Chapter 54 The Floran Colony 9 (1/2)
John took one of the armor's piece from Lenny's hand and tried it out.
[Too heavy...] John frowned. Just a single piece of the armor was almost 10 kilograms of weight. This type of extremely heavy armor would work for those who seek protection above everything else, but John wasn't that type.
”I'll keep the Scouter's Set.” John prefer to maintain freedom of movement and speed, this camo armor of the BSS was way too heavy for it. The Scouter's Set was sleeveless and the material was Steel, way lighter than the amount of Titanium used in the BSS's Tier 3 Heavy Armor.
”Okay... We got a few new toys.” Lenny joyfully smiled while he played around with the granades that he took from the soldiers' body.
”That is a... EMP Grenade?” John recognized the granade in Lenny's hand.
”Yep.” Lenny threw one at John.
John caught the object and looked closer. It was almost like a Frag Grenade, but it was blue and not yellow.
The grenades can be categorized in various types, each with a different color.
Yellow is for fragmentation grenades, red is for flammable grenade, blue is for EMP grenade, green is for poison grenade, black is for tactical smoke granade and white is for flashbang grenades.
This was the categorization made by the USCM centuries ago, but it's still under use until this day. Most of the categorization of weapons, ammunition, techs, etc, was made by the USCM mostly because they were the biggest supplier of weapons of the universe by the time they were active. It was only after their fall that Maliwan and Hyperion were able to grow, but the USCM was on the top for far too long and the people got used to their categorization, so these companies followed the trends and kept using the same as the USCM.
”This EMP Grenade can disable weak electric devices in a radius of 10 meters for about 1 to 5 minutes.” John analysed the grenade in his hand. He played around with it for a while before he stored it on his PIPS.
”We can't lose our time here, let's go before their reinforcements come.” John looked at Lenny and Peri. ”Let's head east for now.”
And so they went east, following the direction given by the soldier.
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”What!?” The captain of the BSS soldiers in the forest planet shouted as he stood from his big chair. ”The whole Sixth Squad is dead?” The captain asked again the soldier that delivered the information to him.
The soldier trembled, but still repeated the information. ”Th-the Fifth, Sixth, Eighth and Ninth Squad were killed in action...”
”How could this happen!!” The captain threw a sharp object at the human soldier in front of him.
*Bam*
The soldier's forehead started to bleed, but he kept mum about it and didn't even groaned.
”How many we have left?” The captain chest rose and fell very fast. His eyes were bloodshot when he glared at the soldier.
The human soldier was scared out of his mind by how mad their captain looked right now. ”W-we g-got-”
”STOP STAMMERING AND SPEAK PROPERLY!!” The captain shouted with all his strength.
”We only have the Seventh and Tenth Squads here on the outpost, SIR!!” The soldier spoke with all his strength, saluted and fainted from fright.
The captain's angry eyes hovered in the human soldier for a while before he switched his line of sight. ”Carry this useless guy out of my room.” He ordered one of his personal guards that were by the door of his room.
The guard saluted and easily dragged the soldier away from the room.
The captain reached for his PIPS and stared at it for a while. He hesitated, to send or not send his remaining forces.
”What's the problem?” The captain heard a lazy and hoarse voice coming from the door.
[Shit... The one I don't want to meet came to find me...] The captain glared the humanoid blue beacon that liked to wear cowboy clothes known as Oscar.
”Something that you might need help...?” Oscar entered the room like it was his own and relaxedly sat on the chair with a bottle of Summerset beer in his hand.
”No...” The captain doesn't want to get Oscar involved in his problems.
”Well... If you don't need my help I'll be taking my leave.” Oscar stood up and politely smiled.