Robotech: Army of the Southern Cross - IC Thread

[Psychie]

Doug gives up his own heavy weapons for a 9mm semi-auto pistol, a MDC capable Ion Pistol, a Stun Baton, and a flashbang grenade and a tear gas grenade. With is gear set in place, he looks over at the three GMP/Eswat members and says, "If this were a frontal assault in hover tanks, I'd know how to best handle this. But this arrest is out of my area of expertise. Kitty? Nova? Bishop? What is the next step from here? I turn to you to best advise me and the squad on how to proceed."

Spoiler: Original Post

Doug gives up his own heavy weapons for a 9mm semi-auto pistol, a MDC capable Ion Pistol, and a stun baton. He glances at everyone, saying, "At this point, less lethal firepower is preferred, so no using the heavier MD weapons unless the stuff hits the fan. Ok, lets see where she is." He goes over to a terminal and sends out a signal. "Comms center, this is Sgt. Dorsey. Where is the First Sergeant? I have some paperwork questions that is making my hair fall out from aggravation and I'd like to go over it with her."

"One moment, please, Sgt. Dorsey." After a few seconds of silence on the line, the voice returns with, "She is in her quarters and is expecting you. Do you need directions?"

"Yes, please, and thank you."

"Of course, sergeant. Check the display on your terminal. It should show her room."

"Yup. Indeed it does. Thanks again. Dorsey out."

He turns to the rest of you and says, "Ok, here we are, and here's Antonia's room. Nova and Miya, this is your baby. The rest of us are your back-up. Everyone, on me. Let's go."

Moving with confidence, Doug quickly leads everyone through the tunnel network that forms the BSURP's halls and quarters. The five of you garner a few quizzical looks from people but no one tries to stop you or get in your way as you move through the base. It does not take you long before you are at the door to the First Sergeant's quarters. With a quick knock, Dorsey announces your presence.

From inside the room, you hear Antoinia's voice, "Come!"

Dorsey opens the door and steps inside. You can see that her room is a touch larger than Doug's room that you were just in, and the Meltrandi woman is seated at a small desk with a terminal on it, and she swivels around to face the door as Dorsey walks in to give Miya and Nova room to step in on his heels. She looks surprised, saying, "What is this? What is going on here?"

Purr you are the GMP player, so it falls to you to make the arrest.

 

[Psychie]

Sherwood Purr GunMan2 Original post of mine has been put in the spoiler, and the new content is up in the leading paragraph. Hopefully this opening works better for everyone, and doesn't step on toes.

 

[Sherwood]

Steven thinks for a moment, then says, "First order of business is to locate our suspect without tipping her off as to what is about to happen. Ideally, we want her by herself in a location without the possibility of a hostage situation and no firearms available. Taking her by surprise is key. That will keep her from being able to respond with anything other than total capitulation."

 

[Purr]

Spoiler: Some music that helped me write this little scene up.

"What Goes Round Comes Around" by Boom Boom Satellites. Because, hey, if Boom Boom Satellites are good enough for one of the Appleseed movies, why not this, right? =)

Doug gives up his own heavy weapons for a 9mm semi-auto pistol, a MDC capable Ion Pistol, a Stun Baton, and a flashbang grenade and a tear gas grenade. With is gear set in place, he looks over at the three GMP/Eswat members and says, "If this were a frontal assault in hover tanks, I'd know how to best handle this. But this arrest is out of my area of expertise. Kitty? Nova? Bishop? What is the next step from here? I turn to you to best advise me and the squad on how to proceed."

Steven thinks for a moment, then says, "First order of business is to locate our suspect without tipping her off as to what is about to happen. Ideally, we want her by herself in a location without the possibility of a hostage situation and no firearms available. Taking her by surprise is key. That will keep her from being able to respond with anything other than total capitulation."

After hearing Steven give out the ESWAT basics to the non-ESWAT, and nodding to support him, Miyazaki chimes in. As she does, she swaps "Fluffy," her M-84 machine pistol, from its magazine of Mega-damage HEAP rounds to standard full metal jacket rounds all the while wishing she had access to hollow points (which wouldn't over-penetrate and hit targets beyond the initial). She runs her hand along Fluffy's suppressor and red dot sight as she speaks, quite casually, about a military operation that, should it go south, might end up with bloody corpses. Her ease in discussing the plan is clear as if she had done this sort of thing (or at least trained for it) until it was part of her very nature.

