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The Ripple of a Stone

Of Hate and Sorrow

�By the grace of Paya they did it.� Dhm�Ni thrills. He thought it was absolutely amazing what they had done. He was particularly fascinated by the bomb they hit the hard meat with. They were high enough on the buildings that the spew of its blood didn�t reach them, but they could definitely smell it in the air now.

�That was remarkable wasn�t it? I had no idea a female could move in such a way.� Sya had only seen Ooman females being submissive and subservient. He was blown away that this female took control and had such power over the males. Dhm�Ni wasn�t interested in the female though, he suddenly had an itch for the skull of the Ooman male that killed the hard Meat. His skull would be one of his most valued, just think of the females it would attract�a quick flash of a naked Ferca skipped into his mind and he quickly dismissed the thought because he did not want to think of her right now and he should NOT be thinking about mating at a time like that.

Dhm�Ni switches his sight to look at the males� skull, just to see how prized it would be. He noticed a large fault that extended for a good 4 inches. His skull shows battle, it would certainly be welcomed on my wall�He looks to the other males as well, to compare them to his future trophy. But when he looked to the female, he had to stop. Stunned at what he was looking at, he nudges Sya to get his attention.

�Yes�� Sya clicks.

�I thought you said the females are weaker, smaller then the males.�

�I did because they are.� Sya says in turn.

�But�� He couldn�t get it out. With his sights he could see the bone density of the female and it was like nothing he has ever seen, of a higher density than anything he has ever seen. It was completely different to the males around her, they did have a higher density to the other Oomans Dhm�Ni had observed on previous hunts, but they were nothing like the female.

�But what Dhm�Ni?� Sya asks.

�Look at the females bones.� Dhm�Ni spoke softly. Sya changed his sight and looked. He was dumbfounded by the picture. It was normal for the density to differ between each Ooman but not like this. �How is this possible Sya?�

�Perhaps it is an abnormality. This is not typical of Ooman females or ALL Oomans for that matter. The rest of her structure is odd too Dhm�Ni. He lungs, he muscles, her bones are just�MY GODS DHM�NI!� Sya yelled out. �Look close, almost every bone in the females� body has been broken. They all show signs of being healed from injury. How can any Ooman gain such wounds?� He couldn�t even fathom how she received such wounds. Through the experience of all his hunts and through life, Sya could tell how a wound came to be, whether it was from battle, accidental or even self-inflicted. It came in handy when a dispute concerning the word of a hunter came up. Clams of scars gained on a hunt or battle were sometimes questioned and it was Sya and the other Arbitrators that came in and would recommend on an action.

Before they could say anything else, one of the males noticed an injury the female gained and began to bombard her with questions. Her answer to how she received a wound to her nose came as a shock to both Sya and Dhm�Ni as she motioned to the burning acid blood of the dead Hard Meat.

�Did she just say that the acid was burning her nose?� Dhm�Ni asked. But the acid never came into contact, or even came close to her nose. She couldn�t be sensitive enough to get a reaction from the blood. The �nose� of a yautja was sensitive and could get damaged if close enough to the acidic blood, even without touching it. With their nostrils located on the outer edge of their inner mouth, it was hard to sustain an injury to them, but it has happened before. But an Ooman effected�

�With out question she did. Now be quite Dhm�Ni. We must listen.� Sya motions with his hand for Dhm�Ni to hush but he needed to tell Sya something.

�But Sya, there are� Dhm�Ni didn�t get the chance to finish as Sya turned to him.

�When I say quiet Dhm�Ni I mean QUIET!� he roars. Dhm�Ni was stunned to say the least but Sya needed to see what he saw. Dhm�Ni slowly raises his hand and points towards some far buildings. Sya followed his direction and switched his sights to see four Hard Meats coming in fast. �Most likely attracted by the screams of the fallen drone. This is going to get interesting��

�Allen! Really, I�m OK. It will heal fast and soon that shit won�t hurt me anymore.� Becks had ripped a strip off his shirt had was whipping all the blood that trailed down O�Conners face. He paid special attention to her lips, he loved those lips. Softly and carefully he caresses them with the cloth, letting those beautiful memories of her lips and his enter his troubled mind. �Allen.� She whispers. Finally he looks to her to find her smiling at him.

