Outpost Hell by Jake Bible

Author:Jake Bible [Bible, Jake]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Severed Press
Published: 2017-02-08T00:00:00+00:00

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Nordanski stared at the crude drawings the warped Marines had made in the dirt. Crouched by the campfire, he wrinkled his brow as he tried to make sense of what was being communicated to him. He looked up at the expectant faces of the creatures that surrounded him. Creatures that, if the drawings were right and he wasn’t completely off in his interpretations, used to be GF Marines. Former individuals, but now turned into homogenized beings made of scarred flesh and bulging muscle.

“Okay, let me see if I can catch what you’re throwing,” Nordanski said. He picked up a stick, which he suspected was actually a bone splinter, but he pushed that from his mind, and pointed at the first drawing. “You were stationed here a long time ago, yeah?”

The warped Marine he’d been dealing with from the start nodded its messed up head.

“Okay, cool,” Nordanski continued. “You were assigned to protect the outpost which actually has a bunch of levels below it. Something went wrong with the computers and you were turned into what you are now, is that it?”

The warped Marine held out a hand and seesawed it back and forth. “Cheega nok spog.”

“I’m not quite right, but I’m not quite wrong,” Nordanski responded. “Totally understood. Now, you can talk, but only you guys understand what you are saying. I have that right, yeah?”

The warped Marine gave Nordanski a thumbs up.

“Because of what the computers did to your brains,” Nordanski said as he pointed to a picture which showed representations of the warped Marines and lines connecting their heads. “Really, you guys can hear each other’s thoughts more than you understand the words. But it’s not like you can read minds, you just get what each other is saying.”

Another thumbs up.

“See? I’m catching on. Screw all those guys that think spaceheads like us are idiots,” Nordanski said. “Now, the computers also messed up some other people which led to a lot of fighting, a lot of killing, and those others coming out on top.”

Thumbs up.

“You bailed from the outpost and busted ass out into this wasteland hell so they wouldn’t kill you,” Nordanski said. “They had the numbers and… What? Do these lines mean they are smart?”

Thumbs up.

“Like really smart?”

Two thumbs up.

“But you ain’t stupid Marines, so you know when to retreat and fight another day,” Nordanski said. “Good for you guys.” He cleared his throat and glanced at one of the warped Marines that was busy gnawing on a good-sized thigh femur that still had scraps of flesh hanging from it. “I’m going to skip how you’ve stayed alive since I am guessing that ain’t Hefford terpig you’re eating there.” Nordanski held up his hands. “Not judging. I’ve eaten some weird shit in my life.”

Nordanski studied the drawings some more and shook his head.

“I don’t get what this all means,” he said as he pointed at the last few panels of the sketches in the dirt. “Is that a head with flies buzzing around?”

The warped Marine shook his head then pointed up at the cave’s ceiling.

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