STAR WARS: RETROSPECTION- Virus

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There is no escape. The zombies start to close in...

A rocket flares and zips into the crowd of zombies coming toward you from behind, the ones you were fighting earlier. Those at the rear are subjected to its explosion and completely incinerated by the blast- a high-grade thermal rocket.

The zombies hesitate, looking for its source. Your eyes are better- it came from a shop across the street from the medical center.

Rylis votes for hauling ass to the shop where that came from while the zombies still try to figure out wtf is going on...

A figure stomps its way heavily from the doorway of the shop. The figure is tall and imposing and completely covered in metal. Its flesh on its skull has rotted away, replaced with frayed rubber and metal patches. A pair of cybernetic eyes glance at you, then past you, at the zombies on your tail.

It pops the rocket launcher back into its arm, then primes four blasters that emerge from both forearms.

"Get down," he says in a voice that is loud but emotionless.

Rylis will rather unceremoniously dump Rhys on the ground and duck under the walking weapon's line of sight, shooting at the zombies herself.

Rhys will grunt in vague, semi-conscious pain.

The man raises his arms as you throw yourself down. The blasters kick into gear by emitting low pinging noises as a wave of lasers sail overhead. With both sets of guns in operation, he makes a pair of attacks, with Both Guns Blazing, on twelve dice each. After that, he spreads his fire with 10,000 Bolts, making another pair of attacks at two less dice, and so on as he sprays wildly into the crowd of zombies.

After a flurry of automatic blasting, he has killed five zombies and downed a few more.

A stalk extends from his shoulder and begins to charge with a green glow.

"Go," he says. "Now."

"Go where?" Rylis asks, mildly impressed by the carnage caused. "He certainly can't go anywhere..."

Up close, you can see that his skull is human- the man is a cyborg, more machine than man. There a consistent low thumping from within his armor-plated chest, and a dull unnatural heat.

"I may be able to help you there," says a voice behind the carnage-causing beast. A man in brown robes steps out from the shop next, his features concealed by a hood. "Come with me if you want to live!"

Rylis notes the newcomer with some interest, before grabbing Rhys again and dragging him inside.

There is a bright green flash behind you as the cyborg sets off his disruptor weapon, followed by the low pinging of his repeating lasers.

The cloaked stranger leads you through the ruined shop- Rylis more or less dragging a stumbling Rhys- to a back room. In the back room, there is a door that the man opens, revealing a speeder in an alleyway. Within are several stormtroopers.

"Get him in the speeder," the cloaked stranger says. "Are you hurt at all?"

"I'm fine, they didn't get through my armor at all," Rylis replies, hauling Rhys into the speeder and climbing in herself after him. "Just what is going on here?"

"What does it look like?" the cloaked stranger says. "This world is facing a zombie apocalypse, and I am saving your life. How handy are you with that gun?"

"I'm a decent shot," Rylis says, hefting her blaster in her hand. She's so used to people recognizing her, that she's mildly surprised that they seemingly don't know her reputation.

The stranger points back the way you came.

"That cyborg is going to come barrelling back through here to rendezvous," he says. "Don't let anything else come out of that door, you kennit?"

"Got it..." Rylis says, making sure her mini-cannon is within easy reach, and taking aim at the doorway with her blaster.

On the other side of the building, there are more green flashes and laser pings amidst the savage roars and gurgles of the undead. Then, there is a sound like a whoosh and a crack like that of a sniper rifle... and the cyborg doesn't come through the door but over the building. He lands heavily in front of you, the ground splitting beneath him. He is covered in blood.

"They're coming," he says, looking to the stranger.

"Alright, let's go!" he says. "Troopers, ready your blasters, don't let anything near the speeder! Bounty hunter, join your friend, please. Jarko, on the turret!"

"Not exactly a friend..." Rylis says, but she'll go check on Rhys.

The speeder is a long one, with room enough for the three troopers, the cloaked stranger, the inert Rhys, Rylis, and the cyborg that mounts the main turret at the back. It is an Imperial model.

The stranger gets behind the wheel of the speeder just as the zombies start coming through the doorway...

"Thanks..." Rhys says weakly in response to Rylis' correction. "Keeping me alive... would be swell..."

"Yeah yeah, I don't plan on killing you," Rylis replies, leaving the 'yet' unspoken for the moment. "Hold still, I'll see what I can do."

How much can she patch up, between having Medicine and the little medkit she carries with her?