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[STORY] The Grey Planet [Kill me]

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Tayasaurus: MATT looked around and tried to locate the young umbral. With Mipa too weak to call her out, Snno shouted for her instead. "Leaf! I need you! Please hurry!" At first it was silent, with no sign of Leaf appearing but then a pile of baskets tumbled out of a corner. Leaf appeared from around one of the village huts with her arms full with a cloth. She sprinted and scurried quickly to Snno and sat down beside her and Mipa. Mipa held Leaf by the hand and smiled. "Thank you, Leaf. You did well..." Mipa said, her eyes barely staying open. MATT looked at the bundle Leaf was protecting and wondered what was inside. Leaf handed the bundle to Snno, forcing her to take one of her arms away from Mipa. Mipa grabbed Snno by this arm as she held the bundle and looked her in the eyes with a sudden burst of energy. "Snno, listen my child. There are things that the Umbral do not remember about their past, and that which they can learn from. I kept this from you to distance our kind from the past so they could be ready to receive it..." Snno looked at the bundle in her hand and back to Mipa's intense stare. "Elder Mipa... Wh-" Snno tried to ask, but was interrupted by Mipa abruptly. "No time! know this! take that which we have saved and take our people back..." Mipa's eyes were becoming glazed over, her voice faltered  and she started to stare past Snno. Snno shook Mipa back to attention. "Mipa! No! Don't leave! Where do I take them! What do I do?!" Mipa focused on Snno again with an uncomfortable pause. "The stars. Take them back to the stars... you'll need the Blackstar... all of it..." Mipa drifted off one last time and became silent, leaving Snno in a discouraged and frantic state of mind. Mipas unresponsiveness kicked MATT's medical subroutines into gear and he immediately intervened. "Stand back. She's flatlining." MATT commanded, kneeling down beside Mipa's body and putting his hand on her chest. Snno stood up and out of the way and buried her face in the corner of the hut shaking. A small charging sound could be heard from MATT's hand as he sent electricity through Mipa's body, trying to kickstart her heart. Mipa remained unresponsive and after a few more pulses through her body, MATT gave up the effort. "I'm sorry, I'm afraid she is beyond repair."

dr_pepper: Oh hey this was moved.

Tayasaurus: --- Quote from: dr_pepper on December 20, 2016, 11:37:40 AM ---Oh hey this was moved. --- End quote --- Yeah, I went ahead and requested it after enough people messaged me

Tayasaurus: The ride back to the city was an unusually long one for Vikki. She felt like she wanted to throw up and just lay in the corner of the shuttle completely fetal, but she swallowed the sickness and sat upright. A weak image displayed isn't something you wanted to show around MAXX, especially when he too was upset. She looked at SCOPE staring at her from across the shuttle, unblinking with that single eye of his. Vikki's teeth ground against eachother and she decided to break the silence that washed over them from the beginning of their depature. "He still had a pulse when we bailed. Why didn't you have the shuttle pick him up, SCOPE?" She asked with an angry tone trying to escape the back of her throat. SCOPE's eye dilated a few times as he considered his response. "I had detected a chance of failiure should we have taken the extra time to rescue him. Any percentage that could lose us the orb, or the commander would be a loss I would not tolerate. It is unlikely that he is alive now that this much time has passed." Vikki fought back tears trying to build in her eyes and gripped her rifle closely. He was right of course, she didn't know much about the orb, but without MAXX everything would fall apart. She stared out the window and thought about her brother and whether or not he could actually be alive. MAXX sits down beside her and turns her head to him with a giant metal finger. "Don't you worry... I'll be sure to send a recovery team the moment we land. I'm confident in his ability to survive..." Vikki takes MAXX's hand and holds it to her cheek. The metal was cold but the sympathy was warm. "I want to go." MAXX shook his head. "I'm afraid i need you to stay by my side." Vikki looked up into MAXX's red glare. "What? Why?" "We are receiving extra-terrestrial visitors. I need you to head our security teams in case something goes terribly wrong. Your competance is much needed. I'll be sending EAF units to retrieve him." MAXX pulled his hand away and stood back up. "Do not let this upset you. You're the daughter of new man. I need you closer to me than I need you unecessarily endangering yourself." Vikki attempted to speak in protest but MAXX turned to SCOPE. "SCOPE, that MATT unit. Bring me all manufacturing records and tests done with his type. I have never seen his kind amongst our ranks." "Yes, Commander." MAXX looked at the orb in his hand. It glowed responsibly to his touch and let out a low hum. MAXX covered it with the cloth. "This changes everything SCOPE..."

