2514/Operation: Foxhole

Operation: Foxhole
Date of Scene:	23 June 2015
Location:	Desert Mountains
Synopsis:	Spartans and allies vs. the Covenant!
Cast of Characters:	Crys Gattz, 38, 180, Steve Rogers, 248, 768, 781, 783, 806

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Jai-006 (806) has posed:
The UNSC has detected a Covenant Dropship in the Desert Mountains region. The ship was seen dropping off several Sangheili (they stand seven to eight feet, wear armor, have about four fingers, with two toes, and quadruple hinged mouths with reptilian like skin) and a few Unggoy (they stand four to five feet, with wrinkled exoskeleton skin, stubby limbs, and tend to use a respirator like device to breath in oxygenated air), before losing track of them entering into a cavern.

The mission is an easy one, meet up with the Gray Team outside the warp gate for transport to the area and then get ready to head inside in order to find the Covenant. Once found, send them out of their packing. Either they will get the message to leave or they will find themselves dead. UNSC-- has no plans to mess around, neither does the Gray Team.

The three SPARTANS-IIs can be found leaning against a Warthog (a large ATV with a Gatling turret gun on the back), with another one on stand by. They all have matching gray dark armor with silver visors, though the armor design is different for each of them. Including their load out, while similar, does have some differences.

None of them know who will show up to assist or what they will expect. Beyond they were told by the UNSC to play "nice". Yeah-- nice. Gray Team's /favorite/ word.

Fassad (248) has posed:
     There is absolutely no end to how out of place Fassad is on this mission. While he has decided to come along for the purpose of helping his Union allies and adding to his heroic story. But, to list off everything wrong about him being here. One, this is a beyond modern technology battle, and he uses a sword and magic. Two, they're taking vehicles, and he is showing up riding atop a white horse. Three, he is a melee fighter, and this is going to involve guns.

     Either way, the blonde-haired adonis of a prince sits atop his gallant white steed, Excelsior. He will, most likely, run his horse alongside the Warthogs.

     He smiles at the Spartan-IIs, looking at them. His teeth shine in the light as he smiles. "Ah! My fellow allies. I am Prince Fassad, from the Land of Arcadia! I am pleased to be helping you on this mission today!"

Rocket (781) has posed:
The large, wedge-shapped starship called the Rack 'n' Ruin approaches non-threteningly -- of course its Captain has spoken with Jai in the past and he had signaled ahead of time so the ship is expected. As it lands its 'wings' rotate upward into its landing position and after settling down a ramp extends from the port side airlock.

A few minutes later Rocket and Groot step out of the airlock, the arborform having to duck to do so and walk down the ramp, approaching the gathering. "Hello! Which one of you is Jai?" Rocket asks.

Groot follows this up with, "I am Groot," to the group and "I am Groot," to Rocket as well. ((You can call me Groot.)) and ((You really aught to introduce us, Rocket.))

Cory (768) has posed:
    Another out-of-place adventurer is Cory, who's dispatched alongside Fassad. No stranger to a scrap in almost any environment, and itching for some action, she decided to come see what the prince was up to... and this has lead to her flying alongside him. She's easily keeping pace with his mount's stride all the way to there!

    And finally, they meet with the Spartan-IIs. Her Ki aura dissipates with a sharp *CRACK* and she lands abruptly, dusting herself off. "This is the place, right? Oh... Cory, short for Chikorri."

Steve Rogers has posed:
A motorcycle rolls up to where the SPARTAN-IIs and their allies are gathering, ridden by none other than Captain America himself. "Rumor has it you fellows could use some help," Cap says with a good-natured smile as he dismounts from his bike, collecting his shield from the handlebars.

And ... well, technically it's not his ONLY weapon; he's got a handgun holstered at his belt and a knife sheathed along the outside of a boot, but the shield is the most obvious 'weapon' he's carrying. Of course, this is Captain America; the shield is all he really needs. Usually.

Cap looks over the others who are here, nodding polite greetings to his soon-to-be-allies.

Taylita (180) has posed:
     This might be a more technology heavy world than hers, but as Taylita sees the people and vehicle below her, she feels her hear skip a beat. An awesome driving gun platform and people in equally awesome power armor with shield capabilities? AND they are about to go into battle?

     Of course, her arrival might make people anxious at first. It looks like a glowing blue comet is falling toward them, but as it gets closer it is clear that it is a woman with red hair and a monkey tail wearing strong looking but skimpy armor.

     Taylita lands beside Cory with a similar crack from her aura dispersing. "Looks like it." she says to her fellow saiyan. "Hey, this'll be the first time I get to really fight alongside another saiyan." she adds, then looks at the SPARTANs. "Sorry, but I just gotta say...love the armor. Might I be able to get one of those?"

Jorge-052 (783) has posed:
Jorge-052 is tinkering with the turret on the second Warthog -- the one the Grey Team isn't leaning against. He's wearing olive-green power armor of similar make to Grey Team's, though he seems more built than the others. Then again, standing at 8-feet tall can do that.

His helmet turns as other people show up, and he snaps the ammo-feeder cover down with a solid slap of his hand. "Sorry, no can do," he replies to Taylita first, his deep voice holding a vague Hungarian accent. He rests a foot on the Warthog's tailgate and folds his arms over his thigh. "All for more reasons than we have time to list."

His helm tilts slightly from one side to the other as he studies each person in turn, not that his golden visor indicates who he's looking at and when. A very varied group this time around. This could get interesting. "I am SPARTAN-052." A miniscule flex of his fingers. "Also known as Jorge-052. A pleasure to make your aquantances."

