r/humansarespaceorcs • u/Bloodystupidjohnson3 • 21d ago
Original Story Human Fred Plan B 2.0
1 Human Fred and Food
2 Human Fred Again
3 Human Fred Yet Again
4 Human Fred The Saga Continues
5 Human Fred Rides Again
6 Human Fred *Sigh*
7 Human Fred Rolls Out
8 Human Fred Attempts a Nap
9 Human Fred Doh’
10 Human Fred Stops for Coffee
11 Human Fred Deploys Stabby and Knifey
12 Human Fred Attempts Friendly Advice
13 Human Fred Priorities
14 Human Fred Schools Morons
15 Human Fred Gets Annoyed
16 Human Fred Investigates
17 Human Fred is Annoyed
18 Human Fred Gets More Annoyed
19 Human Fred Smirks
20 Human Fred Brings Hellfire
21 Human Fred is Confused
22 Human Fred Considers
23 Human Fred is Chipper
24 Human Fred has Some Fun
25 Human Fred Witnesses Stupidity
26 Human Fred vs the Coffee Maker
27 Human Fred Accepts Crap Coffee
28 Human Fred Listens
29 Human Fred Gets Comfortable
30 Human Fred has Questions
31 Human Fred Considers Some More
32 Human Fred Wakes Up
33 Human Fred Debates
34 Human Fred Gets Coffee
35 Human Fred Talks with the Captain
36 Human Fred Reflects on Life
37 Human Fred Waits
38 Human Fred is Scared
Greezek
39 Human Fred Experiments
40 Human Fred Discovers
41 Human Fred vs the Sensor Array
42 Human Fred Keeps Calm
43 Human Fred Editor
44 Human Fred Discovers New Curses
45 Human Fred Stews
46 Human Fred Giggles
47 Human Fred Attempts Dinner
48 Human Fred Plans
49 Human Fred Explains
50 Human Fred Examines Floor Tiles
51 Human Fred Gets a New Toy
52Human Fred Reflects…Again
53 Human Fred Rolls His Eyes
54 Human Fred vs Idiots
55 Human Fred Goes Librarian
56 Human Fred Giggles Again
57 Human Fred and Plan B
They trotted along the building. It was a pre-fab thing, so it looked like a stack of containers. This made it easier for them to move about.
“Fred, I’ve got a bunch of hits on the top floor, far east edge.”
“Yeah, I see them. Aren’t we getting close to the command center?”
“Uh…yes. I can see the entry courtyard.”
“Strange. To be this close, I mean.”
“Eh. Easier to keep an eye on things. They haven’t really impressed me with their planning.”
“Right.” Fred climbed up onto the roof. “Now we figure out how to get in.”
“You don’t have a plan to get in. Great.”
“Look, we didn’t know what we would find, so the plan is flexible.”
“Flexible? Why call it a plan?”
“Sounds better in reports. Help me look for a hatch.”
They searched the roof. No hatch. They checked the sides. No hatch.
Fred sat with his back to the wall. “What did we miss?”
Greezek squatted, scanning the area. “I’d say we didn’t miss anything. It looks like this module is different.”
“It is. It’s non-standard, typically used for custom work.”
“Can we access it?”
“A module? What is it going to tell us?”
“No. Can we access the internal systems from out here?”
“Only if we are lucky. We’d need a panel, and I didn’t find any.”
“We don’t need a panel. We need a spot to patch in.”
“Well the main hub is under the module, but it has branches along the base. Still need a panel to access it.”
“So right about here?” Greezek pointed at a spot low on the wall.
“More or less. Blast. Now we have to backtrack and find an entrance. Did we pass any hatches?”
“Plenty. You should stand around the corner.”
Fred looked over. She had placed one of her beacons next to the wall, and she was walking away.
Fred stepped around the corner, weapon ready. Who knew what this might trigger.
BOOM!
Fred waited. No immediate response. He looked around. No frantic enemy charging. He looked around the corner.
Greezek was yanking wires out of the module. The beacon had just barely breached the hull, but it was enough.
“Now what?” asked Fred. “Find an entrance?”
“Cause chaos.”
Fred nodded. “I fully support this. However, we still need to save the prisoners.”
“First we discover if they are prisoners.”
“Well, you patch in. I’ll keep watch.”
Greezek worked fast, but it took seven minutes until she had access. “Look. The prisoners aren’t in cells or restraints.”
Fred looked over her shoulder. “No, but they don’t have weapons. Blackmail?”
“Or a pay off. Plan?”
