EPTHow does it feel like to be a marine?
Imagine you just got fresh out of the Barracks, got a new shiny rifle, perfectly fitting armor and your shoes that make walking on any surface feel like a spring walk in the park. You feel very motivated after the training, because they've been telling you how good you are.
But now everything changes, there's no more training ground, no more practice shooting, and no more hot coffee in the morning ... it's just you and a bunch of zerg trying to eat your face. No really, they don't want to cuddle, they just want to eat your face and spit you out, so they can eat someone else.
Zerg don't care about your achievments, your family, your life goals, or even how many kittens you saved when you were young. They just want to eat you, that's all there is ... they were created to destroy life, and destroy it they will. Your friends will die because of Zerg, your squad will die, and you will be left alone as the only survivor.
Now that these thoughts start creeping up to your mind, you're slowly starting to lose all those positive marine-like ideas about being a good soldier and your survival instincts kick in. No longer anything else matters, just the survival instinct.
MOVE, SOLDIER!
Enough of chit-chat, you got your assignment. Move to the enemy's base and patrol the bunkers until they are constructed. Sounds easy right? You're not even alone, there are three other marines and whole squad of SCVs accompanying you. I bet you feel safe, so many targets, why would the Zerg try to pick you?
You were always the fastest one during the training, so if anything happens, you can run away and save yourself. It's not a honorable way, but better be alive than get eaten alive by those nasty Zerglings.
The time has come, you've got to the bunker line, your SCVs already started constructing the bunkers. In just couple of seconds, you will be able to get in and feel safe. Nothing can go wrong, you all had the perfect training, you're killing machines, nobody can stand in your way!
If you manage to survive for long enough, you will get a combat shield, that will protect you. But you have to survive, that's all this is about, survival.
Everything seems to be going good, you can see some zerglings in the distance, but they don't want to attack your position, you are way stronger, and after the bunker is done, there's just nothing the Zerg could to break it. You feel like you made it, even the other Marines are starting to look relieved, mission accomplished. Almost!
Just when you're about to get into the bunker, you feel that everything went silent. It's not natural, even in the desert. You can always hear the wind blowing, or some small animal making those cracking sounds. But all of them are silent now, you can't see a thing moving and fear is slowly starting to creep up on your shoulders.
Seconds go by and you keep standing there, trying to figure out what went wrong, while suddenly you hear a scream! One of your squad members just got cut in half. You can't see anything, only a moving shadow. He's moving towards another marine, you try to scream to warn him, but before he realizes what's going on, he's already dead.
You're thinking:
This thing can't be Zerg, they don't have such a technology. Why did the general send us here, without knowing what could attack us? We don't even have an Orbital Command ready, so there's no way to fight this thing. I could shoot the shadow, but I won't hit it anway, it's moving too fast.
I have to react quickly before it realizes I'm here. There's no way to fight it, I'm going to have to run away.
Run as you've never run before
You turn away from your squad, from the people you trusted with your life, from your brothers. Fighting is noble, but there's no way you can fight this thing, you just have to run away and pray it doesn't follow you.
Within the next seconds you hear another scream and you realize that your whole squad is dead, only you are the one left. Good thing there are still those SCVs left, so the shadow won't follow you.
But you forgot about the most important thing, there are still Zerg on the planet. And now you can even hear them following you. No matter how good runner you've been, there is no escape from zerglings. They're faster than any animal and their claws can pierce Tank's armor. A single marine is no match to a group of zerglings.
The worst thing isn't that you know you're going to die. You already knew that when you left the barracks. The worst thing is that now you know your whole base will get destroyed, because your general put all of the resources into this one attack, thinking it will be an easy victory.
Well he was wrong, and now you all must pay with your life. Just when that thought goes through your mind, you feel sharp pain in your leg and fall to the ground. Zerglings just caught up to you, the last seconds of your life are passing ... everything ends in darkness.
to be continued ...
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