Army of the Southern Cross

[Sherwood]

You are not mistaken. A thick cloud of white smoke fills the hall, blocking the view of the five guards down the hall. They raise their weapons and fire at you, but with the obscuring smoke and the range, they will need at least an 18 or better to hit.

One manages to tag you for 20 MDC. You can take it on your shield if you wish.

19 - Fia
18 - Heinrich -50/0/0
10 - Moira -120/90/20
7 - Adrian
7 - Eric 0/60/0

 

[Psychie]

'Tis but a scratch! I'll take it on my right shield, please.

 

[Orikanyo]

Sherwood
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"Done the corridor! Lets get through as quickly as possible. Sneaking be damned we're likely already being watched through security." the Staff sergeant pushed forwards and down the corridor, keeping his gunpod at the ready for any threats.

 

[Sherwood]

"Move move! plow through if we must, they know we're here so lets make certain they feel it!" heinrich shouted, before following the lead. "Their barricade means nothing, if thats our way, plow through them!"

There is a side corridor that Moira was directing you towards. Unless you want to engage the soldiers, you don't have to.

 

[Sherwood]

As Heinrich makes his run across the hall, the wild shooting of the guards tries to hit you. Unless they get a 20, you are ok.

No hits this time. You are clear across the hall.

 

[AldarisLordOfLight]

Seeing that the guards are preoccupied by the smoke, Adrian makes a mad dash down the corridor after Heinrich and Moira. "With the smoke screen and the sensor spoofers of the Chimera, I'm practically invisible. I pray that Lady Luck hasn't blessed these idiots shooting through the smoke."

 

[Sherwood]

The idiots still try, but the odds of any of them connecting with you are slim.

No one hits you as you run across the corridor.

 

[Silanon]

Fia follows right behind the others - through the smoke, hopefully out of sight. Of course, a lucky shot might hit, thus she prepares for the possible impact - but other than that, she simply speeds up as well as she can, doing her best to not give them time to spot her properly.

 

[Sherwood]

Lets see if they get lucky...

No hits. You squeak through with ease.

 

[Sherwood]

Finally past the outer airlock, the Hussars find themselves in a massive mecha storage bay, capable of holding several hundred Regult pods in here with room to spare. At the moment, there are no mecha in here at all right now, having deployed whatever mecha that was still in the hangar bay when the ship crash landed during the Zentraedi Assault. This chamber is located in the center of the ship.

From behind you, there is still the occasional sound of weapon fire as the five soldiers in the hall lay down some suppressing fire to keep you from accessing the lifts.

As you look about, Adrian's sensors light up with multiple radar tracks that are heading your way rapidly; too fast for just foot soldiers. There is at least two dozen coming at you from multiple directions in the ship, and unless you move or do something, they will be on top of you in mere seconds.

 

[Psychie]

Moira shifts her mecha into tank mode. "Everyone, lets make our own elevator. These decks are hardened to withstand mecha running around on them, but it shouldn't take us long to make an opening large enough to slip down to the next level." With that, she triggers her particle cannon to light up the room.

 

[Orikanyo]

"On it, firing!" Heinrich followed suit firing upon the same area above them.

 

[AldarisLordOfLight]

"Multiple contacts sighted! Holy hell, we've got two dozen fast bogeys and they're all over the place! We've got to hurry, they'll be on our asses soon!" Adrian hollered out through squad comms before turning his main gun to where the rest where firing. "We got to move people!" He exclaimed before quickly loading a Sabot round and fires.

 

[Silanon]

"Which direction?" For a moment, you can see Fia muster different points of entry, awaiting the announced enemies to show up somewhere - as noone shows up right away, she then points both cannons at the same spot as the others, firing a volley to hopefully break through.

 

[AldarisLordOfLight]

"Fia, they're everywhere! They'll try to swarm us from all available openings unless we get the hell out of dodge ASAP!" Adrian hollered back as he now kept his eye on the radar and the different points of entry.

 

[Sherwood]

Under the combined firepower of the team, there is a crater fifty feet across blasted into the deck, and as the smoke clears, it reveals a gaping hole down to the next level. Looking down, you can see it is a one hundred foot drop to the deck below you. It appears to be a barracks, with multiple bunks and wall lockers to store gear and uniforms in. At the moment, it is unoccupied.

 

[Psychie]

Wasting no time, Moira kicks in her jets to leap through the opening, transforming back into Battloid mode as she falls. Just before impact, she hits her hover jets once more to brake her descent.

 

[Orikanyo]

"Everyone in! lets go!" Heinrich followed Cheesecake inside. "They wont be able to keep up, not on foot." he activated the fans to keep his fall soft, but his gunpod was ready at all times to hunt down any bogies.

"Cheesecake, can you remember the way from here?"

 

[Silanon]

"Well, crap - off we go, then." A last look towards the entrances, guns at the ready if something shows up - then Fia jumps, following the others, doing her best to control her landing as well as she possibly can. "If you ask me, any direction is better than standing here and waiting for them to catch up and fire downwards - they might even jump as well, you never know. Is this deck 4 now, or are there more of them in-between? Seems way to high for just one deck - but in the end, it's Zentraedian."

 

[AldarisLordOfLight]

Transforming in to Battloid mode, Adrian follows behind the team.. With the judicious use of the hover system and careful maneuvering, he lands without a problem. He quickly grabbed his Gun Pod and pointed it towards the hole above them. "Alright War Girl, where are we going next?"

 

[Psychie]

"One more level down. Then we'll be on the same deck as the Command Bubble." Moira looks around, then glances down at the deck once more. "I think the fastest way would be to make another hole. Seems to have worked so far, right?" With a flip of a switch, she extends her particle cannon from its housing and fires into the floor.

 

[AldarisLordOfLight]

"Alright, you're the boss War Girl." Adrian then turned his attention towards where Moira shot her particle cannon. He returned to his Chimera's Guardian mode and loaded another Sabot round before firing at the exact same spot she did.

 

[Sherwood]

As the team begins to hammer the deck to make another hole down, alarms start blaring. A woman's voice says in Zentraedi, "Intruders on deck 4! Intruders on deck 4, by bulkhead 21. All internal security forces prepare to repel boarders!"

It doesn't take long for you blast your way through the lower deck. Adrian has a brief bit of trouble with his weapon, but it is easy enough to clear the chamber and get the cannon ready to fire once more.

Looking down through the opening, the room below you is pitch black.

 

[Psychie]

Moira tries to remember what might be below them to have a bit of a clue as to what they are about to jump down into.

 

[Sherwood]

Besides the Command Center, a majority of the officers quarters are on that deck, along with several storerooms and four different mecha bays.