TFP gears of War crossover
It has been twenty years since the end of the Locus and Lambet wars, thirty four years since E-day and thirty five years since the pendulum wars had ended and earth has returned to normal. Jasinto, Ashton and the burrow all lay in waste. The locus horde eliminated and the earth healed. now, there is another war won, the autobot/Decepticon wars, faught in secret upon this world. The war ended three years ago. jack darby, sargent rank in the COG and husban of miko Darby. It was an ordinary day in Unit-E, Ratchet was lecturing soldiers about leaving suplies around the place, Raf was scanning for decepticon and autobot freqencies and Jack was in the training room with Miko, both in COG armor with Snub pistols, Lancer Assault Rifles and Miko's confiscated Locus Boomshot, training against moving targets. Miko fired off two rounds with the Snub then snarled at it when the clip jammed and proceeded to hit it twice before finally giving up and pulling out the Boomshot.
"Miko, Snub only." Jack warned as he shot at one of the many targets. "Fowler won't be too happy if you destroy the hanger again."
Miko scoffed and fired off a Boomshot's explosive round, turning the three targets near it into shrapnel. She gave a cocky smirk.
Jack rolled his eyes and pulled out his Lancer Assault Rifle and fired in bursts of eight shots at the targets, hitting most of the time.
Miko smirked and reloaded the Boomshot, four rounds left for it, 40 for her Snub and 342 for her Lancer. Jack checked his ammo count as he reloaded too. 180 for the Snub, 480 for his Lancer.
"Hey, hear that?" Miko asked as she lowered her Boomshot and looked around the room.
"No." Jack stated as he lowered his lancer.
"Shh...listen." Miko whispered.
"Aaaataaack." Snarled a low raspy voice as a section of the training room floor collapsed into a green foggy pit. Four reptilian creatures climbed out and began shooting at Miko and Jack, who, thankfully were behind cover.
"Huuuumanz." Snarled a larger one with a boomshot and fired it off, shredding a section of cover infront of Miko.
"Scrap,Raf, Locust in training room, Miko chuck the frag!" Jack barked both over his comm and at Miko.
"Can't only smokes." Miko complained as she fired blindly over the cover with her Boomshot, reducing one of the attackers to a pile of bile and blood. She pulled out her Lancer and fired blindly over the cover once more, clipping the larger one in the arm.
"Jack, Miko, be advised, those are hostiles in there, I've notified Fowler, hold out until they can arrive." Raf told them over the comm. "The whole base is under attack, Ratchet's got a buzerker in a headlock...HEY!"
"Raf? RAF?!" Jack called over his comm, only static ensured. He disconnected. "DAMN! Miko, we lost contact, we've got to hold here until help arrives" A boomshot round flew over his head and exploded into the wall behind him.
"Got'cha!" Miko cried over the constant rattle of Lancers and the explosive crack of Boomshot rounds.
"SNRAAAAAA!" Cried the larger one as it chucked the boomshot aside and pulled out a large blood covered blade, charging his way, right for Miko and Jack.
"Miko, NOW!" Jack called and Miko chucked the smoke grenade, creating a thick black cloud of smoke. They both opened fire into the could, snarls of pain and sounds of bullets ripping flesh were muffled by the roar and clatter of the Rifles. when the smoke cleared the locus were all dead and the hole sealed with debris from the shooting range.
Miko sighed with relief and reloaded her guns,again, her Snub jammed. Jack reloaded his too and picked up a gnasher shotgun from a severed locus arm on the floor. A man in COG armor rushed in with chainsaw bayonet blazing and stopped with an impressed smirk upon seeing the carnage.
"you two, nice job, gibbed a boomer, two drones and a fricken theron." The man smiled lightly. "Come on, we've got to evac, brumuks are inbound and revers, it's fucking E-Day all over again." He pulled a shogun from it's holster on his back and reloaded it then tilted his head to the left before walking out the bullet-hole ridden doors. "Name's Dom."
"Sargents Miko and Jack Darby." Miko introduced as she fired a few rounds off behind her, killing the wretch that had been stalking them. "Fucking monkey dog."
"Heh, you sound like Carmine." Dom smirked as he stopped by the shredded remains of a Drone and three COG soldiers by a slightly ajar door. "Shh, Buzerker."
Miko and jack nodded as a soft whimper came from the room and Dom peaked inside before carefully opening the door, Raf was in there trembling immensely with his eyes darting between Ratchet who has breathing heavily an a thick blast door which seamed to of been welded shut.
