[IC] A Merc's Paradise

[kiya]

The space suit that Scarlet was handed was far more form hugging than she had first anticipated. "Give me a second." She spoke sheepishly while James and Karate kid were finishing up with their suits and hers was stuck around her hips. Walking out of the room for a second she removed a few outer layers of clothing and pulled the skin tight space suit on, it was snug but she could only assume this was to help hold internal organs tightly, this would help them from taking too much damage if they lost control. "Ready." she returned feeling a little silly at how the suit looked more like a second layer of skin than any clothing.

She joined James and Karate kid in the air lock, she said nothing as James counted down, his voice robotic by the space suits communication device. Scarlet felt her heart racing and adrenaline begin to fill her body, she had done this before, however all the ships she had breached had been previously destroyed, and yet she felt a certain confidence radiate from her new leader, her head stayed fixed on the enemy ship but her eyes darted to the left to see the face of the captain, he was calm.

Drifting through space with thrusters was the safest way to approach the ship undetected, however they still had to be careful that none of the crew looked out of the windows, if they saw them the whole mission would fail and the crew would probably die. "No pressure then." She whispered to herself.

"Right." she gave James a nod as she landed close to him, she grasped a hold of a metallic handle shaped piece of metal that was stuck out of the ship and began to try and remember the layouts of this ship, she was pleasantly surprised see the ships branding beneath her feet and the model number so it wouldn't take long for her to mentally piece together the ships layouts.

"Karate kid, James. Good luck." She spoke sincerely.

[thesupergamer64]

"Alright, heading towards you" He affirmed, while he was heading straight to the airlock were James was. He heard Scarlet wishing them good luck, with a soothing tone of voice. "I hope we'll do well, first time on a situation like this... way diferent from back then..." He told them.

Huzuni was having a weird feeling, as if he was the bad guy, trying to pull of a heist on a bank or something like that. Yet, he was enjoying it. Altough he knew the consequences if they failed to succeed, he continued to follow whatever orders were given to him.

[SwarthyBard126]

Hacking into the battleships scanners was an easy matter Amelia mused, keeping a light attack frigate below notice was noticeably harder. Lodged between a container of MREs and ammunition in the corner of the hanger, the conscience was well hidden and had already begun taking over the laughably pathetic cyber-warfare suite. Though she had to avoid the more important controls to avoid notice, Amelia already had enough control to open the doors to the hanger bay and hide the frigate as a large piece of floating debris.

Keeping part of her conscience focused on the scanner, Amelia was preparing to allow the frigate crew to attack unharmed. Sending another message to the ship, Amelia smirked in her digital self.

"Ready when you are captain, doors are unlocked."

[Marcus XVI]

Though Belle wasn't quite feeling good in any way yet she still suited up with the rest and followed after them to the other ship.

Ramia smirked as the Guardian's systems fired up and the Flight Suit hastily gained distance between itself and both ships. She took it for a quick warm up spin before aiming at the closest hardpoint of the enemy ship - that being a beam turret. The MG wasn't quite enough to actually destroy the turret emplacement, but at least it's systems were damaged enough to reduce the firing arc and speed, not to mention they'd hopefully need a new set of controls as well.

The Halcyon General was having the time of her life - whizzing past enemy hardpoints, disabling as many as possible as quickly as possible and then moving to an unprotected part of the ship to let the thrusters cool off for a brief while before going for another strafing run. She just hoped that the enemy would not scramble fighters or Flight Suits of their own.

[boomlover]

" looks like she is enjoying herself."
He then opent one of the small airlocks not even
Noticeing the cargo bay opening." Alright Kiya i hope you know where the brige is in this thing."

[kiya]

They were in, James pulled a small air lock open and the initial interior of the ship was revealed. "Right." She spoke once more, again she kept herself hunting through her thoughts trying piece together a schematic like a patchwork quilt sown from old cloth. She entered in through the airlock and as she entered the ship her diagram was complete, the layout was much like the A-45 wreck at Qeet, her crew had surveyed it for a while and she remembered roaming the halls for hours. "Lucky for you boys, I know the way." With new found confidence she was ready to lead the small band forward, even with whatever danger loomed around the corner of this ship.

[FinDragon]

The ship's alert systems went off as soon as Ramia begn her attack, small hatches opened up on the flanks of the ship and defensive drones begun pouring out, firing lasers at the attacking flightsuit. The hengars begun to open up slowly and people could be seen running inside, climbing up in small fighters and starting up the engines. Eight fighters took off and into the space, chasing after Ramia's flightsuit with quad-laser cannons.

