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"Where. Is. Reggor?" The Crew Sergeant was losing his patience.
"I don't know wh-where he is. P-please don't kill me." The Grineer was shivering in pain and fear now.
"We won't. A couple more questions and you'll be free. First: where is the manifest for this outpost. Second: what exactly is project Manic?" Jes stared at him with anger and hatred.
"Th-the manifest is on the logistics terminal in the armory." He started crying from pain.
"If you don't stop crying: I will break you!" Jes was losing it.
The Grineer kept sobbing from inside his ragged faceplate.
Jes unfurled his baton and started beating the captive with it, starting with his other leg. He continued until he heard several 'cracks' and 'snaps' resulting from fractured bones.
"Keep crying! I enjoy watching your kind suffer." Jes kept beating him with the baton as he let out all of his anger.
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"This can only end if you let it. No one is coming to help you. Your army doesn't even know that this outpost has been taken. A Corpus garrison unit is on it's way. Now do you understand me?" Jes asked patiently.
"Y-yes. I understand." The Grineer grinned in pain from the punch.
Jes looked at him with conviction. "Good. First question: where is Tyl Reggor?" Jes hoped that Balgaire wouldn't accidentally kill him until they got what they needed.
The captive looked up at the Crewmen. "I don't know who that is." He shrugged.
"You know what to do." Jes looked away as Balgaire dispensed his punishment.
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"We can do this all day. Just give us what we want and we'll let you leave. You have the opportunity to walk out of this alive. Not many people can say that."
Jes walked next to Balgaire when the Grineer didn't respond. "Everytime he doesn't reply: you punch him in the face, whenever he gives the wrong response: you break a bone. When he gives us what we need: i'll handle that." He whispered almost silently to avoid alerting the captive to his methods.
He looked at the captive. "I'm a lot nicer than my friend here. I'm going to ask you some questions and your going to answer them honestly and without hesitation. Do you understand?"
The Grineer just sat silently, staring at the two Corpus.
"Very well. Just remember that I tried to help you get out of this." He took a step back and allowed Balgaire to continue the interrogation.
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Jes walked into the command center with the Tenno. Balgaire looked really tense and seemed like he wanted to kill someone. The crewman closest to him kept poking him in the leg every few seconds.
"Private, go guard the entrance and leave us alone with the prisoner. Bring the others too. Balgaire, your staying with us. We need to have a talk with our new 'friend'."
The Private started to talk. Great, Jes thought. A moron who can't follow orders. "But Sergeant we gotta kill this clone. And i'm bored outta my mind."
"Well you can be bored with the rest of the squad, guarding the entrance hall." Jess was at the point of wanting to shoot him.
The Tenno glared at the Private as her energy formed an aura around him. He started talking smart in a hypnotic voice.
"Yes sir. Going to guard the entrance hall as ordered." He took the others and left. Now it was Jes, Balgaire, the Nyx, and their prisoner.
"So..." Jes began. "Let's get started." He looked at their captive.
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Jes looked over to Balgaire. "Nice work. I'm going to radio for a garrison force and check on Rugyle." Jes walked out of the command center and found Rugyle leaning against the wall. There was an impact mark on the throat of his helmet but it didn't seem to have punctured.
"Rugyle, i'm going to remove your helmet. See if your injured." Jes pulled the helmet off of his squad leader. His face was old and he had a large scar over his left eye. He had a grey stubble and a tattoo over his right cheek. It was a credit symbol.
"I'm fine. Just took a hit, shields took most of the impact. Was hard to talk with my windpipe being nearly crushed though. Thought for a second I was dead. Gonna need a new helmet though." Rugyle seemed mostly ok. Mostly. Something seemed off about him now. But Jes couldn't figure it out.
He opened a comm link to commander Ky'ber after walking a good distance away.
"Commander. This is Sergeant Ayo, Spectre two, over." He started. "Roger Ayo what's the status of that Grineer outpost?" Ky'ber's voice was stern and impatient. "Outpost is secure, one casualty, one wounded: Rugyle, and we have a prisoner. A Grineer Lancer Captain by the looks of his helmet. We are awaiting the garrison force."
