Intro music from starship troopers 1 theme plays here
Bold font and *""* – radio talk, Italic font and ** – thoughts, underline font and "" – TV or news reports, "" – normal speck, '' – whispering, and I own nothing in this story it's just an idea I had years ago
Dream space
There was a flash of blue light just after it cleared you look straight ahead and see many large four legged creatures with claw like appendages on either side and a large beak like face heading towards you, looking up you see another set of creatures that are almost the same as the ones on the ground except it had a tentercal type things for its mouth and wings about five feet large.
You turn to your left and see five soldiers standing and shooting at both sets of creatures you the move your left arm motioning them to go backwards then you turn to your right doing the same to the other group of soldiers to go back and you follow. As you are running backwards you are suddenly pushed over you turn over only to see a soldier that had pushed you being grabbed and carried away by one of the flying creatures, you quickly get up and try to shoot the creature carrying away your comrade only to have to turn your attention to the ground creatures as they are getting to close for comfort only to look up and see a large blue ball of light falling from the sky.
You turn to warn the other soldiers only for it to land where they where blasting you off your feet quickly you are helped up by a girl soldier as another with a radio on her back covers just after you are helped up you are handed back your weapon you then turn and open fire at the creatures still attacking you three, you are then suddenly knocked over as you turn back round you see one of the ground creatures raising its clawed arm and then brings it down as you raise your right arm to protect yourself only to have it removed by the claw at the elbow, before it can attack you again it's killed by the girl without the radio while the one with the radio holds up two fingers as she continues to fire at the ground type creatures
You then start to shoot into them along with the other girl only then to have to look up as a ship that has come to get you arrives it circles only to be hit by a blue ball of light and explode as it falls from the sky the three of you move to get away from it only for it to explode as it hits the ground knocking you all off your feet but as you go down you see the girl with the radio get his by long metal poles in her back that then come out her chest, as you got to get back up one of the ground creatures suddenly appears and brings one of its claws down and cuts off your left leg in half as you scream in pain the other surviving girl guns it down but then a bright light blinds you and it all go's quite.
Dream space ends
You open your eyes and see a pod lid raising above you and a girl standing next to it, you then go to sit up but you are having to only use your left arm and from the shoulder of your right arm down there is nothing there once slightly up you then see at the pelvic part to your left leg to your left foot is also missing as you are about to move again you feel a hand on your right shoulder you turn and see a pair of orange eyes looking at you.
"Morning sis I thought you were going to sleep all week." said the girl chuckling
You look at her then shake your head "oh be quite grass top." as the green haired, orange eyed, white, five feet two inch tall girl wearing military clothing looked at you with a pout on her face "oh be quite rabbit head Nicky, don't forget to attach your arm and leg to yourself or you won't get very far."
"Yar yar sure Erika." Nicky replies as she reaches to the very bottom of the pod she is in and picks up her robotic arm and attaches it to her right shoulder then using both arms she then picks up her robotic leg and attaches it to her left side, once done Nicky climes out of the pod and starches then turns to look at Erika how has a data pad in her hands as she looks throw the info on it Nicky asks "What you looking at sis."
"Just looking through over some info and your reassignment to the Roughnecks that Hannah sent me." replied Erika, Nicky straightened her top and shorts that she had put on while Erika had spoke and said "So how is egghead and what did she say."
Erika turned to look at Nicky as she said with a frown on her face "Your only saying that because she, me and our other sisters Zoe, Yasmin and Raven have psychic possibly me and Hannah the most." only for Nicky to pat her on her shoulder and say "Only because your two are twins and Zoe, Yasmin and Raven are triplets." then added with a chuckle "I had to deal with you all as you all got use to it but I feel sorry for our brother Naruto ha ha the youngest and only boy out of the seven of us."
Erika smiled "Well he has always looked out for us just as much as we looked out for him I'm just happy he can't join the Federation yet." Nicky nodded and said "Me too although I know once he is able to join he is going to join up as an ape like me." Then she looked at the clock inside the room "Well I better get going so I can get a shower before I go and meet my new Lieutenant."
Erika nodded but then said "Take it easy though sis I know it's nearly been three years since you was last on Pluto and with what happened, Hannah has said that if any more medical staff see you having any more problems you maybe section 8ed."
