Thursday, August 20, 2009

Aeolus, fourth moon of Poseidon.

Adrian looked out the window on the rocky world outside, he and his platoon had been sent to the small and dilapidated outpost on Aeolus, the extremely windy fourth moon of Poseidon.  He had his helmet on and assault rifle in hand as he looked out, then at the scan screen, there was defiantly a group coming at the fort, big enough to be an attack force.
"Vangkek, wake up the turrets, and tell everyone to prepare for a possible attack."  He called, eyes still on the screen.  The prothesnos nodded and left the room.  Adrian activated the vis scanner, to get a visual on the unfriendlies, he looked into the scope, plutons, a bunch of them and they were riding on cerberus war droids.  Adrian grabbed the speaker.
"Attention, we have a Code Green!  I repeat Code Green!  Seventy-five unfriendlies spotted, all men to arms!"  The two captains of the platoons rushed into the room, both in full armor.  They started ushering there men into battle formations, though there was only about twenty men in the base.  Cpt. Tovius, the Marine captain, turned to Adrian.
"Take the Reds (Marines with red stripes, the heavy duty Marines) and go up to the cliff and use the cannons and launchers there."
"Sir!"  Adrian saluted and left the room.  He and the Reds ran up the path to the cliff top, where the turrets waited for them.  The plutons had already breached the outpost, there fearsome robotic mounts spewing plasma, electricity, and laser energy from there three mouths.  
"Fire all!"  Adrian shouted, all the turrets rained lasers down on the gray-skinned plutons, but even that wasn't enough, they turned on there shields and kept attacking.  The cerberus war droids crushed, ate or shot every and all Confederation troops near them, Adrian got an idea.  He snatched a bundle of grenades from a nearby xzeni, he then ran and dove off the cliff.  Using the strong winds of Aeolus to his advantage, he sped along at seventy-eight miles per hour, he set and dropped the grenades at the right time, they hit and exploded, creating a hole in the ranks of plutons.  Adrian looked ahead, shear cliff face; this would hurt a lot.  It did.  Fortunately he had all his armor on.  When Adrian opened his eyes, he was lying against the cliff, head on the ground, and staring into the faces of two plutons.  One had a drawn vibro sword, the other had a shock spear, they hoisted the fallen Marine, chained him up, and took him to their ship.         

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