{disclaimer: i don't own any of of the rights to cowboy bebop. it's all owned by shinchiro Watanabe and sunrise, bandai entertainment.. got it? get it? cool. please don't use this as a coaster. drinks get your computer wet.}
Three months into the war
A Martian battle transport hovered above the sandy winds of titan. Three minutes ago, the pilots had had to turn off the radar system, in order to make sure they don't get destroyed during the oncoming sandstorm.
The pilot, Deliran, lowered the transport to the ground. "Ok everyone, we're going to feel a shaky jolt in just a second, please hold on." Three seconds passed before the half of the 200 soldiers in the back fell to their feet.
Gren picked himself up and looked around. Vicious was nowhere to be seen. He had met vicious in the first battle he ever fought. Now it looked like they were inseperable. Alot of men groaned as they picked themselves up. Gren spotted a calmed man sitting about ten feet away. he walked over and sat down next to him.
"So Vicious, you got a girl back home?" Vicious's eyes widened. Gren could barely spot the anger in his eyes.Vicious closed his eyes slowly.
"I HAD a girlfriend... but now she's dead to me. Just like him." Gren looked at his friend. A sense of pity was overtaking him. He couldn'y let Vicious see. he would only seeth in anger. sorry, i shouldn't have asked." Vicious smirked. "why not let natural curiosity take it's course? It could lead only to two roads. One is your prospeirity, and the other is death. Never be afriad to go down those roads, blindfolded..."
Gren tried to avoid looking at him. The light from outside darkened until it was pitchblack inside. The reserved lights went on and everyone was boringly trying to make conversation. The sandstrom was obviously large, considering that it had blackened the Titan sky.
Suddenly the transport lurched forward. Deliran checked the fuel count. It was suprisingly low, compared to what it was ten minutes ago. He called over to his copilot. " xyphenos, check the fuel camera." Xyphenos looked at him with confusion.
"It's complety dark out there! You won't see anything!" Deliran clenched his teeth. "Do as i say or else..." Xyphenos, with a mind of doubt, turned on the fuel camera. Two shadowy figure could be seen through the camera view. "Strange... did you call anyone out there?" Xyphenos had a look of curiousity on his face. Derilan flicked on the radar screen. It would be ten more minutes until he got a clear reading. "Xyphenos, send three men out there. let's see what's going on." Xyphenos hesitated and got up. "Ok, just don't fuck up the radar while im gone." His copilot went back to find three suitable men to go into the harsh sandstorm.
Gren watched as Xyphenos surveyed the men. Once he raised his arms up, everyone became silent. "I need three of you men to go outside. Two Recons, One Private. anyone up for it?" With the soldiers being cooped up in there, most had raised their hands. Vicious looked away, arms crossed. Gren looked outside. "You'd have to be insane to go out now."
Xyphenos thought of slimming down the possibilities. "also, if outside, and a rock cracks your helmet, so much sand will end up in your face that it will more or less suffocate you." A well portioned amount of hands shot down. Vicious chuckled. quite suddenly, he stood up. "I'll go... and he's coming with me." He grabbed Gren by the collar of his shirt.
Xyphenos smiled. "Ok then, that leaves one more person. howabout...." One man stood up, even though he acted couragous, he could barely stand without his knee's shaking...
"Eh... I - I'll go!" He smiled timidly. Xyphenos grinned. "Ok, then. you three, tell me your names... and your ranks..." He raised a clipboard to write down their names. Vicious came first. "Vicious. First Class Officer, Recon, Special Ops, sir." Xyphenos took a minute to write down some notes. then he walked to Gren. "and you are?" Gren stiffled a laugh when the timid man next to him blurted out. "UMM.. Orious, third class private, SIR!" Everyone in the area chuckled. Xyphenos shook his head and sighed. "I was talking to him..." He poked at Grens chest with a pen. Orious Laughed nervously.
