Crimson Canines (Complete!)

[tammynorthland]

SHina lugged herself over the top. Her main goal was to ...silence the enemy shew logged all the forces that the group would have to take out in which case Shina had access to a nice corner of the perimeter. SHe lodged herself behind it and slighly peaked around the corner. One of the good things about her thermal optics was that in any weather or time a day she could still spot enemy soldiers. Unless they were behind to thick of a wall where it prevented the heat signature from getting through. She generally had Xray vision.


Shina removed her 805 from her back and swapped out clips to suppressor rounds. All her shots would have to be in the heart. Head shots may risk a splurt of blood leaving the entry point of the helmet. But in the heart she would have the tactical vest. Balistics vest and the clothing they were wearing. In a fight like this Shina had an easy shot. Her 805 was to powerful for a base balistic vest to prevent bullet entry.


Shina lined up her shot on a man in route to her location she was about 25 yards away. an easy shot. She lined up her shot where the crosshairs made direct alignment with the enemies heart on his right side. She inhaled slowly. exhaled her breath feeling the gentle squeeze into the trigger with the exhale as the round fired a quiet. THUMP. From the suppressor rounds.


Shina radioed. "How many are at hand here left? My heat signature ran out." She said flicking off her bioptics as reality came back into her eyesights reveling the cold grey building top of the Fence territory. She swivelled her rifle. slowly. Not to draw attention. She was far enough out of the way to be not detected by thew heavy rain and wind casing vision distraction to most humans even herself. But her eyes were a tad more keen than a humans.


Shina saw her next target. she lined up "Permission to shoot." She said calmly controlling her breath.


@Zer0 @Abdel featherfall

 

[LordPicklesworth]

As soon as he looked into the fog, he saw the shadow of a Britannia soldier approaching ready to shoot him. He'd drop down to the floor with the unconscious enemy soldier and use his body as a meat shield. He'd then quickly unholster his pistol and load suppressed rounds. He'd aim at the soldier and quickly fire three shots into him.


@Zer0

 

[Zer0]

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[SIZE= 18px]- Twin Building, Roof -[/SIZE]
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[SIZE= 14px]" Brittannia military base, Vulca, Lunch time "[/SIZE]
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"[SIZE= 18px]N[/SIZE]o, I said no blood, Siloh." said Sora's voice firmly through the comms as the hovercraft's search light swept the area in front of it. He didn't know a suppressed shot had been fired. "This place is heavily guarded, they'll be alerted by the splatter and that'll make this place harder for us to infiltrate. Everyone, confirm to me if you're all clear to proceed."


The soldier that was about to shoot Vicktor staggered and fell like a puppet whose strings had been cut, but not it seemed from Vicktor's three shots. He had been shot in the heart, but not by the heavy gunner's rounds, but by Shina's. High velocity blood splatter burst forth like a spay of red mist, flicking a little red on Vicktor's pistol, hand, and the top of his helmet; blood began pooling on the ground from where the bullet exited from the man's back.


For now, no one noticed, but it's only going to be a matter of time till one of the three patrolling mechs comes around and sees the blood.


Meanwhile, the soldier who had spotted Alerius smacked him on the side of the head. "Why'd you two start a brawl when we've got a V.I.P. coming?!" he said angrily pointing at the hovercraft. He saw Alerius' cloak, but didn't think much of it. "Colonel, I've got two rowdy soldiers here on the roof." the soldier was saying in his comms. "Brawl over some girl. One's knocked out --- what's your name and rank?" he added to Alerius.


The hovercraft touched down on a landing pad which was about fifty meters away from the nearest squad member. Eight soldiers came up to the pad and assembled in welcoming salute and out flew two androids who took positions on two places with a good vantage point and were just scanning the area . . . before out stepped the leader of The Brotherhood himself, the Viscount Alexander Volkov, the Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian faction.


He wore an elegant expensive looking suit that seemed to be made of neovulcanium, and as he moved the air around him seemed to shimmer as though there was an invisible something coating him. Sure enough, the rain seemed to only land about an inch away from his suit.


Flanking either side of him were two other vigilant androids just like the first two, who looked like the ones that had closely guarded Marcus before: four armed, black sleek, and speedy looking.


One of the soldiers assembled came forth to salute and greet him properly, talking all the while. Then they began making their way across the area and towards the entrance of Facility 01, while the hovercraft took to the air again and began patrolling the roof, it's searchlights sweeping here and there.


Meanwhile in another area, Izaya had gone ahead of Sora and was already quickly hacking through a door after he had dragged and hid away another body.

(OOC: @Abdel featherfall, @LordPicklesworth, @tammynorthland (by the way, we aren't in The Fence anymore))

Spoiler

Resources Spent:


Shina

• -1/10 suppressed sniper rounds
  

Vicktor

• -3/20 suppressed pistol
  

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[SIZE= 18px]- Twin Building, Basement 04-[/SIZE]
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[SIZE= 14px]" Twin Building, Brittannia military base, Vulca, Lunch time "[/SIZE]
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[SIZE= 18px]U[/SIZE]nderneath the military base, Artemis, Hikaru, and Grizzly had gone ahead and crawled through the plumbing line and re-emerged on the other side more than an hour later smelling like roses --- that fermented in apple cider rolled in something pungently nasty.


