Antoine was a ghost whenever she wanted to be, and that was right now. As she heard Imran provide new target priorities before his drop, she didn't acknowledge but instead simply slunk through to the garage. She was even briefly impressed as she saw a man briefly squint into the darkness, as if searching. It seemed he'd seen her, but she was it was disappointing when it was revealed that he'd just seen an abnormally large mosquito. For a moment, Antoine had hoped that she'd found a worthy foe, but that was quickly dashed. That done, she slid into the hangar with ease and sized it up, surprised to find a pair of mech suits similar to the ones worn by Bjorn and Lana. She hadn't actually expected their foe to have this much gear.
8 Techs surrounded the suits, however since they would be going loud soon, Antoine decided it was time for the gun. Drawing the MP5SD6, She lined up carefully, and in her mind angles, bullet drop, recoil, everything was accounted for. Then, she let rip in short, 3 round bursts, gunning down the tech crew in a matter of moments. She immediately reloaded the gun before putting it back on her webbing. She darted over to the suits and drew a pair of charges, situating them in out of the way spots inside the suits, so that the explosions would still devastate the armor and the people inside it.
Then, she turned her eyes to the rest of the bay, and found a pair of BTRs and a Russian-made T-90 Main Battle Tank. These people were packing a lot of heavy armor, however that didn't matter to Antoine. "This will be fun to watch." Antoine thought to herself as she slid, catlike, into the tank and dropped a demo charge into the pile of shells. Similar charges were placed on the engine blocks of both BTRs, but now she was out of explosives, so she had to leave. Snaking out, she heard the sound of Imran and Yumi's vehicles landing. Shortly after, she was ordered to prevent forces from going deeper into the complex, and she said softly "Aye Aye sir."
Sneaking into the complex proper was easy with so many people distracted by Imran's less than discrete entrance. Once inside, she set up choke-points at two key areas, the stairs and the elevator. Though she lacked any explosives, it would be easy to prevent people from entering or leaving the compound. Entering the elevator, she used her Camilius to pry off the cover over the buttons and promptly made 4 slashes on the interior, ruining the elevator so it couldn't be used. Then, she calmly settled in a dark corner of the stairwell, silenced P226 in one hand and a throwing knife in the other. Like a vengeful spectre, Antoine was ready to kill all the living who dared approach her.
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I'd like to hear if you have any plot ideas for Red Dawn, and if not we can brainstorm! Just shoot me a PM whenever you are available!
Alright, waitin for everyone else to post before I do now unless people think I need to post
Would this happen to be the same person behind Angels of Arcadia on the old guild? Even if you aren't, I'm very in!
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When Antoine heard the call over her ever-present earpiece, she immediately ghosted out of the room without an acknowledgement. In the Armory, she grabbed her MP5SSD and ammunition for it and her sidearm, along with her throwing knives and some C4 and a detonator. She then retreated to her room where she hastily donned her infiltration suit then used the webbing to secure her gear to the suit. Then, she closed her eyes and took a deep breath, feeling the confidence that she couldn't have when speaking with her team bubble out from it's place deep inside of her. With a new-found grin adorning her face, Antoine slid from her room like a cat, the door closing and locking without a sound.
Soon, she was waiting with the plane and listening to Imran's briefing, smiling wide when she was told she'd be the advance unit. However, this quickly crumpled to a slight pout when she was told it was a HAHO jump. She loved skydiving, but using her precious wing suit was so much more fun and made operating easier. She sighed and accepted his decision though, there was a reason she wasn't a tactician. While the others read books on strategy by this general or that, she read any fiction book she could get. That and, thanks to Yumiko's influence, she'd begun reading any Manga she could find in English, even watching the occasional Anime. Strapping on her chute and sitting in the C-17, she heard a call asking if she was ready, and she replied "Ready to go." The DPVs slammed into the bay and Antoine slunk away from the noisy vehicles before settling in for the ride, her eyelids fluttering shut as she rested in preparation for a long night
Antoine groggily awoke a little while later, mumbling "1 AM is too early for an operation." She listened to the updated briefing however, and laughed slightly, mumbling "AK pattern, geez, can't these guys get better toys?" However, she also nodded when she was given a priority target, generators. That was almost too easy, she didn't even have to blow things like that up! Just stab it a few times with her trusty Camilius knife and it was down for the count. However, she giggled likely at Svetlana's face and stood, saying "I'll save some for you Lana." She then walked to the door as the light turned green and, with her combat confidence running high, blew a kiss into the bay and said "Yumiko, Bjorn watch this!" She then casually allowed herself to fall from the plane, the wind immediately catching her in it's protective grasp. As soon as her finely tuned instincts told her it was safe to do so, she pulled the chute cord and allowed herself to float to the earth.
