text: [Themes: sci-fi, science fiction]
  
  This would be the only way to insure your safety and future with Anna. A guerilla war would only end in both of your deaths or capture. You sigh before nodding your head.
  
  "I'll do it, I'll infiltrate them and try my best to bring the fuckers down."
  
  Anna hugs you with joy as she swings you around a little bit.
  
  "Don't worry I'll make sure nothing bad happens to you and if shit does hit the fan then we'll figure out a way to find you and escape. Worse comes to worse the two of us just head back to my home planet and make our stakes there or try our luck in Fukon."
  
  Her assurance of both of your futures raises your spirits a bit.
  
  "How am I going to get in contact with them though?"
  
  Anna grins. "Don't worry, just leave that to Ryker."
  
  As days pass with your soldiers still out setting up outposts, Ryker tries his best to hack into the wave comms to try and get into access to communication with any of the colonists.
  
  "They have to touch down eventually, we'll wait until then if we have to." He tells you as he continues working on his radio.
  
  "Yeah I can walk up to one of their colonies at that point just with me being human."
  
  "Exactly, that's all that really matters honestly. As long as you can make up a good enough story on your survival and escape."
  
  "Oh. I also still have my crew uniform tucked away somewhere in my hut so I can use that as proof too." You add.
  
  "It should take me a few more days until I have a answer on wether or not I'll be able to achieve this. I'll let you know by then."
  
  You nod, leaving him to his devices and head off to the kitchen, seeing if Ruby needs any help with todays meals.
  
  Days pass and it seems that Ryker had finally be able to do it. He found out information leading to a group of colonists planning on dropping in near the desert with a squad of guards to start setting up a colony for future drop ins from their fleet.
  
  This news disheartened Anna a bit, with the threat of a new colony so close by it probably mean that you would have to abandon your home.
  
  You spend the rest of your days before the deadline working on your acting. You would have to act all shocked and desperate after finally seeing another human after all these years. Anna worked on getting your uniform all dirty and messy and you tried getting yourself as filthy and dirty as possible. When the day finally came for the expected drop in, Anna had herself and Ruby escort you to the drop location on the quads while you were all dressed up in your disguise.
  
  Your stomach flipped a few times as you didn't know exactly how this would all go. Hell, there was the possiblity that you would be shot on sight by the guards just for being so foreign. You had a mission to do though. Your allegiance to armada, to your species, was completely void at this point. It didn't mater if you had to assassinate colonists or fuck with their supplies, you would be making their life a living hell. You only hoped that Anna could hold off on her own until you at least drove this desert colonist away. Ryker even had said that were might be a slight possibility of a pirate armada from home coming to lend a hand to retake Hulocke. You needed all the hope there was at this point.
  
  When your finally dropped off by Anna, she inserts a earpiece into your ear.
  
  "This will let us communicate with each other, you just need to snap your fingers for it to turn off and on. It also tracks your location so if you do get captured then we'll be able to rescue you."
  
  "Thanks for caring so much." You joke as she starts spreading a bit of dirt all over your face.
  
  "Just stay safe okay? Let's not lose all our years of hard work over these ass hats." She says along with a firm hug before you're sent off.
  
  You wave good bye to the two of them as they leave on their jeeps. Now all there is to do is wait for the arrival of the colonists which by Rykers guess should be by any upcoming hour. You have enough food and water in your leather knapsack to last you a few days should it come to it. Soon though you got bored waiting around and passed the time by talking to Ryker back at base through the earbud that was given.
  
  A few hours into your wait was when you heard the sonic boom from up above. You saw the burning form of multiple rectangles and spheres in which they were growing rapidly larger and larger as with them heading down directly in front of you.
  
  Running as far as you away from them you took shelter behind a dune as some of them kicked in their thrusters while others simply glided into landing.
  
  It was actually a extraordinary sight, the formation and order of how they landed seemed so professional, reminding you of your past scout team.
  