"You smell bad." Grizzly commented at Hikaru, grinning.


"You don't say." said Hikaru in feigned surprise.


"Shh."said Artemis, peering out of the cesspool. "Seth, we're in, proceeding to search."


The treatment facility mostly had floating drones managing the waste. They seemed to be converting whatever they could into methane and nitrogen gas. Like what Sora predicted, it was the safest route and they had no problem changing into clean clothes though whoever was going into the showers next was likely going to exclaim why there was a lot of poop inside.


They hid their gear and M.O.L.L.E., adjusted their flesh masks and ear piece comms, then came out of the facility looking like researchers while Grizzly looked like an engineer and begun their search for entrance to Thanatos lair.


Artemis and Hikaru walked together and came upon a room where it seemed that scientists were cloning and growing kaijus. They were labeled in different growth stages and timelines.


"Anne, look at this, they actually have discovered how to speed up the growth of kaijus." whispered Hikaru while mimicking what the other scientists were doing. "If we can find out how, we can take the data back to base and speed up the growth of the Elder Fruits."


"Alright, but priorities first, we need to find the entrance to the lair."

 

[LordPicklesworth]

The blood splattered all over. "Damnit." He'd quickly run over to the perfusley bleeding body, he'd take out his lighter and attempt to cauterize the wound. While doing so he'd begin to stuff bandage from his basic medic kit into the wound to attempt to stop the bleeding. He'd hide the bodies somewhere and begin to pour water from his canteen onto the pooled blood washing it away. He'd then pour it on the bloody peices of his armor.


@Zer0

 

[Abdel featherfall]

Alerius huffed a bit and stood. " I tried to talk him down but he just wouldn't hear it and started swinging!" He said as he snapped a quick salute " Private First Class Daniel McTavish. " He relaxed a bit and moved to step a bit closer as of to speak over the sound of the rain. " I'm a somewhat new transfer I'm not sure what his deal was." He said waiting for a good moment to get in a sharp uppercut to the poor Man's jaw. He'd use the rapid expansion of his shield to increase the range and speed of his punch. His fist would only have to reach about mid way to the mans sternum before the shields extension clocked him in the chin with the edge. The goal was to knock him out flat on his back. 


@Zer0

 

[Zer0]

[SIZE= 18px]- Twin Building, Roof -[/SIZE]
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[SIZE= 14px]" Brittannia military base, Vulca, Lunch time "[/SIZE]
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" [SIZE= 18px]P[/SIZE]rivate First Class Daniel McTavish, " repeated the soldier into his comms, " and the other fellow's . . ." the man crouched to check the unconscious soldier's name and rank on his suit.


@Abdel featherfall

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[SIZE= 18px]M[/SIZE]eanwhile, over at Vicktor's area, the process took too much time, and by the time he was pouring water on the pool of blood and none on himself yet, a patrolling mech was now stomping around the corner. It was now inevitable that the blood will be seen if your character, @LordPicklesworth, moves away without completing the clean up to escape the mech's notice.


The rain was helping wash the blood away, if your character chooses to stay, the pool of blood will be gone, but Vicktor will be noticed by the mech.

 

[Soviet Panda]

"Shame. Thanks Paul." Connor radioed back as he saw someone that looked like they were headed to the armory, their eyes were dead set on it and their stride was carrying them in that direction so he figured it was safe to assume. He'd have to be fast and not let them see his face, or at least hit them so hard that they didn't remember what it looked like. Walking out, he grabs them under their arm and forces them to walk with him, ignoring complaints on their part until he found somewhere he wouldn't be seen. They didn't want to go, of course, but his strength, both gained from carrying heavy weapons and augmented by the cybernetics in him, didn't give them much of a choice. "Don't scream, you'll regret it if you do." he told the person, his grip tightening on their arm for emphasis.


Once he was confident that no one would see them, he turned and with his free hand planted a punch to their head. And if that wasn't enough, another punch came in. And so he repeated the process until the person was bruised, bleeding, and unconscious. He'd regret doing it this way later, he could just feel it. But he didn't have time right now, so he rifled through their pockets and M.O.L.L.E., searching for that paper.

 

[Abdel featherfall]

Alerius sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose. Or where it would be past his suit helmet. " May I continue my rounds? I don't think we should disrupt too much with the VIP here simply because this guy got me confused for someone else."


he was gonna see if he could buy himself some time instead of causing a ruckus he'd decide what to do After the man responded.


@Zer0

 

[Zer0]

[SIZE= 18px]- Armory Area -[/SIZE]
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[SIZE= 14px]" Brittannia Military Base, Vulca,  Lunch Time"[/SIZE]
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[SIZE= 18px]T[/SIZE]here was indeed a paper in the soldier's MOLLE, addressed to PVC. Frank Netter --- which was probably the poor bloke on the ground --- dated for retrieval today, handwritten and signed by Colonel Sawyers.

