Sorry for the delay, social issues… But it is finally here, THE THIRD CHAPTER! Hope You like it, if you don't tell me how to improve it next time. Here we go…

Parker trudged across the thick, red dirt that surrounded him and the survivors of the attack on the APC. He gripped his Precision Rifle tightly in his right hand, tense and nervous of another attack. They trudged for about twenty minutes before they spotted a glint in the horizon. It was the EDF's HQ, Echo Base. Parker turned back to the others to tell them the good news.

"We made it, we're home free," Parker hollered back to the rest of the squad.

Cheers erupted over the mike, but they were soon silenced by a blood-curdling scream, and the sound of brains and blood gushing out of a head. Parker whirled around to see a small, spider-like creature slashing through a commando's helmet and into his skull. Knowing that the commando was done for he raised his weapon and fired a quick burst at it. The creature witch Parker knew as a reaper exploded in a burst of blood and organs. He turned to see hundreds more of the reapers flowing out of an abandoned mine shaft about one hundred feet away.

"Shit! Everyone, open fire!" screamed the squad leader.

The squad had seen what had happened to their comrade and not wanting to suffer the same fate, let hell rain down upon the reapers in the form of bullets. The solder with a fusion rocket launcher fumbled to load it in time and was shredded under the claws of three reapers. Parker emptied the last ten rounds in his magazine wasting the reapers. He hefted the Fusion Rocket Launcher and fired off a round at the mine shaft. A huge ball of fire and shrapnel engulfed the shaft and it collapsed on itself, crushing the reapers and preventing more from coming out. Parker picked up his Precision Rifle and slapped in a new magazine. He blew away a few reapers trying to flank his squad. As suddenly as they had come, the reapers were gone. Parker and the others soon walked through the gates of Echo base into safety.

Yes, very short, I know so you don't need to tell me. I can only go on the computer for half a hour a day and I have had a lot of homework.