  You couldn't come out yet though, you would have to wait a few hours and just watch as they unloaded and unpacked. You would be giving the excuse that you saw them from a distance and came as soon as you could, naturally just showing up as they barely landed would raise various questions that you would be unable to answer.
  
  So you waited and watched with awe. The soldiers had gotten out first, and soon after the colonists. All the supplies seemed to be unloaded first as the soldiers helped the colonists with unpacking. The power armor that the soldiers had equipped scared the living hell out of you. Those weren't just any grunts that were assigned onto a random cruiser, those were some special type of fuckers.
  
  You continued watching, but almost shit your pants as the soldiers started talking to each other. Soon after that though, they started walking in different directions with their weapons drawn.
  
  They were scouting out the landing zone, and one of them was heading directly in your direction.
  
  "Fuck, Fuck Fuck, Fuck, Fuck." You repeated with a mutter as the soldier neared towards you.
  
  You needed to decide fast, wether or not to show yourself now or wait until he got closer and try to talk to him.
  
  > show yourself.
  Yeah spooking him probably wouldn't go to well for you, might as well just show yourself and get the outcome over with.
  
  You step out from the cover of the dune with your hands immediately raised. The soldier spots you immediately and raises his blaster without hestitation.
  
  "Human, Human!" You say not moving your body.
  
  He continues slowly moving forward, checking you out with his rifle.
  
  "I'm a survivor from the scout fleet! I'm so glad you guys are here!" You say trying to convince him.
  
  He's silent though as he approaches you, when he's close enough hes grab's your shoulders and swiftly turns you around with a single hand. You comply as he starts patting you down with still only one hand.
  
  "You said you were from the scout fleet?" He asks in a calmer yet still strict tone.
  
  "Yes, I'm the only survivor that I know of so far. I was trapped in my captains room when the flames engulfed my ship. I only made it out when I found a escape pod." You explain, hoping that he'd buy the story with few questions.
  
  "Well...you're uniform checks out. My boss will want to have a word with you. Walk in front of me towards the landed ships." he orders as you follow his instructions.
  
  It's funny, with how long it's been since you'd had contact with another human the whole interaction seems so foreign. You would laugh if you weren't in the position you were in.
  
  The colonists and soldiers who were scouting and carrying supplies immediately notice you and the guard escorting you. Just seeing all the clean and naive faces of some of the colonists pissed you off a little bit. It would be easy to take control of these cattle if given the chance before they became to experienced and hardened.
  
  You're taken into one of the ships were more guards are stationed, there had to be over forty of them in total, not even counting the number of colonists. You were taken up various stairs as you continued getting stares along the way. You must have looked like a savage to them with how well Anna and Ruby worked on your look.
  
  You're taken into the control room of the vessel. Much more fancier and elegant compared to anything you've come across from the pirates or even your old scout ship. The crew that were controlling the terminal looked like those rich and upper class citizens that came directly from the capital.
  
  "Commaner, I think you might one to have a look at this guy." You escort says to one of the men controlling the terminal.
  
  The commander looks over at him, and then at you. He immeditaly looks at your uniform, and that seems to be enough for him to realize who you are judging you by your expression.
  
  "You...you're from the lost scout fleet?"
  
  You nod.
  
  "Do you know if there are any other survivors?"
  
  "No, I was the only one out of my ship that I know of. I was able to use the escape pod in my captain's room when the fire on my ship was spreading."
  
  "Well...Judging by the looks of you I can tell that you've been through a lot solider. Jhonny, go take him to get a fresh set of clothes along with a shower and a fresh meal. After that I want you back here attention priavte." He refers to you by your rank.
  
  "Yes sir." The both of you say as Johnny leads you off to what your guessing was their barracks.
  
  After getting everything that you were given, you did as the captain had been told and reported back to him. He seemed to have been waiting for you as you went through the sliding doors into the control room.
  
  "Listen Private I've been thinking. Normally I would have conscripted you back into the fight as we make our push farther once we set up the colony. Though you aren't really experienced compared to the troops that were assigned onto this task and you might have already seen your fair share of fighting. So I'm giving you a option. Either put back on a uniform and help us keep control and fight back any pirate resistance or go on ahead and rejoin the life of as a civilian as you help with establishing the colony with them here and live among them. It's up to you."
  
