RP: YSS Eucharis [Mission 16] The Nest

Team 1

Natsumi and her infantry escort rushed forward to aid Takeyu as he worked to hotwire the blastdoor. She had a bad feeling there would be unfriendlies on the other side.

"Be ready to blast whatevers on the other side if theres anything!" she said. With the proximity the control panel Takeyu was working on to the blastdoor there would be little cover from enemy fire and it would not be good to have their engineer gunned down.

Team 1 - Maintenance Tunnel

Takeyu’s more primitive method was fruitful. He was able to short out the door and it stopped where it was allowing people to crawl under it through the remaining space.

Further up ahead, another elevator on the side of the passageway opened up and another five Rippers came out of it and set their sights on the closest intruders. Bors’ visor was splattered in blood as one of his escort Nekovalkyrja was shot several times in the head by 50mm gauss rounds, causing her helmet to crush like a soup can. Her body flopped to the ground under the blast shutter.

The passageway quickly filled with aether blasts and projectiles again as the infantry nekos began engaging the Mishhuvurthyar. In the narrow, straight space, both sides had little room to hide in. This sort of combat really made the DAISY’s arm shield worthwhile. The infantry nekos were looking through the little windows on them as they fired back at the Rippers in their path.

Natsumi’s escorts crowded around her protectively. “How much further to go?” one of them asked.


Team 2 – Supply Room

Ramiro found the controls were really too simple to do much with. The only input they seemed to accept was a code to open the doors, it was unclear how many numbers it was. Only the local Mishhu would know. Maybe once they got into the core area, there would be some computers and more complex control panels to work with.

Mitsuko’s calm was broken by a Ripper power armor appearing in the conveyor leading to the starship docks. It tried to sneak up and snipe her, but one of her escort nekos blocked it with her shield. The Ripper began violently kicking at the crate holding the blast shutter open.

Team 2 – Clone Room

Glass flew and synth water went flying as the clone tanks were caught in the crossfire by the careless Ripper defenders. Helen’s guns heavily damaged the lead one but the Rippers were still flooding the area with 50mm rounds and several sprays of aether as powerful as Helen’s. Reika saw one of her escorts drop dead next to her.

Team 1

"Lets take them out!" Natsumi replied to her infantry Neko. "Dont let them get any closer"

Natsumi brought her rifle up, took aim at one of the rippers and squeezes the trigger, firing in aggression for the first time

Team 1

With a satisfied nod, Takeyu unholstered his SMG and began to lay down fire on the Rippers. "Squad two, doors jarred you can move, get out from under it you are a handsome target for these Rippers! Use your active camo" he ordered and started moving slowly toward the next blast shutter.

"Squad two, concentrate fire on my target. We must take them out quickly. Use whatever you have at your disposal, that includs your active camo to screw with their systems, either use it to hide yourself and take shots at them, or project holographic representations," as Takeyu said this, his drones came flying out to annoy the Rippers. Five, and we don't have much time, we need to take them out quickly.. he said and glanced over at the blast door in the distance.

For his part, Takeyu engaged his active systems, and began to project holographic representations of himself to confuse the Rippers.

Situation Report said:

Klein to Eucharis

Shosho, have encountered cloning facilities where vital intel has been located, acquiring related materials. Team has taken a distribution center, and is poised to take a ship as soon as intel gathering is complete. Currently engaged in combat against inferior models of Ripper power armor. Excuse me.

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Cloning Room

There was a yell from Helen as she propelled herself at one of the Rippers, charging them as a short aether-saber projected itself from her forearm. Head-on combat was something easier to deal with than most situations, especially with units as clumsy as Rippers. A combination of her own reflexes, as well as the abilities of her AIES, allowed her to predetermine the firing angles of each weapon on each Ripper. She knew where every shot was going to possibly come from before it was made, and it allowed her to throw herself at the enemy, weaving through the incoming fire. Even with that advantage though, she was not untouchable.