" PVC. Frank Netter. 1 green Lapua crate of .30 silver glaser ammunition, 1,200 cartridges. Colonel Sawyers."
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Just like ammunition boxes in Crimson Canines, one that has 1,200 cartridges was about as big as six shoe boxes combined as one medium sized box, was closed so that you can't see what was inside, labeled properly so it's easy to find, and made of metal or wood.


@Beowulf

[SIZE= 18px]- Twin Building, Roof -[/SIZE]
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[SIZE= 14px]" Brittannia military base, Vulca, Lunch time "[/SIZE]
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". . . [SIZE= 18px]C[/SIZE]orporal Neville Smith," continued the soldier giving Alerius a look that said he didn't like his attitude of trying to weasel out of trouble he was part of, " . . . yeah . . . what?" his expression suddenly became tense and he looked up at Alerius in shock as though he realized he wasn't one of them.


In a quick motion the soldier stepped back, raising his gun ---


@Abdel featherfall

 

[Abdel featherfall]

Alerius noticed the sudden change in attitude but he was already close having stepped in earlier to speak. His right hand shot in before the gun was fully raised as he stayed right on top of the guy not giving him any room to move his gun around and slipped a nimble finger behind the trigger to prevent the gun from firing and his left came in for a sharp hook behind the jaw, shield extending into the punch causing it to hit much harder and much faster than most would expect.


" I might have been made. I'll see what I can do about that but watch your backs. Apparently they have A VIP on base tonight." 


His next action would be based on wether or not the man had been knocked out or not by his punch.


@Zer0

 

[tammynorthland]

Shina repositioned herself into her new position this time it was several yards closer to the neighboring mech but at a parallel angle so she was out of eyesight. She re-positioned her  805 to the mechs chest at the mainframe so it would have the highest chance of blowing apart something important. But shina held off. By shooting this mech the others would definitely know someone was here. She would have to disable it.... Or possibly hope that viktor could get away just in time. But it didn't seem to be the case. shina lined up her shot. She refrained though. she couldn't do it. Instead she realigned her site to the metal crates that were behind the mech by about 10 yards. She seeked the lock that held it together firing a shot exploding the lock. Immediately the pressure from the cargo made its way out of the container spilling out on to the ground. it made loud noises. By the angle of the shot the stuff rolled all over around the mechs feet.l making it appear that it accidently knocked over the cargo crate. This drew attention away from the kill and Viktor. allowing him to get a few minutes of time in order to slither off and clean up the kill.


"The others are taking the bait. they think that the mech knocked over all the cargo inside the crate." Siloh(Shina) Chatted into the systems.


@Zer0 


@abde

 

[LordPicklesworth]

Vicktor was cleaning up the rest of the blood when he heard a mech just coming aroung the corner. He tried to clean it up as fast as he could but just as the mech was rounding the corner he heard the sound of clanging metal. He realized it was a distraction attempt.


He quickly poured the rest of the water and ran over to the ledge, dropping over the side and hanging off the ledge nearly slipping and falling to his death. He luckily caught himself and regained his footing. he had heard the message from Shina, "Good work, I owe you a drink back at base."


@tammynorthland


@Zer0

 

[Zer0]

[SIZE= 18px]- Twin Building, Roof -[/SIZE]
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[SIZE= 14px]" Brittannia military base, Vulca, Lunch time "[/SIZE]
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[SIZE= 18px]T[/SIZE]he soldier blocked the blow, there was a crack as the bone on his left forearm broke when it made contact with the shield. "CONTACT! CLOAKED BRITTANNIA HOSTILE --- " he dropped the gun and with a swift palm strike to the jaw, dazed Alerius with enough force that made his neck crack. "--- WESTERN CORNER OF THE ROOF!"


Many things happened at once: the hovercraft that had been patrolling fifty meters away shone its light on the area, illuminating the two; the two androids that were scanning the area from their vantage point immediately vanished --- but someone with keen eyesight could just make out the very faint outline of them in the rain. Their arms were shape shifting into long firearms that cannot be identified as they were still invisible. One flew around the western area and hovered near the hovercraft and seemed to be taking aim; the other was circling around the roof as though searching.


At the same time the twin building's siren's rang and the whole area went on combat alert, the building going into lock down; The brotherhood leader, Viscount Volkov vanished and his security detail immediately rushed inside building two, the entrance guards shouting orders and now vigilantly guarding the entrance.


It has now become more difficult to infiltrate the building.


Six other soldiers converged on the area as the two struggled, Alerius foe successfully grappling him in place. The man, like all elite soldiers tasked with guarding probably the most important asset of the Brittannia faction, was proficient in unarmed combat, and compared to someone who wasn't, he was very difficult to take down.


"Hands in the air!" yelled the six soldiers. "Drop the shield and your weapons or we'll shoot!"


