Few shifts ago, was in a Thunderdome tournament with Julianna, Cadence, Maddox, and Nikolas Roberts. Had to survive 10 waves of baddies and got some neat gear, including an lmg (that Cade took), an energy shield (that cade took), an energy AXE (that cade took), and lots of riot armor to make us all look badass. Among other things was a battle rifle, which we were encouraged to grab, which I did, and all the ammo for it (this turned out to be a good idea.)
Once the waves started, there was not a moment to rest between waves. They flew by pretty quick actually. Battle rifle turned out to be beasty as hell. Fired quickly which was also a plus, on the downside of me having to reload it quickly as I had to fire quickly, thus teaching me that shield and gun was not the best way to do things. That and the recoil, which threw me off for a bit (read: the whole time.) Somewhere along the way I shared my love with Cade by putting a bullet in his back near the end, by this point Nikolas I believe was hurting. Ace was nice to us and let us heal up, reload, all that nice stuff after wave 6, for a while. Now, this whole time, I've been hurt maybe once or twice. The shield did it's job when I could use it, as did the armor.
Then the final waves.
This all happened in a blur, I had to go back and check what happened. We were getting swamped to the point that some of us could hide UNDER bodies, which lead to some friendly fire and Cade getting shot a few more times. Cade died first, couldn't see to what. Then, SOMEHOW, Maddox ended up gunning down Juliana with a pulse rifle and killing her. Sometime after he managed to fall asleep in the middle of combat. Nikolas was brought down last I think, not dead but injured enough to where he couldn't get up.
West was all by himself in the end, with a trusty battle rifle against the remaining xenos (eight I think? Can't remember.)
By the time the fact that he was literally the only one standing made it through my mind, I'd gunned down the second to last xenomorph, standing there among piles of corpses, wondering where the fuck everyone had disappeared to. Last xeno charged out as West was declaring something, promptly got gunned the hell down, and the tourney was over. Nikolas thankfully could still speak so I/West followed his voice, dragged him out of a pile of dead, then healed him up. Maddox was found and he got woke up, and we were declared the winners!
And then Maddox managed to kill himself with a teleporter, leaving Nik and West the winners!
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- And then on the shuttle home, the newly revived Juli kicked the crap out of Maddox for shooting her down. Nik and West, being the good friends they are, landed their own hits on him.