MMX RP, Level 1, Rescue Mission

[MFD]

A small form hunched over her console. "Cairo? Cairo!"

She hmphed. "No response. Should I do something?"

She waited for a few more seconds. "Cairo, come in! ... Please?"

Finally, Iota stood up. All three feet of her. "Hrm. Axl, can you come take a look at this?"

The other Reploid walked over to Iota's console. "Hrm," he agreed. "And Cairo hasn't reported in yet?"

"Not since the last transmission there."

"Get... who was it? 22nd Squad in here. They're available."

"They're a bit short-handed right now, sir. Are you sure?"

"They're all we have. I'll fill out the Squad with some rookies."

--

K'Tan receives a message from Iota, ordering him to report with his Squad to the Control Room.

--

Shadow and Iyestorm are paged by Axl to report to the Control Room.

[Knight]

K'Tan leaned forward, ducking low as Cryo's hay-maker punch whiffed past over his head. "Telegraphing your attacks again... Stop cocking back your arm before throwing a punch. You hit plenty hard without winding up." He fired off a few snap-punches into Cryo's chestplate before hopping back.

"Easy for you to say" Cryo grumped. "Most of us weren't built for agility." He threw a left hook, followed by another heavy right; a trifle faster this time, forcing K'Tan to step back out of the way.

"Maybe not, but a fair number of Mavericks are. You-" K'Tan cut off, holding up a hand to signal a halt as a message came in from Iota.

"K'Tan, the 22nd is being assigned for deployment. Get your team to the Control Room for a briefing."

"Romeo, heads up!" K'Tan called across the room to where Jolt and his com officer had been sparring. "Signal Molotov and Dash to get their asses up to the Control Room. We've got a mission briefing in five."

---

Molotov hunched over his workbench, detonators and various grenade-parts scattered across the table. "Dash... you're blocking my light."

Dash Noctis, who had been leaning over Molotov's shoulder to get a better look stepped back. "Wha'cha workin' on this time? Thought you already got the ion grenades working."

"Did. This is something a bit different. I snagged a few laser sensors from Supply, and now I'm wiring them into a sort of makeshift trip-mine."

Dash peered at the scattered components thoughfully. "Trip mines? Um... great idea and all, but... we're a strike team. Isn't the whole point of mines that they're stationary?"

"... you're totally missing the point."

"Dash! Molotov! Mission Briefing in the Control Room. Sounds like we're moving out NOW. Better hurry."

Molotov hurriedly snapped the cover on his improvised mine and slipped it into the storage case at his hip. "You heard 'im. Let's get a move on."

---

K'Tan strode into the Control Room, the five remaining members of his team forming up loosely behind him. Nobody wanted to talk about what had happened to Shrapnel and Impact. The 22nd had a tendency to pull the messier assignments...

"Reporting as ordered. What's the mission?"

[Dark Hawk]

Shadow started to grumble as he was released from Solitary confinement, Once again due to 3rd unit's incredible ablity at botching missions and just plain pushing Shadow's buttons, causing the red eyed hunter to lose another rank.

Taking the long way around to mission center, an annoyed Shadow gave a quick slatue to Axl and K'tan.

"Reporting for duty."

[Knight]

K'Tan looked at the newcomer for a long moment, then back at Axl and Iota. "I take it the belligerent buzzsaw's coming along too? Or is he the mission target?"

[Dark Hawk]

Shadow shrugs. "It could be worse. You could have a clone of yourself instead of me or some rookie."

[Iyestorm]

"Support unit Iyestorm reporting for duty... oh, am I late? Sorry."

Iyestorm walked in.

[Knight]

"Back to full squad strength, then. With any luck, they're more durable than the last ones. Alright, let's hear about this mission."

[MFD]

Iota blinked when Shadow walked in. There has to be no one else. Axl's taking this seriously, right? Her commander had a tendency to overlook some of the more rebellious Hunters.

"Right, so." She said when Iyestorm walked in. Axl cut her off.

"Alright! There was a Maverick attack at a human office building this morning. The 18th Squad was sent in, but we've lost contact. Your primary mission is to recover the hostages. Your secondary objective is to complete their mission. Their objectives were to figure out what the Mavericks were up to and to repel the attack."

Axl grinned. "Anything else, Iota?"

"Uh. Yes, sir." She glared at him. "One Hunter needs to be recovered alive. You can salvage memory cores for anyone else, but the group leader, Cairo, has an experimental restorative system that converts Weapon Energy to Life Energy. We cannot allow the Mavs to reverse enginere the WELEC."

Axl gave her a small apologetic smile. "Right. Deployment is in ten minutes. Get ready."

[Knight]

"Alright, you heard the lady. Grab your kits and get down to Transmat." K'Tan said, keeping his eyes forward on his superiors. "Romeo, make sure the new additions have the codes for our com-channel."

He waited for the squad to file out the door behind him, then spoke up again. "The 18th aren't pushovers. Just what sort of Mavs are we talking about here?"

[MFD]

Iota and Axl looked at each other. He gestured that she could talk.

"Alot of them. That's what I got from Cairo's transmissions. He identified the leader of the enemy squad as Charge Kestrel. Kestrel is the one who attacked the Megalopolis Conservancy last month. I'll pull up more details right before deployment.

