Vackson heard a sound, he turned quickly. He scanned the area, all around him was the dense forest, lush with wildlife. Being unfamiliar with the environment, he continued slowly, cautious to what would come next. His mission was simple, get in, free the prisoners and get out. His mind was tense with thoughts of what was to come ahead. The trees were thick and the moonlight was not visible...if there even was moonlight. He had been in the forest for days, making the trek towards his destination, the thoughts of open fields and blue sky's were almost foreign to him by now. SNAP! A piece of wood broke in half beneath his foot. He got very still, the forest became silent to him, except for gentle footsteps ahead. He unbuckled his holster, retrieving the plasma discharger. As the steps came closer, he crawled to a nearby log. Taking a deep breath, Vackson peered over the log. His fears came true, a Diginori solider was approaching. "Could this get any worse?" he thought. "TO MA SO KA BE LO KO!"
The Diginori language was foreign to him. Pressing the controls on his forearm, Vackson turned on his translation chip. As the chip kicked in, the translation started coming through. "Captain, the distortion in the energy field seems to be nothing, I'm heading back," said the solider. This was good news, Vackson began to follow the strange creature, and put his weapon back in it's holster. "If this thing is out here, then the camp mustn't be far," he thought. It's armor was a slate gray color, with emerald ranks, this meant it was a sergeant, or at least that's what Vackson had learned back during training at the counsels headquarters. The helmet it was wearing was quite large, and appeared to have a projection display in the visor, similar to the one in Jackson own helmet. Just then, the soldier turned. Quickly, Vackson ducked. In the small portion of the creatures face he could see, it's skin was slimy with a dark blue tint. Abruptly, it turned back walking on the narrow forest path towards the camp. After several minutes of tailing the Diginori, Vackson saw the light of the base. The creature walked up to the gate. As it was standing there, a beam of light scanned it. After several seconds, when the beam turned from white to green, the gate opened. "It must be a biological scanner," said Vackson. BEEP BEEP BEEP. Vackson turned, there was a sound sensor beside him inside the tree trunk. His eyes scanning his immediate area, he drew his weapon, and set it for max power. Hearing a squad of Diginori soldiers heading for the now alarm clad gate, he looked up. "The branches," he thought. Reaching above, he hoisted himself on to the first branch, then another and another. Soon Vackson could see the immediate area with clarity, and had the element of surprise to pull of an attack on the approaching commanders. "Two plain uniforms, the officer I followed and...a Captain, piece of creambread". Vackson was lying to himself to conceal the anxiousness. No counsel soldier had ever escaped a Diginori attack before, even worse, the ones who survived were taken to camps such as these, where questions about counsel security, were tortured out of the POW's until death. If he was to complete his mission, this would be the first raid ever to be successful. He wondered why they sent him, but quickly, he remembered how they told him he was a special warrior, because where he came from. The Diginori were within 15 yards of his hiding place. Steadying his dischargers aim, his crosshairs came into contact with the first Diginori. BOOM! it dropped to it's death, a massive burn it's chest. Silently, he watched as the captain turned and said "keep your eyes open, he is near." Aiming again, the seargent he had followed earlier crept into his sights. Firing the discharger again, the sergeants body flew backwards, his head vaporized by the shot. "Nice knowing ya," was the words that came out of Vackson's mouth, but the sound of these words reached farther than he had anticipated, to the ears of the Captain. "The nemesis is there young one," the Captain said to his subordinate pointing directly at Vackson. Still reaching at the limb, the Captain began to pull back towards himself. Vackson was abruptly lifted and was being pulled quickly towards the Diginori. In midair, he fired a shot at the other foot soldier, and killed him. As soon as he did this this, the Captain used his other hand to revoke the weapon from Vackson's hand. Roughly, the Captain set him down, and with a booming voice, said "What brings you to the planet Diginoria?" Carefully thinking about his response, Vackson responded "orders." "What are your orders humanoid?" "That's classified," responded Vackson. "Put your hands up," said the Captain, motioning at Vackson's hands, situated perfectly at his side. Raising them up, slowly and carefully, Vackson flipped a small switch on the side if his helmet. This was the emergency evac switch. He had approximately 90 seconds till a teleport beam could lock on to him. possibly he could take out the Captain in that time, and find a couple of the prisoners. "What did you just do?", the Captain starred at him with a look of hatred and evil across his slimy blue face. Vackson remained silent, his hands raised. The Captain sent a small order into his com, and began to walk towards his new prisoner. Vackson took a deep breath, and with drew a deep calm from within. As the captain touched his arm, Vackson flipped him over the side. All Council soldiers are practioners of Ju Jitsu. but it was barley a match for the alien fighting style. Dodging, and trying to land a hit proved to be to much for Vackson, and he took a massive blow to the stomach. The display in his visor started counting down "10, 9..." The ship must have gotten a positive lock on him. He tried to deactivate the beaken on his helmet, he still had a mission to finish. But his attempt was in vain, the captain jumped in front him, grabbing his arm at the last second. Together they were teleported to the Counsel ship that Vackson had been dispatched from. Still engaged in combat, the two soldiers landed in the hanger bay. Looking through the large opening, the could see the planet below. A group of Counsel soldiers rushed toward the scene, surrounding the battle. "Your surrounded," said the voice on the shipwide com system. The fight ceased, Vackson stepped back in to the ring of soliders, and said "It's over sir, give the order to release the prisoners". Fiendishly smirking, the Captain stepped back, grabbed his Comm, depressed the button, and said "This is Captain Ofgorm, I have a special order for you all...Kill the prisoners. Laughing hysterically, the Captain looked at Vackson, and said in his deep, booming, evil voice..."your welcome". The Soldiers around fired their dischargers at the Captain, and in that second Vackson let out a very long "Nooooo".
To be continued.....