�Oh�yeah, you�re going to be OK. What did you mean by that shit won�t hurt anymore?� Becks asked her. He was standing right in front of O�Conner while Sovin, who was visibly saddened by his death, had begun to walk towards the body of Michaels. O�Conner gave herself an inward kick for saying that. It was something that she didn�t even tell Allen about the upgrades. They really changed everything about her body. Because of the new enhancements, her body can actually adapt to �minor inconveniences�, as her uncle said it, and to new surroundings. If she were to ever be thrown into that acid shit she sure as hell would die, but she could probably adapt to it burning her nose. During her first few weeks after getting the upgrades, she noticed that he body reacted differently to new environments that would usually be hard to do anything in. She and some of her unit were sent to the mountain ranges that rested on the old boarder of Iraq and Turkey to catch some renegades, they rest of her unit found it increasingly hard to climb the mountain but she thought nothing of it. Her lungs had adapted to the low Oxygen in the high atmosphere. Her lungs were already different from the others, the blood vessels were larger so they could hold more and send more Oxygen to her body. But no one is supposed to know that. She promised her uncle that she would never tell a soul, even Allen. If word got out about the new additions to the enhancements, the advocates for a �Pure Living� would have a field day. The �Pure living� group was an assemblage of people who thought the enhancements were against Gods wishes and shouldn�t be given to soldiers anymore. But when they were first formed, they had little power and couldn�t stop it from going out. But now they have a lot of power. It�s getting increasingly harder to get soldiers there enhancements. Doctor Lynch has become paranoid that they will shut him down if they caught wind of his experiments, so she promised that she would tell no one.

�Come say a prayer with me.� Sovin said out of the blue. O�Conner let out a sigh of relief as Becks and the General moved closer to Sovin. He looked to O�Conner who he noticed didn�t come to pray. �Sergeant, are you coming to join us?� He asks.

�No Sovin I am not. I am not a God fearing woman, never believed in him, or any higher power for that matter.� She stated bluntly. The idea that her life wasn�t in her on hands, that someone or something had complete control made her furious. That was why she had problems with the higher ups in the NWGA. The authority controlling the army was stupid to her. They couldn�t even have souls for what they wanted her to do. Assassinations, sniper missions�she hated that shit. That�s also why she never rose in rank, she was always fighting orders that she thought were morally wrong. If it weren�t for her abilities as a soldier, and her connections to many governors of the different world districts, she would have been dishonorably discharge a decade ago. But they knew she was an asset that they couldn�t simply throw away. One Governor in particular has a strange liking for O�Conner. He was always trying to get into her pants. You should have heard some of the come-ons this piece of shit spit out. She wouldn�t allow it because he was married for one thing, but he was discussing in her eyes. He was the ultimate sleaze bag, he was infamous for �skimming off the top�, and he had millions upon millions stashed away, and mansions all over the world while people still sleep in mud huts in some places.

As the three men did their prayer for Michaels, O�Conner stood a little ways off, waiting for the blood to go away so she could smell anything other then her own scent. Finally as the stench of her own blood began to fade, she caught those two scents once more. Striating up, she begin to sniff the air again, but she couldn�t find out where they are coming from. Her nose wasn�t healed enough yet and the wind wasn�t carrying it right. This was getting to be infuriating. She looks up to the tops of the building again to see if there was anyone there, but all she could see were the same heat waves. FUCK IT! She thinks to herself. She didn�t have time to worry about strange smells when all she needs to do was get the fuck outa here.