Inside the ship the red lights bgun to flash, marines begun to take defensie positions around strategic locations, they were of no threat to the small band since their way inside wasn't the most direct one to take. However, something did stand in their way soon enough. It was a group of five men, four of them behind strategic covers, aiming at them and one standing in the middle of them. They were no marines, their combat armor and equipment did not match. Another band of mercs perhaps? Their obvious leader lifts his chin and grins.”Well well well. We seem to have a little infestation here.”

[boomlover]

James quickly looked at the men that stood before him. The leader being an idiot was in the middle in the open with no defense whatsoever.
He wasnt even aiming. The other four people where hiding behind boxes and whatever rubish you would find in a hallway. James acted quickly.
And shot the leader before he was done talking. Now dear eader you might think how stupid this is since they have no cover. however James had his magnetic boots wich where very strong. He lifted his left feet and turned his boot one. He then pointed to one of the boxes that the soldiers where hiding behind. The box started to move moving ever closer to his feet.The box slammed against James almost letting the poor batard fall. He then released the box and hid behind it shooting at the now undefended merc." Well gentalmen we are not an infestation but you are and where the exterminators."

[kiya]

Is it over? So briefly. Scarlet thought to herself as the armed men aimed their weapons towards them. I'm in the open, no where I can run. The voice in her head became rattled, her mind thought at breakneck speed for a way out but saw no answers. Just as all hope was about to leave her body James pulled a piece of cover from one of the men and was now returning fire from behind it. Hope was returned but it didn't change that she was stood without much cover between her and the attackers and now that James was firing it would be only a matter of time before they fired in her direction. "No." She slowly stepped backwards and waited for the pain of death.

[thesupergamer64]

He's going to sho- No, not on my watch! Huzuni thought to himself, as he dashed in front of Scarlet do try and deflect the shot that was now heading towards her. The samurai took out his sword with one swift movement, and then he made a defensive position so that he could bear the inpact of the bullet.

The shot didn't go where Huzuni thought it would, so instead of being reflected by his sword, it hit his visor on his suit and shattered into pieces; the one thing he needed in order to actually see. "WARNING, WARNING. VISOR DAMAGED. REPAIRS NEEDED." His suit stated. Well, that could have went worse, now I'm in the need of repairs... The man thought, a little relieved from the fact that they were still alive. He retreated to a place free of harm's way with Scarlet so that they could re-position later on.

[boomlover]

James was shooting then ducking shooting and ducking. This went on for a few minutes he had already shot down the leader and the men wich cover he had stolen. He then looked at Scarlett and hizi who where retreating back into the halway. He could not throw his grenades for two reasons.1 it would alert the whole bloody ship. And 2 it could rip a hole in the hull and i think you know what would happen. So he just started shooting like crazy. Trying to pin the bastards down and mabey get a few lucky shots. He then screamed." HEY BASTARDS NEED SOME HELP HERE."

[FinDragon]

Their leader fell down with a neat hole on his head. The mercnaries turned their heads to look at the corpse. Then the cover was removed and one more of them shot, they shruged and opened fire, giving James some pressure from three different sources since the two others seemed like less of a threat for now at least. They kept their heads down whenever James aimed at them and returned the fire blindly.

[kiya]

Scarlet saw the muzzle flash of the enemy rifle fire towards her, she braced herself for impact and the rush of pain that would follow. "Huzuni! NO!" She yelled as he used his speed to land leap in front of the bullet, it fragmented on his visor and flung pieces of metal all over the room. "Augh." Scarlet yell was easily drowned out by the mass of gunfire, a small fragment hit her leg and the sharp metallic shard pierced her nano suit and ruptured into her leg, it went deep, deep enough to have a trickle of blood slowly pour from her wound. Huzuni backed her off with him to where they would find cover, luckily for them James had the enemies pinned down and they seemed more concentrated on stopping him. "Thank you, you saved me." she may have been wounded but she would happily take a scar for her life.

Scarlet whipped her rifle from her back over her left shoulder and checked that the slider was working correctly, with a satisfying metal grinding noise of the bolt being pulled backwards and the slide loading a bullet into the chamber she was ready and with that knowledge she leaned around the corner for a moment forgetting the pain in her leg and fired an aimed shot at the left most aggressor. "One day I will repay what you have done here." She spoke quietly while aiming down her sites.

[boomlover]

" Another one bites the dust." James thought to himself as he shot the third guy in the head. Folowing up with a quick reload and then putting pressure on the last two that remained. And when Scarlett killed the other one. there was only one guy left. who, like an idiot made a break for it. After a single shot he also lay dead on the floor." well that went great. Scarlett if you could be a doll and lead us to the brige that would be very nice ."

