The Adventures of Jack Marslow

[Peacemaker]

Ive been thinking about this one for a long time, now I know what I want to do. Enjoy the Adventures of Jack Marslow chapter 11.

Bright lights. A rigging of extremly high powered lights hung over Jack. There was a center lamp with five other lamps circling around it. They burned his retinas as he opened his eyes. Darkend figures that he could not focus on where looking down at him. Even more looking from an observation area above the room which was completly white. His arms and legs were fastned down and a clamp held his head in place. He opened his mouth to try to scream but found that he could not make a sound. One of the figures was holding something now, his eyes focused on the object, his ears were filled with noise. It suddenly dawned on him that he had not been able to hear anything either.

"Dont worry Air Captain, this wont hurt a bit...." said one of the dark figures. Jack's eyes finally focused on the object that was closing in on his abdomen, it was a saw. Its blade started wirring and Jack watched as it sliced open his chest.

Aja was buzzing with activity. The 45 members if FoE squadron were scurrying about the base all of them worried about their leader. It was dark out now. A busted up galaxy hovered over head and lowered a Reaver that was in worse shape. The young Lt. walked across the base in her PJ's. She had just been awoken and told that the mission to retrieve the secret operatives had gone horribly wrong. She looked at the reaver for a second and thought about who had been lost in the action. A young boy was looking closly at the air craft. Jen walked up to the him and taped him on the shoulder. He was very dirty, grease and dirt covered his face and blonde hair. A little snot was running from his nose. He looked genuinely worried.

"Where is Peacemaker?" She asked him. "I need to find out what happened and who was lost." The kid just stared blankly at him. "Where is he? And whos aircraft is this?"

"Mam this is the commanders aircraft." He cryed out. Jen stood there stunned. Jack Marslow was reported to be one of the if not the best pilot on the planet. How could he get shot down on such a simple mission? She looked inside of the cockpit, splatters of blood could be seen splotched on the glass. A man in a bright golden uniform appeared behind her.

"Mam you need to report to the CIC (Combat Information Center)."

"Yea, ok." She said worriedly. As she walked back into the bases exterior she thought about the repercussions of the loss of the commander. The legendary FoE squadron would have to be disbanned. That ment that without any real coordinated aircover untill a relife squadron arrived Cyssor would fall. She walked into the CIC, it was filled with computers, screens, and personel were everywhere, all working franticly. An old looking man turned and gave a salute which she returned.

"Special Command Operations Major Tills Lt." He said gruffly. "We have a situation. As you may have figured out Commander Jack Marslow call sign Peacemaker was lost this afternoon in a raid. His aircraft was recovered but no body was found. We cannot revive him with the matrix."

"Any idea where he is? And how he was shot down?" She asked.

"No idea where he is now, we throughly secured and combed the crash sight. We think he was captured, two sets of prints going into the wood where he crashed and three coming out. As for how he was shot down, the commanders computer reported a malfunction to us seconds before the signal went out. It read 'Vehical tampering confirmed, thrust systems off line.' It appears someone tampered with his customised ship and its secruity shut the juicy stuff off. The problem was that he never checked and took off without his accelerated manuvering systems."

"Anything else?" Jen thought a moment after saying this. She had checked Jack's aircraft before he left. Everything was fine.

"Ahh yes one last thing. This one is pretty damn freaky." He pressed a few buttons and the main monitor at the front of the room zoomed in on a continent. It looked like it was relativly scerene except for a straight line to one of the warp gates. A trail of lames and smoke drove from a massive base in the center of the continent to the warp gate. The debris trail was still not to the warp gate though.

"Wha... What the hell is that?"

"That.. is the Vanu Sovereignty sanctuary continent. More than 500 tanks, and jeeps are destroyed in that swath. What ever is causing it is heading straight for the warp gate." One of the techs walked up behind the major and tapped him on the soldier.

"Ah sir, I think we found Peacemaker. Im not really sure though sir."

"How can you not be sure?"

" Sir we picked this up on the Emergancy Broadcast radio. Its all points, anyone on the planet can see this, its pretty loud too no one could miss this. This is only 50 seconds old." He pressed a few buttons and the main screen switched to show a Vanu soldier in a MAX armor and another in reinforced armor standing infront of the camera. The MAX armor was turning back and forth firing at something in the backround.

"This is squad Romeo, something is wrong! One of the prisoners escaped, you have to send help! The acctualy did what they have wanted to do. But they couldnt control it. The lab is gone. Its been following us for an hour. You have to hel..." Jen was no longer listening to the soldier. She looked back to the MAX armor. It had suddenly stoped firing. A figure stood infront of it. Small rocks were hovering a few inches off the ground. So was the MAX armor. A flash across the arm and the MAX's arm dissapeared. Crackling electricity and blood came from the suit. It fell to the ground twitching. This all happened in about 2 seconds, the soldier was still talking towards the camera. a large hand suddenly appeared inisde of his helmet. The soldiers eyes started to roll back into his head and blood squirted from his tear ducts, nose, mouth, and ears. A face suddenly appeared over his shoulder it was not very clear but two eyes glowing crimson red could be seen.

"Freeze that!" Jen commanded. The tech pressed a button and the shot froze. "Enhance it." The image started to claer up and become brighter. It was obviously Jack, his eyes glowing deep read and his retinas look like those of a cat. He didnt exactly look happy. Gritting his teeth, bathed in sweat, a gash on his forehead. He appeared to be insane. The tech started the video again, the picture still held still for a second except for the panting of Jack and a moan from the soldier. The insane Air Captain grunted and crushed the soldies skull in his hand. A second later he disappeared with a flash.

"My god, what the hell was that?" The major cried aloud.

"Whats happened to him?" Jen asked no one in particular. The door to the hallway opened and a figure in a lab coat stepped in.

"The Vanu have mutated him." The new person in the lab coat said.

"Who are you?" The major asked.

"I am a civilain Major, my name is not important but you may call me 15. My job is a biological warfare advisor for the New Conglomerate Army."

"What have the Vanu done to him?" The Major asked.

"I told you they have mutated him and he has obviously lost his mind. Now the only real problem is that he is heading straight for this base. Killing him will not be easy." 15 said rather coldly.

Edit: Holy crap, that took a really long time to write. I hope you guys like that one.

"K..Kill him?" The pretty Lt. asked more to her self than anyone else.