Night 6, Post #1843:
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Night 6

Not many crew members of the GFS Olympus were able to sleep that night. They were sick with worry about the dangers of the Hunter and the other new threats, which they had failed to locate. Their commanders, Admiral Dane and Captain Falcon, often seemed just as merciless as the Hunter herself. There were many who were too fearful to fall asleep. And there were others who were awake for their own reasons…

Master Chief had positioned himself in the mess hall.


He stood up all the tables on their sides to provide him with cover, and hid behind one of them. Effectively, he had created himself a battlefield of chest-high walls, one that might have impressed even his buddy Marcus Fenix back at IDFH HQ. He was ready to be holed up here for as long as he had to.

The Chief crouched at one end of the room, back to the wall, as his sniper rifle pointed toward the other end and the door. He was relaxed but vigilant, and he stirred into position when he heard pattering footsteps at the other end. He looked through the darkness, unable to find his target. Every few seconds he would hear the footfalls again, and a few times he even saw a small creature bound from behind one table to another.

Finally, the small creature bounded out right in front of his view.

“Pikachu~!”


Master Chief looked through his sniper lens at the adorable creature mewling at him, and was nearly reduced to dropping and running up to cuddle it. Then he saw the glowing blue eyes, decided against it, and fired.

With lightning-fast agility, the Pikachu sensed the bullet and dodged out of the way. Then it began moving faster than the Chief’s eye could follow, zooming all around the room. Frustrated, he switched to his assault rifle, hoping to hit it with the spread.

But it was not to be so. The Pikachu dashed around him and hopped onto his back, and due to the claustrophobic HUD in Master Chief’s helmet he was unable to turn around quickly enough to stop it.

“Pika…”

Pikachu began glowing with an unholy light.

“CHUUUUUUUUUUU!”

A massive, dark pulse erupted from the rodent’s body, passing straight through Master Chief’s armor and hitting him at his core. The force of the attack sent him flying like a blow from a Gravity Hammer, and he collided with the wall in a satisfying crunch of bones.

The electric mouse giggled as only it could do, and scampered off into the ship.

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Roll Casket was wandering the halls of the crew quarters that night.


It looked as if she was looking for someone, but she didn’t know who or where it would be. After walking the corridors for a long while, she finally stopped. The door she stood before intrigued her for some reason. Mustering her courage, she opened it slightly and peeked inside.

At the far end of the room, with its back to her, was a being wearing bright orange armor. Roll stifled a gasp, but remained mesmerized. She began to slowly open the door until it was only half closed.

The Hunter had not noticed her, but seemed to be preoccupied with something in her Visor. Roll continued to study her closely. Finally, deciding she had seen enough, she began to slowly close the door in order to leave. But when it was almost closed, the hinges of the steel door let out a loud, squeaking creak that broke the silence.


The Hunter whipped around in a flash, just to see the door close shut. She fired a missile at the door and then barged straight through it, denting it and knocking it off of its hinges. She saw the girl running down the corridor and gave pursuit, charging up a beam in her arm cannon.

As she turned a corner, the Hunter aimed for the girl’s legs and fired. Then she slowed her pace. When she approached Roll, her leg was encased in ice and frozen to the ground. She was in hysterical fear, trying frantically to break free.

The Hunter raised her arm cannon slowly until it was level with Roll’s face. She was so close as to be within reach of Roll’s arms, and noticing this the girl pulled out her wrench and started frantically hitting her with it. The Hunter was unfazed, and allowed her Ice Beam to charge up to its full potential. Then she fired. Roll screamed.

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The scream of Roll Casket was loud enough that it roused the nearby Adam Malkovich from his light sleep.


He rushed out into the corridor only to find the body of Roll transformed into something resembling an ice sculpture, and the culprit gone. Not wanting to stick around and end up frozen in ice like the girl, he began to quickly move down the corridors toward the exit of the crew’s quarters section of the ship.

Just as he was about to leave the quarters, a figure in jet-black armor with a glowing red visor blocked his way.


“Commander Malkovich… how strange to see you at this hour of the night.”

