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250 - Running Man

Uncharted Forest

"Goddamn it!" Drake cursed as he worked the bolt of his rifle after shooting an Orc of the back of a wind wolf. "Can't they just give it up already?"

Slow grunted in agreement as he humped his MG and climbed over a tree root with a panicking ASAG behind him. He braced his MG 1 against the root and sweep fired a long burst into the foliage forcing the obviously modern tactics trained Orcs scuttling for cover.

A heavy volley of...

249 - Preparations

6 km away from Sin City 

"Dragon One, Dragon One, this is Claymore One, do you copy, over?" Hitsu spoke into the receiver of the radio. "Dragon One, come in, over."

"Nothing still?" Young asked as he observed their surroundings, alert for any hostilities.

Hitsu sighed and tweaked around the controls of the radio set and re-adjusted the umbrella antenna. "Damn, it's been a day and they still haven't responded yet!"

"Well,...

248 - Spycraft and Aliens

Sin City

Hitsu quietly replaced the sewage grate and grabbed a handful of wet silage on the dabbed on the cracks of the grate where it had been carefully dug out. He crawled his way through the narrow sloping drain and exited out at a waste area near one of the poorer districts of the city. 

He glanced around the darkness, making sure there was no one wanting to ambush him before he scurried over to a small hut which they had secured for their own usage....

247 - Mechanisms of Chaos

Haven, United Nations Testing Grounds, Hangar Three

"NOO! NOO! NOO!" An angry roared reverberated off the concrete walls of the hangar, echoing loudly as the support techs covered their ears from the outburst of the angry troll.

Magic Mike dressed only in a pair of work pants swung his keyboard around madly as he put on a tantrum. "DUMB SOFTY!"

He growled and gave his keyboard another few more swings for good measure before he calmed down and...

246 - The Devil is in the Details

Uncharted Forest, Site of Battle with the Hero

The Orcs warily made their way out of the forest into a massive circular clearing. The previous traces of battle has mostly vanished and replaced by new growth sprouts. 

The Orcs nosed around and trampled the area in search of something as a human stood in the middle of the clearing.

Ex naval security Spaceman Senior Aaron stood surrounded by the Orcs with his eyes closed. In his left hand, ...

245 - Pay Back Your Dues

Sin City

Tyrier sat down at one of the tables at the back of the tavern where it offered him a full view of the place and also the entrance. He ordered some food and drinks from the serving slave and slowly nursed the mug of ale that was ordered.

There was barely a crowd in the tavern. Most of the patrons were merchant guards of mixed races. Not long, the doors opened and Hitsu, Loke, and Wolf walked in. They quickly spotted Tyrier and went over to join them....

244 - Demons

"ON THE FLOOR NOW!" The Marines screamed at the dazed men inside the breached room. "DOWN NOW!"

They grabbed anyone still standing and kicked their legs, making the hooded men fall down onto their knees before being slammed face down against the dirt floor.

"We got a hidden passage here!" Someone yelled and in the glows of the mage lights, the Marines saw a section of the wall was half blocked open by one of the escaping hooded men who unluckily turned and fa...

243 - A Brewing Storm

Orwell's Point

Shadowy figures darted past the unsuspecting patrolling soldiers from one alley to another. They made used of low roofs, sewers and other forms of cover to gather near the docks in one of burnt down warehouses still in the midst of being repaired.

"All here?" A voice whispered out among the gathered and someone struck a flint, only to be slapped away by the neighbors. "No fires!"

"They can see us!" The voice whispered frightene...

242 - Opportunity

Outskirts of Sin City

Mills laid on his back next to the prone figures of Drake and Kont as they kept an eye on the city in the distance while Slow was fussing around the camp site. The four of them had remained behind with Claymore One set off to find some Orc merchant to hijack their wagons.

It has been five days since they had left and today was the deadline for them to return back to the camp to report in. They had agreed to cease all forms of electronic ...

241 - Ambush

Great Ocean Plains

"Shields!" Taris yelled as several Oerkins charged up swinging massive cleavers and axes. The battle hardened troops quickly slammed their shields together, forming a wall against the Oerkin charge.

The men yelled at the Oerkins hammered against the shield wall, knocking a couple of men back and denting the iron reinforced shields. The rest of the troops quickly closed together to cover the gaps while others dragged the wounded away.

...