Noble Six (38) has posed:
    The only SPARTAN-III of the group has been here the whole time, with the engine cover to the second Warthog lifted, working on something inside of it. She's in similar armor to the four SPARTAN-IIs, but it's easy to tell something is different. She's shorter than them, for one. Still around average height for a human.

    Noble Six has on the War Master variant of the armor is painted red, and her own visor matches Jorge's with the opaque golden tint, though that helmet is sitting in the driver's seat of the Warthog at the moment, as the blonde tends to the engine. She closes the compartment and looks up, "Wow. Big turnout."

Crys Gattz has posed:
Crys Gattz had got in on this operation, there was some chance for salvage here and generally dealing with the covvies was a good thing. They had been a problem from various worlds. So here she was looking like she had no armor and no apparent weapons she also had something hovering by her head too.

"So covvies huh? This is going to be intereting, they won't like how I fight."

Jai-006 (806) has posed:
Fassad shows up on his horse and while Mike-120 is leaning against the Warthog, he can not help but tilt his head slightly to the fact the man-- is on a horse... and is like some-- oh wait, that explains it. He is a Prince of some mystical crazy land right? Yep and after seeing a talking fox woman, Mike-120 is learning that the Multiverse be a crazy place.

Jai-006 is standing though with his hands at his sides, his silver visor looks at Fassad in looming silence and it is a female's voice that greets him however from an armored figure that is just a touch shorter then the other two-- all which are standing near eight feet. It was hard to see any of her feminine traits with that armor really, just that slight Slavic accent. "It iz a pleasure tu meet you, your Majesty and tu be willing to aid us in zis matter."

It is not shortly after more start to arrive. The female SPARTAN-II giving each a greeting. Jai-006 still remaining silent as Mike-120 however leans over to stare at the ship. "Oh man, that is a nice ride." The a bike show up and Mike look over to the Motorcycle, "Nice rims."

When Taylita asks if she could have an armor like theirs, Mike makes a slight gesture, only followed by a soft shrug from the SPARTAN-II who has yet to say /anything/ out of the Gray Team. Seeming to leave Mike-120 to commentary like the peanut gallery and the female beside him to do the talking. At least-- for now.

Jorge however answer Taylita's question, where the Gray Team doesn't have to worry about this, though Mike does lean over and looks at Noble Six /still/ working. "You finish there, six?" He asks. There is a /tease/ in the voice and one the other female Spartan pipes up on. "And if you had assisted her, ze could be standing around like us. Who is really ze lazy one, hm?"

"Oh come on!" Mike threw his hands up in the air before he leaped into the driver's seat of the Warthog, it actually rocked and creaked under the sheer weight being thrown in. These guys were not small by any means. "I had to mentally clock the competition!"

Once everyone had settled in, that is when the SPARTAN-II in the Centurion armor spoke up. "Hello everyone. I am Petty Officer Jai dash zero zero six. You will all be assisting us with dealing with the Covenant threat. We had been able to defeat them, broken their fingers, bloodied their noses, but it seems the damn aliens didn't get the message."

His gaze moves over to Rocket and Groot. "I plan to make sure they don't leave and if one does, they wish they never showed up again." He then looks to the two Saiyans. "If you accepted this mission, you accept working with the UNSC, but under my command as team leader... and we as the Gray Team--" He motions to Mike-120. "Don't play by the rules."

Mike-120 then reaches over and throws out some boxes. "Presents for all!" Inside the containers were several plasma grenades aka Sticky grenades, normal grenades, some hand guns, and assault rifles.

"These are UNSC weaponry, It is your choice to use them. The Covenant wont hold back." Jai-006 then walks over to jump on the backside of the Warthog Mike is on. "Neither will we."

The female SPARTAN-II then moves to the other side and hopes on the edge of the back of the Warthog. "Take zem if you want a proper weapon.. and I will explain who I am. My name is Adriana dash one one one. Zat is Mike dash one two zero." She motions to the one waving his hand. "Our head engineer. Any questions?"

Jai-006 does't even give them time to ask. "Good. Lets go!" If someone wants to catch a ride with the Gray team, they better jump in fast because Mike-120 starts up that engine and wont take him long to lead the group.

Cory (768) has posed:
    Cory grabs a grenade belt, but grenades seem to be the only thing she's bothering to grab. She's seen enough movies to know how these work!

    They might come in handy.

    But while she's doing that she boggles at the various SPARTANS gathered. "What's with the numbers?" A glance is also given to Fassad again... and finally she gives Taylita a good look. The red hair's seen first, then the tail... this leaves Cory wide-eyed.

    "HEEEEEEY. A REDHEAD. That's pretty rare for our kind! Yeah, they've got some pretty neat stuff here, don't they?"

Taylita (180) has posed:
     Taylita isn't really surprised when they say no. Whoever it is, they always say no. Taylita too picks up some grenades and straps them on while leaving the rifle. "Rules are the first thing to go on the battlefield. I try to keep some honor, though." Taylita says to Mike even as she hops up onto the Warthog, hanging onto the side of the big gattling gun. "Hey, can I use the big gun?" she asks Jai with a grin. She knows he will say no, but on the off chance that he will say yes...

     Taylita smirks to Cory as the other saiyan goes wide-eyed. "Yeah, so I've been told. Seems fitting that a one of a kind saiyan has a one of a kind haircolor, though." she says.

Fassad (248) has posed:
     Fassad just smiles at this point, listening. He does give a bit of a bow to the female SPARTAN, though, "Ah, it is no trouble! I am more than willing to aid in a matter such as this." Honestly, Fassad views the world in black and white. And so, from what little he knows of this situation, it sounds like all of these people are the good guys, more or less.

     He gives a nod to Taylita and Cory as well. While he has not met Taylita, he knows of her as an ally. Cory he has met a couple of times as well.

