Garrett stepped up to the door, which slid open to reveal a short corridor. This was plain and empty, with rough rock walls and a metal floor. There was another unlocked door at the other end of this passage. As Garrett was walking toward this door he took out his photon rifle, and instructed Jackie to do the same thing. He hoped they wouldn't have to be there for long, but he wanted to wait and see if there were strong things that he would have to save the ammunition of the stronger weapons for.
The door at the other end of the passage slid open and they stepped in. This room was large and roughly square. The ground was rock, and small cracks showed the volcanic nature of it. There were a couple rocks in the room and a few boxes in one corner. However, there was also a strange noise as a few beasts teleported into scattered positions in the room. These shrieked and began walking straight towards Garrett and Jackie.
"How did they do that?!"
"I don't know, but I guess these things will be harder to beat if they can do that!"
"Oh well, open fire!"
Garrett leveled his rifle at one of the nearby enemies. Their heads looked like those of sharks, but their bodies were like those of the boomas. They were covered with green scales except for their claws, of which there was one long one on the end of each arm. These claws appeared to have some sort of photon in them since they glowed green. Garrett fired several rounds into this one, followed shortly after by a few rounds from Jackie's rifle. When the beast fell over after taking about ten rifle shots, it fell down and just like the other enemies from the forest it quickly melted into the ground. Garrett turned and could see that there were four others closing on them. They weren't closing very fast, but Garrett still didn't want to wait for his rifle to cool down. He quickly switched to his MG34.
"Jackie, get over here!"
To stabilize the powerful machine gun with nothing else to prop it on, Garrett put it over Jackie's shoulder and told her to hold onto the bipod. She put her rifle away and did so. Garrett set another one of the beasts in his sights and pulled down the trigger. He let a short burst fly out and straight into its head. The greater firepower ripped its head open and knocked it down. Garrett turned again and fired at and quickly downed another of the shark-like enemies. There were only two left, and they also fell quickly to the machine gun. After those ware quickly melting into the ground with their brethren, Garrett put away the machine gun and picked up his rifle.
"Damn, that was harder. At least for the photon rifle."
"Yeah, but it was still easy with that machine gun it seemed."
"True. However I don't have infinite ammunition with that, only a few hundred rounds. If I could get back to get more we would be safe, but I can't do that."
Garrett cut himself off when he saw something else appearing. This time though, it was just a harmless looking flower.
"Well now…"
Garrett stepped closer to the flower and tapped it with the barrel of his rifle. To his surprise it turned its head down to expose a beak and it tried to bite him. Garrett stepped back and fired several rounds into the flower with his rifle. To his surprise, it flinched and then shot a ball of green goo at him. He easily sidestepped this and fired a few more rounds. The flower slumped over and began decaying like all the animals had.
"Okay. That was strange."
There was a deep clanking noise and the red light on the far door changed to green. Garrett walked over to that, but then remembered the boxes to one side and walked over to them. One of the boxes was empty, but there was a saber in another one and a barrier in a third one. Since Jackie only had one barrier, Garrett gave that second one to her and took the saber for himself. He stepped up to the open door with the rifle in hand, but the next room was a small one with no other entrances or exits. Instead, there were several boxes in the middle of it. These yielded a few more healing items. There was a switch behind these boxes too, which Garrett hit to see what would happen. He didn't hear anything and him and Jackie left the room.
Back in the main room there were a couple more of the sharks which had somehow gotten in. Garrett was able to gun down one of them and when his rifle started overheating he switched for his new saber, which he hacked into the second shark with. Jackie also switched to her own saber and helped make quick work of the shark. The other door that had been previously locked was now showing that it was unlocked. Garrett checked this door once again for any traps but found none. The door slid open to reveal another hallway. This one had a tee intersection in it, so Garrett edged up to that and checked down the side passage. That one was also clear.
Garrett chose to head to the left. This opened into another room that must have been large. However, this room was dark, with the only light coming from a few cracks in the ground that exposed a bit of lava below, and from the red light in the opposite door. He decided to go check the other door and that opened up into a round and fortunately light filled room. He and Jackie walked in, this time Garrett with his saber and Jackie with her rifle, and they made quick work of a few sharks, and by swapping their weapons they prevented them from overheating. One of the doors remained locked here, but a second door became unlocked.
Garrett walked up to this door but upon reaching it he heard several beasts teleport down behind him. He turned around and sliced his saber through several of them and saw Jackie behind them shooting into their backs. He backed toward the door, unleashing a second slice as he did, and upon turning around he saw that there was a large room on the other side of the door, in which several more enemies waited. He sliced a third time, and one of the enemies fell. Garrett then quickly made a stab and slice into another one and it fell. The third one fell from Jackie's shots. As they disappeared, one of them left behind a handgun. Garrett took this, holding that in his left hand and the saber in his right.
The third door in this room, that had been locked, was now unlocked. Garrett stepped through as Jackie stood in the doorway, and was in another but shorter hallway. He stepped through the door at the opposite end and into another small dead end room. There were more boxes here, and upon opening one of them Garrett found a telepipe.
"Hey, we can get back with this!"
Garrett quickly set up the telepipe and he and Jackie stepped into it. He selected for it to send them to Pioneer Two.