CHAPTER 4

"OK," I say dutifully.

"You're gonna run to the temple room and guard it with your life. Be careful it's a fire fight out there. There using monsters out there to get us."

"Sir, I just woke up from a freeze chamber and Christian didn't tell me much. Who's attacking us and what's a monster?"

"Oi, I can tell your more trouble than help, it's AERO and monster is a generic term for a person whose power it to transform into something disgusting and scary as hell, bub."

"Thank you, sir"

"By the way reports say the nine of spades is here, don't forget even though AERO uses bounty hunting AE's it doesn't mean they like us"

"Yes sir," I decide to run out before I can ask another stupid question. I run down a corridor and went left, and then right and then just ran. I see a door and two other soldiers wearing the crest the teleporter room had. One door opened and suddenly a red mist filled the air as bullet fire rained through.

"Damn it, turret entrenchment just on the corner," the solider said.

"Hey, how do I get to the temple room?" I asked.

"Through that door on the opposite side of the turret, they're trying to get in but are men are holding them off. You need to stop that turret man if you wanna get there in one piece."

"OK, you gonna cover me?"

"I got nutin' better to do," he said, his Aussie accent breaking through.

"One last thing, they said the nine of spades was here, what's that mean?"

"That deck of cards on your hip is a wanted poster basically of the top 64 most wanted men in the universe."

"Oh, OK" I tilted my head out the door only to pull it in to dodge some bullets. I looked down and saw a broken piece of mirror. I grabbed it and held it out the door. There was a no man's land and a huge rack of chained up guys wiggling in their own skin some heavily teched out troops let one go and he burst into a nasty spider looking thing with steel hooks on his shelled arms. Then I saw the entrenchment.

I thought about being there and suddenly was but dizzy as well the three or four men in the entrenchment didn't see me but I suddenly froze as a wash of images came over me and a voice in my head repeated, 'equal value equal value nature nature' then an image of a scroll with a weird imperial looking seal on it appeared in my mind's eye for a split second.

I snapped out of it as the red-eyed girl's voice yelled in the recedes of my mind, "You're gonna die if you don't do something!"

I looked up and lifted the pistol. My first kill. Squeezed the trigger and only thought of the man's goal, to kill. As the bullet hit there was a clank and oil spilled out.

"You're a machine, effing lame. Oops", I said as the other three turned to look at me. I ducked and began shooting like crazy. They dropped, full of holes.

I went to the bodies, scourging for ammo, and found some grenades. I pulled the pins and put them on the turret. And ran like hell.

I teleported back to the door and watched the big red boom and saw the heat wave come off of it. I jumped down and ran to the gate heading towards the temple.

As I did a solider yelled, "Good luck, they're coming from above." I entered the gate and saw a humongous hall way.

BOOOM.