Nearing the canopy of the rain forest, Antoine performed a variation of her dismount maneuver from her wing suit. She angled her chute into a large tree, allowing it to gently entangle with the various branches before cutting herself free with her knife and easily dropping to a thick branch below. She then began to run from tree to tree, knife rapidly dropped back into it's sheathe. She jumped from branch to branch with the ease and agility of a creature native to these very trees, though her own upbringing couldn't have brought her farther from nature. When the compound came into position, she stopped and whispered, her voice being picked up by the standard issue throat mic "This is Bluebird, moving in. Be a proper gentleman and keep me safe Lasagna."
With these words, she carefully made her way through the trees until she was above the compound on a branch too thin to hold most people, but it held the petite woman as she stood in precisely the right way. A quick jump and a roll later, and she was crouched on the roof of one of the buildings. Immediately, she ran across the roof and jumped to a nearby bit of concrete that served as a ledge, and from there use her powerful leg muscles to jump and then used her momentum to swing from a bit of exposed metal to the ground next to the door labeled, in Spanish, as maintenance. Somewhere in there, she knew, her objective would lay, so drawing her MP5SD6 she entered the building.
After carefully slinking through 4 floors of the complex, the generator room was in sight. However, her final obstacle was a man in tactical gear, holding an AN-94 Assault Rifle. Antoine could've just shot him of course, but that would leave more traces. Bullet casings that would hit the ground, a bigger blood spray, it would be nasty. Instead, she put her SMG back on the webbing and grabbed one of her throwing knives. Doing the many little calculations that went into knife throwing within a second, Antoine let fly. The blade pierced the man's throat, but he didn't even have time to gasp in surprise as Antoine herself followed right behind it. First came a fist, ramming the knife in even deeper, then a powerful kick to his right shin dropped him to his knees, then she whipped around him and with one hand covered his mouth while the other began sliding the knife carefully down before removing it and wiping it on the man's own uniform. She carefully pulled him into a nearby bathroom and placed him on a toilet, shutting the stall door and locking it before crawling out and returning to the generator room. From there, she placed a charge carefully so it was out of sight and slunk back out of the complex just as quietly as she'd entered, reporting over the radio "Bluebird here, the lightning box is ready to strike, beginning general ops." With a grin, Antoine slunk back into the darkness, to do her bloody work.
Soon, she was waiting with the plane and listening to Imran's briefing, smiling wide when she was told she'd be the advance unit. However, this quickly crumpled to a slight pout when she was told it was a HAHO jump. She loved skydiving, but using her precious wing suit was so much more fun and made operating easier. She sighed and accepted his decision though, there was a reason she wasn't a tactician. While the others read books on strategy by this general or that, she read any fiction book she could get. That and, thanks to Yumiko's influence, she'd begun reading any Manga she could find in English, even watching the occasional Anime. Strapping on her chute and sitting in the C-17, she heard a call asking if she was ready, and she replied "Ready to go." The DPVs slammed into the bay and Antoine slunk away from the noisy vehicles before settling in for the ride, her eyelids fluttering shut as she rested in preparation for a long night
Antoine groggily awoke a little while later, mumbling "1 AM is too early for an operation." She listened to the updated briefing however, and laughed slightly, mumbling "AK pattern, geez, can't these guys get better toys?" However, she also nodded when she was given a priority target, generators. That was almost too easy, she didn't even have to blow things like that up! Just stab it a few times with her trusty Camilius knife and it was down for the count. However, she giggled likely at Svetlana's face and stood, saying "I'll save some for you Lana." She then walked to the door as the light turned green and, with her combat confidence running high, blew a kiss into the bay and said "Yumiko, Bjorn watch this!" She then casually allowed herself to fall from the plane, the wind immediately catching her in it's protective grasp. As soon as her finely tuned instincts told her it was safe to do so, she pulled the chute cord and allowed herself to float to the earth.