Adam recognized the armor, but could not see the face inside. He cautiously put his hand to his gun.

“Identify yourself, soldier.”

“Now, now, Commander. No need for formalities. It’s quite late. You should really be getting back to sleep.”

“I’m not tired. Out of my way, soldier!”

“But Commander… I INSIST!”

The dark figure fired a beam of pure light energy at point-blank range. The searing blast struck Malkovich in the chest and went clear through, incinerating his armor and the flesh in between. He fell backwards to the ground, somehow faintly conscious even with a smoldering crater in his chest. The dark figure stood over him.

“You see, Commander… the Lady? She had an objection.”

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Anthony Higgs, patrolling the depths of the ship, heard the screams first and then the gunfire second.


As quickly as he could, he began moving out towards the crew quarters. Through the clanking of his armor, he did not see or hear the glowing orb floating slowly behind him, following him. The orb did not disturb him, however… yet.

When Higgs reached the mutilated body, he grimaced and knelt over it. Opening the visor plate, he was shocked to see who was underneath.

“No! Commander…”

The face of Adam Malkovich was peaceful in death, but obviously had not been so moments prior while he was living. Hefting his mini-gun, Higgs stood back up.

“You will be avenged… I swear it! Samus…”

Upon turning around, he noticed the massive creature that had been lurking behind him all this time.


Were he not weighted down by the gun and armor, he would have jumped from the shock. He reacted quickly, firing up the mini-gun and burying the creature in bullets. Heavy weapon or no, however, the creature seemed all but impervious to it. And there was no heavier weapon than the one the creature was about to use.

Pulsating with light, the orb at its center unleashed a hellish storm of energy. When the blinding light faded, the bodies of both Anthony Higgs and Adam Malkovich had been completely obliterated.

The creature’s limbs disappeared and the orb floated away.

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Living: 19/47
a completely inoffensive name2 (replaced Khazaar)
Beefy187
classical_hero
Csargo
dcmort93
Diamondeye
Glenn
Greyblades2 (Replaced Motep)
Ironside
johnhughthom
landlubber
Nictel
pevergreen
Rebel Jeb
Sasaki Kojiro2 (replaced Yaseikhaan)
Seon
Skooma Addict
Thefluffyone93
Yaropolk


Dead: 28/47
a completely inoffensive name - Professor E. Gadd (IDFH Survivalist)
AntiKingWarmanCake88 - Diddy Kong (IDFH Survivalist)
robbiecon - Trace (GF Survivalist)
Choxorn - GF Mechanic (GF Survivalist)
Reenk Roink - Pit (IDFH Survivalist)
Greyblades - Aurora Unit 242 (GF Survivalist)
TinCow - Corrupted Cloud Strife (Phazon Corruption)
autolycus - GF Quarantine Officer (GF Survivalist)
Sasaki Kojiro - Rundas (GF Survivalist)
Secura - Commander Shepard (IDFH Survivalist)
YLC - GF PED Marine (GF Survivalist)
Nightbringer - Noxus (Hero)
Renata - Dark Samus (Phazon Corruption)
Link - Barrett Wallace (IDFH Survivalist)
Winston Hughes - Gandrayda (GF Survivalist)
Beskar - Shadow Peach (Bowser Corruption)
Insanious - Ness (IDFH Survivalist)
Askthepizzaguy - Meta-Ridley (Space Pirate)
woad&fangs - Sora (IDFH Survivalist)
Jarema - King Dedede (Neutral)
Choxorn2 - K. G. Misawa (GF Survivalist)
Romanic - Knuckles the Echidna (IDFH Survivalist)
Captain Blackadder - Maurice Favreau (GF Survivalist)
Double A - Sylux (GF Survivalist)
Cecil XIX - Master Chief (IDFH Survivalist)
God Emperor - Roll Casket (IDFH Survivalist)
Frozen in Ice - Adam Malkovich (Hero)
ByzantineKnight - Anthony Higgs (Hero)


Reserves:
autolycus
Romanic

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Begin Day 7!

It will end at 12:30 AM tomorrow night.

Results will be out ASAP.