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 Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 9:17 pm
"Move in and rendezvous with the package, Sergeant. Over and out."
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Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 9:17 pm
Ashton turned to the two esteemed guests, offering his supply pack.
"Sir, Ma'am, I had the odd foresight to pack extra fatigues. I though it may be beneficial for you two to have them." He kept a respectful stare into their faces, though he was always unsure how to deal with Civilians, even if they wer highly-knowledgeable civilians who could likely kick his a**.
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Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 9:21 pm
"Copy sir. Karr out."
He switched frequency to all channels.
"Able Orange, Able Orange; be advised, CO on route. Prep package for dust off at designated LZ. Evac here in 10. Repeat: Able Orange, Able Orange, Prep package for dust off, Evac in 10. XO out."
He checked his scope, and switched to his BR55; then moved out again, this time the facility in site.
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Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 9:22 pm
"You heard him Marines!" Seth ordered, "Karr's bought us all a ticket out of here." Seth then approached Dr. Hasley and the SPARTAN.
Seth waited for the two to take the fatigues from Dansmith, "Sir, Ma'am" Seth said saluting, "First Lieutenant Seth Adams, Able Company," He gave the too a considering look, "Do either of you remember how you got here?"
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Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 9:27 pm
"No time for formalities, I'm just a click from your position. CO here in 8. Get them moving. I'll be at the enterance of the facility. Lets go Lieutenant!" He checked the ammo count, and lapsed on his right knee at the side of the door, proping himself up so he had good sight of the oncoming friendlies. He aimed his rifle towards the end of the corridor. "Privates! Warren! Man those AP's! CO inbound in 7!" He barked in his COM. *** The two Privates recived the message. "Sir, yes sir." They replied, and lept to the turrets. Aiming at the doors, watching carefully for anything.
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Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 9:30 pm
"It's done, I'll manage our attack from here" Warren replied over the com. He pulled himself off the ground and threw his broken helmet on the ground, leaving the com piece in his ear. He holstered his Battle Rifle, "Fire on my mark"
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Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 9:32 pm
Anthony continued to peer down the hallway; still nothing.
"Sir, I have the back door secured, and you have 5 minutes. With all due respect sir, get the lead out and hurry your asses up here."
He adjusted his scope and brought his rifle down from his face. Allowing him to study the corridor, and what chance he had incase the 'Sentinals' attacked.
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Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 9:38 pm
Captain Lee saw the doctor emerge from one of the many tubes, quickly followed by the legendary Spartan-II trainer Mendez and a few young soldiers in a variant of armor the Captain had never seen before. Quickly ripping an emergency blanket from two nearby marines' packs, he jogged forwards and handed the large cloths to the two naked humans. Halsey quickly snapped the blanket from Lee's gloved hands, not offering as much as a word of thanks, and slipped it around her form with an unnaturally acute precision. Mendez nodded at the Captain and strapped his blanket around his waist, his scarred though well-built chest beginning to dry in the artificial sunlight.
Lee ungloved his right hand, and extended it to the doctor while introducing himself.
"Doctor Catherine Halsey, it is an honor to meet the creator of the Spartan-II program. I am Captain Xiang Hao Lee of the UNSC Monterey, and I'm sorry that we couldn't meet under better circumstances."
Halsey reached into a small compartment at the end of her tube, pulling out her trademark glasses and a simple lab coat. Spinning around quickly, she briefly shook Lee's hand before rushing off to one of the other tubes, ripping a medical kit out of a nearby medic's on the way there. While she was speeding past others, ignoring everything but the tubes she was heading for, she opened her mouth and let loose a simple retort.
"And I'm sorry you found us. Now you're stuck here too."
Lee ran after her, ogling in stupefaction as she took a pack of fatigues from a nearby marine, and instead of doing what seemed obvious ripped them apart and fashioned a makeshift garotte for the young soldier in strange armor lying in front of her. She pulled it tight around the soldier's arm before opening a small hatch in the biceps area of the armor plate and jabbed in a needle full of adrenaline. The soldier inside of the tube gasped and shook in place for a second before sitting abruptly. He turned his head, taking in the area before fixing his gaze on Halsey and saying a single word of greeting.
"Doctor."
Halsey's sharp blue eyes fixed the soldier with an odd mix of motherly love and fascination. She stood for a second before saying his name.
"Ash."
She then rushed to the next tube, completely ignoring the Captain. Meanwhile, Lee got some more good news, and was almost hopeful enough to forget about Halsey's attitude. Mendez walked by the standing Captain, punching him in the shoulder before trodding lazily after Halsey.
"Don't worry, Sir. She has that effect on everyone."
Lee sighed, and turned to Seth.