"As your information jockey, I feel it is my duty to provide a plan. I will visit our dispatch center and obtain Antonia's location. Depending on what she is doing and whom she is with, we may have a long wait ahead of us. During that time, I recommend Doug and Nova procure a large vehicle, preferably an APC as they have a big rear hatch and few windows? Once we have her location, we ought to designate a meeting point. I will meet you in said vehicle immediately after my visit." Kitty begins donning her Mega-suit and multi-optics helm if she didn't have it on before.

"Remember our target is two-fold. I believe our primary target is Antonia herself. She, of course, is Meltrandi, ASC-trained, very familiar with the area, likely armed, and also likely on-guard without being on alert. She would be a fool not to have some kind of escape plan or plans. So let us deny her the option of using it. As much as I would love to take her down silently with tranquilizers or tasers, we have none at our disposal. I doubt we are going to be able to sneak up on her with stun batons; her being Meltrandi alone will make that likelihood improbable. This means attracting attention. I recommend three simultaneous flashbangs be thrown into her area followed by Steven and using twin stun batons to fully incapacitate her. We disarm her, cuff her (hands behind and ankles, as always), and drop a tight sack around her head before rapidly hauling her out. Steven, if you could carry her, I will cover you? Steven and I stay with Antonia the entire time until we reach our vehicle with Doug keeping the engine warm.

"Our secondary target is her information, specifically all of her computer devices. If we take Antonia but leave the devices, then we lose a good third of the legal case we have against Antonia. We also give her associates the opportunity to make away with that information. So remember. Do not damage the information we are after - treat them as key evidence for GMP to scour through.

"Chris and Nova, would you be so kind as to use your skills to bring Antonia's computers and anything that appears even remotely useful including pocket-drives? I highly recommend all four of us stay together until we reach Doug. Anyone gets in your way, regardless of rank unless they are GMP, Steven, Nova, and I can simply repeat this line: 'Global Military Police. Get out of our way.' We get in and get out as speedily as possible while leaving nothing for Antonia's associates to recover. Once in our vehicle, I will then alert GMP to expect us and not before.

"I also recommend all of us have our smartphones attached to our Mega-suits and set to record the entire operation."

Kitty turns to the entire group, especially its leader, Sgt. Dorsey. "I think that should suffice for a rough draft. Credits for your thoughts, team?" Pretty Kitty is not aware of it, but she has on an expression like that of an office secretary just providing customer service or some other innocent, harmless civilian, almost the last kind of person the average person would be suspicious of the dangerous, clandestine activity you are about to take on.

 

[Sherwood]

Steven nods. "I can haul her out like a sack of potatoes no problem. Even if she's squirming, so long as she's properly cuffed, it will only slow me a tad. At that point, it's not like she can hurt us through our megasuits, even if she manages to kick or elbow me in a sensitive location. My only concern at that point is to make sure that we get her to the APC in one piece without causing trouble with the rest of the outpost. We know that there are some that will not be above trying to mete out their own sense of 'justice' to a potential traitor, and we have to keep that from happening. Others may see us as trying to do that ourselves and will act to 'save' her from us. In any case, we have to be careful once we are on the move."

 

[Psychie]

Dorsey thinks for a moment, then says, "I am not too thrilled with the idea of splitting us up, but I can't overlook the wisdom of having an APC checked out and ready to roll once you get Antonia out of whatever hole she's hiding in. Ok. Kitty, this is your game plan. Run with it, and don't let anything get in your way. I'm going to make my way to the motor pool where I will be waiting for you. Keep in touch with your personal radios on our squad channel so I know your progress. We have a plan, so lets step."

He then gives a half smile and sets off towards the nearest stairwell to get topside where the vehicle bay is located, leaving the four of you in the hallway. What do you do now?

 

[Sherwood]

First step, find out where Antonia is right now. Steven looks for a nearby computer terminal to try and use it to locate her, hoping that the system has a locator function on it.

 

[Purr]

Kitty shakes her head and looks disapprovingly at Steven. "Steven. Off to change our carefully-laid plan before we have begun, are we?"

Then she repeats that part of the plan for him:

"As your information jockey, I feel it is my duty to provide a plan. I will visit our dispatch center and obtain Antonia's location.

"That is, unless you want to tip her off by using a computer terminal she knows better than most? If she has a countermeasure in place, that will be exactly what you are doing." Her tone is not mocking or parental, but rather hopeful in that he will follow the plan that Sgt. Dorsey himself approved.

"I am off to the Dispatch Center. I will advise everyone when I found something." But Kitty listens to any reply Steven might have before she goes about doing this. The human is her teammate and friend after all.

 

[Sherwood]

Steven steps back and lets Kitty take the lead in this. "By all means, be my guest. I was just trying to help out, but you got this."

