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"This is the __USGS Ookami *BZZT* We have been overrun by something horrible *BZZT* If you can hear this, please *BZZT* we need to kill everything on this ship!" GRRROOWWWL " They found me... I will not survive this... *BZZT* [TRANSMISSION END]

_Three weeks go this message entered the Hephaestus radio receptors in the moon base, an old PEMC mining vessel was being used to take a few artifacts out of a planet, but the transmission shows the excavation was not successful. Captain Lukas, you and your squad will be sent in to investigate, use shock drives to reach there in a few minutes and be careful...whatever that thing was that caused this, the people on board most likely all died because of it. _

-Tech report from Col.Thomas Barry

"Shit cap, you sure this mission was a good idea? Why couldn't we just send some other poor bastard to die? Why us?" The Anthro She wolf Natalie Hicks was the weapon specialist and currently was cleaning her resistance issue R-9 from the NEU's time "Because we are the ones who messed up on that oil rig attack a few weeks ago, so we get the top of the death list." Johnson Rider, the resident human that was the pilot aboard the small ship and the only one who could be considered more Mkaijot then human because he was raised by them. I never really understood why we were never recognized for our actions despite all the times we messed up, but I guess that's just the way things are. My name is Lukas Johanson, captain of dead foxtrot. We were the squad that got fucked the most during the PEMC withdraw, how much? We used to have over twenty members...we now only have three with me included. Our simple mission was to examine the USGS Ookami and kill anything that is deemed hostile inside, although no information was given as to what it was. Since FOXPACK's leader Alan Kuashi died, the resistance has really gone into overdrive to capture the planets around Hephaestus to ensure our freedom but also spreading us very thin. "Sir, were coming out from shock space and...you gotta see this." Johnson was shocked and what I saw next scared the living hell out of me.

Bodies floated around in zero-G and they were torn to high hell, almost as if they had been torn out of the ship into a blender "What the hell happened to them?" Natalie said cocking the hammer on the handgun and putting it into her holster. I could only stare at the torn pieces of crew as they floated around until I heard a very unsettling sound in the rear hull, a skittering sound that could only be one thing "Somethings on the ship!" I yelled before an explosion rocked the compartment and the airlock hissed shut, sealing us in the cockpit and forcing us to don the environment suits or the alternative of dying in the now airless ship. "Damn it, they took out the rear compartments and the back right engines down. I can still get us to the Ookami but it will be a slow going." I grabbed and secured the helm to the suit as I responded to him "No time, get us the hell out of here. It's not worth our lives to get this mission-!" I was cut off by the hull being ripped open at the seams, loose papers flying all around us and whatever it was that attacked our ship trying to get in. They exploded like small baskets of grenades and sent the two halves of the ship into the Ookami. "Captain!" Natalie yelled before smashing into the medical bay and me into the cargo sector.

When I woke up, several burning pieces of my ship were littered about with a large hole in the hull of the Ookami " My head...crap, I only have twenty more seconds of air before I die..." I tried to climb out of the wreak my seat was slammed into but my leg was stuck fast. I pulled at it and found what was keeping me pinned, an arm that was lodged into my boot. The sight made me sick but I had to get out, before I joined whoever this arm belonged to in fate. I used my knife to pull the fingers off my leg and threw it off the pile of rubble, freeing me and allowing me to reach the oxygen tank on the wall "Ah...better." I exhaled and ventured out of the ship, taking my plasma saw that we were given to open parts of the ship that were sealed shut. I wondered if anyone was alive before I was greeted by a small radio message:

"Attention all survivors of Captain Lukas crew, this is Natalie Hicks. I survived in the medical lab and shut myself inside here. If anyone can get to me, I just need to know if anyone's alive...please." I pushed the two way radio button and put my ear "Nat?! How did you survive that? Where's Johnson? I'm coming for you Nat, the air ducts look like the best way to transverse so I'll be there in a bit." I heard her sobbing before I closed the channel. She was always the tough one but I guess this time she cracked, nothing to do but get to her now and with whatever those things are around...I don't even want to think about what I would see if I was too late.The duct hatch was broken open and I didn't like to think what did it, only that it was gone and hopefully dead. With a sigh I entered the small hole, my light that my environment suit gave off the only thing guiding me and lighting my path. The metal creaked and from what stuck to my boot, I nearly puked thinking about what could have been dragged through these ventilation shafts but I continued despite my mind thinking that something would try and kill me at any second. I made my way about a few more ship compartments, seeing first hand what these things were. They looked like their alive counter parts but were changed horribly, they had large spikes coming from their arms and used them to cut their prey into bits. I knew that these things can kill but also can be killed, as some security footage I found showed a miner using a saw to dismember them before getting caught off guard in the rest room. "Cut the limbs off, hear that Nat?" The radio only gave static, but I knew she heard it. A large bang below me sent the fur on my back into a near vertical shape, and then I saw it. A large human like thing but it's limbs appeared to be made of ebony spikes and when a piece of piping cut his arm off, it just grew back. I made a mental note not to be seen by it and kept sneaking my way along.

I saw a small cross below me and smiled to the fact I was close to Nat. This smile turned to horror as the shaft piece behind me got punctured by a bloody claw "Oh shit!" I yelled as I kicked the vent panel off and jumped onto the ground, my plasma saw fell a few feet in front of me. The monsters skin, if you could call the rotting mass of flesh skin, was cut by bullets and a few knife damage. I lunged for the saw and threw the handle forward, the large blade glowing blue and humming softly. The monster made a stab at me but I rolled out of the way, slashing off one of the needles and cutting it in half before sending the saw down on it's face "Die! Die you bastard!" The saw went crazy and melded the metal and flesh into one smelling mess.

I huffed and wiped the blood off my face, seeing my first kill that wasn't human but...a Mkaijot turned into a horrible monster, Killable but still horrible. Natalie was just in the next room but it was locked by a bunch of stuff she overturned. I looked to the monster and saw it had a kinesis module on it, something that was developed to mimic the EPI's power. I put it on my glove and pushed the rubble out of the way. "Nat, I made it. Are you okay?" I looked around but I couldn't find her anywhere. the only thing I found was an audio log. I clicked it and listened to her talk.

"Hey cap...I don't know what I was thinking...sealing myself in here, and leaving you out there. So now I'll go join you...in death...bye cap..." After that I just heard screaming before the audio cut to a picture. Written in blood were three simple words, all the while Natalie's corpse was nearby and she...was smiling... the words read:

FEAR THE HUNTERS

and from that moment, I knew that I had to find a way to kill that thing and kill everything else on this ship, for I am the only one alive...a situation I am used to by now.

My name is Lukas Johanson, and I am the only one left of Dead Foxtrot.

Chapter 1 end