Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-4794494-20141014230422/@comment-25316824-20141112021112

Nikolai looks on forward. He thinks about how he is going to make is run to safety. Yes Black Fang would get closer to the Power Core, but he couldn't hold this location.

Just then a frontine fighter appears and wastes the Black Fang members. Plasma spashes against metal but it still continues, seemingly oblivious to the damage. Several battle hardened blue coats charge the enemy and Black Fang is eradicated from that tunnel.

Instead of helping the advance, he assumes they have it handled and goes back to check on the state of the power core. He goes up to the heavy hunter metal door and sees that he adequately defended it. He suddenly smells burnt bodies. fearing the worse, he circles around and goes to the next door. The bodies were piled 5 feet high. Nikolai sees a survivor huddled in a dark corner.

Nikolai "What happened here?  Where is your company?"

Kig-jar survivor "You are looking at it.  Black Fang's plasma weapons burned though our cover pretty good in the early phases.  After our cover was in a puddle we started dropping like flies until we hid behind the fresh bodies.  They had no respect for the dead, however, and they roasted the bodies we were using as cover.  Soon the frontline fighters arrived and we were relieved.  When the coast was clear of hostiles, the guy in charge thought it was safe enough to let us in the power core."

Nikolai "Why didn't you go in?"

The Kig-jar survivor takes off his blanket and reveals 3rd degree burns all over his body.

"Because I was used as cover."

Nikolai looked shocked. He hadn't had to deal with this type of brutality in awhile.

Nikolai "MEDIC!  MEDIC!"

The Kig-jar gestures to Nikolai.

"We are all out of burn medicine.  There is nothing that you can do except kill me.  I don't have the strength anymore to cut off my head."

Nikolai "Your sure?"

Survivor "This is what I want."

Nikolai "Sweet and fitting it is to die for ones country." He grabs the crystal cutlass and cuts of the man's head. Nikolai mumbles to himself "What a loud of bullshit."