"Once more into the breach my friend!"
Who: Jack & Melissa
Where: their room
When: just as they got back
"Man, i am dead..." Jack said as he collapsed on the sofa, Melissa
walked out of the bedroom as he lay there.
"ahh, you're back... what happened?" she asked, seeing him lying
there, exhausted.
"I'm fine" he said, "but we were too late, Rio didn't make it." he
said, sitting up as Melissa offered him a coffee mug, and sat down
next to him.
"who?" she asked.
"Rio Lomaz, she was the pilot for the simulants. Theres... things
down there, powerful... they got her." he explained, just as he
began to drink, Phil appeared on the screen by the door.
"Jack, we need you down here, hangar 12." he said. Jack got up, and
walked to the screen.
"what for? we're not going back down there are we?" he said, a touch
of fear in his voice, for the first time in a while.
"Yeah, we've got to... the first GELF is down there, we need to kill
it." he explained, but Jack moved his head, turning his missing eye
to the screen so he couldn't see it.
"what help do you think i'll be?" he said, "I'm nothing." he said,
beginning to shake slightly.
"Jack, get down here NOW, thats an order." Phil said, turning off
the screen.
"Smeg." he said, walking into the bathroom, and using the last of
his Ultra-Morph. As he started walking out the door, Melissa
stepped in front of him.
"take care." she said, kissing him on the cheek.
"I'll be back before you know it." he said, and walked off.
On the way, he stopped off at Hangar 23, looking for Severn.
"Yo! you here?" he called, all that came back was a metallic clang,
as Severn dropped a spanner.
"hey Jack, whats up?" Severn said, emerging from behind a machine,
He ignored the patch on Jacks eye.
"We're going back down to the planet, and i need some heavy
firepower." he said, looking around.
"hehe, i've got just the thing." Severn said, pulling a large case
from the wall. Opening it, he removed a weapon that looked like it
was from the 20th century.
"woah" Jack said, as he held the weapon in his hands. "Is this an
M249?" he asked.
Severn smiled, "you know your guns, yeah it is..." he said, handing
Jack a backpack full of ammo. "here, that should last long enough."
The backpack was military sized, with a hold cut in the side, an
ammo belt sticking out of it. Jack loaded the belt into the weapon,
and put on the bag.
"rather heavy..." he said, walking slowly to Hangar 12.
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