"Roger that Sergeant. I'm coming over with seven landing crafts; a whole platoon. We'll be there in an hour. I'm putting you in charge of the prisoner. I want all of the information he has, and then I want him dead. I say again Jes: after you get everything he knows, kill him. We cannot allow the risk of him alerting the other outposts for reinforcements. And as for Rugyle i'm bringing a medical team to inspect him. One more thing Sergeant: what is the status of the asset?" Just then the Tenno leaped from the ceiling behind Jes. He was startled and quickly turned around to face her.
"Asset is still alive and well. Sir I might inform you that there are concerns about having her fight with us. Concerns such as: 'she's our sworn enemy' and: 'her kind have wiped out entire ships full of our people'."
"Your concern has been noted. We are departing. See you soon, Ky'ber out." Ky'ber cut the comm link.
Jes walked back to the command center with the Tenno in front of him. He still didn't trust her not to kill him or his Corpus yet, but he could at least trust her to kill the Grineer too.
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The Grineer sniper ran out of cover to relocate to a better position. This was her undoing. Jes fired a shorst burst and nailed her in the legs, incapacitating the Ballista.
He saw Balgaire gun down a squad before diving back in cover. The Grineer were starting to fall back to the command center. They had them now; just one last push. Before Jes could even get the Crewmen moving the Tenno already stormed through the vent into the center.
There was a deafening high-pitched scream. What followed was several minutes of Grakatta fire after which was complete silence. It was unnerving to say the least. Eventually Jes mustered enough courage to get the squad moving again.
"Storm the command center!" Jes sprinted to the locked door and asked Balgaire to hack it open. "Balgaire, we need this door open. Be careful i'm picking up one hostile. Looks like the Tenno killed the rest of them. Magnetic signature has nothing around his hands. He might be unarmed, try to capture him. Might be the officer in charge." Jes raised his weapon anticipating to shoot the hostile in the legs for an easy capture.
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Jes heard Balgaire mutter under his breath. He wanted to tell him something along the lines of 'it doesn't matter if you like it or not' or 'orders are orders'.
The Sergeant had finished reloading his rifle when he heard a sniper shot from a Vulkar. Time seemed to slow down for a second when the Tenno leaped mere inches in front of him and cut the projectile in half. The hot halves of lead grazed the sides of his helmet, leaving thin lines going across. It would have hit him between the eyes if it weren't for her.
"Sniper!" Jes dove when he heard a second shot go off. He turned in awe to see that Rugyle had been hit in the throat, but was still in the fight with the Tenno's energy around him. He fired his rifle in the sniper's direction to no avail when another shot was fired, this time hitting the floor near Jes. Rugyle tried to say something but it came out as gurgling sounds.
The Tenno amplified her voice through everyone's minds. "I will ensure he doesn't die laying down. He will die a warrior, with a weapon in his hands, and honor and courage in his heart. Push forward. End the sniper. My Liset's scanners show only three more squads of Grineer. Victory will be ours. We will not fail."
Jes leaped up and took charge. "Keep moving forward! We don't stop until they're all dead!" He fired a suppressive barrage of plasma rounds towards where he thought the sniper was. He knew in the back of his head that he should be scared. But ge was filled the vigor and inspiration to see this mission succeed. Was this the Tenno's doing? Or simply natural valor and courage? He didn't know which it was, and at this point in time he didn't care.
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The Corpus assault team was now on top of the Grineer Lancer patrol. Jes slammed the butt of his rifle into the faceplate of a clone who didn't fall back in time. The other six still alive were firing their Grakattas when out of nowhere they dropped the guns and started rolling on the ground as if they were on fire. Jes saw the Tenno's blue energy pulsating around them, but it had seemed harmless. There was no fire, no more heat than there was a moment ago.
"Rugyle, what's going on?!" Jes asked confusingly as the Nyx walked ahead towards a console.
