Starting In Starship Troopers

Walking into the boat, notice the three people I'd be going on the scouting mission in power armor like the one I had when leaving Earth…one of them is a woman if her breast plate is anything to go by, though just from her height alone she looks like another Reaper Program survivor.

"Hah, Dead Meat! That's funny, I'm Frank, and I'm from Canada." A guy with a maple leaf painted on his power armor greets me and extends his hand.

"Nice to meet you Frank, I'm Jax from Buenos Aries."

"Nice to meet you Jax, sorry about your home man…the one with the energy Katana is Himiko, the big bitch in black is Mercury…we're your scout team."

"Nice to meet all of you, like I said I'm Jax from Buenos Aries, and yes I went through the Reaper Augmentation program…if your going to ask me if it's worth it…then that depends on what you're willing to endure to avenge the people you have loved and lost to the Bugs, now enough of that soft hearted bullshit…I'm pretty damned green so…Mercury I saw in your file you've led 30 missions 10 of which in bug infested territory, so I will defer to you on the ground…so with that said where the fuck is our pilot?" I say and feel a bit of heat bleed into my cheeks. I'd gotten so used to just being around one to two people being around three is a little unnerving…

"Happy to Master Chief, it's rare to find an officer willing to give up power…maybe you might just make it as a Citizen, as for our pilot she and her co-pilot are late." Mercury says and I have to admit to myself she has one of if not the sexiest voices I have ever heard even through her armor.

Five minutes later Carmen enters the ship with an obvious limp and widely spread legs as Zander tries to offer his help to her.

Carmen freezes and looks at me like a deer in headlights before blushing bright red, and squeaking a hello as the others salute her and I give her a lazy salute.

"Sorry I left without leaving a note or anything Carmen…had to report for duty and all that."

"I-its okay Jax…I wasn't in any shape to talk anyways." Zander was trying to glare a hole through me and waiting for a salute.

"LT." I greet and motion to my shoulder denoting my rank to be a bit higher than his, which makes him snap a salute to me which only makes me chuckle and smirk behind my helmet.

Once Zander and Carmen are in the cockpit I take a seat and the struts of the securing apparatus press against my shoulders.

"Bro, you tapping that she's fucking hot." I don't have to say anything as Himiko smacks Frank on the back of his head, making me chuckle.

"Hey, what was that for?!" Frank shouts in surprise, making me laugh all the more.

Suddenly Captain Deladier appears on my HUD, "Alright Marines, we need real actionable intel, the Coneheads here and back on Earth say the Bug's don't have any counter measures for us…but if they can launch meteors from here to Earth then they damn sure have a way to hit us this close…this mission…is pretty much a suicide mission…Clear the Way Marines and let us mop up after you, HooAh!" The Captain says as the boat leaves the bay, and hits slip space coming out at Klendathu a few seconds later.

"We'll be dropping your atmospheric penetration vessels in 3…2…1 dropping now." Zander says and suddenly I'm propelled through space and pierce through layers of atmosphere, the others are all making sounds of either enjoyment or vomiting but all I feel is a calm excitement.

'Finally taking the fight to you fuckers, Mom, Amanda…I'll avenge you.'

as we impact the ground hard my vision flashes black but quickly returns to normal, the door of my pod flies open and my weapons systems flash green just in time for me to pull my sidearm which fires the same rounds as the rifle, I drill a bug through it's eye making it drop dead.

"Squad, sound off!" I belt a command and only hear one person say here…and that person is Mercury.

'Ah-shit, I hope Himiko and Frank are just unconscious.!' I curse and pray in my mind as I holster my sidearm and grab hold of Betty, my 12 barrel rotary gun's carry bar and trigger handle, pulling the trigger and spraying down the approaching warrior and flyer bugs.

Making a net of fire to shoot down and cut enemy opposition into pieces, I rely on my armor's sensors and camera suites to show me the status of my squad mates, Frank and Himiko are both dead from impact the restraining struts had failed at some point and impaled them.

Mercury is still shaking off the effects of the orbital drop though she's got her rifle in hand now and starts firing at another random patrol of bugs, a few seconds later our landing zone is cleared.

"Sorry about Frank and Himiko." I apologize to Mercury who I can hear quietly crying for her former squadmates and friends.

"We knew the risks!" Mercury replies to me a bit distantly but I can tell that she also appreciative of my condolences.

"Our mission just increased in difficulty by 100%, Frank's transmission equipment was damaged in the fall…and I'm not a repair specialist…I say we grab what we can and move out before more Bug patrols pass by this area." Mercury continues as she puts away her grief and concentrates on salvaging the mission, as she grabs out what is salvageable of Frank's equipment mainly a large combat knife, and rifle along with a nuke/rocket launcher and some munitions for it, and I went over to Himiko getting two energy swords which were kinda surprising to learn about a sidearm like the one I already have and a similar launcher and nukes, along with scanning equipment that seems to me to be operational.

