Man Down!

We approached form the south, entering the courtyard under heavy cover.   As I rounded a raised garden I saw one in the distance, raised my rifle and took him out with one shot, spraying the wall behind him in blood.

I didn’t know his name, nor do I care to…but that’s when everything went wrong…there was an explosion about 10 feet in front of me, not a grenade, maybe an RPG, maybe it was one of those landmines they loved to use detonating early. I never felt the hit, I always thought I would feel the hit that would take me out…it was never a matter of if it would happen but when. The blood sprayed on the wall from my first kill seemed to lose color, transforming from deep, dark red to pure black, every where I looked it was like the air itself was alive, sparkling, shimmering…it was beautiful, but I soon realized I was in the middle of a fire fight staring at nothing, and I was going to die…but something was wrong, I think I blacked out,

 

I could still hear everything, the screaming….the screaming… but I was blind to the world. I still managed to pick up small flashes of light, and occasionally recognize a person standing by me, but nothing made any sense, that explosion must have been too much for my system. But I still had my rifle, and it was still a war.

 

I would occasionally gather my wits enough that I could see an enemy in the distance, but by the time I moved, I would succumb and black out again.   I remember a flash of Morley taking 3 in the chest as he tried to cover my slow retreat, and bodies, I don’t who’s they were, but they were everywhere, and that blood, that same black blood coated the ground. All I could do was lie there and hope the enemy didn’t see me, or that they thought I was already dead. It was a blood bath, I’m not sure if we managed to kill many of them, but our team could not rally back from the damage we had taken, I was out of commission, and we were out manned, out gunned, and out maneuvered.  As the skirmish came to an end, we had lost one soldier, only one….his dedication and sacrifice to the cause will never be forgotten. You had a strong heart, and a never ending determination, but your video card just couldn’t take the strain.

 

RIP my poor Xbox 360 Pro.

 

I know that was alot of crap just to get to the point....but if I'm going to tell a story, I want to tell the whole story.

 

I guess it’s a really good thing I won that Arcade model so our Elite doesn’t have to feel lonely while the other is out for repairs.

I was able to swap it in and get in a full match before we had to back out but in that one match I realized how much the colors were washed out on the Pro. I realized that I haven’t really seen the color red or a pure green from that system in a long time.  But we had to go and play The Pitt DLC for Fallout 3….