"Raf, what happened?" Miko asked as she rushed over to the quivering 17 year old.
"Buzerker and and t-tickers." Raf stuttered a he gestured to the many craters on the floor then with a shaky hand he pulled his Gorgon Sub-Machine-Pistol from it's holster and pointed it towards a busted open vent grate. "Th-they came through there."
Suddenly, the whole base shook and raf looked at a monitor and gulped. "Anyone know how to fight a corpser?"
"Better get me a HoD Raf." Miko remarked as she placed her Boomshot down on the table. "I'm out of ammo and apparently Corpsers take a bettlyfull to kill."
"True." Dom sighed as he looked as his shotgun. "Those fat fucks are like tanks."
"Right, Miko, there's ammo in the cabnite there." Ratchet told the woman as he welded another sheet of metal to the door. Miko nodded and began to raid the cupbord for ammo and grenades.
"Dom, I need to find Mrryah." Jack told the sargent. "I can reason with her."
"I think fenix said the same thing." Dom muttered. "Anyway, why'd she listen to you?"
"Uh who's this Mrryah chick?" Miko growled as she eyed jack suspiciously.
"Family." Jack muttered as he forcefully shoved a clip of ammo into his Lancer.
"Dude, how are you related to that bitch queen?" Dom asked, completely confused.
"Not all her children were Locust." Jack muttered in annoyance as he began to raid ammo clips and shells from the cupbord.
"Wait, hold it, I thought June was your mum." Miko pointed out.
"Miko, Adoption." Jack bluntly told her. "And before you get all worked up and worried, I'm no Locust, well, less than 30 percent but still..."
"Eww, you married a grub." Dom gagged,earning a elbow in the ribs from Jack.
"Look, she'll know it's me simply by scent and well...er, my voice." Jack gulped slightly.
"So, the queen's human but can identify Locust by scent and smell even if she's never heard them talk?" Raf asked bluntly as he checked the ammo in his Gorgon pistol.
"Smellwise yeah, but er..." Jack cleared his throat then made a sound simular to the low pitch growl the Locust make. "...yeah."
Miko shuddered and Ratchet looked odd, as if torn between disgust and wonder. Dom held the barrel of the shotgun he was carrying to Jack's head, surprisingly, the man didn't flinch.
"Give me one god damn reason grub." Dom threatened.
"I'm not a grub, besides all I did was say one word." Jack sighed softly.
"Which one?" Dom asked in an impatient and cold tone.
"He called for me." Spoke a woman's voice, Dom spun around only to get shoved back. In the doorway stood two theron guards, both in red armor and the Queen of the Locust, Mrryah. "I honsetly did not expect you to of survived this long Guur."
"It's jack." The raven haired man deadpanned. "My name is Jack, not Guur."
"Stuborn." Mryyah muttered with a roll of her eyes. "Now then my child, why call of me in the middle of battle?"
"Mum, you need to stop this." Jack told her firmly. "And how did the Locust survive? the lightmass bombs, the 'cure' and the fraging Lambet, just...how?"
"We adapt and survive my son." Mrryah cood then turned to face Miko. "That one, she has scent, why?"
"Get away from my wife." Jack glared at the Locust queen.
"Oh, she's your mate, if she were a locust, she'd make a fine theron guard." Mrryah remarked sarcastically then faced Raf. "Is this your heir?"
"No." Jack deadpanned. "Raf is my friend"
"Hmm,Raaf, finally a human with a decent name." She remarked. "Now, why summon me?"
"To tell you to stop, after three decades our kind has been abscent, now...now we're back and ruining stuff, It's E-day all over again, isn't it?"
"You must understand, the Lambet are back, we either find a new territory or die out." Mrryah deadpanned as she looked over to Ratchet in annoyance. "COG and it's robotic helpers."
"I have a name you know." Ratchet remarked as he continued welding, oblivious to what was happening.
"Can't we just call off the invasion, fight the lambet ourselves?" Jack asked hopefully. "Human and Locust, we're all human somewhere, even the Sires."
"I shall call a halt-fire to my troops, but only until I've decided on the offer." Mrryah told him bluntly then made a noise akin to a shreek.
The responce was a loud hum of roars, screams and howls. "Do not make me regret this."
"I wont." Jack told her. "Ratchet,call up my mum...er, my human mum." He amended. "We'll need a lot of medical staff on hand."
"She knows grub biology?" Dom asked in shock.