�Nala, we gota get going. What if that thing yelling like that will make more come?� Becks questioned. O�Conner didn�t know how many there were or if it did call for more but she didn�t care, she just need to get everyone off this shit-hole island. O�Conner gives a nod to him.

�We gota run from here on in. we�ve only got�� O�Conner looks to her watch. �One hour and three minutes. We can make it, IF we stay together and run like our asses are on fire.� Just as the group was about to turn and begin running Sovin said the strangest thing.

�Nala?� Sovin said in a timid tone. He had never called O�Conner by her first name before. They had never been together outside of training and missions so they never got on the first name basis. O�Conner looked to him and does an attempt at a smile but could only manage a sheepish smirk. �If one of those things gets me�like it got Dan�could you umm�Id uhh�Id rather die by your hands than theirs. If I�m ever caught like Dan was or anything like that just�kill me before it does. OK?� Sovin lowered his head like he just asked to be shot right then and there, just waiting for the bullet to enter his head. O�Conner was both honored and shocked that he would ask that but she completely understood. She toddled up to him with that same smirk on and lifted his head so he was looking right into her eyes.

�I promise.� That was the only thing she said before she turned and motioned for the men to start running.
After last instructions from Lord Khupiee M�Ho, Miy�Hota and Bakkub made there way to the Queen. Excited was an understatement for these three. Bakkub really wanted to see the Queen to find out why she would stay in the cavern for so long. They had thought before that she would be too weak or maybe injured but that does not explain why she is there now. It has been some time sense they were warned of her presence to now and she has undoubtedly gained in strength from the Oomans. Bakkub had an insatiable desire for knowledge. He always wanted to know why and how. Some around him thought it was odd that he would have such a need for information. He stood a tall 8�5 and was skilled in many ways but he would rather read a text then spar or train anymore. In his early years he would have never had the chance to study as he does now. And he is using his time right.

�Can you believe Lord Khupiee invited Dhm�Ni on this hunt?� Miy�Hota asks. He was the youngest of all the Arbitrators on this hunt and was looked at as relatively inexperienced compared to the others, but he was still as merciless and brutal as any of them. He just couldn�t understand that Lord Khupiee would request Dhm�Ni to attend this hunt.

�The laws of a hunt such as this only say that you need 10 hunters, their rank or status does not matter as long as they are blooded. I�m guessing Lord Khupiee saw this as an opportunity for Dhm�Ni to gain more honor for when he returns to the Clan Ship. Have you heard of what happened before he left for the hunt?� Bakkub asks. He was always up to date with laws and such, but he was also one to carry gossip like a female. M�Ho and Miy�Hota thrill at his question.

�Yes I have heard.� M�Ho chirps. �To think of him denying a female, it�s hilarious! And FERCA for that matter!� They all let out loud thrills of laughter. �I�m guessing with this hunt on Dhm�Nis� back the females will be literally throwing them selves at him.� They all laugh again but are cut short by a familiar shrill from a Hard Meat. They have reached the cavern. They didn�t know whether or not it was a nest because she has not moved, but why would she want to nest in such a small place when she could easily go nest in a building or a larger cave.

�So�� Bakkub says quietly. �That�s why she hasn�t left yet.� As they reached the entrance of the cave, they saw that the Queen was actually trapped in the cavern. The hole created by the Oomans was not large enough for the queen to get out of and she had to get five of her drones digging and scratching at the small hole to make it larger. But even with them attempting to hollow out the cavern so she could escape, it wasn�t enough. She wouldn�t be able to get her crown out. �This is too easy!� Bakkub thrills.

�Ready�� Miy�Hota says first.

�Aim�� M�Ho chirps second.

�FIRE!� Bakkub yells out, getting the attention of the five digging drones. Because there were only three of them and five hard meats, they expected the two remaining to attack and they did the moment they fired their shoulder cannons. The shots were true and took out their intended targets. The remaining two drones jolted towards the now uncloaked hunters. Bakkub had already told M�Ho and Miy�Hota that if they wanted they could take the two remaining while he looks to the Queen.