Upon observation, one of the soldiers was Sora, holding a dagger pistol. His disguise was working and the others don't seem to realize that he wasn't one of them. Very solemnly he whispered into the comms. "I can shoot you in the chest and lie that you're dead, but if we don't get you to a medic soon, you'll bleed out and die. But if you surrender, you'll live, but they can extract information from you and you'll put this mission and all of us in jeopardy."


"Seth." came Izaya's voice in the comms. "I'm in. We've got a door open." and he pinged the location on the squad's mini-maps, marking it with an orange dot. "I'm going ahead."


There were two ways to go about this. Let Alerius take the fall or get taken without giving away the position of the rest so that they can proceed with the mission, OR save Alerius by starting a firefight.


If the firefight is chosen this would be the current battle situation: Squad would be fighting against 3 sniper mechs, 6 soldiers near Sora and Alerius, 1 hovercraft, 2 androids, and 20 other soldiers on the roof. The fight would escalate and draw in more enemies from the air and building and activate all the building's defenses. Reinforcements from Komodo  and the others will come, but eventually, the squad will not be able to hold out against the overwhelming force in the military base.


This option has the highest risk of dying for the squad members on the roof. But one good thing though, if the squad manages to hold on, soldiers from the bottom floors will move up and make it easier for those in the basement to hack into Thanatos' lair and mess with the mind dominating device.


(OOC: @Abdel featherfall, @LordPicklesworth @tammynorthland(Do NOT control enemies by typing they took the bait. That distraction would result in a success, but let me decide that and write the results on my post.))

Spoiler

Alerius success (1-5)





First roll: Soldier success (1-8)
Second roll: How bad the damage to Alerius would be (1-5 bad, 6-10 very bad)

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[SIZE= 18px]- Twin Building, Basement 06-[/SIZE]
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[SIZE= 14px]" Twin Building, Brittannia military base, Vulca, Lunch time "[/SIZE]
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[SIZE= 18px]"I[/SIZE] think I found it." whispered Grizzly's voice in the comms. "I'm in the power room and energy readings say that most of the power is bein' directed to Area 51."


"Copy. Proceeding now." said Artemis and Hikaru.


Suddenly sirens rang and emergency lights blared as an automated voice spoke through the intercom. "ALERT. FACILITY BREACH LEVEL SIX, FACILITY BREACH LEVEL SIX. COMBAT ALERT, ALL MILITARY PERSONNEL PROCEED TO YOUR STATIONS. NON-MILITARY PERSONNEL PROCEED TO THE DESIGNATED BUNKERS." the announcement repeated.


"We need to get a move on." said Hikaru quickly. "Grizzly, we're going back the Treatment Facility for our gear."


"Got it, lemme' just get a gun."


The two ladies made it to the facility without any hiccups and were able to change into their gear. Grizzly joined them later and gave Hikaru an assault rifle. "No one's carryin' shotgun-katanas." he said.


"Thanks." said Hikaru and left her beloved chimaera behind.


As they were jogging towards Area 51, Artemis was communicating with Izaya who told her what had happened. "Copy, we're going ahead then." Area 51 was in the lowest floor where there seemed to be a mining operation going on underneath. There was a great pit and underneath they could just make out the red glow of scorching lava.


There was a security gate guarded by six soldiers and the three knew they didn't  have access through. The area was heavily guarded with pop up turrets and those androids with the mechanical dogs. They were on combat alert and very vigilant.


"This needs some planning . . ." said Grizzly looking down and pretending to take guard positions together with the two. "What do we do?"

Spoiler

Stealth check for both:


Artemis (1-4 success)
Hikaru (1-6 success)

 

[tammynorthland]

'Fuck they caught him?!??!?!' Shina tucked herself away back intro the corridors of the crates she was posted behind. Her angle was out of general sight but if any of the patrols came her way with a light they would shine it on her area and most likely catch her. Shina had nothing to protect herself. Worst case scenario they could stand and fight but they had way to many to go against and Shina was without a mech. Her greatest asset to battle with. along with her pyro drone. she was in deep shit on this one considering her idea attributed to the mech catching Alerius. She glanced over the edge and saw the hovercraft along with the 20 plus soldiers, the mechs. God damn this turned bad really quick. The sirens blaring. They so far had no attention on them and it seemed Sora as well snuck in . she brought up something about shooting Alerius. If they did that Shina might be able to patch him up but then if he died they would have alot more issues on their hands after that. Like the fact Sora killed a comrad. Nothing seemed like a good option. "Ideas???" Shina silently spoke.


@Zer0 @Abdel featherfall

 

[Soviet Panda]

Excellent, a paper. This should get him in no problem And hopefully he'd manage to smuggle a few extra things out with what the paper said he was going to get. And Frankie wasn't using his M.O.L.L.E. right now, so he'd borrow that to carry bigger things if not more. So with paper in hand and M.O.L.L.E. on his back, he hurried over to the armory and handed the guard the paper, silently holding his breath as it was checked.

