Chapter 14. Line of Fire
Nain-de peeked at the burners the ooman had put in front of the hole from behind a corner. The ooman had left seven of them there several minutes ago, and hadn't seen any of them. Yet some how, it seemed like the large objects were still a threat! The other three were also pondering this when Nain-de did something incredibly foolish! He came out from the corner and tried to throw his shuriken right at one of them, but the burner shot him in the wrist the moment he moved!
He still managed to weakly toss the blade-covered disc at the infernal machines, but they shot it right out of the sky! He collapsed to the floor in agony, but this only gave away his position to the devices! They fired at him again just as he rolled out of the way! When he stopped rolling, he stood perfectly still. The burners froze too! He slowly spoke into his bio helmet's radio.
"Hiju paya, I want you to throw your smart disk at the burners in five seconds. Five. Four. Three. Two. Throw it!"
As the disk flew, all seven burners shot at it! As they did so, Nain-de dove back to the hiding place behind the corner! He made it, but he landed on his wrist! He screeched as loud as he could as Cetanu ran to him!
"What the c'jit did you think you were doing!?!" Hiju paya asked.
"One of us had to check to see if it was safe!" Nain-de responded as Cetanu pulled the medkit out.
"For all we know, you could have given our location away to the oomans! And I lost a weapon saving your pathetic young blood ass!" Hiju paya shouted.
"I'm no young blood you pauk-de! You're the bad blood!" Nain-de shouted back.
"We're all bad blood! All because of that damned Da'guande and his little pet Steg'-in!" Hiju paya told him, infuriated!
"You take that back you s'yuit-de!" Nain-de roared as Cetanu Pulled a tiny metal object out of his wrist.
"You dare call me a coward out of defense of your so called hero!?!" Hiju paya looked ready to kill Nain-de, who unfortunately didn't seem to notice!
"Why not!?! You use only long distance weapons, like some lou-dte-kalei afraid of fighting jehdin-jehdin!" something Nain-de never should have said out loud!
The moment it came out, Hiju paya tore his plasma caster off his shoulder and jumped to tackle Nain-de! The slightly younger hunter jumped out of the way, but his enraged clansman grabbed him around the neck! Hiju paya throttled Nain-de on the cold hard ground, who spat in his eye!
Hiju paya loosened his grip for a brief moment, but Nain-de jumped out of his hands as soon as he did, and kicked Hiju paya in the face! He punched Nain-de in the stomach, but instead of doubling over, he punched Hiju paya back! He had forgotten that the burners had damaged his right wrist though, and his fist bent behind his arm the moment it hit Hiju paya's lower mandibles!
Hiju paya got ready to rip off his former ally's head, when three red dots appeared on his face! He was furious that Nain-de would use his plasma caster, but the dots appeared on his opponents head too! They turned to see H'sai-de glaring at them!
"If either of you so much as breathe, you both die." He said in a calm voice.
"Now, our bio helmets can store about three hours of oxygen in space. This means that if we find another exit, we can still make our way to Nan-de-than-gaun and the ship. If you two want to kill each other, wait here. If you want to live, shut up and follow us!" H'sai-de turned off his plasma caster and walked away with Cetanu.
Nain-de looked at his wrist, and almost threw up! His hand was only hanging on by a few veins and thin flap of skin, and blood was everywhere! He held it as still he could, as he ran past Hiju paya to Cetanu's side.
"Looks like Da'guande has two pets." Hiju paya mumbled, knowing Nain-de could here him.
They walked back the way that they came, until they came to an ooman! The four of them activated their cloaking devices, although Nain-de had to hide behind a large container anyway, as his glowing green blood was very easy to spot. The ooman was far too anxious to notice them though. It ran ahead of them stuttering the same phrase over and over again.
"Oh God, I'm gonna die, I'm stuck here!"
It ran up to a large metal door, similar to the one that led to the big room with the vehicles, and began to pound on it as hard as he could!
"Please, for the love a God, open the door! Just for a few seconds! Please!" it trembled as it screamed.
"Sorry man, you know these doors have auto locks! There's no way in!" Said a voice from behind the door.
The ooman outside the door ran off down the hall! There was an odd transparent liquid dripping from its eyes.
It was only gone for a few seconds though, before coming back with a very large burner resting on its shoulder!
"Get away from the door!" It shouted
"What are you going to do!?!"
"Three! Two! One!" On the last word, the ooman fired the burner!
A projectile the size of Nain-de's flew out of the burner and exploded on the door! The blast only seemed to bounce of the door, but it annihilated the ooman! It also burnt Hiju paya, Cetanu, and H'sai-de to a crisp! The container shielded Nain-de from most of the blast, but the sheer force of the explosion sent his smashed arm flying down the hall!
As he gasped in pain, he realized that he was sliding across the floor! He looked at where the explosion had been, but all he saw was a giant hole leading to space! He tried to grab on to something, but he just slid out!
"Pauk."
He held his breath for a few seconds, but soon realized his bio helmet was giving him plenty of oxygen. He switched his vision type to electro-scan, and spotted the ship instantly! It was less than two-dozen noks away! He set his radio to the ships frequency.
"Nan-de-than-gaun! Do you have my position?"
"I'll be there in a moment." He responded. Shortly after, the ship moved toward him.
Nain-de was wondering how much power the ship was using, since it was getting fuzzier and fuzzier. He soon realized it wasn't the ship. He was losing his vision! He remembered his arm, and all of that blood he had lost!
The ship slowed to a stop next to him, and opened the hatch. He reached for it, but then felt very tired, so he closed his eyes. He floated away from the ship, completely limp.