Both Miy�Hota and M�Ho roar with all their capacity and sprint towards the oncoming hard meats. M�Ho was the first to connect with a drone. He smashes into the black body, causing it and him to fall hard into the sandy ground. The hard meat screeches and tries to hit M�Ho with its tail but he roles away as the tail came straight down. With a tightening of his hand M�Ho flung out his wrist blades and sliced off its tail. The Hard meat shrieks in pain, raising its head to scream into the sky. Big mistake. M�Ho Jumps to his feet and brings up his wrist blades right into its head. To add to its impending death, he twists his blades causing the head to separate in two bloody pieces. When the carcass of his pray falls to the ground, M�Ho brings his arms back, lifts his head and lets out a roar for his triumph.

Out of breath, M�Ho looks to Miy�Hota to see him shaking his head. �What?� He asks. He looked to Miy�Hotas kill to notice that he just used his shoulder cannon. �Hey, at least I killed it by my hands. Why did you get it with your cannon?� Miy�Hota only shrugged shoulders. �Come on let�s go.�

The two catch up to Bakkub who had just made it to the edge of the cavern. Deep within, they could see the Queen. She had retreated deeper in because of the commotion outside, but they could still see her. She was indeed a large Queen, he crown would never have been able to exit the small hole made by her drones. With a hiss and a swipe at the hunters now in her space, the Queen tries to force her way through the rock of the cavern but is unable to get herself through.

�M�Ho,� Bakkub starts, �contact the DropShip and tell them we need hunters to help get this cave open, and to bring restraining chains for a large Queen.� He nods to him and walks a little off to contact Ykas�e. Bakkub and Miy�Hota meanwhile walk a little further into the cavern but stop a few feet in. Slowly the bow their heads to the far off Queen and in unison they say �My Lady.�

�Come on Dhm�Ni. You can do better than that!� Sya clicks teasingly. As they were following the running Oomans, they had to jump from top to top to stay with them. But over the past few Dhm�Ni had just barley made it past the edge while Sya landed with room to spare. �To think an elder such as myself beating one so young.� He Trills again.

�I was never one for high jumping Sya and you know that.� Dhm�Ni answers. In training Dhm�Ni had trouble with jumping to a higher surface, but he made it up with great stamina in running. �But I have always been able to beat anyone on the track, I can out run you if � Dhm�Ni was interrupted as he almost ran right into a unmoving Sya. �Why have you stopped?� He asks.

�Because they have.� Sya motions with his head towards to Oomans who have stopped at a building. �Why are they stopping now? They can�t be that stupid to stop now!� He says angrily.

�I don�t know Sya. Maybe they are looking for someone or maybe something.� Their thoughts were broken when they hear a tiny, almost inaudible scream come from the female. �What is she doing?� Dhm�Ni asks. He has never seen anything like this before, the Ooman female has trickles of water coming down her face.

�She is crying Dhm�Ni.� Sya clicks.

�What�s crying?�

�When an Ooman feels an emotion like sadness or dread, they cry because the emotions become too much. It�s a release. But why she is crying is what I want to know.� He pauses. �THE HARD MEAT!� Sya clicks suddenly, he changes his sights and sees that the female is not looking at the hard meat, she�s looking into a building. And she is so preoccupied with what was in the building that she didn�t see the four hard meats that had begun to circle around the group, trapping them on all four sides. �They are doomed.� Sya chirps softly. Deep inside, he didn�t want them to be killed, especially the female. It was a loss to any species if a female dies, and one so extraordinary�it would be tragic.

The General was getting tired. His hoarse breathing was evidence of that. They were about a hundred meters away from the entrance of the training circle, and O�Conner was dreading it. Who knows that would be there now? Probably more of those things and they�re going to be in the wide open, ready for anything to come at them. She takes a swift glance back at the men and caught the eyes of the General.

