Chapter 1 New Blood

Aaron Staffus walked through the war torn city. Behind him followed the three other COG soldiers in his squad, Jeffery Miles, Eric Thomas, and of course Steve Cole.

Their objective was a search and destroy mission so they could clear the city of the Locust. Aaron froze and made a sign with his hand for the others to stop then he pointed in front of him. Each squad member looked into the pit in front of Aaron.

The pit went about an eighth of a mile into the ground. Locust walked around the pit in a hurry, loading guns, and piling sand bags.

"I wonder what they're doing?" Steve asked.

"It looks like they're building defenses for something." Aaron said.

"Do you think they know we're here?" Jeffery asked in his gruff voice.

"I'm not sure, but I highly doubt it. We crept in here without any sound what so ever." Aaron answered.

"Well-" Eric started, but Aaron cut him off.

"How about we all shut the hell up and watch and wait." Aaron said.

Each of the soldiers followed his command. They all made cover behind some rocks and watched the activity in the pit. Aaron looked over his soldiers. He looked at the scared Jeffery, a man who had began fighting before Aaron was born. Jeffery had a good build and a large black beard, a large scar went across his face. The old soldier always said it was from a lancer a Drone got a hold of and Aaron believed him.

The squad leader then looked at Eric, the rookie in the group. This was his first mission. Eric was quite scrawny compared to the others. He was very shy and didn't talk much, but that was probably because everyone cut him off.

Aaron then looked at Steve the biggest and strongest of the group. He played as a lineman for the Kansas City Cheifs before the Locust came and took over. Steve had dark skin covered in pictures of woman, skulls, and other things. A huge burn covered the left half of his face, from when the squad was trying to save civilians from a burning building. The building had collapsed trapping Steve and Katherine, a old member of the squad. Steve survived with minimal damage, but Katherine wasn't so lucky. She had been crushed by one of the rafters.

Staffus then looked back at the pit. The busy Locust had know made a small makeshift fortress of what they had. I wonder why the hell they're doing all this? Aaron thought.

Then it happened. From the left corner of the pit came a giant explosion. A large hole appeared from the smoke. Suddenly from the hole came six huge spider like beast. In two of their six hands they carried guns. A grenade launcher was strapped to they're shoulders.

"What the hell is that damn thing!" Jeffery said.

"I have no idea but we're about to find out." Aaron said as he drew his lancer and dived into the pit. The squad followed him into the carnage below.

As he fell Aaron watched the spiders tear through the Locust as if they didn't even exist. One of the spiders fired his grenade launcher at the makeshift fortress, destroying it and the Locust inside. Two Boomers came from the smoke and rubble of the destroyed fortress. "Boom!" They both rumbled as they fired at one of the spiders. The missiles tore the spider apart.

"Hell yeah Boomers!" Steve yelled as if he was watching a football game.

"Steve, will you shut the hell up! Who's side are you on anyways?" Aaron yelled. That shut Steve up.

Right before they hit the ground each of the members did a flip so they landed landed on their feet. They fired their weapons at both the Locust and the spider creatures, as they began retreating behind cover. The squad members made their cover behind the remains of the spider creature the Boomers killed.

Steve then took notice of the grenade launcher strapped it's shoulder. "Wow wee! Look what we got here a big ole' gun!" He yelled as he tore the gun from the shoulder and fired at one of the spiders with it.

The missile blew the spider up, sending it's limbs and gray matter all over the ground and onto the Locust and COG. That made the other spiders take notice of the COG and together began running towards the humans.

"Time to start your engines guys!" Aaron shouted to the others as he revved up his lancer. The others followed his command.

The first spider to reach them was greeted by a lancer through their neck. It's head went flying a few feet away.

"Home run!" Steve yelled.

Eric advanced the spider closest to him and raised his lancer, but he was to slow the spider had already turned around and looked at the wimpy human with a grim smile. The giant spider beast impaled the rookie through with one of it's spiked legs. Eric grunted as the spike exited through his back and he died.

Aaron saw the whole thing and ran at the spider. "DIE YOU UGLY SON OF A BITCH!" He screamed as he cut through the aliens chest, killing it instantly. The spiders corpse fell to the ground. Aaron carefully slid Eric's body from the spiked leg.

Aaron's eyes looked over the dead body of the rookie. He then let out an ear shattering scream and tears began dropping to the ground and mixed with Eric's blood. The other COG looked at Aaron and ran over to him. They all dropped to their knees and began to cry when they saw the rookie's dead body

"Poor kid." Jeffery said

"Yeah to bad he had a lot of potential." Said Steve.

Aaron just looked at Eric's body and then everything went black...

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