The hatch separating John’s team from the rest of the main lobby spread enough. Blue and orange light dazzled as both metallic parts spread apart on the 15 meters wide passage. Deployable barriers were various meters ahead, where a soldier and two crewmen hid and traded shots with three Insectoids on the other side, covering behind red energy barriers.
They didn’t wait. Everyone shot their weapons the concentrated rain fire was faster than the monsters; the shields of an Insectoid broke in splashing electricity. Parts of its chitin exoskeleton flew away mixed with blue goo as the kinetic rounds mauled its body.
“Take that, you bastards!” yelled Derek. They all moved next to the soldiers to take cover, breaking the shields of a second Insectoid as it tried to escape through the perpendicu