Taking the swords and letting the mag lock system on my armor secure them at the small of my back below the ammo backpack for the rotary gun.

Then picking up the other ordinances and taking them over to Mercury who was loading up an even larger backpack with ammo and Frank's launcher and other munitions of which I add Himiko's.

"We're about forty klicks from where the brass want the initial insertion to take place and a forward base to be established, we should take this route, Sir." Mercury says to me but I can tell that she's deferring to me at the same time.

"Let's go Mercury!" I say to her as my HUD makes a GTA5 map and marker system as Mercury and I alertly start the twenty plus mile hike through enemy territory.

"Yes Sir!"

'God, I hope she loosens up with me…I hate the deferential treatment…I didn't even earn my rank…I just got it for being a labrat…' I complain in my head but pause a hundred or so feet away from the pods

'I wonder if the brain bugs can pull information from Kadabras…better not take the chance…'

"Just call me Jax Mercury, we only have our squad comms, without Frank's equipment." I say to Mercury as I take two incendiary grenades off my belt, turn the initiator clockwise twice and lob them into Frank and Himiko's pods.

"O-okay Jax…was that necessary?" Mercury replies back to me with a bit of shyness in her voice, almost making me chuckle…though her question quickly squashes that urge.

"I thought it would be better than leaving them like that for the bugs to eat…"

"Thank you…I didn't consider that but would have later…" Mercury thanks me as her voice turns wistful.

"You don't have to thank me Mercury…I didn't know them for more than a hot New York city minute…but I felt like all four of us could have grown to be great friends and an even better squad." I say to try and comfort her, probably failing horribly.

Mercury and I come across roving patrols of warriors, fliers, armored beetles…and massive plasma bugs, the scanners in my armor and Himiko's equipment going haywire when we get too close.

"Sir, those big bugs that asses glow like fireflies…the equipment readings say that they are a lot stronger than what the scientist presumed they are…I think if the big ships get too close to the upper atmosphere these things can shoot them down." Mercury says to me from our little hiding spot as we're huddled together laying prone, as very distant memories from a lifetime ago flash in my mind of blue balls of energy destroying the naval ships flash in my mind.

"You're right Mercury…but without equipment we can't contract command and update them…we either keep moving and secure our landing zone…that we can't fucking hold, or we go on a hunt and take out as many of those big cunts as possible."

"Let's kick some big ass!" Mercury replies back to me, making me smile. Over the last two days with her Mercury had grown more comfortable around me and let her mask slip…she reminded me a bit of Diz but with a more girly side to her…I was honestly dying to see what that armor was hiding.

"Kickin ass with you sounds like it should be every guy's dream." I tease and if her power armor could blush, I swear it was blushing right now by the very minute body language that I can detect through it.

We start hitting the bugs hard with Guerilla tactics, always making sure to attack away from our little hidden camp in a naturally formed cave, but with every success the Bugs got smarter.

What worked even two fights ago almost caused Mercury to get killed so we switched things up again until we ran out of Nukes, bullets and are left only with the two energy swords that are quickly running out of juice.

Alone in our little camp rations low and Mercury's armor needing some repair work both of us slipped out of our armor…and neither one of us could help the sounds of appreciation we make for one another…Mercury looks like Danielle Rose Russel but also is a 6'5" sex bomb…without her power armor on…wearing nothing but her figure hugging body glove.

To say that both of us didn't spend more time taking looks at each other and coping accidental feels than actually repairing her armor…would be an understatement.

Once her armor is as fixed as we can get it with the supplies we have, both of us smelling of stale sweat and bug.

"We should probably get back in our armor…never know when the bugs might find us…" The words leaving Mercury's lips didn't match the hungry look in her eyes as she admired my cut figure being emphasized by my body glove/primary layer of armor/synthetic muscle suit.

"Yeah bugs could come at any time…" I murmur as I stalk closer to her making her back up against a stalagmite, my hands going for her shapely hips, neither one of us resists our mutual urge to kiss…each other our hands rubbing over each other's bodies, no longer muttering unapologetic apologies to one another as our tongues twist and dance in each others mouths.

"How many hours until the invasion, going from our prior knowledge?" I ask Mercury, struggling not to rip her body glove off of her as my hands dig into perfect ass.

"S-six hours." Mercury murmurs back to me as she grinds herself against me.

"Plenty of time." I say to her with a smirk tugging at my lips loving her heedy blush.

'God, I'm as bad as a horny teenager in puberty…technically I am still a teenager and the augmentation process did reinitiate and extend pubescence….I should be concentrating on finding the Queen and the "God" bug…not making love to my stunningly beautiful squadmate.'