[Halo] New! Halo RPG Pt. 11

[Hells Sniper]

Carmicle nodded, before he could speak he heard Folee cock his shotgun. Folee: Well..I think it's time we repaid Black Team a visit, hoorah? Carmicle laughed. Carmicle: Ooah! Let's move!

[Naked Crook]

Nighthawk reached to his side and grabbed his SMG and his Deserthawk. Nighthawk: Agreed. Nighthawk nodded. Nighthawk: We have point. Nighthawk turned and moved further into the research labs, heading towards the deep freeze. Nighthawk's walk turned into a brisk pace as he approached the corridor leading down to the deep freeze, where Black Team was held up and fortified. Nighthawk turned the corner and looked down the long, yet wide, corrdidor and saw Black Team had taken up position, ready to fire on any ONI Marines or ODSTs that got close. The corridor itself was about 30 yards in length, with no cover between where Nighthawk was standing, and deep freeze vault. It was one long narrow corrdidor. There was one way in, and out...and Black Team was cornered. Nighthawk glared at Black 1. Black 1 stared back at Nighthawk. The two exchanged a look, and they both raised their weapons. Black 1 could be heard shouting to the other members of Black Team. Black 1: Heads up...ONI is breaking their own rules again! Black Team immediately got into cover and readied their weapons, waiting for ONI to make the first move. Meanwhile: The King Raven had once again disengaged its active camo as it began to fire on The Ulterior Motive. Trust Officer: Sir...The King Raven is off the starboard-bow. Kolya: Hard to starboard...bring all weapons to full and commence firing! The Ulterior Motive shook again, this time, very violently, as the impacts from The King Raven's Archer missiles had destroyed a large segment of armor, and had started to damage the hull of The Ulterior Motive. Trust Officer: Sir...we have lost the starboard-bow armor...we have multiple breaches on Decks 4, 5, 10, and 11. We are venting atmosphere...and the bulkheads are not responding in that area. The primary power conduit to our starboard Archer pods has been destroyed, and I am unable to bypass. Kolya: What about our port Archer pods? Trust Officer: Still online, but the power disruption caused an interrupt in their cycle. We are restarting their cycle. The Ulterior Motive shook again, as it was hit by another barrage. Trust officer: Sir...your orders? Kolya: Get a lock on with our port Archer pods, and fire! Trust Officer: Target locked...firing.... Kolya waited for a moment to hear the result of his order. Trust Officer: SIr...The King Raven has once again dropped from our sensors...our Archer's have lost their lock. Kolya pounded his fist on his arm rest. Kolya: Damn it! Kolya got up from his seat and ran over to the holo map. Damien: Sir...we cannot take much more of this. We cannot even see The King Raven long enough to hit it...and it is just popping up at random intervals. We have to retreat! Kolya: Not yet...not until we have no other choice. We are still in this... Trust Officer: Sir...The King Raven is back...this time on our six. They are firing... Kolya: Bring us about and load asll point defense-- The Ulterior Motive shook once again. The lights on the bridge began to blow out as one of the computer terminals caught fire. Smoke began to fill the bridge. Kolya sighed. Kolya: Damn it... Trust officer: Sir...we have a transmission coming through...it's Captain Hayes...audio only. The Officer opened a channel. Hayes: Admiral Agustus Kolya...this is Captain Rodney Hayes. Typially, at this point, I would demand that you power down your weapons and engines, and for you to invoke a plea of surrender. However, I will do no such thing, as I have no interest in you surrendering yourself, or your ship, or your crew. I have no interest in bringing you to trial to face a jury of your peers. On the contrary, my only interest is destroying your ship, and displaying its broken hull to the Office of Naval Intelligence, and to the rest of the galaxy as an example of what we do to dissidents, traitors, and our enemies. You may continue this fight, or beg for mercy...but the end result will be the same no matter what you do. Unless I deem it necessary to humor myself, there will be no further communication between us. The comm line then went dead. After a moment, the Ulterior Motive shook again. Trust officer: Sir...we have lost our ablative armor...they are tearing us apart! Kolya winced. He placed his hands down on the edge of the holomap, and bagan to grip the edges of the table, sqeezing the edge as hard as he could. the edges of the holotable began to bend, and several large cracks shot up the hootable, as the entire device shutdown from the damage that Kolya had done to it. Kolya: Signal The Nightingale...we are withdrawing from the system. Inform Black Team that the situation has become unobtainable...and we must evac immediately. Tell them...they are going to have to find their own way off Midnight. Trust Officer: Aye... Kolya sighed. Kolya: Get us the hell out of here before we lose our slip space engines. The Ulterior Motive came about, and and regrouped with The Nightingale, which had received the orders to withdraw. The two ships were flying side by side, on a vector that took them away from Midnight. Trust Officer: Sir...one of destroyers has been disabled in this system. They are unable to fall back with us. The ship is still active, but they are too damaged to engage their engines.Their current position is on our present course and heading. Kolya: We are not leaving them behind for ONI to get their hands on more information...not this time. Kolya paused. Kolya: Order the Nightingale to destroy that ship. ONI won't be getting any more from us, not this time. The Ulterior Motive and The Nightingale flew towards the damaged Trust Destroyer. The Nightingale readied its Archer missiles and locked on to the Trust Destroyer, and fired a full barrage, destroying the Destroyer, leaving nothing behind for ONI to salvage. Trust Officer: Target destroyed. Kolya: Prepare to slip us out of here, random destination solution. Trust Officer: Aye sir!

