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She flinched slightly as the guns fired and eliminated the enemy Drathonians; the noise was slightly jarring in the silence of the hangar. She glanced around quickly, confirming to herself that she did indeed know the layout of this place, and could destruct it easily. "Captain, after we make it through this door, we'll have to enter the programmer room to the right, and I can set up the self destruct sequence. We will have only 7 minutes to get out of the building once it's activated." She whispered to Hendlow, "There will probably be a specialist in there running things, so we might have to eliminate him as well."

They had moved ahead and cleared the preliminary bunker without incident. Perfect. So far, so good...
And then they told him that he had to blow a door open, and risk alerting the enemy to their presence.
"Well then, I would imagine that patrols will be the least of our worries," he sighed. He set the duffel down and rummaged through a side pocket quickly. He stood again and attached three metal cylinders each three inches in diameters around the door lock. Then he covered each one with a small amount of putty.
Another deep breath. "When it blows open, Kwon and Ruth, you need to rush in there. Ruth, head right and clear out the programmer room. Kwon, I want you to cover him and make sure he doesn't take any bullets in the back. I'll be right behind you. Once it's clear, everyone moves in."
He stepped back three paces and pressed the button. A muffled trio of minute explosions went off, and the door popped open.
Game on.

[[ I haven't posted because this is fairly brief and unnecessary. Sorry if I held things up. ]]

Kwon followed after Ruth, keeping him covered, though he was easily dispatching the light resistance.

She jogged into the computer room, looking around to make sure she went to the right console. She scanned the screen quickly; the interface was a jade green shade with black Drathonian script spread across it. The keyboard had rather large buttons, compared to the small, touch-screen interfaces of the Terran tech. She tapped a button and the screen 'morphed' to a pine colour, and a space appeared for the pass code. She tapped the 6 symbol code into the computer, and waited for the confirmation. It beeped in acceptance, and turned back to the jade colour. She started typing rapidly, the long Drathonian nails clacking on the plastic keys. Code appeared on the screen, and then it turned a crimson red. "Confirmation. Self Destruct code to activate. 7 minute countdown. Confirm?" She pressed a key, "Confirmed, self destruct in 7:00, minutes." The Drathonian computer chimed off in their language. She turned to the Captain, "We have just under 7 minutes until self destruct sir."

As soon as Sehene spoke, he heard the tapping of Drathonian claws on the solid floor, moving quickly. "Cover!" he shouted, as he took up a spot on the other side of the door. As his back struck the wall, he heard Ruth say that the shields were deflecting bullets. He nodded. "Hold on." His voice was strangely calm. He crouched and brought his pack around. He reached in, and when his hand emerged, it was holding a metallic sphere. He smirked. "Built these bad boys myself," he told Ruth, before clicking a small button and rolling it down the hall. As his arm came around the door jamb, a Drathonian happened to get a lucky shot straight through Hendlow's elbow.

He collapsed on his side in shock, but quickly scooted himself out of sight. "********!" It had shot clean through his forearm bones, tearing asunder the muscle connections; he had no control of his arm below the elbow.

The metallic device had rolled short due to the lucky shot, but when it dispersed it's electrical shot, one Drathonian went down, one was knocked unconscious, and a third had weapon malfunctions. Not bad for ******** up throw.

(Hehe, oops... I forgot the medic was in my control.))

Mortego knelt at Captain Hendlow's side, and gently took his arm in both hands to better analyze the wound. The beam itself had cauterized the wound, so there would be no chance of bleeding out, but it still needed to be covered, disinfected, and receive proper medical attention quickly. He drew a medigel applier and a gauze wrapping. Holding the back of Garrison's elbow with the gauze, Mortego filled the gaping hole with the 'gel and then wrapped it up.

The Captain was taking deep breaths to keep himself from groaning or shouting or swearing vehemently. It took all of his will power to do so, but through clenched teeth, he muttered, "Thanks, Mortego."

"No problem, Captain." The man smiled reassuringly. "Drink some water, and let the other men take care of this. You're still in shock."

Hendlow just nodded and remained sitting against the wall, sipping at his canteen, and listening to the sounds of battle.

((Sorry for not posting for a while guys))

As soon as Meigan was aware of the approaching Drathonians she got on the ground and looked around to locate them. A shock from Hendlow and a couple killing shots from Ruth and only three were left advancing. Meigan immediately unlatched her two EVs and aimed.

She looked over the one that had the weapon malfunction, looking for an opportunity to shoot, and she found one. The Drathonian had shifted it's shield ever so slightly, exposing its foot for a couple seconds. Meigan squinted, aimed and shot within the few seconds. The Drathonian was caught off guard and it stumbled a bit, revealing it's neck long enough for Meigan to aim with her other EV and shoot.

The Drathonian fell to the ground gasping for a few seconds but falling silent as Meigan gave it a final shot to the head. She smirked a bit and looked at the other Drathonians, one of which had perfect aim at her, and it took the shot as soon as she noticed. Meigan swiftly planted her feet on the ground and pushed forward and out of the way, but she was just a bit too late.

Though it wasn't a serious blow, the beam scrapped the back of her leg. She moved towards a wall and sat up against it doing this in seconds. She was biting down on her tongue hard to distract her from the pain in her leg, which was now bleeding all over the place. In another few seconds she had sucked it up enough to hold her EVs back up and shot a couple more times at the Drathonians so that they held their shields up and didn't have another chance to shoot her while she pushed off the wall with her good leg and hobbled back into the control room, where she collapsed back down against another wall.

"Damn," she said to herself, closing her eyes and leaning her head up in pain, also trying not to look at the blood.

((Sheer, if your character was struck with an energy projectile (laser weapon or otherwise), the wound would be cauterized by the shot, and wouldn't bleed an ounce. Think Star Wars. You get hit with a shot and it pierces you clean through, but you don't bleed; the energy singes your veins shut, which of course is a whole OTHER set of medical issues, but that's a different story... Just thought I'd throw that tidbit of medical savvy atcha.))

Mortego moved quickly, seeing Meigan and her wound. He knelt beside her, offering the same reassuring smile he gave the Captain. "Just take deep breaths, and keep yourself calm. We don't want you going into severe shock." He took out the gauze roll and the medigel applier a second time, and covered the wound quickly. As a matter of habit, he patted her knee gently. "You'll be alright. Just relax."

Garrett had positioned himself near the doorway again, having seen Kwon make his way out the door. Peeking out, he saw that Kwon was still alive and had managed to collect the shield of a fallen Drathonian. Then the five-minute warning ********. Kwon, get back here, and hold yourself in the doorway!" He grimaced as he brought his backpack around again, and reached for another explosive. "We're gonna grenade spam these ******** if we don't have any other option. I just worry about the structural integrity of this passageway... FLASHBANGS!" He smirked briefly, and dug out two cylindrical canisters painted a deep navy blue and marked in white: FB-07.

Hendlow looked around at his team. "Alright, we HAVE to get out of here. There will certainly be more Drathonians on the way. Sehene, contact the dropship and let them know we're headed to the rendezvous NOW, and it's probably going to be a hot pick-up. I'm going to toss these and blind those Drathonians. Then Kwon's going to move forward and cover our escape to the door. We've got to go NOW."

He took a deep breath. "On three, I'm lobbing the flashes. One..." he pulled the pins, but held the levers down. "Two..." He pulled back his good arm and aimed over the shield. "Cover your ears-- Three!" He lobbed the flashbangs and covered his ears as best he could.

Three seconds later, there came a BANG!

Time to go.