RP: YSS Eucharis [Mission 16] The Nest

Team 2
NMX Escort Ship - Outside of Bridge

Mitsuko slowly regained consciousness in the middle of the fight. Akemi and the Rippers nearly tripped over her prone form before she began trying to get to her feet. It felt like her body was suddenly very heavy, slowing down her movements. The noise of combat all around her was so loud, she could only barely comprehend what was happening. She noticed Misato advancing on the Ripper right above her, so she grabbed onto one of its arms for support as she rose, yanking hard to pull it off balance.

After crashing back to the floor along with the burning hulk of the destroyed Ripper, she began to notice the smell. Most of their suits were still filthy. She sniffed, face pale as she reached up to feel her cheek. When had she lost her helmet? Oblivious to everything else going on around her, she scanned the hallway, searching for it. Murakami eventually located the lost helmet, stumbling down the hallway to retrieve it. No wonder she felt so heavy and sluggish...the suit must have lost power when she was hit.

Mitsuko noticed a large scorch and long, shallow dent down one side of her helmet. Thankfully, it slipped back onto her aching head easily enough. The suit began to power up again soon after, rebooting as she slowly got her bearings. Soon enough she was standing with the others near the bridge, more confused than anything. Murakami noticed some of the others seemed to be injured, and there were more dead Rippers - and Neko - around than before. It was all a little too much for her pounding head to process.

She managed to activate one forearm-mounted shield and add to the wall blocking Ramiro, the Gartagens and the injured from any further fire coming from down the hall. Mitsuko couldn't think of anything to say to the others, as she concentrated on standing up straight while both her suit and brain struggled to return to full power.

Team 2 - NMX Escort Outside of Bridge

Frustrated at the pointless endeavor of "closing" the landing bay, Tomomi quickly moved over to the rest of the team. She then proceeded with Ramiro to the blast door. As he got to the panel first, she let him take a crack at it. She took over the panel when he instead went over to the door and started trying to cut through it.

Tomomi proceeded first to see if she would have more luck hacking into the panel first, her job training taking over. Her reasoning that the blast door might be more useful intact then destroyed.

Team Two - NMX Escort - Outside of Bridge

"Tomomi, Ramiro, I want an estimated time on that door as soon as I can get one from you two. Akemi, Reika, you two loan a hand if they need some muscle or firepower." Helen spoke audibly, while within her helmet a little picture frame of Sune blinked at her, nagging at her, before she opened a comm-line to reply.


After sending her reply, Helen again pulled her NSP, and this time, she also pulled her Zen Arms SMG, she held both in hand as she waited at the bridge blast-door, ready for it to open, and ready to start mowing down personnel on the other side. Though, as she stood, she also brought her CFS' power to the forward direction, in preparation for incoming ordinance.

Team One

"On it Shoi," Bors said taking down another ripper before reloading his pulse rifle with one of his last magazines.

"Alright squad, you heard the man, start scanning those pipes and blasting any weak points you see....."

At that moment a Ripper that had somehow managed to sneak up on Bors and his squad, pulled Bors out of cover, throwing him on the ground in front of it. Quickly thinking Bors rolled to the side narrowly avoiding being sliced in two by the Ripper, and punched at its face while activating his suits aether saber. As the aether saber punched through the side of rippers face Bors quickly retracted his arm and scrambled back into cover, trying his best to avoid the fire of the next wave of rippers.

Breathing heavily he turned back to his squad,

"... And be quick about it so we can get outa this death trap."

As he prepared to start scanning the coolant pipes for weak points he turned to his squad one more time saying

"And worn me before one of those bastards tries to grab me again."

Team One


Natsumi had been stuck on the upper levels of the reactor chamber since ascending and attacking the technicians, pinned by Rippers all on her lonesome. She had been slowly falling back, retreating as best she could to where the rest of the team was holding up. Responding as she heard Takeyu's orders,

"Understood! I've got them!" she said and changed her course, firing on the control panels in her area. Sparks and flame and shattered glass and metel showered the area as she went to town before ducking back into cover as more Rippers arrived.

Natsumi was rapidly running out of ammo for her rifle, a fact that hit home as she ejected an empty clip and slapped her final spare into place.

"This is not fun!" she mumbled as the enemy kept coming, closing in, encroching on her location. She had set her drones to watch her back as she did her best to keep the Rippers at bay.

An electronic shriek from one of the drones alerted her that the enemy was flanking her. "I'm in trouble!" she yelped, spinning around, the Ripper was too close. Natsumi swung her rifle, slamming the butt into the Ripper's helmet and showering it with sparks as the weapon broke.

Dropping the rifle, Natsumi activated her armor's aether blades as she dropped down to avoid a blow from the Ripper and hacked away at it's legs with her energy blades in an attempt to cut its legs off at the knees

Team 1

Takeyu winced as the shots from the Rippers came rather close, but continued his volley of fire to hold them at bay. His suits sensors were at work, constantly searching for a way out of the core and for a path to where team 2 is 'supposed' to be. Come on.. come on.. there's gotta be a path somewhere, preferably one that doesn't have thousands of Rippers.. he thought with frustration.

Team 1 - Core

Sune was less than pleased by Helen's reply to their request for status and their location. She was still a detriment to the effective operation of the ship.

"Shoi, once you find us a way out of here, look for some place where we might find a craft we can use. Perhaps an aerospace bay where we can appropriate a couple of their Shredder Gunboats. They are a lower priority asset so it might be easier to get in. And since Team Two is not working with us. We want to find a different area to exit than where they are." Sune called out to Takeyu.

