Asteroid Blues

A young aspect of ALEPH, a Atar functionary in his unit, made his way through the dark, deserted corridors of the Gallery. Once in these places boiled human life, let and not the most humane and advanced, on life, and now only the darkness and death.
It was a dark and gloomy place. Tha Maze Gallery has always been famous for its dark history. As they would say before, "a dark aura hung over this place" and it seemed that even before the alien invasion something terrible lived here. The command order was simple: find and destroy. Atar was often irritated by simple orders and tasks, but this was not the case, because this time he would face a strong and cunning opponent who was not like any threat from the Human Sphere. Less than a year into his service in Deva unit, he had already proven himself to be a true professional and resourceful fighter for the safety of humanity. A small deviation from the given norm was detected in his mind during creation, but ALEPH found this deviation interesting and decided to leave it as an experiment and oversee.
Entry from the diary of a Deva functionary Atar 0019910205:
The head of the squad aspect of the unit Shukra said that we have arrived at the right sector in which our specialists should identify the presence of the alien infrastructure and possibly destroy them. We spread out. Me and my squad fighting remotes and personal specialist-bodyguard from CSU Katrin took up a position on the left flank from the commander and were ready to act.
Suddenly shots were heard above our heads. And on the General link, our escort post-human Camille reported that she had spotted the enemy on the far side of the sector and opened fire on him from her L-host on the roof. The first shot from a multi-sniper rifle and in response just a barrage of fire accompanied by completely unfamiliar sounds. And silence. Camille said from another L-host that her body is destroyed, and the enemy has in its arsenal of heavily armed TAG and unidrons squad that are ready to run in our direction. But the main thing that Camille reported is that there was an abnormal area ahead and we should be careful.
Then began a veritable Hell. The first thing we did was break through to the nearest communications antenna, which Katrin dealt with in no time. Liaison gave that to come out of hiding we shouldn't, because our position will be a massive attack with the enemy TAG. We waited and listened. The poor specialist from Arjuna's detachment entered the anomalous zone and died on the spot. I noted to myself that there was always something wrong with these Arjuns, although they seemed to be able and capable, but circumstances always played tricks on them, at least in my experience.
Camille, meanwhile, was not reassured. She leapt into her third L-host, which was equipped for field combat, and simply charged forward, right under the enemy's nose. Camille was datatracker on our mission, and so the entire job revolved around her. Sometimes I envy the post-humans, these unique people can do a lot of things and they do not need to organize someone or manage, they directly embody the ancient principle: "if you want to do something well – do it yourself." Camille ran forward in some frenzied rage, while simultaneously playing a mission! After messages about destroying it two communication antennas and hostile an alien, she took a stance and was silent.
The enemy's response was not long in coming. Unidrons squad moved forward to go into the sector and destroy the data that was contained in the equipment scattered around the anomalous zone. A complete surprise was that over our heads, stuck one of those mysterious guys from the divisions of the Dasyus and began shooting members of the unidrons squad one by one from a multi-sniper rifle. The first to fall to the vile Umbra, which there is no full information in ALEPHs comlogs, but these beings certainly are a danger. Obviously, this crazy Dasyus was with our squad all the time, but we didn't see him, which speaks to his high professionalism. As his rifle continued to fire, I silently thanked ALEPH that he was on our side.
Later on, we reported that unidrons squad still get to part of the equipment and destroyed it. Meanwhile, in the direction of raging with a sniper rifle Dasyus moved TAG. Finally, the comlog has information that is not Avatar and not a terrible Sphinx, it is only Overdron, we exhaled a little, but tensed again when he heard the shots from the Hyper-magnetic cannon in our direction. Dasyus reported that he was alive, but the enemy TAG took the height, for which Dasyus strongly apologized. Commander Shukra reassured him and encouraged that the battle is not over yet, and alone he will do nothing against such a hulk.