"Dom, think scaly muscular men and you've got Locust, we're really not that different, only skin wise." Jack explained. "Also Miko, tickers and Burmak, wanna help?"
"Boom?" Miko asked hopefully as she held up the Hammer of Dawn targeting device she swiped from Raf.
"No, not boom." Jack deadpanned. "Ive dealt with tickers before."
"And?" Dom asked.
"Give 'em rotten stake or something,they love it." Jack shrugged.
"No, just detonate them." Mrryah told them. "The vermin just chew through our food stocks."
"Tiiiikuuuuuuurssss baaaaaaaad." One of the guards growled.
"Hey, how did you survive Marcus giving you the old lancer to the chest?" Dom asked as he watched the ueen. "I mean surely not even Locus can survive that."
"It was only a three centimeter deep cut, the armor took the brute of it." Mrryah explained as Ratchet pulled a lever located on a large control panel and a swirling vortex opened up and June rushed through but then froze at the sight of the Locust. she dropped the box just as Ratchet closed the vortex and she gulped.
"Mum,meet...er well, my real mum" Jack nervously explained. "Also,I'm sure you know Dominic San Tiego?"
"Uh...well, I...Hi?" June nervously smiled as she picked up the medical box, not looking away from the locust once. "I'm June Darby."
"I am Queen Mrryah of the Locust horde." The tall blonde woman nodded in repsonce to June. "You have raised him well, although I do not aprove of his choice of Mates."
"Uhm,well...thankyou." June gulped nervously. "Ratchet? Uh,why are Locust here and not shooting us?"
"Rude." Mrryah huffed. "I ordered a cease-fire until we can resolve a probelm involving Lambets."
"Rust lung or full blown?" June asked.
"Fuuuuuuulll." One of the guards growled as it's arm twitch slightly.
"Right, they're Lambet." June muttered as she put the medical box onto the bench with a metalic clang. "Anybody need medical attention?"
"Yeah, I got a round in my shoulder." Dom piped up. "Some gru...er...locust shot me." he quickly corrected upon seeing the sour looked the therons were giving him.
Just as Dom sat on the swivvle chair next to the bench, fowler burst in with a snub pistol drawn and took aim at mrryah, only for jack to step in his way. "jack, out of the way."
"fowler, leavemy mother alone." jack warned as he aimed his gnasher shotgun at fowler's chest. "she called them off and this whole e-day thing was due to a retreat she ordered."
"jack, i don't know what you're thinking but that...thing...is not your mother." fowler deadpanned. "she is a fucking locust, a beast!"
"Fowler, we're beasts are we?" jack asked with a slight growl. "You know bloody damn well i was found in the hollow twenty three years ago, you fucking know it!" Jack shoved the barrel of the shotgun roughly into Fowler's chest and his eyes squinted at the agent. "Now I suggest you back the fuck off."
Fowler glared at Jack for a few seconds then holstered his Snub and raised his hands in defeat.
Jack nodded and holstered his shotgun but he still glared at fowler before turning to the Locust. "Vraa hakka kreeeesh."
The guards nodded and looked to the queen for aproval,when she nodded they put their weapons down and one of them leant against the wall, smoking a metalic stick.
"Aaah, huh?" fowler asked dumbly. "jack speaks Locust?"
"No duh." Jack deadpanned.
"And...what did you ask exactly?" Fowler asked cautiously eyeing the guards.
"I asked if they would be able to relax and lower their weapons." jack explained. "It'd make them look less leathal and you'd be less inclined to attack."
"So, when did you learn grub?" fowler asked as he glared daggers at jack.
"i taught him." june told Fowler as she pulled a boltlock round from dom's arm. "it was easier than having him learn english first."
"And where in sam's hell did you learn that?" fowler asked in shock.
"Fowler, I work with rust lung patients, sometimes we'd get some nut who gibbered on in Locust." june explained as she began to clean the blood from Dom's shoulder. "you'd pick up on a few things."
"Kreesh vaa." jack cursed and facepalmed
"language." june and mrryah ordered in unison.
"what?" jack asked in shock. "nobody outside us knows the locust have called off the firing, it's a slaughter house out there."
"i'll fix it." fowler told him and pulled his comm to his mouth and spoke. "all units this is special Agent Fowler, do not engage the locust, i repeat do not engage the Locust, there is a truce in place until further notice."
"all members of Prime squad." jack ordered into his comm. "report to hanger-E, no shooting the locust and defentiely not the queen, take the corridore, the main's got a buzerker in it in a foul mood."
