posted March 03, 2001 09:12 AM               

SGT Cosmic saluted as Fury's words passed by. Cosmic quickly ran inside the Main Tent towards the Camp Intercomm. Cosmic pushed the ON button and started to speak:

"All troops in Sergeant Cosmic's infiltration team report to the Main Tent immediately! Repeat, all troops in Sergeant Cosmic's infiltration team report to the Main Tent immediately!"

Cosmic walked out of the tent and waited until all of the troops arrived...
Within minutes, troops from the infiltration team came running.

Cosmic walked to them. "Ok soldiers! I just got informed by LT Fury that were heading out ASAP! Get your pirate uniform on now! I have also asked for a medic to put a lazer-proof vests and leggings next to your uniforms. Put those on as well! You will also have extremely small earpieces so that we may talk on a small intercomm in needed! We will not use these earpieces if were all together! Got it?!? MOVE OUT!"

All of the troops started running to their tents. Cosmic did the same.

Once Cosmic got inside his tent, he quickly took off his current clothes and quickly put on the pirate-like uniform. First, of course, he put the lazer proof vest and leggings on. He was equiped with a heavy blaster, a vibroblade, and a sniper rifle. All of which he would need on the mission. He also grabbed twenty night-vision goggles and binoculars to bring along.

Cosmic ran out of the tent as soon as he was done. His earpiece was already in his ear. The troops came out, all uniformed up and equiped with weapons. Cosmic motioned for them to follow him to the front of the Main Tent.

They all followed SGT Cosmic. Cosmic went inside the main tent to see Fury. Cosmic spotted him over a map. Telling someone something. Cosmic walked over to him and saluted.

"Fury, sir, the men are ready for departure. I have a question, however. Do you want us to go on foot to the city?" Fury shook his head. "No, you will have soundless hoverboards to ride on. They are just like the skateboards on Earth except they hover and are soundless. You will ride those....good luck Cos."

"Thank you sir. I have a feeling that I'll need it!"
Cosmic saluted and walked out of the tent.

Cosmic walked towards the troops. "Were going to ride hoverboards...lets get to the supply tent and get those boards...we are to leave immediately after that! Move!"

Cosmic led the way to the supply tent. He saw the hoverboards in a little shelf-like structure. Cosmic gave each person a hoverboard, then he pulled out the night vision goggles and handed them to each trooper. Then he gave night vision binocs to each of the troops.

"Let's go! Follow me!" Cosmic activated his hoverboard and rode off. The troops followed....soundless.

Cosmic looked ahead and saw the city just beyond the horizon...very close! Cosmic turned to everyone and pointed to the city...they all gave him a thumbs up sign.

Cosmic increased speed, the troops followed. They all raced to the outskirts of the city...
Cosmic slowed down to the troops. Once he was sidebyside with them, he spoke:

"Ok, here's the plan, were going to park at the outskirts of the city so that we don't attract any pirate attention. We will walk towards the city on foot. Now, our first priority is to capture the president of the city...most likely that building will be in the center of the city...that's where we'll head. We have pirate clothing so we shouldn't be too bad...but we do have guns...I want you to put them in their holsters right now! Pirates in this city have guns too. So do the citizens. But the citizens have guns in their holsters...we'll do the same...we may look like citizens in the guards' eyes...follow me!"

Cosmic speed towards the outskirts, the troops followed closely behind him.
Once they got to the outskirts, Cosmic got off his hover bike and waited until the troopers did the same....Cosmic then showed them how to barry the hoverbikes in the sand without a trace...

posted March 03, 2001 01:02 PM               

SGT Cosmic was leading the troops towards the city. Cosmic made sure that all of the troops had their gear and that they were working....their mission began.

SGT Cosmic watched as citizens of the city eyed them suspiciously. "Just keep following me, boys. They won't bother us." Said Cosmic quietly.

Cosmic walked a little further then spied a really huge building. A huge title was near the top of the building. It read: HQ

Turned to his troops. "Jack pot." Said Cosmic. The troops smiled. They heavy blasters were holstered as they walked towards the building. Cosmic led the troops behiind a building, right next to the HQ building.

Cosmic took out some binocs. "Hey, cover me, don't let anybody see me doing this." The troops nodded and surrounded him. His body was completely covered.

Cosmic stared at the base of the building....at least ten guards near the front door.....on top of the building.......snipers...four of them. Cosmic was sure that there was going to be a whole lot more guards within the building itself.

Cosmic put the binocs away and turned to the troops. The troops got off him and eyed him.

"Well, the place is guarded all right...about four snipers on the roof, and about ten or so guards near the front door. I'm pretty sure that there's cameras everywhere..."

"So what's the plan?" Asked a trooper.
"We have to make a diversion." Cosmic turned to PFC Maul. "Maul, I want you to make out like your a madman near the east side of the building...My plan is that the snipers and guards will go over there to check it out. While he's doing that, the rest of you will follow me into the building and then try and find the cameras control station...we'll knock out the cameras and eliminate the guards near the front door. I'll take out my sniper and eliminate the snipers...Maul will then rejoin us...any questions?"

