Chapter 71 - Variable (1/2)

The mon calamarians were advancing slowly, looking for traps. It seemed that they learned that clones were a tough nut to crack, as the fifty or sixty mon calamarians bodies on the ground showed. In contrast, there were only seven dead clones there, showing how high the price to take the medical base was.

Things had gone quiet for the moment, but it wouldn't take long before the air was filled with lasers once more. Involuntary, and certainly to their worry, one clone had been left behind.

Dageer checked his belt, and even the dead mon calamari, for anything that could be used to stop the invaders. He had on DC-17, one DC-15S, and two thermal detonators. Not nearly enough to escape his current predicament.

No, that wasn't all of it actually. He also had some electric grenades, but he had thrown them to the back of his mind because they could only be used underwater.

Underwater, underwater... The word kept ringing on his mind as if he was missing something. And then the idea dawned upon him. It was no wonder that Commander Keeli always said he had really bad ideas when he was in battle. That was another one of those bad ideas.

Dageer took out the grenade launcher and attached it to his weapon. Then he got one of his thermal detonators and activated it, before rolling it to his right. When the explosion sounded, and the mon calamarians turned to it, he ran the opposite direction, circling around them, hoping they wouldn't see him.

They saw.

”Looook!”

The mom calamari who pointed at Dageer was the first one to receive his greetings. He looked surprisingly unconcerned at the hole on his chest, as if he never thought it would happen, and then fell to his knees.

Dageer pressed the trigger madly, sending wave after wave of lasers onto his enemies. By the time he arrived at his objective, another five mon calamarians were gone forever.

Dageer had gone all the way back to the treadmill and was once more using it to hide his body from his enemies. This time, however, he wouldn't run away, but in fact, he would get closer to the well.