  > rejoin as a soldier
  You actually weren't planning on being offered to join back in the ranks of a grunt. This would help tremendously though, you would no doubt be supplied with weapons. The colonists would also be in a way intimidated about you since you had some sort of higher authority. You would be able to cause much more mayhem and destruction this way compared to just being in the same situation and rank as the colonists.
  
  "Yes sir, I'd like it very much if I could rejoin the cause and help with fighting against the pirate menace. I've been itching to get back into the fight for so long."
  
  The commander smiles at this while he nods.
  
  "Yes, I've had that feeling many times before whenever I've felt the need to retire. You're welcome back with open arms private. Go on to the barracks and get yourself situated with the rest of the troops, I be calling everyone for a briefing soon."
  
  You give your commander a salute as you take your leave.
  
  Weeks later.
  
  You've been getting used to the life of a soldier. You seemed to have already gained instant respect with your 'harrowing' backstory. You had to fake a sort of machoism personality while keeping to only a few words so you wouldn't mess it up.
  
  The times that you didn't have any responsibilites was when you would contact Anna and the rest of the crew to catch up on things and give information on the numbers that this colony had and it's weapons capacity.
  
  You just couldn't really connect with these soldiers or colonists as well as you did with your mates. Their trust for you grew nevertheless the longer that you stayed. Mostly you just patrolled for remaining hostile pirates. It seems as if peace was trying to be negotiated with the natives, who had just been through a major war that left most of their people devastated and homeless. Apparently a female human was in charge of a good majority of them so communicating with the natives was at least feasible.
  
  You'v been equipped with a rifle and a hulking suit of power armor that had all sorts of devices such as laser vision and other various types along with the helmet also acting as a gas mask. You would need to figure out a way to get these to your troops, this could change the tide of battle tremendously.
  
  When you weren't assigned patrols, you were instead put to look after colonists to insure their safety as they performed various duties. You took note on the ones that seemed to be easily swayed over by judging their personality.
  
  One was a nerdy looking fellow by the name of Jared. He spent his free time playing video games with his holo lens that he had brought from Earth. The other was a woman by the name of Jasmine who seemed to gravitate around you a lot whenever you were assigned to her team that usually worked in the greenhouses.
  
  You could probably threaten or persuade on of them to do your bidding in helping to sabotage their colony in exchange for admittence into your faction.
  
  > recruit Jasmine
  A woman that was attracted to you would be far more easier to recruit to do your bidding compared to some random dude. You came up to her while you we're assigned to the greenhouse and was tending to potatoes. "How's it coming along for you with these?" You ask curiously trying to spark conversation. She smiles, picking herself off the floor and patting herself down a bit.
  
  "Actually pretty good, these should be the last plants we'll need to plant before were allowed break. I've actually been trying to get all this work outta the way as quickly as possible so I have more relaxing time to myself."
  
  "I would help if it weren't for these gloves." You laugh, showing the overly large power armor gauntlets and glove mix."
  
  "Martin wouldn't even allow it either way, last time one of us offered a soldier to help us he gave the offender a pretty harsh warning. Kind of a prick he is." She laughs as she goes back down to planting. "Doesn't mean you can't stand by and keep me a bit ot company though."
  
  You stay next to her as she finishes her job and continue to chat about random things that seem to interest her as she brings them up. She asks quite a bit about your past as you try to give vague answers when having the chance.
  
  When she finally finishes, she invites you to the recreation room for a drink and just too relax. You would have had to deny her if it weren't for the fact that most of the workers in the greenhouse had already been done and you were one of the last one's inside much to your surprise.
  
  With your daily duties done, you undressed from your armor and went with her to the recreation room to talk more with each other. She reminded you of Anna in a way, although with none of the evil or sassy traits that were absent from Jasmine. She actually made you smile and your conversation with her were interesting enough to make you genuinely intrigued.
  