"jack,that wise sir, the grubs are in there...you sure they won't pull one?" Asked a female voice.
"sierra, shoot one and I'll shoot you for insubordination, clear" Jack asked over the comm. "and find where the fucking hell Brontson is!"
"Fell in an E-hole, tickers got him." Sierra reported back with a smug tone. "Deserved it too."
"Sierra, get here ginger before I drag you here by your pony tail!" Miko growled over her own comm.
"Yeash, fine Sargent Darby." Sierra huffed. "I'm comming."
"Sierra, bring any wounded Locust you can, we've got medical suplies here." Jack told her.
"Fuck no sir." Sierra warned. "I can barely lift the fucking Retches."
"Just get here." Jack sighed and shut off his comm.
"I swear, the camrines are cursed or something." Dom huffed as he climbed off the chair. "Only one to survive last time as the eldest, now his son's dead too."
"Yep, cursed." Miko said aloud, then turned to the Locust. "Play go fish?"
"Gara graaan." The locust nodded and pulled out a old dirt covered set of playing cards. a crooked smile on it's lips.
"SWEAT!" Miko cheared and sat down by the Locust as he delt cards.
"Oh fuck, there's two of them." Mrryah moaned as she glared at the locust and Miko. "Hyperactive, trigger happy and immature."
"All the reasons I love Miko." Jack smiled as he watched his wife and the locust play cards.
"Hey I...whoa." Awed a ginger haired COG soldier as she dropped her shotgun in shock. "Who's the lady in grub armor?"
"My mum." Jack deapanned. "Mrryah."
"How is a grub your mum?" Sierra asked then looked to june. "Furthermore, how does this make sence?!"
"I adopted Jack after he was found in the hollow by two dead guys and a Locust." June answered. "By a very young and clumbsy nurse."
"It was you I saw that night." Mrryah muttered. "I arrived just as I saw some woman make off with my little guur."
"Sorry." June replied with a slight blush.
"No matter, last time I held a grudge, I took a blade to the chest." Mrryah muttered then turned her attention to Sierra,making her shudder slightly. "You, sierra, you answer to my son correct?"
"y-yeah." Sierra gulped.
"See, guur, she'd be more fitting than Miko." Mrryah replied offhandedly.
"Two things mum, one; I'm married to Miko, who I love, Two; Sierra's not my type." Jack answered. "Also, It's not Guur, it's Jack,okay?"
"If that is what you wish." Mrryah said hesitently. "For the time being...Jack... I shall leave some troops under your command."
"Under who's juristiction?" Fowler demanded.
"Mine human." Mrryah said sternly. "He is the prince of Locust, he needs his own guard." She then looked at one of the guards and nodded, it then walked off and out of the massive room.
"i've got a guard already." Jack told her.
"Oh? And where is this guard?" She asked in mild surprise.
"Not here right now, she's off rebuilding her home." jack answered. "But she's due back today."
"Speaking of which." Ratchet ramarked as he pulled a lever and turned to face everyone else but stuttered in shock. "W-what are t-they?!"
"Locust, Jackrabit's species." Miko answered then turned her attention to the game. "Got any...7s?"
"Goooo fiiiissshhh." The locast smiled and with a moan,miko picked up another card.
"How...but, Jack's not human?!" Ratchet asked as he twitched slightly.
"He's MOSTLY human." Queen Mrryah answered the confused medic. "I am his mother, queen of the Locust, we're a mutation of Human kind."
"Jack, I think I now know why your blood tests were abnormal." Ratchet shook his helm. "At first, I thought it was a combination of Energon exposure and the key, but now..." his voice got drowned outby the sound of a motorcycle engine as a blue motorbike skidded to a stop and transformed, blasters aimedat the Locust.
"Arcee, don't." Jack told her.
"Jack,who or WHAT are these things? Arcee asked warily.
"Those THINGS arcee, are my species." Jack deadpanned. "I'm partially Locust, but I take after my mum there."
"June adopted you?" Arcee asked as she arked a metal eyebrow.
"Can everyone stop asking that?" June asked in annoyance as she started packing up the bandages.
"Sorry June." Arcee apologized. "But how come we've never seen these, Locust around before?"
"We're mainly subterrainian." Mrryah answered as she sat down on a chair. "After Jacinto crashed into the hollow,most of it was flooded, hence we moved deeper underground, a few years ago, there were these stone creatures calling themselves Unicron who attacked us, we started digging upwards and found Lambet again, we fled."