Nearing the canopy of the rain forest, Antoine performed a variation of her dismount maneuver from her wing suit. She angled her chute into a large tree, allowing it to gently entangle with the various branches before cutting herself free with her knife and easily dropping to a thick branch below. She then began to run from tree to tree, knife rapidly dropped back into it's sheathe. She jumped from branch to branch with the ease and agility of a creature native to these very trees, though her own upbringing couldn't have brought her farther from nature. When the compound came into position, she stopped and whispered, her voice being picked up by the standard issue throat mic "This is Bluebird, moving in. Be a proper gentleman and keep me safe Lasagna."
With these words, she carefully made her way through the trees until she was above the compound on a branch too thin to hold most people, but it held the petite woman as she stood in precisely the right way. A quick jump and a roll later, and she was crouched on the roof of one of the buildings. Immediately, she ran across the roof and jumped to a nearby bit of concrete that served as a ledge, and from there use her powerful leg muscles to jump and then used her momentum to swing from a bit of exposed metal to the ground next to the door labeled, in Spanish, as maintenance. Somewhere in there, she knew, her objective would lay, so drawing her MP5SD6 she entered the building.
After carefully slinking through 4 floors of the complex, the generator room was in sight. However, her final obstacle was a man in tactical gear, holding an AN-94 Assault Rifle. Antoine could've just shot him of course, but that would leave more traces. Bullet casings that would hit the ground, a bigger blood spray, it would be nasty. Instead, she put her SMG back on the webbing and grabbed one of her throwing knives. Doing the many little calculations that went into knife throwing within a second, Antoine let fly. The blade pierced the man's throat, but he didn't even have time to gasp in surprise as Antoine herself followed right behind it. First came a fist, ramming the knife in even deeper, then a powerful kick to his right shin dropped him to his knees, then she whipped around him and with one hand covered his mouth while the other began sliding the knife carefully down before removing it and wiping it on the man's own uniform. She carefully pulled him into a nearby bathroom and placed him on a toilet, shutting the stall door and locking it before crawling out and returning to the generator room. From there, she placed a charge carefully so it was out of sight and slunk back out of the complex just as quietly as she'd entered, reporting over the radio "Bluebird here, the lightning box is ready to strike, beginning general ops." With a grin, Antoine slunk back into the darkness, to do her bloody work.
After being ushered inside, Kasumi eyed the obviously enthusiastic maid with something between caution and confusion. Why was she so peppy about bringing them to her master? Kasumi would suspect a trap but she was genuinely enthused that it didn't seem the part. A real trap would've been more subtle, consisting of her ushering them along to the meeting and carefully avoiding mentioning anything that could be potentially incriminating. However, she couldn't stop her curiosity when the sword-wielding Sekirei stepped forward to speak with the maid. Kasumi didn't leave her post next to her ashikabi, however, and simply mumbled "She seems oddly enthusiastic, Amane-sama, why is that?"
Amami
Amami walked into the building only to stumbled backwards into a wall as the maid's enthusiasm hit her like a literal brick wall. After a moment of recovering herself, Amami decided to be personable and talk to the maid. She smiled pleasantly and stepped forward to the maid, offering "Hello, I'm Yamashita Amami, but please just call me Amami, honorifics bother me and I prefer my first name to my surname. It's nice to meet you, Setsuna-san!" Amami made a conscious effort to match the maid's enthusiasm, but could only manage slightly excited as her natural caution still demanded a hand on her blade.
Amami
Amami walked into the building only to stumbled backwards into a wall as the maid's enthusiasm hit her like a literal brick wall. After a moment of recovering herself, Amami decided to be personable and talk to the maid. She smiled pleasantly and stepped forward to the maid, offering "Hello, I'm Yamashita Amami, but please just call me Amami, honorifics bother me and I prefer my first name to my surname. It's nice to meet you, Setsuna-san!" Amami made a conscious effort to match the maid's enthusiasm, but could only manage slightly excited as her natural caution still demanded a hand on her blade.