Nicky had stopped at the door and lowered her head only to say "I know sis and I can deal normally it's just when I sleep in one of the pods ... the dreams come back losing my whole company ... and dad at the same time you know why I asked for this reassignment and demonian to the roughnecks so just don't worry too much sis and later." and then she left while missing the worried look on Erika's face
After her shower and getting dressed into her clean combat clothes Nicky headed to the locker deck for mobile infantry personal and collected her M-1A4 powersuit and put it on then headed to the dropship bay she entered the large hanger bay and headed to the far end ship that she knew was assigned to the Roughnecks, after reaching it she climbed a boarded and saw two fleet pilots heading to the cotpit just to the side of the door was a MI trooper with a single chevron marking him as a private but she could not see his name on the side she was looking at talking to another MI trooper but this one had a silver bar on his shoulder marking him as a lieutenant and he was also missing and arm from his elbow to his hand on his left side but she could see a name under the silver bar which said Razak on it the LT then pointed to the cotpit area and the private saluted and turned to walk into the cotpit area Nicky noticed he has a capsule picture on his back on his jetpack on the M-1A4 powersuit which was standard issue she then thought *Ok so we have a psychic in our squad.* she then walked up to the lieutenant and saluted as he turned to face her and she said "Private Nicky Revell reporting for duty sir."
Lieutenant Razak looked at her and said "Last I heard you was a Lieutenant in the Screaming Eagles during Operation Pest Control." to which Nicky nodded and replied "I was sir but as you no duet know about our last op on Pluto we was attacked and I only just survived it and I could not stay onboard the ship TFD Virginia because of the memories sir ... so I requested to be reassigned and demoted for what happened."
Razak nodded to her reply then asked "If I was to offer you a promising to a higher rank" to which Nicky said "I'd wish you would give it to someone else in the squad unless I was the only option sir." Razak nodded and said "Very well join Jenkins in the cotpit with me till we are underway." Nicky saluted him again and then headed to the cotpit.
She walked throw the door into the cotpit and saw the other soldier sat on one of five seats just behind where the pilots sat he turned to face her but she was able to see the name Jenkins on the side of the helmet, he then said "Hello I'm Carl Jenkins I heard we was getting four new soldiers with me being the fifth" Nicky replied "Yar I'm Nicky Revell former lieutenant of the Screaming Eagles Mobile Infantry company ...Spartan squad now private of the Roughnecks Mobile Infantry"
Carl nodded then said "I'm sorry about what happened but I've heard that there are five of you now in the Federation" Nicky nodded and replied happily "yar me and my sisters two joined half a year after I had enlisted they had been in service for 6 months before the end of Operation Pest Control they where my sisters Hannah and Erika they was both posted to the same unit the Silverback company, Hannah joined as a psychic while Erika joined as a medic while my other three sisters joined just before this war started they are Zoe, Yasmin and Raven, I don't know if they have been posted to any units yet but I know what they joined in Zoe joined as a fednet reporter but she got some combat training as well, Yasmin joined as a fleet pilot and Raven joined as a mechanic"
Carl nodded and asked "Do you have any other family?" Nicky nodded and said "Yar I have a brother Naruto and my mum Andrea my bro is still to young to join yet but once he is he said he wants to be an ape like me so at the minute I'm happy he cannot join" while she was talking to Carl Razak had entered and was listening to what was being said then Carl asked "And I take it your dad was on Pluto with you" Nicky nodded and said "Yar but I don't want to talk about it" she then reached into her left pocket on her belt and took out 12 dog tags and said "These are my squads, mine and my dad's dog tags that I was able to get a month after I had recovered from my injures I carry them with me and remember what I have vowed to do after the mistake's I had done and not to repeat them" she then reput them into her pocket
As the ship finished prepping for flight Razak heard a noise coming from the back he turned and walked into the back and said "Sergeant!" both Nicky and Carl turned and saw two corporals stood on either side of the door and four others at the back of the bay but they couldn't see them Nicky turned to Carl and asked "So do you know anything about our follow troopers?"