240 - Serpent

Haven, Research and Development Lab, Basement 3, The Cave

"So you are saying that there are duplicates of the same command lines?" Tae Joon asked as he checked the code on his laptop while standing on a relatively clean area of the Trolls' room turned cave.

"Ya, ya!" Magic Mike muttered as he stuffed slice after slice of pizza into his mouth. "Mmh hmm mh!"

"Because of these duplicates code, it's causing the mech to go haywire as the pilot tri...

239 - Stories

Great Ocean Plains, Dead Frontier

Borse grunted with effort as he worked on one end of the two man saw, the see sawing blade cutting the log down. After working the whole morning away, Borse was taking a break and having a simple mid day meal when Taris came up and joined him.

"We need seeds," Taris said suddenly as they were eating half way. "And many other necessities."

Borse nodded as he chewed the coarse bread softened by some well water ...

238 - South

Tyrier slowly and patiently crawled his way forward and stopped just at the edge of the firelight of the torch burning next to the stake walls. He waited till the pair of yawning Orc patrol walking off before he sprung up from a prone position and squeezed between the wooden stakes of the wall.

He quickly slipped next to the nearest tent and heard the monstrous snoozes of its occupants. He wiggled through the bottom of the leather flaps and turned on his night vision in the d...

237 - Intranet Trolls

Haven, United Nations Testing Grounds

"Fark!" Corporal Clove cursed as he hammered his gloved fists against the controls. "This. Piece. Of. Shit!" He tried fruitlessly to wrestle control back.

Despite the gyro balancer installed inside the Manned Armored Walker, the dancing spider tank made Clove sick as he wanted to puke from the jerking motions. The Unit 02's commander cursed from his seat at Clove's shoulder as he gripped the hand bars to prevent being tos...

236 - Welcome to the Sandbox!

Haven, Research and Development lab

"What's that smell?"  Senior Spaceman Tae Joon Pak asked as he kicked back on his chair. "Koichi?"

Tae Joon quickly saved his work on his computer before he stood up and went to find the source of the smell in the lab. "What is that?"

He saw Koichi and the other IT guys clustered around the table in the pantry. "What are you guys up to?"

"Ohh TJ!" Koichi smiled excitedly, his thick gla...

235 - Extreme Prejudice

Captain Joseph played with the Orc revolver while the rest of his officers and NCOs gathered at the Great Hall turned Command Center. He dry fired the heavy revolver, requiring him to use both hands to stabilize and squeeze the heavy trigger.

"Damn, this thing is hard to fire!" Joseph said to his men as he dropped the weapon on the table. "Now, anyone has any ideas as to how and where did these come from?"

The room of officers and NCOs looked at each other an...

234 - Custom Seizure

Kuhm moaned as his hands were forcefully wrenched to his back and something tied his two thumbs together painfully. Next, he felt hands jerking him up to his feet and he startled as he saw an Oerkin holding onto him on one side and another person on the other.

The two strangely dressed barbarians sat him down next to several others. He recognized some of his guards and drivers among the group, all with various expressions of confusion and fear.

The barbarians...

233 - Barbarians

Uncharted Forest

The soft wet ground suddenly moved and soil slowly got pushed out, forming a small burrow. A bald greenish head appeared and it took a deep breath of the fresh spring air and giggled. Before long several more burrows appeared and like rabbits, goblins started to crawl their way out of the soil.

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Outskirts of Haven, Agriculture District 2

A yellow green hue covered a plot of land as several farmers mainta...

232 - Slaves

Haven, Camp Alpha, Command Center, Operation Freedom, Day Five

"7 river barges impounded, over 200 other various types of small boats also held," Joseph's voice came through the speakers with some background static and slight chops to the audio feed. "Death toll as of now is over two thousand Imperial troops and slaver guards."

"2nd Battalion suffered two deaths and 22 injured," The 2nd Battalion commander reported. "Also there were 300 over collateral damage...

231 - You funny guy!

UNS Singapore, Conference Room, Operation Freedom Minus 25 days

"Orwell's Point has roughly 30,000 people in the city on average, but during winter and early spring, the number drops to half," Lieutenant Tavor said. "As merchants and slavers rarely do business due to the rivers and roads being closed due to winter."

"And at least 5,000 of those people in the city now are slaves, the reminder mostly guards, soldiers, and service providers," Tavor tapped on the...