He knew that he was getting too tired to run anymore, they must have been running for at least 10 minutes straight and were barely at the training circle. I can�t keep running, I just can�t. God these guys aren�t even breaking a sweat and here I am. Fuck! I�m about to fall the fuck over and these guys would gladly leave my sorry ass behind. I need to find another way of getting to the jumper. There must be another way�A TANK! There are garages everywhere! All we need to do is grab a tank and we can take that! What the fuck are we doing running!

O�Conner was thinking the same thing but there was one thing she didn�t like about their location in the complex. They are in the south-east of the compound, which means they are in the Research and Development portion. Who knows what they have in the tank bunkers, they could be normal tanks or bombing tanks. They didn�t have time to check and even if they did it would be a 1 in 23 chance that that they got a garage that held transport tanks. Just ahead, O�Conner sighted the tell-tale garage door to a tank bunker. The others noticed as well.

�Why not take a tank the rest of the way?� The General asked slyly.

�We can�t take the chance that it is a Developing garage, and if they carry Bomb Tanks then we could only travel for 30 minutes before it blows up and I don�t want to be there when it does.� O�Conner answers sternly. They really didn�t have the time to check what was in there. But somehow she knew they the General definitely did.

�We can take that chance! What if it carrying transport tanks huh? Ever think of that?� The General says back.

�OF COURCE I DID!� O�Conner yelled out, she was a little insulted that he would think that she wouldn�t have already thought of that. �There are 67 tank garages over this entire base, and odds are, because we are in the Development and Research part or the base, that there is a 1 in 23 chance that the bunkers in this part carry transport tanks. Now shut up and keep running and don�t stop.� Becks and Sovin didn�t know what to make of this exchange, they knew of the tanks and of where they were so they agreed with O�Conner that it was to big of a risk to stop now. But the General wasn�t having any of it.

A few minuets later when they were just close enough to the garage, the General left the formation and ran towards to bunker.

�I TOLD YOU NOT TO FUCKING MOVE GENERAL!� O�Conner belted out.

�I don�t give a shit. If there are transport tanks in here then we take them, if not we only wasn�t a few minutes.� As he was talking, the General made his was to the panel that was on the far right side of the garage. He punched in a code and both sides of the two-way garage started to open. The very second it began it noisily rise, the garage let out the reek of blood. It was so strong that they could all smell it as the door rose higher. The crimson, rusty stench hit O�Conner like a ton of bricks, but she never thought she would ever see a blood bath like this. As the door finally stopped, the sun light revealed the massacre. They wouldn�t be able to count the bodies even if they wanted too. Blood seeped out of cold corpses. Limbs were thrown every which way, bodies laid limp on top and under the tanks. O�Conner couldn�t hold onto her tears anymore and let out a small scream as she saw and recognized some of the horrified faces. She dropped the handgun that was in her left hand and brought it over her mouth to stop her from screaming again. Becks and Sovin were mortified. There faces were frozen in fear as their eyes and mind registered the scene.

�Oh dear god�� Sovin spook softly. He walked towards the carnage but stopped just as he entered the garage. �How can this happen�HOW CAN THIS HAPPEN???� He yelled out. Turning towards the rest of the group Sovin missed the black devil slipping into the back of the garage. �This is not right! How could they do this to us! How could they� Sovin didn�t get the chance to finish as the black devil rose up behind him, let out an piercing screech, then drove its tail into Sovins back. He never even screamed.

