Welcome to Gaia! ::

Alex stood on the podium in the dimly lit briefing room, clad in full power armor from head to toe. Hanging next to her, from two sets of steel wires, was a full suit of Environmental armor with yellow tinted Plexiglas face cover.
Behind her engraved on the wall was the Brotherhood insignia, their icon, their hope, the symbol for everything they stood for.

Quietly her head turned to inspect the people who had gathered to listen to the briefing, gathered around her where mostly fresh new blood eager to prove them selves in battle, mixed with the occasional veteran sitting in the corners quietly watching as the Initiates blabbered on carelessly.
"Quiet down!" Alex exclaimed loudly in order to get there attention, as soon as everyone had quiet down and taken there seats. Alex gave a quick nod towards the back of the room, with one almost inaudible click, a white film canvas descended from the roof obscuring the Brotherhood insignia on the wall.

"Recently the Brotherhood has suffered a series of set backs in there latest expansion plans." Alex stated as she raised her right hand pointing at the blank film canvas, suddenly the projector in the back of the room hummed to life as the technician in charge of it switched it on.
Gradually a series of pictures lined up next to each other appeared on the canvas, each and every picture was of an old pre-war city, on the brink of collapsing in on itself. Smoke and fog could be seen on each picture rising from the streets, smothering the city in its thick poison.
"The Brotherhood as recently set up base in this city, two months ago we lost contact with them. Naturally a scout team was sent to investigate... We never heard from them again." Alex stated rather dryly as she nodded towards the back of the room once more.

With another almost inaudible click, the picture changed, now a picture detailing the front of a white building, all of its windows smashed and boarded up with lead based metal sheets, the most noticeable feature was the large vault door that had been installed as its entrance.
"This building was the town hall, it being the most resilient structure the city had to offer was naturally chosen as the temporary headquarters for the brotherhood team dispatched."
With another nod towards the back, the picture changed once more, this time the picture detailed the layout of the Town hall.
The building it self was made up out of three levels, the lobby, the office floor, and the mayors office on the top floor.
The first level contained six rooms, the hallway entrance, connected to that was the reception area which contained one single desk and two sets of none functional elevators.
To the left of the reception was the grand hall used for media interviews, which in turn had been converted into the temporary sleeping quarters for the Brotherhood members.
To the right was another large hall room, used for banquets and fund raisers, the room had been left as it was and used as the mess hall.
Connected to the Mess hall and the reception area was the back room, used for storage and the fire stairs, the room also contained a smaller room with one an electric door. What was not detailed on the schematics shown, was inside said room was one large metal door that lead into the cities bomb shelter.

The third floor had been cut off completely by a collapsed stair case, leaving only a detailed schematics of the second floor as the third was unimportant due to the lack of access.
The second floor contained three rooms, one large central area with rows upon rows of desks, one large private office with one pristine looking oak
desk. The third room was the entrance to the emergency exit leading to the staircase.

"Naturally the Brotherhood does not take kindly to loosing its territory, newly acquired or not. The General staff has approved the use of an assault team to clear out any hostiles and to secure that building. Alex stated rather excitedly as she nodded once more, this time a picture of a large chemical factory was shown. Its large tanks rusted and cracked, questionable green liquid saturated the ground around it, with fumes rising from the pools.

"The city it self housed a rather large chemical laboratory, and when the bombs dropped the tanks burst, so we will all be going in with heavy rad protection as reports from the first team suggests that the fumes are highly toxic and that the city is saturated with high doses of radiation. Anyone signing up for the mission that does not have access to the proper equipment will be given one of these." Alex said, pointing a her left thumb at the Environmental armor hanging next to her.
"While the suit might be protected against radiation and harmful air born toxins, it does not make you immune to them. Prolonged exposure to radiation will still grass your a**, so keep an eye on that Geiger counter and stay out of radiation hot spots and you should be
fine. The toxins in the area are said to be extremely lethal so if suits integrity is compromised.. Pray to god and fix it quickly." Alex said as she nodded once more towards the back of the room, with another almost inaudible click, the projector was shut off and the canvas began to roll back up.

"Our objectives are as followed.
One - Find and secure the HQ at all costs.
Second - Investigate what has happened to the two teams dispatched.
Third - Locate and eliminate any potential hostiles in the area, meaning, if it ain't brotherhood and it moves, kill it... That is all, the transports leave at noon tomorrow. Dismissed."

-Alex "Twixi" Varg (Twixi)(Raptor Squad)
-Elder Xenos (Xenos Mortium)(General's Staff) Dead
-Mark Adam O'brian (CFAR)(No Squad)

-Zaid "Razgriz" Al-Hadithy (Razgriz)(Reaper Squad Leader)
-George "Joker" (Millenium Joker)(Special Squad)
-Bren Land (Breenland)(Special Squad)

-Brutus (Brutus the Dehumanized)(Unnamed Combat Squad) Dead
-Leona Sky (Leona Oozaki)(Raptor squad)

-Dante "DG" Gautulf (DGwar)(Renegade Squad Leader)
-Erin 'Two-hands' Celdt (Cabbage The Centaur)(Renegade Squad)
-Edward Holdem (Unmaker 3)(Renegade Squad)

((Seeing how we never really got the mission started we can pick up where we left off, and sorry for the move and confusion, i really really needed to fix somethings up.))

