90 50/50's that is enough for 2 clips plus a remainder, 40 76's rounds and 1 welding torch empty."

Kauri counts up the ammo he has on himself then looks around the team "Pass them around, make sure everyone has at least 2 full racks of 50/50s. load up, lock'em down. We are going back out there."

The team armors up and readies themselves to continue exploring the downed ship, Huston whispers with Dover "Soccer, that is really your plan?"

Dover nods "I really love soccer. What about you, when we get home what are you going to do?"

"I want to be a librarian."

The door opens, something has happened, the lights are flickering on and off, Chin makes a remark about the ship starting to 'come back on line' but no one takes notice. The team finds a mess hall and an egg sack hanging form the ceiling and anchored to the floor twentry feet long and twelve feet high. The group walks around the mucus oozing mass. The mass seems to breath swelling and shrinking every few seconds, light shining on them reveals the thin transparent skin of the eggs showing off the manta ray shaped monsters growing inside. Hundreds of them, swimming around in the protoplasm iterated by the lights.

But eggs are not all that hide in the stillness of the room. creeping like shadows a dozen of these monsters slide along the walls looking after their eggs, rotating them, shifting them, keeping them warm. But the intruders have them on edge, it takes the winged aliens some time to look over these strange new lifeforms.

One winged horror grows agitated and jumps off the wall starting a swarm, for crab like lags emerge form it's underside as it lands on Dover's chest, it wraps its wings over his head and two spikes wiggle there way from the mantis abdomen. Dover brings one hand up and tries to hold the monster at arm's length as he cries for help.

Maize runs to Dover's aid, the two fangs of the monster sink into Dover's arm. Maize pulls a knife from her belt and hooks it around the monster for leverage. Maize pulls the monster to the ground. A second winged best comes to the aid of the first landing on Maize back, it grows out its stinger but is interrupted by being shot by Huston.

The air grows thick as more and more monsters fall in through the ceiling, Kauri gets back to back with Chin. The two of them start firing controlled burst into the air slowly picking away at the monsters.

Kauri looks peaks over his shoulder at Chin "you have that torch handy?"

Chin nods "so what?"

Kauri watches the ammo counter on his gun starting to drop, he drops out the empty cartridge and slaps in the next, the flying beast move in closer pushing the unit ever tighter together. "Set the room on fire."