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"Everybody fall back. We need to make it back to the ship. TherE is no way we can kill all of these things without injury to ourselves." Dorf commanded as he stared out to the thousands of zombies still approaching

Dorf turned around and began fighting his way through the zombies, back to their ship. Dorf lunged his hammer upwards towards the neck of a zombie. Making contact,
electricity shot out tearing the man's head right off and sailing into the air 100 feet.

Heads up!! Dorf shouted back.

Zip heard Dorf yell to go back to the ship. He saw the other Revenants running back towards the ship. He followed swiftly behind shooting every zombie that crossed his path. Even though zombies are slow, stupid and easy targets, he knew a wall like the one he had just seen was probably too much to handle.

As he was running back to the ship all of the sudden a flying zombie head hit him so hard on the head that the force knocked him down. A zombie he was about to shoot moments before getting hit lunged at him. "Where did that come from?" He yelled as he stabbed the zombie in the head continuous times.

He continued his run back to the ship still feeling a little dizzy.

Dorf's command is quickly heard and Rando starts to make his way back to the ship sweeping zombie after zombie with his mace turning them to piles of bone, flesh and blood. Sundenly Zip is hit with a severed head that seemed to have came out of no where.

Rando yells, "Let's get out of here!"

As he clears a pathway so that the rest of the team is able to get ahead of the massive barrier of abomiantions determinded to not let us out alive.

Dorf heard John yelling because people were boarding our ship.

"It's ok. They can't take our ship without this key" Dorf yelled back. Just as the rest of the crew was in sight of their ship 10 members of the Kahgern gang that they had just stolen from intercepted their path of retreat from the zombies.

Dorf stood there for only a second. "You guys go after the gang members, I'll drive the zombies away in the other direction. I should be fine with my armor on. There is no way their human teeth can sink through this. " Dorf pounded his chest proving the thickness of his armor and then quickly ran into the barrage of zombies that were following them.

All of a sudden, Scorpius shows up at Dorf's feet. He yells, "Clear a path quickly, we have found the Jerupa Gang Leader. Venom is cutting a path through the zombies with the leader behind him!"

Suddenly, limbs and blood start raining down on both Dorf and Scorpius. Venom appears, drenched in blood from head to toe, his dual daggers glistening. "To the ship!" Suddenly, 10 zombies directly behind the Lieutenant just drop dead, "Goddamn did those wings give me gas."

The Revenants found the talisman in the gang's camp much easier than expected, but Kayden knew that on Old Earth, you can't walk 100 meters out in the open without being attacked by some kind of wild animal or a gang ambush. The crew stepped outside the seemingly abandoned building to the sight of thousands upon thousands of what appeared to be people running directly for them. "The Hunt has begun." He said quietly to himself with a smile spreading underneath his helmet.

Kayden engaged his cloaking field, and sprinted at maximum speed towards the enemy. He covered the distance in the blink of an eye, and if he wasn't cloaked, he would have still been nearly too fast for the human eye to track. Time seemed to slow down for Kayden as the combat receptors in the visor began to predict the movements of the enemy. In mid stride, Kayden planted one foot into the ground, charging the leg in an instant to 100% before releasing and launching him nearly 30ft into the air. As Kayden spun and twisted in the air, he reached down to his right leg and disabled the magnetic fasteners holding his maul. With a flick of both arms downwards, the dual blades in his left gauntlet extended to 18 inches, and at the same time, the maul blades sprung out to their combat position making that weapon nearly 5 feet long.

Kayden hit the ground in the densest group of humans who appeared to be decomposing more by the second. His arms exploded in a flurry of attacks. Kayden plunged the gauntlet blades on his left arm just under the collarbone directly beneath the creature's neck. Kayden then kicked the body with his left foot and the neck made a sickening sucking sound as the head came clean off, greyish blood and gore spraying over the crumpling corpse.

