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RP: 21st Fighter Sq [Mission 3.0] - Out of the Mist

Lynn rolled to the right, expecting shots to slam into her prone form. She stopped a yard away from where she began, and looked for another target. She didn't know Silic was hurt, and it wouldn't have mattered much right at that moment anyway.

She would sight her next target, and fire again.
 
Kail stopped her following when she saw the flashes of light, and registered the three figures. Taking no chances at giving them time to move, she herself unleashed three rounds, one towards the center of mass of each of the figures illuminated by Lynn's bursts of NSP fire.
 
Silic felt both bullets hit him, don't believe them when they say cyber doesn't hurt, he gasped in pain but this was the distraction he'd been waiting for, he worked through it. He pushed up himself and dived towards the fallen woman, it was unlikely her buddies were in a talking mode after what just happened; he needed a shield, fast. The dropped machine-pistol whizzed by underneath him as he lunged, his remaining good hand dropped down to pick it up but it was too fast, his hand only managed to grasp the still smoking barrel.

The landing was far from graceful, he skidded to a halt beside the woman still groaning on the ground. This was going to be unsavoury but Silic was a survivalist, the hand with the pistol gripped awkwardly slammed into her face to stun her some more, the handle smashing into here, while his damaged left hand hooked fingers through her disguise to her shirt, using his leg to roll her on top of himself.

Meat-shield ready, time for the gun.
 
Yaeko, seeing flashes, dropped to one knee and double-checked that her weapon was set to stun. She took aim at a random standing target, firing once, before firing a stun shot at each of the fallen enemies. Se figured it was best to immobilize them in case they decided to get back up. Glancing around, she double-checked for enemies on her flanks.
 
Caught in the cross fire the three standing adversaries dropped like marionettes with their strings cut. They landed in a crumple around Silic and his meat shield.

Atsui moved forward until she was crouching near Lynn. "Vas-Hei, report" she called out.
 
Silic remained silent for a second or two under his little pile of corpses, eyes looking around slowly in mute terror. Eventually Atsui's call convinced him that the sudden, surprise shootings out of nowhere had stopped for now. “Pray Munkata isn't out there...” he whispered as he sat up, pushing the body of the woman out of the way, she had left quite an amount of blood on his uniform. He hoped sociopathy wasn't contagious.

“Situation normal:” he called out “All messed up!”
 
At the sound of Silic's voice, Lynn hopped up and walked to him.

The entire day preceding Lynn had been odd: the normally quiet Neko had beaten up a Nepleslian, yelled and shouted, shot an enemy, and now she was visibly furious. When she reached Silic she seemed to almost tremble with fury.

"Idiot! Fool!" Lynn snarled. "Who runs toward the enemy?!"

She turned away from him, not truly interested in an answer. "He's hurt! Who has some bandages for this jackass?" Lynn definitely didn't have bandages for him.
 
Silic felt a small temptation to crawl back under the corpse, he was in one of the more awkward positions of his life at the moment and this was the second time in as many minutes an angry woman with a gun had been in front of him. “I feel fine!” he said, forgetting his damaged arm, he pointed at his bloodied overalls with it “It's not mine.”
 
Atsui walked up to Lynn, "Yelling at Vas-Hei at the moment is not prudent. This area is not secure and there could be more hostiles." She said glaring at the Neko. "Help Tin Man get to the SSS Infirmary."

"Munkata, Kail, help me secure these prisoners. We will take them with us to the SSS Encampment." Atsui said surveying the area.
 
"I'm glad to hear that, but the Infirmary is at the center of the SSS encampment. From there we can get a better idea of what is happening, where we can do the most good, and drop off our prisoners. Which is why we aren't leaving them here." Atsui replied. "Pick up one of their weapons or two and get moving Tin Man, Hoshi. Radio me when you get there with the situation."
 
“Oh, right.” said Silic lamely "Good call, Chief." He looked down at the weapon gripped wrongly in his hand, the Zen Arms 10mm machine-pistol was not terribly powerful, but better than his previously empty holster. He flipped around so he was holding it right and looked around for some reloads and any other useful weapons on the other bodies.
 
Yaeko searched herself for sufficient equipment to tie up the prisoners with. After searching, she sighed as she realized she would have to go to her backup. She pulled out several rolls of bandages from a pouch on her belt before walking over to one of the victims. She tied the person's hands behind her back, making sure to wrap the bandage around several times before tying it off, tied his ankles together, and then proceeded to slip the last bandage inside the loops from the other two and tied those together, binding the victim's feet to his hands, all behind his back. "Let's see you get out of that, you little bastard."
 
Atsui took the machine pistol from the body she had chosen and slung it over her shoulder. She patted down the supine figure and removed anything that was in his pockets etc.

She removed the camoflauge suit and cut it into strips which she used to bind his hands and feet. Then with a grunt she hoisted him up over her her left shoulder.

"Move it people, in case you haven't noticed the encampent is still under attack." She said as she started making her way towards the flashing lights with her NSP in her right hand.
 
Silic finished rifling a two reloads, a couple of grenades and a rather nasty looking knife. He held up a communicator of some sort with a scorch mark on it, he turned it on and held it up to his ear, not looking hopeful.

“Dead, or they're not talking.” he said, dropping it aside. He put the two reloads and one of the grenades in his belt, he tossed the other to Lynn gently. He eyed the serrated knife suspiciously before sliding it into his empty NSP holster.

“Come on, Bright-Eyes. Looks like more work to do.” he said, gripping his new weapon. He took off towards the camp, this time heading in the right direction.

He overtook Atsui with a nod and a brief “Ma'am.” before fading into the mist, not looking back.
 
"Awwww, young love," Yaeko commented before she threw her prisoner over her shoulder. "You need to lay off the cookies fatty." With that she took off, sprinting after Atsui, NSP still in hand. As she ran she decided it would probably be a good idea to put the safety on.
 
Kail quickly and silently tied her prisoner up, making sure they were quite secure. Rather than bother with carrying her charge, however, the Neko simply draggend the unconscious body after Atsui and the rest. The Juni shook her head at the antics of her squadronmates. There was not an ounce of professionalism in most of them.
 
"Hai!" Lynn told Atsui before taking off after Silic with her new equipment.

She was angry, and she could contain it for a moment. But if Silic did anything to provoke her it would all come bursting out like a flood.
 
As the squadron got closer to the the SSS encampment the sound of battle could be clearly heard. The staccato sound of machine pistols could be heard above the return fire of NSP's.

The area near the infirmary was a mess. There were three bodies on the ground. Medical supplies where strewn about in several directions.

Just beyond the infirmary a group of SSS personnel we exchanging gunfire with the mysterious attackers. The muzzle flash of the enemy giving a crude indication of where they were at in the fog.
 
Silic slowed down from his jog to a cautious advance, ready to shoot or dodge depending on which was more prudent. He had moved ahead of the rest of the group as ordered, the adrenaline rush giving him a feeling of euphoria was starting to fade but its Dutch Courage still remained. He was pumped.

He stopped by the corner of one of the outer CDRM's, the large prefab hiding him, taking out his communicator and flipping open the camera. Leaning over he took a steady snapshot of the scene in front of him then ducked back behind the corner. He didn't like this one bit, he sent the image to Atsui's communicator and took a few seconds to attach a small text message rather than risk talking.

Infirmary status unknown. Advance?
 
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