"I don't know!" The Lancers stopped moving. Jes and Rugyle checked a few of the bodies and found that they were dead, without any external trauma, no wounds, nothing. Until Jes found one without a faceplate. His eyes were still open and had a look of agony and horror, as if he had been burned alive.
"They're dead." Jes announced. The Tenno was starting to scare him with what she could do so far. He hoped he wouldn't end up fighting her.
The Tenno had finished hacking the console and the main entrance opened. They were now in the outpost.
"Move it up nice and slow. Greann, take point with Ayo and the asset. Rest of you bring it up behind them. I want at least one rifle in each direction. Move." Rugyle ordered with an inhuman level of calm as he took position in the center of the formation.
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The asset deflected the Grineer's return fire. Most of the rounds were atomized into dust upon impacting the energy infused Nikana, although some bullets hit their mark.
"Keep moving!" Rugyle moved onward next to Jes and Balgaire after an unlucky Crewman in the rear of the formation took repeated rounds to the chest. He went down in seconds.
"Rugyle! We're leaving him behind?!" Jes asked loudly as bullets whizzed past them.
"Keep going! The minute we stop for the dead is the minute we join them!" Rugyle yelled back with strong conviction.
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The barrage of fire finally ended when the Grineer needed to reload, giving the strike team precious seconds to open fire. The Tenno released an aura of blue energy that went into one of the Lancers.
"Open fire!" Rugyle yelled at the top of his lungs and Jes did exactly that until his 75 rounds were depleted.
When the Grineer got back out of cover the Lancer in the front turned around and opened fire on two of his own, cutting them down almost instantly as he started to wildly opened fire on a third when he was finally killed by the rest of his allies.
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"I- i'm good. Let's just get ready." Jes said.
The last few minutes of the flight were uneventful until they landed. "Go go go!" Rugyle yelled into the ship's internal speakers as the doors slid open. The desert sun was almost blinding at first but his eyes adjusted quickly enough and the ship's thrusters threw sand and dust around the LZ like a small whirlwind.
Jes was one of the first ones out, right behind the Nyx. There was already a sizeable Lancer patrol of at least twenty. They almost immediately opened fire from behind blunt cover while the Tenno deflected several shots.
"Alright! Let's do this!" Jes yelled as they ran forward right behind the Nyx into hell.
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"Yes that Tenno is our asset for this operation." Rugyle calmly explained. Jes backed off and went back to his ceiling bar away from the Tenno.
He started hearing a voice in his head. "You know when we thought you tinnys should fight alongside your fancy proxies, this wasn't what I had in mind. What happened to your arm? Actually don't answer. I already know. You and the one called Balgaire lost your limbs in a desperate attempt at sabotage. Sloppy work. Though I am truly surprised that you guys hired me to help. The only reason you and your friends here aren't dead is because your commander made a deal with me and unlike all of you I have honor and as long as we're comrades in this conflict then you'll get to survive to tell stories about it.
Jes looked around frantically and saw nothing. The craft was empty but it wasn't. It was the Tenno's mind games.
"Get out of my head!" Jes yelled as the Tenno left his mind and reality was given back to him.
"Alright everyone listen up! I'm only saying this once! We're using a new tactic called: 'Sword and Shield. We are all going to be behind the Tenno as she deflects Grineer fire with her sword. When the incoming fire stops you open fire and keep 'em supressed while she get's ready for the next assault. We will be constantly moving forward! There will not be enough time to take cover! If you don't move up with the rest of us i'll have the Tenno kill you herself! When we're eventually on top of the enemy: she'll fray the Grineer's minds giving us all time to gun them down. We will repeat this until the Grineer at this outpost are dead. And one more thing: We are the attacking force. All thirteen of us, including the Tenno! There will be no reinforcements! There will be no air support! We are taking this position by sundown! We're two minutes away from our LZ. I'm unlocking the lockers. Grab a Derra Vandal and as many magazines as you can carry. Move!" Rugyle finished his mission briefing and unlocked the weapon lockers from the console.