Before he had even finished decapitating that enemy, the maul in Kayden's right hand had cut straight across the chest of another zombie, the intestines spilling out onto the ground. The creature glanced two very human eyes down at it's own intestines with a curious look on its face as it started to fall to the ground dead, and yet Kayden's maul had already swung backwards impaling two gangrenous humans on the blade. With a flick of his elbow, the maul ripped sideways out of the stomach of the creatures.

Kayden noticed out of the corner of his eye, another zombie was closing in on his left side with jaws gaped wide open. These creatures aren't trying to fight, but actually just trying to bite me. Odd. Kayden brought his arm low and in an uppercutting movement jammed the gauntlet blades underneath the jaw of the zombie. He then pulled his blades towards him, ripping the face of creature off, revealing brain and bone as the tongue of the zombie hung limp without the support of a jaw.

Only a few seconds had passed, and Kayden had already dropped a dozen of the zombies when a voice rang out "Everybody fall back. We need to make it back to the ship."

"What, to much for ya?!?" Kayden yelled back, as he swung his maul in a circular motion, cutting a perfect diagonal line through 4 zombies as he leaped deeper into the swarm. Those youngins must have been having trouble already, and I'm just getting limbered up! He thought as he cut down 3 more zombies in two swipes of his blades.

"There are survivors stealing our ship! hurry up!" Was announced across the battlefield. "DAMN!! Can't you guys do anything right?! Where's Blindside to cover the flank?" Kayden said as he swept his blades in a circle through the legs of a dozen zombies, giving him a clearing enough to charge his suit for a jump towards the ship. He sprung forth with fury and determination. He would be mocked for getting stuck on the very rock he left in order to begin his Ritual Hunt. Kayden slashed through the zombies, running as fast as the suit could move his straining muscles. Push yourself.

He neared the crew, battling their way through the mob of undead, on their way back to the ship. Kayden zoomed his visor towards the ship only to see more than 3 dozen surviving gang members piling gear into the ship they were trying to steal. It was then that his HUD displayed a tremor of 3.5 on the Richter Scale. What was that?

The ground in the core of the zombie force exploded upwards, launching hundreds of zombies sailing into the air. A massive beast over 60ft tall crawled out of the gaping hole in the ground. It's natural form was obscured by the glint of warped steel armor covering the already horrific body. Shit! It can't be!!!

EVERYONE TAKE COVER!!! Kayden yelled at the top of his voice.

The Ritual Hunt Archives recorded some battles from hundreds of years ago, where the greatest warriors of his clan joined together to hunt massive beasts of war. When Kayden reached the rank of YoungBlood, he was taught that ancient humans once cloned creatures from the Jurassic Period and used them for battles. They were even known to modify the bodies of the terrible creatures to make them more combat effective. It was clear that the battle we waged above the earth awoke one of these terrible monsters of destruction from ancient times.

The Demon from below stood on two massive and powerful legs with a tail stretching out as long as the creature was tall. It had two arms that looked to have large amounts of metal grafted to them to compensate for what seemed to be limbs that other wise would have been very useless. Now they were justified killing machines. The head of the beast was enormous, and could easily swallow a human without swallowing, despite what the hundreds of dagger-like teeth would do. Where the body wasn't covered in large metal spikes or blades, it was covered in thick plate metal. Even a handful of the zombies, whose brains were rotting, realized that they would do better to flee this terrifying sight, and those few did turn and run.

We would have to work together to have the slightest chance to defeat this creature.

Kayden had just reached Dorf, who had slowed his slaughter of zombies when the beast looked directly at the two warriors, let out a roar, a combination of animal and mechanical noise that cut right to the core of the hardest warrior's soul. And then the tyrant lizard charged.

Venom heard the roar, in response to the roar, Venom left the leader near Dorf. He then spotted a tree perfectly suitable for a trained marksman. Venom then disappeared and ran at full speed to the tree and ran right up it, nearly slowing to a halt and falling out when he reached the top. Quickly put away his daggers and readied his Rifle. Looking through the scope he spotted two weak points. The eyes and the gaping mouth. He then sighted the left eye of the Tyrannosaurus Rex and fired, burning a hole to the brain, where thick skull bone stopped the bullet. He then aimed for the other eye and pulled the trigger. It clicked. Venom, surprised at the sudden empty cartridge, curses "Fuck, I'm outta ammo, you guys go head and kill the damn thing. I gotta reload."