 

[GunMan2]

Barnes looks around the armoury and decides to change to the side arm to the Ion pulse pistol or the IPP 5 which is good for striking shields, his armour and the heavy squad support plasma gun or the HPW -6. “Is this a bit too much fire power?”

Asked the country boy

Earlier at the armory

The Heavy weapons specialist shrugs and put it back where he found it. Then he takes a riot shield, 2 stun batons (1 main and 1 spare) and the "Room sweeper" just in case those who framed Antonia came after her. "All right now i am ready for action" He said as he followed the others

Steven nods. "I can haul her out like a sack of potatoes no problem. Even if she's squirming, so long as she's properly cuffed, it will only slow me a tad. At that point, it's not like she can hurt us through our megasuits, even if she manages to kick or elbow me in a sensitive location. My only concern at that point is to make sure that we get her to the APC in one piece without causing trouble with the rest of the outpost. We know that there are some that will not be above trying to mete out their own sense of 'justice' to a potential traitor, and we have to keep that from happening. Others may see us as trying to do that ourselves and will act to 'save' her from us. In any case, we have to be careful once we are on the move."

Barnes looks at the scotman and chuckels "Relax i got you covered." He said pointing at his shield "If someone shoots this thing can take a few hits before its useless." Then the country boys demeanor become more serious and he sets himself at the door"

Kitty shakes her head and looks disapprovingly at Steven. "Steven. Off to change our carefully-laid plan before we have begun, are we?"

Then she repeats that part of the plan for him:



"That is, unless you want to tip her off by using a computer terminal she knows better than most? If she has a countermeasure in place, that will be exactly what you are doing." Her tone is not mocking or parental, but rather hopeful in that he will follow the plan that Sgt. Dorsey himself approved.

"I am off to the Dispatch Center. I will advise everyone when I found something." But Kitty listens to any reply Steven might have before she goes about doing this. The human is her teammate and friend after all.

"Need an extra shield or you good, kitty" Asked Barnes before he storms into Antonia's office, keeping the shot gun on his back as he does not want her to think this is some sort of coup or attack on her. Their objective is to arrest, not kill. "If we find anything of that nature kitty, ill let you know." He was referring to the electronics that Antonia might have that she attempts to hide. he really hopes they are right or else this will be a disaster.

 

[Purr]

Steven steps back and lets Kitty take the lead in this. "By all means, be my guest. I was just trying to help out, but you got this."

Kitty grins at Steven. "My good man, your willingness to aid in a good cause has never been in doubt."

Inwardly, Kitty could only imagine the kind of guilt Steven might suffer if he somehow tripped some intranet-based computer program that wound up alerting Antonia. It was the kind of program she would have used, even created, to cover her back were she in Antonia's shoes. And if Antonia had no such defense, well, better to be ready than to underestimate an opponent. She genuinely believes Steven is a good-hearted human; his actions with Chris in the gym had proved that all by themselves.

"Need an extra shield or you good, kitty"

Kitty nods in appreciation. "One is enough, though I do like your thoughts toward preparation. Be prepared!"

"If we find anything of that nature kitty, ill let you know."

"Good thinking. Time now for us to begin the hunt, is it not?"

Unless someone else has anything to add, Kitty makes her way to Anton-17's dispatch center and there, as discreetly as she can, she makes contact only with the shift supervisor and tries to learn Antonia's immediate whereabouts. Without asking, she tries to find out if Antonia is alone. This she does in an outwardly casual fashion all the while keeping her ears open for any bits of information that might happen to float by, dispatch centers being what they are (often busy and full of chatter).

If gaining Antonia's location is uneventful, Kitty proceeds to meet up with the team as planned and make their way to Antonia. If nothing else needs doing, Kitty meets the team sans Doug by Antonia's door with her hand near one of her flashbangs. It was the first time she had been trusted to work out a plan for 3rd JSOG and inwardly, she is honored for the opportunity. This is especially so given the nature of the mission ("snatch-and-grab") which often went south for any number of reasons. Kitty keeps her senses open and alert to keep things moving north. =)

 

[Psychie]

Kitty's trip to the command and control center is uneventful, and you are able to find an unused terminal to log into. It doesn't take long to find out that Antonia's current location is in her quarters, a short trip away from the command room. She bunks by herself, so you shouldn't have anyone else in there to deal with, but caution is the order of the day. With the location relayed to the others, all four members of the team meet up in the hallway just shy of her door.

A casual inspection of the door shows that it does have a lock on it, but without trying the handle, you won't know if it is secured at all or not.

How do you proceed?