"Alright, Lieutenant. Once all the friendlies are up and ready, we're double timing it to the LZ. Spread the word, keep it off radios. Who knows if that freakish lightbulb is listening."
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Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 9:38 pm
Seth nodded absently "Karr we'll be there in time, stay off the radio if you can." Seth added a nav marker to the Company's HUDs, "That's Karr's location and we needed to be there ten minutes ago, Marines" Seth spoke loud enough for the company to hear, "Radio silence, the second our guests can move we're taking off, double time! Understood?"
There was a chorus of responses, and Seth's eyes first went to their new guests and then to the skies. No surprises this time.
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Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 9:40 pm
"Sir... I still have no position on you. Come back on that. Over?" He said into the COM, peering into the distance.
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Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 9:49 pm
"Lance Corporal, we need to open these remaining suspension tubes before we leave." Ashton neared the remaining four tubes from Dr. Halsey's team, the remaining soldiers.
"Alright, Angel, link us in. What are we looking at here, more Cryo-stasis?"
"Negative, these five seem to be suspended in a twin-dimensional Shaw-Fujikawa field. These ones are encased in Slipspace, Lance Corporal.
Ashton searched the local area, and found a small terminal. "Doctor Halsey, your data file?" She tossed it to him, and he loaded it into the terminal. Heiroglyphics started to scroll across the screen, and everything looked solid and green. Just then, a power fluctuation from an upper-deck failure sent one of the tube'sdiagnostics into a critical failure.
"Noo, no no! We're not losing anyone else!!" Dansmith rushed to reverse the failure, the Heiroglyphics translated into English as he needed them.
"Dansmith, I'm remotely accessing a small datachip with enough subroutines to override the failure. Plug my clone in, before it goes critical!"
He hurried as fast as he could, but he was still a bit jitterey from the stim-high, which was only now subsiding. "Angel, I NEED MORE COWBELL! We're losing them!"
"Almost got it! Re-routing power to give me more processing capacity... I've almost stopped the failure, cracking the tubes now before any more damage is done!"
The tubes seals opened, but a nanosecond too soon. The Shaw-Fujikawa Slipspace fields were still active for a fraction of a second too long, and the breached seal sent tendrils of space-time whipping around the room and through matter, creating waves of free ions and ozone in their wakes. Ashton was slammed onto his face after part of the floor he was standing on was atomized, and he was instantly caught in the electrical circuits of the Forerunner machinery.
"GhhhhhAAARRGGHHH!!! AAAAAHHHHH!!!!! WHOOOOAAAAARGH!!!!" He screamed so horribly from the pain, blood began to sputter from his throat, and the last thing he remembered was Angel's face imprinted upon his mind, burned in like the sight of the sun.
"Ashton! Dansmith, can you hear me?! Medic down....!!!"
The world went black....
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Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 9:54 pm
Karr nodded to himself and switched his COM to stand-by. He then moved down the corridor, to the edge, where he met a ramp, and the enterance of a massive facility. Unshouldering his rifle, he peered into the Oracle scope to see the group of units crowding a small area. From the looks of it they were another click away.
From his vest pocket, he retrived his signal light, flashing it at them in a 6 code pattern. The signal for evac site. He knew from this, someone's COM would catch the signal and beep madly in their ear.
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Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 9:56 pm
It had taken a moment to get used to standing up again after being asleep so long, but when he looked over at the Medic that came up as Ashton Dansmith on his HUD something happened. Tendrils of time and space fluttered around the room, licking at things, atomizing metallic casings, hulls, and floors. A voice came through his internal speakers, "Medic down, we have a Medic down!!!" Blood was on the floor, and the pods were fully opened displaying the rest of the SPARTANs. He ran over in two quick steps, reaching down and pulling to soldier free from the circuitry that could have been his death and laid the soldier on the ground that hadn't been atomized. "Dr. Halsey, we need assistance!" called SPARTAN-104 through his external speakers.
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Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 10:00 pm
Through the scope, Anthony could see the SPARTAN rise from his slumber and tower over everyone else. He felt in awe for a moment, but then his countdown time hit zero.
He continued to flash the signal at the troops. This time combined with EVAC it was URGENT, LEAVE, NOW.
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Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 10:02 pm
Seth cursed as he witnessed the events unfolding, this would really slow them down.
He couldn't do anything for Dansmith as he saw Dr. Halsey react he couldn't help but feel helpless.
Instead he kept an eye on the sky, making sure they weren't ambushed by the Monitor or the Sentinels.
Seth's COM began to beep incessantly. It was "EVAC...LEAVE NOW" It had to be Karr. Seth turned toward Karr's general direction and made an exaggerated signal for "MAN DOWN BE THERE SOON...EYE ON THE SKY"
This was not good.
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