"I don't know if I blinked, or
there's some vent we missed, but suddenly
a Skulk was sitting on the counter of the
executive lunch room like we had
caught it scrounging for a late-night snack
in the kitchen, but the six of us looked
tastier. It dodged our lmg's up the wall,
bullets splintering black chrome and ugly
artwork, zipped to the ceiling then dropped
straight onto Zachary. They went down in
a tumble of claws teeth and plush chairs,
his gun still firing, moldy food packs and
Styrofoam cups scattering everywhere. We
kept firing, bullets sparking off the tables
and metal chair legs, knowing FriendlyFire
would stop us from hitting Zach. A large
bloody piece of nano-armor popped lazily
up into the air, and Zachary's gun went
silent. We took our fingers off the triggers,
popped new clips in, and started circling
for a good angle to hit the monster, when
there was this faint hissing sound and suddenly
an explosion, bits of bone and Skulk whizzing
by my ears, and a whole table flipped sideways
and racing towards me a black shiny
circle getting bigger and bigger then 'wham!',
and I'm out. Good news was the same table
blocked most of the shrapnel. But the rest
of the squad
medical nanites wouldn't
have the faintest idea what to do with that
mess."
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