[i]When the spiders struck, so did the Marines. They had spread out through the room like the arachnids had, any sound the heavily armoured soldiers had previously made now curiously muted, not even their footsteps heard. Metal blades glinted for not even a half-second as they were drawn, disappearing almost instantly as they sank into furred flesh, digging into three separate necks, cutting major arteries, veins, and muscles.[/i]