The magnetic cannon went silent, and the order came for us to march. Seeing the opportunity, the Dakini in my group fired through a hole in the ceiling of our hiding place, and from the sound of it, he killed someone behind the wall and chuckled contentedly. "Dakini – just robots" I thought with surprise, but then it occurred to me that now they are not just robots, and puppets representative of the new unit OSS. There was quite a mixed reception when they appeared, but in the end the apsaras proved very useful in the ALEPH case. They themselves didn't stand out, but as soon as they were behind the controls remote, they were not equal. Katrin, I, and the three dakinis went into battle. After running half the sector and encountering no obstacles, we came out on the flank to the TAG. Hearing movement in the nearest building, the same Dakini with a grenade launcher virtuoso hit threw a grenade into the entrance of the building, there were heard angry curses, as shown by my comlog, it was the morat language. Dasyus did not calm down, meanwhile he got up from behind his shelter and fired blinding ammunition at TAG, but he was injured, muttering something unintelligible, Dasyus continued to stand, although it was clear that now he will not help us.
I tightened my grip on my light machine gun, activated my multispectral visor, and peered around the corner. A small head on a gigantic body stared at me, and TAG pointed his cannon at me. I was about to empty the clip when the visor sensors told me there was movement on the other side of the sector. No! This is a sneaky, hidden Shasvastii with a missile launcher came out of hiding and shoots right now and right at me! I squeeze the trigger of the machine gun, managing to make a small turn in the TAG lowering almost the entire clip in the long-range target, which was the most dangerous. I could barely breathe as I rounded the corner. Dasyus of when something rather muttered, hearing his commander Shukra told me a few encouraging words, but was advised not to put out until wounded Shasvastii will not die from his wounds and that I hit a Tag, but it is far from failure. Therefore, our goal is to hold the position and wait for instructions.
The enemy again went on the offensive. This time we heard strange grinding sounds as if something soft and slimy, but equipped with metal inserts crawled on the stone floor of the sector. A burst of automatic fire rang out. After Camille's abuse on the air, we knew she'd been attacked. After receiving the wound, she began to respond to the offender, shouting into the ether: "Die, worm!" the communication with Camilla was interrupted. But almost immediately recovered, because the consciousness of Camille was already in the remaining L-host, she was very unhappy and complained about appeared out of nowhere a worm that went and unceremoniously shot her.
Dasyus reported the movement of the TAG. There was something wrong with this Dasyus, he wasn't shooting at the big thing, he was just provoking it! What is this madman up to? Looks like he harasses overdron, trying to lure him under the fire of our fighters. While Dasyus was minding my own follies, one of the Dakini of my group was in the line of fire Overton, after another hit, the operator of Dakini apparently emboldened, but the TAG was seriously angry and emptied the clip in remote. "Maybe now the command will give us at least an engineer or more of Dakini" came the operator's voice-the apsaras from a nearby soldier, because the first had already been reduced to a pile of scrap metal by the savage attack from the magnetic cannon.
Meanwhile, an explosion had occurred on the right flank, the enemy still eager to destroy any information about their presence here.
There was an urgent order to retreat to the remaining equipment and take a defensive position, which we did. The four of us were already in position to cover all remaining key points with alien equipment. Dakini with a grenade launcher decided to once again distinguish himself in this battle. He stepped forward a little and began to scatter death in all directions. First launched a grenade at the one where the sailor could be heard swearing, after the next portion of the battle, there was quiet. Then determining the position of the vile worm, on the second attempt Dakini killed him. And with a final volley Dakini tried to finish off TAG, but missed.
On the right flank, where valiantly, but comically killed specialist Arjuna, remote Lamed took the position, through a portion of fire from the unidrons plasma carabins, he began to wait.
The enemy's ranks faltered. Obviously, they momentarily lost contact with the command, but immediately, same it’s restored. The remains unidrons moved forward. It was a desperate attempt to hold onto meaningful data and not give ALEPH troops more information. Dasuys switched to unidrons, calculating specialist among them, he opened fire. Lamed, did not lag behind to give, but all that he could to bring down the unidrons vision, he started to do. Dasuys missed, and Lamed were, but persistent unidron survived. One more pull, one more shot and that's it. Unitron-specialist incapacitated by a simple bot that can not even cause significant damage to the enemy fighter, and therefore the fight is over.
On this battle ended. Wounded Overton retreated, covered up the remains of unidrons, more than in this battle, they couldn't do anything except save himself. I think we'll see them again.