230 - Modern Warfare

Recommended song "Battlefield 1942 Theme Song"

Orwell's Point

Dasar yawned as he stretched his cold body after a morning of standing guard at the drawbridge. He rubbed his cold hands together with the shaft of his spear and stomped his fur lined boots to relieve them.

His partner. Jun, leaned against the wall and as close as he could to the dying embers of a fire brazier while hugging his spear and half dozing away.

Dasar rub...

229 - Operation Freedom

Draco Air Base, Training Hanger Three

Private Slow held on to a yellow strap that was hooked to a cable overhead as he stood in a queue behind several of his platoon mates. "30 SECONDS!" The Platoon Sergeant yelled and everyone echoed after him. "Standby!"

An overhead red light switched to green followed by a buzzer and the Platoon Sergeant yelled, "GO GO GO!"

The first man walked out of the wooden frame door and hopped off the platform, befo...

228 - Questioning Plans

13km offshore from Far Harbor

Snow constantly drifted down from the downcast skies, turning visibility low. The barge rumbled as it plowed through the windswept waves, relying on a very basic beacon system and radar to navigate the seas.

A beam of light flashed through the snow and suddenly a large shadow loomed out. The pilot of the barge lowered the speed of the boat and aimed the bow of his boat at the lights.

As the barge came closer to t...

227 - The Gathering

Dead Frontier, Border to The Great Ocean Plains

Morale was high as the men and women worked on improving the abandoned village's conditions. Buildings too dilapidated were torn down and any usable materials were recycled to patched up those buildings still sturdy enough for habitation. 

The old broken down village hall had its walls and roof mended and served as communal sleeping quarters so that they can use lesser fuel for heating. The badly rotted pal...

226 - Dead Frontier

Haven, City Hall Ballroom

Laughter and music filled the Ballroom of the City Hall while fireworks and other performances continued throughout the night of the city. 

Commander Ford took a glass of sparkling wine from a passing waitress and joined Captain Blake and Princess Sherene. "Congrats on the engagement!" 

He raised a toast to the smiling couple. "Finally you announced it officially, I think the people were gonna tear you apar...

225 - Year One + 4 months

The entire city was decorated with banners and flags of reds, blues, whites, and gold. Music and processions of dancers and performers filled up almost every street as the city inhabitants danced and celebrated in the snow.

Bursts of fireworks rocketed off here and there and the whole city was celebrating Founding Day. Work at all the outposts had stopped and everyone that could make it to the city gathered in the streets except for a few critical personnel.

...

224 - Monster Briefings

"Its tensile strength can be comparable to graphene which is around 200 times that of steel," Dr. Sharon said as she stood at the head of the conference table.

She displayed an image of a cut out portion of a slab of purplish white meat. Pointing to the skin portion which information overlays appeared, "The skin or hide of the beast is roughly two centimeters thick on average with the thickness raising to five centimeters thick covering vital organs of the creature."

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223 - Friendly Giants

Bursts of salty water sprays drizzled over Dr. Sharon as she soaked in the sun on the forward decks as the PT boat engines roared over the sounds of crashing waves. She carefully shuffled her way next to a green faced Magister Thorn who looked like he was gonna collapse anytime.

"How are you doing?" Dr. Sharon grinned at the sickly looking Magister.

Thorn gagged as he tried to keep himself from vomiting from the seasickness. "Th- this is not wh- what I call e...

222 - The Great Krarga

Far Harbor

People lined the wharves and docks as they watched with fantasied horror at the huge dark purplish lump of flesh that gave off an overpowering stench being towed in by the seaplane tender, UNS Matador.

Despite the gagging smell, the elves who lived in the interior of the continent have never laid any eyes on any sea monsters before only hearing them in the tales passed down by their ancestors who crossed the Great Ocean coming to the New World.

221 - I Got Bigger Guns

"One to all Flying Fish," The flight leader hit his comms as he watched the remainder of his flight forming up next to his wing. "Fish with guns to go in first and provide close-in support while Fish with anti-shipping ordnance to commence bombing of that wiggly thingy next, over."

"Roger!" The rest of Flying Fish flight replied and the planes formed up into a 3 - 3 - 2 formation. The first three Sea Cobras were armed with twin .50 caliber guns and a dual 20 mm gun pod dipped...