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Oltu's sat watching as the colors of open space flew passed the cockpit as the yelling that filled the cargo hold had dispersed. Dorf stopped by the cockpit to double check that everything was still set to their course before leaving. The smell of the wings still on Dorf waved into the cockpit making Oltu's stomach grumble. Food, that would sound really good right now. Maybe when we get this job done I'll get some, he thought to himself as the remaining smell left the cockpit.

A silence came over the cockpit allowing Oltu's mind to be lost in the beautiful colors once more. His mind drifted deeper into the past memories of his various teams of bounty hunters.

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"I still think we should go for it. Those studies are all bullshit," spoke a very armed human.

"I've looked at their details, talked to reliable sources, we should not do this," Oltu told him.

"We have no choice," he replied walking back to the controls of their ship.

"Please, don't do this," Oltu pleaded once more, but to no avail of the human.

With a quick jerk their ship started descending upon a planet that started to come into view through the cockpit windows. The red glow from the planet filled the cockpit as they drew closer and closer to the it. The entire ship started to rattle uncontrollably.

"You're loosing her!" Oltu yelled over top the noise of their ship.

"We can make it!" the human yelled back forcing the controls forward.

The console lights of their ship started to flicker before turning completely dark. The glass that was once their window shattered and pieces of their ship started to tear off as they descended to the planet.

"NO!!" Oltu shouted as he crossed his arms and closing his eyes before disappearing into nothing.

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Oltu awoke startled from his dream as he wiped the sweat from his forehead with the back of his hand, breathing deeply.

"Not again," Oltu said catching his breath and leaning back in the seat.

Not even fazed by how fast Dorf downed the wings, Venom and his scorpion companion, Scorpius, continue on eating. As Venom can operate on very little sleep.

As soon as the yelling began, Kayden engaged his cloaking field and made his way towards the dining area he was at before the briefing. Kayden needed to begin his hunt far more than he needed to join in on a pissing match.

Once Kayden reached the dining area, he made a b-line for the whiskey bottle, as a pair of the men were busy jamming their faces with hot wings. Kayden reached for the bottle, then stopped as he realized someone had moved the whiskey.

A felow whiskey drinker? I figured that drink too much for children. Perhaps one of them is worthy of my friendship. He thought to himself in the shadows, enjoying another swig of the fine whiskey. I wonder if there is a training room onboard? He thought.

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Dorf stood there in the middle of the mines beneath the surface of Bormunth. Caverns after caverns stretched across Dorf's view.

A brute bumped into from behind "Get back to work." The other Largix commanded.

Dorf grabbed a gigantic hammer and began chipping away at the dense core of Bormunth. He continued hammering away for what felt like an eternity. After filling a cart full of the dense rock, Dorf started pushing the old metal cart towards the surface of the planet. Seeing the bright light of the equally enormous star that illuminated their huge planet, Dorf finally reached the surface of the planet. He walked over the quarry of the other rocks that have been previously mined, sands sweeping across the ground and whipping through the air. Dorf stood there, standing and staring back into the blazing yellow sun, his four eyes squinting. As large as Dorf was, he couldn't help but feel microscopic compared to the vast openness of the Dark Abyss.
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Dorf slowly opened up his four eyes as he rubbed them with his arms.

*YAWN*

Dorf stood up from his bed stretching out. He slowly made his way out of his room, stumbling through the hallways. He managed to make his way to the cock pit through his haze. He saw Oltu asleep in one of the pilot's chairs. He walked around the to the other chair.

"Hey, get up" Dorf shouted over to Oltu. "We're almost there." Dorf hit Oltu on his chest to ensure that he awoke.

Dorf stood back up and made his way through the ship. Ending in the cargo bay again, he reached for the intercom.

*Ding*

The announcement bell rang.

"Attention everyone. We are close to our landing spot. Everybody, get up, get yourself ready for the mission and meet in the cargo bay. If you need it, there is a small armory with some usable gear right next to the cargo bay."

Dorf returned the intercom mic and headed back for his room. Pressing a concealed button underneath a shelf. One of the walls in his room flipped around as his armor and weapon were attached to it. Grabbing his hammer first, Dorf picked up the 80 lb weapon and laid it next to his bed. He then reached for his armor, made of thick metal and weighing close to 150 lbs., Dorf began putting it on. Leaving only his helmet off, Dorf grabbed his hammer and made his way back to the cargo bay.

Kayden wondered around the ship, finally ending at a room he could call his own while on the ship. He locked the door, and switched his suit mode over to maintenance/medical. He reached to the small of his back, and as he did, a 10x10cm piece of armor seperated itself from the suit and fell into his hand. Kayden then set this piece on the table and pressed a small indentation on the metal. The armor plate grew in all direction, mainly in thickness, to around 6cm. He pressed another intentation on the now box shaped armor, and the top of the box folded outwards revealing several other metal objects inside, all of various shapes. He started his mental checklist, square disc, triangle, circle, oval, pentagon, and hexagon. He pushed the first indentation again, and the box instantly folded back, and shrunk back to resemble the armor plating again. Kayden replaced it and then began a diagnostic on his armor. There were several metallic pops and pings as the armor plates all shifted and folded outwards in all directions. The leg armor contracted itself, charging the suits maximum jump capacity, and the bled it off slowly through a discharge of air and a small hop, which he landed with no noise at all due to the sound dampers in his boots. As quickly as everything began, it was over. Kayden's armor now resembling the way it normally does.