O�Conner just stared, the world stopped as she and the others looked on. Not again�I can�t lose another one! Not like this. I can�t just let Boris die like this, I made him a promise. And I going to fucken keep it! The world started to move again as Sovin looked down to his chest. His blood poured out of the wound, the black devils tail still lodged in his back. Sovin looks up to O�Conner, who had already gotten up her favorite weapon of choice and aimed, and gave her a blood soaked smile and a small nod. O�Conner gave him a small smile as well, as a last good-bye before she took his life. She pulled the trigger�

The bullets sang as they left the chamber, soaring through the air and condemning Sovin to a quick death as it entered his skull. The bullet didn�t just stop, it ran though the back of his head and into the devil that stood right behind him. Sovins body fell limp, just hanging off the end of the devils tail. That�s when the real music happened. All at once Becks, the General and O�Conner let out a symphony of gun fire, aimed at the doomed devil. It was pinned between a tank and them, there was no where for it to go. With in what seemed like an eternity, the acid blood stopped flowing as the lifeless body fell to the floor of the garage. The irritable and strained breaths came from all of them, they couldn�t process what just happened.

�Oh Boris.� Backs said softly. He and Sovin had been close for a few months, Sovin only joined the unit about 7 months ago, who knew that this would be how he ended his time. Becks could barely hold back the tears, gradually he made his way to his friends body and said a silent prayer for him. He didn�t have a lot of time for pray as two more of the devils silently dropped down from there perch on the sides of the building and watched. A new smell of hell came into O�Conners nose, it wasn�t from the dead one, there were more�

�BEHIND US!� She yells out. They all turn and begin the song of death again, but this time there were two. There was no way they could get them both�Then an idea popped into O�Conner head, my new toys� �When I say, dive into a tank as fast you can fucken run, I�m setting off a PB!� Becks and the General just keep shooting, waiting for her signal. O�Conner reaches back with her free left hand and grabs three Nail PB�s. One for each side, far left, middle, far right. There is no way these thing can survive this�

�DIVE!� She shouts. Together they turn around and dash for the closest tank. The blood and body parts made it hard to get on top, their feet kept slipping on the fresh blood. But finally they made it to the hatch and opened it and dove in. �Time to play with my new toys don�t you think?� O�Conner was looking right at the devils, almost expecting an answer. With the three PB�s placed in between her fingers, she squeezes the side buttons and hears the sound of heaven�BEEP.

Dhm�Ni was astounded at what just happened, not only did the female kill the hard meat, but she killed one of her own. �Why would she take out one of her own Sya, I don�t understand.�

�I am amazed Dhm�Ni, were you not listening before? That male asked the female to kill him before a hard meat does. Really Dhm�Ni I am stunned, you should listen to your pray. That is why we have taught you Ooman so you can listen, and LEARN.� Sya was scolding Dhm�Ni for not paying attention. It was one of the cardinal rules while hunting, always keep your eyes and ears on you pray. Two of the three remaining hard meats jump noiselessly down from the building and stand behind the Oomans.

�I think now is the time to act Sya. There is no way they are going to get those two.�

�That is what we thought the last time didn�t we, maybe they can do two. Just maybe�� Sya says. He wanted to watch the Oomans until their demise. Until there was nothing left but the stench of blood, whether it came from the hard mean or the Oomans soft Sya didn�t care. He just wanted to see how this played out.

They saw the Oomans turn to the two hard meat and begin shooting with there weapons. But it was perilous, they could barely get one with all their fire power, they couldn�t possibly get two.

�Perhaps this is the end.� Sya chirps with a hint of sadness. He would hate to have to interfere now. If he and Dhm�Ni did they would have to kill them all, the Oomans and the hard meat. Sya did not want to do that, he didn�t want to kill any Ooman that didn�t justify there own death. They watch as the female motions to the others to go into the building while she stayed out front. �Abandoning a female?� Sya roars out. �I will not stand for this!� Sya stands tall, and was about to jump down but Dhm�Ni grabbed his arm.

�No Sya. She told them to go, she told them to hide. Now who is not listening?� He asks teasingly. Sya had the sudden urge to smack Dhm�Ni across the head but he was right. He had been watching the scene too intently and forgot to listen. They look back down to the fight and see the female throw little balls at the hard meat, one on each side of the beasts. �Bombs?� Dhm�Ni questions.

