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Dante downloaded the map with a guide path to Kai's datapad. As he did that he saw a fragmented data pieces in the same format as the map. “Now what do we have here?” Dante said softly, “Well there's the answer.” Dante's voice increased in volume, “Sir, I think your right. Those lizards had broken the map file in to pieces, and the only reason they have to do it is if they severed the lines themselves like you said. If I can gather the rest of the pieces then we may be able to reassemble a full map; However, I believe that I can find one at each data terminal we come across. I'll put the file on my data pad for later.” After Kai's datapad was done Dante put his pad in and downloaded the same file plus the one he just found. “So what do you want to do now Sir?” Dante asked.

Raji formed up above Arcadia and Emma, ordering Six behind her. She had no experience with Rexs, but their reputation amongst the Terran navy preceded them. They were almost as fast as scimitars, and what they lacked in arsenal they made up for with their agile turning angle. In the hands of a competent pilot, they were a tough match for a scimitar.

Entering maximum locking range, she targeted the foremost Rexs and let loose the last of her missiles. They went swimming off towards the Drathonian formation in a stream of smoke. Raji pulled off to the left, flipping her scimitar upside down and climbing into the stratosphere. Six followed. If she was lucky, she would get the jump on them as the engagement began.


Jack peered up the small passageway, seeing the ladders break off into several more sets of corridors. This was the perfect place for an ambush, where Drathonians could get the Terrans in a single file line and mow them down. Jack looked over to Kai, who was just able to squeeze next to him in the narrow corridor. "I don't like the smell of this... we're walking into a trap. Put Thomas in the rear, and everyone check their angles. I'll take point." With that, Jack pulled himself up onto the ladder up, one hand keeping his rifle trained on the opening above him.

Arcadia studied Raji's movements as she launched herself into the clouds. It was an interesting plan, and she hoped it worked; if not, it could very well turn out to work against them. An ambush that came too late could be just as bad as one that started too early; and if they knew she was up there, even worse. Arcadia was starting to wonder if Raji should have taken off on her own like that, but she wasn't going to question a peer's actions, only hope she knew what she was doing. "Raji..." There was something of a long pause (which was actually less than a second) before she realized there was nothing snappy she could say. "I'll let you know if they're headed your way." So much for being the squad b***h. Goes to show what men know.

Garrett had been at the back of the line all the way to the service tunnels, and once he had shrugged his way in, he felt extremely uncomfortable. "This is suicide. If we go anywhere, we'll get f@&#ed;." Then he realized he was speaking out of turn. "Excuse me, Captain... just thinking out loud." Perhaps a bit too loudly; he had probably scared the s**t out of their new engineer. Too bad; life's tough... Garrett would have given him the spiel if he were in a slightly more humorous mood. "This is what they want, Kai. They want us to try and make our way through these little passages like f%#$ing ants in an ant farm, marching out to meet our doom at the hands of little Timmy and his magnifying glass. They set it up so that this is our easiest path to them, and the easiest thing for them to defend. There's no other explanation for them to have blocked all the other passages up. Sir, I'll repeat, this is suicide."

"I tried," Garrett murmured with a sigh. As the team went up, the demolitions expert was the man in front of Thomas. He had no desire to incur the consequences should he happen to be right. Like Jack, he held his gun in one hand and climbed with the other. He looked down at Thomas, and whispered, "If s**t goes down, you know how to fireslide, right?"

When the two forces came together, Arcadia discharged a pair of missiles and one EMP cannon before dipping under the enemy fighters. She smirked; the Rex's were exactly what she had expected. The second time around, she completely disabled one Rex with her fully charged EMP, and made a few other hits, but none of which were noteworthy. "That's one... How many are there, Corporal?" Arcadia would have checked, but she was busy calculating her next swing through. "Calm down, Four. I might actually laugh if you keep stating the obvious like that." Another smirk. "They're fast, so you plan ahead, lead them. EMPs are very effective against their weak shields. If you don't get 'em with one, you can take them out with a second. Our missiles are too slow to be very effective against them, but it'll work... if you get lucky."

Hendlow smirked. "Trying to clear out this ship that we thought was a Drathonian encampment. I suppose we're also trying to keep the ship's structural integrity, if possible, which is a b***h for me. No Hollywood-style explosions..." He sighed, and made a rather twisted smile. "It's such a shame."

She nodded and made her way down the hallway with the others, carefully avoiding the string, and squinting as they reached the ladders. She shuffled forward, her senses ready for anything, gun cocked. The explosion tore through the air, and she flinched slightly, before un-tensing her body again.

((sorry about the lame post, but shes pretty much just taggin' along so...;D))

"Engy's right, guys. we shouldn't worry too much in the tunnel. Looks like the tops right there though so, i'd get ready if I were you, Jack." Kai said, pressing on. as the group filed up into the small passage that led to a door, it was obvious these ones had been tampered with. In fact, the large amount of explosives attached to the door showed that it was a trap set by the lizards. It was down the exact corridor that CIU 215 would have traveled had they gone the normal way. "Hendlow, get rid of that s**t, see if you can use any of it. Looks like we're about to ambush an ambush." As if to confirm Kai's ambush theory, a bit of scuffling and clanking could be heard outside the hallway. They would have to go in hot as soon as the door was safe. Maybe Garrett could blow it early or something, giving them a bit of an advantage on the lizards.