Chapter 4

The Rrajager Mines

Aarin continued his way through the hanger bay after fighting a couple of Nali water induced Skaarj minutes ago. The pain in his chest continued to batter him after that hard tackle from the Skaarj. He ignored the pain, thinking that he didn't get tackled. As he found the entrance to the hanger bay, he stopped and placed his side of his head to hear if any Skaarj. He heard nothing but then he heard foot steps. The Skaarj were in place, ready to shoot the intruder. But Aarin seen this thousands of time during his past missions, his soldiers would opened the door and next thing you know, blood begins to splatter on the wall and the marines would fall to the ground, dead. Aarin opened the door and quickly

ran to the side of the door. Nothing. He threw the useless stungun in front of the door and...nothing. Aarin walked in front of the door and saw Ben. Ben's armor had scratches everywhere. His face was covered of dried blood stains, his skin was pale, his arm had three large cuts and his eyes were bloodshot. "Ben, what the hell happened to you?"asked Aarin. But Ben didn't response to what he said. "Ben, what happened to you." asked Aarin again. But Ben was just standing there, but then something caught Aarin's eyes, three of Ben's cuts began to heal. Ben grabbed his gun from the holster and pointed the gun at Aarin. "Ben, put the gun down!" said Aarin. Then Aarin say a red aura floating behind Ben. Aarin grabbed his rifle. As Ben pulled the trigger, Aarin dashed to his left and pulled the trigger, shooting Ben in the chest, but he was still standing. Ben kept firing the gun at Aarin. One of them hit Aarin's leg, the one that was broken. Pain erupted from his leg. Aarin fired the rifle again at Ben. It him in the chest but where his heart was. Ben fell to the floor. Aarin checked the body. A small device on Ben's neck was causing him to act like that.

Now he felt twice the pain now, one in his chest and one in his leg. He look all over the hangar bay, looking for something to get to the base. Then he found a Skaarj ship. Aarin jumped in and quickly turned on the ship. The ship came to life as the engine was running. Aarin grabbed the handle and punch in the coordinates. Then he heard a loud explosion and looked back. He saw six Skaarj holding Redeemers, ready to blast him in to oblivion. Aarin punched the button and the ship launched off.

The Skaarj council walked inside the King's room, "What now? This better be good." said the Skaarj King. The Skaarj council began to hesitate, "T-the prisoner, the one called Aarin, escaped and is headed now to this location." "What!I want him dead! I want the Skaarj to kill that human fool!"

Two hours later, "Jeez, does it take long for this damn ship to locate an alien base?" said Aarin. The small monitor began to make a beeping sound, saying that he arrived to the location. The ship landed and he got off the ship. He saw a few large metal boxes that were being loaded inside the base. He quickly got in one of the boxes without letting anyone see him and closed it. As he turned around he a two small bright blue lights floating in front of him. He stuck his hand out in front of him and something like leather skin. He grabbed his torch from his pack, lit it and found that a blue mercenary was right in front him "Holy cra-" Aarin was interrupted by the mercenary. It seemed to be telling him to be quiet so they can get inside the base quietly. As the box landed on something hard, Aarin and the mercenary opened the box and got out quietly. Then the boxes were opened and more mercenarys were coming out. The blue mercenary seemed to be the leader. "#&$" said the Elite mercenary. "What?" asked Aarin. The Elite mercenary understood what he meant. He reached in to his pack and grabbed a universal translator out. He handed it to Aarin and he turned on the switch. The mercenary began talking. Then the mercenary's language appeared on to the screen and was then translated "If you wish to join us to destroy the Skaarj base and lead to victory, then you must follow us. My name is Elite 108" "Alright, I'll join you guys. I was also here to destroy the base." The Elite Mercenary nodded and began walking towards his troops, telling them the plan. The Mercenary turned around and walked towards him. It reached in to it's pack and grabbed a weapon. " What the hell is this?" asked Aarin "It's a weapon constructed from pieces of a broken Enhanced Shock Rifle and a Regular Shock Rifle. It can penetrate through most armor." "Thanks" said Aarin, grabbing the weapon. As the Elite Mercenary was done talking about the plan, the Mercenarys ran off in different location of the facility. Then he turned to Aarin "You, human,come with me. We're going to pay a little a visit with the Skaarj leader." "Where they going?" asked Aarin "There going to plant bombs in the weak points of the facility, when this place blows, the Skaarj won't have much supplies to get." replied the Mercenary. They opened the door and began with their mission.

