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Brawl!

I dove out of the way as the first shot was fired. I rolled over and shot a drone clear up through the head. He dropped his gun and I picked it up. I got up and fired a round at a droid. It hit it straight in the forehead, my aim was improving.

I cocked my shotgun with one hand as I delivered a skull-shattering blow with the butt of my newly-acquired pistol. I dropped my pistol and grabbed the neck robot by the neck and flung it’s cold body at another drone, killing it.

The viscous brawl went on for hours, I ended up losing the use of my loading arm during the last few minutes. I droid shot straight through a fault point in my armor, tore through my flesh and nicked the bone.

We had to stop it early, just cause I was hurt. They were being ridiculous, I could have fought for at least another few hours before I was spent.

They took me to the infirmary and made me take off my suit. i knew all along that this was no big deal, I’ve been hurt worse than this and the nanobots take care of things.

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