  When asked about if she ever thought about leaving the colony she replied with. "Yeah, I've dreamed of making my own farm on this planet everyonce in awhile, away from everything and just doing what makes me happy. Although I'm more then happy to share that experience with someone else." She smiles.
  
  Well fuck, she totally misinterpreted what you had meant entirely. You had zero plans of being with this woman no matter now interesting it was, it just wouldn't work.
  
  Either way you knew that you wouldn't get far with ordering her around, the best thing that you could do was just try to get as much useful information out of her as possible. It was a relatively easy task as long as you were able to ask the right questions.
  
  As long as you were vague with the questions, her revealing information wasn't really hard.
  
  In fact, you had enough to stage a attack as you relayed all the information about the colonists that you had learned to Anna.
  
  > Day later
  Your sleep was interrupted by the warning bells that signaled a assault. You were genuinely surprised by this, you knew that Anna would be making an assault on the base with the information you gave but not this soon.
  
  "Get the fuck out of bed maggots, get in your gear and prepare for a raid!" Your Sergeant ordered.
  
  You were one of the last one's to get dressed as you try to kill as much time as possible for your officer to get distracted by something else as you tried to linger behind.
  
  Your whole barracks started to shake tremendously as if there had been a earthquake, you were actually shitting your pants knowing that one of Annas ships could blow your ass up unknowingly to her.
  
  You hurried your way out of the building in your suit of power armor as you hid away from your approaching forces.
  
  Jasmine through all the chaos managed to find you to your dismay.
  
  "Were being attacked, what should we do!" The trembling of her body and shaking in her voice made you groan in frustration internally.
  
  "Just follow me and we'll get out of here alright?"
  
  She nodded with teary eyes as she stayed right on your ass while you traversed deeper and deeper into the colony.
  
  A intercom through your helmet voiced one of the commanders.
  
  "Were being overrun, head to the evacuation ship, were taking off in five minutes with or without you." The voice ordered to all the soldiers who were still alive.
  
  > take Jasmine to the evac ship
  You were a piece of shit, but Jasmine had indeed helped you to some extent and because of that she should be rewarded with her life. Maybe you would even run into her again one day.
  
  Grabbing Jasmine and throwing her over your shoulder, you started running towards the evac ship as your other fellow guards do the same. It was pretty surprising at how fast it made you, you could probably get used to having your own set.
  
  You tapped a guard on the shoulder and handed him Jasmine.
  
  "Take her, I got to go rescue someone else."
  
  "God bless you pal, you're a real fucking hero." He tells you as grabs Jasmine from you.
  
  You don't look back at her or him and instead just run into a random deserted barracks so you can undress yourself and not be mistaken for the enemy by your men.
  
  As the last remaining guards flee onto the evacuation ship, you heard cheers all throughout the colony from your men as they saw that victory was theirs.
  
  Walking up to them, they at first are on guard as they aim their blasters in your direction.
  
  "Stand down motherfuckers, it's fucking me." You bark at them, with their blasters going down in realization
  
  "Anna where the hell are you, pick me up already." You say into your ear piece.
  
  "Calm your tits, I'm in one of the ships, were circling around one last time and afterwards we'll land. Mighty victory we had ain't it?"
  
  "Yeah it was."
  
  "Also that was a real pussy thing you did there with that girl, I'm keep that over your head for awhile."
  
  How the fuck did she see that?
  
  "Fuck off and just hurry and land." You grumble.
  
  As your men finish entertaining themselves with their spoils of war, Anna orders all them to start hauling supplies onto the landed ships so that could be taken back into the mountain outposts for storage.
  
  If you could keep this up, you may very clear out a few more outposts if it all went to plan as it did here. A lot more easier it should be now with this power armor and extra weapons, your future was looking pretty bright.
  
  As long as you had Anna as your co-leader throughout out all this then you wouldn't need to worry to much about your own mistakes as two heads were always better than one.
  
  Maybe someday you would even rule over these colonist scum and make this planet yours.
  
  One raid at a time.
  
  Spy Ending