Disclaimer: If you claim that you own Red Faction, the nanoelite blow your brains out. Or not. No I don't own Red Faction.
AN: This is based on the principle that you don't disarm the bomb at the end of Red Faction 1 in time. It takes a look at what's happening to a select few at the time the bomb goes off.
Thomas Hale, a young miner with short blonde hair and red eyes, sends a blast of fire from his UAR-42 assault rifle at a squad of mercenaries as they close onto his position. Too his right, equipped with an USP-12 pistol, his friend Matthew Brown, a young, dark skinned man with deep brown eyes, empties a clip into a mercenary in front of him. As more mercs charge their position, Thomas gives his friend thumbs up sign and they prepare to fight to the death in a last stand.
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William Collins fired a burst into a merc at close range from his UAP-32/20 submachine gun. To his left, Sarah Dark blows a merc away with her UAS-10 shotgun, a look of anger on her young Chinese face.
As the dust settles and the miners celebrate another victory over the forces of Ultor, Sarah pulls William aside and looks into his blood red eyes.
Brushing her long hair back, she takes a deep breathe and decides to tell him what's been on her mind.
"William." She begins, "I love you." And a blush travels up her face as she looks away. William lifts her head and kisses her firmly on the lips, his long dark brown hair tickling her face.
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Alice Cray has always prided herself on being unshakeable. Leaving her Arabic roots to go to Mars, as a medic was a dream come true for her. But, as she looks at the wounded from both sides lying across the ward, she feels suddenly overwhelmed by despair.
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Hermione looks down the telescopic sights of her USG-50 Sniper rifle and waits for her prey to enter the room. With her long red hair and forget me not blue eyes, Hermione doesn't look like a killer, but as we all know, looks can be deceiving. As the merc enters the room, she squeezes the trigger and his brains are blown across the wall. His comrade tries to shoot at her location with a burst of machine gun fire, but it's already too late for him and she blows his brains across the floor as well.
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Standing side by side, James Rivers and Walther Lair fire their USP-16 pistols at the oncoming mercs. Once sworn enemies, this guard and miner find themselves fighting side by side against their common foe.
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Lieutenant Hoshi Mazaki leads her group of Ultor guards against the mercs control centre. Mercs are piled up in front of them, but it looks like her squad can do it. If they can get through the mercs defences, they might be able to rescue Eos and in turn perhaps go some way toward compensating for her squads original actions as guards. Either way, Hoshi knows that she's on the right side now.
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Sergeant Felix Cook cocked his JF60-HMG and let rip at the approaching miners and guards. At the back of his mind he thought to himself that starting on the guards had been a mistake. Well, truth be told, most of Ultor's handling of the revolt had been one mistake after another. If it hadn't been for Colonel Masako, Felix had no doubt that the Red Faction would've won by now.
Suddenly, Felix's gun fell silent as he ran out of ammunition. As he opened the gun to reload, a miner popped out from cover and fired three shots from his MK/SG-1 Defender precision rifle at point blank range. One shot hits Felix's shoulder. Another hits his gun and it flies away from him, made useless by the shot.