As soon as Mark gave the 'All clear', Alex holstered her weapon and stepped through the archway. The signs of battle where all to apparent, tables and chairs thrown all about, wrecked furniture and paintings, scorch marks and plasma burns, bullet holes and blast craters. Something or someone had torn the place up bad.
"Well isn't this just lovely.." Alex said out loud as she walked towards Mark, kicking the occasional debree out of her path.
"Looks like something tore through here pretty bad, and i have never heard of any super mutant or ghoul that could by pass brotherhood security without blasting it all to pieces.. I mean the blast door doesn't even have a scratch on it." Alex commented over the secure channel, but something was still bugging her, here, there where obvious signs of battle, but much like the rest of the city, there where no bodies around.

"Hmph, well to time to dilly dally people. Zaid, take special squad and sweep the upper levels, the blue prints say there should be two more stories. Mark you're with me, lets see if we cant find a computer terminal around here somewhere and see what goodies this place has for us." Alex said over the open intercom, as she checked her pip-boy, the bomb shelter access point was located in the back of the lobby, a good place as any to start looking for an access terminal.

Without checking to see if Mark was following, Alex stormed off into the adjacent room. It much like the rest of the place, it was wrecked, furniture thrown about and smashed, scorch marks and bullet holes. Whatever had happened here, Alex could take comfort knowing that her Brothers and sisters had at least put up one hell of a fight.

After some minor navigational errors, Alex found her way to the back room. The room itself was nothing more then an old storage compartment, with several metal lockers lining the walls. And one huge steel door that lead into the bomb shelter, the door it self had seen better days, numerous scorch marks and impact craters lined the colossal construction, obviously the Brotherhood had yet to breach it.
So thats why they want this place back so badly, they haven't gotten to the chocolaty goodness inside. Alex thought to her self as she stepped into the room while looking around.

There, lined up against the far side of the left wall, was what she had been looking for, Here is you're god damn bodies, happy now? Alex thought to her self as she shook her head. Before her eyes, eight black body bags where spread across the floor, each and everyone marked with the Brotherhood insignia.
With one loud sigh escaping her lips, causing the helmet's speakers to hiss, as she waved Mark over.

"I think i found it, and what i think is the base personnel.. Collect their holotags would you?" Alex said to Mark as she nodded towards the body bags, but what escaped her mind at the time was, there where ten members in the original team sent here. Meaning two where still missing.

"Alright people, we found the bomb shelter, seems our guys never managed to crack it open. Guess we all know why they sent us here now huh? Either way, Zaid keep an eye out for a computer Terminal, seeing how the shelter is still sealed we have no hopes of accessing those computers. So keep an eye out, we need to know what happened here." Alex announced over the radio.

Bren moved forward, taking the point at the stairwell. Peeking into it, all seemed clear. He moved forward slowly, keeping his P90 up and attention focused. As he made it up the stairwell, he noticed the collapsed stairs leading to the third floor. Perhaps we can check it out later...he thought as he moved to the doorway.

The door was gone, blown of it's hinges by some force from the previous battle. The small room before him seemed to open into a much larger one, filled with, from what he could see, desks. "Alright, this area seems to be clear so far. Let's keep going.", he said over the radio as he moved forward into the small corridor.

[[We're protected from radiation in here, aren't we?]]

A word from Zaid, his current field commander. On rear guard. With a grunt into the earpiece, Joker poises the barrel of the Remington towards the door, and as Zaid steps through, he begins to walk backwards, keeping the shotgun ready to blow anything that may come at them to kingdom come.

((Very well, let's just make it so that I was falling behind and gave the orders as I was approaching you guys, oh and let me say this now, NO BODY runs around he place alone, if Raz catches anyone wandering about there'll be hell to pay at the base.))

As soon as he approached the group of initiates he noticed that Bren was taking the lead and with his P90 he was ideal for the front line his comm unit opened again as he addressed the squad again "Alright fall soldiers, follow the formation and tell me what you noticed so far." he lowered his Sub machineguns so as not to accidentally shoot one of them as he stood before them, his jet black armor seemed to do a good job of keeping him barely visible in the darkened corridor so he had his helmet light turned on to make sure they can spot his position.

Joker was certainly taking his role seriously and actually focusing on the job at hand, which was a good thing unless Joker went on the fritz, however that was the least of his concerns right now considering that two skilled teams were never heared of ever again when they entered this place.

Bren nodded as Zaid came into place. "Nothing so far. We were just about to start clearing and investigating this floor here.", he replied, keeping his P90 focused on the doorway. "Hopefully there won't be much up here, since I'd like to try and check out the third floor, if possible.", he added. Stepping closer to the doorway, they were only several feet from it. With a quick movement, he quietly made his way to the doorframe's right side, keeping himself close to the wall, but not enough to touch it.

"I'm ready to go when you are.", Bren said, his P90 ready if anything tried to move through the doorway.