Facility, Codename: Last Resort

[Shrike7]

Re: Facility, Codename: Last Resort

Linda watched Michael from the back of the command room, leveraging herself on top of a station to give herself a better angle. She shook her head sadly for a moment, then sighted in her rifle to the back of the corridor and plugged it into the side of her head, settling down and waiting.

 

[lurker]

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The creature watched fallen coming from the vent. Suddenly, the vent blew open, flattening a fallen as claws and teeth dug into the creatures, trying to claw the beasts apart. "Die fuckers!"

((hey burrito, wanna do some NPCing? ;P))

 

[SiphonTalvesh]

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Adria sent the message loudly and clearly over the ships intercom, and when she was done turned it off. "That ought to get their attention real fast."

 

[Tsuki]

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"Right." Lillius immediately got to prying the elevator shafts open. Better to be able to move from elevator to elevator and shoot the Fallen coming up rather than waiting for them to come flooding from behind some closed doors. She jammed the knife into the edges of each of the doors, using it to pry it open, before she pulled it the rest of the way.

Once that was done, she stowed the knife away and got out another pistol. Her rifle might have been good, but she didn't want to risk the chance of the scalar waves effecting the electronics of the ship.

 

[Pale]

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Over the whole, darkened ship, there is nothing but eerie silence. Decks and decks of holds and corridors and chambers stand empty, cold, and lifeless. Finally, the void is broken by a scream. Not a scream of pain - not someone in danger. Not this scream. This bestial yell carries rage, bloodlust, and murder - and couldn't possibly be human.

Elevator Shafts

The cry echoes up the empty shaft... echoing and rebounding inside the sealed death-trap. Scurrying forms fill the darkness.. five.. ten.. twenty. The Fallen have ignored the ladders, and are climbing the walls! Worse, these are no ordinary Fallen. Scurrying with the terrifying speed of an arachnid, four limbs obviously built for crawling, they share the same skinless nature as ordinary Fallen, but their heads... Their heads protrude like oversized masks, eyeballs bulging at the front,and glowing in the darkness like candles.. grotesque-ly huge mandibles gnashing and chomping.

Those who'd met the Fallen toe-to-toe would know they were called Creepers. And they could rip a man to shreds in seconds. This is what swarmed the sides of the first lift shaft.. heading straight for Lillius!


Bridge

There is an ominous clang from one of the unsealed hatches.. the one Xerberus vanished through. With a speed that terrifies, a Creeper drops through, and instantly lunges at the closest member of the squad, jaws gnashing..

Maintenance Area

As things become clearer, Ava finds herself in a catwalk, overlooking a large, open expanse. Assorted machinery clutters her killing zone, but there is also plenty of cover on the catwalk in the form of crates, boxes, spare parts.

Here, it wasn't the sound, that came first, but the eyes. Glowing points of light, that bobbed through the air. At least six, maybe more - Fallen, wearing ight-vision goggles, and carrying assorted weapons. One seemed to have large scoped rifle - the others, shotguns and assault rifles. They have so far failed to spot Ava...

Blast Doors

366 lounges against a wall, spinning a knife in readiness. She glances at the huge, sealed blast doors, and smirks inwardly. No way they'd be getting through there. Instead, they had this one little corridor to come through...it'd be a slaughter.

 

[Shrike7]

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Bridge

Linda turned and let off a shot at the Creeper that came through the vent, but it was too fast for her and she only caught its back leg as it lunged for her. She barely had time to roll off the station she was situated on and swing her rifle wildly, catching the Fallen monstrosity on the side of its head and deflecting it away, but not until it tore a long streak of red from her shoulder to her elbow on the left side.

As she landed, she pulled her pistol from the disc and took aim at the Creeper that was already preparing another lunge. She fired three times as it leaped at her again, catching it in the shoulder, forehead, and eyeball, respectively. This did nothing to kill its momentum, however, and it landed on her in a heap, accompanied by an angry scream of pain.

Linda threw the dead thing off of her, revealing that it's maw had sliced into her ribcage and one of it's claws had stabbed deep into her thigh when it fell. She took a look at her wounds, then over to her rifle, the stock now bent at an angle, and says "Well fuck. Medic?" In a very calm voice. Then her eyes rolled back in her head and she passed out.

 

[Keylo]

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Maintenance Area

"Genesis drive initiated... 5...4...3..2..."