Jes grabbed one of the many Derra Vandals and tossed another one to Balgaire. They all had the same white metallic paintjobs with a Lotus symbol on the reciever. They were masterfully crafted to say the least and had 75 round cartridges instead of the standard 50. "Let's lock and load." He said as he slammed a clip in, and charged the rifle.
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Jes looked at the Colonel. "It's not as good as the one I lost. I'll make 'em pay for that." Before Jes could continue the hull shook with a loud 'thud' as something landed on the roof.
"All personnel stay where you are and remain calm." Rugyle said calmly.
Jes looked around and noticed a vent hatch was now missing. He saw the Tenno leap down, hitting Rugyle on the way. It was a Nyx warframe with white armor and dark blue highlights. On her back was a Tiberon, on her hips were two Stilettos, and in it's scabbard on her left hip was a Nikana.
Jes unfolded his baton and yelled "Tenno!" as the Nyx unsheathed her blade and raised it strike. Before anything got out of hand Rugyle jumped up and screamed with a violent boom. "Stand down! She's the asset! Stand down!"
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Jes looked over to Balgaire as he boarded the Spectre. "We'll figure out what happened soon enough. But right now I need you here, in the present. I don't like the silent treatment their giving us either, but there's good reason for it. All i've been told is that all information is now on a strict need-to-know basis and everyone's been told the bare minimum. Apparently there's someone among our high command who's leaking intelligence to the Grineer. I don' know if it's true, or if it's a story to keep us preoccupied. Now let's get going". Jes boarded the craft and helped Balgaire up.
Once aboard Jes stood as there were no seats, just bars on the ceiling to hold on to. There was only ten other Crewmen in the cargo compartment with them. Jes recognized Rugyle among them.
"Take off procedures are set, hang on it's going to get really rough back there". The pilot said calmly as the doors slid closed and the craft lifted in the air.
Jes almost fell to the floor from the shaky flight and when he asked about the asset the current squad leader (Rugyle) only said "We'll meet her soon" as he put in a command on a console to lock all the weapon lockers.
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Jes walked into the makeshift office and saluted the Captain. "Cap'n what's going on?" Jes asked. The Captain turned around and. gestured Jes to lower his salute.
"Good news you two. You just got promoted to my frontline detachment. Your orders are as follows: after this briefing you will board our assault craft with the rest of my vanguard. You will secure an outpost twenty miles east from the one at Tokk-Tokk-Forr and gather intelligence on Tyl Reggor and project Manic. You will have outside assistance from an asset we have hired for this operation. You will show her your utmost respect and you will follow her into battle. Do not worry about keeping the asset alive: she is better off than most if not all personnel in this battalion. You will not show any hostility toward her despite your better judgement, and if you do: may the void have mercy on your souls. Your gunship is the: Spectre IV. Your new weapons are already aboard. Now get outta my face and don't come back until we have that outpost! Dismissed!" The Captain finished by yelling with a near deafening voice.
Jes walked out of the crashed craft and jogged toward the landing strip. Whoever this asset was they didn't sound like the type to be kept waiting. And things must have been desperate on the frontline if high command was transferring everyone there. And what became of the Belka crash survivors? The Sergeant sighed as he found the right vessel: the Spectre IV. Upon searching for it in his codex he found that it wasn't on the CCV's manifest. Whatever was going on they weren't getting the full story. He waited outside while Balgaire caught up.
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((( 4 Days Later at an unknown Corpus forward operating base )))
"How's the new arm?" The field surgeon Jes had come to know as Rugyle asked.
Jes tried to move the mechanical arm but it was still strange to him. It was a modified Moa leg that was cut down to arm's length and the foot piece replaced with two 'fingers' and a 'thumb' similar to Jakal prototypes. "It feels wrong still. I can barely move it." Jes tried moving his new arm but was struggling.
