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past the
distracted guard. When it failed he turned his teeth on the guard and the rifle
moved away from us and the Eek shot the little enraged man dead. The guard
never let go of the trigger for ten seconds and the Pok had become a corpse of
melting flesh with small pieces being carried away by the wind.
“How could you!” Aira shouted, “we are all just trying to survive, don’t
you see what is happening?” The guard quickly turned his gun back on us.
Then we heard the creature scream again. It was moving closer. We were too
afraid to turn and face it but it was getting louder and louder. The guard had
turned his COM to silent and slowly he began to speak to us, “two blocks
down there is an alley, a closed bar full on munitions and rations, tell them
Gerad sent you…” he paused, “I didn’t mean to… I didn’t want to kill him.”
He stopped looking at us and looked towards the Pok who stood as a statue
of dust. We could see the shadow of the beast reflecting in the corner of the
Eek’s eye. “Run and tell them you are taking my place, you are now soldiers
of Errikus.”
We ran down the alley just like he told us. “Sev, there it is!” Aira said
pointing towards a rundown bar. It had metal boards bolted over its
windows. There was no else around as we walked insde. Empty chairs and
tables lined both sides. There was archaic artwork hung on the walls, colors
running together with cracked textures. “This place looks abandoned, I
thought there would be other guards here, do you think he was lying?” I said
taking Aira’s hand and moving back towards the bar’s kitchen. We continued
past the bulkhead door and through some kind of holographic wall and found
ourselves surrounded by fifty guards. The fifty guards were a mix of Eek,
Pok, and some humans I hadn’t recognized. The humans were deserters, a
group skipping out on the exodus to stay on Errikus, augmented with alien
implants that made them blend with the Eek from far away but this close we
could see their faces. They were human and they were very afraid.
“Gerad sent us sir, he said we were soldiers now, he said we are to take
his place,” I said trembling as I spoke. I felt like the silence in the room was
poison that any minute now we would all keel over and die. I felt like I was
suffocating as one of the Eek took charge and spoke, “Give each of them a
rifle and put them in the monitor room.” We were then handed two black Eek
rifles. The rifles were long and organic; they felt like they were made out of
leather and seemed to attach to the arm like a tick. The rifles were created
long ago by the Eek on their home world, spliced from a now extinct species
of parasite; a blend of war and biology. They were just as deadly and accurate
as any Skrav or human weapon though and that was all that mattered. We
walked down the long metal corridor down a staircase into the monitors
room. The room was dark and ice cold. It felt like we had walked into an
icebox. From the corner we heard several voices, each low and nasally. “Sev
and Aira, children of humanity, death follows you like a disease.”
I lifted my gun ready to
fire. We had never said our names to anyone.
“Lower your gun boy, you should not fear me, It is your own cursed kind and
that wretched race that murders you you should worry about,” the voice
spoke. The lights began to come on. Slowly one after another the room lit up.
They were dim at first but we could easily make out the giant mass of flesh
before us. It filled the entire corner, back wall of the room. It had limbs both
human and tentacle that touched and ran along the sides of keys and screens.
Each limb had an eye that watched the death and chaos outside. Soon it was
light enough we could see its entire body. Blobs of fat and faces with no
beginning and no end. I wanted to run away in fear but I lowered my weapon
and watched as the mouths on each of the faces began to
distracted guard. When it failed he turned his teeth on the guard and the rifle
moved away from us and the Eek shot the little enraged man dead. The guard
never let go of the trigger for ten seconds and the Pok had become a corpse of
melting flesh with small pieces being carried away by the wind.
“How could you!” Aira shouted, “we are all just trying to survive, don’t
you see what is happening?” The guard quickly turned his gun back on us.
Then we heard the creature scream again. It was moving closer. We were too
afraid to turn and face it but it was getting louder and louder. The guard had
turned his COM to silent and slowly he began to speak to us, “two blocks
down there is an alley, a closed bar full on munitions and rations, tell them
Gerad sent you…” he paused, “I didn’t mean to… I didn’t want to kill him.”
He stopped looking at us and looked towards the Pok who stood as a statue
of dust. We could see the shadow of the beast reflecting in the corner of the
Eek’s eye. “Run and tell them you are taking my place, you are now soldiers
of Errikus.”
We ran down the alley just like he told us. “Sev, there it is!” Aira said
pointing towards a rundown bar. It had metal boards bolted over its
windows. There was no else around as we walked insde. Empty chairs and
tables lined both sides. There was archaic artwork hung on the walls, colors
running together with cracked textures. “This place looks abandoned, I
thought there would be other guards here, do you think he was lying?” I said
taking Aira’s hand and moving back towards the bar’s kitchen. We continued
past the bulkhead door and through some kind of holographic wall and found
ourselves surrounded by fifty guards. The fifty guards were a mix of Eek,
Pok, and some humans I hadn’t recognized. The humans were deserters, a
group skipping out on the exodus to stay on Errikus, augmented with alien
implants that made them blend with the Eek from far away but this close we
could see their faces. They were human and they were very afraid.
“Gerad sent us sir, he said we were soldiers now, he said we are to take
his place,” I said trembling as I spoke. I felt like the silence in the room was
poison that any minute now we would all keel over and die. I felt like I was
suffocating as one of the Eek took charge and spoke, “Give each of them a
rifle and put them in the monitor room.” We were then handed two black Eek
rifles. The rifles were long and organic; they felt like they were made out of
leather and seemed to attach to the arm like a tick. The rifles were created
long ago by the Eek on their home world, spliced from a now extinct species
of parasite; a blend of war and biology. They were just as deadly and accurate
as any Skrav or human weapon though and that was all that mattered. We
walked down the long metal corridor down a staircase into the monitors
room. The room was dark and ice cold. It felt like we had walked into an
icebox. From the corner we heard several voices, each low and nasally. “Sev
and Aira, children of humanity, death follows you like a disease.”
I lifted my gun ready to
fire. We had never said our names to anyone.
“Lower your gun boy, you should not fear me, It is your own cursed kind and
that wretched race that murders you you should worry about,” the voice
spoke. The lights began to come on. Slowly one after another the room lit up.
They were dim at first but we could easily make out the giant mass of flesh
before us. It filled the entire corner, back wall of the room. It had limbs both
human and tentacle that touched and ran along the sides of keys and screens.
Each limb had an eye that watched the death and chaos outside. Soon it was
light enough we could see its entire body. Blobs of fat and faces with no
beginning and no end. I wanted to run away in fear but I lowered my weapon
and watched as the mouths on each of the faces began to
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