Onward! Pt.2

Smith smiled and waited for the camouflaged runner to stop yelling. He ripped off the runner's mask and winced. Smith had been expecting a human being, not one of the Neekresh aliens, creatures that had the upper and lower bodies of humans but chicken-like heads complete with beaks.
"This could be very very bad," Smith said.




Previously on Onward!
Smith moved around the corner of the alleyway, gun trained and moving on anything that could move in the alley. Several squatters got up slowly, hands raised and shuffled out of their makeshift home. Smith grunted and waited for them to leave. That was when he watched the thermal camouflage blur move toward one of the gantries at the end of the alleyway.
He released the clip in his gun and slammed in homing bullets.
The camouflaged runner was brought down hard as one of the bullets slammed through its ankle and it dropped back down onto the alleyway...