     And, once the vehicle starts off, Fassad runs his horse along as well. His horse is /fairly/ fast. Not quite as fast as the vehicle likely is, but he'll at least be able to keep up, more or less.

Steve Rogers has posed:
"Captain America," the star-spangled superhero introduces himself simply. "Or just 'Cap' if you'd rather. Good to meet all of you; hopefully the mission'll go pretty smoothly."

Not that it's terribly likely, maybe. He's read up on the Covenant some, although the SPARTANs probably know far more about them. He doesn't pick up any of the offered weaponry; instead, once the group is getting under way again, he affixes his shield to his back (on a metallic plate, or perhaps more likely, a magnetic one) and revs his motorcycle back up to keep pace with the Warthogs.

Jorge-052 (783) has posed:
Jorge-052 makes one last check on the turret as the group stocks up as needed. "Identifiers," he responds to Cory without seeming to look at the Saiyan. "Easier to call us by numbers than by name when in combat."

He tests the pivoting mounting bracket for the turret, then pats the weapon as his head dips in a satisfied nod. The grips seem slightly different than the turret on the Grey Team's Warthog, but only just. He motions for those without their own transportation to hop on quickly, preferably before Grey Team leaves them all in the dust. There's a human-sized passenger seat available and some room with him and the turret.

Rocket (781) has posed:
Rocket notices the level of notice he gets from Jai-006 and seems completely fine with it. Rather than calling the Spartan on the slight snub he instead approaches him -- having recognized the voice -- and hops onto he Spatan's Warthog.

Greeting the leader of Gray Team, Rocket says, "Nice to finally meet you, I'm Rocket," while extending his right hand to Jai while holding onto the vehicle with his left (and letting the a huge gun on his back dangle from his shoulder). He nods in Groot's direction and says, "My friend here is Groot" (Groot waves while hanging from the other side of the Warthog) "and we came to help.... if we're wanted?" At this last he arches what would be his eyebrow if his entire face wasn't covered in fur

Noble Six (38) has posed:
    With the vehicle working, Noble Six grabs her helmet out of the seat and hops into the driver's seat. She revs the engine and then looks over at Mike, "You're also the tech specialist." She says, grinning, though he can't see it behind her helmet, "I've never claimed to be a techie, I just can fumble my way through an engine." She gives him a quick thumbs up, and then looks to the others.

    "Everybody who needs a ride, get in. I know a couple of you can fly so if you want to fly on your own, go for it."

Crys Gattz has posed:
Crys Gattz is looking over the spartans for a moment and she seems to be in a good mood. From her ears she might be considered an elf but on the other hand this is the multivese and she seems to be comftable enough with Noble Six's arrival and she moves to fall in.

"What can I say Noble? Heard there was covies to deal with and their weapons tend to be of intrest to a few people I know."

She totally wants one of those crazy plasma swords for her collection it's just athing about hunters. They collect all sort sof weapons.

She looks to the Captain and grins.

"Cap good to see you here for this run. We haven't run into echother since humm I was a little green and angry."

She looks to the Spartens and makes a bit of a sad look.

"You remind me of a few CASTs in the marines back home."

She notes to Jorge but she does get the logic.

She turns to Grey tram and greet them.

"I'm Crys Gattz I'm a Numan or Newman depending on how you want to say it. Good to meet you."

Jai-006 (806) has posed:
Jai-006 looks at Taylita, "No---"

"Yes." Adriana-111 cuts in. "Just do not pull ze trigger until we tell you tu, hm?" Jai-006 can only stare at the woman in the Recon Gen 2 armor. Then there was a minor hand gesture before a shake of his head. His gaze goes to Rocket as he hears the Warthog's engine roar to life. "Hm. So you are Rocket."

Adriana-111 then looks at Rocket, her voice was professional and indifferent, "After all, it is always good tu have more allies around, hmm?" Her gaze goes directly to Jai-006 who is only staring back. Mike-120 however pipes up about then. "Nice to meet you. Just shoot the alien idiots with big feet and tiny bodies-- oh-- and dodge any blue orbs." Groot though-- Groot is probably gonna have to catch the other one, unless he can find a means to hold on!

Mike-120 then points over at Taylita, "Hey. You. Behave with that thing and maybe I'll let you look under the hood." He then puts his foot on the shiftier, throws it into gear, and the Warthog moves.

Once they do arrive at the location, there is some little guys outside of it seeming to be squabbling about something until one of them shrieks. "Its the demons!" A few go to run, another goes to head inside and all Jai-006 has to say to this. "Light them up."

Taylita gets to use the gun turret and Adriana-111 is exiting the Warthog easily while walking around to stay out of the spray fire. Thankfully there is only a few outside, but who knows how many are inside. Which yes, the few 'Grunts' running around-- they do try to shoot back, try anyways. They have horrible aim!

Taylita (180) has posed:
     Taylita blinks in surprise when Adriana cuts off Jai with a yes. "W-..really?" she says, then practically pushes Jai aside and takes the controls. Seems pretty straight forward. Point the gun at stuff. Pull the trigger. Make stuff into smaller pieces of stuff. She takes a few moments as they are driving to get a feel for pointing the gun.

     So, when Jai says 'Light them up.' there is the characteristic whine of the gatling gun barrel spinning up to speed, followed by the near constant sound of heavy rounds punching through the air aimed right at the little guys.

     Taylita does wonder as she is firing whether these little things are actually dangerous, but she agreed to follow the Spartan's orders, so she doesn't hesitate. And unlike the little Grunts, Taylita has pretty good aim. Maybe not expert, but when you are firing dozens of rounds a second, you don't really have to be an expert. "So, where are the big guys? I feel kinda bad slaughtering these little guys. They can hardly fight!"