Carl nodded and said "The sergeant and two corporals have been in the service as long or longer then you while the three private have only just joined the squad ones a fednet reporter while the other two are old class mates Dizzy Flores and Johnny Rico" just after he said that they both then heard the shout of "privates!" Carl stood up and entered the back first followed by Nicky as they entered she was able to see the names and faces of the two corporals, the first was a six foot tall black American with the name Doc on his helmet the second was a six foot two inch tall white American with the name Gossard on the side of his helmet as she passed them she heard Doc turn to Gossard and say 'special op's' to which Gossard replied 'Psychic freaks' both had said it quietly to each other showing that they didn't have that high of an opinion of Psychic's she looked ahead and saw the sergeant as a six foot tall white Texan with the name Brutto on it then a five foot five inch tall white American with a camera in his hand with the name Higgins on the helmet and the last two said "Carl" together from what Nicky could see one was a five foot eight inch tall white female American with the name Flores on her helmet leaving the second the five foot nine inch tall white male American as Rico
As Nicky stood there looking at the squad she had been placed with her memory went back and changed the face's and added more people into the ship bay she raised her hand to her head and thought *we are all going to survive this time I'm not going to be the only survivor again ... Never again*
Razak then broke her thought's as he said "Suit up you ape's prepare for drop" then an alarm went off and everyone one ran to the combat dropsuit areas of the ship and everyone started to climb into the suit's Nicky saw Gossard puss Higgins towards his as he and Doc climbed into the marauder suits that the ship had Gossard got aboard the M-9 marauder assault suit nicknamed the 'Duck' while Doc boarded the M-8 marauder assault suit nicknamed the 'Ape' they were soon all sealed in there suit's and where ready for drop only to hear over the radio *"Live forever ape's"* Nicky knew it had been Razak that had said that and as one everyone replied *"HO!"* Then she heard a thud noise as they were all launched from the ship to the ground of Pluto.
The ride down to the service of Pluto was bumpy as they got though the upper and lower atmosphere the dropsuit's glowed red hot from the heat of entry a few seconds after they stopped glowing the dropsuit's broke apart releasing the roughnecks to Pluto's gravity after a few seconds of free fall the jump jets on the back of their powersuits activated and slowed them down a lot more till they came in and gently landed on the ground of Pluto.
They soon regrouped then headed east to a bowl shaped cliff with a narrow corridor heading from the very top if it to the south, they stood at the top of the cliff and repealed down to the ground as they reached the ground they turned and walked towards a structure that was in the middle of the bowl as they walked towards it Nicky started to get an uneasy feeling in her gut Razak then held up his robotic arm making the squad halt he then said "There are two hundred scientists along with sixty-three dependants we're here to ensure the safety of these people" Brutto how was stood next to him then flicked down his multi-spectrum visor and scanned the building for a few seconds only to say "No movement ... If somebody's in there, there not breathing"
Nicky grimly knew the outcome from what Brutto had said Razak turned and said "Doc, Gossard stay here keep an eye out" "Sir yes sir" both said in reply
Carl then said "I scenes something" to Rico and Dizzy to which Brutto how heard it stepped toward them and angrily said "I said no movement" then he turned back round and headed towards the door of the building they where to guard Higgins then said "Maybe I could stay out here and get some exterior shot's"
Nicky saw Razak look at Higgins for a second to which she quickly said "Don't worry LT I'll keep an eye on paperboy" to which he nodded then he, Rico, Dizzy and Carl also headed to the building following Brutto Nicky turned back round only to hear Doc say "Remember only get my good side" to Higgins which made her chuckle.
After a few minutes of Higgins filming the marauders and the area he turned the camera to Nicky and asked "So Nicky have you seen the enemy before?"
Nicky turned to face him as she also noticed both Doc and Gossard had turned slightly in there marauders so they could see them both and listen she then replied "Yar I was here during Operation Pest Control."
The look of surprise on there was in Nicky's view very funny then Higgins said "Wow never knew so have you always been a private?"
Nicky reply slightly happily "No I was a Lieutenant just before the end of it" the look of shock on their faces made her chuckle more but then she quickly said "But a choose I made along with the Major of my unit cost everyone their lives officially we all went beyond the call of duty ... personally the guilt of being the only survivor makes me think otherwise" she saw Higgins go to ask something only for her to add "If you want to learn more paperboy ask me later or look for it on fednet what happened was a pretty big thing" as Higgins went to nod in reply a big explosion happened at the rear area of the building the others had entered making them all turn to look making Nicky say "Someone is having a party in there"
She then saw the marauders both turn towards the bottle neck opening to the south Nicky turned then saw the enemy arachnid warriors and workers forming at the main opening she raised her hand to her helmet radio only to be beaten to it by Gossard how did it first *"LT you better come take a look at this"* within a few seconds the other roughnecks exited the scientist base and joined Nicky and the others and watch as the warriors and workers start to roar and scream making more appear Nicky heard Rico say "You know them story's where going to tell our kids Diz" after quite a lot grouped together they all turned and started to charge down the corridor towards the roughnecks Razak turned and yelled "Prepare to engage!" they all took cover behind some boulders that was in a line
Higgins still had his camera up and said "Why aren't we retreating?"