There was an audible thud of solid metal on metal, as one of the 50mm rounds caught Helen in the thigh, causing her to stumble briefly. Her leg and hip felt like someone had slammed her against a bulkhead at hypersonic speeds, but the damage was able to be dealt with as capillaries and veins ruptured with hemosyntheic blood, which went to work as soon as the concussive forces freed them from their vessels. Zesuaium plate armor was to thank for keeping the impact to the concussive, instead of the penetrating and taking her leg.

As a blast of aether sheared over her back as she brought herself back up from her stumble, Helen dug her armored feet in, as she then propelled herself at a sprint at one of the Rippers, raising her armored fist, as she brought the blade of aetheric energy across in a sweeping motion aimed for one of the Ripper's arms intending to shear it off, as her other hand brought the Aether Gatling against the midsection of the Ripper, aiming straight for where she knew the brainslave would be nestled within the armor. Helen pulled the trigger as she unleashed all four barrels at once, spinning them in the process, as she used the weapon on a continuous aether projection setting.

While Helen did her work, she kept an open line of communication with her escorts and team. Her SPINE connection to her AIES did most of the talking, as she directed her escorts to open fire on precise portions of the Rippers, feeding the newly cloned Centurions target information that they could act on. Mainly, Helen wanted the heavy weapons on the Rippers to be taken out, for the sake of the cloning facility, as well as themselves, and to make the Rippers easier to deal with. Though, she also marked the targets as to where the brainslaves would be nestled within the armor, providing the escorts the option of the quick take-down. Then, she received a pair of very useful messages, one from Mitsuko, which she was sure to respond to.


As she replied to Mitsuko, Helen redirected her escorts to provide cover, as she disengaged from the Rippers, and went about opening up one of the cloning tanks which indicated that the occupant was complete and viable. As she opened the tank, she looked upon the body, and could not help but to appreciate the design, as she picked it up in her armored grasp, and carried it quickly to the ST apparatus where she set it down.

Once the nightmarish body was in place, Helen quickly moved to the other portion of the ST machine, grabbing the deceased escort in the process, propping her against the side of the machine facing the Rippers, before she went about removing her helmet, then taking a seat behind the cover offered by the deceased, as she spoke to Reika and her own escorts telepathically. "Activate the machine, copy setting, make sure that its on write only, not recording. Anyone who can get to the controls." Of course, Helen had already stored her vital intelligence related memories in her power armor, so really, it was more of a precaution than anything else, as she prepared her thoughts for awakening in another body, at least, a duplicate of her thoughts, in another body.

Team 1

"First squad concentrate your fire on the first Rippers." Sune called out, he dispatched 10 Ke-M2-W2908 mini missiles with a thought five at one Ripper and the other five a second. While he unleashed his SMG and lobbed a 50mm Gauss round at the Ripper he fired at first.

As his escort Neko fell to the floor in a decapitated state splattering blood over his visor Bors couldn’t help but exclaim

"SHIT!"

As the remainder of his squad threw up there forearm shields Bors ducked down behind them as quickly as possible to avoid getting hit himself. As his team fired he glanced behind him to see how the rest of Team One was fairing and saw Takeyu squad cloak and and holograpic images appear. Clever Bors thought before addressing his squad,

"Activate your suits active camo and give 'em hell team, avenge your comrades!"

Activating his own active camo, Bors fired a short burst from his Particle Beam Rifle at the closest Ripper before sending a grenade at it as well.

Team 2
Supply Room

Mitsuko flinched, turning toward the sound. As soon as she realized what was happening, she dove for cover. She only needed a moment to regain her composure before training kicked in again. Her camo was switched back before she hurriedly changed location, moving while keeping the Ripper in view. Helen's reply made it clear how important it was to take care of this properly.

While her escorts began firing on the Ripper, she continued moving to the side, raising one arm toward the enemy. She let the Mindy's forearm weapon charge up for a moment, taking this time to assist the AIES with aiming the proper shot. Mitsuko fired the focused beam as the Ripper was aiming another kick. She was hoping to take off that bothersome leg before the foot landed again. She twisted her body and arm as suggested to get the best possible angle, making sure the beam would hit the blast shutter after slicing through the leg. Or, if she hadn't timed things properly, at least it would still only hit the blast door while lightly scraping the Ripper.

