"All military personnel have been killed Operator Roeyka I fear we arrived too late." The convoy attack had been a pincer in a small canyon. Mutants were on both sides of the canyon walls, with a small blockade in front of the convoy, it had been a pretty sound massacre. Xanthiana was a bit out of breath from having run to meet up with the convoy, but she did have the advantage of surprise. The mutants had started mop up duty on the downed Erep soldiers and were not looking at outside help coming. There was only one mutant on her side of the canyon and only one on the other side, so if she took out her mutant she could catch the mutants in an ambush attack of her own.
"Well at the very least the supplies are still needed, and the mutants are still assholes, so prepare that adrenaline boost EGO."
"Operator Roeyka I have to remind you per Von Bach industry protocol specifically attempting to kill yourself voids your contractual payment."
"Hilarious amongst all the stupid things we've done so far, this one is the one that you warn me about that particular clause EGO." Xanthiana readied herself, the pistol would alert the mutant across the way too much, so she'd have to go quiet, hopefully a neck snap.
"Adrenaline Rush activated Operator Roeyka, good luck." The feeling of power was back, the overjuiced muscles singing for action. She was a good hundred feet from the mutant, but she cleared that immediately. She grabbed him around his neck with both arms, the increased power from the adrenaline let her snap his neck with ease. She took the rifle off his shoulder as his body fell and opened fire on the mutant across from her, the burst of fire hit him in the chest area and he went down, the rest of the mutants about four in total turned to face her. She opened fire on them, but the rifle wasn't fully loaded and she only got off two bursts killing one of the mutants and wounding another. Sensing her positions was about to be full of death in a second, Xanthiana rolled forward, sliding down the little canyon wall she pulled her pistol out and dealt with the three remaining survivors, the pistol's slide racked back empty as their bodies hit the smoked road.
"Any survivors?"
"Negative Operator Roeyka, 100% kill rate." She smiled, even though she knew it was probably bad to be proud of your ability to murder others, it was the one thing she was really good at. She took stock of the overall situation, the larger transport truck the Ereps were using was toast, too many direct hits from rifle fire fragged the engine, as had one of the atvs the escort was riding. Which left one atv to try and bring back an entire truckload of supplies. On the plus side there was plenty of different kinds of ammuntion amongst the dead, and a good bit of weaponry to peruse for the most usable amongst the scavenged. She didn't think the Ereps would mind considering she had been their a few minutes and there had not been any more reinforcements, which was a bad thing considering the situation she had left at base camp wasn't very encouraging to begin with.
Xanthiana did the best with what she had to work with, it took a few hours, the afternoon sun was almost gone when she finished. She had a makeshift sled hooked up to the back of her atv with some cable and other assorted bullshit; it would have to hold. She made the darkened drive back to the camp in fear. She had a good supply of ammunition, and a vehicle, but with the medical supplies hooked up as she did she was a sitting duck, not only that, she was a sitting duck the mutants had already gotten to once that day. Despite all that she managed to make it back to where the camp should have been, but all she found was bodies, most of them mutants, but there were some ereps and what appeared to be fellow Ark Hunters amongst the dead. With the light fading, she would have to hold up amongst the ruined camp, and hope in the morning she could hook up with main erep force, if it indeed still existed. It would be a long night.
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