�I think so. Ingenious, cover them on all sides. Pakka was right. The technology on this planet has improved greatly.� Both Sya and Dhm�Ni thought that the bombs would carry nothing that could reach them, and that it would only reach the hard meats but as the female ran in to the building to follow the males, the bomb went off. Dhm�Ni watched as tiny little metal objects grew and flung towards them. With lighting fast speed, Dhm�Ni leapt onto Sya and brought him down into the roof top to be shielded by the four foot high ledge. They hit the top with a loud thud as the small objects zoomed by them. Dhm�Ni releases a thunderous roar, today wasn�t a lucky day. Some of those things embedded themselves into his arm and his shoulder armor. He wasn�t to alarmed that they marked up his armor, he was just pissed off that some of those things now rested in his arm.

�PAUK!� Dhm�Ni yells out. �WHAT IN THE UNIVERSES IS THIS C�JIT?� They both sit up to look at Dhm�Nis� arm.

�You were fortunate today Dhm�Ni.� Sya, with his harp talons, painfully rips one out of Dhm�Nis� arm. He wouldn�t take one out from his armor, the more the chaos the merrier. And besides, the holes made by the bits and pieces would leave some odd shaped scars for Dhm�Ni to talk of later. �Any of the metal pieces could have easily hit you neck and killed you. You my friend are one lucky Lou-dte Kalei.� Sya chuckles and gets a hit to the shoulder for it.

�Sya?� Dhm�Ni chirps. Sya only nods as he continues to rip out the bits of metal from Dhm�Nis arm. �That makes three hard meats�where is the fourth?� Simultaneously they both leap up and look for the last remaining hard meat and find it in the roof top of the building the three Oomans just ran into. Sya changes his sight to look for the Oomans and see that they are moving, slowly making there way out of the structure and out into the open.

O�Conner raced towards the open tank hatch the moment she released the PB�s. With a grace Becks had never seen, O�Conner jumped and flipped up and over the blood and bodies of their friends and landed on top of the open hatch. She couldn�t fit through the hole with her pack on, so as fast as she could she removed it from her back, dropped it down the hole then slipped in herself. With out a moment to spare the PB�s went off. The sound of the extended nails going of was the most annoying thing O�Conner has ever heard, the tick sounds coming from the millions of nails was deafening. But some where in between the scraping of the nail was the pleasant but horrific screeching of the devils falling to their wounds. O�Conner could have sworn she heard a roar or maybe a howl but she just thought she was hearing more then what was there.

�Glad you made it.� Becks said sarcastically.

�Not this time Allen, really not the time.� O�Conner responds. It was just a little cramped in the now apparent Bombing Tank with three bodies cramped inside. It wasn�t meant for anyone to sit in, let alone three people. A Bombing Tank was a prototype of a mobile explosive the government was funding. But they have been having trouble with the navigation system and sometimes it would end up in someone�s living room instead of the Coalitions head Quarters. These were all in the middle of being dismantled and couldn�t be used even if O�Conner wanted too.

�Do you think they are dead?� The General asks.

�Does this thing have a view screen? Or have they already taken it out?� O�Conner points to the front, close to where the General was sitting, at some of the controls. �If there is one it should be right behind that sliding panel.� The General slides open a plate and it reveals a view screen. With a soft �yes� the General punches some buttons and a picture pops up. The image was one of beauty to O�Conners� eye. In the far corner of the screen were two writhing bodies, distorted and bloody.

�We got the fuckers!� Becks yells out in victory.

�Come on, we don�t have time to wait.� O�Conner checks her watch again and now they only have forty seven minuets. Sense she was the closest to the hatch, she slowly opened it, hoping that the nails didn�t somehow fuse it to the rest of the tank. To her relief it opened easily and she popped her head out. The first thing she saw were the terrifying pieces of nail that had emended themselves into the haul of the tank. The only way for them to get down off now was the back way, the only part that wasn�t hit by the nails, but there was one problem�it was covered in blood and body parts.

