Eaters Of The Slain.. Witnessing The Slaughter!

On the bridge of the ISS MARAUDER, Captain Laura Black and her bridge crew watch in real time as the members of Raiding Team Two are viciously attacked by aliens while aboard the gigantic ship in orbit around the 'Demon Class' planet. My OCs by www.deviantart.com/s2ka .

Captain Black rises from her command chair to watch in horror as her crewmen are torn to bloody shreds by the large but eerily silent aliens. Using their huge, hand like claws like sharpened scythes, they easily slash through and puncture the EV suits worn by the team and tearing into the entrails of the Terran soldiers. Two of the team fall in the opening seconds on the alien assault. The Terrans have been taken by complete surprise, as the attackers seem to emerge from the darkness in waves. Dozens of them, towering several meters in height, with long arms, long muscled legs and faceless except for huge maws bristling with long, razor like teeth. They look like something out of a fever induced nightmare.. demons from the dark pits of hell itself... 

The screams of pain and terror from the dying echo through the open com channel to the horrified ears of the captain and crew of the MARAUDER. They can hear the orders issued by Master Chief Bria McGregor to her team, in vain as her people fight back, firing their weapons to no effect, as each one fall to the ripping talons of the alien attackers. Terrans are more than used to the sound of terror and pain, they often revel in it, causing it, even enduring it, but this is different. Each member of this crew has seen comrades die, sometimes horribly, but this is both unexpected and unusually brutal. The sound of rending flesh and the sickening sound of bones snapping get responses from nearly all of the bridge crew, except the captain.

Laura Black is the first to recover from the initial shock of the aliens' surprise attack. Instead of feeling horrified or sickened by what she was witnessing, Captain Black begins to feel angry... full of building rage at the sight of aliens slaughtering members of HER crew. 

"McGregor! Get out of there!" Laura orders. "Are you reading me Master Chief? Get out of there!"

The only response the captain recieves are more screams and the surprising sound of flesh being chewed. The cracking of bones, tearing of ligaments as each of the team's video, com, and vital sign feeds go dark... one by one. Just before Master Chief McGregor's video feed goes dark, the captain and crew watch as the aliens start eating the body parts of the slain Terrans. Biting into the bloody flesh, tearing great chunks of gory meat in their teeth filled maws... some of the aliens begin fighting with their compatriots over the grisly banquet...

"We have lost most of the team, Captain.." Lt. Sonak reports. The Vulcan is the one crew member who is not emotionally affected by the sight of the slaughter.

"Unfortunately there is heavy interference with the com signals of the survivors." Sonak adds. "Master Chief McGregor and Corporal Harrison are alive and moving away.."

The rest of the bridge crew begin regaining their composure as the initial shock fades. Like their captain, these Terrans begin to feel rage at the sight of their comrades being butchered and then eaten like slaughtered pigs.

"Should we fire a spread of photon torpedoes at that hulk, captain?" Commander Blayne Alexander, the first officer, asks from the tactical station.
"We've gotta avenge those soldiers!"
 
The rest of the bridge personnel begin grumbling their support of Commander Alexander's angry words. They are Terrans, and in their warrior hearts, blood has been spilled and blood must be answered with blood.

Laura can see her crew regaining their warrior's lust for vengeance. The ancient Terran call to battle now fills the heart of every one of her crew. Terran blood has been spilled and Terrans must now go to war.... Even the Vulcan Sonak understands the warrior's duty to avenge the fallen. 

Not even the sight of Terran soldiers being eaten by the aliens on that ship can weaken the resolve of the crew of ISS MARAUDER now. Their 'blood is up' now and when that happens, Terrans will throw themselves headlong into battle, with no thought for anything but victory... or death...

"No! Hold your fire!" Captain Black says. "We have comrades alive over there and I'm not leaving them behind..."

The eyes of every member of the bridge crew turn to focus on their commander... their captain... at this moment...

"Sir?" Alexander says, surprise can be heard in her voice... 

"You heard me Commander..." Laura Black says with conviction. "Hold your fire... I will not leave any member of my crew behind...."





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