RP: YSS Eucharis [Mission 16] The Nest

Team 2 in front of the Bridge

After the last of the Rippers in there fell Misato moved forward to check on the fallen Mitsuko, she quickly ordered her escort nekos to cover the intersection of the hallways. She quickly looks over the fallen neko looking for any sign of life.

Team Two - NMX Escort - Outside of Bridge

There was a flurry of words which flew over the verbal communications line, a flurry of words which existed purely in the realm of vulgarities, flavorful vulgarities which brimmed with anger and agony. Helen's voice was the source of those vulgarities, as she rolled off of the Ripper which she had taken down, as blood oozed from the breach in the plate of her Kylie. Out of her agony, Helen writhed upon the deck, only taking the luxury of writhing thanks to her AIES informing her that the Rippers near her were down.

Once the initial pain was set aside, Helen bit her lip firmly, focusing her thoughts beyond the pain as best she could as she found that one of her legs was being quite disobedient in the fact that it was unresponsive. Helen knew why, the tendons had been damaged by the rather annoying bit of aether damage to her buttocks. A sigh left the operative, as she forced herself to hold still, as her body worked to purge the burnt flesh from the wound. Helen only moved enough so her armored hand could reach into the buttpack of her Kylie, opening it and pulling her medical kit from the confines of the pack, before she went about opening the kit upon her belly, before pulling the hemosynth injector from the package.

"Team, work to take them damned Rippers out. I'm down, and require a few minutes to patch myself up." Helen spoke over the comm-line, as she tried her best to maintain focus. She had lost a good bit of her material content when her chest was seared away by the Ripper in the cloning room. Then, the damage to her buttocks only added to the matter, as Helen quietly thanked the fact that she was built in such a robust manner. If she were thinner, she figured that aether saber would have separated her pelvis from her waist, or the one in the clone room would have tore her chest clear open.

"Just a flesh wound..." Helen mumbled, as she tore a hole in the metallic material she secreted over her chest, exposing her bare flesh, as she pressed the hemosynth injector against her pale skin, which soon began to pump fresh material into her body, which quickly went to work in allowing her to rebuild her tissues properly. After the injection was complete, Helen calmly went about closing her medkit, before tucking it away back in the buttpack. A calm breath left her, as she lifted off from the ground, hovering as flesh and bone knit itself back together, causing her regenerated plump bottom to be plainly exposed out the back of her Kylie, shortly before she brought about another thin layer of metallic material to cover her bottom in a candy-coating like exterior. She was not about to join the fight yet however, as she merely hovered to a nearby bulkhead, and leaned against it as she gathered her bearings, while also remaining ready to defend herself if need be.

Team 1

Takeyu scowled as the Rippers just kept coming, and his concerns were growing. "Shosa, we might not be able to hold this position if they keep sending more our way, explosives are set and primed," he sent via laser communications as he continued to fire on the NMX Rippers. He looked at his HUD, seeing the large number of laid explosives on coolant pipes that were all primed and waiting for his detonation signal.

Glancing down at Konoka, he asked. "You doing ok there Konoka?"

Team 1 - The Core
"Gwe'd," Konoka said sarcastically. She wanted to laugh, but it would hurt too much. "'Chewp fo' m'bwoke' tee', bwoke'bwae, n' ebisheee a' shhhho'dern, 'm SPURKE'." Her green eyes looked worried as she added, "if'shonna bro dis pwa'e 'p, a'wee 'elp m'ousssh a're soss e'dont ge'rrrsphhhloded."
OOC: She said, "Great...'Cept for my broken teeth, broken brain, and everything slowing down, I'm PERFECT....If you're gonna blow this place up, at least help me out of here so I don't get kersploded."

Team One

As Bors ducked back into cover, he loaded in a fresh magazine tossing the other one at the approaching Rippers more toward his own amusement than to slow them down. As he leaned out of his cover to take a few quick shots he noticed the Rippers coming down from the upper levels.

