Elder of Sera: Arrival (Pillar 1)

Act One- Chapter One: "allies or Enemies?"

Key.

/Text\- Swarm Hive Link.

<text>- C.O.G Comms/Comms

|Text|- The Elders/Psionic Link.

'Text'- Character thoughts

"Text"- Quotes (XCOM STYLE)

"Text"- Speaking

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"In the darkest Pits of a void of ones shattered shell, there is light. When one has  Lost themselves, the only thing left, to overpower negative determination, is A strong will to push"

-Overlord Null

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A/N: Alright guys, heres the Re-written version for Act One. Original text will be right after it.

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"Hey Rookie! Seen a Swarm Drone before?" The Sergeant of Theta squad had asked Frai, Callsign Theta-6, while the King Raven was flying high in the air toward their objective.

"What?? I can't hear you over this damn noise!" Frai tried to reply back over the loud sounds of the King Ravens' blades. Greihound looked over at Harper who was sitting next to Frai, which he got the clear message from his look as he leaned closer to Frai.

"He's asking if you have seen a Grub!" Harper told him, to which Frai nodded in a 'ooooh' manner.

"No Sir, I haven't Yet! Why do you ask Sarge?" Frai answered back to their squad leader.

"I'll let you have the honors of first kill, today may, or may not be your lucky day!" Greihound replied as The King Raven came down, landing On a hillside as the sun was setting. Theta Squad exited out of the King Raven carefully. It was a bit cold, but nothing too much to handle as Frai was mesmerized by the sight of the mountains, and the setting sun, though he began looking through his scope for a second around the landscape. The Rookie stopped looking, proceeding to try and adjust the scope, having a hard time. Harper took notice, walking over to him giving assistance to how he wanted it. 

"Hey Kid! Over here, need eyes on" Greihound called out to him, as Frai followed as instructed, positioning himself on a rock that was on the side of a hill. Harper followed as well, in front of them was a dense forest. Once Frai looked through the scope, spotting an old Rig in the distance. Some Swarm Drones were there using It like an outpost as The Sarge called in command, getting a clear Green Light for them to engage. "You get the first shot Kid" He quietly said to Frai, who readied his Longshot. Though before he could take a shot, the Swarm Drones, and Theta Squad's attention, was caught by the sound of gunfire in the distance as the Swarm Drones ran off. 

"Friendlies?" Rose asked.

"We are the only Squad operating in the area outside of C.O.G Borders, something else is going on at the crash site." Sergeant Greihound replied standing up as he got comms from command. new orders from command; were going hunting and going to beat those Red-Dead sonsa bitches to whatever that was, no raven this time. Let's move!" He ordered as Theta Squad quickly sprinted to what is called Crash Site Alpha.

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Harper, 13:45, Crash Site Alpha.

'Whatever the gunfire was, it definitely grabbed the attention of the swarm real quick' I thought to myself running through the Forest with the rest of Theta. Frai was the closest to me, and I could hear he was running out of breath, a couple of times already I had to get him back up onto his feet to continue moving between the trees to the billow of smoke ahead. A half an hour had passed before we came to a cliff, seeing the remains of... something...