Following at the rear of the column, Yui used the Ape Suit’s special sensory equipment to keep tabs on the Marines at her back as she followed them towards the colony.  Her 240 was pointed forward, ready to sweep out with a gout of flame at anything that looked, sounded, and moved hostile.  As she continued to follow them, she continued the song in her head.<br/><br/><em>“A knight without armor in a savage land…”</em><br/><br/>The song was something that one of her buddies from Basic had taught her, which he himself had learned when he was just a kid on Earth.  It, like Taku, had always been a bit reassuring for her to hear…especially when nothing happened.  Like now.  She hated nothing happening, it always left her on edge, made her feel like something was going to spring out of the dark and try and wax her.  But, she was with the whole platoon, so if something was going to happen, someone would definitely notice it.<br/><br/>She hoped.<br/><br/>Soon enough, they reached the colony complex.  The huge, forbidding building loomed in front of the Marines.  Even more than the planet, it gave her the creeps.  It looked like the place was on complete lockdown, no one and no thing moving.  Quickly heading inside, they took up a holding position just inside the outer wall, and held there until they got the order to link up with the LT’s squad at one of the vehicle workshops.  And what Yui saw there was not reassuring in the slightest.  The place was empty – tools, vehicles, what-have-you.  That smelled of hasty flight to the young PFC, and she couldn’t think of a reason the colonists would flee, even thought rebellion had been a worry here on the planet.<br/><br/>But, if there were rebels…wouldn’t they have seen them by now.<br/><br/>Then she heard the Sarge talking, rearranging the groups, and ordering her to take point.<br/><br/>“Gotcha, Sarge.”  Hefting the 240, she took up the lead of the Sarge’s team.  “Sarge, permission to speak freely,” she asked, as they prepared to move into the complex proper.<br/>