[No Dachi]

Darkling
The soft, powdery snow absorbs much of the force from the short fall, and allowing your knees to bend on impact naturally absorbs the rest. The wind seems a little less strong that it was before - possibly the storm is moving on for now. There'd be another one in by the end of the day, if indeed it was. With your pule rifle still shouldered, you check the enemy troopers' uniforms for rank insignia. You see a shield with a biohazard symbol on it, the shield blue, the symbol white, and the leaves of the United Nations' emblem stretching around the banner, the leaves in white. A stylised scroll beneath the actual pattern of the badge read "9th Special Operations". Biological Warfare Division commandos. But why would Bio Division troops have sabotaged the coms and then tried to kill you? A sudden, stronger gust of wind remins you of just how cold it is out here - and visisbility's low too. Your instinct is to get back inside the Marine Barracks before you freeze to death - or more Bio Marines show up. And, of course, to report the happenins to Captain Yoshikawa.

Crazy
Staying cool, you snatch off two three-round bursts which kill both of the creaturs instantly; they literally ezplode in a shower of yellow goo. At almost precisely this moment, you hear a man's screams coming up the corridor from behind you - coming toward you, coming closer. As the source of the screaming does get closer, his terrified shouting becomes intelligible.

"Help! Help! They're after me-ARGH!" Turning, you see the man's body sliding across the steel floor toward you, having pitched forward at a run. There are two large holes in his back - pulse rifle rounds, again. And it doesn't take long to figure out where they came from. Up ahead, with the aid of thermal imaging, you can just make our figures wearing Marine-issue armour. At precisely this second, you notice red dots from lasers sights - two of them - moving across the walls next to you. You hear a shout from up ahead - distorted, you recognise the effect easily, it's a man speaking through the external speakers of a gas mask.

"You! Soldier! Identify yourself!" Demands the voice. It doesn't sound like the voice of anyone from your Battalion...

PK
As you roll to one side, a pulse round detonates literally centimetres away from your face, and you feel a sharp pain as a fragment of the round's casing scores a scratch on your cheek. You tear the pulse pistol from its holster and squeeze of several rounds at the figure. Two of them rip holes in the figure's chest, while the third hits him square in the face, throwing his head back to an extreme angle in a spray of blood. The figure falls to the floor, dead. You retrieve your pulse rifle. All is silent, but then the skinsuited figure had made next to no noise while moving...

Inspectre
Your pulse rifle blazes merrily, and the unnoccupied creature is torn to pieces by a hail of exploding bullets. Your stream of fire also catches its companion, which is killed just as easily. These things had vicious claws on them, but apparently they weren't too tough when matched against bullets. Henley and Scarez are both in combat stances now, pulse rifles aimed at the open doorway, and Scarez has flattened himself against a wall. They appear to be awaiting your orders.

Dunin
It all happens pretty quickly. Suddenly throwing yourself forward out of the shadows, you pull on the full auto trigger of your assault shotgun. The weapon roars in your ears, and you see the glass pane in front of you fracture as the two Marines whirl around in surprise. The spread from the second cartridge shatters the glass completely, and as the tremendous recoil from the powerful gun punctuates each discharged round at your shoulder, you see the two enemy Marines writhing before you as they are literally ripped apart by shotgun pellets - even at this range, the spread on full auto was such that the first round probably wouldn't have killed them. You are awoken from this kind of semi-trance by the sound of the last cartridge's empty shell hitting the floor and rolling to a stop. You're out of ammo, but the two Marines are very much dead. An expanding pool of crimson spreads slowly across the floor of the equipment room. The door to the ouside is still open - but if there's people on the other side, and if they heard the firing, they aren't doing anything about it. Silence.

Flapjack
Incidentally, as I think I already told you once, Technical Ops rank equivelant to Corporal, not 2nd Lieutenant.

You start up the stairs, and attempt to com through to the rest of the battalion again. No response. Looking at a plaque on the wall, you see that you are currently on level 4 underground. As you ascend the staircase, you turn a corner on the steps and run face to face with another creature - but this one is different. About the size of a dog, the creature is red and looks like some kind of insect. It has its back to you, and appears engrossed in devouring the corpse of a scientist, an expression of pure terror frozen on his pale features. You can just about make out the name "Dr Mortley" on the man's bloodstained ID badge. The creature hasn't noticed you yet. Horrified, you watch as more red creatures - these different from the other, being as they are the same size as the yellow creature you just killed, but shaped differently, with six legs like the other red one and no sharp, sword like appendages, but equally powerful jaws - begin tearing flesh from the scientist's corpse and carrying it away up the steps...