Warfare!tale: LV-556

Chapter 5

INSPECTION TEAM OVERDUE
SURVIVORS: UNKNOWN
SUSPECTED ALIEN INFESTATION
DIRECT ACTION TEAM SENT
PRISON COMPLEX, DERELICT

Everyone had been through hell. Constant alien ambushes, firefights and wounds.

Chara had finished wrapping their arm in gauze, after an alien tried to impale her with its tail.

"Christ, this hurts.." they said.

They were approaching the first block of cells. All but one door was closed.

"Hey, look. A cell door is open." Sans pointed out.

Suddenly, 9mm submachine gun fire could be heard, along with the synthetic voice of the android they've been looking for.

As soon as the team arrived on the spot, X-20 turner around, showing her damaged face.

"Yo, this is your work?" Chara asked, pointing to the multiple dead bodies all across the control room.

"HEY, WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR FACE?" Papyrus asked.

"Explosion almost killed me. Shrapnel ripped through the skin, I guess." X-20 answered.

"That's badass." Asriel muttered.

"Yeah." X-20 said. "Hey, listen. We have to leave the planet now." she said to Asgore.

"Why's that?" Asgore asked.
"The PMCs tried attacking the Queen's Hive, ended up rupturing the core." X-20 answered.

Everyone was losing their cool and this only added up to it.

"How long until it blows?" Toriel asked.
"Four, maybe five hours." X-20 replied.

"We got problems." Chara complained.
"Oh, man. And I was getting short." Asriel said.

"If anyone has a death wish of staying here, I say we get moving." X-20 said.

Everyone instantly moved.
"Hey, what about the Queen?" Frisk asked.
"The Queen is moving towards this facility to gather their sisters and escape the blast zone." X-20 replied.
"Slippery lil' bastards." Asgore said.

The team came across a window that gave them a view of the landing field. Several dropships had taken off, including the last functional dropship.

"There goes our only chance." Chara said.
"Hey, we still got Mettaton fixing the shit out of our dropship." Asriel added.

"Shh! We got aliens." Undyne whispered, seeing a group of aliens drag away unconscious scientists into a local Hive.

"Fuck, they hived the place real quick." Chara whispered. "This was our fault, man." Asriel said.

"Hey, if that keeps you up at night, remember when these guys caused the deaths of over 200 colonists." X-20 added.

The squad kept moving, being as cautious as possible. Asgore signalled them to stop.

"Hold up. Someone's talking." he said. The troops listened.

"Listen, sir, the FTL is the last way off this rock. We will capture the Queen, and take it with us. Yes, sir. Understood. We will leave no evidence of this."

"An FTL?" Frisk asked.
"The only way off this rock with the Queen." X-20 answered. "We shouldn't let them."
"So, what do we do?" Asgore said.

"Well, we need to get someone to get in there and detonate its reactor." X-20 replied.

"Survival chance?" Toriel asked.
"It's a sacrifice. Calculated chance is 0.01 percent." X-20 answered.

"Shit."