 

[Sherwood]

Steven readies his shotgun in one hand and takes out a flashbang grenade in the other, ready to breach the door and throw it in to stun the Zentraedi enough to make it easy to apprehend her. Standing off to the left side of the door, he holds his position until the others are in place and are ready to move in, ready to blow the hinges of the door with his shotgun if it turns out that the door is locked.

 

[Psychie]

Nova takes up a position on the other side of the door from Steven, a stun baton in one hand and a grenade in the other. She slowly reaches out to try the handle on the door, then looks at Steven and says the word, "Locked." In a soft whisper, she says, "Get ready to blow the hinges. The rest of you, be ready to throw your flashbangs in the room once Steven has taken the hinges out, and we advance inside as fast as we can and apprehend her and get to the APC."

Sherwood : Looking at the door, you see that there are two hinges on it, one at the top of the door and one towards the bottom. You'll need to fire on both of them to be able to blow the door open and get in. No roll is needed; its not like the door is going to dodge. Just declare your action.

GunMan2 Purr Sherwood
Any last words before we move forward? I don't want to rush the scene again.

 

[Purr]

Safety off, Kitty carefully adjusts Fluffy's suppressed barrel against the door lock so that the Mega-damage HEAP round, keeping her finger off of Fluffy's trigger. Her flashbang is in her other hand. She whispers to her squad. "On 'go.' 3... 2... 1... go!"

Her finger pulls the trigger sending the HEAP round into the door lock. She kicks the door open and the very moment she sights Antonia, Kitty's flashbang leaves her hand to be replaced by her activated stun baton.

 

[Sherwood]

Once the door lock is shot out, Steven adds his weight to the door to help it swing open and he adds his own flashbang to the mix, turning his back away from the blast to help shield his face from the upcoming flash and expecting that his helmet will protect his ears enough to keep from disorienting him.

The second after the grenades go off, he turns back to the room and charges in like a linebacker heading for an unprotected quarterback. Antonia is going down.

 

[Purr]

Once the flashbangs are in, Kitty closes the door, and after hearing all flashbangs detonate, she opens it again for Steven's rush.

Spoiler: NOT like this! SFW

For years, this has been my favorite flashbang fail! Ha ha ha!
"FVC - Flash Bang Fail"


For those who might see this and not get it:
You are looking at the door from inside the room that is to be breached. On the other side of the door is the breaching squad. One soldier opens the door and another soldier throws the flashbang into the room. The first soldier closes the door.

Guess which part didn't quite happen? Heh! =)

 

[GunMan2]

As soon as the flash bang went off Bearnes stormed in with Nova in tow and begins to take any electronic devices usb's, computer, hard drives as discussed to with a mental clock in his head ticking. He also looks for any hidden devices that might have been planted in her office. "I got some, Nova. What about you found anything important." The tanker is still keeping his guard up in case they meet resistance.

 

[Psychie]

The single shot from Kitty's pistol rings out, shattering the lock. Then, when the door is kicked open, the three grenades go flying in. After the triple blast of the grenades goes off, Steven slams into the door and sends it flying open as he powers his way into the room. Inside, he can see the Zentraedi woman is sitting at her desk in sweat pants and a lightweight top, quite stunned from the effects of the grenades.

Slamming into her before she can react, the big Scotsman forces the woman to the ground. By this time, even with her ears ringing, Antonia starts to fight back, making Steven very glad that he's wearing his megasuit as she struggles like her life depends on it. Considering what you have discovered of her alleged actions, it probably does.

As Steven is using his body weight to keep Antonia pinned, you are able to get a zip tie first on her wrists, then another on her feet. Pushing into the room, Nova and Chris can see that along with the standard desktop computer and tower, there is also an open laptop on the desk. Scooping it up, you now hear the base alarm starting to blare, and you also hear the distinct sound of booted feet running in the halls, heading your way.

Scooping Antonia up, Steven is now ready to move to the hangar where Dorsey is waiting for you. If looks could kill, it would take a dustpan and broom to sweep up the remains of Steven as Antonia glares up at you. She snarls, "I will have your heads on the wall for this assault! Unhand me or I swear I will have you castrated!"

At this time, Nova hits her helmet radio, "Sergeant, target acquired. We are on the move to your position now."

 

[Sherwood]

Steven barely spares a glance for Antonia as he jabs her with the stun baton again and again, until he is quite sure she's out cold. "Shut up, missy. Ok everyone. Let's haul ass out of here!" He slings the unconscious woman over his shoulder and heads for the door and gets on his way to the waiting APC, with the rest of the squad forming an armored escort around him.

