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.Within seconds, more lasers were firing, and it wasn’t long before the ground lasers began firing as well.The shuttle took a glancing blow from one of the large orbital lasers, and their stealth module failed.“We’re visible,” said Venturi.“On the good side, the stealth module absorbed some of that last shot, so we took less damage.On the not-so-good side, you’re now going to have to fly the shit out of this thing.”“No kidding,” Boom Boom grunted as he wrenched the shuttle around to the right.Task Force Calvin, Onboard the Replicator, February 24, 2021“Let’s go, ladies,” growled Master Chief, using his suit to look behind him while he ran.“Try and keep up.” Tasked with capturing the dreadnought, his squad was sprinting toward the replicator’s docking tube to the warship.At least he didn’t have the worms slowing him down.The only aliens that had been added to his squad were the three flying ones, and they could keep up, even if they were hard to control since they didn’t have suits on.The high ceilings were helpful for one thing; they gave the Xanths room to fly above the middle of the squad, since they were too small and light to be good shock troops.Of course, the pain in the ass photographer had also been added to his squad, but at least he could keep up.So far.Wraith had the lead, with the two kuji in close pursuit.Although they had other failings, when they put their heads down, they could run for long periods.Master Chief was right behind the kuji, and the rest of the platoon was spread out behind them.The two that worried him the most were the squad’s cyborgs, Staff Sergeant Dantone and Staff Sergeant Randolph, who had been added to his squad for the assault.Built more for combat power than speed, they kept falling further back.Before he could order a halt, Wraith rounded a corner and ran headlong into a Drakul that was approaching from the other direction.Running with their heads down, the kuji ran full speed into her, tripping and going face first into the rest of the Drakuls that were spread out across the passageway.There were five Drakuls returning from some errand or work detail.“Contact!” Master Chief called, drawing up short of Wraith.His laser rifle was already in transit to the firing position as the rest of the squad started to bunch up behind him.Lords of their domain, the Drakuls had no need for weapons and were unarmed.Although they initially drew back slightly in surprise from the invisible creatures that ran into them, they immediately began moving forward again, and the Drakul in the front reached down to grab Wraith.Lying back on her hands and feet, she spider-crawled away from its grasp.Before it could grab her, Bob, one of the kuji, leapt forward.Too close for his rifle, the miniature tyrannosaurus rex had several rows of sharp teeth inside his mouth that he could use, and he clamped his jaws shut on the Drakul’s forearm.The Drakul roared in pain.Master Chief shot the closest Drakul to him between the eyes, momentarily blocking the passageway.As the Drakuls behind it pushed the slumping Drakul out of the way, the three Xanths flew overhead, screeching their hatred.Although they blocked the firing lines of some of the back members of the squad, the Xanths had great angles of their own, which they used to shoot the other Drakuls that were in the back of the pack.They only had laser pistols, but they also had great aim.All three were down before they could get close to the Terrans.The last Drakul continued to roar as it swung the invisible kuji back and forth at the end of his wrist.Bob’s teeth shredded the skin and meat at the end of the Drakul’s arm as Bob was thrown from side to side.Seeing the impact Bob was having, Doug leapt forward, fastening his teeth on the other forearm of the Drakul.The weight of the second kuji overbalanced the Drakul, and it was pulled forward.Feeling itself drawn down, the Drakul leaned forward to bite whatever had fastened itself to its arm.It opened its mouth, but only got a mouthful of Wraith’s laser rifle as she jammed it between its jaws and pulled the trigger.The laser fired, the bolt frying the roof of the Drakul’s mouth and continuing upward to boil its brain.The Drakul twitched a couple of times before falling forward, dead.Bob spit out the arm he had been chewing on and then vomited out several pieces of flesh in a blue spray onto the dead body
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