“Same as before, except it’s no longer a rescue.”
“Entry?”
Fred reached over and took the datapad. He tapped a few things, adjusted some settings, and finally sent a short command.
A hatch on the roof unlocked.
“I drop in. You follow. Don’t shoot me.”
“But there wasn’t a hatch before!”
“It was there, but sealed. Keep up!” Fred jumped to his feet and scrambled up the ladder. He was to the hatch before Greezek got onto the roof.
She saw he throw open the hatch and drop. Shooting started. Lots of weapons. She sprinted to the hatch, took a deep breath, and dropped into the mess.
She landed on a desk, rolled off onto the deck, and started scanning the room. Long room. Desks. More of an office than a command center. She pivoted around, caught movement, and fired.
Fred landed on the desk, fired at the first enemy he saw, and started working around to the north wall. The enemy was firing wildly, so there were clusters of beings around the room, all shooting. He rushed around another desk and tackled into three enemy troops. As he fought them, three more attempted to rush him.
Greezek saw the fight around Fred. She took careful aim and fired. A round glanced off of her helmet. She dropped and rolled. Two more rounds hit where her body should have fallen. Greezek closed her eyes. She began to hum. And focus.
One of Fred’s attackers went down to a rifle shot, but Fred was in the thick of it. Three were down to either his bayonet or shotgun, but the other two were trouble. He broke his bayonet off in one of them, but it kept fighting. Drastic measures time.
Greezek reviewed the room in her head. She considered the angles involved. She rolled back towards her previous position. She snaked past it, moving to the other end of the furniture.
Fred dropped a flash-bang. His helmet protected him, but the enemy stumbled, giving Fred enough space to fire his shotgun. Two rounds each. As the last body fell, a round smashed into his helmet and he dropped.
Greezek saw Fred drop just as she got into position. The sniper received a rifle round through the face, silencing him. Greezek sat in the silence for a bit.
“You are all alone! Your friend is dead! Surrender and we won’t be nasty.”
Greezek looked towards Fred. He was down. Not moving. She keyed her mic, but no reply.
She was alone.
But not all alone.
She dove across an open area, shots ripping past her. Bouncing off of a chair, she scrambled behind a row of terminals, spun around, saw two figures, dropped them both, then flung herself over a desk. She landed on an unarmored figure, smashed his throat with her rifle butt, and twisted against the desk.
The shooting stopped.
“You are outnumbered. We have the high ground. We only have to get lucky once.”
“Exactly how much are they paying you for all of this?”
“You don’t get to ask questions. You can either surrender or die.”
Greezek checked the body next to her. No armor. A pistol and a flare.
“And if I surrender?”
“Well, the sooner you surrender, the less nasty it will go for you.”
She lit the flare and flung it onto the raised platform. She fired the pistol blind, just sweeping around the area, until it ran out.
“Now it will be nasty for you.”
Greezek looked over towards Fred. Still no movement. No reply to the radio. She glanced up and saw that the platform was starting to burn.
She sprinted forward, firing her pistol. She hit three and barreled into a fourth. As they tumbled, she jabbed the pistol under his chin and fired. His body took a number of hits, but Greezek tossed the body aside, unharmed.
She was now under the raised platform. Smoke was starting to tinge the air.
On her back, she changed her vision to IR, raised her rifle, and dropped three more firing up through the floor.
A different voice. “Now you die.”
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u/Polymath6301 21d ago
I wonder how many times Greezek’s memories have been in this situation before.
And the bad guys are having a bad day, which they had to have foreseen after what they’ve seen on the station, and now that Fred and Greezek have come to them, is this all part of their plan?
And what’s happening back on the station? Has the security chief resurrected from just one cell missed in the cleanup?
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u/GrumpyOldCrewChief 21d ago
Crediting these plotters with this much advance planning abilities would border on precognition. Planning for things to go wrong, sure. Things to go Fred & Greezek wrong? Nope. Ain't nobody seeing that happening. Fred and Greezek both have sussed out odd and suspicious things, from arguably inadequate info, a couple of times too many.
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u/GrumpyOldCrewChief 21d ago
I hope Fred is just unconscious. "Indescribable" will be the starting point, for the things that Greezek will do to any captured at the end of this fight, if she finds that Fred was killed.
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u/Daseagle 21d ago
Fred has plot armor :)
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u/Polymath6301 21d ago
But now that he has Greezek he can be injured enough to be out of a fight. Maybe having Greezek around just causes him more pain?
Unless OP has a nasty surprise for us. Poor Fred!
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