 

[Zer0]

[SIZE= 18px]- Armory Area -[/SIZE]
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[SIZE= 14px]" Brittannia Military Base, Vulca,  Lunch Time"[/SIZE]
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[SIZE= 18px]T[/SIZE]he soldier lazily glanced at the paper and just let Connor in. At that moment the sirens on the twin building blared and all the soldiers looked up in a mixture of curiosity and alarm. Surely of all places, there couldn't be an enemy attack here in the center of Vulca? But officers were yelling that this wasn't a drill and that all soldiers were to go into combat alert.


There were a few soldiers inside the armory who either dropped what they were carrying and proceeded outside or took what they were here to retrieve hastily and then go outside. The armory was very big almost warehouse sized and full of infantry gear and ammunition in the front, and mech armaments and giant missiles or cartridge ammunition in the back.


In the comms, Komodo, Panzer, Assassin, and Sandai were talking to Izaya who told them that Alerius had been found out, but Artemis, Hikaru and Grizzly were still alright and have found the entrance to Thanatos' lair.


"So the situation is either Danny is captured and they what --- make him drink some truth serum and spill everything? or Seth shoots him and hope he can undergo surgery on time so that he won't die, or we start a fight and more of us might die." said Komodo. "I'd pick number two, but both our medics are down underground."


"We can have Brittannia medics help him. Just switch his flesh mask and gear with someone else in the team and somehow get him down to the medic tent." said Panzer. "Seth, I'm going to do some sabotage, I'm going to find the power line to the building and I'll cut it on your command, though I'm pretty sure they've got back up power."


"I'm going with you." said Sandai.


"I'm already ready to storm up if things go bad." said Assassin.



@Beowulf

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[SIZE= 18px]- Twin Building, Roof -[/SIZE]
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[SIZE= 14px]" Brittannia military base, Vulca, Lunch time "[/SIZE]
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[SIZE= 18px]M[/SIZE]eanwhile back on the roof, Sora whispered in his comms, "Siloh, Kennedy, Izaya has a door unlocked. Follow him, but don't compromise his position by drawing the enemy there."


It would be easy to sneak their way to the door as half of the enemy forces were distracted by the situation with Alerius. Those who choose to go in the door would find themselves looking down a vast ware-house like space that seemed to be a storage depot for water and industrial chemicals all kept in giant heavy-duty glass containers.


There were sixteen patrolling soldiers here and three big Brittannia industrial robots that seemed to just be mindlessly doing their work like normal. Izaya was not there anymore, but there was one door that had been hacked or picked open and two security cameras that seemed to be malfunctioning near that door.


The hacked door led to a room that had an air vent on the ceiling. Someone with a keen eye could tell that its screws were missing even thought it was perfectly in place. Izaya must have hoisted himself up there and was crawling through the vents. The vents could only fit a thin person, not a muscular one.


Back in the warehouse-like space, there were four active security cameras here that were in perfect order and were pivoting in place. One could attempt to sneak and time their movements so as not to be detected by the soldier or the cameras to reach the other side of the room where there was an exit door.


"This is Isen." whispered Izaya's voice through the comms, "I'm now making my way to the mainframe room, Paul, don't cut the power yet. Someone get to the comms room and try to find the frequency Volkov and his lackeys are using to communicate. Something must have happened for the leader of the Brotherhood to come here himself and we need to find out what that is."

Spoiler

Resources Spent:


Shina

• -2/10 suppressed sniper rounds
  

Vicktor

• -3/20 pistol (OOC: you can keep the suppressed for now.)
   
  

(OOC: @tammynorthland, @LordPicklesworth, @Abdel featherfall(I'm just going to wait until tomorrow for your decision, then I'm moving Sora out of there and just assume Alerius surrendered and was captured))

 

[Abdel featherfall]

Alerius looked around for a moment. If it were just the soldiers he might have had a chance with his shield built like it was. But with that mech there he didn't stand a chance. " Well it's a bit too far to jump.. This is way too much trouble for a simple fucking story." He said as he released the latch on his shield letting it fall along with his cloak. He held his hands up to let them move in. "Be gentle?" He said as he surrendered without a fight.


@Zer0

 

[Zer0]

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[SIZE= 18px]- Twin Building -[/SIZE]
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[SIZE= 14px]" Brittannia military base, Vulca, Afternoon "[/SIZE]
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"[SIZE= 18px]W[/SIZE]e're switching comms frequency to 106.3."  said Sora as Alerius was quickly taken down, disarmed, then knocked out and bound.


Those who were watching would see one of the six soldiers take Alerius helmet off to take a picture of his unconscious face, which they had no idea was a flesh mask and then cover it with a black bag. He was dragged into building one, while all his gear and MOLLE carried by a solider --- who happened to be Sora --- followed after him and then he was lost out of sight.


"Blimey, can't believe there was a bleedin' traitor here." some soldiers were muttering to each other.


The combat alert had not been lifted, all of the soldiers left were ordered to remove their helmets and report to their squad leaders. Anyone who didn't comply was shot on the spot. Afterwards a search on the roof was started and two of the four bodies that have been ambushed were found.


Meanwhile, down below a perimeter had been made around the building. No one was allowed to go in or out, nor come within fifty feet of the building. Anybody who disobeyed was immediately shot down. Talk was now spreading that maybe there was more than one traitor in the base right now and everyone was suspicious.


