Re: Hive Number One
It would be several long agonizing moments before Copper got any kind of reply that was coherent. I'll live, got struck with some kind of ionized cutting laser. That would have killed Pale if it had hit her, as it is it fried out my nerve endings for a bit, but I'm up now. Pissed and ready to shred something if I get the chance, but alive and moving alright. Oh and the explosion you saw was from Pale pretty well vaporizing half the land in back of us. Though these bots just keep coming, there's no end to them here even with the hive gone.
Shrike of course got a different reply. I appreciate the offer, but I'm not even certain I am able to take in energy through mental links. Even if I could, I would not, it would make me in a way no better than that other Wraith.
To Pale it would become apparent with each step that Siphon was obviously doing better and better. Movements became more steady, and his eyes were once again focused. Then the most peculiar thing began to happen. The skin that had been bored through by the laser began to slowly regenerate. Rather than simply heal up though all at once, it seemed the wound itself healed from the back side of the opening, through the body and finally to the front. After only another minute or so, the wound had healed completely, and the only sign it had been there was a still slight discoloration of the flesh that was fading even still towards normal.
He replied to Shrike verbally with, "well, there WAS one more, Bartnum, but we have no idea where he went to. He vanished completely soon after we arrived and entered the hive. I've been trying to locate him through the devices in the radio, but I've been getting nothing. If he was anywhere around that hive when it went up, he surely did not survive the explosion."
He of course was following them the entire time, and it was he of course who heard the chopper first of their group.
The chopper itself finally came into view, moving towards their location. Luckily for them the pilot had an eagle eye and spotted them easily amongst the scorched ground, and came in for a landing, touching down roughly a hundred yards from where the group currently was.
"Looks like our ride is here, shall we get the hell out of here?"