Exodus Chronicles
Chapter 1
Krig-7B: Desert Sector
09:45 hours
April 10th, 2020
Joshua looked around the Dropship, half of the platoon was sleeping, his eyes fell upon Cyren Azleea, sister of Vlaana Azleea, the butcher of Ariel, but over the past few months, everyone began to trust and respect her, he smiled at her, she looked up at him and glared at him, he quickly looked away, soon a red light illuminated the cabin, and the pilot's voice came on the loudspeaker, "Ok ladies and gents, time to wake up and Lock and load, give 'em hell marines!", everyone woke up, got out of their chairs and grabbed their weapons, Joshua got up as soon as Cyren did, and bumped into her on his way to his rifle, "Oops, sorry." He said, she looked at him and walked off to get her sniper rifle, he thought to himself, well so much for that approach, and grabbed his rifle.
The ship plummeted to the surface of the planet, burning through the clouds, as soon as it hit the ground dust flew all around the ship, the ramp dropped and everyone stormed out, the pilot smartly remarked "Don't let the ram hit you on your ass on the way out now!" and flew off. as soon as the ship left, on of the soldiers remarked, "If i had a dollar for every OND outpost we destroyed, i would be rich enough to leave the military, and you people for good."
Everyone looked around the dusty landscape Joshua tapped on his helmet, and his HUD came up, showing the unit' callsign, which was KILLSHOT, his voiced crackled into everyone's helmet, "Alright, lets link up with 23rd and Major Parker, the waypoint is on your map, lets move it people!", acknowledgement lights blinked in response, and they all started to their objective, the sun blazed down on the soldiers, who marched on to their destination, halfway their they found a peculiar rock formation, Joshua, Cyren, and two other marines went to check it out, they searched through it, and Joshua picked up a strange metal device, and with that, a 8 foot tall creature attacked them, it had a metallic club with jagged spikes in the back, it jumped of nowhere, striking one of the marines, sending him flying, Joshua fired 2 short bursts, only angering the creature more, who smashed its weapon into the ground, making Joshua fall on top of a pillar, the creature raised its weapon, then switched to the side with spikes, Joshua raised his rifle trying to block the weapon, but the force of the impact was too much, the weapon smashed into him with a sickening crunch.
Joshua screamed in pain as the spikes drove into his body, and layed on the ground, not moving, Pvt. Jonathan Richards, jumped onto the back of the creature, grabbed his combat knife, and stabbed it into the creature's neck, but the creature did not fall, instead it tried to pry the soldier from its back, Cyren, and another marine tackled the creature, making it fall, the creature aly dead on the ground, but they heard a muffled voice saying, "Get thsi thing, off of me!", they pulled the dead creature off of him, and patted him on the back for his kill, they looked at Joshua, and ran to his aid, they lifted him up, and went to meet up with the rest of the platoon,it tooke them three hours to reach the waypoint, by then Joshua was taken to a medical bay, the doctors proceed to tell them that he was in a coma nad might stay that way for the next 4 years or so,they went to tell the platoon the news, evryone cried, and prayed for his safety, Cyren walked to the medical bay, annd looked at his armor, covered in blood, and a large jagged hole near the chest, she then went to his side, and kissed him....then said, "Joshua, I love you."
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