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Fina smirked a bit. "Then I guess we're on a doomed mission. Super mutants are tough enough without stealthboys to help them. But about that technology bit, I was thinking more survival first, then salvage." She glanced over to Chib for a moment before looking forward again. "And with that thought, you might want to switch on your infrared if you've got it and check it every now and then, just incase we happen to be driving right into a trap."

She did think he had a point about her getting up close to one of them, but the truth was she didn't really have any good long distance weapons to fight with at the moment. "I'm not really very well equipped. All I got to fight from a distance with that might hurt those Super Mutants very well is this grenade pistol, and i've only got one shot with it."

Fina merely turned her eyes, glancing towards Chib for a moment before back to the road. "Maybe you'd like to re-think that statement. Deathclaws are tough as hell too. Deathclaws with miniguns? Sure they might not be able to run as fast as a deathclaw, but they're definitely as tough as one. The only downside is they're big targets, but that's about where their disadvantages end. The ability to handle huge weapons with relative ease puts them at a serious advantage. I don't like the idea of being shredded along with whatever cover I decide to get behind."

Fina let out a sigh. She wasn't even trying to bother with her strange accent anymore. "Let's just hope we spot them first. We should assume that one of the towns might have gone ahead and countered a threat with 'we're under the brotherhoods protection' or something of that sort, and they might be expecting company."

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Keebz in the back seat of the humvee with Fina and Chibi surveys the area looking for mutants with his squad members

Off to the right, a fire lay in the distance, roughly half a dozen miles out. It was in the rocks, and what looks like perhaps some rubble, maybe a building or two still standing. It would be possible that it was them, and any chance is better than none.

Fina looked toward Chib again as he nodded to the smoke, then took a more careful look in the same direction before he confirmed it. "It could be them. We should investigate, but not so loudly. Which means we'll have to leave the vehicle, atleast temporarily." She slowed to a stop, looking at the smoke and trying to judge it's distance. "Alrighty then. I'd say we park one mile away from the fire, then hike the rest of the way just to be sure we aren't heard. I'll scout ahead since sneakin's my specialty. I want our squad deathclaw coming up a bit away from me, on a bit of an opposing side, so that if I'm spotted, then you can charge in and surprise them. Chib, I'd like you to find a suitable position to snipe from with that nifty rifle of yers..." She looked to York. "York, I'd like you to come along with me, but not too closely. Stay to the shadows as much as you can, and, if you can avoid it, don't attack. However, if it looks like our plan's going sour, I want you to grenade their asses... Live soldiers are more useful equipment to the brotherhood than any tech these mutants might be carrying, but it'd be nice if we got our hands on it nonetheless. If it looks like you can get a good shot off without having to resort to grenades, use your rifle or your pistols."

She then glanced to each of the squad members as she continued. "Now, when I give the signal, i'd like you to lead the attack, Chib. Afterwards, I'll come out of hiding and try blasting one of our targets in the head. By the time we're in position Keebs will have likely found a spot on an opposing side from myself. If things go as planned, and I don't kill the second target with my shot, he'll have likely turned in my direction atleast in surprise... at most to try to kill me. Having drawn attention towards myself, i'll try to hide, and that's when keebs will run in and tear them up. Now, if neither of them are dead by this point, I'd like you to hang back, keebs. Two of them still alive will be too dangerous for you. So instead i'd like York to grenade them. If one's dead from our sniper, then I'd like you to back keebs up with your rifle or pistols, York."

She thought the plan over for a minute as she started the Humvee up again, starting closer to the smoke. She knew she didn't specify the exact positions, but leaving it up to them to find a suitable position for such things was acceptable, considering that they are specialists of their own fields. "How does that sound... Can you find any holes in that plan, Chib?"

York sat in the back seat of the humvee. He was silent for most of the ride, for he continuously thought of the task ahead and prepared himself for the future battle, rather than make small talk with his fellow Brotherhood warriors. Due to his being in deep thought, York paid very little attention to the conversation, and when he brought himself out of his state of meditation, it was as if he had just entered the vehicle-- he didn't know what had been said by Fina and Chib in their conversation.

York gazed out the window and looked for the super-mutants they were to slay. Up until then, York hadn't only ignored the conversation, but he had also neglected looking for the super-mutants. York saw no sign of the beasts.

"How far away are we? And have we decided on our tactics yet?" York asked suddenly, after listening to Chib. He probably sounded like a complete idiot, for he assumed Fina and Chib had already discussed both their distance and their tactics, but judging by what Chib just said, maybe they hadn't yet figured out what their strategy and tactics would be.