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 Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 7:03 pm
Aria is puzzled by the expression that the leader used, as they weren't really flying. Her expression reflects her puzzlement.
She turns towards the gate as she hears the small sound of the stagate activating. She watches it, still not completely used to seeing the gate work.
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Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 9:50 pm
Even though Hunter knew what was coming, she still flinched at the unstable vortex that burst out of the Stargate and rushed toward her at high speed, only to stop suddenly short and retract into a rippling, glowing disc. This was the first time Hunter had seen the Stargate activate from the gate room, and would be her first trip through... which was not an experience she had been looking forward to. She would have preferred to hang back until the others had gone through, in order that they would not get the chance to see her hesitation to step into the gate. But Lockwood needed a point man, and she was it. As soon as the vortex had settled, she stepped forward to the airman by the ramp and took an intar P-90 and a map from him, moving mechanically to hide her nerves. She nodded her thanks to the airman but never took her eyes off of the undulating ripples of the event horizon. She stepped up the ramp, still forcing herself to move calmly and without hesitation, until she got to the flat of the ramp at the top. At that point, a few steps away from the event horizon, her nerves failed her. A flash of panic overrode her control, and she knew immediately that she could not step through. Not yet. She needed to prepare. She needed a moment to steel herself, but she did not want her team to see her hesitate. Thinking quickly, she turned to face the room. "Alright, people," she said gruffly, only barely betraying her panic with a short nervous quiver that she quickly brought under control, "I know we're not planning an assault, and I know that the other side is clear. But I want to see if we can at least pretend some military discipline. This is what I want to see...""As soon as you come through, I want you to take a step or two forward to get out of the way for the next person, then get down on your knee like this," she demonstrated going down on one knee with her weapon up and at the ready. Although this was very basic SOP for the military personnel, she went into the details for the sake of the science contingent, "That makes you a smaller target for any hostiles in the area. You will take a very quick scan of the area, just one quick glance around, and try to determine where the best cover you can get to is, and where any enemy might be, especially if they might be hiding in wait. Don't take more than two seconds on this survey, but try to identify where your allies are, where your enemy might be, and where you should get to to be safe."
"Then I want you to run and take cover wherever you think is best. Try to pick a spot that gives you a clear command of the area, but doesn't leave you exposed. And don't bunch up. Spread out. Try to cover areas that no one else is covering, or cover someone's back if they're exposed on one side."
"And I want to see some hustle. I want you behind cover and commanding some area of the terrain no more than five seconds after you come through that gate. Understand? Don't dawdle. Don't hesitate. Move."
"Not you, sir," Hunter cut off the Colonel before she could make any comments, "This goes for everyone but the Colonel... unless she wants to join in, I suppose. I'll be on the other side watching to see how you do. Remember, hustle!"By the end of this speech she had managed to calm the screaming panic in her brain, and she turned and stepped toward the gate calmly. There was one final twitch of hesitation as her nose approached the event horizon, and she squeezed her eyes shut and forced herself to keep moving. * * * There was a sensation of extreme forward motion, but without any sense of acceleration, or of wind on her face. She thought she could see stars and clouds screaming by her, but since her eyes were closed, she knew she must be hallucinating. * * * Then she stumbled slightly, and found that she was in mid-step... thrown off rhythm by a delay of a few seconds. She was aware of a heat on her face, and could feel that the humidity and air pressure were much higher. There was a wild menagerie of smells, and the sounds of animal life replaced the bustle and hum of Stargate Command. She opened her eyes with a snap and saw that she was on a stone pedestal in the centre of a grassy clearing. On all sides was a dense jungle that reminded her of Amazon rain forest pictures she had seen - and although she knew nothing about foliage, she felt sure there was something alien about this jungle. She took on deep breath of the alien air, and exhaled softly: "One down, only three to go."She moved quickly to the side of the gate and took up position to watch whoever came through next. The sun was beating down through an almost cloudless sky, and Hunter used her free hand to start opening buttons and rolling up sleeves. Other than the Stargate, on its raised stone mount with a couple steps down to the grass, the only things in the clearing were the Stargate's dial home device, and a scarecrow... a scarecrow dressed like a mockery of a member of the SGC, placed facing the Stargate, made to look like a grinning idiot running cowardly back to the gate.
