——its Phrax again, quick note before you read, / <—this repeated indicates a time skip of over an hour; up to even days or weeks——
I heard some faint shouts. My eyes opened.
I was surronded in wreckage, and I could see large metal structures towering over me. I could only see far up though, as broken hallways and rooms were sprawled out, clouding my vision futher. The shouting grew closer.
I could make out a voice, strong and raspy. “How did this happen? Must have been those Syomill! This base is going to be shut down forever now, no way we can somehow salvage this”
I quickly got up and looked around. I was bleeding badly and my helmet was gone, as well as prototype A. Around the corner I could see around 5 United Fed. Researchers looking around the wreck with guns. Oh, I realized, the Driftstar must have hit their main research base, Eternal Quarry. Could this have been purposeful with timing, to kill 2 birds with one stone, except that stone is actually a spaceship city housing over a 500,000 people.
I crouched behind what appeared to be a large vending machine. Lying there was a small pistol, so I grabbed it. The UF passed and I ran into some of the hallways, than it set in, I dot have my helmet, so I don’t have Gen. We are going to have to do this old school.
“Over here! Get him!” A new voice yelled. I looked around but saw nothing, till I heard some far away gunfire. A bottled futher, till I found a ladder up to a new layer. There was a gaping hole in this hallway, letting me see through what must have been 10 stories higher where the sun was beating down through. I started finding how to get higher and higher.
I opened a hatch and found myself on top of a the “roof” even through it was really another story that has been destroyed. Looking off the edge I could see other large towers that used to be part of the Driftstar, and in the distance I could see the Eternal Quarry. One of the quarries was still operational, but the rest had been smashed by the Driftstar. I sat on the “roof” to let it sink in.
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The sun has set and I found a flashlight. Although to be honest it’s condition was rather bad. I also found a pair of binoculars and have been scoping out things from “roofs”. Right before the sun set I found an escape pod, but Jeppel wasn’t there, just the escape pod, and it made me wonder if that was even our escape pod. The side was blasted open, so if this was ours it explained how I wasn’t in it.
I scooped out from the roofs to see if I could spot anything but it was to dark. I eventually spotted a moving light in the distance but dissapeared over the wreckage. I decided to head down and search from the ground.
It had to have been around 2 AM when I found my helmet, not anyone’s, but certainly mine. The side of it where my teleportation unit and Gen were, was gone, one side just gone, but I still wore it because the coms unit was still in it. Any attempts at sending or receiving anything didn’t work though. I decided to try and leave the wreckage and get the quarry to see if I could steal some food since, supposedly, all the researchs were searching for things too.
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I snuck through the still operation base and as I suspected saw no one, I quickly grabbed some food and started to head out. Rain started to pour outside.
“Stop right there!” A voice yelled. I slowly tuned around, heaps of food in my hands, I stuffed a protein bar in my back pack. A UF researcher was looking at me, gun in hand.
“Listen kid, I can’t really kill you here with the deal and all, so just drop the food and get on your way, ok?” I dropped the food on a counter. The deal and all? Than it struck me, I was still wearing my Syomill worker outfit me and Jeppel were given. So the UF has a deal with the Syomill? Of course, Zythol is horribly outnumber and outpowered. I started to walk out from where I came in. “Hey, you. What’s in your pockets?” The researcher inquired. I turned around again, this time he didn’t have his gun pointed at me.
“My pockets? Oh I have...” I only have one protein bar, and I’m probably about to starve. “.. have nothing right now except my gun, binoculars, and flashlight.” He lifted up his gun and pointed it at me.
“You aren’t really Syomill are you? I should’ve know.”
“No sir I’m Syom–“
A bullet flew right by me. I turned around and slammed the door behind me and made a run for it. It was still dark and I couldn’t exactly see far a head of me, I pulled out my flashlight but it wouldn’t turn on. I continued to run but tripped and suddenly, I was falling. I hit the ground with a hard impact, having just fell about 20 feet into some mud.
The sound of a grinder was approaching. In each level of quarries they have rotating arms that have grinder on them to grind up extra rock, but to a human that would kill them. I saw it right in front of me. Just then I started to run from it, until I realized that using something metal might break it, I threw my helmet into it, but all it did was grind it up.
“AHHH” I screamed as I jumped down a layer, at least another 10 feet down. I could make out a buzz saw of sorts coming towards me. I tried to jump down another layer bu-
“AHHHHH” I screamed again. My back was cut badly by the saw as I tumbled down another layer, right into another saw blade that cut my arm clean off.
I could make out falling down layer upon layer till I hit the ground on the bottom of the quarry, where all the useless rock collected. My eyes closed once again.
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