[ WP ] `` What does n't kill me has made a tactical error . ''

Error of Judgments 
 
 I pull myself off the ground, cracked ribs, a little bleeding, nothing I ca n't handle. I was hit but the adversary miscalculated and did not finish his attack. 
 
 The air is dirty with smoke but my eyes reach into the infrared. I can see him moving, fast, a loping gate hitting 60 klicks easy. 
 
 I have left leg damage, wo n't catch him easily. I plod forward, throwing my carapace armor on the ground to be rid of the dead weight. 
 
 Its vapor deposited ceramet but useless, shattered, probably hit with the experimental weapon I was sent to retrieve a mag-launcher, superconducting mach 8 darts 4mm. 
 
 He slows a second, assessing, hunting. 
 
 I look up, air support overhead, hi-temp atomic turbines howling. I'm cloaked, pass under its active scan, IFF circuit spoofed. 
 
 A hour passes and as I pass by a skeleton I take its rifle, half charge, maybe enough. Unsure. 
 
 The adversary has seem me, turns, fires his weapon. I do n't believe in luck but its a low probability event and his weapon malfunctions. 
 
 Mine does n't. The Westinghouse M-27 has a 4 sigma level of reliability. 
 
 I hit first,, blowing off a leg. He drops to one leg. draws draws another weapon, a simple 9mm Glock with tungsten rounds, 5 rounds in half a second. 
 
 Normally somewhat effective but I have upgrades and suffer minimal injury. 
 
 The fight is short is short and fierce. He squawks sparks flying `` Mission fail, termination fail, tactical error.'' As the red fades from his eyes I fire the last charge in the rifle, destroying the brain case. 
 
 `` For John.'' I say `` For Humanity.'' 
 
 I take his weapon, my mission completed and return to the base for repairs, Mission complete. Additional enemy asset neutralized. 

