"Total Systems Reboot! Total System Reboot!" blares through Sikslik7's helmet. Flashing red lights and a warning message appear on the helmet's screen.
"As if I didn't figure that out," mumbles Sikslik7 as he rolls onto his back. "Hmm a cage, and a crappily built one too, probably brute-made." The warning messages fade, and a full system diagnostics progress bar appears in the lower right corner of his helmet. Slowly getting up, Sikslik7 looks around outside the cage, into the grey room beyond. "Hmm, pretty bleak, but where is all the brutes that were here earlier?" He stretches, and looks at the door, unlocked. "Man, these brutes are just getting dumber and dumber aren't they?"
Stepping outside the cage, Sikslik7 finds his trusty battle rifle and his magnum just laying there. Shoving a clip into the magnum and turning the safety off, he slowly begins to creep around the inside of Blue Base. Two brutes are sitting on the ground in one room, playing some card game very similar to "Go Fish." Sikslik7 walks into the room and the two brutes turn, confused, "Ever have fried fish," Sikslik7 askes as he puts a bullet through each of their skulls. A third brute in the corner turns around, seemingly pulling up his fly, and gets pistol-whipped in the face. Sikslik7 leaves the room through another door, and finds the exit, bursting into a sun-filled gulch. "There's no one here," he mutters. Suddenly he hears suppressor fire in the distance, and starts off in that direction.
Two brutes are standing at the entrance to a cave, and seem to be about to hurl spike grenades into it. Pulling his battle rifle to his shoulder, Sikslik7 adjusts the scope, takes a deep breath, and pulls the trigger twice. The grenades erupt in a whirlwind of orange spikes, blowing the two brutes flat on their backs. One brute yells, "What shall we do Pluton," but the brute leader just lays on the ground dazed. The nearby brutes go into a panic, unsure where the shots came from.
"Time to leave," mutters Sikslik7, and he rolls to the ground. He backs off to get a better view of the confusion. Sikslik7 finds a cluster of rocks near the cliff's edge and looks around. He notices a second entrance to the cave, and a Jackal shaped creature bounds out of it and disappears into the field. "Good luck little guy, you'll need it."