Officers began calling in their teams and interrogating them, asking them all about Private First Class Daniel McTavish and how he was able to get in Vulca; Alerius Brittannia mech was impounded and taken inside mech hangar 11, a not-so-busy place where mechanics began hacking into the software and disarming it.


Meanwhile, Izaya had made it into the mainframe room and had begun hacking into the system.



@Abdel featherfall, @tammynorthland, @LordPicklesworth, @Beowulf

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[SIZE= 18px]- Twin Building, Basement 07 -[/SIZE]
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[SIZE= 14px]" Twin Building, Brittannia military base, Vulca, Afternoon "[/SIZE]
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[SIZE= 18px]"T[/SIZE]his is Isen. Made it into the mainframe room. Quickly, what do you need, Anne?" said Izaya's voice through the comms.


"A bigger gun." said Artemis still looking at the huge obstacle before them. "We count sixty hostiles. There's a gate guarded by six soldiers. Could you give us security access with our I.D.'s?"


"Yeah. I need twenty minutes. Seth, I'm going to need back up. In twenty minutes they're going to find out I'm here."


"Copy, I'm heading to the comms room to cut the cameras. Paul, get ready to cut the power." said Sora.


"Give us a twenty minutes." said Panzer. "Me and Sandai are going to need explosives . . . will update you in half an hour."


And so Artemis, Hikaru, and Grizzly waited pretending to be guards. They heard about Alerius' capture. Artemis hoped she wouldn't have to lose another soldier, but this was the most dangerous and the most important thing they've ever done so far. It wasn't going to be that easy. So she spent that time thinking of possible ways she could do to get all of them back home alive.


"Alright?" Hikaru asked her.


"No. But then I never am when things go wrong. We always managed to pull through somehow, though, with nothing worse than a coma and injuries that need major surgery."


"That's normal." said Hikaru.


"That doesn't reassure me." said Artemis, chuckling.


Suddenly there was the sound of footsteps and a large group of fifteen came walking briskly around the corner. There were two androids with them and in the center and shielded by the group was Viscount Volkov. Artemis hand shook and she clenched her fist to steady it . . . rage coursed through her. Here was the man who ordered the kidnap of her parents six months ago, and her father had died because of it.


She waited until they passed her, turned a corner and was almost half-way to the guarded gate, before she strode forward, hand on her magnum karambit, another on a remote detonated mine. She had completely forgotten that she had a mission to accomplish.


"Anne, stop!" hissed Hikaru when, a split-second later, she realized what Artemis was going to do, but too late.


The combat medic took cover and fired three suppressed shots knocked the head of three soldiers, shocking them with stunning rounds, at the same moment Artemis threw her remote detonated mine at the group; two soldiers who had been guarding the back saw her and immediately fired, yelling. "Grenade!"


SHZIIIING!


One missed, the other's assault plasma fire hit her exposed side before Hikaru pulled her and the combat medic detonated the mine.


BOOOM


Hikaru's angry exclamations of how foolish she was got drowned by the explosion.

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Artemis success (1-7)


Enemy 1 success (1-8)


Enemy 2 success (1-8)

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[SIZE= 18px]T[/SIZE]he next time Alerius would wake up, it would probably still be around the same day judging by the ache in the neck. A bag would be over his face and he would be sitting, with both feet cuffed to a metal chair and both arms stretched forward on a table, writs cuffed to a metal bar protruding from the table. He'd be wearing nothing but some old clothes that did not belong to him, and something really smelly would be under his nose which was probably the reason why he woke up.


There was the sound of someone breathing and eating something on the other end of the table while writing. Actually, it sounded like there were four other people in the room shifting restlessly. The bag was pulled up and a bright light was shone onto Alerius' face.


"Awake, traitor?" said an unfamiliar woman's voice. "How much did those dogs and foxes pay you to betray your own country?"


@Abdel featherfall

 

[Abdel featherfall]

As soon as they began trying to hack the software of the Mech the entire thing would begin to scuttle itself. Nora included all data would be lost and wiped. Thanks to it being a brittania model the prototype parts weren't present and so those didn't need to be scrubbed. Nora had wiped all data and had reset herself to factory default. 


Alerius us blinked a bit as he was awoken by a horrible smell. His eyes cracked open to see just a black bag over his head while hearing the sounds of someone eating. He tried to place the voice but couldn't. " wh..what? What are you talking about?" He asked sounding confused. As if trying to play off the fact he wasn't working for anybody. He tested his restraints half heartedly. He knew there wasn't going to be much in the way of escaping but he'd like to know what he was dealing with none the less.


@Zer0

 

[Zer0]

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[SIZE= 18px]T[/SIZE]he cuffs clanked, one could see they were metal chains that could be lock picked. So were the ones that bound his feet to the legs of the metal chair. The metal chair was not bolted to the steel floor (but the cuffs were chained in a way that they could not easily slip out down the legs), nor was the metal table, as if they didn't belong here and was just recently placed for the interrogation. There was also one camera at the upper corner of the storage room.