�Looks like we gota go through some bloodshed to get off guys. The front and sides are all hit so the back is the only way.� O�Conner boosts herself up and steps on to the top of the tanks. She slips as her boots hit the blood, faster then she wanted to she slides down the back of the tank landing hard onto the chest of someone she was glad she couldn�t recognize. Without waiting she walks out toward to still moving devils. In one hand she had her pack and in the other her gun. Finally out of the blood soaked bunker she stops and takes a moment to stair at them, writhing in pain on the ground. Somewhere deep she felt sorry for them, she didn�t like to see anyone or anything in pain. She always killed fast, never letting anyone suffer. She wasn�t sure if it was the sight of the black devils or the thought that she felt something other than hate for them made her feel nauseous. After a single moment of hesitation, O�Conner lifts her gun, aims at one head and shoots it dead. Backs and the General stop a little behind her, just at the edge of the garage and watch as she kills one.

�What are you doing? Let it bear the pain so it knows what it did.� The General says harshly.

�For one thing I don�t think it knows what it did. It�s an animal General, it�s not self aware. And just think about it. The other one we killed screamed and three more came. I don�t want to let these things call for more�do you?� O�Conner didn�t lie, she was worried about it attracting more. But she didn�t want to tell them that she felt pity for these things as they lay there in pain. She changes her aim to the other one and ends its life. Out of the corner of his eye Becks saw a flash of black that made his insides turn 1000 times over. Snapping his head towards with devil, he sees that it is looking right towards an O�Conner with her head down just as she turns to them. O�Conner froze as she saw the horrified face of Becks looking to his left. Then she saw it crawling on a wall, looking straight at her. Somehow her body knew what to do before her mind and she found herself diving to the ground and rolling as the devil leaped towards her. Coming out of the roll, Becks runs to her side and together they start to shoot it.

The General had other ideas though. While these two would fight this devil, he would run towards the jumper. But he needed more then the guns he�s got now, he needs those PB�s. He notices that the pack that O�Conner filled the PB�s in was in her hands after they left the tank. Silently she creeps up behind O�Conner and grabs the pack.

�WHAT THE FUCK!� O�Conner yells as her pack is ripped from her hand. She twists her body to look back at the General. He was fumbling with the tiny switches that let out one PB at a time and she knew that he was going to fuck it up. She stops shooting as she fully turns to the General, intent on getting it back before he lets them all fall out but it was to late. The General had hit a switch that let all of the remaining PB�s fall from her pack. O�Conner didn�t have time to think about what he did, she just turned back around to restart shooting the devil. But as she turned, she saw a fast smear of the black as it jumped towards her and Becks. The both dodge the body with a squat but they forgot about its tail. Just as it landed, it brought its tail around and slammed it against O�Conners� chest, sending her flying into a wall. Becks watched helplessly as the devil jutted towards O�Conner.

�Screw this shit.� The General whispers. He bends down in time to miss the tail of the devil, but while he was down, he picked up a few of the PB�s. He didn�t have time to look at the signs, he just grabbed them and started to run down an ally.

�NALA!� Becks screams out. Becks ran just as the devil sprung at O�Conner, who was now coughing up blood as she leaned against the wall she hit. Becks jumped in between the devil and her, keeping it from O�Conner. The devil didn�t care who it got, it spread out its razor-sharp claws and dug its hand into the chest of Becks and out his back.

O�Conner couldn�t hold in the blood from the hit the devil gave her, it must have broken at least one rib and now all she could breathe out was blood. The pain was so intense that she never heard Becks call her name. The next thing she knew was a spatter of blood on the ground right next to where she coughed up her own, but it wasn�t hers. She opened her eyes as wide as they could as she slowly raises her head to see who the blood came from. Secretly she was wishing it was the General but she never got her wishes. There standing right in front of her was Becks with the hand of the devil through him. Without warning the devil pitched back with Becks still in his hand and sprinted, at a speed unseen by O�Conner ever before, down a road.

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