Brutto turned to him and said "No retreat ... No surrender" Nicky turned to look around at the roughneck reaction's Brutto, Razak, Doc and Gossard were all calm and preparing themselves for battle she then looked at the rookies they were all nervous and trying to grasp what was about to happen. Then Rico turned to Higgins how was stood behind everyone and said "I think you're going to want to get this on tape" Razak then said to Doc and Gossard "Distance" Dizzy how was next to him said "Distance there right here"
Gossard flicked a switch and down came a distance measure scanner came out a side panel inside his marauder and then he looked throw it and said "500 meters" Nicky saw Razak walking along just behind all of the roughnecks with his rifle held up resting against his shoulder as he walked behind Dizzy she said "Let's go" only for him to say "Steady!"
Gossard then said "250 meters ... 100 meters" Rico then said as Gossard said 100 meters "Now let's go" only for Razak to say "Steady!" but then Gossard yelled out "75 meters" Razak then shouted "Fire!" and everyone opened up and ten warriors dropped cut to ribbings soon followed by the marauders how also cut down another twenty-five then Razak then yelled "Marauders lock plasma."
Doc said "Lets rain on their parade" and both of them fired two missiles each the shots landed 50 meters of them with a bright light blinding the roughnecks for a few seconds once they could see again they saw a wall of flaming plasma going from the ground to the very top of the cliffs blocking off the corridor from the bowl Razak stopped firing making the others as well they saw ten warriors try to force their way throw only to be burned to death Razak then said "That fire gives us ten minutes to either get back up or meet up with a retrieval ship Roughnecks up the ledge." They ran to the end of the bowl where they had entered the bowl at the start they took out there lizard line guns from there back's and aimed at the top of the ledge and fire it hitting the top the cliff and pulled them up.
After they got to the top they moved a few miles away from the cliff Razak then put his right hand to his helmet radio and said *"Come in blue leader"* everyone else kept an eye out for any trouble Dizzy looked around and said "Wow" then Rico replied "Watching the war on TV is sure different then living it" Nicky chuckled from what both Dizzy and Rico said
Razak continued to try and contact the ship troop commander *"Come in blue leader this is alpha team come in ... We have an R triple D situation we need back up"*
Higgins turned to Brutto and asked "R triple D is that code?" only for Brutto to reply "Yar really deep do do" Nicky chuckled and added "They should change it to RDS" Higgins turned to her and asked "what does that mean" and Nicky said "Really deep shit." Brutto smirked at what Nicky said just then Blue leader spoke *"We are unable to complying no squad available"*
Razak and everyone was shocked to which Razak then said *"WHAT? Charlie, Delta and Echo squad where dropped in range of our position."*
But Blue leaders reply shocked the squad *"All squad's report R triple D we're in a crisis situation will send retrieval at earliest availability"* Higgins laughed at that and said "ha ha like we need him to tell us that." Razak then said "The bugs were waiting ... Planning for us." Brutto shook his head and said "bug's got no brains" only for Jenkins to then say "It don't mean they don't have some type of intelligence somewhere out there"
Nicky turned to Razak and said "LT we should head to a more secure and defence able area" Razak looked around the area and was about to give an order only for Gossard to interrupt and say "LT company's coming" Razak turned to him and said "Who?" "Indeterminate mobile mass ... family size"
The ground a few meters in front of them started to shake and move and then crack and give way allowing a giant fat round bug to climb out of the ground it roar as it finally got out of the ground and splaying a jest of fire into the air from the two tubes on the side of its face, they all started to back up at the sight of it as it was about the same height as a two story house and about as long as long lorry and trailer
Dizzy looked at it in shock and said "Basic training never mentioned these things" Razak replied "They didn't know about these" however Nicky yelled with a look of fear on her face "Tanker! Move!" they all scattered the marauders used their leg jets to get out of the way as a jet of fire was lunched at where the roughnecks where stood, as the others ran out of the way the marauders landed and opened fire at the tanker bug only for the bullets to bounce off the armour of the bugs head
Doc the said "the bugs like a walnut we can't crack the shell" the tanker turned and fired another stream of fire which impacted just in front of the marauders causing an explosion making the marauders be blown backwards and knocking them to the floor Brutto saw this and yelled out "Marauders down" Razak used his radio and asked *"Doc, Gossard status?"* Only to hear Gossard's reply *"We're turtles"*Razak turned to Brutto and Rico and said "Brutto, Rico go!"