This was a familiar setting, as scouts, who had the job of recon were likely to get caught and so were trained to know how to get out of these things. The cuff was too complex to lock pick for someone not proficiently trained in lock picking, but the chains could be cut by an armor piercing sword or by someone proficient with an ordinary sword, or at least by an armor piercing SMG, or ordinary assault rifle round like what the four soldiers inside the interrogation room were carrying; the metal bar on which the chain of the wrist cuff was wound could be pulled up too, even by someone who wasn't strong, if one stood up directly on top of the table and pulled up hard for about five seconds.


The room Alerius was in seemed to be a cargo room of sorts with a large heavy duty oblong glass window on one end of the wall, and a pool of water in the center. It seemed to be a kind of storage facility beyond the glass where there were soldiers on guard. A man in a generals' uniform with three other soldiers were looking at the interrogation through the glass.


Seated across Alerius was a woman with long red hair who looked like she was someone from an intelligence sector. The four other soldiers with her in the room had blackened visors and seemed like assault soldiers.


A second siren rang through out the building. "Roger, copy that." said the woman to no one in particular, she seemed to have a comms ear piece. "Don't play coy. We found three dead bodies on the roof and now there are three other Brittannia soldiers fighting underground, we don't have time to play games." she nodded at two soldiers. One stood behind a chair, another took out a baton and stood beside the table, slapping it on his palm menacingly.


"Talk. Who else is with you and what are you doing here? If you cooperate, we won't hurt you for the next one hour."


(OOC: @Abdel featherfall, nah that kind of significant autopilot A.I. defensive action will be useless unless it's written in the chassis. Mechs don't even have A.I. by default, but it's okay to have them as an extra thing. But if they start doing significant things like that, nah.)

 

[LordPicklesworth]

Vicktor would stay close to Izaya, and try not to draw attention to himself. His hand shaking the whole way, this wasn't normally like himself during missions, but he couldn't get captured again. He'd rather die than be taken prisoner and tortured again.


His time imprisoned by the brotherhood changed him. He was forever haunted by the horrible torture tactics they used. He zoned out for most of the walk but he eventually came to his senses and whispered, "We should have shot him. He's better off dead or dying than in the hands of the brotherhood."


@Zer0

 

[Abdel featherfall]

Alerius blinked as light flooded into his eyes allowing him to see what was going on. He shook his head to clear his thoughts before turning his attention to the woman. He acted shocked when she said three and horrified when she mentioned they were dead. " Wait..Three? Dead? I only knocked out that one guy! You can check my gear if you don't believe me!" 


In truth Alerius's gear only had exactly enough space for the gear he had on him and not a single bit of it had been expended. Not even a single round, even his sword would be found to be completely dry inside the sheath meaning it hadn't been drawn in the rain. " I'm not working for anyone I'm only here because I wanted to find out what happened to my Fiancée. Who Died.. Like her family under mysterious circumstances." He looked to the guard then to the woman across from him Daring her to challenge that. Alerius had presented that as a convincingly as he could given his training as a scout. He was of course talking about Liz who was presumed dead after the Dam incident.


@Zer0

 

[tammynorthland]

shina went through the absolute fucking works. First they made everyone line up and reveal their identity. Luckily she made the right call and slithered into the pack. Unfortunately she had to abandon her 805 rifle by leaving it up on the rooftop stuffed behind a storage container and a wall by a maintenance locker probably for fuses and whatnot. 


After revealing her fake face which was coated by a skin like mask that used advanced technology to perfectly mimic anothers face on ones own. They let her slide. On that point on she watched as they took Alerius away. And it was all her fucking fault. Why did she have to go ahead and make a call to cause a distraction. It would have worked too. now they have more problems on their hands. Reality was she fucked up big time. She would have to slither off. Hopefully everyone would be able to ban together and find him. There was a command. It was requesting switching frequencies to 106.5 she did just as told. "Im heading down to the underground I snagged an access card." Shina was referring to a card she was able to grip hold of that was left unattended on the rooftop by a soldier who wasnt paying attention. She snipped it off slighly playing it off as a gentle bump and apologizing saying her mask was fogging up from the water and cold weather.


Shina swiped it and made her way further down. It revealed nothing out of the ordinary. She was in a forbidden zone at this point considering they were on high alert from infiltrators. Which of course was her. Shina was quiet. She slithered through the hallways like a serpent in murky water. The other issue was she was now unarmed. Only her combat knife. She used to be a proficient with assault weapons and SMGS. although she still was;her pride and joy was longshots. It was her talent something she was proficient at.


regardless 2 guards where chatting. They were directly blocking her route. Her HUD showed two markers that she placed on them and then she scanned for another route. Before taking to the hallways to seek another way around which led to a dead end. then another....and another. She couldnt attack either.... to loud. Shina glanced to seek a new angle.....an airvent. that works.


She climbed up inside and slowly but surely crawled through. SHe heard echoing of voices through the vents. all over. there were more guards. They knew intruders were here but they had no idea how many. This being said she heard something that caught her ear.