"Everybody, get up, get yourself ready for the mission and meet in the cargo bay."

Perfect timing, he thought. Kayden replaced his helmet and switched over to combat mode. The visor immediately began scanning for targets, and displaying endless streams of information only the trained eye would be able to decipher.

He marched his way back to the cargo bay to wait for the orders. Hopefully this pilot steered us away from the major cities, and landed us near the outskirts, or else there might be some bad consequences. The least of which will be us being greeted by hails of gunfire as we fly overhead.

Kayden arrived at the cargo hold to see that nobody was even there yet.

"Typical"

Awoken from his meditation, Rando heard Dorf over the intercom instructing everyone to gear up. He grabbed his armor from the closet in his bunk and his mace which he had tossed up against the wall. His armor consisting of a chest piece, shoulder pads, pants, boots and gloves. All made out of a light-weight titanium alloy weighting approximatly 120 lbs. His trusty mace with the shaft crafted out of the same titanium alloy, but the spiked ball to top that, forged from a fire hardened rare material only found in the deepest mines of Bormunth. Might as well make my way to the armory to see if I can't find a suitable helmet for myself, he though as he equiped himself for battle.

Rando makes his way through the passage ways back to the cargo bay where he now sees the open armory just off to the side. "Ah, there we are", he said to himself. Kayden, John, and Aleksey being the only people in the cargo bay at that time Rando says, "Well it looks like a few are ready to go so far" as he walks in heading over to browse the fortified armory.

Zip awoke to an intercom message. "This is where the fun really starts," he thought to himself. He pulled his revolver out of his backpack and placed it in the holster. He walked into the armory and found some plastic explosives. "Well, ain't this my kind of shit!"

After stuffing his backpack with C4 and putting some light plate armor on underneath his trenchcoat, he moseyed down to the cargo area.

As the ship landed on the earth, Dorf looked at the motley crew before him.

"Alright men, this a defensive mission. We are here to get in and out with the talisman, we are not looking for blood. You will only attack if being attacked upon, there is no need to risk injury or life on this easy mission. We are just on the outskirts of the Kaghern gang's territory. We need to venture into the middle of their city where they keep the talisman belonging to the Jerupe gang. They have offered us a handsome reward for its retrieval. Stealth is key here, the less we are heard and seen the better."

Dorf opened the doors the doors to the ship and jumped out, ready for anything. Much to his dismay, Dorf saw nobody.

"That's weird." Dorf thought to himself. "There should at least be some border proctectors?"

Dorf ventured a bit further from the ship when a man became visible in the distance.

"Hold your fire men" Dorf ordered as he held out two of his arms, using hi other two to hold up his hammer.

The man ran up to the group yelling and scraming incoherently. As he approached closer, Dorf could make out his cries for help. The man reached the feet of Dorf.

"Please, Please, Help Me." the man cried out. "There everywhere. They come out of nowhere and try to kill you."

"Calm yourself man" Dorf repsonded as he picked the man up off of the floor. "What's going on here?" Dorf asked the man.

"There was something in the water" the man responds as he tries to catch his breath. "It changed them, all of them. We couldn't stop them, nothing but removing their head would stop them from their assualt. They lunge after you trying to bite and.... eat you."

Dorf tossed the man aside in disbelief of the man's statement.

"Come on boys, let's go get our prize." Dorf stated as he looked back at the men eager for action.

Please wait for Junction's post before adding to the story.

Venom casually walks behind everybody else, whom are all unaware of his presence. Finally, I get to see some action again.

Oltu was abrutly awoken by a slap in the chest from the large Largix.

"Hey, get up" Dorf shouted over to Oltu. "We're almost there."

Oltu rubbed his eyes and took a quick look out of the cockpit windows to see that the ship was landing on the surface of Old Earth. Time to get geared up, Oltu thought before heading for the cargo hold as Dorf's announcement came over the intercom.

Other people slowly made their way into the cargo hold ready for their mission at hand. Dorf briefed the group again on the tactics of the mission, being defensive, before opening the doors and walking out. Oltu was quickly behind Dorf, followed by the rest of the group.

"Hold your fire men," Dorf shouted back to the group.

Oltu could barely make out the man that was running up to them or what he was screaming about. After the man explained himself, Dorf tossed him aside, ready to pursue their mission further. Bite us? Eat us? the words circled in Oltu's head, Can't be true.

"Alright everyone, our source tells us that the talisman is due east of here, so follow me," Oltu yells to their group, leading them east.

As they approached the boarder of the gangs village the group slows their run to a creeping walk, ready for anything. An eerie feeling comes over Oltu as no one is seen around the village. What is going on here? Why is there no one here? They've got to be out in a gang war. But take the whole gang? Oltu thought to himself, searching the area for a sign of life.

