We are the 400

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          I woke up in a hospital bed in the medical center. Ralph and Tom sit there waiting .“You're awake!” Tom exclaims. “What happened?” I ask them sitting  up in the bed. “Oh basically you overloaded on energy.” Tom says . 

“Yea it was pretty awesome besides the fact that you destroyed most the cube.” Ralph sai. 

“So what happened after that?” I ask.

“Alyssa gave you CPR.” Tom says laughing. 

“Really?” I ask expectantly.

“No , I’m just messing with you.”  Tom says laughing.

I grin and say jokingly “That would be awesome if that happened.”

           Tom and Ralph laugh then a woman walks in. “I need you  two to get out now.” She says to Tom  and Ralph with a heavy Russian accent. They quickly stand and leave. The woman  has black hair that ends at her shoulders and brown eyes. She is tall about 5’9 and sits in the chair where Tom was sitting seconds before. “So Sol… Have you told any of them?” She asks me her eyes staring straight into my soul. 

          “Mrs. Smith?” I ask sitting up even more. “Yes.”  she says   a high pitched scream echoing in my head. I growl and blast her in the chest with a ball of energy. The screaming immediately stops .  I throw the sheets off my legs and stand up. “Sol they are here fight child of Aralkis fight like never before.” Says the goliath of a man that looked like Sylus . He stands a couple feet away near the room door. I’m pretty sure I’m hallucinating so I ignore him. 

         I search Mrs. Smith and find a  Berretta PX4. Her chest is smoldering and I gag on the smell as I kick the door open. The hallway lights flicker off along with the generator within seconds. I create a ball of energy in my left hand and use it as a lantern. It illuminates most of the area around me.  I walk forward for a bit then hear a loud inhumanely demonic roar it is like millions of predators were roaring at once. 

             I hear footsteps and create  a ball of energy around each fist. I ready myself for a fight as the footsteps get louder.  Then Alyssa runs up to me holding a alien cannon and nearly blows off my head. “Ahh crap you scared me.” She says lowering the cannon. “Oh sorry.” I say absorbing the energy into my right fist. “What the hell is happening?” I ask her  looking around.

           “It’s an attack on the base.” She says flinching as the air conditioner in the base shuts off.  “Oh then let’s move.” I say to her running in the direction the roar came from. Alyssa follows me the glow of her rifle providing us with a small amount of light. We turn a corner and see a green glow emanating from a door down the hall.  We run up to the door and peer in. 

            

      It looks like someone took the roots of a tree painted them green then splattered them all over the room. Tendrils of a green creature were all over the room.  In the center was  about four cocoons pulsing a fluorescent green. A tendril shoot out and grab Alyssa, she freezes them and they fall to the floor and crack. “Ni-“ before I can finish the compliment I’m kicked forward unto the floor. I roll and then slowly stand swords already drawn.

         Two  warriors stand at the door dressed in full black armor. “Child of Aralkis .” The one on the left says it’s voice heavy and inhumanly deep. “Prepare for death!” It says before disappearing. I get a feeling like the alien is going to appear behind me and I duck as it does. The alien swings it’s blade and I bring mine up but it has already appeared to my left and it kicks me in the ribs sending me spiraling. 

          I  fall and appear in the air with the alien warrior. I knee it in the  jaw and hear a crack. Then we teleport again right next to  the alien cocoons  the alien warrior’s knuckle blade arcing towards my head. I dodge it’s blade  but stumble into the other warrior who grabs my arms and head butts me hard making my eyes water.

           I wipe the water out my eyes and feel a heavy kick to the stomach then before I fall me and  the alien warrior appear in the air again. This time I’m prepared and dodge it’s blow  to my face by putting my hand up. Bad Idea. The blade  tears into my flesh dripping a black liquid into the wound. The whole time the other warrior is punching and kicking me all over.

       I grab the teleporting alien and stab him in the ribs with my sword. We appear again on the ground in a struggle. I have my sword’s scraping against his as we clash.  The alien behind me comes to stab me in the neck but I sense it before it happens and duck.  The alien assassin nearly stabs its partner but it teleports and appears right behind me. I spin as I stand clashing my blades with theirs. They are strong but I grit my teeth and push making them fly back. The teleporter appears behind me and I elbow it in the face not even looking back. A tendril whips out at my foot so I jump into the air and slice it up. 

       The   teleporter appears before me and I whip my sword forward and miss. It kicks me in the stomach and it’s partner comes to attack me from behind but I slash it’s chest with my left sword. Blood sprays into the air and I turn my right sword off knowing that the teleporter will appear before me. He does so I activate the sword and it tears straight through it’s temple and skull. 

           The sound of tearing flesh  fills the air. The teleporter is tough because it grabs my right wrist and crushes the bone. I’m bleeding out of a wound in that same hand so it hurts like hell. It’s partner rises to his feet and grabs my arms from behind. I stab it in the chest with my left sword and twist the blade. The alien snarls and lets go off it’s grip on me. 

          I’m being held in the air by the teleporter it’s holding unto me by my throat. I grab my blade my hand slippery on the handle because of my blood but I still get a grip on it. The teleporter screams in pain as I bring the blade down and out slashing off most its face. It releases it’s grip on me and falls. I cough and look to where Alyssa is being attacked by thousands of tendrils. 

           I’m about to run over but I’m kicked in the chest by the other assassin. I hit a wall and a tendril flies at me. The most I can do is duck. My body is getting weaker considering that I’m still supercharged by the robots lasers. The assassin grabs me and throws me at the floor. This is when I hear a crack in my right ribcage. I see all the lights in the room turn super bright. The assassin slinks over and grabs my shirt and lifts me into the air. 

             It  is standing over me the lights swirling around it’s head obscuring it’s features. It raises a blade over my chest and then drops it the metal dropping quickly towards my head.