Artifacts By Kkndmaster
So there we were. Striding along in the desert without a care in the world seemingly. A barrage craft was humming along as we kept walking towards an ancient military desert base. Why we were going to that military base, none of the regiment knew. Although if we knew what awaited us later that day than we would have turned around and not even move one inch closer. But we didn’t and that was just the sad part.

2 more hours the whole regiment kept moving. “You know you can take that helmet off for the moment if you want to Aaron.” Briggs said. Maybe I should introduce to you the soldiers in the regiment that I knew. First of all I am Aaron and my bloodline tracks back to a great sniper in the first surface war. Following in the footsteps of my grand father I am a laser rifleman. Briggs is the leader of the squad and he is a grenadier. He has led this regiment through 4 extremely successful (and thankfully mostly casualty-free battles). And his chest glistened with the medal of victory, a human hand punching out of the ground, the mark of the survivor army. Also there was Harlan, an old veteran. He was considered amongst the troops that knew him as “the king of boom”. Mainly since he was a barrage craft pilot. Also Victor was another laser rifleman who was escorting a technician who was assigned to the regiment for unknown reasons. I didn’t know anyone else but them.

There were others in the regiment including 2 other barrage crafts, a juggernaut, 5 other laser riflemen, 10 grenadiers, and an anti-aircraft constructible.

The regiment kept moving and the only sounds were the steps of boots on the desert sand, and the humming of the vehicles. I put my helmet back on and then we went over a hill and there it was. An ancient military base that was surprisingly intact after the great nuclear war. Although to our dismay we saw 2 war mastodons scouting the perimeter of the ancient base. Obviously we were not alone here. Then all of a sudden a spirit archer jumped out from behind a cactus. It was too late because it blasted a grenadier. As the grenadier that was standing next to him retched at the site of the soldier’s guts getting blown out of it’s stomach, I and the other laser riflemen immediately opened fire upon the mutant and blew it to pieces!

“Damn we alerted the other freaks,” Briggs cursed. As he took a grenade from his belt and flung it at another upcoming mutant. The mutant screamed in agony, as it knew that it’s life was quickly cut short.

The bloodshed has immediately got the attention of the vehicles as barrage crafts began to torture the mutant forces with missiles. Then the juggernaut started raining missiles and bullets onto the retreating mutants. Some of the grenadiers quickly crouched down and covered their ears because of the loudness of the gunfire. Unfortunately the remaining mutants retreated deeper into the military base.

“Follow those freakers!” barked Briggs. And all the soldiers and vehicle personnel obeyed.

We kept on moving deeper into the base letting hell blow onto any unlucky mutant nearby. Then like a holy oasis in the middle of the greatest deserts in hell there it was. A technology containment bunker! Obviously that was the objective of this mission. “There is what we have came for,” Briggs explained,“ H.Q. Believes that in that bunker over there is a great weapon that will be capable of winning this war for us. Well what are you waiting for technician? Open it up!”

The technician ran towards the bunker with Victor following. Then the whole regiment moved closer to the bunker to make sure that nobody would attack the technician. Then a few minutes later the technician popped up a little panel at the side of the bunker, typed in something then the bunker came to life. The bunker surface part popped out of the top like a cap off a bottle. Then an elevator came up exposing a saucer-like vehicle. Some of the soldiers began to cheer in excitement. But the humming of the saucer became louder and then all of a sudden a beam of light turned what was once a juggernaut into a pile of burning metal. Then all of a sudden the flying saucer hovered over Victor, and Victor was enveloped into a line of transparent light. He quickly levitated into the saucer.

Then all of a sudden there was an implosion from the saucer and it slowly crashed down. Before the saucer hit the ground victor jumped out as the saucer exploded behind him.

“What did those aliens expect me to do?” Victor said. “Nicely lie down on their frickin table, well I simply blew them a few holes. Then all of a sudden the damn thing started crashing”