Lee v Psycho

Colonel Lee of the Korean People's Army (KPA) had fired two shots toward Sam O'Neill as he gazed at the alien machine inside the metallic container. Neither shot made contact with O'Neill, but the shots did get his attention. O'Neill wondered where Sergeant Michael "Psycho" Sykes had disappeared to using the cloak mode of his Nanosuit.

Lee had two other soldiers with him, both dawning Nanosuits. Neither were still near by. O'Neill figured Psycho was catching up with them, but why would leave him there unarmed to face Lee alone?

Just as Lee began to aim and fire toward O'Neill's head, Psycho enabled the strength mode of his Nanosuit and grabbed Lee by the arm.



Lee was far from ready to take on Psycho and took quite a pounding from Psycho as the punches flew at record pace. Psycho was taking out every ounce of frustration he had inside him, from chasing Lee around this island through the heat, the snow, the ice and the darkness. Not to mention a battle with a bunch of alien machines that no one will ever believe without absolute proof.

Within a minute's time, Lee fell hard to the ground, afraid to move - knowing only another set of punches would soon arrive if that became the case.



Psycho instructed O'Neill to get to the VTOL now. The other two KPA troops had been taken care of and it was time to evacuate the area before more of those machines arrived.

What Psycho didn't realize is that Lee was still conscious. He reached for that same electronic device he had used earlier on the cargo sub, to inflict a great deal of pain to Psycho via a defect in the Nanosuit.



Lee hit Psycho and planted the device against his Nanosuit. This time, he wasn't able to get a decent grip on Psycho. After all, Psycho learned from the experience last time and knew how to avoid being vulnerable a second time.

Switching to strength mode, Psycho was able to drive Colonel Lee forward and into the VTOL as the craft lifted off the ground. The rear door remained open as the two soldiers fought over control of the small electronic device. It was "pound cake" time as Psycho used his skilled advantage of being a Delta Force team member to overpower Colonel Lee.

The electronic device fell into Psycho's hands and he pushed it against the Nanosuit Lee was wearing.




The device caused the suit to tighten around Lee's body, the amount of pain was incredible and each ounce was visible in Lee's facial expressions.

He finally fell lifeless into Psycho's arms. This time it was real. Psycho wasn't interested in taking Lee with them, so he tossed him out of the back of the VTOL and onto the ground.



Colonel Lee still remained on the ground, lifeless as the VTOL elevated higher off the ground.

Psycho then tossed that electronic device at Lee. He was certain to alert JSOC about Lee's device and an upgrade to the suit was certainly going to be in the next build for sure.

Psycho began to rest as his apparent battle with Lee had ended favorably.

In the distance, Psycho heard a familiar noise. Sounds like the huge machine is returning, time for O'Neill to get them out of the vicinity!

Departure

Psycho stood at the rear door of the VTOL watching Lee from the ground below. As the huge machine approached, Lee came back into consciousness. This was going to be fun to watch.

After all, Lee and his team stole one of the machines and were planning to reverse engineer the design to build a weapon that could place the Korean People's Army (KPA) into a position of power. The machines were likely not happy knowing one of their devices had been hijacked.



Lee stood upright and turned to the huge machine.



A hole opened under the bottom of the machine. A bluish light began to coat Colonel Lee as he stood in place, obviously too frightened to run or even move away. The glow of the beam intensified greater and great until Psycho was able to see a red ball of fire burst from the position where Colonel Lee was standing.

For all known purposes, Lee was presumed to be no longer living. The Nanosuit can take a lot of damage, but the damage he just witnessed was certainly in the megaton range.

The machines began to set their focus on O'Neill's VTOL. Did they notice the container hanging underneath?



O'Neill instructed Psycho to buckle up and hold on, because they had to evacuate the area now, as quickly as possible.

The VTOL was able to outrun the huge machine with ease. Psycho realized he had finally met the goals of the mission and for the first time, he could relax. The container was secure and Colonel Lee was either dead or not in the best of spirits.

Things would get hectic again soon when they reached the USS Constitution and hooked back up with me (Nomad) to face one of those huge machines head on. I can still recall seeing Psycho sitting on the deck of the ship for the first time when I landed my VTOL on the Constitution. He looked wiped out.

Another benefit of the mission was that Psycho and O'Neill were able to let go of the Code Blue incident which brought me (Nomad) to the team in place of O'Neill four years ago. While O'Neill may have ruined his chances to be on a Delta Force team four years ago, he still proved his value and honor with the actions he performed on this mission

With that gap in the story complete, Psycho, Helena and I continued our quest toward Prophet back on the island to further battle against these machines who entered our world without permission or invitation.