Starbound: A Space Odyssey

John saw that Lenny had lagged behind for a moment, but he ignored it when he saw that he had already caught up with the pace.

Peri, on the other hand stared at Lenny. Their line of sight met with each other.

Lenny innocently smiled and Peri just rolled her eyes over Lenny's antics.

"We are almost there." John looked at the green square building in the distance.

The BSS Outpost almost like blended within the forest. Its color was the same as the trees, but the artificial lights were what gave the position of the building away.

Peri's eyes stayed glued at the building. Killing intent started to irradiate from her body

"What's the plan?" Lenny lazily inclined by a towering tree and yawned.

"Kill everyone..." Peri said.

"Yeah, yeah... But how?" Lenny threw a side glance at Peri. "We don't know how many enemies we have to face because SOMEONE killed the guy we captured before we could interrogate him further."

Peri dismissively shrugged her shoulders and ignored Lenny. "What do you think, John?" She glanced at John.

"I don't know..." John squinted his eyes and was able to discern some movements in the outpost. "Let's watch for a while before we decide to act." John then looked at Lenny. "Do you have some binocular or something like that." It was still dark, since they left the camp when it was still a few hours away from dawn, so John was unable to properly see with details the building from where they were.

"Wait, let me see." Lenny roamed around his PIPS for while before he took a object that looked like a cylinder with about 15 centimeters of length. "Here, a Electronic Spyglass."

John received the item from Lenny's hand and took started to look around the Outpost.

"3... No..." John started counting the guards that were outside the Outpost. "8 soldiers and... What!?" John clicked a few keys on the Electronic Spyglass to magnify the reach. "Hey, Lenny, guess who I just saw?" John lowered the Spyglass and strangely glanced at Lenny.

"Oscar, right?" Lenny said, completely uninterested.

"How did you know?"

"I just got the felling that he was here..." Lenny glanced at his left hand, here the burning mark was.

"Okay..." John looked again through the Spyglass, but this time when he glanced at Oscar he realized that Oscar was looking at him. "He knows we are here..." John lowered the Spyglass.

"What were he doing?" Oscar asked.

"He's at the front door of the BSS Outpost, smoking what appears to be a cigarette."

"Well..." Lenny stretch out his arms. "He's waiting for me..." Lenny started to walk toward the Outpost.

"What are you doing?" John grabbed his shoulder and stopped Lenny.

"I'm going to meet up with a old friend." Lenny casually smiled and shook off John's hand from his shoulder. "While I dristract him, you two can go by the backdoor and kill them when they least expect."

John frowned and stared at the departing Lenny.

"Let's go..." Peri stopped beside John. "He already went ahead, let's do our part."

"Okay..." John and Peri started to silently walk toward the back of the Outpost.

...

Oscar was silently smoking a cigarette while he waited by the front door of the Outpost.

All the defense systems of the front door had been turned off by Oscar.

"Are you sure about this?" The captain asked A1 that was beside him.

Both of them were at the roof of the BSS Outpost watching the situation below them.

"It's not like we can stop him, anyway." The Apex, A1 said with a troubled smile. "At least is just the front of the Outpost. My soldiers are watching the backdoor coupled with the defense turrets, I think they don't stand a chance if they decide to take that route."He said proudly.

"Let's see..." The captain was still skeptical with A1's arrangements.

"Hmm?" A1 looked ahead of him, surprised. "One of them is here."

The captain glanced at below them and saw a yellow Novakid with a Omega 'Brand' on his face, calmly walking out of the forest.

"Are they crazy or what...?" A1 and the captain were confused.

...

"Lenny, Lenny... We met again." Oscar took the cigarette of his mouth and smiled.

"It's always a unpleasant felling for me whatever I see you." Lenny approached step by step.

"You still hate me because of what happened in the past..." Oscar puffed smoke out of his mouth. "I don't blame you for that."

"It doesn't matter anymore..." Lenny reached for his Tier 3 Revolvers in the holsters. "...Right?"

"Right..." Oscar took a menacing looking shotgun from his inventory. "We all changed, one way or another in that hellish place... Only those who survived know what kind of pain we suffered and what kind of sacrifices we had to do..."

They stared at each other, silently, with guns in their hands.

"Today... We end this..." Lenny calmly said. "A duel... Just like the old days."

"Yes..." Memories from the past flashed at Oscar's mind, memories of when they were kids. "The old days... How I miss them..." Oscar nostalgically smiled.

"Ready...?" Lenny doesn't want to stay reminiscing about the past, so he readied his guns.

Oscar spat the cigarette of his mouth. "I'm always ready." He lifted his shotgun and aimed at Lenny.

*Bang*

Lenny dodged the bullets and sprang forward toward Oscar.

*Bang, bang...*

Lenny started to open fire with his both revolvers.

...

*Bang, bang, bang...*

John looked at the distance, at the direction from which he was listening the gunshots.

"They had started..." Peri said. "It's our time now."

"Right..." John used his knife to open the entrance of the vents.

They weren't going to enter by the backdoor, but by the vents and surprise their enemies.

John opened the grid and took a blue, round object from his inventory.

He threw the EMP Grenade at the vent.

*Puff*

It made a low explosion sound and when it hit the ground.

John looked around and saw that most of the lights in the outside were turned off.

"It worked. Now we have about 5 minutes before they are able to reactivate their defense systems around this place. Let's hurry."

"Okay..." Peri entered first at the vent and John soon followed behind.