"So sorry! Umm please continue!!" Xyphenos looked at Gren. "Name and rank soldier?" Gren straightened himself. "Grencia Mars Elijah Guo Eckener, First class Officer, Recon, Special Ops, sir." Xyphenos took a minute to write down some notes " He looked up. "don't you have a shorter name son?" Gren Chuckled. "yeah, Gren just works fine." Xyphenos turned around and walked away. After he was ten feet away from them, he called out. "Ok, follow me. time to suit up."
After three minutes, Vicious, Gren, And Orious stepped out to the darkened sandy world. All three of them were holding semi automatic military styled machine guns. Vicious walked with no worries to the fuel chambers, the only door to get in, being on the outside. Gren and Orious straddled behind.
Back in the Transport, at the cockpuit, Deliran'e eyes widened from the radar screen. It showed them surrounded by Saturn forces. "SHIT!" Xyphenos had just came in when Deliran exclaimed this. Deliran clutched the PA system. "All men, ready for battle!" Once Xyphenos looked at radar screen, His eyes widened. Deliran continued to yell into the PA. "SURPRISE ATTACK! SURPRISE ATTACK!!"
Every able man started to suit up. outside, Vicious, Gren and Orious had no clue as to what was happening. Quite suddenly, the area in front of vicious exploded. "Get down!" He barked. Gren and Orious dropped to the ground. vicious switched on his heat sensors... at once he looked at his surroundings. "holy shit... Gren! Orious! turn on your heat sensors and take the safety on the guns off!" As soon as gren and Orious turned them on, horrified gasps filled the helmets. The clicking of the semi's were heard. Vicious looked around them. "shit, i don't know how we can get out of this one!
Gren looked behind him. around thrity suited soldiers seemed to coming theyr way. Gren knew one by his distinctive voice. "Are you alright" Gren smiled "Yeah Xyphenos. but i tell you, we should get the hell out of here." Xyphenos shook his head. "Even if we try, we can't. they depleted all of our fuel. The best thing to do is go back in the ship and wait for reinforcements, or fight them. Vicious, you ok?"
Suddenly, three soldiers behind Xyphenos dropped. Xyphenos Crouched down and started barking commands "Crap! open fire! now! now!" Around a dozen men started firing at the heat figures fifty meters away.
Vicious grabbed his machine gun and ran forward, to the saturn forces. Quite suddenly, a projectile zoomed by him. He dropped to the ground and heard the loud explosion that was behind him. "crap" he said to himself, "They have grenade launchers." Then he noticed a heat figure was slowly making his way to him. once he stood a foot away from vicious's unmoving body, His gun pointed at Vicious's head, Vicious's hand shot out and the gun he was grasping, had made it's mark on the figure's groin. the man fell to the ground, unable to make any noise. Vicious crawled right next to him and pointed his gun straight to the man's helmet visor. "Fool..."
Gren was unable to see what happened to Vicious. He had the upper body of a man on top of him. The soldiers legs were scattered ten feet away.. The explosion from the grenade killed five men, and left seven injured. The man on top of him was still alive, but was talking really fast. "god, why, whathaveieverdonetodeservethis?!?" he started breaking out into hysterical sobs. Gren, in shock pushed the torso off of him and crawled away into Orious, who stared at a body with it's left side gone.
Screams from the radios filled their helmets. Xyphenos, grabbed a man and was dragging him to the fuel chamber. his leg was missing and the sand that was stinging the stump didn't help. the other abled men grabbed the other injured and started dragging them to the Fuel chambers. Gren ran to the door and opened it. He held it open as the first man entered. Suddenly the man dropped to the floor, a gunshot echoing through out the chamber. Gren grabbed his Machine gun and started to go in. Xyphenos grabbed him. "no, we need something else. a machine gun can destroy the fuel cells..." he handed Gren a pistol. "make for a clean shot"
Gren entered the darken fuel chambers and turned on his night vision. one man was hiding behind a fuel cell and the other was in plain view. Gren shot the man right through his chest, hich somehow came as a signal for the other man to open fire. Gren dropped to his knee's and rolled to the side suddenly, the whole Transport shook. an explosion coming from the man's way blew him right to where gren was. Gren raised his gun and shot straight through the man's visor, stopping him in mid air. He then heard Xyphenos on the radio.
