Remote Garrison
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They returned to the transport and stuffed the corpse into the storage compartment, dividing his gear amongst themselves and still chuckling over his sudden demise. The body would need to go back to the clone tanks as payment for a new recruit who would be sent in due course to take his place.

Suddenly one of the troopers called out. "Hey, lookit over there. Movement in that outcrop, maybe it's a beanie!"

They grabbed their guns and raced over to the rocky outcrop and sure enough, cowering in a corner, trying hard to be invisible, was a beanie.

"Aw heck", moaned the trooper. "It ain't no fun, if they don't run".

"Just shoot the pesky varmint and let's get back to the base. I heard they finally got the jumbo goon-burger machine working agin" opined another trooper, licking his lips.

"Hmm" the squad leader stood for a moment in thought. Which for a goon trooper took a lot of effort. "Why don't we bring it back alive? Nobody ever done that before!" He stood there smiling at his own brilliance.

Whether it was the joy of watching the newbie off himself earlier, or the news about the burger machine, or maybe it was just something else, but the troopers were in an unusually good mood and the squad leaders idea seemed like the clever thing to do.

The unresisting beanie was frog-marched back to the transport and the whole squad set off back to the base eager to see if the jumbo goon-burger machine really was working again.



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