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Garrett turned in time to catch the battery, and tuck it into his own belt. He gave Kai an affirmative nod then turned away. He entered the next room, all too eager to make the next move. This process was too slow for his current mood. They needed a plan, though, and that much he could agree upon. However, the lack of ideas was spectacularly dull.

"I'm a demolitions expert," Hendlow offered. "You want a new door? I can make one. You want traps? I can build some. You want prisoners? I can give you twenty blind, epileptic Drathonians in the next ten seconds. You're going to need me, and we all know it. Just tell me what the hell you need me to blow up. My only preference is that my target is a living, breathing lizard, but I'll bend on that one if I see the necessity."

Once the room was cleared, he went about his business finding the appropriate location in the hallway. Once he had marked out his plans on the floor, he pulled a tube of some unlabeled material and a small cylindrical device from his belt. While Kai had recommended a circular pattern, he didn't have the right explosives in a large enough quantity to spare for such a task. In its stead, he had come up with a new plan. On the floor of the hallway, he drew a large rectangle with the tube of gel. After a few seconds, the gel began to seep through, hissing angrily. After a little over a minute, the rectangular chunk had fallen into the crawl space.

Carefully, he hoisted it up and set it against the wall. "Don't touch it," he advised the soldiers. "Unless you want to fire a rifle with your middle fingers." As humorous the idea was, Garrett didn't even smile. He was dead set on kicking some Drathonian a**. He dropped down into the crawl space. The flooring here was thicker, and when he applied the same gel, it didn't burn all the through, but he hadn't expected it to burn all the way through.

Now the cylindrical device came into play. Both ends were adhesive, and he attached one in the center of the new "door" Garrett was about to demolish. On the other end, he attached a second shock orb. Along the length of the cylinder was a small dial labeled with various weights measured in Newtons. The floor couldn't have been more than 500N was Garrett's estimate, so he set it for 525N. Then he pressed the activate button. Slowly, the outer shell rose, preparing to drop the door into the next room. While it was preparing, Garrett set the shock orb for a timed explosion: 15 seconds.

His equipment set, he climbed out of the hole, and turned to watch. A near silent clink could be heard as the piston reached its zenith; next came the descent. "Grenades," Garrett muttered, and turned around quickly. He grabbed two grenades from the nearest marine, pulled the pins, and waited.

FWOOMP! The floor began to fall. Halfway down, the shock orb went off, and that's when Garrett tossed the grenades in opposite directions. Then he pushed past the marines, and waited for them to go in. "All yours, boys!"

As Kai jumped through the hole, Quite near to Jack, he spotted some Dragoons farther off, guarding the doorways and elevators. good thing they came through the roof, they would have been slaughtered otherwise. taking advantage of his high ground, he paused about halfway down the rope, then took his time sniping a few of the heavily armored foes with the immensely powerful Sugar rifle he had. After a few exploded, They grew wize, however, And began targeting the blonde man on the rope. as a few shots whizzed past, he began swinging wildly in an attempt to dodge, then dropped down and descended into the slowly dissapating cloud of dust and debris. As the battle began to rage ever higher, Kai yelled orders, had his men find cover, and found some himself. soon the group of 50 was down to just 20, but the several hundred lizards had lost more than an equal percentage. Noting that the Doors to the construction bay were closed, Kai grabbed jack and said "hey, I need you to cover me, I'm going to open the doors and call for reinforcements!" slapping the soldier on the back, he ducked down and rushed across the floor, firing as carefully as a sprinting man can, towards the control room.