Ah, well I'll post today and I'm sure you'll recover!
Antoine, suddenly aware of Svetlana sitting next to her, startled almost instinctively. She wasn't in a wing suit any longer, now she was in a normal situation, and her confidence seemed to have vanished. However, before her instincts could make her flee, she gave a minimalist smile and said "I'll be sure to teach you one day Lana." Seeking a more solitary area, she quickly retreated to a folding chair tucked into a corner. Antoine had made sure to keep this chair stashed in the room in order to ensure that she was never forced to sit with the others. She liked them and all, but people made her incredibly nervous, especially her beloved Bjorn. However, Antoine did acknowledge that other prospects for her existed beyond the viking, however the pickings were slim in her opinion.
There was Imran, the businesslike leader of their team, though he did have his comedic side. However, his commanding presence always cowed Antoine into silence when they weren't on operations. He was a good man, she was sure, however she couldn't ever manage to speak up to him much. Perhaps it was his authority over her, or perhaps it was just his demeanor, but he was always able to keep Antoine quiet simply by existing, and indeed it took all her will not to hide from the man, not that she feared him specifically, just people like him.
There was Yumiko, as well, the smaller Japanese girl. Antoine was a good deal taller than her, so she didn't have as hard of a time talking to the girl. Her own presence wasn't as large as the other members of the team, so she didn't make Antoine as nervous. However, Antoine had no idea which way the girl swung, so she left that prospect as a last resort. However, she could honestly say that Yumiko was a good friend of hers, and likely one of the only people she would, realistically, be willing to operate with outside of Scimitar. She loved Bjorn and Svetlana was a good friend, but she couldn't operate with either of them outside of the team because of their styles. Imran was more likely, however he was still a bit too....larger than life, for Antoine.
Antoine had noticed that Yumiko had greeted her as she'd entered the room, so she carefully lifted her head and looked at the girl. She gave a shy smile as she stood up before walking over to the chair Yumiko had seated herself in. Antoine leaned over the back and casually set her head on Yumiko's shoulder, asking "What are you reading, Yumi?" Another nickname, Antoine really didn't like to call people by their full name. However, even as she waited for an answer, she attempted to read the book in Yumiko's hands. However, it was in Japanese, which Antoine hadn't ever had to read before, so she came up completely blank.
There was Imran, the businesslike leader of their team, though he did have his comedic side. However, his commanding presence always cowed Antoine into silence when they weren't on operations. He was a good man, she was sure, however she couldn't ever manage to speak up to him much. Perhaps it was his authority over her, or perhaps it was just his demeanor, but he was always able to keep Antoine quiet simply by existing, and indeed it took all her will not to hide from the man, not that she feared him specifically, just people like him.
There was Yumiko, as well, the smaller Japanese girl. Antoine was a good deal taller than her, so she didn't have as hard of a time talking to the girl. Her own presence wasn't as large as the other members of the team, so she didn't make Antoine as nervous. However, Antoine had no idea which way the girl swung, so she left that prospect as a last resort. However, she could honestly say that Yumiko was a good friend of hers, and likely one of the only people she would, realistically, be willing to operate with outside of Scimitar. She loved Bjorn and Svetlana was a good friend, but she couldn't operate with either of them outside of the team because of their styles. Imran was more likely, however he was still a bit too....larger than life, for Antoine.
Antoine had noticed that Yumiko had greeted her as she'd entered the room, so she carefully lifted her head and looked at the girl. She gave a shy smile as she stood up before walking over to the chair Yumiko had seated herself in. Antoine leaned over the back and casually set her head on Yumiko's shoulder, asking "What are you reading, Yumi?" Another nickname, Antoine really didn't like to call people by their full name. However, even as she waited for an answer, she attempted to read the book in Yumiko's hands. However, it was in Japanese, which Antoine hadn't ever had to read before, so she came up completely blank.
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