As everyone else ran to the right of the tanker bug and opened fire on it trying to draw its attention to them while the marauders where righted as they took cover behind some boulder's as Razak then asked Nicky "Ok private Nicky do you have any info on this bug?" as they all continued to shoot at the tanker only for the rounds to bounce off the armour
Nicky replied "Yes sir as you have seen it fires balls or streams of flame's from the tubes on the side of its face standard ammo just bounce off it while armour piercing or rockets can take this thing out" only for the tanker to fire at them with its stream of fire hitting just in front of the cover they was using making them all duck behind them just then they hear Brutto over the radio call out *"Inbound"* causing everyone to look up and see a retrieval ship coming in to land Dizzy then said "We are so out of here" as they move to where the ship is going to land the upright and moving marauder suits quickly joined them and prepare to cover them only to watch as a stream of fire to hit the side of the ship and another to hit near where it was going to land the landing legs of the ship that was lowered to do with it landing then started to re-enter the body of the ship as it started to raise back up into the air and them it started to move away
Dizzy shouted out "Wait!" like the pilots could hear her Rico then said "what are they just going to leave us here?" before anyone could reply Doc shouted out "Incoming!"
They all started to run when a fire ball impacted just behind them launching them all forward except the marauders throwing them all a few feet forward after them landed on their chests as they all started to get up the ground under Carl and Dizzy started to crack and then it gave way making them slide down a passage way which dumped them a few feet way into a trench which was in front of the tanker bug.
It turned towards them and then started to head to them Rico saw this making him run towards the cliff that ran along the trench which lucky was the same height as the bug he ran along the edge of it to try and get in front of the bug Razak saw this and yelled "Rico fall back!" to which he didn't listen Razak yelled again "I said fall back!" only for Rico to not only not listen again and then to run and jump onto the back of the head of the tanker bug as it roared in anger Nicky then saw him throw something small and round up trying to get it into the mouth of the bug only for it to bounce and then land on to the floor
Only to hear a explosion to happen a second later making the ground crack and then give way under the weight of the tanker taking it and Rico underground Nicky was only just able to hear him yell as he fell Dizzy ran to the edge along with everyone else and yelled "RICO!" Doc stood next to her as he was also stood next to Razak and said "Guess he found the tunnels" Razak then tried to radio him *"Rico come in ... Rico come in"* he then turned to Carl "Anything?" Carl went to say something but was interrupted by Brutto how sarcastically said "Nothing on Rico but I see a little bird coming to fly us away" as the very same retrieval ship that was scared away at first now came into land
Dizzy angrily turned to the hole and said "We can't leave we have a man down there" Brutto angrily answered "Listen little lady that ape's a goner" to which Carl calmly said "No he's not" Brutto pushed Carl at his shoulder and said "Listen nutcase" but was stopped when Razak said "Troopers! I'm going in who's coming with me?" Brutto looked at Razak in shock and said "Lieutenant?"
Razak turned to him and said "Tell the retrieval ship to wait ten minutes if we're not back by then tell them to leave" Brutto turned to Doc and said "The lieutenant's insane" to which Doc replied "Hey man we're fighting giant bug's on freaking Pluto man where all insane"
Nicky walked past them both and add "I don't think we are Doc this is just a job" Brutto turned to look at the retrieval ship and Higgins then he checked his rifle then headed toward where Razak was heading to, as they all got ready to enter the hole Razak then said "Nicky, Higgins, Doc and Gossard stay here, first thing out of here is a bug blow it then evac"
Nicky, Higgins, Doc and Gossard instantly said "SIR YES SIR"
TEN MINUTES LATER
Nicky and Doc was walking to the left of the hole when they heard movement coming from it they both got ready for battle only for them to see five green helmets coming out of it Nicky then said "Well Rico at least your hole" and Doc chuckled as he added "And I was hoping to blow something up"
Rico then said "Been there" to which Dizzy added "Done that" and Carl finished "Big time" Nicky couldn't help it but laugh
Then they all heard a shout "Private!" Razak pushed Rico backwards and then said "You disobeyed a direct order and all most got yourself killed that is not accepted in this squad do you get me!" Rico looked down as he said "Sir I get you sir" then Razak added with a smirk "gutsy son" Rico smiled as they all headed to the retrieval ship Nicky smiled and thought *Guess this is going to be fun being in this squad* as she sat down onboard the ship as it soon took off to taken them back to the Valley Forge