Jack jogged after Kai, keeping about twenty meters behind him. As the young man barreled through a barrage of enemy fire, Jack let loose on the gangs of lizards between them and the door. Hearing the whisper of his com under the chaos around him, Jack had the perfect use for Garrett. "Garrett, it's Jack. Could you send some explosions my way?" He quickly pinged his location on the HUD between shots, all the while keeping careful watch over the captain who was charging through the fray just ahead of him. A decent force of Drathonians stood before the small gate that led into the control room, and two hulking Drath tanks stood sputtering beside it, blasting away with their dual subsonic plasma turrets. No way could two marines take the position without support. Jack yelled into his com to get Kai's attention. "Kai, slow down! Wait for our backup to take out those tanks!" Jack sprinted forward, catching up to Kai. They were about fifty meters away from the door now, and a large, empty space lay between them. Jack shot a Drathonian jumping up from behind his makeshift bunker and beckoned for Kai to follow him behind the propped up sheet of metal. Pulling out his last spatial charge, Jack looked back over the top of their cover. His charge wouldn't be able to take out either of the tanks, but he could probably get some of the twenty or so infantry bunkered down around the door. "You got anything that can kill a tank?" he asked Garrett, gauging the angle he'd have to throw the charge at to get it into a machine gun nest that was planted just behind the two massive tanks.

Inside the Hymn, A group of 6 shuttles, each carrying 30 soldiers, sat waiting for an opening large enough to land in and stable enough for troops to disembark. The pilots tapped on the controls, waiting patiently for a call to come through. Through the radio chatter, they found that the Drathonian space navy had either been obliterated, forced on-planet, or forced to flee by this time. The only thing stopping the Terrans from invading the planet itself was the shipyards. Green squadron soon returned to the ship, Minus three Scimitars and with a heavily damaged Shamshir. The chaingun had been blown completely off, and the wing bearing the sensors had been clipped midway. Most of the cocpit was scorched, and the pockmarks of defensive guns covered the hull, but still it flew. The 7 remaining ships of green squadron were quickly evicted and moved rather uncerimonuosly toward a mass of damaged fighters waiting for maintenence. All in All the space battle had been very one-sided, the Terrans having had fighter carriers and a larger amount of ships this time around. Already, the Terrans were pretty sure of their victory, warships forming a defensive perimiter around as much of the planet as possible, large troop carriers and smaller *but still rather large) salvage vessels warping in to get ready for the invasion and attempt to regain as much resources as possible from the aftermath of the space battle. Inside the station, The drathonians began to lose their morale, many beginning to give up, but in the main hangar, those 20 men were under the fiercest fire, still heavily outnumbered and nearly outgunned.

As Kai charged past the burning tanks, he noticed the door to the control room was locked tight and guarded by none other than Dragoons. smartly, Kai had created giant clouds of smoke, making sniping from any farther than the tanks impossible. not only that, but there was a turret that noticed him and began spamming the area with chaingun rounds. Jumping out of the way just in time, he came back to Jack and jumped behind the bunker. "Well, looks like we'll need a bit of help" he said, nodding in confirmation to Garrett's message "the charges are here, let's go back and get them and grab a few helpers, eh?" the captain said to the soldier next to him. "Garret, what kind of gun do you have? if you're in need, I think we can tie a sugar to be hoisted up to you, okay?" with that he tapped jack on the shoulder an said "Let's go" darting out from behind the cover.

As the Explosion resounded behind Kai, He dove behind the nearest pile of debris on the floor, and looked back to see Jack go off running towards the control room. "Crap, He's gonna get himself killed" Kai thought, jumping up again and rushing to the group of Terrans, whose numbers had now reached around 15 or so. Grabbing the explosives, Kai tied a Sugar to the end of the cable and called Garret "Allright, there's a Sugar on the same line you dropped the explosives with, hoist it up if you need it" With that he turned to the rest of the menand yelled "Grab the wounded, temporary retreat towards the control room, Come on men let's move!" as he yelled this he waved a hand in the air pointing the soldiers in the right direction to move, and a blaster shot lanced through it, Blowing off his middle and ring fingers, causing him to grab it instinctive ly and then bend over to hide himself better Argh! my hand.. Dammit! I can't shoot anymore He thought, as the last of the soldiers passed by him. he slung the explosives over his shoulder, then, with his left hand, pulled the EV-47 lazer from it's holster to use as a last defense, and retreated towards Jack with the rest of the soldiers.