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RP: Yome Ismâopate [Mission 1.1] Whom fortune favors - Recon

"5 Tui'sai (minutes)" Rang through her mind. Peace had settled on her from her fatal decision to go out in a Blaze of Glory. She paused briefly, giving herelf time to look over the situation. Seeing Memi's Stako entwined with the Ripper. She shook with silent laughter and Keyul still moving and shooting. ~~Five Tui'sai~~ Rang in her mind.

Five eternal minutes. Murr looked at the energy indicator, mind racing through millions of options, each getting stupider by the second. But feasible. With coms shut off after La'ta's last comminque to her, no more IFF interference. The biggest threat was the Ripper and somehow it had moved to shield Memi from her plasma weapon. She aimed at the Ripper and then diverted all power to the plasma generator, overriding the auto-shut off.

Murr ignored the hits from Memi's stray shots as she waited, hoping that none of those hits were fatal to her Stako to complete one last shot.

Then Murr put the last of her Stako's energy to build up a powerful burst of plasma to fire at the Ripper. Once it registered fully powered up and ready to fire. She checked her target again, taking note pieces were missing from it and Memi was still shielded by the bulk of the Ripper.

She fired the plasma cannon as her Stako locked up and everything went dark for her. Sealed within a useless Stako with a small powercell independant from the Stako to blow it up if she died.....
 
Keyul continued to fire at the Defilers around him while making his way to help his team mate. Then something strange happened, there were two bright flashes. One came from Memi's stako at point blank into the chest of the Ripper, while the second one came from above and slammed into the Ripper. The second shot knocked the two apart from each other. Keyul opened up on the Ripper with both fusion cannons to the center of the chest. The Ripper fired one last volley that damaged Keyul's Stako's left arm rendering it inoperative.

He opened fire with his remaining arm killing another Defiler. He then a moment to reach down and activate his Vonata'te Tio. He set it to the comm channel the team was using. Then activated the mic. "Murr, La'tâ Ripper is down, just the small Defiler's left. Memi, can your Stako stand?" he transmitted.

With the death of the Ripper, many of the smaller Defilers started scattering.
 
Rooftop

Murr's Stako just stood there near the edge of the hole, like statue sentinal overlooking the complex with it's head bowed and plasma cannon exposed as if the Stako was sticking it tongue out at those below, mocking them; still pointed down into the chaos below. The Rifle held at low port arms with the barrel pointed at the roof top like it was ready to fight or barr the way.

~~ 5 Tui'sai (minutes) ~~ Rang in Murr's mind again and again in La'ta's voice. She was beside herself, unable to communicate or move or fight. ~~ 5 Tui'sai ~~ With no way to tell the time or see what was happening. Time was slowing down from her perspective.

Murr thought back through all of her actions to see where she went wrong.Where she had wasted energy when she should've been conserving it. Oh she was gonna get her tail chewed on rightiously for everything that had gone wrong. Especialy running out of power during a battle with the NMX Defilers Maybe she should just blow herself up, but it would be a waste of explosives and only killing herself. And wounding La'ta which would haunt her for eternity. She would disgrace her family for such a stupid ploy. It was better to face Command and accept what fate had stored for her. For her failure to maintain the Stako so it could fight till either the enemy was dead or herself was killed in action.

All Murr could do was sweat it out and let her mind wander down many roads, each of them looking bleek to her as it all was determental towards her.
 
La'tâ became worried when she noticed Murr's stako shut down and panic was starting to set in with her, but her mind was put at ease when she heard Keyul's voice over the radio. Things were not going well, but the return of the squad leader to the radio gave her a little more room to work with. "La'tâ here. I have some minor damages, however Murr's stako is inoperable, seems to have powered down." She stayed at the top and used her plasma canon to try to clean up straggling defilers while keeping an eye on Murr.
 
Keyul shot another of the Defilers. He was puzzled by La'tâ's comment about Murr's Stako. 'Why would her Stako be powered down? We have fuel for almost three and a half days. So either something happened to her power. But then why didn't she switch to the Gianaka Gean.' He thought.

He keyed his communcator, "La'tâ, proceed to Murr and do a visual inspection of her Stako. It is possible that some damage might be affecting her power system."
 
La'tâ gave a soft nod, but of course no one saw it. "Hold your position while I check." She carefully made her way over to Murr's stako, and moved it away from the hole so that it would not fall in, then began to examine it.

At first everything seemed fine, but in the machine's lower back, blending in wit the rest of the blackened metal was a piece of shrapnel, most likely from the explosion at the intersection. After a quick cross reference to the schematics of the unit Keyul's suspicions were confirmed.