Rocket (781) has posed:
"Yes I am," Rocket says to address Jai's observation. He then smiles to Adriana, "Alien bigfoots with tiny bodies, shoot... to kill I assume? And avoid blue orbs."

Oh and Groot, he's handing onto the outside of the Warthog Rocket is in, his fingers and toes wrapping around various protrusions strong enough to support his weight. "I am Groot!" he yells when the vehicle reaches speed and the wind whips though the fine green leaves he has allowed to grow out of the top of his head. ((Wooo hooo! This is great!))

Regarding his friend, Rocket says, "He'll be find out there I think," to Adriana.

Cory (768) has posed:
    Cory ends up tilting her head and scratching a cheek when she sees the grunts, but when they open fire -- "WHOAH!"

    Demons? She's never been called a demon before! "... Is it the tail?" She can only give Taylita (who's probably enjoying the heck out of the big gun!) a bewildered look and dive in at some of the Grunts.

    Armed with only fists, feet, and Ki, she's not as decisively or gorily lethal as the soldiers with their guns. She engages some of the grunts with a high speed charge, weaving in-between their horrible shots and ducking in to deliver potent punches and spin kicks.

    Of course, she's holding back. Lethal it is not, but it's liable to leave them groaning on the ground, and probably easy pickings for others...

Fassad (248) has posed:
     Fassad is surprised at the 'demon' comment. In... in what way does he look like a demon? Fassad sighs, raising his eyebrow at this. But then, the enemies. And, they are firing. He shall have to deal with them in his own way.

     While he refused the grenades and weapons earlier, he has his own means of fighting as well. He reaches into a brown pouch on his side. His bomb pouch. A large blue bomb is in his hand. A small bit of magic is put into it, causing it to light. He tosses it towards the enemies, letting it cause a large explosion after a moment.

     And then he starts dashing down the hill on his horse, holding his sword aloft. His shield is is in his left hand, held in front of him. Specifically, the reflective Mirror Shield.

Steve Rogers has posed:
While the order is to 'shoot' the Covenant Grunts, Cap doesn't draw his sidearm when he reaches the target location.

What he DOES do is throw his shield, aiming to peg one of the runners upside the head and ricochet his shield back so he can catch it again. Any of those blue orbs that Mike mentioned, Cap's keeping an eye out ... and will likely try to slap those back at the Grunts with his shield, or otherwise work on covering his allies.

Jorge-052 (783) has posed:
Jorge-052 chuckles outloud as he clicks the safety off of his turret. "It's not any of you." A few green plasma shots ping off of the turret's protective metal shielding, and a glancing shot hisses across his armor's personal shields, but Jorge doesn't flinch. "That's their name for us SPARTANs."

He swings the weapon around and opens fire, strafing the Covenant line whether or not the Grunts are still standing. He's firing in bursts, making sure to avoid accidentally hitting those who engage in close-quarters combat, like Cory for instance.

Noble Six (38) has posed:
    Noble Six always tended to drive on Reach, mostly because often the other SPARTANS were either unwiling (or in Jorge's case, unable) to drive the vehicles they found. So she drove. And she knows how to get Jorge into a great firing position so he can tear into the Grunts with the anti-air weapon mounted on the back of the Warthog. She power-slides the vehicle into position and sets him up to be able to lay them out with his weapon, as she piles out of the vehicle, her MA5B coming to bear if there's any Grunts left.

Crys Gattz has posed:
Crys Gattz is seeming making ready to fall in with the others. AS she hears one of the yell about the demons sh smirks for a moment.

"Oh really?"

That's all she's got left to say as as well she's summoning a weapon from her photon trap it's bigger than she is and looks like someone made a love child of a two handed sword and a chainsaw. The Chainsaw in question reves to lifge and Crys has no issue as she now starts to head in moving at high speed having taken to foot looking for notbale heavy tatgets she's also lauching the odd fire ball or burst of ice at the grunts.

Jai-006 (806) has posed:
Grunt go exploding, punched into submission, and mowed down by the bullets as their bluish purple blood sprays out. It is pretty pathetic, but Mike puts the vehicle in park and gets down on his knee as he takes a few shots at the Grunts. "Maybe we should start keeping score!" The Engineer teases Jai-006 who also hops down and loads his own assault rifle. "You would lose."

"No faith, man. No faith." Mike-120 remarks.

Adriana-111 creeps around a corner and then tags a Grunt with a blue grenade which lights up. "Have fun!" She says with a purr, before boot kicking the Grunt into some others trying to take cover. They screech-- and soon seen flying up into the air.

Some Grunts do try and throw some blue grenades. They glow with sparks of blue light, but a few get shot down by Taylita's firing and Jorge's as well. One of them does go for Cap--- and when he goes to knock it away, it sticks to his shield!

Good thing Cap's shield is what it is, because when it explodes his shield takes it-- though it may knock Cap back if he isn't ready for it! The Mirror Shield for Fassad impacts some shots back, while Noble Six takes down a few as well.

When the smoke clears, Jai-006 taps the back of the Warthog at Taylita. "You can stop now!" He calls up to her. He then looks over to Adriana, "one one one, move in. Cory-- go with her." He spins around to see who else would maybe work. "Rocket..." He looks down at the Racoon. "Go with her as well, cover the rear-- but your tree friend Groot stays here with us."

Jai then thunks the Warthog a few times. "Mike..."

"Yeah. I know, stay here." The Engineer says with a twirl of the gun, before he goes to take over the gunner.

Jai then looks at the others. "The rest of you with me. There is a possible back way, we'll take that... Six do you mind cleaning up and then catching with Adriana?" He asks her, but he doesn't stick around to wait. "Lets go." And Jai-006 starts to take whoever is left around and up a hill to what looks like another mouth to the area.