As Dorf bowled through the dozens of zombies, the zombies attempted to bite Dorf but their teeth doing absolutley nothing to his armor. Dorf eventually ran into Scorpius, Lt.Venom and the leader to the Jerupe gang.

"To the ship!" Venom yelled to Dorf.

Dorf turned around and began his charge back through the zombies and towards their ship. The zombies easily fell to the ground from the force of Dorf running into them. As they fell to the ground, Dorf could not help but step on their skulls, squishing them against the pavement, as he continued running. Lt.Venom, Scorpius and the Jerupe gang leader were following closely behind in the wake of zombies that Dorf was leaving.

On their way back to their ship, Dorf spotted a human slicing down zombie after zombie with his energy blade. More and more zombies slowly encircled the man. Dorf altered his course slightly to he aid of the man. Knocking down the zombies with his gigantic stature, Dorf met up with the man.

"Hey, You! I have a ship if you want to come with us." Dorf offered out hoping that the man's skill with his energy blade would come in handy. Dorf then re-focused his sight and headed back towards the ship.

After minutes of stomping their way back to the ship, Dorf saw both the Kaghern gang members and the survivors who were trying to steal their ship, running towards them. Dorf stopped his charge, widened his stance and held his hammer up in the air, ready for their attack.

"I hope the others have not been slain by these rift rafts. I know there is no way Oltu would have fallen to this meager group." Dorf thought to himself, ready to kill each and everyone of them for harming his crew.

Much to his dismay, the gang members and other survivors ran past Dorf, Lt.Venom, Scorpius and even more surprising, the leader of their rival gang. They ran past the group not even taking the time to see who they were.

"That can't be a good sign." Dorf said back to the others as they continued their march back to their ship. Just as Dorf was nearing their landing spot, he saw what it was that the others were running away from. Standing between him and the rest of the Revenants and their ship was a giant 30 foot mechanically enhanced T-Rex.

Kayden ran up to Dorf, ready to fight the beast before them.

*RRRRROOOOOOAAAAAARRRRR*

The beast roared out a giant, window shattering roar as he stared Dorf down right into his four eyes.

Without hesitation, Dorf ran up to the beast with his hammer raised in the air. Running right for the belly of the beast, the enormous T-Rex lowered his head in an attempt to eat Dorf. Much to large for a single bite, the T-Rex lowered his jaw around Dorf. Dorf held his jaws ajar with his lower arms as he swung his hammer towards the beasts head. The hammer made contact as a jolt of electricity transferred from the hammer to the T-Rex's skull. The bolt did little but shock the creature for a second. As the T-Rex's bite tightened around Dorf, Dorf dropped his hammer and used all four of his arms to keep the monster's jaws from penetrating his body. The razor sharp teeth of the T-Rex slowly severing their way through Dorf's dense armor, one tooth making contact with his lower left hand.

"Hurry guys" Dorf yelled at the other members. "I can't hold him for much longer"

Dorf slowly started sliding back as the monster pushed his head further down to the ground, close to biting Dorf in half.

Dorf continued his brace against the jaws of the beast as John assaulted the interior of the Monster's mouth.

Affected by John's attack, The monster released his grip from Dorf and raised his head high into the air. Dorf quickly retrieved his hammer back from the ground.

"Thanks" Dorf expressed to John for saving him from being devoured by the beast.

With Dorf loosing his attention for a second, the beast turned around and slammed his tail in Dorf, sending him flying into the side of a near by building.

Dorf stood back up from the rubble. "Ouch"

Kayden witnessed the crew working as a team now. Shots rang out putting out one of the eyes of the robotic tyrant lizard, and yet the beast only slowed for a moment. The brain of that beast was as tiny as a peanut, so it is no surprise that the bullet didn't find its home there. A second shot was fired, with a similar result to the first, but this time, it gave Dorf the opportunity to move in for an attack, who willingly climbed into the jaws of the monster trying his luck.