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Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 4:13 pm
Lee just kinda chuckled at the Colonel's joke, and just shook her head smirking. Next she watched Hunter approach the active gate and freeze. Anyone else watching might not have caught the tensing of the muscles but she did. It seemed that Hunter did have a c***k in her so called impenetrable armor of ice. Smirking she chuckled silently to herself as she watched the other Captain give out instructions to the others like they were new cadets.
However, being that she had been through the gate on countless missions, she didn't need instructions. Lee knew how to work within an SG team structure and how to approach the gate and what to do once on the otherside.
Shrugging a bit she picked up an intar P-90 and some other odds and ends that she had readied as well. Approaching the gate she stepped through without hesitation giving everyone a thumbs up and a grin as she walked through.
Once on the other side of the gate she saw Hunter standing around and not even following her own instructions.
"Well Captain Hunter, I see you're standing around like a fresh cadet on their first assignment. Didn't you instruct everyone to drop to one knee, point their weapon in front of them and do a quick sweep to find any potential enemies? Oh and can't forget the running and hiding to take cover..." she poked at the blond Captain. "I think you should be doing that about now..."
After having her say, she looked around, dropped to one knee and did a quick professional sweep. However she didn't run willy nilly to some random cover. Instead she approached swiftly with her weapon at the ready a tree and took cover.
"Ready when you are captain," she smirked and continued to poke fun at the woman. It was great that she had this experience over the blond. Made her day actually.
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Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 10:13 am
Aria watches as hunter pauses at the gate, and notices the tensing of her muscles. Not showing any sign that she noticed, she walks fowards just a step or so behind Lee, taking an intar from the airman and bravely walks up to the gate and steps through. Onthe other side, she moves fluidly off to the side and follows the ntructions that Hunter had given. She quickly scans the terain, not seeming to pay too much attention to her surroundings. She then stands up and heads surely for the cover of a large deciduous tree, close to where Lee's position was. She looks back to the Captain and says, "Ready, Captain". She is sure she had done well with this part of the training mission.
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Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 12:44 am
Hunter blinked in surprise, and flinched slightly at the poke, but said nothing. Didn't I also say I would be on the other side of the gate watching to see how everyone did? she wondered, but remained mute. She was rather uninterested in how the military members of the team performed her little exercise - they should all be well-trained enough already. It was the scientists she was interested in observing, to see how well they could act like soldiers, and how tactically aware they were. And she was completely uninterested in how she performed her own test.
She was concerned about Captain Lee, however. It was rare to have more than one officer in the chain of command on a mission, even extremely rare to have two of equal rank. Officers being officers, most were fairly competitive and ambitious by nature. Two captains meant two people Lockwood could go through. If Lockwood did not establish one or the other of them as functionally superior in the mission's command structure, people would be unsure which of them to report to, which would be bound to create confusion. On the other hand, if Lockwood assigned one over the other, it would surely be a sign to the subordinate captain that she was less favoured - and so much for morale.
Hunter sighed heavily. She was aware of the fast-paced selection process that had been necessary to put this team together on such short notice, so such a foul up was almost inevitable. They would just have to find a way to make it work. Lee's ambitious and competitive nature would surely clash with her own... but if they could find a way to each carve out a niche of their own, perhaps they could minimize the friction.
The young alien was next through the gate, and she followed Hunter's instructions to the letter, with surprising confidence and grace. "Good hustle, Miss Aria," Hunter called out, "Now, the next thing you would have to do if this were real is cover Captain Lee's back, and make sure that the next people that come through the gate will not come under fire. That's called covering your rear terrain. Watch Lee get into the right position to cover the forward terrain properly. Lee?" She hoped the Captain would follow her suggestion, and assist her in testing the alien scientist.
She continued talking to Aria. "Take a look at what Lee does... then show me which way you should be looking to both cover Lee and whoever comes through next: point it out to me." She was relieved so far - she had expected the alien to be a problem, based on her complete lack of military experience, including even movies. If the other scientists were as diligent and as competent, they might be alright.
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Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 7:40 pm
((i'm going to wait for Heather to post, okay?))
