Combat Bugmen & Hyper Eel

The meeting was to take place by the dam, late morning.

Combat Bugmen, his queen's most decorated warrior,

was crouched in the bushes with

his carbine trained on the horizon. 

He kept his wits sharp, finger resting

to the side of his MPL's trigger. 

Combat was sent to this scenic lake

to rendezvous with Hyper Eel,

a potential defector in the

Hyper Knight civil war.

Little was known about Eel,

other than he was very close to

Marson's inner circle and served

as an infiltration specialist. 

"Stealth expert, huh? I can play that game."

Combat whispered to himself.

He dialed the pigment in his suit down,

to allow for a more transparent

green that better blended with the surroundings. 

It was eerily still, not a cloud

in the sky nor a ripple on

the water's surface.

Eyeing the bridge nearby,

Combat watched as a dark shape

silently slid out of

the water and onto the walkway.

That must be him!

"Not a bad entrance,"

Combat offered in a friendly tone,

keeping his carbine trained on Eel.

"You have some information for me?" 

Eel held perfectly still, breathing heavily

through what sounded like a vocoder.

Curiously, he was garbed

in an earth KOTS helmet, with a cracked right eye.

Hardly the type of gear to give a tactical advantage...

must've held some sort of sentimental value

(thought Hyper Knights were notorious unsentimental). 

"My unit is ready to join you. But first we need help."

Eel's words coming out in a flat mechanical monotone. 

"You got it," Combat nodded,

instantly cursing himself for being too enthusiastic. 

"Tomorrow there will be a trailer heading

through the vector carrying one

of our partisans. If you can break him out,

we'll all jump ship to your team." 

Combat felt a drop of sweat building

along his brown line under his helmet.

"Easy enough." 

Eel lowered his weapons and

started to inch backwards.

"It'll take some detective work, but we know the trailer

will be traveling in the actual Vector stream,

not in a specific level. You'll need someone

who can not only survive, but IS part of the vector." 

Combat allowed himself a smile- 

"We got just the guy..." 

TO BE CONTINUED