Kayden was right behind Dorf in their assault of the creature. The blades of kayden slashed out across an armored leg, testing the armor, which was even thicker than expected. In midattack, a sharp pain went through his lower right ribcage as something hit him from behind, sliding Kayden across the ground away from the mechanical monster. Kayden grimaced as he watched the spiked tail of the creature pull free of his armor.

Kayden's eyes now glossed over in red as a rage filled him that he hadn't felt in over a year. He cried out a scream of bloodlust and sprinted back at the behemoth, planted a foot in midstride, and exploded upwards. Kayden climbed up the giant creature by digging his blades into its side, one after another, working his way up. He clawed his way to the upper back of the monster, trying to avoid being impaled on the spikes adorning the beast's back.

Kayden raised his maul, and plunged it as hard as he could into the back of the creature. He didn't remove the maul, but rather began to drag it through the armor, bone and flesh. Yet even with the energy blade technology carving it's way through the body, Kayden still struggled against the thick hide.

Kayden's own side began to ache and burn as his HUD continued to flash that his lower back armor had been pierced. But there was no time to worry about that, even as his blood flowed out of his back.

Hit the eye with hollowpoints!! He yelled out.

Zip had almost made it back to the ship when all of the sudden a big tremor struck the ground and knocked him over as well as several zombies around him. A large armour heavy Tyrant King rose in the midst of the zombies and started to destroy everything in its path. When he noticed that the zombies were fleeing, he reached into his backpack and pulled out a harpoon gun with a winch attached. He shot at the beast's legs.

The harpoon penetrated the beasts leg, as he connected the winch to a steel pole 150 feet away the beast moved its leg and snapped the winch before Zip could even start hoping for it to work.

"Dammit, that thing broke very strong wire!"

Noticing that Kayden got thrown from the beast, he ran over to see if he needed help. Just then a shot from Blindside's sniper penetrated its skull and bounced around in its brain causing it to die instantly.

"Hey your back looks pretty bad there, need me to put some temporary stitches on you?"

With news that their ship was being stolen Oltu pushed his way through the zombies to get there as the ground started to rumble and break. A giant metal plated T-Rex broke through the crust of the earth with an ear shattering roar causing everyone to flee, gang members and zombies alike, leaving only the bounty hunters left to fight. To Oltu's suprise, Venom had already come back with the gang leader and Dorf was helping him on board the ship. Once on the ship, Dorf was quick to be back into the battle, jumping into the mouth of the already weakened T-Rex.

Blindside and Venom had taken advantage of the T-Rex's weak point by shotting it's eyes. Soon after Dorf had been freed of the tightening T-Rex's mouth by John, it fell to it's death with one more simple armor piercing round from Blindside. Hmm, a foe who seemed to be unbeatable was just beat within matter or seconds, Oltu thought to himself, having done nothing to assist, Peculiar.

Oltu then channeled his energy at a half destroyed building next to the T-Rex, until the building split from it's base. The spliting metal of the building's frame rang out in the calm after the battle as it came crashing down on the T-Rex's body, filling the air with dust and debris.

"Just want to make sure," Oltu said light-heartedly.

A third rifle shot echoed across the battlefield. The beast was hit again, and reared up tossing Kayden like a rag doll, tumbling through the air. Kayden hit with a heavy thud, his armor taking most of the shock. He began to stand up, the dirt sticking to two different colors of blood covering his armor, grey from the zombies, and red from the robotic lizard. Just when he got to his feet, the beast crashed to the ground, shaking the earth again.

"Hey your back looks pretty bad there, need me to put some temporary stitches on you?"

"DON'T touch me." Kayden said, the bloodlust still not worn off. He would not be shamed by being stitched up, his wounds required his ritualistic healing methods. Kayden switched his suit to maintenance/medical mode, and the cloth undersuit began to pull tight around the wounds, stopping the bleeding almost immediately. It felt like the wound was a clean one, punching through the outside edge of his lower ribcage.