Tayasaurus: Kabr came to in a desperate gasp for air. The body armor he was wearing had thankfully stopped MATT's placed shots on his chest. He was fortunate given that the vests they were wearing were older, otherwise nothing would have been able to disperse the bullets energy. He ripped the vest off and sucked in more air, his chest felt like it was hit by three cars simultaneously; it was quite possible something was fractured but he didn't have any time to look. He rolled over on his back and was greeted by multiple faces of angry looking Umbral, he also noticed all his weapons were no longer on his person, with a little one holding his rifle and fiddling with it further from the group. Kabr checked his translator and tried to say a few words. "Hey... now-" The largest Umbral grabbed him by his undershirt and yanked him up on the ground to his feet and shoved him backwards. Kabr stumbled but quickly found his footing and found the ring that surrounded him was a lot larger than he expected. He looked around for an opening but the angry mob had all chance for escape closed. Multiple spears poked and jabbed at him, encouraging him to stay towards the center of the mob. The crowd jeered and screamed at him, with bloodlust on their minds "Stop that! Careful!" Kabr pleaded, trying to protect his vulnerable sides from the sharpened ends of the spears. The spears withdrew as the Umbral went quiet and the last angry voice died down. The group parted in one place as a particularly brutish looking Umbral entered the center. Kabr looked at the size of the claws on this one and swallowed. "I'm completely aware that I may not be the most popular person right now b- WHOA!" Kabr dodged backwards as the large Umbral took a swipe at him with it's knife-like fingers and laughed at him with a vengeful anger. The crowd had the spears back out again, making sure Kabr couldn't go anywhere near the walls and forced him towards their champion. The brute took another swipe at him in a wide arc and Kabr dodged underneath it, quickly scrambling behind it. Kabr clutched his chest as a sharp pain shot through it. Yeah, something was definetly fractured. He fell to one knee to the pain and the brute spun around. Kabr got back up on his feet and took a defensive stance for the next swipe which he could detect was coming. The anticipated swing did come, and Kabr blocked it with his forearm, sending a punch into the brutes face. The loud sound of a smack shut the crowd up for a few seconds while the brute wiped a small trickle of blood off the corner of its mouth, slightly stunned. It's angry white eyes looked at Kabr and it grinned, with the crowd riling up again. Kabr had been hoping for a better result but had noted earlier that this ones face looked like it had been banged against a tree enough times that it was use to it. "Uh-" was the noise that came out of Kabr's mouth before the brutes balled up knife fist landed square into his helmet. The outer glass shattered and sent Kabr flying backwards into the dirt. Kabr uttered a silent thank-you as he didn't feel a spear go into his back during that. His digital heads up display in his helmet flickered as the system fought to stay online with the damage to his helmet. Kabr switched it off so he could see and got a visual full of hulking Umbral charging towards him. He quickly rolled out of the way, with pressure quickly hitting where he suspected his fracture was. Pain shot through him yet again as he dodged successfully, with the brute careening into the crowd, hitting a few of it's fellow Umbral. "Aaaagh!" Kabr clutched his chest and stumbled to his feet. He looked up expecting another blow coming his way but noticed that the brute was gone and the crowd had stopped shouting. Kabr centered himself back in the ring where it was safest and looked around for the source of the sudden silence. "Well? Are you gonna kill me or not?" Kabr asked, still clutching his chest with one arm.

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