Counting down in a quiet whisper, Ava slowly expanded her energy field as she waited patiently for the Fallen to move into her range. From the estimated energy capacity, it would appear that this would be her second to last "burst shot for the day". However as a result of increasing her range beyond normal capacities, she would truly only possess the single shot she held in addition to reserve energy used for close range combat. Taking all these things into consideration, the unit chose her first targets well. Aiming for the shotgun and rifle Fallen, the girl closed her eyes to finalize her calculations and then... let all hell break loose. Impaling the sniper, the bolt proved to be as effective as its predecessors upon superheating, incinerating the two shotgun troopers as the other soldiers quickly move out of range. Thrown into disarray as a result of the explosion, the fallen began frantically searching for the one responsible, the majority of them having no success in doing so except the squad captain... who caught Ava doing a midair flip towards him, energy katana extended.

Having wasted no time upon firing the shot, Ava had immediately drawn her katana without even putting her bow aside, opting to surround her energy field around it and causing it to function as a second blade. Splitting the squad leader in half with her actual blade, she immediately followed up by swing her bow in a manner to decapitate another Fallen before they became fully aware of her presence. Impaling the last survivor of the squad onto her weapons, she then smashed him into the wall brutally to finish him, quickly pulling her "twin blades" out as the sounds of more soldiers could be heard around the bend. This was to be a brutal and deadly fight, one made harder by her depleting energy field. However, as she had been made to slay Fallen, she would do so. Even if she was fighting with her bare fists in the very end. Energy field wrapped around her weapons, she stormed towards the oncoming horde...

 

[lurker]

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Crew Deck

Finishing the group of Fallen she had ambushed, she licked her claws clean lazily, her eyes lazily looking for any enemies... "More please?"

 

[Tsuki]

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Elevator Shafts

Lillius just stood in front of the first elevator, both pistols aimed down into it. She fired down at the grotesque creatures, trying to, if not outright kill them, at least knock them off the wall.

"These things are creepy.... Well, creepier," she said to herself. She switched the modes of her pistols before once again turning them onto the Creepers. A shot came forth from one of such pistols, and created a small explosion where it impacted, blowing apart the Fallen it struck while causing a couple others nearby to lose their grip. With this, she kept firing down, though doing so sparingly. Only a couple more shots from each of the pistols before she'd need to reload, at least in this mode.

 

[Caulder]

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Bridge

Michael instantly turns and faces the Creeper, but is too late to act before Linda is injured. "Melissa, handle Linda's wounds. I'll deal with these weaklings." he says, cracking his knuckles and chuckling "They won't stand against my power" he says, drawing his katana from his weapon disc and running his left hand along the dull edge of the blade, not bothering to active it at the moment

 

[SiphonTalvesh]

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BRIDGE

"Then deal with the door, while I watch these damn vents."

As she said it, a small group of Fallen tried their best to come through the door, only to be met by some invisible force that SLAMMED them back into the wall across the doorway from them.

She had seen the hit Linda had taken, but knew where there was one of those Creepers, there was likely to be another, and they could ill afford to have the medic be injured. As such, she used her own body as a shield. If need be, she'd take a hit if it meant their medic would have the time she needed.

 

[Pale]

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Bridge

There is an unearthly howl, echoing through the vents.. and then silence. Absolute silence. Like a graveyard. The expected creatures... fail to appear.

Elevator Shafts

The pistol shots prove effective,dislodging one, two, three Creepers.. but then a sniper shot whizzes past Lillius's head. At the bottom of the shaft, several Fallen are providing cover fire for their compatriots. There is an ominous clunking sound in the walls..

Maintenance Area

The squad that Ava attacked, was quickly decimated. However, the Unit would soon find herself forced back into cover by a rain of gunfire, far faster than any assault rifle could produce - and more sustained. A quick peek reveals a hulking shadow, easily eight feet tall, lit by the backflash of the minigun it holds.

The Behemoths. The Fallen's heavy infantry. Skin tougher than rock.. full-body suits of armour, they looked almost like grotesquely imagined knights of shining lore. Except these creatures carried grenade launchers, machine guns, or simply axes, as tall as a man. Two more lumber from the darkness to join their compatriot - and the first grenade smashes into an ammo case, knocking it towards Ava's position..

The final Behemoth roars out loud,a sound that echoes in the guts, and stomps its way forward with surprising speed, axe swinging.