 

[Psychie]

With Antonia knocked out and restrained, Steven tosses her over his shoulder like a sack of potatoes while the various electronics are quickly rounded up and taken with you as everyone heads for the door. Poking their heads out into hall from their rooms are several curious onlookers trying to figure out just what the hell is going on, one woman standing there with a toothbrush poking out of her mouth as she stares in shock at the sight of the four of you in your heavy armor and packing weapons, hauling the unconscious form of the First Sergeant over the arm of one of you.

Nova snaps out in a stern voice, "GMP business! Step aside!" No one makes any move to step in your way as you barrel down the hall like a force of nature. This does change when you turn the corner and nearly collide with two armed security guards in lightweight MDC armor and equipped sidearms, racing along to see just what the hell is going on to cause all the commotion.

They skid to a stop at the sight of the four of you, their jaws hanging open. Nova once more gives off an angry, "GMP business! Stand down and step aside!" They stand still, looking to one another, trying to decide just what to do next as they eye the unconscious figure of Antonia over Steven's shoulder, both grasping the handles of their sidearms.

What do the rest of you do?

 

[Purr]

Kitty does not even pause on her way. Not willing to wait for security guards, and knowing that her Mega-suit and Nova's display them as authentic GMP officers, Kitty continues along, a light spring in her step as she enjoys the way Nova so effortlessly expresses herself. She aims her recording smartphone at their identifying features (name plates and ranks if they have them). Glancing at their hands on their sidearms, Kitty cheerfully adds to Nova's declaration.

"Do as she says, fellow ASC soldiers! Anton-17 needs stalwart defenders like yourselves against the Malcontents. Keep us safe, won't you?"

Eyeing their hands on their weapons, Miyazaki taps a friendly warning on her already-drawn M-84, readied but not at the moment aimed at them. This is done with an added hint that its suppressor will be aimed at body parts they want to keep if either of them draw, or it will be aimed away once they release their holds on their firearms. These soldiers could be anyone, she thinks. Even someone helping Antonia. Or they may not. Please take your hands off of your guns, dear humans!

 

[GunMan2]

Barnes keeps an eye at the back contemplating of he should really let kitty and nova. Deciding that this might be a way to try out his acting skills on the 2 guard

“Trust me man, whenever she pulls that gun it means someone’s going to lose their man cards.” Lied the tanker as just to speed it up a little. The people seem to be getting over their shock soon and might act if they don’t move and soon’

 

[Psychie]

The two guards take a step to the side, letting the four of you pass by. You do notice that one of the two reaches for his radio, and is calling in to the command center to report in and get some feedback on what to do. But there is now nothing stopping you from pushing past them on your way to the waiting APC being piloted by Dorsey.

As you head through the underground passages, you pass other people poking their heads out of their rooms, wondering what is going on and they stare in shock at the sight of the four of you in your armor hauling a restrained woman along. A few try to stop you, but you are able to easily push past them.

Finally up on the surface, you spot the APC sitting out in the open with its engine running waiting for you. The back hatch is open and you can see Dorsey standing inside looking out. He sees you and shouts, waving his hand to indicate you should move faster, "Hustle your butts! A chopper is on the way, and I want to get her out of here ASAP!"

At the APC, you are starting to load into the back just as a group of armored and armed troops come into view being led by Lt. Renner. He lets out a yell as they advance on you of, "Hey! You there! What the hell are you doing? Exit that vehicle at once! That's an order!" He looks quite upset.

Doug ignores him, saying to the four of you, "Get in and button up. I just hope that the dang chopper is not going to be delayed or else this might get messy." Once everyone is inside, Dorsey pulls the hatch shut right in the face of the lieutenant, and you can still hear Renner yelling and pounding his fist on the hull of the APC. Through the closed hatch, you can hear the LT saying, "If you don't exit immediately, we'll open fire and blast you out of there! You won't get any other warnings!"

 

[Purr]

At the APC, you are starting to load into the back just as a group of armored and armed troops come into view being led by Lt. Renner. He lets out a yell as they advance on you of, "Hey! You there! What the hell are you doing? Exit that vehicle at once! That's an order!" He looks quite upset.

Through the closed hatch, you can hear the LT saying, "If you don't exit immediately, we'll open fire and blast you out of there! You won't get any other warnings!"

"GMP official business! This is not what it looks like, Lt. Renner. If you want answers, sir, I must refer you to our colonel. He will tell you everything you need to know. I am not at liberty to share more, even with you, sir."

To Nova, she asks, "Can you get an ETA on that helicopter?"

Spoiler: OOC

Miyazaki is asking Nova because she believes this helicopter Dorsey is talking about is GMP (because who else would we hand Antonia over to?). Also, I don't know about you guys, but Kitty has every intention of being on that helicopter with Antonia. No way is she getting loose! Not after all this.