"Gren, get the hell out of there, they're launching an attack, we're sending out every soldier. we need you, now!" gren frisked the dead man for extra Mags and then went to the one clutching his chest. he grabbed the man's sig suer and headed out to the sandstorm.
Once he got out, his heat sensor was going beserk. all the men from inside were fighting, Explosions were coming from everywhere. right above him, an explosion dented the area. it's impact knocked gren to his knees. before he could get up, a stray bullet shot into his right shoulder. "ARG!" he crawled back into the fuel chamber and hid behind a fuel cell.
Xyphenos couldn't see a thing that was happening. three dead men had just plopped themselves on top of him. he saw gren come out for second and then retreat back inside, clutching his shoulder. Then, with all his might, he pushed the bodies off of him and ran towards the fuel chamber. he saw five men shivering, but uninjured. "what the hell are you doing?!? get out there!" the men hesitated and made their way out, all except for one. with a smug voice, Xyphenos heard from this man"who says you canorder me around" the man raised up his gun, before his eyes went wide. a bullet hole had found it's way into his chest. the man dropped to the ground, and gren stood behind him.
Xyphenos smiled and beckoned gren to follow him. "come on, i'll get you where not that many soldiers have been." with that, he kicked open a vent that was in the wall. from behind him, a familiar voice called out. "can i come also?" Vicious and Orious stood behind them, Orious sporting a large slash in his right arm, and Vicious with a peice of glass impaled to his right knee.
Xyphenos smiled and walked to vicious and crouched at his knee. He grabbed the glass and jerked it out quickly, so there was less pain. Vicious barely twitched.
Xyphenos beckoned them to follow him into the vent.
{ok, so that's my first chapter! so what did you think... not bad? real bad? this is pretty much my best work yet... kinda gruesome actually.... hmmm...}
Three months into the war
A Martian battle transport hovered above the sandy winds of titan. Three minutes ago, the pilots had had to turn off the radar system, in order to make sure they don't get destroyed during the oncoming sandstorm.
The pilot, Deliran, lowered the transport to the ground. "Ok everyone, we're going to feel a shaky jolt in just a second, please hold on." Three seconds passed before the half of the 200 soldiers in the back fell to their feet.
Gren picked himself up and looked around. Vicious was nowhere to be seen. He had met vicious in the first battle he ever fought. Now it looked like they were inseperable. Alot of men groaned as they picked themselves up. Gren spotted a calmed man sitting about ten feet away. he walked over and sat down next to him.
"So Vicious, you got a girl back home?" Vicious's eyes widened. Gren could barely spot the anger in his eyes.Vicious closed his eyes slowly.
"I HAD a girlfriend... but now she's dead to me. Just like him." Gren looked at his friend. A sense of pity was overtaking him. He couldn'y let Vicious see. he would only seeth in anger. sorry, i shouldn't have asked." Vicious smirked. "why not let natural curiosity take it's course? It could lead only to two roads. One is your prospeirity, and the other is death. Never be afriad to go down those roads, blindfolded..."
Gren tried to avoid looking at him. The light from outside darkened until it was pitchblack inside. The reserved lights went on and everyone was boringly trying to make conversation. The sandstrom was obviously large, considering that it had blackened the Titan sky.
Suddenly the transport lurched forward. Deliran checked the fuel count. It was suprisingly low, compared to what it was ten minutes ago. He called over to his copilot. " xyphenos, check the fuel camera." Xyphenos looked at him with confusion.