[Hells Sniper]

Harrison was watching the entire situation at hand. He saw the Ulterior Motive join the Nightingale after they were being attacked relentlessly. Harrison watched the holomap, he watched the Nightingale fire on it's Trust Destroyer. The entire thing being blown away. Harrison sighed, he cursed under his breath. Harrison: Shadow! Full power to engines and get me a damn vector for the MAC and archer missiles! Fire everything we have on the Nightingale! Shadow nodded. The Crimson Shadow sped after the Nightingale and Ulterior Motive, chasing after them. They were directly on their six in a prime position to fire their weapons. Shadow: Admiral, the main gun has overheated and the secondary MAC is still down. I don't have the MAC. Harrison sighed. Harrison: Fire the archer missile pods...anything that's armed. The Crimson Shadow fired a barrage of archer missiles at the rear of the Nightingale and Ulterior Motive. They would impact their engines in a few moments. Meanwhile: Black 5 immediately took some sort of cover. His SMG in his hands. Black 5 took a deep breath. He clenched his weapon and pushed his head against the wall. Black 5: Let's get through this... At the other end of the hall was the Agents and the others. They all focused their attention at Black 5. Folee spoke to them on their team chat. Folee: You guys ready? Carmicle: Let's put him out of this misery. MacLaren and Colby...focus your fire on Black 2. Folee and I will handle Back 5. Everyone nodded and readied their weapons, Folee turned to Nighthawk. Folee: Whenever you're ready Nighthawk. Meanwhile: Lisa was in the office still, trying to crack the security on the computers. One of the Trust marines entered the office. Trust Marine: Ma'am, the Ulterior Motive is bugging out. We're on our own with a ride out of here. Lisa nodded. Lisa: My pilots still out there? Trust Marine: As far as I know, we have one squad still out there, but they are getting hit hard and we won't have much time. To my knowledge, Black Team is out there sometimes. Lisa: Both of you get ready to move, I'm... Lisa hit a few keys on the computer, and then smiled. Lisa: In. Downloading the files and then we are off. Lisa grabbed her PDA and synced it with the computer. In a few moments she was downloading everything off the computer. She stood up and looked around, two Trust marines were lying wounded in the room. She turned to them, one was holding a shotgun. She knelt beside them and checked their pulses, both faint...both hardly there. Lisa sighed, she grabbed the shotgun from one of the marines hands, she would need it more than him. Lisa stood up just as her PDA beeped. She grabbed it, everything was downloaded. Lisa turned to one of her marines. Lisa: Kill them, they're not surviving much longer and I don't want them in the hands of ONI. Let's move. One of the Trust marines took his socom and shot both the marines in the head, killing them. They then left the office, turned left down the corridor and headed back towards the hangar bay.

[Kairu]

Tanya cheered relatively quietly to herself. Cochraine: "Don't celebrate yet, Commander. Two Trust ships are still here retreating and Midnight is still being attacked by Trust forces. Target the Nightingale and the Ulterior Motive. Fire everything we have." The Infinity's Voyage fired all available archer missiles at the Trust ship, hoping to at least cripple one of them. MEANWHILE James and Sigma Squad were with Anaconda, Nighthawk, and TF117. He trusted his team would fire appropriately.

[Naked Crook]

Meanwhile: Kolya was sitting in his chair on the bridge of The Ulterior Motive. He was very displeased with out the mission had ended. Trust Officer: Sir...we have Archer missiles on our six. ONI seems very reluctant to just let us go. They are in pursuit, and they are firing Archer missiles. Kolya: Jump us to slip space. Those missiles should be no problem once we enter slip space. Trust officer: We almost have our destination solution. Stand by... Kolya was silent. He did not like running from a battle, and it enraged him that he had to leave Black Team, as well as one of his best officers, behind. Trust officer: Transitioning in...5...4...3...2...1... Both The Ulterior Motive and The Nightingale entered slip space, leaving the system, and escaping any further damage that could be incurred on their ships. Both ships had managed to escape. Meanwhile: Hayes: Status? ONI Officer: Both ships are gone sir. I could get you a destination soltuon...but it is very likely they jumped to a random solution. With HAWK still on the planet, we would be unable to persue as we would end up leaving Midnight in a state of damage. Hayes: Agreed. Inform the battle group to break off and regroup at Midnight. We still have Trust contacts inside of The Citadel. We have to get that cleaned up before anything else. Meanwhile: Black 1 took aim and laid down suppressive fire against the ONI forces they were faced with. Black 1: SHit...these guys again. They don't quit. Black 2...we have Agents, the marines led by the guy from the colony we tried to recruit, and two on-again off-again sociopaths. Black 1fired off the last of his Assault Rifle and then went back down into cover. He then noticed a message on his HUD. He read the message and sighed. Black 1: Great. Just great. Black 3 looked at Black 1. Black 3: What is it? Black 1: The Ulterior Motive had to bug out. They got overrun and they had to retreat from the system. Looks like we are on our own. Black 3: Well...that sucks. Black 3 held his automag and fired off several rounds, keeping Sigma Squad behind cover. Black 3: Well...at least there is no rush to open that door. Black 1: I beg to differ. We have a finite amount of ammo. Time is of the essence.