[Marcus XVI]

Ramia smirked as the enemy ship's drone defenses went online and the fighters began scrambling to intercept her. She calmly opened her comm to contact James while using the Guardian's formidable maneuverability and speed to her full advantage and concentrating her fire on the fighters first. "Got drones, repeat - the enemy has scrambled drones on me. Can you lot do something about them?" The Halcyon General made a quick sideways strafe while avoiding fire from the enemy and took out one of the fighters with a quick burst to the cockpit. Though she didn't see the fighters and drones as a high level threat it was obvious that she wasn't holding back either. The battered flightsuit ducked under the enemy fighters and blasted the engines of a second fighter while receiving only minor damage from the drones and taking a lucky it from a fighter - to the dark haired woman's relief the beam had not damaged any vital areas of the suit. Focus... Focus... Don't get sloppy now... Just stay calm, stay awake and take care of these bastards...

[kiya]

Scarlet watched the last fall to the ground through the lens of her scope, a front row seat of the horrifying reality of war. "Right." She answered James's request. She moved with haste and a small limp, her leg which still dripped with blood stung with every step. She went left then right then through a doorway, the path seemed scattered and Scarlet couldn't decide whether or not it was her mind being jumbled by the adrenaline that rushed through her or if the ship design was just bad.

Within ten minutes they had gotten to the door of the bridge, it was obvious as this door was far more prominent than the others also in a less smart way it had written in blood stencil text 'The Bridge' Scarlet almost laughed but instead she opened a small hatch to the left of the door with her electronic dagger. "A friend showed me a trick with these doors." She began to pull out wires and all sorts of electronic devices from the wall, she knew that the manual over ride was the yellow wire but hoped the people inside didn't know this, she finally connected the yellow wire to a power supply and hoped the door would open.

[FinDragon]

The doors slide open to the bridge. They were greeted by roughly a dozen marines and their guns. They all look surprised, but their officer wasn't on his first flight."Fire, now!" He commands and is the first to pull the trigger, his standard issue laser pistol sending a bolt towards the group, the rest of the marines soon following the example, firing short bursts at anyone who tries to enter the bridge.

"Incompetent mercenaries!" The captain curses."We are under attack from two directions, where are they?" Her yells and lobs a smoke grenade at the door."Cover up! Let them come, we will surround them!" He orders and looks over at a lone mercenary sitting with his feet on a desk."You! I don't know nor care what your deal is. You are getting paid for keeping this ship safe, now get to work!" The mercenary turns his head and his vizor glints before he gets up and picks up his assault rifle. He laughs softly and looks into the smoke that's covering the door."I now see why you need to rely on us so much." He states and removes the safety.

Another burst of drones exits the ship, for now at least they seem to be the last of their kind. Two more figters leaves the hangars before their blastdoors get closed up, the area around the ship now filled with lasers hunting Ramia and her flightsuit around. Suddenly Ramia's lock-on alarms start to rapidly warn her. The fighters have picked up a claw formation while the drones had been acting as a shield to them, and now each one of them fires out pair of rockets at her.

[thesupergamer64]

Dammit, dammit all... Now I can't fight, and I still hurt her with the visor's shards... I'll have to use some other method of seeing I guess. The man thought to himself as he stood up and started thinking. Perhaps auditory "vision" would help. He suggested to himself.

Huzuni made some modifications on the earring system so that it would be on high priority, so it would sacrifice vision for such. Huzuni was now a bat in a way of speaking since he used eco-location as a way to "see". Although this wasn't a reliable way of fighting, it would for sure help him out.

He heard firing, and so he went to try and find his team mates to try and help them out.

[boomlover]

James was pissed imagine someone who just won the lottery. All is Well until all your cash is stolen by your ex who leaves you high and dry. This was how James felt and he was so angry you could almost see his eye,S turning red." YOU MOTHERF*****
P*** of S***." He used his magnetboot setting his power to max and started sucking up every piece of metal the damm thing could attach to. He then aimed at the smoke cloud and released. The force pushed him away a few meters but it has worked as millions of small Pieces of scrap metal flew through the brige. James however had smacked his face against the floor wich kinda stunned him for a few minutes.

[kiya]

"Got it!" Scarlet cheered herself but she didn't have much time to celebrate, she pushed her back hard against the left side of the door frame, her body was completely hidden from any aggressors inside and she was right to do so, bullets and laser fire began to scream past her the bullets creating a popping noise as they broke the sound barrier. "Great, another gun fight... Seriously I barely made it out from the last." Scarlet spoke as James already began to attack, perhaps she was too fast in wasting the nickname Karate kid on Huzuni for being keen to engage, she mused to herself for a moment.

she got onto her knees and attempted to lean around the corner but the wall just in front of her face was hit by a laser, another close call she thought while trying to re-position, she silently spoke into her intercom to James and Huzuni. "I'm pinned here, it's up to you boys." Her voice was a devoid of fear or worry, instead it sounded a little cheeky.