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Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 7:52 pm
Astarael Storm ((i'm going to wait for Heather to post, okay?)) ((if you want, i guess. we're kinda waiting for a lot of people to post.))
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Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 7:55 pm
((sorry been really busy as of late. I'll try to post tomorrow.))
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Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 1:33 pm
Lee sighed and shook her head a bit as she already was in proper position. It seemed that Hunter was off her game today and kinda made her wonder what was going through the blond's head.
"Yo, Hunter, if you had paid any attention to where I am standing and pointing my gun, you would have noticed that I am already in proper position," she stated quite bluntly. "Aria, if you want to cover my rear or more commonly known as my six in military lingo, get to it," she ordered. Even though Aria didn't really have to follow her orders, this was a drill and a test. Plus Lee wasn't all that keen on baby sitting someone at the moment.
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Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 6:41 pm
Aria quickly observes Lee's stance and moves into a position that will enable her to cover Lee's six and still make sure that the gate isn't going to come under fire. Her posture, at a glance, would seem relaxed, when in truth she's alert and her eyes are glancing everywhere that possible unfrendlies would hide behind.
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Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 11:39 pm
Though Lockwood was doing nothing more than coolly observe her team go through the gate, Sonata picked up her weapon and approached the gate gingerly. Nervously, she pushed her glasses up her nose several times, using it as an excuse to hesitate on the threshold and stare in wonder at the surface of the open wormhole.
"You're blocking traffic, Rourke. Get a move on it." Lockwood wasn't trying to be rude, but it seemed so cliche to her for someone to hold up everyone else while they admired the event horizon.
Sonata didn't answer the Colonel, just took a deep breath, closed her eyes, and stepped through the gate. Though it was little more than the blink of an eye, when the scientist stepped out the other side of the gate, her eyes shone with exhilaration, cheeks flushed with excitement. It wasn't everyday a girl hurtled across the galaxy. Her breath exploded and a smile came to her lips, all thoughts of the orders Hunter had given slipping from her attention.
Finally she looked around and caught sight of both Lee's irritated expression and Hunter's blank-slate stare. Trying to move like someone she'd seen in a movie, Sonata hefted her intar and took a few steps forward to clear the space in front of the gate for any other incoming travellers.
Almost as soon as she'd cleared the pedestal the gate was built onto, Sonata's natural grace took over. One foot caught on the other and she tumbled face-first toward the floor. A well-used instinct to brace her fall with her arms was slowed by the unfamiliar feeling of a weapon in her hands, and the scientist flailed one arm free to turn her fall into something like a roll. Her finger caught the trigger of the weapon, the shot from the intar squarely hitting the scarecrow mockery in uniform in the knee. With a few dead leaves in her hair, Sonata popped back up to her feet, surveying the damage ruefully.
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Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 4:03 pm
Lee watched Rouke take a tumble and shook her head sighing. Getting up from her kneeling position, she walked over to Rouke and offered the scientist a hand.
"Here," she offered the woman. "Nice entrance by the way," she said straight faced. Although on the inside she was laughing, because it was funny in a way.
"You ok?" she inquired.
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Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 1:04 am
Hunter massaged the bridge of her nose. The alien, Aria, had performed admirably... but the team was a mess. Lee seemed determined to undermine her - and in front of the scientists, too! - so there was no hope for teamwork even among the military personnel. The leader of the scientist contingent was a klutz, probably more dangerous to her teammates than the enemy. It was a disaster.
But then... it wasn't over yet.
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When the unstable vortex erupted from the Stargate, Emmy took the opportunity to toss her empty can into it, which tore it down to subatomic particles. She smiled smugly. "Reduce? Reuse? Recycle?... I choose reduce."
She hung back while the first wave of people ran through the Stargate. Despite her talk with Rourke, she was still not completely into the whole practise game thing. She would cooperate... barely. She certainly did not want to be one of the first through the Stargate. She had no intention of running for cover as Hunter had asked, and she did not want to be trampled by one of the eager beavers that came behind her. So, she waited.
Once the eager ones were all thought - including Rourke herself - Emmy decided that she might as well get on with it. She walked up to the airman with the intar P-90's... and then she had a brainstorm. Hunter wanted to see her play soldier, eh?