"It's complety dark out there! You won't see anything!" Deliran clenched his teeth. "Do as i say or else..." Xyphenos, with a mind of doubt, turned on the fuel camera. Two shadowy figure could be seen through the camera view. "Strange... did you call anyone out there?" Xyphenos had a look of curiousity on his face. Derilan flicked on the radar screen. It would be ten more minutes until he got a clear reading. "Xyphenos, send three men out there. let's see what's going on." Xyphenos hesitated and got up. "Ok, just don't fuck up the radar while im gone." His copilot went back to find three suitable men to go into the harsh sandstorm.
Gren watched as Xyphenos surveyed the men. Once he raised his arms up, everyone became silent. "I need three of you men to go outside. Two Recons, One Private. anyone up for it?" With the soldiers being cooped up in there, most had raised their hands. Vicious looked away, arms crossed. Gren looked outside. "You'd have to be insane to go out now."
Xyphenos thought of slimming down the possibilities. "also, if outside, and a rock cracks your helmet, so much sand will end up in your face that it will more or less suffocate you." A well portioned amount of hands shot down. Vicious chuckled. quite suddenly, he stood up. "I'll go... and he's coming with me." He grabbed Gren by the collar of his shirt.
Xyphenos smiled. "Ok then, that leaves one more person. howabout...." One man stood up, even though he acted couragous, he could barely stand without his knee's shaking...
"Eh... I - I'll go!" He smiled timidly. Xyphenos grinned. "Ok, then. you three, tell me your names... and your ranks..." He raised a clipboard to write down their names. Vicious came first. "Vicious. First Class Officer, Recon, Special Ops, sir." Xyphenos took a minute to write down some notes. then he walked to Gren. "and you are?" Gren stiffled a laugh when the timid man next to him blurted out. "UMM.. Orious, third class private, SIR!" Everyone in the area chuckled. Xyphenos shook his head and sighed. "I was talking to him..." He poked at Grens chest with a pen. Orious Laughed nervously.
"So sorry! Umm please continue!!" Xyphenos looked at Gren. "Name and rank soldier?" Gren straightened himself. "Grencia Mars Elijah Guo Eckener, First class Officer, Recon, Special Ops, sir." Xyphenos took a minute to write down some notes " He looked up. "don't you have a shorter name son?" Gren Chuckled. "yeah, Gren just works fine." Xyphenos turned around and walked away. After he was ten feet away from them, he called out. "Ok, follow me. time to suit up."
After three minutes, Vicious, Gren, And Orious stepped out to the darkened sandy world. All three of them were holding semi automatic military styled machine guns. Vicious walked with no worries to the fuel chambers, the only door to get in, being on the outside. Gren and Orious straddled behind.
Back in the Transport, at the cockpuit, Deliran'e eyes widened from the radar screen. It showed them surrounded by Saturn forces. "SHIT!" Xyphenos had just came in when Deliran exclaimed this. Deliran clutched the PA system. "All men, ready for battle!" Once Xyphenos looked at radar screen, His eyes widened. Deliran continued to yell into the PA. "SURPRISE ATTACK! SURPRISE ATTACK!!"
Every able man started to suit up. outside, Vicious, Gren and Orious had no clue as to what was happening. Quite suddenly, the area in front of vicious exploded. "Get down!" He barked. Gren and Orious dropped to the ground. vicious switched on his heat sensors... at once he looked at his surroundings. "holy shit... Gren! Orious! turn on your heat sensors and take the safety on the guns off!" As soon as gren and Orious turned them on, horrified gasps filled the helmets. The clicking of the semi's were heard. Vicious looked around them. "shit, i don't know how we can get out of this one!
Gren looked behind him. around thrity suited soldiers seemed to coming theyr way. Gren knew one by his distinctive voice. "Are you alright" Gren smiled "Yeah Xyphenos. but i tell you, we should get the hell out of here." Xyphenos shook his head. "Even if we try, we can't. they depleted all of our fuel. The best thing to do is go back in the ship and wait for reinforcements, or fight them. Vicious, you ok?"