Ramiro immediately spun around when he heard Ripper fire. Seeing him trying to kick out the crate, he carefully aimed at the enemy's leg, with some help from the computer. "Leave us the fuck alone!" He screamed as he blasted round after round in the the Ripper's leg. "Why can't you ever just leave as alone!?"

Turning back to the console, Ramiro began attempting to get all of the doors open. "My squad, cover me!" He ordered, making sure that he wouldn't get shot in the back. With that thought in mind, he realized it would be best if he concentrated his shields behind him.

Team 2

Misato spun around when she heard the ripper attack Mitsuko, she started firing at itallowing her suit`s computer help aim. During this all she knew they had to press on soon before this room became a death trap.

As she waited for an responce Misato continued shooting at the ripper, and started ordering her squad to perpare to head out.

team 1
Konoka had been trying to help the wounded she'd recently treated to safety when the squids showed up. Konoka quickly got her armor's camo going, and, though she wasn't normally a vengeful person, smiled and followed Bors' suggestion, immediately shooting at every squid she could see.
All she wanted was to help her team....and unshot squids weren't helping!

Team 2 - Clone Room

Helen got a wake-up call as the Ripper she assumed would be clumsy managed to slap her gatling down with one of its large arms, sending it into the floor with a unhealthy-sounding crack, and when it went off, its barrels shooting into the wall. Its other hand bought its aether lance up and Helen’s inertia worked against her and she slammed into it, burning her chest plate where much of one of her breasts was sliced off, leaving a small round hole with a smoking black flesh bared behind it. Her aether blade hit but the Ripper stayed together although its arm was smoking and crippled. As Helen advanced, her infantry team charged forward, shooting at the Ripper. The concentrated fire chewed it up and they managed to take it down and free Helen. Then they provided cover.

The longer the team stayed in the clone room, the more enemies began to pour in. There were at least a dozen or more Rippers in the room now, and the walls all around the room were sparking and popping and exploding with the impact of shots from the crossfire, and the NMX forces killed at least five of the infantry nekos who were trying to form a protective wall to shield the team. NMX nekos in body armor were firing on them with Impaler rifles. One aimed carefully and blew Helen’s Nightmare’s brains out.

Team 2 - Supply Room

Akemi found the Mishhuvurthyar to be large, heavy, and cumbersome; moving it took a lot of strength and effort, and it didn’t really make any effort to assist her. When they reached the supply room, it flopped down onto a pile of uniforms, breathing heavily.

Ramiro’s team covered him as directed while he worked. But somehow he managed to bungle up the control panel to where it somehow locked him out and said on the screen that it was summoning units to “sterilize” the area. Once of his escorts got picked off by a newly arriving Ripper.

Mitsuko found the quiet stopped as the area became besieged by a defense force that was growing exponentially by the minute. Blast shutters began to open around the supply room only to reveal crowds of angry Mishhuvurthyar defenders.

Misato managed to hit the Ripper in the face but it got down behind the crate holding open the door and started to slide it out of the way with its shoulder, trying to trap the team inside the supply room-turned-deathtrap.

Team 1 – Maintenance Tunnel

The tunnel was a nightmare. As bullets and energy blasts zipped back and forth, the crowded space became filled with liquid spray and smoke clouds again. One of Natsumi’s infantry escorts got her foot mangled by a Ripper’s cannon and tripped onto the floor where she was an easy target for a hail of aether blasts that shot through her body.

As Natsumi fired in aggression , her target was hit and Sune’s missiles also slammed into it with bright flashes and a shock wave that passed over everyone in the tunnel. The Mishhu fell, burning, as did another Sune hit.

Takeyu’s team managed to take down another Ripper and his holographic decoys helped draw fire away from the real team members, but in the corridor it was hard for the Mishhu to actually miss hitting someone on the away team.

Riko’s particle beam and grenade took down another of the Rippers, causing it to collapse with a burning crater in its armor as LSDR rounds showered on it.

Konoka managed to get a kill shot on the last Ripper, which stumbled and simply laid its back against the side wall and slumped over. Ahead, another blast shutter was closed. On the shutter was painted the word “CORE SECTION.”

