14 May 2010
1500 hours
Cloudy Afternoon
Just outside of Kong-nung, South Korea
(Bragdon) and (Campbell) were heading south down a country road.
Campbell was driving his compact car with Bragdon in the passenger
seat. Both were armed and wearing body armor as they drove. There
were rice paddies on both sides of the road. Up in the distance they
noticed black smoke rising from small farmhouse. Campbell pulled his
car off to the side of the road to investigate.
Near the farmhouse next to a large tree an army ant was standing
watch. As the two freedom fighters turned off their vehicle, the bug
took notice of them. At first the bug didn't take them for a threat,
being that they were a good 1500 feet away and had stopped moving in
its direction. It wasn't until after Campbell decided to pull out
his sniper rifle from the truck of his car and peeled off a shot at
the ant. This sent the seven foot ant charging down the road towards
them.
The two heros were out of range of the bug's natural body cannon at
first, which gave Campbell time for a couple more shots before the
party really started. Even with the free shots, Campbell couldn't
bring the beast down before its own weapon came into range. Despite
the ants best efforts of killing his foe, Campbell's car took the
brunt of the damage.
Bragdon was forced to snap pictures of the fray, since all his
powers and weapons were out of range of the creature. Not until
nearly 600 feet of doom, was he able to join the battle; however,
just in the nick of time. His added firepower put the beast's damage
over the top and sent it to an early grave.
Both of them had taken minor damage, and Bragdon used his powers of
healing to mend his partner's wounds. While thus investigating the
body of their kill, they caught out of the corner of their eye,
another bug. This one crawling ontop of the farmhouse. Through the
smoke raising off the burning roof, they could see their next prey
glaring them down.
From this point they started to make a dash for the tree in front of
them several feet away from the house hoping to use it for cover. As
they made their approach, the evil looking ant tried to blast them
with his cannon. Several crators were created before their feet. It
was in these same crators that they jumped in as foxholes for cover.
They duo fired from their cover at the ant, but the ant didn't stay
on the roof long. Leaping through the smoke and flames, it landing
in the very tree that the two were running for. Then after dropping
the ground it started its way towards the two.
The bug dodged out of the way of some of their shots, as other shots
bounced harmlessly off its natural body armor. And just as the large
ant was only fifty feet away from the foxholes, Bragdon chucked a
high-explosive grenade towards the approaching foe. With a well
placed toss (natural 20) he blow the bug back to the hell in which
it came.
Then from the building they heard a woman's sream. They both ran up
towards the farmhouse, and Campbell peeked into one of the windows.
He saw only a large shadow pass by. He moved to a nearby window and
did the same, however, this time he saw a bug clawing at the floor.
From the first window looked in by Campbell, Bragdon took a look and
saw two ants destroying the place. As Campell went south of the
farmhouse to find a backdoor, he stumbled upon two dead adult bodies
in the backyard. As he entered into the backdoor, which appeared to
have been torn off by a large ant, Bragdon threw a grenade into the
north west corner room. With the following explosion, part of the
roof collapsed as four ants broke out through the north wall and
fled into the rice paddies.
As Campbell entered the building he found himself in the home's
kitchen. With no bugs in sight, and with a shotgun in his hands, he
open the adjorning room's sliding door. To his great surprise, he
was standing face to face with a seven foot ant. He blasted the bug
at point blank range and leaped backwards behind the kitchen table.
But not before the bug slashed his chest ripping a good size hole
into him.
As Bragdon entered from the other door, the monster threw the table
standing between him and Campbell at Bragdon knocking him down.
Campbell fired another shot at the beast, but then the creature had
pounced on him using two of its arms to pin him down to the floor.
Bragdon used his powers to teleport a pounds worth of the ants neck
off its body, but it still didn't keep it from biting Campbell. With
Campbell's shotgun knocked out of his handa, and the pure strength
of the ant, his only hope for survival was Bragdon. Bragdon's second
teleportation of flesh did the trick in killing the bug.
By this point the building was coming down fast as the fire
continued to spread. They both went into the room where the bug had
been slashing at the floor to see what it had been after. Campbell
found what looked like a trap door on the floor, and shouted out to
those who might have been inside (but since he didn't clarify if it
was in Korean, I took it as English), with no reply. He attempted to
pick the lock of the hidden door, and upon doing successfully, so
had a shot whiz past his head. Shouting back out (this time in
Korean) they managed to retrieve two frightened child from their
hiding place, and got them out to safety.
Upon further investigation of the surrounding farm, they were also
able to find the farmer's stockpile of firearms and ammo, which he
had been selling to the local freedom fighters. How the bugs found
out about his secret dealings is still unkonwn.
End of report.