Regardless, the group pushed on through the village until their arrival on the talisman, which was resting on a worn desk in a run down building. Oltu's quickly graps it and puts it in a pocket that is on his robe.

"Well then," Oltu says aloud to the group, "That was suprisingly easy,"

Oltu and the group walk outside the building to finally see people running toward them. As they draw closer and closer it becomes apparent that these are not normal people. Their flesh seems to be falling off their bones, their eyes filled with blood and their ravaging mouths snapping open and closed at the sight of the group.

"Get ready for battle, men! We're not dealing with normal people, there's something about these ones!" Oltu shouts across the group as the running monstrosities draw ever nearer, hungering for death.

Venom quickly shimmied up a tree and readied his rifle, Scorpius on his shoulder. Venom then aims and starts picking them off, one by one, while keeping an eye out for the others in case one of them needs help.

As the sound of Oltu's shouting reached Rando's ears, "Get ready for battle, men! We're not dealing with normal people, there's something about these ones!" he grasped his mace tightly, letting out a huge battle cry as he ran towards the incoming enemies. With a sweeping strike of his mace he lands a blow right into the side of the abomination shattering his bones and blood splattering across Rando's face. "Ahh, this is more like!" he yells. Quickly after, Rando spins around to land another devestating blow into the skull of another monster, while grasping another one with an unused arm he crushes his skull until blood spurts between his fingers.

Still in the tree, Venom yells to Oltu, "Keep going, I am keeping an eye on the ship and I will cover your asses as you come back with the talisman."

The stand off battle erupt into a massacre of the beasts, as Oltu starts taking focus on his targets. With a quick push of his hands outward and toward the sky, several beasts fly uncontrolably into the air landing multiple feet away. Another push outward by Oltu's hand forces a small group of the masses backwards before he grabs two of them singularly. As Oltu's hands move around in front of him, the monstrosities mirrior the movement through the air. With a rapid gesture, Oltu forces his hands down, slamming the two into the ground, turning them into blood stains. Oltu grabs two more, slamming them into the side of a far off building. He grabs one more and slams him around throughout the group of beasts knocking several of them over, before slamming it into the ground also.

Venom shudders at the sight of Oltu's fight, and continues firing away.

Zip unloaded his revolver on the approaching zombies. Their skulls made a cool gushing noise as their now mushy grey matter spilled out of the back of their heads.

He ducked behind a tree to reload his revolver, then he felt something tickle on his leg. He looked over and saw a zombie grasping at his leg ready to sink teeth, shooting the zombie point blank in the face gave him much satisfaction, the smoke billowed out of the barrell and dissipated into the air.

"This will get some."

He ripped the pin out with his mouth then threw a grenade into a crowd of stampeding zombies. Limbs flew off of several of the ones directly affected by the blast.

After obtaining the talisman, Dorf followed in the rear of the group keeping them safe from any unseen threats. As the left the building, Dorf heard the dd sound of humans growling and snarling. Dorf raised his hammer into the air readying for the attack. As he charged into battle,Dorf swung his hammer at the hordes of men.

*BZZZZ*
his hammer releases a bolt of lightning as it strikes it's first victim. The lightning forces the human backwards 10feet, hitting other humans on the way.

Dorf walks up to the humans who were knocked down and with all his might, drives his hammer down onto their skulls. Blood and brains shower down after being launched in the air from the force of Dorf's swings.

While the killing proceeds, the crackle from his radio is barely heard through the slaughtering. Oltu picks up the reciever, listening to the voice on the other side.

"Oltu, did you get my talisman," the voice said over the radio.

"Yes, but we ran into a minor problem down here. The people seem to be infected with something," Oltu replies into radio.

"What?!" the voice exclaims. "Look, I'm getting a distress call from the Old Earth leader of the Jerupe gang. Find him and help him."

"I don't think you understand," Oltu yells back into the reciever, "We're kind of stuck here, we can't move much,"

"I don't care, find a way and do it. There will be another reward for you," the voice says to Oltu's enlightenment.

"Fine," Oltu says putting the reciever back on his belt, then looking to Venom in the tree, "Venom, I need you to go do a recon for me. The leader of the Jerupe gang is in trouble. Find him and bring him back to the ship safely, he shouldn't be to far from here. Go now!" Oltu shouts to Venom, before turning back to the massacre.

Being the tower that Rando is, he sees that John is up in the battle and the masses are swarming quickly. He rushes over grabing beast by beast throwing them to get to his side.

"John, you might need a little more muscle to be up in the fight like this. Maybe you'd like to stand in the back like everyone else, while Dorf and I take care of things up here." Rando says with a smirk.

"Wouldn't want anyone to be biten", as he sinks his mace into a charging zombie.

Venom, hearing Oltu's command, shouts back "Will do, but don't leave without me damn it!" Scorpius runs down the tree and gets ahead of Venom as he makes his way down. Going Invisible on the way.