Suddenly, three soldiers behind Xyphenos dropped. Xyphenos Crouched down and started barking commands "Crap! open fire! now! now!" Around a dozen men started firing at the heat figures fifty meters away.
Vicious grabbed his machine gun and ran forward, to the saturn forces. Quite suddenly, a projectile zoomed by him. He dropped to the ground and heard the loud explosion that was behind him. "crap" he said to himself, "They have grenade launchers." Then he noticed a heat figure was slowly making his way to him. once he stood a foot away from vicious's unmoving body, His gun pointed at Vicious's head, Vicious's hand shot out and the gun he was grasping, had made it's mark on the figure's groin. the man fell to the ground, unable to make any noise. Vicious crawled right next to him and pointed his gun straight to the man's helmet visor. "Fool..."
Gren was unable to see what happened to Vicious. He had the upper body of a man on top of him. The soldiers legs were scattered ten feet away.. The explosion from the grenade killed five men, and left seven injured. The man on top of him was still alive, but was talking really fast. "god, why, whathaveieverdonetodeservethis?!?" he started breaking out into hysterical sobs. Gren, in shock pushed the torso off of him and crawled away into Orious, who stared at a body with it's left side gone.
Screams from the radios filled their helmets. Xyphenos, grabbed a man and was dragging him to the fuel chamber. his leg was missing and the sand that was stinging the stump didn't help. the other abled men grabbed the other injured and started dragging them to the Fuel chambers. Gren ran to the door and opened it. He held it open as the first man entered. Suddenly the man dropped to the floor, a gunshot echoing through out the chamber. Gren grabbed his Machine gun and started to go in. Xyphenos grabbed him. "no, we need something else. a machine gun can destroy the fuel cells..." he handed Gren a pistol. "make for a clean shot"
Gren entered the darken fuel chambers and turned on his night vision. one man was hiding behind a fuel cell and the other was in plain view. Gren shot the man right through his chest, hich somehow came as a signal for the other man to open fire. Gren dropped to his knee's and rolled to the side suddenly, the whole Transport shook. an explosion coming from the man's way blew him right to where gren was. Gren raised his gun and shot straight through the man's visor, stopping him in mid air. He then heard Xyphenos on the radio.
"Gren, get the hell out of there, they're launching an attack, we're sending out every soldier. we need you, now!" gren frisked the dead man for extra Mags and then went to the one clutching his chest. he grabbed the man's sig suer and headed out to the sandstorm.
Once he got out, his heat sensor was going beserk. all the men from inside were fighting, Explosions were coming from everywhere. right above him, an explosion dented the area. it's impact knocked gren to his knees. before he could get up, a stray bullet shot into his right shoulder. "ARG!" he crawled back into the fuel chamber and hid behind a fuel cell.
Xyphenos couldn't see a thing that was happening. three dead men had just plopped themselves on top of him. he saw gren come out for second and then retreat back inside, clutching his shoulder. Then, with all his might, he pushed the bodies off of him and ran towards the fuel chamber. he saw five men shivering, but uninjured. "what the hell are you doing?!? get out there!" the men hesitated and made their way out, all except for one. with a smug voice, Xyphenos heard from this man"who says you canorder me around" the man raised up his gun, before his eyes went wide. a bullet hole had found it's way into his chest. the man dropped to the ground, and gren stood behind him.
Xyphenos smiled and beckoned gren to follow him. "come on, i'll get you where not that many soldiers have been." with that, he kicked open a vent that was in the wall. from behind him, a familiar voice called out. "can i come also?" Vicious and Orious stood behind them, Orious sporting a large slash in his right arm, and Vicious with a peice of glass impaled to his right knee.
Xyphenos smiled and walked to vicious and crouched at his knee. He grabbed the glass and jerked it out quickly, so there was less pain. Vicious barely twitched.
Xyphenos beckoned them to follow him into the vent.
{ok, so that's my first chapter! so what did you think... not bad? real bad? this is pretty much my best work yet... kinda gruesome actually.... hmmm...}