The battlefield is a petrol station with its own fast food restaurant alongside, some Mexican chain I've not come across before. Within seconds of stepping warily into the all-too explosive cover of the pumps, more X-rays that we've ever seen before explode out of the restaurant.
Too soon.
All firing at once, they rip the apart the three meter high concrete behind which Sgt. "Crater" Hill was hiding. Out in the open, he stands, screaming his defiance, as he is gunned down in a storm of plasma.
The rest of the Kiduna team are shocked for a moment, unmoving. Twitch steps out deliberately from behind a car, jaw clenched, pistol raised.
The remaining squad members let loose a furious fusillade of laser fire.
Even as they fall back, "Sentinel" Saxby fries them from behind.
spattering the wilted petrol station flowers.
Soon, so soon, it's all over. Gasping and sweating, the survivors of Kaduna have destroyed the enemy.
Too late.
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