Construct: Reverse Eclipse

Prologue

"I'll be there in about half a second!" Venice yells. Hearing gunfire, he rounds the corner to where his teammate, and brother, should be. The bloody wreck of his Construct foreshadows the missions failure.

The torso of the construct is barely there. The cockpit was ripped from its spot in the center of the machine, "Shit! That's a lot of blood!" Venice says after shaking off the shock. He knew what he was getting into.

"Yeah," Lancer agrees, hovering over to Venice and setting down, "No human has that much blood, that leads me to believe what ever killed him was shot a few times," He glances around, "And something tells me that the blood trail it left behind will be important in tracking it!"

"Lock and load, now is not the time for pretty weapons." Venice Sheaths one sword and pulls out a heavy mech rifle. The fake clip drops from it and the constructs third arm, a modification by Venice himself, slams the incendiary ammo clip into the rifle. Come and get it bitch!

The team, now down one, follows the blood trail, "What was that? Who has rear?" Venice says looking around at his team.

"Archer" Archer says.

"I see, okay, be on your toes," Venice says looking away, "what kind of ammo do you have in your rifle?" He says turning back around. But Archer's construct, Gaia, is gone. Only a large metal arm remains. The rifle in the severed arm is loaded with the fake clip still.

"Oh shit! Archer!" Lancer runs over to the arm and looks around, "Where did he go?" Lancer looks around in vain, only because he failed to look up.

In the building towering over the lone arm, Archer's Gaia is hanging with a metal beam through it's gut.

"Lancer?" Rider asks slowly walking towards the middle of the group, "Is no one gonna point out the fact we didn't HEAR Gaia being impaled on a building above us?!"

"I don't think that's the only issue..." Venice calculates, I turned away from him and nearly 2 seconds later i looked back....what the hell?! And earlier...Assassin, that took a half a second! "Their speed is impeccable...Is the communications to the moon online yet?" No answer, "Lancer?" No answer, "Rider?"

Venice looks around, his comrades nowhere to be found. This was a team of the best 5 combat units we had! Suddenly something behind Venice blocks out the sun, it was subtle at first, but when he noticed it was to late. Much like an eclipse. Venice flung himself away from the unknown instead of turning to face it. The air behind him seemed to jump as he turned in his cockpit.

A giant humanoid pile of flesh greeted his unprepared eyes. It's gaping mouth had blood all over it. And in it's mouth lay the remains of Venice's brother's cockpit. "NO!" Venice yells, emptying the entire clip of fire on the towering creature.

It screeched as the fire touched it, it sounded like nails on a chalkboard, and from inside his construct the noise was still deafening. As Venice tries to get up the beast full broadsides his construct. Knocking the heavy mech to the ground, making a horrible crashing noise.

Venice uses his third arm to get himself up off the ground. But the creature is on top of him again. Venice cuts off it's arm with his shorter second sword, "What do you want!" He yells at the creature. It stops and then lunges with it's other arm, getting a hold on the cockpit area. It shakes the whole mech. Venice's earpiece, which provides the link to the construct, is knocked off after he hits the side of the cockpit, "Damn it!"

The link being ripped from him makes his vision blurry, but he can still see the large red "eject" button. He slams his hand down on it with all his might. The 3 locks on the front and back of the machine holding the cylindrical cockpit in the mech disengage. The rockets engage shooting the now unattached cockpit out the front and presumably, due to the hard halt in the beginning, through the monstrous creature.

The cockpit slams into the ground. The top door opens with some trouble as the flesh slides off of it. Venice climbs out and salutes the fallen construct, "You were with me till the end of it all...." How am i gonna get back to the moon and report this? He thinks. He pulls the mechs blueprints in hopes of rebuilding it when he gets back to the moon.

First, shelter! He establishes as he crawls into a nearby store. He settles down to work on getting his emergency radio together. He's met by a horrid ripping sound and screaming, "LANCER?!" He yells to the familiar voice. He picks up his emergency radio and runs toward his friend.

His eyes meet Lancer's after he sees lancer's surroundings. TONS of smaller creatures surround Lancer ripping him apart.

"SHOOT ME!" He struggles to get out.

"Don't worry i'll get you out! Hang in there!" Venice responds, mind muddled by shock. He begins climb over to Lancer, when he notices that the creatures all have the Omega mark on them. Huh...Omega.....

The radio goes off in Venice's hand.

"Are you there? Venice? Why aren't you in your construct? What happened?" The commander asks.

Venice could feel the eyes shift towards him as the radio chattered. The way the creatures looked at him made him feel sick. They tossed away Lancer's broken and mangled body for more fresh prey. Venice's mind clouds with pain as he stares at his arm, which is in the mouth of a creature that's in the process of tearing it off.

"Venice? What's that noise?! VENICE?!"

No response.