"He's gone Shuo....What do you want to do?" Renti said solemnly. Shuo gave a glance back at his comrade. His face plate was totally cracked in and the table he was on was covered in blood, just like him. The round was still buried in his chest plate which they hoped would slow the bleeding. It was a risk to take the body with them but they couldn't leave him or his suit just here.....

"Set him to detonate, take this whole building down with him if you wish. LZ is 30 more floors up." Shuo said then pausing for a sec. Renti nodded taking her hands off the wound. She took a cable out of her wrist and hooked it into a slot in his. She began setting his suit to overload. Hopefully the blast killed all the human scum below them. Shuo then turned back to the 3D display he had up. They had a UAV doing thermal scans on the building for them now and it showed some humans trying to traverse rubble below them. He counted 7 there and another 12 a few floors down. He exhaled through his nose sharply and swiped the display away. He put his left hand back on his rifle and looked back to Renti, who was retracting her cable.

"We're good to go." Renti said in a rather blank tone. Shuo nodded and exited the large apartment they had entered and came up to the stairs. He was ready to be done with this place.

1 week later...

Shuo was sat on the edge of his bed ready to start his day. He had yet to receive reassignment and more than likely he would be sitting around for more than a few weeks before he was shipped off anyways. He would need to figure out where he could get a work out in as he didn't like sitting around doing nothing. He pushed himself off the edge of his bed and began straightening it out and tucking the edges in. He stepped back and looked at the neat bed and made sure it was perfect. He then turned on his heel and went to the kitchen and grabbed some fish out of the fridge which he ate quickly with his hands.

After eating Shuo went over to the couch and sat down. For a moment he simply stared off at the city. Then he heard a ring at the door. He got up and walked over to the door and then opened it. A Tempu women in dress fatigues stood at the door whom Shuo had a good few inches on. "Sixth echelon Shuo Yuyun?" She said with a air of confidence.

"Yes, you have him." Shuo said noticing that she had a mark of tenth echelon on her shoulder. He quickly saluted and added a "Mam" to the end of his sentence.

"At ease soldier." She said. Giving a quick return salute."May I come in?" Shuo nodded and moved out of the door way gesturing inside. The Tempu walked inside the apartment and Shuo closed the door behind her. "I'm here to give you your reassignment." She said looking around the room and not at Shuo.

"I figured as much. Though I'm wondering why my CO isn't here, mam." Shuo said knowing that technically he was out of line but people in his position generally got away with little of it.

"Because the mission you are being given is.... well rather important. My name is Petand and I'm going to cut to the chase here as I have a few other things to do before I'm redeployed myself. You're being assigned to a joint species team.." She said as she set a data pad down on the kitchen counter. there was something on it but he couldn't read it from where he was.

"Excuse me mam?" Shuo said with a bit of disbelief. He walked over to the kitchen and leaned on the table with both of his arms.

"When this was first brought to me I had a hard time believing it myself. But this is from 12th, your going to be heading our representation on this team. You also leave today." She said scrolling the data pad with one hand and holding it in the other.

Shuo blinked for a second and then responded. "That's quite short notice mam. Where exactly am I going to anyways?"

"Pax. You leave in 4 hours aboard the SV Furious Assault, a Heavy cruiser. Your armor and weapons are already on board, you just need to be there on time with your go bag. Understood?" She said standing up straight and lifting her pad off the table. She then began making her way to the door. Shuo got up and made it to the door just before her. He pressed the console and opened the door for her. "Oh and it's on level 421 dock 9, by the way."

Shuo gave her a salute as she left and she returned with a "See ya." Shuo was rather confused by what had just happened but he cleared that thought quickly and began packing. He hoped he had enough time to grab some of the "coffee" stuff on his way down there. He got hooked on it a few months ago and hadn't had any since he was deployed last month. One thing was for sure though, this was going to be interesting.