Rugyle looked at him painfully. "Well your going to have to get used to it. You've had it for a few days now and your wounds are much less severe than when we first found you." He gave Jes a painkiller shot. "Off you go. Your expected at the Captain's 'office' for a briefing along with Colonel Greann." He waved Jes out.
Jes didn't try to hide his new limb, and wore it as a badge of honor and pride. He had sacrificed his arm for this campaign so that they might have a chance at beating the Grineer, and he didn't want anyone to forget it.
In the desert outside of the medical lab Jes walked into a Crewman wearing heavily scarred armor. It was Balgaire.
"My bad. We got to head to the Captain's office for our new assignment. He looked into the Colonel's visor as he started to walk past him towards a makeshift structure made from a crashed Corpus landing craft. Every structure was either a tent, or a hollowd out ship from the failed initial invasion he realized. Which meant something went wrong. The invasion plan was a feat of pure tactical genius. But somehow the Grineer had known, and prepared.
Jes learned by talking to other Crewmen at the FoB that the initial invasion forces were all but wiped out and reinforcements are to arrive soon for a push into Grineer territory past Tokk-Tokk-Forr. It was a desperate strategy and everyone knew it, but the Captain had received word from Commander Ky'ber that they had a new ace up their sleeve to get an edge over the Grineer.
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The Captain muttered into his comm almost silently and waited a few seconds for response that was just as quiet. After he got it he sighed, got his other man to stand down, and put his pistol back in the holster.
"Rugyle, get some first aid! Now! We got two wounded here!" A Crewman with a white uniform and red stripes ran towards them and injected the two wounded with a syringe. Jes felt dizzy for a few seconds and faded to sleep as he heard the Captain bark out one last order: "Get these two back to the extraction point and prepped for transport! Rest of you with me! We gotta take this post for Ky'ber! Go! Go! Go!"
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The squad shined their lights into the tunnel and found Jes and Balgaire on the floor. "Identify yourselves!" The Captain yelled at the two wounded as he gestured the closest Crewman to ready his weapon at the one missing an arm.
"Ayo, Jes, Sergeant, Apollo seven-niner." Jes replied slowly as the Crewman in front of him levelled his Dera towards his head.
"We'll see. And you: who are you?! We don't have all night!" The Captain drew a Cestra pistol out of it's holster and aimed it at Balgaire.
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"Maybe. Maybe not. We'll just have to sit tight and see what they need us for. And whether we like it or not: we're going with them." Jes tried to grab the arm that wasn't there anymore and flinched when he felt nothing.
In the distance the Crew Captain split his force in half. "First squad with me! We're going in through the tunnel! Second and third squads find the main entrance and assault the outpost with Moa support! Move!" They split up and the command squad was about to enter the supply tunnel.
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Jes was about to answer when a Corpus landing craft flew towards them at dangerously low altitude. It was still hovering a few meters above the sand as it's twin cargo doors opened and three squads of Crewmen and a decorated Crew Captain leapt out in unison. They all switched on their helmet lights and the Captain yelled into his comm.
"Ky'ber, this is Stryker two-seven. We are at the Grineer outpost at LZ Tokk-Tokk-Forr, and are ready on your go." The Captain waved towards the landing craft and two Moa crates were pushed out by the cargo operator. "Roger Ky'ber... are you certain?... Ayo is in there?... and who is this Balgaire?... I see... yes sir, but they aren't with our unit... yes Commander, understood. Direct orders from Coomin himself?... Roger, I'll find them."
He turned towards his platoon, "Get those Moas online! We have direct orders to locate one Sergeant Jes Ayo and one Colonel Balgaire Greann, and secure them. You know the drill! You see your enemy, you know your enemy! I do not want a repeat incident from our last operation. Do not trust your IFFs until we got those VIPs with us. Now move out!" The. Captain waved his unit forward and started ahead of them toward the supply tunnel.
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Jes winced when the Grineer blade was released from his body. His strength was starting to return slowly as adrenaline coursed through his broken body. He could see a light at the end of the tunnel. "We're going to make it." He exclaimed as they got closer towards the door. When they got out Jes silently cursed when a Grineer gunship was shining it's searchlight at them.
