The explosion was huge. Hawk and Eagle placed a dead hit in the centre of the alien crowd. It detonated on impact and sent alien corpses flying in all directions. Cheetah dived through the air and landed next to Ryan, he grabbed Ryan as he landed and flung him to the ground. The flames engulfed the aliens within the impact zone and obliterated them into nothing. The rest were hit by the blast radius and flew through the air, the pressure crushing their bodies.
The aliens on the outer edges of the crowd flew away intact but the force of the explosion killed them. Their bodies hit the ground and slid for a few metres.
Ryan looked up; he could feel the heat from the blast on his face. All he saw were alien bodies lying everywhere. Some were burned to a crisp, some were crushed piles of skin and others were lying intact around the street.
Cheetah put a finger to his ear piece.
"This is Cheetah, everyone ok?"
"Yeah Cheetah we're good." Snake replied.
"Good plan." HQ told him.
"Thanks. Well everyone inside for a rest. Except for you Ryan, I need you for something."
"Rodger that Cheetah." Fox replied.
"Let's go." Eagle said.
The pack left the street and returned to the base, leaving Cheetah and Ryan in the street. Cheetah gave him a hand up and supported him over his shoulder.
"That was some good shooting Ryan, good job."
Ryan winced from the pain in his leg.
"Thanks…" he said.
"Now how many of them do you think you killed?"
Ryan thought for a moment.
"About six or seven. Why?"
"Well now that is how many alien corpses you may use to make your weaponry for future battles. So we need to get six corpses and you can make your weapons and armour." Cheetah said.
"…ok." Ryan responded.
They each grabbed a body and dragged them back into the base and went back for a second trip.
Ryan sat inside a Weyland-Yutani enclosure with six alien corpses in front of him. Cheetah stood with Fox, Snake and Hawk; they all held their weapons.
"Now Ryan," Cheetah said "You have to choose what kind of weaponry you wish to use. I have the others here to show you some options, we have Snake here who has a sword made from the tail claw, it's powerful and if used fast enough is a brilliant defence; now Fox has used two alien fingers as knives, they may not be powerful but if combined with martial arts then they make for a good way to finish an enemy off; then there is Hawk here who has used an alien head to encase a gun, so if you wish to stay with shooting then that's the way to go only then you need to find a pulse rifle; and then there's me, I used two alien tail claws to make a good staff which is good for close combat as both end's are deadly, and I also made a one ended one for throwing and if I need a third weapon, that combined with speed and constant vigilance is a good fighting weapon.
"So what's it gonna be?"
Ryan looked at the aliens that lay before him and then at the weapons his team mates. He smiled as he made his decision and set to work.
HQ walked into the enclosure to where Ryan was working. Ryan looked up as he approached.
"Hey," HQ said "How's it coming?"
"Great." Ryan said.
"What weapons have you decided on?"
Ryan picked up his weapons to show to HQ.
"Well I have combined all the fighting styles of the others. I have a double bladed staff like Cheetah's for main combat, I agreed with him on it's technique and I've seen him use it and it can be unstoppable if used correctly. I also have a sword for secondary combat and stealth. Also on the note of stealth I have taken the fingers off all the alien bodies I have here to use as throwing knives, I thought Fox's use of the fingers was ingenious."
"Wow, that's a good mix." HQ said nodding. "It will take a while to master all that."
"Yeah I know but in this fortress I won't have much else to do but fight, will I? I think I can do it." Ryan said.