Blast Doors

Casually, 366 tosses a blade, without even really looking, catching the lone, brave Fallen in the eye. He topples backwards without further protest.

Crew Quarters

(Please note, I won't take over this creature, just set you up for it. What happens next is yours, or Burrito's.)

The crew quarters were eerie to begin with. Rows and rows of empty bunks.. tables with the chairs tucked neatly under. An abandoned dice game - all shot through by the crimson of emergency lighting. The dead Fallen only added to the macabre atmosphere.. this was not a good place to be.

Without warning, the emergency lights snap off, leaving the barracks in complete, and absolute darkness. A footstep, half-imagined, one step up from pure fantasy. The sound of breathing.. Then a voice, a hiss, low, and malevolent.

"Gotten lost.. have we... little bug?"

((Documentary Info : Stalker. The only form of Fallen ever known to communicate in the language of humans - this creature has mastered the art of holo-disguise. Often, they are used as spies, infiltrators. No one is entirely sure what they look like in their true form - but it is known they are hated and reviled by other Fallen for their.. sadistic and sexual tendencies. A sketch found in a Fallen death camp -may- depict one - A pitch-black, almost canine face, coupled with a sneering mouth, with teeth filed to a point.))

 

[xivvix]

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Bridge

"Shit," Melissa says under her breath as she rushes to the sniper. "I told the others to be safe, but I meant it for you too." A quick check shows the woman is in no danger of a neck injury, so she begins pulling her away from the vent shaft and to a corner of the room. Melissa throws the shotgun down next to her, kneels at the woman's side, and hurriedly plugs her bio-neural jack into the jack on Linda's head. The inrush of data causes her vision to blur as her mind races to both control her own body and inspect Linda's for injuries.

Blood pressure falling rapidly. Multiple lacerations and puncture wounds. Circulatory shock imminent. "She's hemorrhaging bad," Melissa calls out to the others. She immediately reaches into her storage disc and pulls out a bag of blood plasma and sets to work setting Linda up on an IV drip. The sniper would last longer with the transfusion, but it wouldn't mean anything if Melissa couldn't stop the bleeding. Working quickly, she pulls her medical kit from her storage disc and sterilizes the wounds with antiseptic spray. In addition to chemicals that would prevent infection, the spray also contained nanites that would accelerate the healing process. She then sets to work suturing the blood vessels closed. As her hands dive into the woman's wounds, Melissa looks up and says, "This will take some time. I can't be interrupted."

 

[Keylo]

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Maintenance Area

The squad that Ava attacked, was quickly decimated. However, the Unit would soon find herself forced back into cover by a rain of gunfire, far faster than any assault rifle could produce - and more sustained. A quick peek reveals a hulking shadow, easily eight feet tall, lit by the backflash of the minigun it holds.

The Behemoths. The Fallen's heavy infantry. Skin tougher than rock.. full-body suits of armour, they looked almost like grotesquely imagined knights of shining lore. Except these creatures carried grenade launchers, machine guns, or simply axes, as tall as a man. Two more lumber from the darkness to join their compatriot - and the first grenade smashes into an ammo case, knocking it towards Ava's position..

The final Behemoth roars out loud,a sound that echoes in the guts, and stomps its way forward with surprising speed, axe swinging.

Narrowly avoiding the chained explosion caused by the grenade and the ammo crate, Ava quickly found cover... until the third Behemoth charged toward her, axe swinging. With no time to properly assess the situation, the Unit did the only thing she could do. Dodge.

Rolling out of the way, she watched as the Behemoth's axe tore a hole in the ship's sturdy walls, before turning on her again. It was obvious that should she be hit by that, she would be destroyed instantaneously. Narrowly avoiding another massive swing from the axe (while barely blocking machine gun fire with the use of her "field"), she swung her makeshift blade around... to have it glance off uselessly and have it knocked into some corner of the ship. It was apparent that any physical weaponry was useless against the heavily armored monstrosities. However that realization came far too late as the axe-wielding behemoth grabbed hold of her easily and smashed her into the ship wall, threatening to crush her with it's enormous amont of strength. It would seem that this would be the end for Ava, who remained as expressionless as she approached her death.