"He's fully crewed with gunner bots called Gunslingers, and some standard spinners. The Defender bots there sound like real messes. Big hulks with remote shields floating around them. More than anything, I think the size of the opposing army just stopped the 18th dead. They walked in for a recon mission and got hammered."

[Knight]

"That many Mavericks in an office building? There's going to be collateral damage involved. Do we have any idea how many people were there when the attack occurred? Knowing how many hostages we might be looking at would help."

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"An office building? Damn it!" Molotov complained loudly on the way down to Transmat. "That means I take out any walls along with the mavs, and I get the ass-chewing of a lifetime. If only I- ... heheh. That just might work. Hey Dash!"

"You have an idea. That's never a good thing."

"Should'a named you Comedian. Can you zip down to my workshop and grab the green satchel on my bench?"

"Green satchel? Isn't that the one you- oooooohhh."

"Yeah, that one."

[MFD]

"That many Mavericks in an office building? There's going to be collateral damage involved. Do we have any idea how many people were there when the attack occurred? Knowing how many hostages we might be looking at would help."

"It was a weekend, so there weren't many humans in the building. Cairo reported that alot of the humans were dead when he got there. He said scans indicated that three humans were being held in the servers room in the basement. So, three human hostages, and he sent back three memory cores before comm went out. So, five Hunter hostages. Eioght total."

[Dark Hawk]

Shadow Process the information Pretty quickly, waiting for Iota to answer K'Tan's question.

"Hey do we have any information on if this Maverick groups his hostage into one place or into multiple places with a few guards? Me and Unit leader over here maybe be able to scratch together a decent plan, to save all the hostages, in the few minutes we have before delpoyment, depending on his ablities or his Unit's ablities.."

This post has been edited by Dark Hawk on Jul 6 2009, 04:33 AM

[Knight]

"Get anything you need ready to go and head to Transmat. We'll look at the office map when we get our deployment infodump." He turned and started walking towards the door, matching order with action. "Depending on the layout, I'm thinking you and Dash might be able to get to the hostages while the rest of the team draws off the bulk of the Mav forces. Kestrel is the wildcard here. I don't want to get us too spread out; we'll likely need concentrated effort to take him down."

[Dark Hawk]

"Roger, Roger" With a quick salute Shadow walked out the door again, to suit up.

[MFD]

When they had all gathered in the Deployment Bay, Iota put up a holographic display.

"There are two stories to the building, and a basement. There are two likely insertion points, either the roof or the first floor lobby. 18 Squad set up transponders already, so I've done my best to activate them and provide a layout of the building."


Roof


Floor 2


Floor 1


Basement

"As you can see, there are eight hostages. I believe that the Maverick leader, Charge Kestrel, is holding Cairo personally."


Charge Kestrel

"Venom Mamba was able to send us images of the enemies you'll see patrolling the building. There are defenders, gunslingers, and spinners."


Defenders have remote control shields that allow them to block attacks.


Gunslingers are agile and have energy pistols. That's about it.


Spinners spin in circles and fire buzzsaws.

"That's everything you're up against. The Mavs seem focused on the servers in the basement."

Axl stepped in front of Iota. She glowered. "Make your plans, and teleport in, guys!"

[Knight]

"Basement. Southeast corner. We can enter relatively quietly. Maybe start eliminating some of them before they know we're there."

Dash piped up "Want me running distraction, then?"

K'Tan shook his head. "I'd like nothing more than to round up a batch and take them out with some high explosives, but this isn't a hardened bunker. We don't dare do anything big or we could damage critical structural components."

"Err... about that, boss..." Molotov flipped to the secure squad channel and started transmitting some schematics of his own. "Take a look at this."

K'Tan scanned the new information, then began to chuckle quietly. "Well, that does change things somewhat. Shadow, how do you feel about decoy work? Feel like insulting some Mavericks?"

[Dark Hawk]

Shadow Shrugged. "You're the unit leader, it's your call. Though depending on why I may have to charge 100 Zenny per insult."

Big bang or a loud boom, I bet, for whatever K'tan has planned. Smirking. "So what do you need me to do? Pure Decoy Distraction as a lone hunter, Decoy for Dash, Decoy for the useage of Superior firepower, or just being a Decoy for the sake of a decoy?" He asked as he began to twirl his weapon's hilt between his hand.

This post has been edited by Dark Hawk on Jul 7 2009, 02:03 AM

[Knight]

"Decoy for the sake of herding. I want to port onto the roof and make for the northwest stairwell to head down to level 1. Once there, you and Dash take off and get the mavs to give pursuit. Head in opposite directions and meet up in this room-" K'Tan stabbed at the southeast corner of Level 1's holo-map.

"Bowl over the single gunner there and hole up, waiting for the Mavs to group up on approach. Once they do that... well, Molotov's got a little surprise for them. Should be easier to clean up. Once level 1 is clear, we split up."

He turned away from the map to face his team. "Unit 1 will head up with me, and consist of Molotov, Dash, and Iye. Shadow, I want you to take Jolt, Cryo and Romeo downstairs and see to those hostages in and around the servers. Any questions?"

[Dark Hawk]

"Nope. Ready for to go as soon as possible."