"This is like frickin whack-a-mole with Guns, you take one down another pops up" He said not hiding the agitation in his voice.

He contemplated charging out there and trying to hack them to bits with his suits aether blades, but decided to send a grenade the rippers way instead, liking the relative safety of the cover he was in.

Team Two - NMX Escort - Outside of Bridge

Unlike Helen, Akemi had no real immediate reaction to give for her predicament. She simply lay on the floor, frozen in shock from the immense pain she felt and the damage her body had received. In a way she was actually thankful to go through all this now, early on in her career, because she would be better prepared to inevitably endure these types of injuries later. Once she had mentally composed herself, she calmly sent a message to her team. "Can anyone patch me up?" She didn't see herself doing much of anything without an infusion of hemosynth given how much she had lost in the cloning room in addition to what had been torn from her just now. She certainly wasn't built with anywhere near as ample reserves as her superior and the consequences had suddenly become very apparent.

Team Two - NMX Escort - Outside of Bridge

As seconds ticked by, Helen's breathing steadied, her body felt greatly better, but, there was still a distinctive twinge of fatigue which was beginning to set in. She let out a sigh, knowing it would be stupid to remove her helmet, so she instead dipped her hand into her buttpack to pull out a Type 29 'E-Type' ration package. She did not even bother to remove it from the package, as her hemosynthetic tissues upon her exposed chest shifted and parted, forming a horrific improvised mouth that opened to her esophagus which she shoved the ration package into as she listened to the communication line. It is time to get back to work, your break is over. Helen thought to herself, before she sent a reply; "Akemi, I'll be right there."

Helen did not even try to walk at that point, it would be a foolish attempt that would tax her knitting tissues too much. Instead, she took to a swift hovering flight, which was faster to begin with. She skimmed along the deck, over fallen Rippers, as she soon found her way to Akemi, kneeling down beside her as she dipped her hand into the buttpack of her armor to retrieve her medkit again. She set it down beside Akemi, before she leaned over the fallen Nekovalkyrja. "I need you to hold still, but be ready to shoot at anything that comes at us, got it?" Helen instructed the Itto Hei, as she assessed the situation.

Damn it, now this is why I keep this armor... Helen thought silently, as she looked upon the breach in the torso of Akemi's armor, and Akemi as well. She slipped her hand beneath Akemi, to feel the back of her armor. Finding no breach in the back, she concluded that the round must have stopped within the armor, and more than likely, was still wedged in Akemi somewhere, and she did not have the time, or the equipment, to go fishing in Akemi for the slug... more so, if it was possibly unexploded ordinance, which would have been far safer to keep in the cushioned confines of Akemi's flesh, as opposed to fumbling about in removing it with a power armor clad hand.

A steadying breath came from Helen, there was a minor problem in treating Akemi, one which she was not about to advertise to the nekovalkyrja... she had already used up the contents of the hemosynth container to mend her own injuries. In this situation, Helen had to improvise, she was just thankful that Akemi was enclosed within a power armor. She pulled a hypospray injector out from the medical kit, before she went to work on making Akemi battle-ready, long term survival was another matter all together, and she knew that the NH-29 body was well built to endure the long term, she could not argue that matter in the slightest.

"I'm going to give you some medicines to help you get back on your feet, understand?" Helen spoke, keeping Akemi apprised of the situation, as she quickly went about slipping the head of the injector into the breach of Akemi's armor so she could get to her flesh, without removing Akemi's helmet. Her work was quick at that point, swapping drug cartridges in rapid succession. A local pain reliever came first, followed by an anti-inflammatory, then a disinfectant, and with a topping touch from the injector, Helen administered a stimulant... she needed Akemi on her feet, she had more of a chance of surviving on her feet, than on her back.

