Unreal: What did I do to Deserve This?

Authors note: Thanks for the review, I was waiting for feedback as to whether to continue or not, if I continue to get feedback I'll write moor.

…And yes this is blackmail.

Four: The Mines

I approached the Mines cautiously. Afraid of what had don that to over 15 armed men. A giant troll like creature came out it had rocket launchers grafted onto its forearms, and its head barely came above its shoulders because of its hunched appearance.

"Haw the hell do I take something like that down with just small arms?" I asked myself.

"There is a weak point. If you can hit the arm just above the metal, about there." He indicated around the quadriceps. "It will rupture the expulsive chamber and the resulting explosion will kill the creature." Quetal said.

"What the hell are you doing here?" I asked.

"I must atone for my cowardice. I will accompany you to the city temple."

"Thank you." I said, and for the first time in far too long I believed him.

I aimed at the upper arm and fired, the creature started to turn.

"It didn't work!" I said diving behind the rock.

"Wait!" Quetal ordered. And I watched as some clear fluid leaked out and upon contact with the air exploded. "See." Quetal said rather condescendingly. "It worked you are too impatient."

We proceeded to enter the mines, as we moved gradually deeper into the mines we encountered moor of the trolls but nothing worse. If this was all they encountered then haw did they all die, what had killed them all? I turned to ask Quetal but decided that it was probably best not to know; ignorance is bliss and all that.

The passageway we had been following opened out into a large room with what looked like storage equipment. I bent over the body of a young man, and searched him for ammo, but found a book, a journal to be exact.

I flicked it open and started to scan the pages, it read.

"It has been two days since we crashed on this strange world, last night they came, strange creatures came in the night, huge troll like beings with rocket launchers, and smaller creatures about human size with giant claws, it was horrible, but the didn't kill them all they took some alive!

I hid in the ship, they didn't bother to check it out, I'm going to head for the mines and see if I can't catch up with the others."

"Duck!" Quetal yelled, I dropped the book and rolled out the way of the rocket blast, I was glad for the armour to protect me as rock rained down on me. I turned to shoot the troll, but realised too late that I had dropped my gun. The creature levelled its weapon on me. Quetal pulled the trigger on the laser I had given him. He wasn't a bad shot, he had got the creature in its weak spot and it exploded. I went a grabbed my gun.

"The way forward is behind that force field." Quetal stated.

"Oh, and how pray do we bring it down?"

"Pray, praying will not help us here, we need to turn off their generators."

"Quetal, it's just a phrase, it doesn't meant I think praying will help us."

"You are strange in your ways, why can you not just say what you mean?"

"Don't worry, now let's find those generators."

We walked off down the adjoining corridor and in no time we were to the reactors. I wasn't expecting it to be this easy I thought as I hit the switch that disabled the reactor.

"We must go now, quickly." Quetal said pulling me toward the door.

We were ok until we were half way down this long section of corridor when the lights started to go out.

"We must hurry!" Quetal sounded really nervous. On his advice we started running for the end of the corridor, but giant bars slammed out barring our way. This was not good. I started to run back on the chance the other bars hadn't blocked that way, but Quetal stopped me. Then I saw movement in the dark.