Color Blind

December 4, 2007

Xenet 71.43.1 System Msg

TTY31201.12.04

Network Connection Enabled
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I don't know what the hell that dropship pilot was thinking. It was obvious the marker at Ortho Base was red, not blue like normal AFS markers. He's lucky he didn't get blown out of the sky and I'm lucky that the dropship didn't fall on my head, not that I call getting dropped off in the middle of a Bane controlled base "lucky".

I hid between some supply crates by the drop pad and started shouldering my torque shell rifle; took out 8 crusties before they sounded the alert, but by that time the area around the marker was clear. I sprinted to it and switched it to AFS blue. In all my life I've never been so happy to see the color blue. I grinned as dropships landed and AFS soldiers deployed to dispose of the remaining crusties.

Us snipers don't get looked at very closely, we can't decimate a whole battalion of crusties at once, and we certainly don't get much glory. But for today, that's just fine with me.

Inaba Izumi