Victory or death - that was how the legend lived, and that would be how he died.coroneljones wrote:Commander Jack Knight, in his usual routine, or the after results/last moments.
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"Victory or Death"
He was willing to sacrifice his whole damn ship if need be.
Every table, locker, and filing cabinet in the bridge was piled against the doors. The doors were bolted, welded, and wedged shut. The controls had been destroyed.
When the first filthy bug poked its head over the makeshift barricade, Jack Knight decided he had seen worse. His XO took its head off with a well-placed smartgun burst, yellow-green blood fountaining across the walls like the most beautiful god damned scatter painting the world had ever seen. That opened the floodgates, though. The things started melting their way into any entrance they could reach, the pain of the loss rebounding through their minds into a crescendo of murderous fury. Jack Knight had seen such things before.
More and more of them poured into the room. Even as they died by the dozens, more climbed over the growing pile of bodies. His ragged and desperate group of survivors vanished under the slick black flood of carapaces. The bugs began to hammer on the plexiglass that separated his command console from the outside, but he was content to wait for the time being.
Only when the big bitch deigned to show her face did the Commander of the Sulaco act. He raised his right hand and clicked the detonator that had been hidden in his palm.
The bugs began to quiver and shriek in pain, the Queen letting out an ear-piercing cry as bright-orange flames consumed her body. Jack Knight stared death in the face, and smiled.