Michael "Sarge" O'Shay<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=69278.msg3205891#msg3205891">Quote from: Haibane on 26-06-2010, 12:40:27</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">SENJO<br/><br/><strong>"I need to access the colony's mainframe, the cabling here is out of commission, and I need to dissect one of these c~"</strong> I was interrupted by a slithering noise and a loud <em>thud</em> in the corner of the Hab block nearest where we had entered. In an instant I unshouldered my pulse rifle and trained it on the object that had fallen. It was the body of one of the small brown fast aliens. I looked up. It had fallen from the tier two walkway level. Up there a jagged hole was melted in the metal planking.<br/><br/>The dead alien was above and <em>behind</em> Alpha team's firing line. <strong>"Wait. Where did that come from? We have an insecure perimeter here."</strong><br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>"Everybody get back in firing position!" he yelled and walked over to the fallen alien.  There was something not quite right here.  This kill had been too clean.  It had a matching set of wounds on the top of its head.  Pulse rifles, smart guns, and sentry guns blew big and gapping holes in whatever they shot.  "Someone...or something else killed this thing." He motioned everybody to remain alert but to untense a bit.  "Senjo has the best idea I've heard so far, but we still haven't secured a base of operations."<br/><br/>Even if they killed every xeno in this building, there was still a significant chance that the other being was still here and probably not on their side.  The fact it chose to remain hidden was setting him on edge again.<br/>"We still need to finish securing this building and check for survivors.  We'll proceed to the 2nd Floor as one unit.  Watch the corners.  Watch your sensors.  Senjo, break down the sentry guns and bring them too."<br/><br/>The unit was stuck between a rock and a hard place right now.  He hoped he was making the right choice.  Military logic said they were better off continuing forward than completely backtracking.  "All right, people.  Get ready to move out." He gave the alien corpse one last look.  "Let's also watch for our 'friend'."