An older config Standard combat unit lay on the cold floor, on a lower level of the Zuvic Facility.
Earlier....
Thousands of heels run into waiting transports, one of them is unsure of what is going on.
A week ago she was in her ops base, carrying out standard duties then her and many of the others were called back to HQ.
Some rumors floated around about an attack but she was unsure.
She is completely in the dark with whats going on.
Ordered to the transport, they pile in, cramming and jamming bodies together there are belts, weapons and flesh pressed against each other.
The pilot rushes off, accelerating fast, forcing them into each other.
"landing zone was hot before, get ready for heavy fire" then the orders come through the radio
"ladies you are the 3rd wave, fight your way into control room or the reactor room, disable the facility, take them into the abyss with you"
the ship lands hard the rear door opens and the combat units run out
No fire, but hundreds of bodies litter the deck, some green clad, but mostly black.
She sees the sacrifice & knows she is going to become on soon
they charge inside, bodies litter every corridor, every corner, against the wall, over obstacles, multitudes of Standards expended.
She sees a group of green masked enemies on the ground, thats who she is here for, bring on the fight.
Cracking a screams can be heard near by, her and the others charge into a large hall, where there are too many to count, black and green, firing in chaos
rounds fill the air
the ones she ran in with begin to receive rounds, moaning as they hit the deck
she knows her turn is any second now
she needs to eliminate at-least one
she draws one into her sight, squeezes the trigger hard, the gas plume obscures the enemy units body, but the body is rocking and then
Thud
On her lower stomach, winding her and dropping her to the ground
the firefight settles as the Zuvic units pull back
more and more black faction units run by, the fighting sounds get more and more distant
her hit was not enough to expend her, but she is incapacitated
20 minutes pass and the steady stream of black faction units contiue past her, there is no noise, just her surrounded by dozens of expended units.
She lay, waiting, no one will recover her,
waiting until the facility fills with liquid earth after it plunges into the ground