Adriana-111 however waits for those to go with her to catch up, before getting down low. She motions with her and to do the same, before she goes to slide into the shadows. "Keep close, keep quiet, and we may be able tu catch zem off guard."

Fassad (248) has posed:
     Fassad listens to the orders, smiling. Ah, a sound strategy. Approach from both ends! His smile hides some dissapointment, though. He is the SHINING HERO. He does /not/ go in through the back entrance! His ego is taking ahold of him, and he is trying very hard to resist simply rushing in on his horse, heading into the front entrance. But, as he hides a sigh, he decides that he shall simply have to go in the back with the others.

     And so, he'll follow along with the others to the back. He still stands tall. He still sticks out like a sore thumb. Never mind the fact that, unless it proves too narrow? He plans to keep riding his horse inside of the base. It'll give him an advantage over the on-foot troops, after all!

Taylita (180) has posed:
     Taylita looks a bit disappointed when told she doesn't have to shoot anymore. "Aw. Alright." She hops down, then follows after Jai. She is on alert, ready for something to ambush them. She isn't really used to this kind of fighting. Tactical, squad-based attack isn't really her thing. "..so..uh...are we concerned about preserving the buildings?" she asks very quietly as they proceed inside.

Rocket (781) has posed:
Rocket nods to Jai, acknowledging his order, and then also to Groot in answer to a questioning look from his friend.

As he moves off with Adriana's group, Rocket readies his rifle which makes a low humming noise for a moment while it warms up. Rear guard is not exactly the assignment he'd expected given his initial greeting but it is a job he's capable of doing -- plus Adriana's not a bad view from the rear.

Groot, accepting his assignment, steps up behind Jai (who he dwarfs) and says, "I am Groot." ((Lead on, 'Captain'.))

Noble Six (38) has posed:
    Cleaning up and folowing up behind Adriana is easy enough for Noble Six to do. She finishes mopping up the last few Grunts which are still standing, and then reloads, grabbing more ammo from the vehicle before she heads towards the front of the facility.

    Meeting up where Adriana is, she stops and checks her equipment real quick before looking to the SPARTAN-II, "Do you want to take point, or shall I lead the way inside?" She wonders over a closed comms, peeking around the corner real quick to see if there's anything inside that wants to kill them.

Jorge-052 (783) has posed:
Jorge-052 grunts as the initial wave of Grunts gets taken down easily enough, but that's just the start. He slaps a lever on the turret's mount and pulls a restraining bolt, actually removing the turret from the Warthog before he jumps down to the ground. Ah, so that's why the weapon looked a bit different!

As Jai-006 issues orders and splits the teams accordingly, Jorge barely bumps Noble Six as he passes by. Far from an uncharacteristic lapse of judgement, he micro-signs a simple 'see you later' to her without pausing his stride.

"I have the rear," he says simply to Jai-006 as he casually carries the chaingun underslung. And indeed, he waits for the others in Jai's group -- Cap, Taylita, the literal calvary Fassad, and Groot -- to follow the team leader in before walking after them.

Steve Rogers has posed:
Cap knows what grenades can do in general, and expects no less of alien grenades; when he realizes that one of the blue orbs DID stick to his shield instead of getting bounced away, he reacts swiftly and decisively, crouching and bracing himself with the explosive aimed towards the Grunts (and very pointedly AWAY from his allies). Even if the explosion isn't quite big enough to roast any of them from where Cap is, he can at least make sure it won't hurt anyone on his side of the fight.

"So that's what the orbs do," he remarks after the explosion, rolling his left shoulder as if to make sure the explosion didn't hurt it. He'll have to remember to either not try that again, or be ready to take advantage of it. In the meantime, the group is divided by Jai-006, and Cap moves into formation with the others, proceeding inwards once the opposition has been cleared.

Cory (768) has posed:
    "Go with-" Who? Cory has to look around a bit after the chaos, but apparently Adriana was meant. "Got it!" And onwards they go. But she has to say something here. "After all that bang, you think they're NOT on guard?"

    Although after that she is quiet. In fact, she stays aloft a foot off the ground so she's making no noise at all besides a faint breeze...

Crys Gattz has posed:
Crys Gattz is now falling in and she banishes her massive chainblade into her storage unit. Soon after a horroble mechanical claw forms over her right arm and in her left a pistol of some sort appewars as she goes quit now and will fall in trying to get on point with the group given she's an up close combat.

Jai-006 (806) has posed:
Jai watches as the group goes into the bottom part and he watches Adriana-111 for a /long/ time, including when she is out of sight. His head lowers slightly, before he goes to move into the darkness. He looks over at Groot and studies the large tree-- creature. "So.. does that racoon live in you?" It was a proper question to ask a tree-- wasn't it?

Yeah, aliens... he doesn't get them. He isn't worried about being stealthy though. That much is obvious, he wasn't even /trying/ to be as he intentionally kicks a rock down the way. "Show your ugly mugs..." He rumbles to himself, before looking over to Taylita as she asks him. "We don't care. Long as they don't live and we do." Now-- if that is what UNSC wanted... well... that was a very different story, but this was the Gray Team after all.

Jai motions to Jorge with a slight hand signal to pretty much keep the weapon ready. He looks over to Cap, then at his shield, then back to him. "Could you do me a favor." He says calmly pointing at the side of the structure. "Bounce that off there at a..." He hand motions slightly. "Oh... sixty angle I'd say."

He then points to the Prince, "And you-- may want to get off your horse... cause its about to probably get crazy."

