[4-12] The Mines

[Marcus Wright]

Muddy primes fought to end this fierce war, each showing their mettle in tough times.  The exploding rounds from Okor's bolter cracked like fireworks on the Fourth of July. The general screamed out his orders "KILL them! Don't let them win... "

In fact, the group backed up against each other. They formed a large circle able to fend off attacks. Many did come up with their own way to provide help to the group. One man took a spear and lit it up stabbing it inside a freaking out cannibal. The sweating woman grabbed the yelling tribesman. She swung a fist in the unfortunate cannibal’s face.

Marcus held his makeshift shield and weapon near his side. The machine man decapitated a man about to stab Fiara.  The brave phoenix gave a slow smile of appreciation. She nodded a bit and moved attention back to the fight.  The Vision burned alive a man with his laser beams that radiated out of his eyes. The stranger was trying to attempt to get to Marcus. The ragtag mixture of both heroes and villains forced to work together would work for a short time.  

There was a short breath of relief for everyone. The first casualty would step backward finding out he walked the wrong way.
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Fiara called out to the missing survivor "HEY! You alright down there?!"

There was no response.

His emotions had finally kicked in like some painful reminder of who he was, a man in a machine’s body. He inspected his environment as tiny bit of light reflected off of diamond  stalagmites. Somehow, they had run into a beautiful underground cavern. But this beautiful landscape had turned into a bloody one. The heroic secondaries that had fought for their lives died in gruesome ways. The view for the survivors in front of them was nowhere as beautiful as it once was. Horrifying sites such as a sparkling diamond stabbed a poor secondary through their body. This site had blood dripping down the walls into the crystal clear water nearby.

A voice gasped  but Marcus could not tell who it was through the lasting darkness. It took some investigation but the terminator found the source of the screams. It was Fiara. She saw the gory scene and Marcus felt disgusted. There was something else going on here.


The screams of Fiara  broke Marcus’s brief focus on himself.  He roared to life as he pushed up from the slowly raising mud with small tears of skin missing. The mechanical beast had somehow “come back” to life again.

Marcus’s roar of anger echoed through the cave’s area calling out to anyone around.  But nobody responded except a cricket. The caked mud drowned out the “Resistance green” Marcus’s coat had shown.  The red on the coat meant more to him than anything else. and he would stop at nothing to find Kyle, Star and Blair again.  Like the titan Prometheus, who was forging humans from mud, the terminator showed  he would fight for the good of mankind.

Arriving just a little behind Okor and Fiara, he stood back. He listened to Nurgle's champion describe how he'd leave the others behind.  Okor Fiara, we made it. He had a lot of questions swarming in his mind.

Marcus eyed the ancient armed man and asked “So you are a prime too? Cursed to live here forever being some entities plaything? He turned and frowned, letting the general lead the way toward the dim lighted caves ahead. However, the general was studying something. What exactly? He didn't know.

A question ran across Marcus's mind and he looked over at the ancient man "What did you find, Okor?"

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