ISR: Adamus?
AS: What, Ivan?
ISR: The General wants to talk to-Adamus, where in Ra's name are you?
AS: I'm tailing the strike team.
ISR: Who authorized you to break from position?
AS: General, with all due respect, it is not treason to break position. Plus, if Grandmother and Space Invader are here, what better time to field test the tech?
ISR: You would risk your life only to prove your device works correctly?
AS: I'm trying to save lives. The more Üshaba the better, right?
ISR: Every vatborn we have, regardless of their origin, can be replaced. The same cannot be said about you.
AS: You're right. But until the Fleet arrives, let's keep from wasting...Aah!
U-a: General, I have apprehended a potential target.
gAS: The Garde?
U-a: Negative, General. One of us.
gAS: Hold on...Adamus?
AS: Please, let me stay, General. I will not fail you.
gAS: ...Proceed with the mission.
ISR: ...You let yourself get caught by a vatborn?
AS: Ivan, shut up and get off the coms.
U-j: General, we are coming up on a compound. One-story house, arena near the lake, pelts.
gAS: Any sign of the Garde?
U-j: Unable to confirm. Sending two units with Gorde and Drak to flank either side of the base. Will continue to update.
AS: The pelts are branded, General. These look like Loric symbols.
gAS: Let the strike team proceed, Adamus.
AS: ...
ISR: What are you doing?!
AS: I'm introducing myself. It's supposed to be an old lady and her granddaughter. You really think they'll shoot me for knocking on the door?
gAS: Adamus!
AS: Nobody's home.
U-b: The base appears to be empty, indeed.
AS: My apologies, General. Still, we can investigate what's... Everybody away from the house! RUN!
gAS: Adamus? ...By Ra. SON!
AS: I'm here! Are the warriors okay?
gAS: Soldiers, account!
U-j: Accounted.
U-b: Accounted.
U-a: Accounted.
U-g: Accounted.
U-d: Accounted.
U-l: Accounted.
AS: Can you see it from where you are?
gAS: I can see a giant hole in the ground where that base just was.
AS: Tunnels, I'm guessing. That must be what we were picking up months ago. They were ready for us...I have a signature.
gAS: Are they in the tunnels?
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The Quest of One
Fanfiction"First blessed, first to die." Those were some of the last words I remember being said in my own language, before setting foot on Earth. That defined who I was, and who I would need to be in order to survive on this planet. My defiance of that calli...
