A story I wrote some time ago. It's based on Rimworld, a great colony simulator in an hostile planet (with a lot of cannibalism and human skin hat).
This is not a story about the darkest side of the game and you don't need to know the game to understand it (I hope). All the character are based on my colonist of a specific colony. Enjoy it!

Chronicles of the Rim - Raid on the Infirmary


Ann was stuck in the infirmary, hell was outside. A group of pirates had attacked the colony, most of her friends were out there fighting but not her. Thirty years, light blond hair, she had never harmed anyone. She simply could not, the very idea of ​​holding a weapon paralyzed her. For this reason she had chosen to become the doctor of the colony, even able to tell the truth. More than once she had saved his companions' lives, mending them when they seemed to be doomed. But this time it was different. By now it was a lot that she heard them fight, the pirates had arrived in mass and they seem to have breached the perimeter. Holed up in a corner with her head in her hands, Ann was terrified.

Suddenly the door swung open. She screamed, but it was not a pirate but a little girl. Ann recognized, under the helmet too big for her, Cockroach 14 years, the last and youngest member of their group, long black hair, light brown skin. Panting and with a bullet in her arm, she was holding a semiautomatic gun

"Ann, Ann! Help me! They are coming, they have passed the turrets, penetrated our defenses, they are coming here"

"I … I don't … i …" Ann stammered in terror as Cockroach handed her a shotgun

"I can't use it, I can't feel my arm, please, please!"

Ann picked up the weapon with her eyes wide open, her hands were shaking "I can't do it. Roach, I don't …"

"They're coming!" Roach hid behind the door with the gun in her hand, and Ann hid behind a bed, trembling .

Endless seconds of waiting, then a man opened the door wide. He wasn't one of them. Massive, a brown leather jacket, unkempt beard. He smelled of alcohol and was stained with blood, his veins were unusually large and visible, Ann recognized the mark of the Luciferium, the most powerful drug on the Rim. Roach tried to catch him by surprise, as soon as the door opened, she pointed the gun at the pirate's head but he was tremendously fast and dodged his head back before the girl could shoot, grabbed her still stretched arm and he slammed her against the wall, Roach tried to fire again but noticed that the gun had fallen into the scuffle. Before she could recover, the pirate was on her and grabbed her by the neck. Ann tried to make herself as small as possible and not make any noise.

Roach kicked as much as she could and tried to defend herself with the only working arm, but the pirate was at least twice her size and stoned on Luci, it was like hitting a mountain. He put her on the table and squeezed her neck “So girl, where do you keep the pills?” Unable to breathe and speak, Roach touched the pirate's hand trying to loosen his grip but he was too stupid or too stoned to understand her intentions and continued to tighten “So little slut? WHERE ARE THEY?” Ann watched the scene without making a noise. The rifle, useless, in her hands.

The man smiled <Obviously it is not enough for you> he pulled a large knife from his belt and impaled it on Roach's belly, making his way under the girl's armor. Ann didn't see the scene in detail but from how Roach jumped she realized that she had been stabbed. The girl's eyes widened in pain, she stared at the man trying to calm him but his mind was elsewhere now. Suddenly, air at last! It almost hurt as it entered her lungs. She took deep breaths with her eyes closed, but when she opened them again he was still in front of her. Before he could speak he grabbed her by the hair and lifted her making her scream <THEN? WHERE ARE THEY?> Roach barely had time to open her mouth to speak that the pirate thrusts the knife into her neck three times and then throws her to the ground. same blood, look in Ann's direction begging for help. She beckons her no, so she will show her <No no no no, please no> look at the pirate who has already lost interest in the girl on the ground. From a clinical point of view the scene is interesting for Ann: the Luciferium accelerates bodily functions giving surprising agility and strength but, over time, the subject's perceptions are accelerated. This is why he speaks so fast, he moves so fast, everything is slowed down in his head, it's like the world goes in slow motion. For this he was so impatient, from his point of view Roach was who knows how to fix it without answering his questions. The woman took refuge in these thoughts hoping to escape from reality when she realized that the pirate was heading towards her. She recoiled trying to avoid him but there was no room to move, when she realized that he could no longer hide, with her back to the wall, Ann activated her shield belt.

As soon as he saw her, Ann knew he had to act quickly: before he could do anything, the woman pointed with a hand to a door a little way away "From there, that's where we keep the Luci" The pirate smiled enthusiastically "Thank you, really kind " rushed into the closet and came out with a bottle full of red pills. He swallowed one, savoring the discharge going through his body. Ann stared at him paralyzed: maybe it would have been enough, maybe he would have forgotten her. Instead he went back to staring at her, the huge pupils in the blood-red eyes "Thanks again" he pointed the gun at her and fired twice, the woman jumped but the shield deflected the two bullets, an annoyed expression showed up on the pirate's face "I hate these shit" "No wait, there's no need…" he started shooting again, continuous shots that broke on the shield "Wait, that's enough!" One last shot bounced off the shield but in the end two bullets reached the target, the first one hit to the sternum, the second, the the right breast. "Ah ah! Peck!" The woman tried to stop the wounds, she gave short cries looking at the blood coming out copiously.

When she looked up again, the pirate was not there, maybe he was gone. Ann tried to get up, she knew that in the closet next to her there were Glitterworld medicines, coming from the most advanced planets in the universe, if she could reach them she could still save herself. Tenacious, the woman climbed on the piece of furniture, painful pangs tormented her but with great effort she grabbed the briefcase and fell back to the ground. She shouted for the blow but smiled. She had it! She had taken it! She sat back down and, leaning against the wall, began to prepare the syringe, finally slipped it into her arm. He breathed a sigh of relief: the nanites began to flow in her veins, they reached the wounds and began to close them. Ann was breathing heavily, she was alive, she was saved.

The pirate's return took her by surprise "But are you still here?" Ann's eyes widened in terror "No no no" the pirate fired again, four more shots, one in the stomach and three in the chest. He stood in front of her, looked her in the face and yelled at her. "Do you think I have bullets to waste?" Ann began to cough and spit blood "That I have time to lose?" Another shot in the lower abdomen, then he kicked the suitcase of medicines. She was crying, unable to move. It had been useless. She could not breathe and saw everything black, the woman felt the pirate touching her but she could do nothing. Then the darkness.

Thorn entered the hospital attracted by the shots. A Charge Rifle in his hand, he saw one of the pirates bent over in a corner. They did not need prisoners, instinctively fired a short burst and the pirate's head exploded in a small explosion. Nik arrived right after him. He saw the three corpses on the ground, two belonging to the colony "Shit!" The battle had been hard, they had had some losses but in the end they had repelled the attackers "This had escaped us" the first corpse "Roach and Ann. Poor girls" observed "This was stoned. They tried to fight" look at Ann's body with ripped clothes

"At least he didn't have time to do anything else"

"What do we do?"

"have supplies prepared, let's go visit them ".