She took two P-90's - the one designated for her, and the one designated for the Gunnery Sergeant (who had brought her own instead, leaving a spare) - and four extra magazines. Moving quickly and furtively to avoid getting caught and told to stop, she set both to full auto and cradled one in each arm. Then she turned to face the gate and yelled, "BANZAIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!!!"
Screeching an Arabian war cry she charged at the gate and and leapt into the event horizon....
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She burst out of the event horizon on the other side, still screeching her war cry. She landed in a crouch and then sprayed the surrounding forest with both P-90's. With the P-90's on full auto, she swung both guns around to spray more than 70 rounds of intar fire into the trees all around the clearing - screaming the whole time.
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Hunter was just about to speak up to Lee and Rourke when a tornado burst through the gate. As soon as Devereux started firing, Hunter dropped flat on the ground and covered her face.
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After she finished her sweep of the forest wall, Emmy ran and dived off of the pedestal the Stargate was mounted on... and fell with a breathy whump on the ground between Hunter and Rourke and Lee. Still screaming her war cry, she belly-crawled, rolled - and even did "the worm"... the break dancing move - squeezing off rounds into the air randomly.
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Hunter looked up with shock and despair in her eyes to see Devereux "worming" her way between her and where Rourke and Lee were - still firing her weapons occasionally! - over toward the nearby ruin of a wall or pillar.
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Emmy got to her cover - still screeching her death cry - and fired a few more shots off into the air until finally her clips both ran dry. Then she sat with her back against her wall-cover, her legs splayed open in front of her, and laughed. "The area is secure, ma'am!" she laughed, and mock-saluted Hunter.
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Hunter slowly picked herself up from the grass - spitting out a few blades that had stuck to her lips - and stared wide-eyed at the scene in front of her. She said nothing, she just shook her head slowly from side to side.
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Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 7:14 am
Lee heard the battle scream which sounded more like a dying dog than a battle cry. At anyrate she grabbed Rouke and dove to the side, keeping the scientist safe from Emmy's beserker barrage. When Emmy finally stopped, she growled low and dangerously. Now she was pissed, her eyes became hardend flints of cold steel. Her demeanor hardend and she looked down at Doctor Rouke.
"Are you ok, Doctor?" she asked. When she noticed the woman was ok, she got up slowly. "Please wait here Doctor," she said in a flat monotone.
Walking over to where Emmy was, she stood over the woman and glared down at her with such intensity that if she had the power to do so, the woman would be reduced to ash.
"Hand me your weapons, NOW!" she stated in a flat monotone, only emphasizing the last word of her sentence. "You are in breach of the training mission, and you needlessly endangered not only your fellow scientist's life, the life of myself and Captain Hunter, but you broke protocol," she stated severely.
Lee didn't give a damn if Emmy was a civilian, what she did went against all Stargate Command protocols and broke many laws in and of itself. Furthermore, if Emmy didn't hand over the weapons, she would take them by force if need be. The brunette Captain was not taking no for an answer.
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Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 11:36 pm
Emmy looked up at the captain with a bemused expression.
"Gee, Doctor Rourke," she chuckled, "I don't think gate travel suits you. Looks like you put on a couple pounds just from that one trip there. You seem to be packin' a bit more junk in the trunk there, eh? I mean, you've changed so much I can hardly recognize you, Doc, but it must be you because no one else could be barkin' orders at me, unless someone needs to be beat over the head with the chain of command."
"Now...," Emmy said, casually, while she removed the empty magazines from her P-90's, "I know you're not really into the physical sciences, Doc, but let me see if I put this in terms you can understand. I'll try and use small words, Doc, because you look a little dull and glazed over... probably the gate again, eh?"
"This...," Emmy held up one of the P-90's, "Is not a weapon. I don't have any weapons to hand over to you, unless you count my knife. This is an intar. It is a training device designed to simulate a weapon. I guess it could fool those with weak minds... but it's not a weapon, it's not deadly, and it's not even dangerous, unless you're worried about your pride getting wounded."
"And frankly, I'm a little hurt," Emmy chuckled, "See, I figure that since the intar can't hurt you, the thing that you figure must've endangered everyone's lives here must be my dancing. I wasn't that bad, was I?" Chuckling she started to replace the spent magazines with fresh ones.
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