Over with Adriana...
The female SPARTAN-II stays down low and private comms back to Noble Six, >"Just keep ze kids in line. I'm going to look ahead and if we are luck-- Jai will create a distraction. Draw zem to him and we come in to finish what zey don't. They are expecting us to come zis way--- not where Jai is going."<

Adriana then looks at everyone else behind her, speaking quietly. "Stay with Noble Six, zis will only take a moment." Then the Scout slinks around a pillar and goes right past as an 'Elite' can be seen walking by, almost looking for someone, before she tapps the big guys shoulder, causes him to spin around, then she reaches up and twists his head around, before letting him drop to the ground and then dragging him over to the corner.

Then there was a flicker of her lights to Noble Six to move forward with the group, which it become clear as they do. There was several more Grunts trying to keep an eye out, a few even shaking, and some Elites observing a drill of some kind.

Steve Rogers has posed:
Cap sizes the structure up briefly, considering how hard he'll need to throw it. "Trying to collapse it?" he inquires; the intended effect is going to inform the force behind the shield-throw. If there's an intended ricochet, as opposed to trying to crunch through a load-bearing strut or something ...

Once he's got the answer from Jai-006, he lets the shield fly.

Fassad (248) has posed:
     Fassad siiighs. He hops off the horse. Patting him on the head, he smiles at the white steed, "Alright, Excelsior. Stay back, for now. We shall gallop off into the sunset heroically once this is over."

     And with that, the horse starts to run back towards where they came from, finding a spot to wait for Fassad. It's a fairly intelligent horse, relatively.

     Fassad himself lifts his sword and shield, keeping them at the ready. He smiles at the rest of the group, standing tall.

     But... He's a bit suspicious about the whole Talyita asking about keeping the structure intact. Is she planning to just blow the whole thing up or something? That'd... that'd be a more boring adventure. He says nothing, though.

Taylita (180) has posed:
     As they continue into the building, Taylita tries to use her abilities to sense how many enemies they might be facing. Her ki abilities enable her to sense the lifeforce of those around her, and how strong that lifeforce is. For now, she keeps an eye on the rear quarter, ready to blast things wit Ki or punch them in the face. "So, this is just a straightforward elimination mission. Not usually my thing, but from what I read about these guys, you can't go easy on them."

     Were Fassad to ask (or if he had encountered saiyans before in battle) he would have no doubt about why she asked about the building's survival. Saiyans and other beings from the Dragonball universe tend to cause very high collateral damage. It is a good thing that Grey squad isn't worried about such things. "What's that shield made of?" she asks the Captain as they wait for whatever is going to happen with his shield.

Rocket (781) has posed:
"I am Groot." ((No, we live on the Rack 'n' Ruin.)) His tone of voice as he speaks is one of incredulity as he answers Jai's question.

Elsewhere, with Adriana, Rocket continues to move along with his group keeping an eye out for hostiles approaching from their sixes.

Back with Jai, an attack is launched on the group in the form of a plasma blast that strikes Groot in the center of his mass from behind. The glowing energy burns half way though his trunk before exploding, shatterinig the arboraform into a blast of flying splinters amid the waves of energy washing out of the spot the eight-foot tall 'tree' had previously been standing in.

In that moment between the impact and the explosion Groot's voice is heard to say, "I am Groot," over the radio. ((Rocket, find me!))

Crys Gattz has posed:
Crys Gattz is keeping stealthy and she moves in with the group for the moment she looks to Captain America for a moment and keeps ready holing of until Jai gives th order to get going. She does bring up a point over the comm.

"So Jai any other objectives then just search and destroy.?" She moves in now and she gets rteady to move. She's waiting she knos it's not quite time to go hot yet.

Noble Six (38) has posed:
    Holding up a single fist, Noble Six motions for the others with their group to hold position while Adriana moves inside and takes out the first sentry. Once he's gone down, and Noble Six gets the indication to move in, she opens her hand and motions for everyone to follow her. She herself heads inside, moving quickly to catch up with Adriana.

    Once they're caught up, she gives a quick hand signal to the SPARTAN-II to let her know she's caught up and indicate the direction that she's going to be covering while they move deeper inside of the facility.

Jorge-052 (783) has posed:
Jorge-052 nods to Jai-006 and spools up the chaingun, preparing it to fire on a moment's notice. He doesn't have long to wait, either -- he visually spots the familiar gleam of a charging plasma pistol a split second before the resulting blast strikes Groot dead-center, shattering the tree-like alien.

Bits of wood shards and splinters bounce across the SPARTAN-II's energy field as it fluctuates from the proximity of the plasma burst. Jorge-052 is staggered for a moment, then opens fire with the chaingun in that direction as he calls out, "Contact! Take cover!"

Cory (768) has posed:
    Cory ends up WINCING as a neck's twisted and down goes an 'Elite' goon. But well, what can she do? She came to help them break through and take care of an alien threat...

    But she's finding it hard to not go on the offensive here. A full challenge of everything rushing her sounds like a great idea.

    SO she's frowning heavily while tagging along with NOble Six. Every time the hand signal's given - FWOOOOSH.

    One moment she's one place, the next she's caught up.

Jai-006 (806) has posed:
"Nah." Jai says to Cap very casually. "Just cause some ruckus to draw attention to us, so lethal weapon and crew down there can do their deed." The Saiyan, Crys, and Groot probably will notice how casual the SPARTAN-II is being with Captain America compared to them. For-- whatever the reason.

Maybe its a big, strong guy thing. Taylita will also notice the whole room just around the bend is full of them, including probably their allies too. Which Jai then remarks her, "When your dealing with a bunch of alien scum who designed to glass worlds just cause you didn't brush your teeth like them... you don't hold any sympathy."

Jai then looks over to Crys, "Nope. Just kill."

The Gray Team leader then motions to Groot and Crys once the shield flies, "You two! Sick'em!" Because it wasn't to far after that did some Elites bark and yelp as a metal 'clang' can be heard hitting /someone/. Jai then goes to jump around the corner and lays down a few burst rounds, "Jorge! Taylita! Cover em!"