As her hands quickly worked with the injector, and soon a clamp which she used to pinch together Akemi's wounded flesh, she used her authority as a Shosa to interact with Akemi's Mindy. She knew that the Mindy had fifteen days worth of nutrients and a lovely load of hemosynth on-board as well. They were not going to be deployed for fifteen days, that much was clear, so that left Helen to instruct the system to increase the administration of nutrients, as well as instructing the Mindy to pump hemosynth into Akemi's body. She hoped that it would be enough to patch her for the duration of the mission. With that phase of work complete, and a clamp in place pinching Akemi's wound together, as she soon began to work on suturing the wound... all the while, Helen kept her Kylie's skin vision active, watching for any unwelcome interruptions to her work.

Core Team 1

Sune watched as the team took down the first wave of Rippers, but the drones floating above showed more coming. After hearing Takeyu's assessment. "I agree, holding the core is not an option, but then it was never our objective. Are you sure that we can achieve our objective or are there some things we can take out with weapon fire to help before we bug out?"

"Team 1 to Team 2. Status Report? We have reached the core and preparing to initiate our goal."

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He sent to the other team.

Team Two - NMX Escort - Outside of Bridge

"Yes ma'am," Akemi telepathically responded as she looked about using her own suit's skin vision and that of her allies to assess the situation and ready herself for action. "I know you are just doing your job, but I thank you anyway. I appreciate how prompt and efficient you are." As the medications began to take affect she naturally started to feel much better. She was quite glad she had both her Mindy's propulsion as well as the innate ability to control gravity to move herself. Akemi thought she could already get a move on with either, but she stayed still so Helen could finish her work. As she waited she did her best to focus on her surroundings instead of what was happening to her body.

Team 1

"Afraid without those technicians, I can't be positive. Had they survived, we would've been able to use them to cause even further damage," remarked Takeyu who seemed rather frustrated at not having any techs to work with the computers. "However, we have enough coolant pipes covered that they should be enough to do the job, although there are two more pipes I wasn't able to get to before the firefight started. Both of those pipes are on the otherside of the room and those Rippers have a nice line of sight to get any one of us who tries to get to them to plant explosives."

"Long range weaponry is about all we can do to take them out, we can also take out the terminals above us as well, giving the NMX even more problems to worry about, but that's your call Shosa," Takeyu hid behind his cover again and checked his SMG's.

Team Two - NMX Escort - Outside of Bridge

There was a breath of an amused exhale from Helen, as she went about working on sutures. "You flatter me, though, I do this because you're a worthwhile soldier to do it for, you've proven yourself capable, and I think that you're going to be essential for us to get this mission done." Helen spoke quite honestly, as she pinned flesh together with her needlework. It took a minute or two, but Helen had managed to close the wound as best she could, before she removed the clamp from the pinched together flesh, and hoped that she had done her job well enough to bring Akemi back into the fight. "Take it slow, focus on hovering, and I think you're good to go. Do not engage the enemy directly, provide support fire." Helen instructed, as she closed up her medical kit, and went about preparing to get back into the scuffle herself.

Team Two - NMX Escort - Outside of Bridge

Whilst Helen did her best to patch herself and Akemi up, the neko Reika walked down the corridor past the broken remains of the bridge guards and up to the sealed blast door. Along the way, the operative retrieved one of the impaler rifles from the hands of deceased NMX neko that had fallen in the skirmish -- far more effective than the forearm weapon she had thus far been forced to rely upon.

The armored neko considered the sealed doorway which now blocked further progress into the actual bridge itself. She lightly rapt a metal-enclosed knuckle against the armored door and spoke aloud to the others.

"With this kind of armor, we'll need to use aether to cut our way inside."

This thought was interrupted as Ramiro came down the corridor with two additional Rippers dogging his heels. With her one good arm Reika raised the Impaler rifle she had confiscated from the enemy and started firing at the closest of his pursuers.

