Abe yelped as the monster's arm met with his chest, Sunny's shield drones working double time to protect everyone from further harm. Abe wheezed as he yelled out across the dome.
"This isn't workin'!"
Torvald snarled, blasting his fully automatic shotgun in the monster's exposed back, the monster wailing in agony.
"Keep this arena up! It has nothing much more to give!" Torvald yelled back. Abe was winded from the hit, despite the shield drone soaking most of the attack. Bucket activated his cloaking device, sneaking in to help Abe up, cloaking the two in the process. Torvald caught a glimpse of the two going into hiding, continuing to snarl as he and the monster went toe to toe.
"Cowards! It is no wonder you gained casualties, you abandon your team mates!" Torvald yelled, following shortly was a roar from himself and the monster- it had met it's match, Torvald had the upper hand, and the monster's time had come. It's rocky frame shattered, collapsed, it was no surprise this monster was different- it's skin didn't bubble like the others, it was solid.
The arena ran out shortly afterwards the blue shield fizzling into nothing, the deployment tool falling to the ground. Abe brushed himself off, grabbing his custom shotgun- only to be pounced down by vicious wildlife- it came from out of nowhere, clawing at his face, Abe stuck the end of the barrel at its stomach, firing twice. The creature landed with a thud. Abe groaned, sitting up.
"Fuck, guts and blood all over my jacket, man." He looked up at Bucket, who stood motionless, there was no way to tell what was on his mind. Hyde and Caira had charged in, before coming to a grinding halt. Caira climbed down from Hyde's shoulders, landing on her feet on the ground with a thud.
She stared at Abe, who was covered in the guts of an animal, her eyes trailed to the corpse beside him, her face pale, eyes filled with fear. An arm raised shakily, pointing at the corpse, the other hand covered her mouth. Abe's head turned slowly to the corpse's location.
"...Shit..."
He'd shot the blitzer cub.
Hyde stared lifelessly between the cub and Abe. His fist clenched to the point that it trembled, his leather glove creaking in doing so. The air filled with doubt, upset, anger, Abe stood terrified on the spot as Hyde approached the two, slowly. Caira looked back at Bucket, miming the words "Get the ship."- Bucket raised an arm in agreement, body going idle as he brought the ship over.
Hyde's knees buckled, he dropped to the floor holding the lifeless body of the blitzer, his eye glazed. His head turned over his shoulder to face Caira.
"Fix it." He muttered.
"Hyde, it's dead..." She said, a sorrowful tone stuck in her throat. Hyde's head swung back in Abe's direction, snarling, he dropped the corpse, standing up, towering over Abe.
"H-hey man it.. It was an accident! It attacked me!" He said shakily, pointing to the claw marks on his face.
"I could fucking kill you, you bastard."
Hyde turned away, using all his might just not to beat Abe senseless. He stood still again, distress in his eye, he did his best not to look like a big softy.
"Bucket, where's the fucking ship?" Hyde groaned, his voice cracking at the end of his sentence.
"ETA Five minutes, Mr. Hyde. Make your way to a landing point." Bucket's chassis echoed.
The three hunters stared at the other two.
"Caaaaan we come with you? I'm starved! Don'know about Torvald, he's like, a metal man." Sunny asked in a begging manner.
Abe's eyes squinted at the sound of her gravely high-pitched voice. He nodded. Sunny cheered quietly. Torvald grabbed Bucket's idle chassis, and the six headed for the landing zone, ready to get off the planet for another day.