It was a guard bitching about some prisoner. 'Daniel' Something about........ 'Did he say storage room? Or was that her imagination?' She might have misheard. But she radioed in to Izaya. "Izaya. do you copy. THis is SIloh(Shina) Do you have info on "HIS" Location." Shina(sIloh) said very carefully making sure they werent being hacked in to their system by unwanted visitors.


@Zer0


@Abdel featherfall 

 

[Zer0]

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"[SIZE= 18px]I[/SIZE] know." Izaya agreed with Vicktor, without speaking into the comms. "It'll just be a matter of time until they learn all about our plans now." there was a camera in the room where Alerius was being interrogated and Izaya had access to the feed.


he continued hacking into the system, scowling at the screen.


"If only there were many of us inside, we could send one on a suicide mission to kill him . . . I know this sounds cruel, but it's for the good of the mission and the thousands of lives hanging on our actions. Imagine if the enemy finds out we know about Thanatos and our plans to sabotage The Fence. Worse comes to worse, the armies of our factions are going to be delayed by a two month siege and by that time Thanatos would have already woken up."


"This is Seth, I'm in the comms room." whispered Sora's voice. "Enemy frequencies are 63.7, 81.2, and 43.10. I'll be monitoring the chatter, you all should be able to hear their talks now. Don't reply to them, or they'll simply change frequencies."


"Isen! Forget the security access, override the turrets in basement seven!" yelled Hikaru's voice suddenly in the comms. It sounded like they were in a gunfight.


"Situation report." said Sora sharply.


"Anne saw Volkov and went AWOL!" --- Bang, bang, bang! RATATATATA! --- KABOOM! --- "We're engaging twelve of his guard detail right now and the basement turrets are pinning us down!" said Hikaru in the midst of gunfire. "All three of us are good, but Volkov has vanished together with the two androids! We don't think they're in the building --- we broke the fire sprinklers and nothing invisible is splashing around. And we've got sixty hostiles incoming!"


"All squad members on standby, set your mechs to self- destruct after twenty minutes in key locations, then crawl through the plumbing line and head for basement seven --- except for you, Paul. Standby until I give the go to cut the power."


"Roger!" said everyone.


"Rules of engagement: Capture Volkov, everyone else you can kill, but conserve ammunition. Anne, get your head straight! This isn't about you --- so don't put this mission at risk more than it already is, or I'll have you shot, am I clear?!" hissed Sora angrily.


"Yes, sir." said Artemis, ashamed.


"Do as they say, Isen." said Sora. "I'm cutting enemy frequencies to basement seven. You three, get to Thanatos and the mind control device, or die trying."


"Yes, sir!"


"Vicktor," said Izaya without speaking into the comms, "I've got three minutes left before the Britts find out we're here in the mainframe room. I think you should go down to the basement. They're going to need all the help they could get."



@LordPicklesworth

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[SIZE= 18px]A[/SIZE]fter a while, Izaya heard from Shina. "Yes, he's in basement three, west wing, that basement is part of a research facility for wild creatures. I've got access to the security feeds, but I can't make out which specific containment unit he is, but I can tell you that he's across a glass prison full of Bullymongs --- they look like large, blue, four-armed gorillas."


There was a pause for a while. "Are you going to kill him, or rescue him, Siloh? . . . Because, for the sake of what's best for human kind, he's better off dead than spilling all our secrets . . . I count twenty guards in combat alert in that area apart from the four soldiers and one woman inside his prison. There's a control room for the prisons of the creatures, if you can open them and his containment unit, you can create enough chaos to shoot him and then slip away before the creatures turn on you."



@tammynorthland

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[SIZE= 18px]T[/SIZE]he woman shook her head and nodded at the soldier with the baton and nodded.


There was the sickening sound of cracking bone as the man bashed Alerius right hand with the baton, crushing his bones again and again. The hand was useless now and required surgery. If they decided to hit his face, the force may just tear his flesh mask enough to reveal his disguise.


"So the three bodies simply happened to be a coincidence?" said the lady raising her eyebrow. " You did not spend a bullet, but there is one body riddled with gunshot wounds on the day you chose to sneak inside this top military facility --- no one heard a shot, the bullets must have come from suppressed rounds --- you have companions! And three of them are now inside!" 


The soldier pulled one of Alerius' broken fingers around painfully.


"Who are they? How many of them are in here?!"


@Abdel featherfall

 

[Abdel featherfall]

Alerius let out a grunt of pain his eyes squeezing shut a moment at the moment of impact. Had he not been expecting it he may have actually cried out. Though thanking the gods it wasn't his left hand that gut fucked up first for once. He took a deep rattled breath and spoke through gritted teeth even as they moved his fingers around. " I just TOLD you.. I came here alone without anybody! I don't fucking know where those bodies came from or who did it! Fuck for all I know I was just used as a cover!" His eyes shifted to look at the man who'd broken his hand and then back to the woman Infront of him. " I just want to know what happened to my fucking Fiancée! I didn't come here to kill anybody!"


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