Team Two - NMX Escort - Outside of Bridge

"Thank you. I will," Akemi replied as she righted herself with her gravity control. She quickly turned to face the approaching Rippers, deployed a forearm shield and opened fire with her rifle, targeting whichever one Reika was attacking. "I could cut through it," she offered. After responding to Reika she reminded the Gartagens to continue taking cover behind them.

Team Two - NMX Escort - Outside of Bridge

There was a nod from Helen as Akemi went about getting herself up using her hovering abilities. That was that, Helen had completed her task at that moment, as she stood up and assessed the situation. "Move up, dominate that corner in the corridor! We want to use it as cover, don't let them pin us between them and the blast doors!" Helen ordered, as she moved along with the rest of her team, unleashing support fire as they turned the corner, careful not to hit Ramiro. "Ramiro, I want you and Tomomi to get to work on that blast door, Akemi, Reika, and I will do what we can with these Rippers."

Team 2

"Will do boss!" Ramiro said as he used his thrusters to complete his boost over to the bridge door. Once there he knelt down in front of the blast door and pointed behind him. "Rippers incoming, two of them."

Turning his attention to the door, he went straight for the panel and attempted to hack his way into opening the door. However, if after a few seconds it didn't seem that it was going to work or that he could do it, then he would go for a more direct approach and begin slashing at the door with the sword mode of his weapon.

Team 1 Core

"Okay Shoi, make that happen, have one of the other teams take out those coolant pipes and another one consoles. Find us a way out of here that doesn't take us through every Ripper on this station. I will see to our medic because once you folks are done, we need to move and keep moving." Sune replied.

He grabbed the medical kit out of his pack and pulled the PMS-1 and pressed the hypospray against Konoka. "Hey there, isn't this backwards. You are supposed to be doing the healing." He said with a grin.

He looked at the data that came in through the sensors. Her injuries were serious, but nothing she could not survive or recover on her own. But time was essential. "Konoka, I am going to give something to help with the pain a bit, and some Hemosynth Fluid to help you recover."

He have her a local pain reliever because he was concerned that if he gave her a general one she would go unconscious. After that he gave her a shot of hemosynth fluid to bolster her bodies ability to heal.

Team 1

"On it Shosa," said Takeyu as he filtered through the team and began to relay the new orders. "Bors-hei! I need you and your team to target the two remaining coolant pipes, use your weapons, forget the explosives if you have any. Scan for a structural weakpoint and use it."

He then turned his attentionton to Natsumi, who he hadn't heard from in awhile. "Natsumi-hei, you and your squad need to destroy as many of these terminals as possible. With the exception of those we are using to hide behind, target the one's above us as well."

With the new orders sent, he deployed his drones to search for a means to Team 2, whom he could only assume was in the hanger given they hadn't responded. Damn it, where are they? he scowled as his drones started seeking a path to the hanger bay.

Team 1
"Bagger'd ineee, S'neeshhhhha," said Konoka softly with a weak smile. "Shhhowy I wuddn' mo' 'elp." She sighed in relief as her pain receded, and felt her body began to heal.
I have to do better next time, she thought woozily to herself. This is....no....fun..and....not my most....impressive moment..not helping..Better. Better...is what I..need...to be...
OOC: She said, "Backwards indeed, Sune-Shosha...Sorry I wasn't more help."

Team Two - NMX Escort - Outside of Bridge

Akemi gradually hovered over to the corner the two Rippers had just passed as she fired. Once they were eliminated she would conceal all of herself behind it except for the arm holding her rifle and aim at the rest of the Rippers that were soon to come using her skin vision.

Team 1

Rippers continued to pour in at an increasing rate, and only the hole-filled floors and ceilings were keeping back the flood of them to a manageable level. "Last magazine!" platoon leader Signe called out over the team radio channel. Many of the other soldiers were low on or out of ammo as well.

Team 2

With everyone working together, the 2 Rippers barging around the corner flew into a wall of aether blasts and crashed into the wall after being shot full of holes.