-Oliver turns to look to the left as the lights come on... and there's nothing-
-His head whips to the right, and catches a Stalker
- all of eight feet tall and carrying an impressively big plasma gun, and it's standing directly next to him-
-The Stalker picks him up by the scruff, and throws him through a wall and into a room full of IMC grunts and Spectres, who take a second to just stare at him confusedly before the Stalkers walks through the hole in the wall and starts firing-
-Oliver scrambles to cover, the IMC soldiers go everywhere at once in a confused scramble, and holy shit does Oliver get to work-
-The next few minutes are a blur of fighting - Oliver drawing a grunt's sidearm and pasting him and a few friends with it, throwing it at at a grunt to knock him back before kicking him away, judo flipping a Spectre over him while he roids out on adrenaline before putting his knife through its robotic head, then fumbling its SMG into his hands to destroy its friends-
-At the end of the day Oliver is bruised and bloody, with a bullet hole through his arm, and the only thing left in the room with him is the Stalker-
-Thinking quickly, Oliver runs towards a body, grabs its shotgun, then beelines towards the hole the Stalker made in the wall, all the while followed by the Stalker's plasma fire-
-The Stalker, not being particularly smart, heads through the hole and turns the way Oliver turned, expecting to find him...-
-Whereupon Oliver jumps on its back, rides it back into the room, and then shoves his shotgun against the robot's exposed battery and pulls the trigger-
-The Stalker falls over, its battery sparking, and Oliver barely has time to turn and run before the Stalker blows up, sending him through another wall and out onto the street... right in front of the Ion from earlier-
Ion: ...Well, well, well. Look who we've got here.
Oliver: Jesus Christ. What the fuck was my life even?
edited 18th Jul '17 7:09:38 PM by SpartyMcFly
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