The Sentinel Fulcrum, 14: Until My Last Dying Breath
25 Dec 2021Meowers
It wasn't good... It was completely not good... That red blood haze in the helmet, drops...and..ffff...painful. So they..dragged me somewhere, into some kind of hall...I guess it was that glowing room, I saw that bluish..aura or whatever, through..the red haze... Red plus blue equals violet, my, hah, favourite colour. Wasn't so happy seeing it at the moment.
So, those bastards.. Yeah, they weren't your simple mercs as well, too..specifically equipped. And skilled..More like slavers. Why it's always about slavers? Karma..Damn, karma exists, I spent my life fighting slavery, to be.. Uh, to end up like that. Was it my..Reputation or what?
And that..Their leader. He looked at me like.. Well, like I look at someone completely miserable, and told me that I, probably, uh.. Earned my reputation ambushing research vessels like his one. What the crap?.. What research vessels? I'm fighting in open combat, in the..combat zones, not preying on unarmed folks, they could be..superpowers' slaves none less than planet-dwelling people. I'm fighting only..armed enforcers. What's this all about?
Yeah, they're Alliance. He told me that... I'd destroyed an Alliance vessel. That ship was transporting some kind of Anti-Xeno tech, that could stop..the Thargoid war, once and for all. What the... I heard about that Jameson guy and his mycoid weapon, he was..duped. Told that it was non-lethal, but it was.. Terrifically lethal. And his ship was rigged to..go out of control, so he'd hit that planet and presumed dead, but.. Mycoids are awfully outdated, modern Thargoids will just laugh at those missiles.. Or whatever they do for laugh.
But... What that ship was doing in the combat zone? Ah, okay, it was one of the local turd wars, where I was trying to keep the 'legal slavers' away from the independent folks.. Anyway, why they decided that it will be a good idea, to disguise that ship as a combat vessel? To keep the pirates at distance? Why it was in the combat zone anyway? Idiots.
Crap.. Then he just.. Gave me a pat on the shoulder. Wounded shoulder, goddammit...Crap..I felt the damaged armour plate cutting my skin... And that warmth..Blood. Helmet HUD was damaged and blinking... But I saw the air consumption raising slowly... Air pump was still keeping up, and the repair compound was working.. Too many hits, though... Will take some time. Crap... I could push that emergency medication button to inject some adrenaline and painkiller cocktail, might give me enough strength to break free... But my arms were restrained by two thugs, hah, too scared to go one on one with wounded me, pfff...Losers.
So, he commanded those two to drag me to..some kind of..altar or whatever...
"Kill me..But thousands will rise. You will meet your own doom."
And he replied that he had... Another plans on me. What the... Ah, I was happy to lose a fight in a place with such a thin atmosphere... Too thin to..You know. What those guys do first. But, this time...Some kind of 'Fulcrum' thing? What was that? 'Living host'? No..idea. Told about removing my mask though... Took the knife from one of his thugs.
I was still struggling..Trying to break free, trying to find their weak spots..No result. And with three of them here..Crap.
At least I did what I thought is right. Giving people a chance to be free. Until my last dying breath...
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Sorry for the long wait, got terribly busy in that '21st century' boring thing, where you can't just jump into a ship and earn bazillions, jobs in that stupid game is even more grindy than engineering materials.