His silver visor looks over to Cap, "Go get that shield before I find away to take it home." There was an amused sound in his voice.

Though before perhaps Groot can charge, it seems some Elites got his number, which causes the SPARTAN-II in the Centurion armor to curse, before leaping over and smashing the Elite with his assault rifle, knocking the alien to the ground, before leveling his Assault rifle on him. "I'm going to let you live... for one reason... to tell your people to go fuck off."

The Elite can only laugh gently, "You can give that message to them yourself... Demon." The Elite lifts up his hand with a charged grenade.

"Tsk" Jai then leaps back, "Get back!" he barks out as the grenade then explodes!

The shield clanged, banged, and bounced around like a wild ping-pong ball. Which was not what Adriana was expecting, but it worked! It was drawing the Elites attention right for where everyone else was. "Now!" She called out to everyone else to take charge.

Those poor Grunts, they were freaking out and one gets knocked out cold by a shied thunk to the head. The Elites were dancing around and spotted Adriana sending the others. He leveled his plasma rifle on her and with a roar-- Opened fire on her.

She had no real good place to go...

Noble Six also gets to learn the Gray Team--- they really need to work on team coordination. Seriously.

Steve Rogers has posed:
Cap hustles up to retrieve his shield from the room it rebounded into, smirking a bit. Any of the Covenant soldiers who wind up in his way ...

Well, they might need another term for 'demon' that doesn't imply a hard, faceless shell of powered armor. Even without drawing a purposefully deadly weapon, Captain America is no slouch in combat - he usually doesn't NEED anything besides his shields and his fists; the handgun and the knife are there because a friend gave them to him with the idea that he might find them useful. And sometimes, he does need a blade or a bullet where his 'preferred' weapons don't quite meet his needs.

On the other hand, he CAN be outnumbered and overrun ... so hopefully the rest of the team is ready to help if that should happen.

Rocket (781) has posed:
"What was that buddy?" Rocket says, responding to Groot's plaintive pre-explsion request over the radio. Distracted by this, he almost misses Enemy Elite drawinig a bead on Adriana....

But almost is not the same as actually missing it. Rocket yells out, "Enemy at your back Spartan-111!" and leaps between the enemy Elite and his squad leader, firing off a shot at the enemy and taking a gracing hit from his blast preventing it from hitting Adriana squarely in the head.

Rocket drops, his outfit partially burned away, smoking and smelling of singed fur. "Watch ou..." he gasps and passes into unconsciousness as the first stages of shock settle upon him.

Taylita (180) has posed:
     Taylita gets the feeling she should have outlined her combat capabilities before this started. She isn't really designed for cover fire. Jorge, sure. He has that huge multi-barrelled monstrocity. Her? Well...she just has her ki powers.

     Which, admittedly, can do the job. She just isn't used to having to worry about hitting allies. To help her alleviate that worry...she smashes through the wall, then opens fire with ki shots. With so many allies in the area, she uses small controlled beams. It ends up looking like the very beam rifles that the Elites themselves and their Jackal allies use on a regular basis. "Take that!!"

     Each impact of her beams causes a small explosion, promising decent punishment for any enemy unlucky enough to attack her or the Spartans.

Noble Six (38) has posed:
    As the shots come in towards Adriana, Noble Six tries to move to intercept but is too slow and Rocket gets in there first. She watches him go down, and is quick to raise her assault rifle and put down the aliens that shot him. Moving quickly, she picks Rocket up and begins to evacuate him towards the Warthogs outside.

    Coming over the radio, she will let Adriana and Jai know that she is evacuating him to the Warthogs so she can try to stabalize him. She's sure they'll be able to finish mopping up the rest of the Covenant forces that are inside.

Cory (768) has posed:
    Thankfully, someone IS watching out for the team.

    Faster than the eye can see Chikorri blitzes out of one location and reappears in the way of the Elite's plasma rifle, arms crossed, shoulders scrunched and face shielded behind said arms. She takes the shots in place of Adriana!

    -- Well, that was the plan, but Rocket's own intervention solves THAT problem.

    So instead she's left with an unconscious Rocket. Her answer?

    "Geeze, squishy people need to wear armor!" Her response is to HOIST HIM and sling him over a shoulder with one hand.

    With the other, she aims her palm at enemies much like Taylita's doing... and sends out quick blasts of pure explosive Ki!

Crys Gattz has posed:
Crys Gattz nods and with that she gets the order to go. There's no more words no more anthing. Crys is just focused on the enemy the Fal Claw snaps open and she get to work as some shots hit her they are intercepted by some sort of personal shields of her own as she moves in. She going into melee and it's not going to be pretty. She also fires the odd shot with her pistils and hopefully the Spartan's tech hes isn't going to ahem want her crazy claw too badly.

Jorge-052 (783) has posed:
Jorge-052 is not terribly mobile with his current weapon of choice, but his sense of battlefield awareness more than makes up for it. He pivots on one foot to swing the chaingun around to where he needs to shoot, and he's constantly in motion to avoid as much return fire as possible, slowly making his way to an outcropping to cover his own back.

He keeps the trigger pulled in a long spray when only Covenant targets are in his sights, and switches to controlled burst fire when laying down cover-fire close to their allies.

Jai-006 (806) has posed:
Rocket takes the shot for Adrianna who tsks softly. "Fool." She says softy, before reach over, but Noble Six is already ahead of her. It kind of humors her really, in some ways. Taking a few shots at some of the Elites, including the one recovery from being hit by Rocket, around the same time Noble Six is to just blast down that alien.