"There is a shard of metal that looks like it came from the explosion, it's wedged itself into the power control systems, I'll try removing it." After saying that she grabbed hold of the shard and carefully began to pull. If she did this right Murr might be able to restore power to her systems, if done wrong, La'tâ wasn't sure what might happen, anything from a small explosion to the self destruct triggering automatically. One thing was for sure though, she'd rather be doing surgery than this, at least she was comfortable with that.
 
Murr heard a scraping noise in the lower part of the Stako's torso, behind her feet. She heard the sharp snap crackle of electrical energy jumping a razor thin gap. When looking down at her feet, she could see the strobe like effects of sparks lighting up her feet and the faint whiff of ozone and melting metal. All around her, displays, Led’s lit up. Screens lit up with words:

Power on : [y]/ [n]

Murr tapped the button with the letter [Y] on the keyboard that flopped out when the system began to reboot from an power flow was restored to the Stako.

System checks....

A red bar appeared and slowly turned green with percentages increasing as the system checked itself out.

System checks : Operational at 87%
Armor integrity: 99%
Power Control System: Electrical short in power control area. 94%
Shell compromised: Initiating Auto-repair.

Another red bar appeared and began to turn green from left to right.

Auto-repair complete.
Shell Integrity: 98%
Weapons system: 100% Ready for activation:
Communication system: 100% Ready for activation:
Life support: 98.6% Operational - Auto-start up.

Another bar appeared and turned quickly to green.

Bio-Organics Detected inside Stako. Terminate? [y]/[n] ::

The scrolling stopped with curser flashing next to [n], Murr tapped the button with [n] on the keyboard that flopped out when the system began to reboot from an unpowered state.

Input Access Authorizing Code to proceed with power up operations::

Murr racked her brains for the access codes which the maintenance and service crews knew back at the ship, plus the team leader of the unit if they was away from the ship on operation.

Only signs of the Stako activating was the plasma cannon returning to its concealed position and the jaw closing to safe the plasma cannon. And another panel in back popped open with a finger sized keyboard with screen showing what was going on the internal screens that Murr was seeing, to input access codes from an external source if the operator didn't know them.
 
La'tâ noticed the activity with Murr's Stako now and was a bit relieved nothing went wrong and it was powering back up, however it was stuck at the access codes. She was familiar with the process, but she was not brought on board as a technician, and was not given the access codes. "Keyul, do you have the access codes to reboot the Stako? It looks like a full system reboot happened." While she waited for the codes she did one more check around the Stako to make sure everything was fine and there wouldn't be any more surprises.
 
Keyul paused at firing for a moment since none of the Defilers were close to pose a threat. He then accessed the command codes for his Stako via his neural link. "La'tâ, it is a two part code. The first part is the following eight characters 'q1al8pot' then press enter and enter the following numeric sequence. '7721843551' The Stako should safely power up and recognize the operator."
 
La'tâ quickly jotted down the code inside her own Stako before moving behind Murr's machine. It would be easier if they could radio it to her, but the radio is probably offline. So the Tula put the mech into a squat and disembarked. She was still on the battlefield so she made haste with her movements, not wanting to stay outside long while unprotected. Once at Murr's Stako the input the eight digit alpha-numeric code and then the ten digit numeric sequence when prompted. She decided to take a moment and wait by the Stako to make sure there were no further problems.
 
Once Authorization code had been inputted, the power up checklist resumed. A lot of the systems during the power-up and system checks, showed light damages by the not having the 100% displayed.

Murr sighed with relief as the '****..." appeared on her screen in the field where it belonged and more '****.." appeared. Then the system resumed it proceedure in powering up the Stako to full operations. Murr hands flew across the switches as her mind dealt with the others through the Iginâ Yoqa, giving her authorization code directly to the Stako keep the Iginâ Yoqa operational as she had done when when she first got inside the Stako when it was back at the ship before the operation began.

On those that had communication operational, began to recieve her IFF signals and other important data that was automatically transmitted to those that required it or had authorization to access to it.

Murr quickly sent a text message out on open group channel once she had communications up and running. :: Thanks for the assist. Murr :: She felt relieved as she took stock and assess the situation as she powered up her plasma cannon again, itching to get back into the action.
 
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He was not sure if the ripper was dead or not, but once Memi was untangled from it he pushed away as quickly as possible. The targeting computer locked on the ripper once there was space between the two of them. With a growl Memi fired off all of his weapons at the monster. Maybe the overkill would at least keep it down and out of the fight long enough for Memi to escape.

