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by Steelpoint » 25 Jul 2017, 12:45
I rally the Marines to defend briefing room and medbay, however my time in surgery left me out of the loop. The aliens had already boarded and were in the hanger. The marines were faltering but I urged them forward, we used the shutters to seal off the hanger. I screamed for everyone with a gun to rush to medbay and hold the line.
The Queen spots me, she seems intent to finish me off once and for all. She leads the charge into medbay, her screech rings true as she rushes in with her kin. She overestimates, marine reinforcements arrive from the east! She retreats but a smart marine fires a grenade at the Queen, it connects! She goes down and I fire my smartgun, round after rounds punctures her yet she lives, we keep firing and firing and firing and she finally, in a loud scream goes down. Dying alongside many other Aliens desperate to save their Queen.
I find poetic justice in our defeat of the Queen, one who gloated over my demise now lies dead beneath my feet. But the war was far from over, but now we had the initiative.
Knowing how fickle Marines can be, I order every marine to charge into the Hanger, and I personally lead the charge. Ducking and dodging acid and bullets we successfully push our way to the xeno held dropship. Sadly we reach a impasse, the dropship has landed perfectly to present a bottleneck at the brig entrance, and a single Boiler continues to surprise us with gas clouds. Feeling akin to Stalingrad I order the Marines to keep pushing in, rushing over the corpses of their brothers and sisters. I myself join the charge and we finally push through, killing half the xenos we push them all the way to the rear of the brig hallway, stuck at another bottleneck.
Not wanting to be stuck, I order the marines to unload their UGL's into the room. The grenades push the xenos back and I personally charge in with my mateba! The xenos retreat into maintenance as I fire wildly.
Stopping to inject myself with tricord, I order the marines to pile into maint as I lead another charge, ducking and weaving I find a long, long, line of dead marines in maintenance. It appears the last xenos include Crusher who is exploiting the tight corridors to crush anyone who moves up. Thanks to a C4 I pull out of the tunnel and flank around with some Marines, I push another flank and we assault the Xenomorph defenders.
In a hard fought fight we squeeze the xenos into a trap, I lead the charge but I finally succumb to my injuries, the last thing I see is the march of jackboots over my body as more marines push in to finish off the last xenomorphs.
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I regain consciousness in medbay, my body was recovered and resuscitated by the wonderful medics and doctors.
The rest of the round is mostly uneventful, a final Queen is found in Research and killed. The round not ending due to a new Queen on planet I order all Marines into DS2. I could not join them as the XO died in the Almayer conflict, I wish the marines god speed.
My Marines successfully defeated the remaining xenos, and we all claim victory.
This is war, survival is your responsibility.
Alan Bentway: Marine
Kwei Ikthya-de: Predator