Mac didn't know what her problem was, he just assumed that it was because of Goat dying. As they met the other two, they ran to the dig.

Back in the infirmary Sam was dissecting the creature they had killed in the sewer. She had sent Duke off to get a power bone saw down the hall, but she was starting to regret that. The lights flickered as if they were going to go off. She looked around. She was frightened. She was trying to remain brave, but after watching Goat die she was no longer convinced things were going to be ok. The lights flickered again. Now she was scared. Something was happening and she no longer felt safe.

She walked over to the nanowall and opened it up. She called out for Duke but there was no reply. She stepped out into the hall, closing the door behind her. She began walking quickly down the hall calling out for Duke. Still no reply.

The lights flickered again and she broke into a run, calling out for Duke. Suddenly a figure appeared in front of her. She cried out, but it was only Duke.

"Hey, hey, hey," He responded to her scream. "Relax, it's just a power surge."

She looked at him, clearly not reassured.

He smiled at her, trying to calm her and distract her. He held out an object, "You ok? Here's your bone saw."

She tried to relax, focusing on the saw. She took it from Duke and started back towards the infirmary.

Duke could see she was still frightened. So he tried again to distract her. "So which of you is the oldest?"

Sam was startled by the question, "Oh, me, by two minutes."

"Twins? Shit," Duke chuckled, "Identical right?"

Just at that moment the lights flickered again and there came a noise from a side hallway. It was a dog. And he was snarling at Sam.

"Get back in the lab," Duke ordered Sam as he raised his weapon.

Sam backed up slowly, finally getting to the key pad. She opened the nanowall again and re-entered the infirmary.

Just as she did so the dog suddenly began to whine and whimper. Duke barely had time to register the change.

Sam screamed as something reached out of the darkness to grab Duke. It's claws just scraping his shoulder as his trained reflexes moved him away from the threat. Duke turned and fired his machine gun at the creature, but barely got 6 shots off before the gun jammed.

"Run!" Sam screamed.

Duke pulled out his side arm and emptied the clip into the creature as he backed up towards the nanowall.

"Come on!" Sam screamed, this time near hysterical.

"Motherfucker!" Duke shouted as the creature closed in on him. He tripped backwards through the nanowall, immediately calling out to Sam, "Close it!"

She turned and hit the "close" button, falling backwards, out of fear as the thing lunged at her. The wall closed, but the creature was not trapped outside. At least not all of it was. The thing was now stuck in the wall.

Duke wrapped his arms protectively around Sam as the creature fought against the wall. Suddenly it shot its tongue out at them, barely missing them both. The tongue skidded across the room. It lay still and the creature in the wall clearly wasn't going to get loose.

Finally Sam collapsed, exhausted, in Duke's arms.

"That's why I don't do nanowalls." Duke stated firmly.

As the four soldiers entered the dig, the flashed their guns, in every direction. Naktura noticed it was so dark, which was good in her opinion. She liked dark places, dark weather, just dark everything. "Secure the exit." Sarge ordered Mac, to stay close to the exit.

Reaper, and Sarge walked off close to each other, to talk. Naktura dragged her feet behind them. Reaper walked down all long hallway, and saw a window. He opened the curtain, and looked out of it, remembering when he was younger.

"Sam"

"I'm coming."

"I'm hungry lets eat." In his mind he saw images of his sister, his mother, father, and himself. Playing, just kidding around.

"Go around, go around again."

"Careful..." His mother warned.

"No! Mommy, Daddy!" Both him, and his sister yelled. The last part became very blurry, all he remembered was an explosion afterwards. He remembered his sister crying, and he was there to tell her everything was going to be fine, But it really wasn't, he knew that, but he couldn't tell Sam that. Finally he got back into real life, when Sarge touched him on his shoulder.

"Is this where it happened?"

"Did you find the door?" He didn't want to answer Sarge's question.

Sarge didn't answer, instead he looked ahead, and found the door. "John."

Reaper closed the curtain, quickly, then went into the room, following Sarge.

Naktura didn't know what to do, should she just kill herself. She couldn't do that. That meant she would never see her parents, her friends, Goat. Because she'd be in hell. But she's already in hell, this place is HELL! She wanted to go back to the lab, and grab his necklace. She'd take good care of it. But more then likely Sarge wouldn't allow that. She walked in the room, just as Sarge, and Reaper found two men.

"Clay. Thurman. Look at them, they weren't trying to stop something from getting in. Something stopped them out."

Sarge didn't like how things were going. Too many things had gone wrong so far. And this made no sense. Why would two scientists - who had to know they would die if they went outside, try to open the airlock without any oxygen tanks with them? What had scared them so badly they would attempt something so incredibly suicidal?

Reaper looked over at Naktura as she walked up next to him. He could see in her eyes how much the loss of Goat had devastated her. While Sarge spoke with Destroyer on the comm Reaper turned to face her, putting himself between her and Sarge.

"There's nothing either of us could have done." He spoke softly to her so that Sarge wouldn't hear. "You can't blame yourself for what happened. Goat wouldn't want you to."

Naktura looked up at him, her broken heart clearly showing in her eyes, "I have nothing to remember him by."

Reaper thought for a moment and then reached into the pocket on the front of his flak jacket and pulled out the half of Goat's dog tag that he had taken. He held it out for her.

Naktura gladly took it, "But don't you have to turn this in?"

He smiled slightly, "Don't worry about it. Things get lost in combat situations all the time."

She felt a great sense of pain and relief rush through her as her hand closed around the tag. She closed her eyes against all the emotions running through her.

Reaper reached up to wipe the tear away that had escaped her eye. "I know it's hard, but you have to pull yourself together. The team needs you."

She opened her eyes, took a deep breath and nodded. "Thanks Reaps."

He nodded back. All of a sudden they heard noises coming from the front of the dig site.

"Mac?" Reaper called out over the comm.

Naktura turned and started towards the dig entrance. Something had happened. Mac wasn't replying.

"Mac? Mac? Talk to me. Talk to me, Mac."

No answer. They ran off to where he was standing. All you could see was his headless/lifeless body. "SHIT!" Sarge cursed out loud. A light growl was heard. Naktura turned around and started to fire, all over the place. Reaper thought she was shooting at nothing, until he saw the creature, that must have killed Mac. It was a quick one, within 5 seconds it disappeared. Sarge ordered everyone to meet, by the airlocks.

Quietly Naktura hugged Goat's dogtag, and put it in her pocket. Checking in her pocket every few seconds to make sure it was still there. Her eyes were bloodshot, she had been crying but no tears were visible. She was holding it in, she needed to stop it. Especially in front of Portman he would call her a wuss. She had to hold it together until the situation was under control, until they were safely out of there.