Taylita gives 'beam' cover fire, causing some Elites to scatter and claiming a few grunts. Cap slams down a few and knocks some elites actually off their feet. They /might/ start considering him a demon as well, given what he was doing that rivaled the SPARTANs.

Fassad (Player Ok) goes into the fray after some Elites who go to match him in melee with their own swords. An honor race these larger aliens are, but they learn that picking a fight with the Prince was not such a wise idea!

Once Noble Six comes out, Mike-120 glances up to see the Raccoon. "Road kill?" He asks, he then tilts his head down and to the side. "Ok... Yeah... I know. Bad joke." However as Noble Six goes to stabilize Rocket and loud thunk is hear and Mike-120 looks up. "... ah hell.. um... Carol." If he wasn't suppose to say her name, he doesn't care right now, but she'll see it in his visor...

...A Hunter (A large massive alien, with heavy duty armor plating and seeming worm like internal body).

Crys gets to go on a war bath with claws and weapon alike. Ripping into Elite armor and claiming the lives of a few remaining Grunts. While Cory gets into some hand to hand bouts with a few Elites, who attempt to match her on speed, but fall a bit short.

Jorge also gets to mow down a few who are trying to get away, but are claimed by his own weapon and a few more beams from Taylita. Soon the dust starts to settle around the area, with the all standing victorious over many dead Grunts and Elites.

Jai-006 rests his assault rifle on his shoulder as he speaks up. "Good work. All of you. Now we just need to blow this area up and we can call it a day." Though like Adriana-111, he is unaware of the Hunter having a stare down with Noble Six and Mike-120.

Noble Six (38) has posed:
    The SPARTAN-III is using biofoam to stabalize Rocket, and as soon as she's done looks up when Mike calls her by her real name. She suddenly finds out why he is calling her by that name, as soon as she stares at the Hunter, "Okay." She says, glancing over towards Mike for a moment, making a motion for him to move, before she jerks the other direction, moving to try to get the Hunter's attention by firing several shots from the assault rifle at it. She knows she won't be able to penetrate it's armor, but the idea is mostly to get it to focus on her and not the Warthog where Rocket is.

    She knows she needs to get around it, and she moves to do just that, rushing towards the Hunter, it looks to be charging up the fuel rod cannon, judging by that horrible humming and the green glow coming from the weapon, and Six knows how much damage that thing can do. She's fast, though, fast enough to reach it before it fires. She jumps, landing with one foot on the cannon and pushing off of it, sending the shot into the ground at the Hunter's feet as she jumps over the alien monster, flipping around in midair to land behind it.

    Now that she's behind it, finishing it off would be easy. She grabs a grenade off of her side, arms it, and then thrusts her hand inside of the exposed back of the alien, jamming the grenade deep inside, before she pushes the big beast away, knowing there'll be no way for it to free that grenade before it goes off, and destroys it. A moment or two later, indeed, the grenade goes off, shredding the Hunter from the inside and splattering orange goo all over both Warthogs and the area around them.

Jai-006 (806) has posed:
The sounds of grenades going off outside is what catches Jai-006's attention along with Adriana-111. "Jai?" She says to him, before the Centurion armored SPARTAN-II lowers his head. "Damnit!"

The two of them bolt much faster than a normal human should ever run in armor back outside. Those who chase after them will be greeted to the same sight. A ton of orange goo /everywhere/. Including Mike-120 covered in it himself and just shaking the stuff of his hands-- at least Rocket didn't have any! well... maybe a touch on the edges of his fur.

Jai-006 looked over to Noble Six, then back to Mike, then back to Noble Six. "Hunter?"

He asked hem both.

Mike stared at Jai-006 about then. One could almost sense the dead-pan stare, before Mike piped up. "No. We decided to make a giant size orange icicle shake." Yeah-- Mike was ok. Seem like the Warthogs were too, beyond the 'new' paint job.

"Its going to take a week or two to get the smell out of the Hogs /and/ this suit." Mike-120 states in a minor complaint as he shakes his hands again. Yeah-- this was a day for the SPARTANS and there was to be many more to come for all.

Taylita (180) has posed:
     Taylita feels what seems like a large power level, and so rushes out like the others to see it. She's expecting an actual difficult opponent!

     But, when she arrives, there is just a puddle, some armor plates, and probably pieces of worms everywhere. "Aww. You already killed it?" she asks, pouting a bit and kicking at the big metal shield that Hunters typically carry.

     After that, she goes into eccentric engineer mode. "...what is this thing made of? And what's that weapon?" She grunts as she hefts the huge fuel rod cannon. "Hey, can I take this stuff?"

Jorge-052 (783) has posed:
Jorge-052 puts down his chaingun and motions to Jai-006. "I'll set up the charges," he states, already moving to do just that. That's about when the distant sounds of the greandes echo and the other SPARTANs hightail it out to make sure the 'Hogs, Mike, Noble Six, and Rocket are OK.

It doesn't take long for Jorge to place demo charges at the structural points, setting them to remote detonate on his signal. On his way out, he scoops up some fragments of Groot's body before he picks up his chaingun and follows the path back out. He never did like the idea of leaving an ally's body behind, alien or not, but this'll have to do.

By the time he catches up to everyone else, Mike's complaining and the 'Hogs have a new orange paint-job that smells like burnt plastic. Definitely Hunter... but everyone involved is clearly fine, so there's little concern there. "Not our problem, Mike." He puts Groot-sticks next to Rocket, then begins re-affixing his chaingun to the turret mount. "Deal with it until we get back to base."

Cory (768) has posed:
    Outside Cory goes, out into the realm of the orange goo. She floats up above the goop-covered Warthog and Mike and just ends up headscratching... then holding her nose closed. "Well.. could be worse, maybe. Ewwww."