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Chapter 2: Ghost Soldiers
What you can't see, can't hurt you
Evka looked at the men, it was the dawn of the second day and they were all waiting, inside the pod they had closed the door, the wind howling outside. "Okay, we'll need some rifles first off, we'll also need to get a ship and a few supply crates. Munitions and weapons are number one priotrity." One of the men turned to him. "So once we get the ship were leaving right?" One of the men started laughing. "You stupid bastard! You can't leave the planet, theres a blockade and 3 weapons plat forms waiting for you! We can only leave at the end of two months..." Evka nodded his head. "Now then, lets get your names." A larger man in stature stood, he was close to the door. He was a strong fellow, and his voice was deep. "I am, Red. Some call me Brick... but until we have proven ourselves... I am Red." Evka nodded and pointed to the man next to him, a skinnier fellow. "Duster..." the man next to him sounded off in a grim voice "Vaal." The man next to Evka looked over. "Name's Derga..." Duster's head recoiled a bit. "The... your that zealot! This guys amazing, almost as good as Evka!" Evka sighed "I'm not like a super hero... I'm like you... human." The man next to Derga looked over in Evkas direction. He had taken his mask off and a large scar was evident over his right eye. "Eh... well m'names Renolds... " He had a bit of a english accent. "And we look up to you... I belive I speak for everyone when I say, I elect you... our leader." He bowed slightly. The other men nodded and Red moved his had to the pod door pushing it down.
The men approached the ridge of a pleatue that they saw a transport craft land on. One Overwatch trooper was on the edge with a scoped rifle, he was looking across the horizen through his helmet. The Overwatch troopers looked alot like the old 21st century soldiers with a Next-Gen helmet on. The men was going on about his vox channel. "I'm telling you, I can't hear shit with this thing on! I can't see either... yeah... you know what stop trying to scare me, there not that si-" He felt a blade impact with the back of his ankles, taking him down and dropping his rifle, he felt himself being dragged across the ground quickly and with the men. Red raised his blade and brought it down into his helmet, breaking the glass and traveling through his face. Red pulled the blade from it and whiped the blood on the mans uniform, pushing the corpse down the side of the rocks. They moved up, moving around the rifle. "Who's best with a gun?" Renolds put his hand up and took the rifle. He looked at it, the fact that he would be dealing with recoil wouldn't help very much. Renolds aproached the large craft, it's nav sheilds were up, so the glass was visbile, two men were inside the ship, one was standing and talking, he was in an Overwatch suit, the other was just an imperial pilot in a grey jumpsuit with a lho stick in his mouth. Two gaurds were at the back of the ship with the ramp down. They both had rifles, but they were unscoped. "Renolds, keep down and give us cover." Evka moved up with the other five. Evka pointed two to move around to the sides of the ship and he took the remaining two with him. The two he ordered around disapeared. He turned, he had Duster and Red with him. "Alright, lets be quick about this, they'll take out the gaurds, all we need to do is take out the pilot and other Overwatchmen..." As Evka finished his sentance he saw Derga jam one of his spears through the right gaurd, the left turning and raising his rifle, but his neck was soon broken by Vaal. They took the bodies and brought them under the plane. Renolds got up and walked to Evka. "Well, I say we wait for the other two to leave..." As Renolds turned around he threw the two a hand singal, Evka could see them nod and disapear under the craft. Renolds moved up and back to his position, looking through the scope.
The Overwatch troop was arguing with the pilot "Look, we can take a few of the rations from there! No one will notice, remember they're just for the trainee's" the pilot shook his head and looked up. "Look, t-... " he was intereupted by a banging noise under the ship. "Oh shitbucket..." the troop shook his head. "It's probibly just Bret wanting a smoke, and if it is them... they'll get some 10mm aye?" he chuckled and grabbed a large automatic rifle from the table and walked out twords the exit, through countless crates of suplies. He got outside and stopped. "Bret? Were'd you go?" He looked around and then heard to rifle shots and looked down. Two bullet holes dotted his chest. "Oh...****..." he grunted and fell forward. The pilot jumped up and removed a 5mm pistol from his side. "Holy shit!" He walked forward, and to the edge, pointing the gun to his sides. "Come out now!" He heard something looked up. "Boo." a large metal spike came down, through his forhead and out the back of his skull, leaivng him there for a moment and then it was pulled from him, dropping him quickly. Derga dropped down from the top of the craft. Vaal walked out, holding both the rifles, dragging the bodies in and laying them down inside. The other three ran over and looked at the remains. "Huh... nice." Vaal crouched down and took the ammo, pistol and helmets from them, then tossing the bodies outside. He took the large rifle from the other man and his helmet and pistol as well. They looked around the ship and Vaal snickered. "Lets get this puppy back to our palce... we'll deal with the biggy right?" Evka nodded and walked to the cockpit, he sat in the command chair and Red sat beside him. The rest of the men, now armed walked to the cargo bay, sitting on crates. Derga had taken the larger rifle, and the others had taken the remaining two rifles. They had a total of four pistols on another crate. "Well I know I could use one... " Duster said. "Evka can probibly take two and Red should get one no matter what he says... some of these crates might have a gun or two in it..." Derga chuckled as the ship took off and began moving slowly twords there encampment, the ship then moved slowly and turned to fit itself to an open area next to the cliff that the pod was stuck in. They landed the craft and turned it off, activating only the power rather than the thrusters on standby. "We'll wait a few days." They heard Evka say from the cockpit. "Then we'll check if any of the others have gotten a ship... and how much they had to deal with... this was pathetic. They must be toying with us, or there trying to gauge us... see what they should send..." Red turned to him. "I think... we choose wisely..." Evka turned to him. "Choose what?" "Our leader..."
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