Just wanna say thx guys
Chapter 5 - A sniper in the foliage
"What's that noise?" Asked the slig captain, still fiddling with his IR not paying attention.
Standleich followed the sound with his sniper scope and crept up into a low tree.
"He's truly amazing," laughed boomer "The only slig I know who can jump and climb!"
"If you didn't ask for that raise, you'd still have enough moolah for spring pants as well,"
The team burst out laughing, Boomer grunted, "I'm gonna go take a piss!"
"Don't get to far away," said Gunther, still spooked by the place,
"Gay!"
While in mid-stream, the foliage ahead of Boomer began to rustle and part,
he ignored it at first but when it got closer, he finished up and hoped back into his pants with his large, muscular arms.
"Guys get over here now, we got movement fifteen paces away!"
The team quickly parted and converged on Boomer's position,
"Gahh, shit, I stepped in your piss," Gunther moaned,
"Shut it and lock on," Claus whispered.
The team moved into position and erected a basic barricade from an upturned tree.
After a few more seconds a creature stumbled into the dim moon light,
"It's nothing guys, look a mudokon, damn tribals scared the shit out of me," Gunther said.
"No, look at it's skin, it's parched and browning, got look at it's skin, stretched right across it's ribcage. And it's eyes, bloody hell, call in HQ, get a team of fly boys up here."
Standleich pressed his comm. link, "No can't."
"Why not?"
"Comm's dead, we're alone boss."
The mudombie, still taking in the team now raised it's bony finger, coated in some sort of stale blood and wailed. A blood curdling wail that shook every slig.
"OPEN FIRE!" Cried Claus.
The team let up huge bursts on it, with decent accuracy for a slig but the thing kept coming, the shots burst into it's chest and brought it to it' knees but it kept coming.
"How do we kill it?" Shouted Boomer.
Standleich rolled his eyes and fired a shot straight into it's head, the creature dropped to it's knees and gurgled before falling entirely. The team whooped as a gentle purple luminosity left the body and hurtled off un-noticed.
"What the fuck was that then?" Gunther screached.
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Oh yeah, fair point. Maybe he was just tortured until he lost consciousness.
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