starcraft: dilation

blood and bullets

My body jolts as I wake up. I bring my hands to my face as I rub my sore eyes. I hear banging on the door. Not this shit again. The bang quickly turns to a shuttering knock as I let my hands fall next to my head. I turn my head and look at my clock. '1100'. 9 hours. My senses are waking up this time. It's not as much as I'd like but I've got tonight. I also slept through my alarm I set at 7 witch is rare for me...but I did work for days without any rest. The knocking continues as it comes in sets of three every minute. "You alive in there colonel?" I could bearly make out the works. I sit up as I stretch and pop my back and chest. That felt good. I turn and got out of bed as I look and see my rifle leaning agenst my closet door. I pick it up before heading for the door as I put my hand on the panel and it unlocks. "Good afternoon colonel. You slept for 9 hours. It is currently 1100 hours." The door opens as the light blinds me for a moment. "Oh shit."
"I didn't think we would wake him up." I blink a few times as my adjust. I look and see four females standing infront of me as thier dressed in casual clothing. "G-good afternoon colonel. I'm sorry if we woke you up." I recinize them. "What happened this time?" Thier from delta company in the 501rst battalion. The sorry bastered I helped with thier 'situation'. "N-nothing sir." Thier tense. I lift my rifle and let it fall as I grip the berrol before it could hit the ground. I gently set it down as I look at the two on the left and see thier more tense then the others. "We...we wanted to thank you for your help." That's a first. "Thank me by making sure those kinds of situations don't happen again." I take a step back as one of then reaches in then reflexively pulls back out of fear. I stop before I could put my hand on the sensor pad. My senses aren't fully awake right now so I can tell what they really won't. "What do you want? I've got something to take care of." I turn on the lights in my room before looking at the female again. "We..." the female on the right steps forward. "We wanted to repay you by taking you out for lunch...or something like that." She steps back. I look at her with confusion. "Meckenna." The female closes to the door turns half way and faces her. "It's true." She slowly turns back around. "Like I said." I hover my hand over the sensor pad. "Repay me by making sure those kinds of situations don't happen again." The females on the left step forward. "Can we at least do something other than that? For...piece of mind?" I lower my hand. If I remeber correctly...the 423rd is next to thier company. "The 423st. What do you know about them?" The females give me a look of discomfort. "Those pigs? Why do you ask?" The female up front changed her tone quickly. "I won't go into detail but I've got some things to straighten up there." The females give eachother looks of confusion. "Thier a bunch of dirt bags that's mainly comprised of dominion rejects. The whole battalion is mainly males who are to horny and party to much."
"Not to mention suck at thier jobs. Thier mostly infantry who have some of the worst PT scores on this instalation." They clearly don't like them. "Since the 501rst is mainly medics and completely female...they hound us 24/7." That explains everything. I bring my hand to my nose as I close my eyes. "Thier the reason why the problems we've been facing are so difficult. We're medics and don't do much heavy lifting. Hell, even the mechanics use the facilities and SCV's for most of the heavy stuff." Again. That explains alot. "Dominion rejects. What do you mean by that?" The female losen up. "Thier the main dominion presents on the instalation. The only reason why there here is becuse there was supposedly feral zerg sighted a few clicks out but I'm pretty sure the dominion didn't want them so the admiral of the third fleet asked for them to be stationed here." I let my hand fall as I take in a deep breath. "You would think the dominion would instill more displine into those slack jaws." They aren't impressive. And Apperently nothing compared to the raiders. "Why do you ask?" I remeber what Simon did last night. "Same old bullshit." I lift my hand to the panel. "Can we join you?" I pouse as I give the girls another confused look. "If your going down there then I want to see what you've got instore for them." Two of them start to chuckle. "Why?" They get angry. "I'm a Sargeant first class in the raiders malita. Me and most of the other medics in the 501rst want to see them being put in thier place by someone who's willing to. And if it's someone's who's apart of rayners raiders then I have to see the dominion put into thier places again." She's fired up. "We may be allied with them now but that doesn't mean they get to continue to look down at us again. We did help the sworm take that bastered out and replace him." At least thier honest. It also sounds like a good opportunity. "How many soldiers in the 501rst are available right now?" I fully wake up as thier rises as it wakes me up. "Everyone will come if your planning what I think you are." She deduced my plan quickly. She's also getting fired up. "Then get as many of the 501rst down there." The females start to get excited. "And tell them to get into combat uniforms. I'll be down there in 3 hours. It's going to be a long day to so sure to bring something to eat." The Sargeant give me a wicked smile. "Yes sir." The huddle up. "And Sargeant." She turns back around. "Yes sir?" I can't help but Crack a smile. "Make sure you bring those stabilizer med packs. After were done, the 423rd's going to need them." She chuckles and nods. I put my hand on the sensor panel as the door starts to close. "Looks like this is going to be a part. Let's show those dominion slackjaws who's accualy incharge here." I turn around. "Adjutant. Get my combat armer ready and sent this to the instalation General. Things are going to get a little messy." I lean my rifle next to the door as I start to change my cloths as I throw the dirty ones into my laundry basket. "Your nuxes combat suit is being prepared now colonel. A notification has been to general nax and I've also taken the liberty to alert all 501rst commanding officers of your directions." Always working fast. "Go ahead and prep my new rifle to. I want to get used to carrying it." I get my uniform on as ill need to be covered in order to get to the arms rooms. "Weapons are already on standby colonel. They are ready for your pick up." At least those armorers do thier job. It's a good thing I asked for my equipment to be stored in the 501rst. These medics are good and I'm content knowing my equipment is safe and ready in minutes or in seconds when I ask for it.