"Once you hit your targets fall back and group. We are getting the hell out of here." He said to the team.

Team 1

"Roger that," Takeyu switched his scanners from looking to where Team 2 might be, to looking for a bay that would hold the gunships the Shosa wanted. "Squad 2, get ready to retreat, get your active camo ready but do 'not' present your backs to the enemy."

Klein-Shosa not cooperating, reminds me of the previous mission where she had myself and the rest of the team just abandon Sune which lead to his death, seriously, there's gotta be a regulation she's violating here.... he would look into that once the firefight was over and done with.

Team 1 - Core

"As you fall back, see if any of our slain comrades have an intact helmet. I would rather not have our medic traveling without a working helmet." Sune called out.

"I am going to do my best to get you back to the Eucharis safely Konoka-chan." he said putting a gloved hand on her shoulder.

Team 2

Mitsuko could feel her arm shield jerk as a round bounced off of it. While the DAISY has had thinner armor than the beefy Rippers, the DAISY shield was doing an admirable job increasing survivability. The Gartagens layed down prone and took sniping shots with their acquired Impaler particle beam rifles, careful not to hit Tomomi has she returned. Most of the team was pretty shot up.

Tomomi somehow managed to access the file system and found that the bridge door code had a clue in a coded file:

Team 2- NMX Escort Ship

"I think I found something ma'am." Tomomi said when she found the coded file in the file system. "I do believe it has a clue to what the door access code is." Tomomi quickly texted the code she saw to both Ramiro and Helen. While she was kinda certain what the clue might be, both of them had much more experience then she had.

She then sent both her own translation.


"If I am properly recognizing the coding format, this is what I am getting."

Team Two - NMX Escort - Bridge Door

Helen received the message from Tomomi, and looked upon it before she quirked her brow. It was troublesome to try to decrypt something without a point of reference, but, there were always options. "Tomomi, establish a networked connection between the AIES in our group, and use the combined computing power to check and double check that outcome and confirm that it is accurate, if so, enter it and see what happens."

Team 2 NMX Escort Ship

Tomomi simply nodded and linked her AIES with the rest of the group. Tomomi's excitement got the best of her and at the moment she was feeling stupid for not doing that herself from the beginning. Tomomi copied the the code into her suit, and proceeded to check it against all known formats. She did her best to shield the network in the event the code was actually a virus. She didn't care to much what it could do to her suit. But she did not want the large possibility of spreading to the other.

While she waited for the results, she began looking at the blast door to see where she might need to cut into if need be.

Team 2 NMX Escort Ship

Tomomi raised her right eyebrow when the result she recieved quickly was more gibberish.


Tomomi looked at the all caps portion of the new translation and tried to unscramble it. But she quickly gave up and sighed in resignation that she needed to embarrass herself once more. She sent the new translation to Helen and the rest of the team.

"I misunderstood the format. This is what the AIES spit back out to me. I got Equip, quip, and pique out of the final portion when I tried to unscramble it." Tomomi said, trying her best to sound confident.

2nd Team in hall to the bridge

Misato changed out the last clip in her smg and slung it up onto her back, then drew her pistol and reloaded it also. in this short lull in the combat she wanted to make sure that she was ready for another wave. Until the door was opened they were trapped up against it.

She looked over the coding clue file as she watched the hallway. she couldn't tell heads from tails of it, so sent a message saying as much back to them and went back to waiting for the next wave.

Team 2 NMX Escort Ship

Something was nagging at Tomomi to displace the entire group of letters. She once again used the AIES network to put the idea into action. She started to laugh hysterically when the results of her query was returned.

"I really must have been asleep during the cipher classes..." She thought to herself when she inputed the word stockings to the panel's password prompt. Tomomi let out a sigh as she waited to see the door open or not.

Team 1

Takeyu stared at his drones, viewing images mostly of the Core and the areas around it, his scanners were still at work trying to find a path out. Though he knew that they had the path behind them which they could use, but he was certain that Sune wanted a more direct path.

"Signe, how much ammo do you and your soldiers have left?" Takeyu asked worriedly as he checked his SMG's for a moment, then returned fire as he kept an eye on the progress that Natsumi and Bors were making with their orders he had given. "Natsumi-hei, becareful that you don't blow out any terminals that we are using as cover and keep a few of them around for when we fallback, we can use those as cover as well but destroy them as we retreat..." he said to the soldier via laser comm.

Helen communicated, as she felt secure enough in the fact that they would have the ship, to provide the option to Team One. Previously, things were sketchy enough, to where she found herself unwilling to give Sune's team the option, since there was a distinctive possibility her team would not be able to deliver. "Knock knock..." Helen spoke, as Tomomi entered the access code.

Team Two - NMX Escort - Bridge Door

Reika stood silently beside the bridge door and the rest of team two, watching for any sign of Rippers descending upon their position with her confiscated impaler rifle still in hand.

When Tomomi entered her decyphered code into the door's access terminal, Reika's recalled drones finally returned to the teams position -- the neko commanded the drones to re-attach themselves to her armor so that they might recover their spent energy.

Team 1
In the state she was in, Konoka could do little more than smile, nod, and believe in her team.
She was happy, at least, that'd she'd been able to treat a lot of the wounded before she'd gotten reckless and become one of them.
Recklessness didn't suit her, she realized. She should stick to treating her reckless friends.
Dimly, she realized as Sune spoke to her that it was the 1st time she'd heard him called her "-chan."
She smiled at that, but then felt everything go black...