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The broadcast across the channels was barely legible, most likely as a result of the transmitter having been damaged from the impact against the wall. With doom apparently imminent, the Unit began automatically backing up field data from the combat testing that she had been dispatched for, to be retrieved at a later date by the scientists who had modified her. However, it was at this time that she stumbled upon a few "memories". Memories from before her "conditioning" that should have been erased, but were not. Upon viewing these "lost" memories, tears of blood began to flow from her otherwise emotionless eyes, tears filled with sorrow and regret, tears filled with hatred... She knew not the reason for the tears, however for the first time, she desired to live.

"I...can not...die...not until..."

In a last ditch desperate attempt to save her life, she focused the energy field she projected into extending her katana as far as it could go. piercing the armor of the behemoth as it melted through the armor and ran through its flesh. With the remaining strength she had, she brought the blade up, melding flesh, metal, everything into one as she rended the Behemoth into two...

Freed from the crushing grasp, she managed to land back onto her feet, her left arm hanging uselessly at her side, her right arm barely usable. Retreat would be impossible, and she desired to live. That left her only one choice. To somehow slay the remaining Behemoths that honed upon her after having taken severe damage...

 

[Caulder]

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Bridge

Michael lets out a laugh as he rushes over to the door, noticing Melissa working "Get her patched up. I want everyone alive at the end of this mission." he says, his katana still in hand as he looks through a small crack in the door, noticing a large group of Fallen heading towards them, then noticing a large one in the back wielding a massive axe and lumbering towards the door "Heads up! We got some more coming. Be prepared." he says, four tendrils extending from his right arm and wrapping around his right hand, further tightening his grasp on the blade "They shall meet only death and destruction." he says, activating the blade and preparing for a confrontation

Crew Quarters

"Little bug. Let us hope you can survive longer than a normal human." the Stalker says, chuckling in what sounds like both a growl and an evil laugh, Xerberis would then feel a hand brush against her right thigh before a cold feeling swept over her body

 

[Guyver2216]

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*silence had been her friend for the most part she had made her way to the bridge much earlier and now with the enemy making for it she took point about mid-way into the room eyes glanicng through the scope of her rifle down the hallway* ummm hey boss man..could ya inch your big head over to the left a little bit?. blocking my shot.

 

[Pale]

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(Burrito, the Bridge is yours )

Maintenance Area

With a nasty, booming chuckle.. the two remaining Behemoths drop their weapons. Instead, they draw machetes as long as a man's leg, and make for Ava. There would be no escape for such a determined fighter..

Blast Doors

366 eyes the large, "sealed" doors suspiciously. The trickle of Fallen coming through the maze of corridors has dried up - the remains of the brave few lie scattered around the corridor. However, more ominously, every few seconds there is a dull slam against the doors. As if someone was pounding on it from the other side. And the doors, strong as they were.. couldn't last forever. They were buckling.

"All units, this is 366. Plan may be compromised. Ava is out of contact, and the Fallen seem to be coming through the Blast Do--"

Her transmission cuts off as the dull thud is coupled with the shriek of metal, and the supposedly-impregnable Blast Doors are wrenched open. Open to allow an squad of elite Fallen, their armour decorated with skulls, fingers.. hair. The most terrifying of all... stood at their head.

((Your cue for our Commander, Taco ))

 

[Keylo]

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"I can not die...I must not die...I WILL NOT DIE!"

Amazingly enough, the Unit not only uttered her desire to live, but screamed it as a battle cry, something extraordinary for her. Where could such thoughts possibly be coming from? As an experimental combat prototype, she had never feared death, yet at this moment... such foreign thoughts flooded every corner of her mind. But why? Further pondering was to be left for another time however as she threw caution to the wind to meet the two Behemoths head on, her katana fully extended and in the hands of her good arm. All of her energy was focused into her blade now, enough to give it form, enough form so that she could block and parry the machetes as if she was using a real weapon.
It was an all or nothing death charge, if her former close range combat expertise and skill proved enough, she would survive. If not... she would most likely be destroyed in an instant.

 

[Shrike7]

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The darkness was comfortable, calming. Like a deep sleep, that perfect rest where everything feels fine and you think you can drift forever.

After an eternity, something happens. A prick in her arm, easily forgetten, but then something else happened. Like a trickle of cold water into her consciousness, Linda felt someone else in her mind.

At first she was confused, too far gone to understand. Eventually though, she remembered enough to voice a complaint, the words echoing through the emptiness.

Who?...
Why?...

 

[lurker]

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Crew Quarters

Xerberus froze. Her antennai perked up as her sences tried to pick him up. At the sudden touch, she silently darted around, trying to claw at the source of the unseen hand.