"So why are you here to destroy the Skaarj so badly?" asked Aarin. "One of our scouts

gave us information that the Skaarj had a plan to make their troops a lot stronger and use the tarydium crystal to power their weapons like that rifle you have." Aarin grabbed his rifle out and took a bullet out of the clip. The bright blue crystal shined as Aarin was observing it. "So thats why it went through the Skaarj armor earlier." "Correct." "So, how are we gonna find the Skaarj leader?" asked Aarin "I found this map before we met. The leader's room is not far away." replied the Elite Mercenary.

They made through the corridor. The place was like a factory, loading and unloading large tarydium crystals. The place also had boxes loaded with Nali water and Skaarj rifles. Two large Kralls were holding the rifles. "First time I ever seen Krall use a gun before," said Aarin "Probably suck with a gun." Aarin dashed behind two large crates. But then the Kralls knew someone was behind the crates and pointed their guns at the two large crates. Aarin heard two weapons charged with powerful energy . He jumped away from the crates and saw two large energy beams slicing threw the air towards the crates, causing a large explosion from behind him. "I don't think they suck with a gun." said Aarin. The two Kralls pointed the guns at Aarin "Crap!". He thought he be blown away but then Elite-108 tackled one of the Kralls down and placing his gun attached to his arm to the Kralls face. Boom,Boom! Green blood splattered on to the ground. Aarin grabbed the Krall's head and snapped it. "Phew...those bastards were tough." said Aarin, wiping off some sweat on his face. " I must warn you," said Elite-108 "Not only the Skaarj are using these water but the Kralls are using it too." " Now you tell me." said Aarin.

As they made there way through the leader's location, it seemed like the facility inside was growing larger and larger. Elite-108 grabbed his communicator and called his troops, seeing if they were successful, placing the bombs in the weak points of the base. As the Elite was making sure on his troops, Aarin decided to scout ahead, just to make sure if any more Skaarj were coming. He saw large machines digging in the dirt and inside, tarydium. Aarin continued scouting ahead until through the large window he found 50 Nalis working in the mines, digging for Tarydium crystals. He look around and found a rusted pipe. He grabbed it and began hitting the window. The nalis heard the loud bang and all turn around. All look at each other, grabbed their shovels and started hitting the window on the other side. The glass began cracking until it shattered. All the nali ran out. One of them approached, bowing to Aarin and said "My people thank you for our freedom, human." "Thanks. Make sure your people grab some weapons if they don't want to get killed unarmed." The nali nodded. He ran to the crowd and said to them in their language. Then they all ran to the crates and began grabbing all the rifle they can grab. Aarin felt a hand touch his shoulder. He turned around to see Elite-108 "C'mon. We're almost there." Aarin nodded.

"Sir, the intruders have killed two of the Krall guards, freed the nali slaves and there heading here." said the Skaarj council. "I had enough of those intruders Load the-" The door bursted opened as pieces of metal flew everywhere. Elite-108 and Aarin walked in. They both saw the Skaarj King standing in front of them. "So you are the intruders who keep disrupting my plans." said The Skaarj King, with a loud booming voice. Aarin raised his gun the mercenary gave him earlier. As he pulled the trigger, a purple beam shot out with incredible force. The beam hit the Skaarj King in the chest. "You think that weapon can do such damage? I'll show YOU power!" The Skaarj King reached behind his back and pulled out a large cannon-like rocket launcher. "Aww shit." said Aarin as he saw the large weapon. Elite-108 grabbed Aarin and threw him aside as the Skaarj King pulled the trigger. The large rocket flew towards the Elite as he leaped away from the explosion. He raised his weapon and fired. The weapon only did little damaged. Aarin and fired again at the Skaarj King. The purple beam hit the chest again which only made the Skaarj even more mad. He pointed the cannon at Aarin and fired. Aarin jumped away from the explosion and fired again but this time in the leg. The Skaarj King kept firing at Aarin and Elite-108. "Shit! We can't make any damage to this guy." said Aarin, firing the Shock Rifle V.2 (or SR V.2) The ceiling began to move as dust came down to the floor. The ceiling exploded with pieces of cement and metal flying down to the ground. Two marines slid down on a rope and landed on the floor. "Holy shit, it's Aarin," said the marine "HQ thought you and your squad got killed." "No wonder it took so long for them-" Aarin was disrupted by a loud explosion from somewhere inside the facility. "What the hell happened?" yelled out the marine. "We have to get out! The place is gonna blow!" said Aarin. He turned to see what happened to Elite-108. He wasn't in the room, including the Skaarj King. The marines grabbed the ropes and was then pulled out of the facility.

Somewhere...

whirrr A transporter whirred to life as the Skaarj King walked out of it. A Skaarj Scout walked to him "Sir, we have loaded all the tarydium and nali water in the cargo hold. What are your orders?"

"I want all Skaarj troops ready. We're going to attack and conquer planet..."

End of Chapter 4