Team 2 - Clone Room

"Well, are you going to help or would you like to die? My superior officer will kill you if you don't prove yourself useful. She told me to finish you off if you did not beg and squeal for your life. If you are refusing to help because you believe you will die from your injuries anyway, we have medical personnel that can attend to you," Akemi mentally transmitted to her prisoner using a harsh tone. She started firing on the Rippers with her beam saber rifle and called her squad to assist her. She tried to avoid hitting any machinery and ordered her soldiers to do the same as she began launching missiles from a shoulder launcher at the entrance the enemies were coming from. She also raised her free arm to her chest and projected a shield from it.

Team 1 - Corridor

When the last Ripper fell Sune surged forward stopping short of the shutter. "Same routine people. Shoi see if you can override that shutter to get us into the core section. Otherwise we will have to use det-cord to cut away in.

Everyone check your partner. If they are wounded help them get past near the core shutter. Konoka-San set up your triage there for now.

After the wounded are moved, lets move the Ripper bodies further down. If any hostiles try to come from that direction, we can use their bodies as a barricade for shooting."

Team 1

"Squad two, watch my back and keep an eye out for Rippers," said Takeyu as he shouldered his rifle and ran up to the control and door it off.

Now.. let's see.. he muttered lowly as he looked at the myriad of wires that made up the control panel. Then he went to work, disconnecting wires, then reconnecting them, and attempting to find the right combination to open this door.

Team 1

As the last Ripper fell Bors deactivated his active camo and walked up to the closed blast shutter with the remainder of his team. As he watched Takeyu fiddle around with the control pannel he told his team to take up positions so that they could get a clear shot at anything that was on the other side of the door,

"I don't want anymore Rippers getting the jump on us." he told them, trying to get a good vantage point himself.

After a few moments Bors shot a message via laser to Sune.

As he waited for a response he locked in another gernade into the underslung launcher and aimed at the door from his position.

Team 1 Corridor

"Actually prepare some detcord. If Nayacesen-Shoi is unable to raise the shutter. I want you to use the detcord to cut a hole in the hallway wall. We'll then go past the shutter and cut a second hole to get access to the door to the core. Cutting through the blast shutter would take far too long."

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Sune replied via laser.

Team 2

"Damn it!" Ramiro screamed as he pointed his weapon at the console and blasted it over and over. "All units engage!" He ordered as he spun around and knelt down. Shouldering his weapon and raising it, he carefully aimed at one of the incoming Rippers. After the first few shots were fired off, he activated the dozen-or-so shield modules that he had attached, activated the sword mode of his weapon, and darted at the enemies, hacking away as he went.

Clone Room

A sound of agitation left Helen as she breathed harshly from pain that resonated throughout her skull. She was angered, bitterly angered, as if fate itself were against her for her presumptuous behavior. Enough was enough, she was tired of the way things went during her time with the crew, she was going to do things her way.

Since the Nightmare she had grabbed was beheaded, she discarded it, and moved to another tank as she aimed both of her forearm cannons at the oncoming Rippers, and with that, she unleashed an unrestrained stream of energy, shielding her intended host with her Kylie, as she shouted to one of her escorts. "Fish out the body from the tank behind me, and shield it as you carry it over to the ST machine. Keep yourself between it and the Rippers and be ready to operate the ST machine controls!" Helen ordered, as she continually swept the entry way with twin blasts of aether energy.

As she worked her wrath, her chest smouldered, until hemosynthetic fluid tore away her burnt flesh, and soon, new flesh grew in its place, she controlled the growth, as to prevent an excessive embarrassment by baring her full assets, but none the less, they were out there, as she passively wondered how many times she had to kill someone or something with her bare chest exposed... the number was surprising.

Only once the escort would move the body from the tank to the ST would Helen follow, and take her place on the reading end of the machine, and wait for the escort to activate the machine. After all... who was she to assume. There was one thing though, she allowed her mind to lapse into hopeful thoughts, hopeful thoughts directed at whatever caused the universe to unfold the way it was meant to be. Let this work... I'm just trying to do my job here... she thought, as she clenched her teeth, and continued to lay down fire upon the Rippers.