The troops shook their heads.
"Good, let's move out!"
Cosmic watched as PFC Maul ran towars the east side of the building...he started yelling and waving his hands everywhere...naturally, the snipers walked towards the east side of the roof...the guards made there way towards Maul..

Excellent Thought Cosmic.

Cosmic watched as the guards ran towards Maul.
"Now!" Cosmic quickly whispered...The troops all ran towards the front door. Cosmic ran through the front door and let the other troops in.

"Ok. Let me take out the guards." Cosmic walked towards the front door...he saw the guards grasping Maul and bringing him to the front door...Cosmic quickly got out his vibroblade out of its sheath..."One.......two.......threeeee." Cosmic whispered to himself...the door swung open and the guards came in...Cosmic quickly slashed and swung...the guards fell to the ground and Maul rejoined the group.

"You okay, soldier?" Asked Cosmic..Maul nodded. Cosmic motioned for four troops to get snipers out, they did so and followed Cosmic out the door....Cosmic pointed to the snipers above...

The soldiers nodded and took aim......fired....The snipers fell...
Cosmic and the soldiers ran inside the front door.

"Ok, the plan is to find the camera control station within five minutes! I'm pretty sure they have seen us go into the front door somewhere....move!"

Cosmic was in a little jog...he found a few flights of stairs...the troops followed...THERE! A door read CCS.

"Camera Control Station." Said Cosmic...Cosmic brought out his vibroblade and quickly opened the door...Cosmic slashed and whirled his blade. The station men didn't know what hit them...they fell to the ground...Cosmic quickly hit the stop button on the computer...the camera screens went blank...Cosmic quickly found the place where the motions were being recorded...Cosmic ejected the tape and destroyed it..he through it in the garbadge can.

"Let's go...We must find the Presidents office." Said Cosmic....Cosmic and the troops headed out the door and back to the flights of stairs....heading for their target......

posted March 03, 2001 11:22 AM              

So Jape went around asking people who all said that they would think about it. Then after it was all done he had about 50 I will think about its and a couple of no's.

If you want to join my defense mission email me at [email protected]

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you ever dance with the devil in the pale moonlight

posted March 03, 2001 11:55 AM               

"Enjoying the view?"asked Master. "Not really, seeing people fight without being a part of it isn't that enjoyable."He responds. "That's for sure,"says Narm,"back in the IW we had all the fun, and here we are, late to the fight."

The shuttle lurches as it begins its final descent, but the members of the Fallen Angels aren't phased by it, having gone through hundreds of planetary landings. Even the sudden shake at touchdown fails to disturb them.

They exit the shuttle in high spirits, they are going to commit acts of terrrorism, and nothing else matters...

posted March 03, 2001 08:55 PM               

'So far, the mission was going well. At least Cos managed to get rid of all the cameras recording us,' Seth thought as he ran through the stairs, following Cosmic closely. So far, Cosmic's plan made sense, and they managed to attacked without arousing much commotion.

They sped up at several corners, Seth and Demi_Wraith gunning down the normal guards while Cosmic took on those with snipers. The rest kept on watch. As they speeded around yet another corner, Cosmic glanced around and quickly motioned them to turn back. Seth glanced and saw a group of heavily armoured pirates. He quickily ran and guided the other troops to a concealed corridor until Cosmic caught up.

The mission was very well-prepared. Both Cosmic and Seth had byhearted all the concealed routes leading near to the President's office, thus avoiding all the uneccessary interest.

They skimmed through the corridor. At the end of the corridor. Cosmic stepped forward, took a glance at the situation outside. No one. He turned back and gave the thumbs-up sign: All Clear. Seth and the rest filed out of the secret corridor, Seth turning to the left towards yet another staircase.

VE Inflitration Team is around eight levels up in the building. And it seems to be doing quite well.

THey were turning at another corridor when they met with a group of pirates. Quite a number. And PFC Solaniel was actually stupid enough to actually activate one of their precious thermal detonators to be thrown at that group of pirates. Seth had no doubt of Solaniel's intention, but he knew that if this thermal detonator was thrown at such close quarters with them, not only would those pirates would be destroyed, they would also be killed or seriously injured with them.

PFC Solaniel threw the activated detonator at the pirates. All panicked except Seth, who ran after the hurled detonator.

THe thermal detonator flew in the air, and Seth jumped, hands reaching out for the thermal detonator. Finally, his hands clasped around the thermal detonator and deactivated it as he thumped hard on the floor.

REALLY HARD.

'OUCH!' Seth hollered as he managed to scrambled up to join his group, who had started firing at the dumb-founded group who were still stunned at the sight of the thermal detonator thrown at them.

Such lousy troopers with no fast reaction. Sometimes Seth doubted. They do not have really a reaction of a trooper. They might be better off on the streets as a normal civilian.