"Don't blame you." Jack answered. "Lambet explode and that spreads the infection."
"So Jack, if that's your real name, how come you aren't showing up with a card or something saying you're locust when we met you?" Arcee deadpanned.
"Arcee, locust human wars,remember?" Jack asked.
"Scrap, you're right." Arcee face-plate palmed. "So, Sierra's in here and not freaking, why?"
"She got moved to Prime Squad after Vince was caught for being M.E.C.H." Miko answered and turned back to the game she was playing. "Uhm, 8s?"
"Fiiissh." The Locust answered, Miko groaned and picked up another card. "3s?"
"Damnit." Mikomuttered as she handed over the 3 she had.
"Well, Jacks right, much better than doc bot." Sierra quipped as she looked up from her datapad.
"Don't callme that,." Ratchet muttered as he closed the spacebridge connection. "Hey, Guur, remember Miko is not aloud near the gun cabinate."
"Don't call me that." Jack groaned in embarrisment as he blushed red.
"You're name's Guur now?" Arcee asked with a mused smile.
"It was that, it's my Locust name." Jack explained as he rubbed the back of his head.
"And A good name it is." Mrryah answered as three Locust entered the room, two in theron armor and one in Kantus armor.
Behind them was a rather disgruntled looking man.
"Fowler,mind telling me why the heck Locust were requesting my presence?" The man demanded.
"A truce sir, Jack and the queen are the ones who thought it sir, the Lambet are back." Fowler answered with a salute.
"So, how did he call a siese fire with the queen?" The man asked.
"I believe he just asked." Miko quipped.
"And why the heck would he ask a queen Grub?" The man asked once again in an annoyed tone.
"Sir, that is my mother you're speaking of." Jack warned. "I do not care if June's my legal guardian or not, you will not insult my family."
"So, you're a Locust then?" The man asked in annoyance. "And you didn't bother declairing yourself?"
"Talk of my son that way, and this truce ends here." Mrryah warned.
"Sir, after all I've been through, I didn't need being locked up or experimented on." Jack told the man firmly.
"Curnel Ross sir, surely the Lambet are a larger threat than Locust." Fowler tried to reason.
"Great, I'll inform the president of these events, until I return, I want the locust detained, including Jack." Cernal Ross said in a firm tone.
"actually, sir, can I suggest something?" Arcee asked.
"You may go ahead." The cernal nodded.
"Can't we try to intergrate your two cultures together?" Arcee asked hopefully. "if the queen does so, then won't the others follow?"
"They would." The queen explained with a soft smile. "Human and Locust, living aside another, my original dream before E-Day, then those retchet Lambet forced my hand."
"I'll need an official cover story for you little 'visit' your majesty." Cernal ross said tensly.
"We were running from Lambet, humans attacked first, it was a misunderstanding." Mrryah stated.
"Better then that." Ross warned.
"Well,what if we just Say the lambet started to attack the humans as her people fled and the humans returned fire on everything?" Arcee suggested. "It makes sence."
"Agreed." Ross stated. "I'll inform the higher ups then, Mrryah, can stay with Jack." With that, he walked out of the room just as a gray haired man in Cog armor with a scarred cheak walked in.
"So, she did survive." The man grunted in a gruff voice.
"Marcus, behave." Mrryah warned. "you are such a pain little child."
"Stop with that." Marcus grunted. "Why are you grubs still Alive? I thought the machine killed yer!"
"I'm still around, so it mustn't of worked." Jack shrugged. "Sargent Fenix, mind telling why you're here?"
"Saw some grubs comming this way and not shooting guys."Fenix said with an uneasy tone" and how's she alive? I saw you killed twice, by the bomb and when I stabbed yer."
"Fenix, Shut it." Fowler ordered. "Esle you'd have a shotgun to your chest and a bunch of therons after you."
"Oh yeah?" Fenix snarled. "Who's gonna try and shoot me then?"
"Me." Jack stated as he pulled out his shotgun. "Now, shut up about how you think my mother should be dead."
"June, this kid serious?" Fenix asked in shock. "He thinks the grub's his ma!"
"Marcus, he's right." June told him. "Mrryah is his mother."
"Great, I'm outranked by a grub." Fenix moaned then looked at Mikoand the theron playing go fish. "Since when are grubs this civilised?"
"We always were Marcus." Mrryah told him calmly. "You know it, I know it, everybody knows it."
"Oh, so the genocide was civilised then?" Fenix snapped.
