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Alpha grabs a pair of silver blades and walks over to the leaving Terrence and Dez.
"I’m board, can I come with you guys. I’d like to test out my new weapons out.”

(ic) Terence looks at Alpha, do you now what your getting into? When do you think was the first time i saw these creatures? Before the fall i was in the Elite operations unit of the scared guard, a branch of the british sas dedicated to wiping out terrorists and their ilk, when the ships came down we were on the front lines, there were 150 men in my legion, we were in the suburbs of my hometown, and we were losing, we emptied magazines of bullets into these aliens, nothing stopped them, there were just three of them,, they could shift the air around themselfs to make our bullets go around them, nothing we did worked, in the end i had to run, i got to my home and went to the top floor, Madiline was asleep downstairs, i figured that the aliens could only move the air currents if they knew the bullet was coming, my friends and my two brothers were all dead, it was just me, the wife left when Maddy was 4, i killed all three of them, then we ran.

The two of us, Maddy and I, were in hiding for at least three years, then they came, it was the same three aliens, they teleported into our shelter and knocked me out, somehow they survived a 3.009 round going through the soft tissue of the back of their skulls. I dont know how to kill them, but i want her back, and when i get her, im never letting them take her again."

"Are you still sure your bored Alpha?
Dez i can understand why you would come, that i can accept, and i could use you help, Alpha, your Blades would be useful with dealing with those things but im not going to ask you to come on what may very well be a suicide mission."

"Were gonna go to the on place i know they will be, the ship that crashed into my hometown, the one i call Homesight."

"You think youve had a crap life? I spent most of mine screeming in pain as some bloody scientists tried to crack my bloody skull opean and turn me into a weapon. Bunch of idiot 3rd Reich Scientists hierd by the Goverments of the world after WW2 to create bio-weapons and plagues. Then when these Vermin came they turned on me and started tinkering with my mind. Didn't work out as planed anwe guted the lot of em , me Omega , Delta and Beta cracked open their rib cages and hung them upside down! We retreated into the darkness of the world untill now. Im helping you cause I have a lot of scores to settle and its the only way back to Britan. "
Alpha's sanity seems to have returned for a moment

Terence grins, i guess your with us then, were gonna head to the coast, its a hell of a trip, bout three days im thinking, when we get there there will be a boat by the docks, its called "Fire and Brimstone" inside it is everthing well need to make the crosssing to britan, thenwe go overland to old sussex, just outside of old london, its a long trip and im not dragging either of you with me."

"Im fine with that. My origonal lab is not far from London and you dont need to drag me."
Alpha waits for Terrances orders

"Well nows not the best time to say I was a group of mercenaries, called the Scarlet Blade. who tried to take down one of thier ships. All my group were killed apart from me. They took me and my son and wife to be experimented on. My son somehow escaped. His scream... it can drive them away like a blazing fire. Hes powerful. Don't know anything about my wife Rachel. If its a long trip, I can always shift into runner form. All my forms are actual species of these aliens. Heck, I could turn into one of thier tanks if I wanted to."

"Just tell us when your going to do it. I've encountered these things alot of times and I dont trust any of them."

"Dez, hold on, i think weve seen your son before, not long after our group koined up a boy with two Aliens came down and the boy sort of made some kind of blast, i went flying and landed about 5 blocks away."

"Yes I think I have a recording."
Alpha takes out a small device and places a tiny disk into it. It begins to play the events that took place , includng Dez's son and the aliens.
"I have cameras everyware. I have many tapes of these Alien encounters."

"Thats... him... my son. What have they done to him!?"

"I dont know but , he's probaly under their control. They've done worse things to people I assure you."

"Like me... I don't feel human anymore. But no matter, I will use it against them..."

"Good man" turning he looks at the sky "alright, lets get moving, ill take point, i know the way, alpha you take the back, dont let them sneak up on us, Dez, dont let them hit us on the sides, if any of you get lost get me on my radio" Glancing around he observes the cloudy sky, "the weathers setting in, we need to move."

"Im fine with that." Alpha and his allies continue their jorney to the bay

Dez nods, and takes his position, looking out for any hostiles.

"I could morph into an Eagle (not the animal, its an alien type with immense accuraccy) to allow me to spot them easier."

(ic) "they wont attack, not yet, we arnt in their territory, look at the base of the trees, in their territory you can see something that looks like soot, its the ashes of their dead and it carries a protien marker that allows them to scan for where it is, if anyone tampers with it they can hunt those people down, because the ash adheres to your skin, like black gloves.

The trees around here have none of that, we should be fine."

Terence leads them for most of the day, only topping when its getting near dark, we should have a watch, Alpha, you take first, and wake Dez at midnight, Dez wake me at roughly 0600. the city of tears is over the hill, it was a fairly important sity before the fall, now its.... well youll see.

"I can stand guard all night, don't need any sleep, I'm fine. You two just get some rest. I'll wake you if anything comes up."

Alpha serches through his back pack for his books , taking out his large file of Alien cretures.

(ic) Terence nods to dez, "wake me first if anything happens. Night"

"Agreed. Now sleep."

Terence drifts of to sleep to dreams of screams coming from an unknown source.

Alpha skims through his massive book , reading the hundreds of notes he has collected for years.

Dez sees something in the distance, and then zooms in his vision to see what it is.

"gak... honour guardS."

Dez grabs Terrence and wakes him up,

"Come on! We have got to move! NOW!"

"Its just a bunch of Aliens in shiney armour not much to worry about"

"You do not understand. They are the strongest of the strong. They can take down many a foe within seconds! We must move!"

Terence gets up and stares through his scope, "I can give us time", he loads his rifle slowly and carefully, the bukket he handles with great care, lining up his shot he fires into the ground infront of the guard, immediatly a hologram of anouther alien comes out of the ground it begins to issue orders to the honour guard, "That will slow them down, we have to leave now"

"What exactly are these ? , Ive never encountered them before"

"I have, they not something you wanna tangle with, now lets go, ill explain more later"

"Agreed , Im tirerd of these things but first."
Alpha takes a camera out of his bag and takes a pcture of the Aliens
"Needed for future encounters!"

Terence grunts slightly and slings alpha over his shoulder, he looks briefly at dez who nods the tow of them sprint of, Terence barely hindered by Alphas bulk, when theyre about 100 metres away Terence stops briefly to put alpha down, "dont mess around, you see the gun attatchments on their arms? those things'll cut you clean in half, when i say we need to go, we need, to, go!, now move"