Deep in his brain, he was clinically going over the whole situation. Every step of the way that part of the brain was screaming out that he was screwing up and that he could have done a lot better. That not only his family was being dishonored, but his whole clan, in not the whole of his people.

With that voice screaming in his head Memi took a step forward and continued to fire. Emptying the mag, dropping it and reloading like he had been trained in. It was all automatic at this point, Memi the scribe was not there... Just the genetic hunter of a jungle cat people.
 
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La'tâ could hear the Murr's Stako system start cycling up. It was also apparent as the Stako made a number of minor physical moves as the Jâony Norjopa (Musculature) initialized. She also heard the sound of clan weapon fire off in the distance. From below she heard the sound of the Defilers moving about.

By the time Memi had empty clip the Ripper was well and truly dead, the organism withing it was splayed across the surfaces behind it. The armor itself was smoking and no sign of generated power was detected.
 
La'tâ smiled at all the sounds she could hear while outside of her stako, and more of them meant good for their squad than bad. She couldn't stay outside forever though so she quickly moved back into her stako and got on the radio. "Our packmates are close, I could hear their weapons fire outside of my stako." Once her stako is closed up and standing again she moves to head down with Memi and Keyul, to clean up any remnants of the defilers.
 
Murr covered La'ta as she got in her Stako and then decended down into the room to join the others. Seeing Memi go active in finishing off the Ripper. She secured her rifle, taking note of the limited rounds it had left. She picked off the straggler NMX's that were either to slow or heavily wounded that prevented them from escaping.

When this was over, Murr would make sure La'ta got the best of foods and bigger portion even at the risk of herself getting a smaller portion. Thought flowed through her mind as it was her turn to decend into the hellgrounds of their making to resume the battle.

Murr did one last check, scanned the rooftops for any Defilers thought they could be slick and use the rooftops like they did....
 
The installation roof top was clear of living Defilers. Below Keyul, La'tâ and Memi finished off the Defilers present. Present on the other's HUDs were the approaching markers of the group with the Tin-To'a. The HUD also showed a dense group of Defiler's between the group here and the other.

"I hear weapons fire, sounds like its Stako based. Weapon and ammo check, what is your status people." Keyul called out.
 
La'tâ settled down once all the defilers were cleared out and let out a sigh. She was going to check her munitions any way so when Keyul asked she was already in the middle of the process. "Rotygo Acco Stako operational and one magazine left. Phased Plasma canon operational as well, and about half a nitrogen canister left." She then turned her attention to the Stako itself looking over it's data. "The Stako has some damage and the hull integrity has dropped some, but it still retained full functionality."
 
Murr texted her responced to Keyul that her Stako was a t 98% operational with weakened hull structure due to penetration. Electrical System at 96.5% Due to the damaged power control box. Expendable ammunition as down 45% of one magizine. Stako's plasma cannon 99% scince it was connected to power generation system. Nitrogen Canister was 1/4 full cause of her earlier rampage and spray -n- pray into the room below immediatly after the explosions.

Herself was fine, just shooken up abit from the mood swings. She sent it off to Keyul as she joined the team, leaving the roof. She liked the high ground advantage. But there was no open corridors that contained the Defilers.

She was pleased at the destruction of the Defilers of combined efforts and teamwork of the team. She made her Stako bow to Memi for his brave act of entangling up the Defiler's Ripper. Definitely another portion of her rations was going to him for such a brave act. Whether it was intentional or not. But to Murr's eyes, It was a very brave act to distract the Ripper from Keyul.

This was a Team that the Deities found favor upon, for they loved the fools and those that helped themselves.
 
The Stako's readouts read red for ammo for Memi's supply. He only had a quarter mag left for the main rifle. The rest was dry. "I'm Dry... Um the Stako looks to be in fin shape past a few dents and scratches." his reply came with his heavy breathing has he still was fighting a full panic attack and passing out from the adrenalin rush he just had.
 
Keyul listened to the reports from the others in his group. He was very pleased that they had survived thus far. With the sound of weapons fire not that far away meant that the other group was closing.

"Okay, time to regroup with the others. Memi you bring up the rear. If one of the Defiler's looks to be getting too close to one of us, open fire with your Rotygo Acco Stako." He turned to the Chronicler and then handed him Keyul's Rotygo Acco. "Take this I have enough weapons and this one is fully loaded. That will give you more fire power."

He turned to the others, "Murr, your on my right, and La'tâ, I want you on my left. A live Defiler crosses our path, we kill it. We do not stop moving unless one of our Stako goes offline, or we get to the others. Let's go." he said and started walking down the passageway. He held both of his arms up with the weapons loaded and the fusion cannons on his Stako's hips glowed with intent.
 
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