"Republican scientist Abar Dafreeko invented and pattended ODIN armor during the Terrible War for Republican troopers to utilize against Federation Seperatists."
There's always something about getting the shakes before a drop, something in popular fiction or in that one book. It has to do is eager to start, yea that's it. No matter what you do, how you prep it's all the fucking same just your legs rattling, skittering waiting to hit the ground so you can run out to kill and probably be killed. It was a cliche but it's how Alex felt right now, it was such a big deployment not as big as the one she was on before. Bigger - y'know bigger pods, bigger risk, bigger badasses the works. Before she walked to her pod she saw Sergeant Biff Hellcat, he was a legend alright but to explain his never-ending list of achievements and victories.
By the time Alex's train of thought came up she was already in the sky, the sky was on fire blowing up. The aliens were just picking pods out of the sky like a hand of God, it was over in a few seconds. No not death, but the deployment. The pod cracked the ground and like those before her she stepped out, rifle in hand. So did others in her company, disoriented obviously and eager gunfire popped off. Bodies fell, the fire was returned. A simple song a dance, a pattern but more so just the way of life for these next few minutes. A distinct click of an empty magazine, the vibration touched Alex's hand. The firing pin slammed dry on a rather empty gun, a reload later the sound was corrected.
Where was the Lieutenant was a question that eventually came to mind, it would be after a couple alien mother fuckers punched their ticket but it was a thought non the less. Alex landed on point, maybe the Lieutenant had died or worse pushed on without the team. At the moment the only thing that could really be done is fight, not think. Thinking was a losing man's strategy, it came naturally fighting that is you train for so long doing one thing when you enact that training it becomes clockwork. The question was how long would they last, the sky looked grey and the atmosphere was flooded with the smell of death.