"Stand down." Fowler ordered him. "Now."
"Fine." Marcus grunted. "I still don't trust her, or the kid." He sat down on the chair next to where Arcee was standing calmly. "Hey 'cee, how's cybertron?"
"Dull." Arcee blanked with a slight puff. "Anyway, I find Earth more interesting to be on, Jack's here, Miko, heck, even fowler is."
"Right here you know." Fowler huffed as he crossed his arms.
"Sargent Fenix, the Lambet are back, so, peace treaty, truce, sease-fire, what ever you want to call it, is in effect until further notice, Ross has got me and Mrryah on lockdown until he clears everything." Jack told him.
"Good for yer kid." Fenix grunted.
"Which means, we're working with the Locust, standard for if you're in my squad then." Jack smirked slightly but quickly cut it out. "Look, I know you don't like my kind, considering the only other hybrid is my mum, but, come one Marcus, I've never let you down, remember '23 when I had to drag your aft out of M.E.C.H fire?"
"Yeah." Marcus grunted in annoyance. "Fine, I'll lay off, but one wrong move, I'll shoot to kill, got it?"
"Marcus." June warned. "You know darn well Jack can handle a decepticon by himself, what makes you think a few lambet will be different?"
"Mum, he wasn't talking about the Lambet, besides, I'm part Locust, remember how vunerable they are to Imulsion based Lambetcy, the fumes are going to be killer." Jack shuddered and earnt a concerned look from June. "You know, I think we need to figure out what I call you and my realmum when you're in the same room."
"Just call her June and the queen Mrryah then." Miko sighed. "Any fives?"
"Gooo fiiish." The locust chuckled. "Wiiiiiiinnnnnnnaaaaaaaar." he declaired with a smirk upon defeating Miko in a simple game of Go-Fish.
"Frag." Mikomuttered as she foldedher arms in annoyance and looked at Jack. "Dude, Locust are lucky."
"No, Skaarg there is just good at card games." Mrryah smiled softly. "Ever srince he found that pack of cards, he's been a nusance, not even Raam could get him to stop it."
"Right, in other words, Miko and the grub there should never be left alone in the same room." Fenix stated.
"A disaster waiting to happen." Mrryah agreed. "I'd sooner let you ride a Brumak again."
"Hey, watch it." Fenix warned.
"Well, you did level most of the tunnels." Miko pointed out as Sierra and Fowler left.
"So, four in the afternoon and squat to do." Arcee huffed as she looked around. "Also, can somebody tell me why there is that fragging ticking sound and those snarls coming from behind the doors?"
"Buzerker and Tickers." Miko smiled slightly. "Queen Mrryah wants the tickers kiled but the buzerker, I'm not too sure."
"I believe restraining her would sufice." Mrryah nodded calmly. "Could that oversized machine with the irritating voice restrain her?"
"Hey!" Ratchet barked back.
"Tsk~Tsk Docbot, you insulted jack's mum and the queen." Miko snorted a laugh. "Guess you can expect a ticker attack soon."
"I'll...I'll restrain the creature, anyone who wishes not to be mauled by it,should leave." Ratchet gulped as he looked at the door he had welded shut.
"I best go then." June gulped. "Er, driveing out or ground-bridge?"
"I shall set up the extra rooms." Miko sighed with a roll of her eyes. "June and Mrryah, sorry but only one guest bed." Miko said nervously.
"I am more than happy to sleep upon the floor." Mrryah smiled lightly as she stood up fom her chair.
"Hey uh, how tall are you exactly?" Miko asked the locust queen.
"Three quarr." The queen answered. "Around...7 human feet."
"Wow." Miko smirked slightly. "So, right, let's go and get out of here." Jack and the therons nodded enthusiastically.
"So, how're we going to get everyone back? there's seven of us, excluding Arcee and the SUV's only got six seats." Jack explained.
"I'll give you a ride jack." Arcee explained. "I'm sure either of your parents won't mind."
"I've gotta go, this place smells like shit." Marcus muttered as he walked out of the room,Raf following him.
"Scarr huuur vak kra nu." A theron grinned smugly.
"You know, you smell like shit to him too dumbass." Jack retorted. "Miko, on the other hand, will pummle you if you even think of insulting her." Jack deadpanned to the theron who kept puffing a locus equivilent of a smoke. "Or...you may be in for unexpected chainsaw practice."
"Kreef." The locust gulped and quickly stubbed out the metal smoke.