[Kairu]

The Infinity's Voyage formed up with the King Raven II over Midnight. Cochraine: "Captain, what's the status of the Citadel?" MEANWHILE Edward tossed his last frag grenade out from behind cover. Rewill, waited to fire, hoping Edward's grenade would force one out of their spot.

[lynksys]

Stolt saw the frag go out. 0.5 second fuse after impact, 5 meter kill radius, 15 meter wound radius, and only a 30 yard hall between them and Black Team. Hopefully no one would play hero and try to toss it back. Stray bullets streaks past him, but he was well out of sight. The sound of the rounds snapping through the air was still a disruption. Stolt: Does no one carry around a jackhammer launcher, or whatever you call them now? He looked around at the others. A rocket in these areas would cause some serious damage. Meanwhile Whiskey: They're getting away. Tango: Leave them. There's nothing too important on those computers anyway. I think. The two peered around before getting up.

[Erex]

Seth: Black 1 whats your status, your ticket off this world is secured, but not for long I fear. As soon as the sentence was finished a squad of ONI Marines bust in. Fola: Company! Seth: Damnit! Seth opens fire on the ONI Marines putting one down. Earl picks up a shotgun puts it to his hip and shoots a Marine in the chest. Meanwhile Tylan: Form up at Midnight immediatley! The Draco arrives to the King Raven's position over Midnight.

[Hells Sniper]

Harrison sighed and looked down. He closed his eyes. Shadow: Admiral, Captain Hayes request we regroup at Midnight. Harrison: Do it. Get engineering teams working on the damaged areas. And bring up a view of the Citadel. Harrison looked upwards, the holotable had changed from a view of the space battle to a view of the Citadel. Each green signal was a tracker of his field units. Harrison: I see Black team had fun on the bridge. Harrison cursed under his breath. Harrison: Task Force 117 has that secured. Hayes' teams are mopping up that wing... and, interesting, the Agents are with Sigma squad and Nighthawk and Anaconda...I am guessing they are engaging Black Team. Harrison crossed his arms and pinched the bridge of his nose with his left hand. Harrison: Shadow, secure me a link with Agent Carmicle. Shadow: Setting up link now, Admiral...link secured, he's on. Harrison leaned forward on the holotable and spoke. Harrison: Agent, status? Carmicle: Currently engaging Black Team Admiral! They're trying to get into the bio storage room, I'm assuming they're going for the Risk-Takers bio samples! Folee (in background): Grenade coming up, watch it! A small explosion was heard on the radio. Carmicle: We're trying to stop them... Harrison: Agent I am going to give you very strict orders. If Black team infiltrates that area...I want them stopped at all costs there and then! Do not let them get to Gamma Wing, is that understood? Carmicle: Gamma wing is off-limits, roger! Harrison: Alright, Good luck Agent. We'll reinforce you as best we can, Harrison out. With that the line was shut and Harrison stood straight. Meanwhile: Black 5 was spraying his SMG at Folee and Carmicle. He noticed Carmicle stopped and broke into cover. With that he unpinned a grenade he had picked up earlier and hurled it at Folee. It landed near him, but Folee yelled something and kicked it away, causing a midair explosion only a few yards from each team. Black 5 was shot at by a few of the members of Sigma, the rounds hitting the area right near his head. He ducked back into cover and reloaded his SMG. Black 5: No offense Black 2, but we're not lasting long here! Black 5 paused and rushed over to Black 2's side. Black 5: How can this get done faster? Is there anything?

[Naked Crook]

Black 2 sighed. Black 2: If there was a faster way...I would of suggested it. I need more time! Keep them at bay! Black 1 sighed. Black 1: We cannot hold thdm off forever Black 2...hurry it up! Black 1 remained behind cover. Black 3 and Black 4 were providing supressive fire. At the other end of the corridor, Nighthawk stayed behind cover, talkjng to Anaconda. Nighthawk: We need a way to get in there...but with all this gunfire, we woild be cut down in an instant. Anaconda: If there is one thing I have learned about Humans, is that your kind, when backed into a corner, can be impossible to get to. However...something does come to mind. Have you tried talking to them? Nighthawk: A Brute suggesting diplomacy? Either you are off your lid, or you and I have a different idea of talking. Anaconda growled. Anaconda: No, no, no...I am suggesting that YOU talk to them...distract them...give me a chance to get close. Nighthawk: How are you going to get close? Anaconda grunted. Anaconda: When it comes to moving unseen...I would simply doing my day to day job. I know how not to be seen.