"You have got to be kiddkng me!" Jes yelled as loud as he could, but something was wrong. On the ships' cargo ramp facing towards them was a lone Grineer. Jes quickly recognized him as Lieutenant Lech Krill but before he could say anything Krill looked up into the sky, slammed his armored fist against the hull, and held on as the gunship flew off at top speed.
Jes then heard Balgaire's comms come alive as a loud commanding voice echoed out of it. He only heard a name as several Corpus landing craft swarmed three kilometers away: Commander Vray Ky'ber.
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"Yes... pull the Machete out... my shoulder... Jes grinned in pain as Balgaire pulled him up on his feet. He was starting to regain some semblance of hope when the sounds of explosions and rending metal echoed through the tunnel. The jammer was destroyed, they could get help to actually assault and secure the outpost. They might survive this war.
Colonel... when we get to... surface... give me... radio... I got priority access... command..."
Jes leaned on the wall and gestured with his only arm (right arm) towards the Machete stuck in his left shoulder.
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"Explosion... hallway collapsed... door flew out... crushed me... Machete... my- my arm... my arm..." Jes looked up at the Colonel. He seemed to have been in a conflict recently. He was favoring one side of his body and was putting pressure on only one leg.
"We got to leave... comms center will explode... about a minute.... lock the door behind us... signal reinforcements..." Jes crawled to the Colonel and reached for his hand.
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The wounded Sergeant slowly walked into the supply tunnel. Behind him was a single, gravely wounded Lancer with a Machete hiding in the shadows amongst his dead brothers. The clone yelled in fury and hatred as he jumped on the Sergeant and quickly drove the blade down over Jes' broken arm. "Yahhhhh!" He yelled in pain as he threw himself forward away from the Grineer and fired the Grakatta with his only arm. The clone did one last attack before dying and carved the Machete diagonal into the Sergeant's good shoulder. Jes yelled in pain again and dropped the rifle as the blade caught itself and got stuck halfway through bone and flesh. The Lancer was dead and Jes moved onward now crawling as what little strength he had left was fading.
He finally found Balgaire propped against the wall with eyes closed and his knife stabbed into the faceplate of a dead Lancer. "Balgaire..." Jes started in a coarse voice as he continued to crawl forward.
Loyalty, Exile, Betrayal (Open IC RP)
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Posted · Edited by (XB1)LONE RANGER23
Jes quickly looked at Balgaire. "I'm getting results, and i'm done trying to make friends with the enemy." He pushed Balgaire away and grabbed the captain by the shoulder and forced him up. He cried in pain from the pressure on his broken legs. Jes truly didn't enjoy what he was doing but he needed answers, fast, and he knew that playing nice wasn't getting anywhere.
He shoved the captive against the wall and stabbed through his hand with the partially sharpened baton, effectivly nailing the poor clone to it. He then unhooked his cestra from it's holster and pressed it against the captain's faceplate.
"Manic. I want details and I want them. Now!" Jes pressed the sidearm harder against the faceplate for emphasis.
When the captive stayed quiet for a few seconds Jes fired a round in the wall inches away from his head.
The Grineer choked out the answers quickly then. Funny how people start to cooperate when their lives are on the line.
"M-M-Manic. It's going to bring the b-birth of a new generation of G-Grineer without defects. W-we found a way to cure ourselves. The main l-lab is... I d-don't know where it is. I was only told: 'f-f-follow the tides of war'. P-please do-" Jes shot him in the head, leaving a sizeable hole in the left eyepiece.
"Leave the body. Garrison unit will be here in a few minutes. I'm going to check the armory. Stay here and alert me when they arrive." Jes holstered his cestra as he walked out of the command center. On his way out he looked at the now dead captain. He was firmly nailed to the wall by his hand, which was above his head, forcing him at a limp standing position. The sergeant hoped he would be forgiven for his sins if there was an afterlife. In his mind he was a necessary evil for the greater good.