{"id":476,"date":"2011-04-25T06:58:09","date_gmt":"2011-04-25T11:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thefourpartland.com\/blog\/?p=476"},"modified":"2011-04-25T07:03:10","modified_gmt":"2011-04-25T12:03:10","slug":"command-called","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thefourpartland.com\/blog\/?p=476","title":{"rendered":"Command Called"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the first time in a long while, I’ve written another entry in the Jenny<\/a> serial. With luck, I shall finally get around to finishing the story this time.<\/em><\/p>\n

\tIt hurt. Badly. But JNY-35197 was still alive. He tried to move. Couldn’t. The console had fallen on his legs, crushed them. Suit had numbed him. Waist down was probably gone. Jenny shrugged. Hope his owner hadn’t wanted a sex change.<\/p>\n

\tPropped on his elbows, he surveyed the room. Stirring forms there and there. Three humans up and at the door. He shouted at them, a quick question. Hmm. Six made it, four dead in the crash. And no fire coming through the hole in the blast door. Jenny’d been in worse spots before. Unless the ship blew. He’d never died before, not for real.<\/p>\n

\tA repeater spat through the opening. The humans answered. Jenny dumped covering fire through, not able to see what he was shooting at. Better not. Save the ammo for someone who can fight. Might make it last.<\/p>\n

\tCommand better remember which dropship was which. Course, they didn’t care about the organ replacements inside. He didn’t want to die yet though, so Jenny tried raising them on the radio. Static. Damn hull. Jenny sighed and passed out. He needed the rest.<\/p>\n

\tHe woke to more fighting. Four humans firing, and another carcass on the ground. Aliens still fighting for the cockpit. Meant they thought the dropship could still fly. A curse, then only three organ replacements firing. Jenny tossed his repeater towards the sound. Ammo was almost out, then.<\/p>\n

\tNo grenades. Odd. Guess the alien battlesuits didn’t want to damage the consoles. A glance towards the hole. Three firing again. A soldier dead or out of bolts. The end wouldn’t be far off, then.<\/p>\n

\tStatic on the radio. New static. Jenny shouted at the others to get down, but they were already diving for cover. Superheated plasma blew through the hole, melting everything it touched. JNY-35197’s armour started to glow. Infiltrator suits could dissipate an awful lot of heat, but this was ungodly.<\/p>\n

\tThen it stopped, and the radio crackled. No, cackled. And cackled. Well shit. The other infiltrators pulled the console off of Jenny, one of them throwing him over their shoulder. So only four of them had made it.<\/p>\n

\tDucking through the hole they found a Devastator. Of course. This one had plasma jets where the criminal had once had arms. It hissed and chittered. Then it pointed. There was a tunnel straight through the hull of the ship. The Devastator had melted his way through everything. Guess they were going out.<\/p>\n

\tDaylight. Then Command called. The four organ replacements were going to get promoted. Whatever the hell that meant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the first time in a long while, I’ve written another entry in the Jenny serial. With luck, I shall finally get around to finishing the story this time. It hurt. Badly. But JNY-35197 was still alive. He tried to move. Couldn’t. The console had fallen on his legs, crushed them. Suit had numbed him. 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