Kayden made his way over to the fallen robotic lizard, that now had a crushed up building on top of it. He found where the tail lay limp, and began to cut off the tip of the tail, a section around 5 feet long, covered completely in thick metal armor with a sharp pointed blade attached to the end. Kayden reached up to his left shoulder armor and pulled off a plated section. He pushed two buttons simultaneously expanding the box in all directions and opening it to reveal miniaturized versions of several trophies, including skulls of various creatures and a few trophy weapons.

There was also a bizarre tool inside the box about 4 inches long with a small bag attached to the end. Kayden dragged the tip of this oddly shaped tool from where he cut the tail section off, all the way down to the tip of the blade on the end. The tool stored the information it had just recieved, and replicated a miniaturized version only 2 inches long. Kayden pulled this from the bag and placed it inside the trophy box.

Time to get going. He thought to himself as he quickly put everything away and made his way to the ship, where he could begin to repair his wounds. Kayden made it to the ship uneventfully, and climbed aboard.

As everyone boarded the ship, Venom finished reloading his 100 round clip. He then got out of the tree and went to the ship. Making sure that nobody was left behind, he entered and went to the Restrooms to clean up, having been showered with zombie blood from his psychotic killing spree.

"Alright boys, back on to the ship. We are all done here. Let's get off this rock before those zombies find their way back. We will be heading to New Earth to collect our reward." Dorf explained to the group of bounty hunters.

Dorf hopped on board and made his way to his room. Removing his armor, Dorf checked out his hand and found a huge lasceration. After hanging his suit back up and placing the hammer back in it's holder, Dorf taped up his hand to stop the bleeding.

After attending to his injury, Dorf headed to the cockpit to get the ship ready for take off.

"We have a new presence among us," Scorpius warns, "Does not seem to be hostile though." "Yeah, I sense them too." Venom replies. Freshly cleaned up and working on cleaning his equipment.

With all of the passengers finally loaded onto the ship, Dorf pushed the "GO" button once more as they headed towards New Earth to collect their bounty.

Dorf grabs for the intercom located in the cockpit and turns it on.

*DING*

The P.A. chimes alerting the passengers of their message.

"First, I want to officially welcome everyone into the Revenants. The courage and determination you should out there proved to both Oltu and I that you are worthy of caring the name of The Revenants. We are headed to New Earth to collect our bounty for the talisman and saving their leaders life. I assure you, I will make sure we are paid handsomely, given the difficulties of this supposedly easy mission. We will be spending a few days on New Earth looking for another job. All of you are free to go about the planet and do whatever you want until we find more work."

Dorf hung up the intercom and prepared the autopilot for New Earth.

After hearing the message over the intercom, Venom is very happy with the news. "Alright, I finally got some money to use for bait. Now I can go relax out on the water and fish the day(s) away till more work is given." Venom exclaimed, finished with cleaning gear. He then gets up and goes to the Mess Hall and gets something to eat and drink.

Oltu had unknowingly boarded the ship after the completion of their mission, as he had down hundreds of times before. As the rest of the group made their way on board Oltu headed toward the cockpit, following Dorf, while the rest tended to their needs.

Oltu took his seat in the cockpit, as the navigator and Dorf took his, as the pilot. The intercom ding came over the ship as Dorf made an announcement of a job well done and welcoming everyone to the Revenants. A sigh of relief came over Oltu at the sound of the news, Another reliable team of bounty hunters, he thought while keying in the coordinates of New Earth into the holographic console in front of him. Dorf finished his announcement in time for the coordinates to pop up on his screen before turning on the autopilot.

"A job well done and soon money in our pocket," Oltu said looking to Dorf, "But the best of it all, we have the Revenants active and it only means the better," he finshed leaning back in the seat with a smile across his face.

"Agreed. It will be good to get some jobs under our belts and some money in our pockets."