The pirates were gunned down mercilessly, even though they outnumbered the VE Inflitration Team. Their leader had freaked out and ran away at the mere SIGHT of the thermal detonator PFC Solaniel threw.

Seth hoped that the pirates would be like this throughout the entire building. It would make their entire job fast and easy.

But in truth, Seth longed for an equaled competition. It would actually be more fun and exciting.

Cosmic led the group to a place. Yet another flight of stairs. But after sessions with Cosmic, Seth knew that they could not afford to take the lift. The pirates might know of them entering the lift and ambush them.

They entered the stairs and hurried up the stairs.

Ten Floor.

When they managed to get into another concealed corridor, Seth pulled aside PFC Solaniel, who looked a bit crestfallen and spoke to him as they ran through the corridor.

'Solaniel, I guess you are a bit crestfallen.'

'Yes, sir'

' Okay, I knew that your intentions for throwing that thermal detonator was good, but you must understand that if you threw it at such close quarters, not only the pirates would get blown up, we might be blown up with them!'

PFC Solaniel looked up : He hadnt seen that possibility.

Seth patted his shoulder lightly and said, 'Next time, only throw the thermal detonator when there is quite some distance between the victim and us. Best of all, if there is a large and concret object in front of us. Okay?'

'Sure, Cop!'

Seth chuckled .... it made him sound like a policeman, when he was a trooper.

They met another group and did what they had to do : Gun them down.

Before they ran up YET another flight of stairs.

Eleven stories up in the building.

THe VE Inflitration Team was advancing rapidly.

posted March 03, 2001 10:03 PM               

SGT Cosmic was running up the stairs. "We have to get to the twelvlfth floor immediately! That pirate leader that got freaked out ran away..he escaped..he will tell others of our presence...We must get to the President as fast as we can! Or the game is over!"

SGT Cosmic watched as the troops nodded their approval. Seth was running right beside Cosmic.

Eleventh floor. Cosmic glanced at his watch...only twenty minutes into the mission!
Cosmic quickly stopped...the troops nearly collided into him...Cosmic got out his vibroblade.

"There are pirates ahead....armed heavily...If I can suprise them, I just might have an advantage to beating them...Seth, take out your vibroblade and follow me.."

Seth nodded and took it out. He waited until Cosmic said the "go" sign with his fingers.......GO!

They both leaped up and attacked. The pirates fell to the ground. "Ok troops...lets go. Pick up their weapons..they'll be good ammo for our next objectives." The troops picked up knives and heavy blasters and one siege basuka.

Cosmic ran towards the rest of the stairwell. The troops followed causiously. Twelvfth floor. Finally! Cosmic put his index finger to his lips..

"Ssshhhh!" The troops went silent. Cosmic pressed his ear against the door...chattering...
He got out a little spy-device from his pocket...he slipped a little piece of it under the door...The president was in the middle of about five people! Troops were heavily guarding the place inside.

Cosmic brought back his spy device..."Ok," Cosmic whispered..."This is the plan...the room is heavily guarded. There's five people in there. One looks like an ambassador. Don't kill the President or the Ambassador! They're both objectives not to be killed! You're all going to hide over there. Seth and I will remain here. Seth'll knock on the door...when a guard comes outside the door, I'll pull him and knock him out...We will keep doing this until the guards in there become suspicous of what's happened to his comrade...ok..that's it..move!"

Cosmic watched as the troops silently ran behind a crate. Seth knocked.........Knock.....Knock. Cosmic was right beside the door.

The door opened, a guard came out. "What is it?" Seth grabbed him and pulled him...Cosmic quickly grabbed his neck and twisted......craaaaaaaaaaak!. "That's one." Said Cosmic, looking up at Seth...who was making a disgusted face.

"There's a first time for everything.." Said Cosmic.
Seth knocked again.....the process went three times....finally, both guards came out...Seth and Cosmic both grabbed them and twisted....

"Alright, no more guards...Come on troops!" Cosmic whispered...the troops came running. Cosmic got out his heavy blaster, he motioned for the troops to do the same.

Cosmic slammed the door open. The troops swarmed into the room..heavy blasters in front of them. "FREEZE! DON'T MOVE!" Yelled Cosmic. The five people had their hands up...Cosmic walked over to them. "You the president?" Asked Cosmic...the president nodded. "Get over there..." Said Cosmic, motioning to a corner with his gun. "You the Ambassador of the Republic?" The man nodded. "You get with the president." Said Cosmic sternly.

Cosmic glared at the rest of the three people remaining. "And who are you characters?" Cosmic asked. "Uh, were senators..please don't hurt us!"

Cosmic smiled to his troops. "A couple of senators!" The troops laughed quietly..."You get with the Ambassador and the President..." Said Cosmic...they nodded and walked.

Cosmic walked to the corner..."Ok, I want you to answer some questions..." Said Cosmic..."Who are you?" Asked the Pres."
"I'm the one doing the questions...Who I am is none of your concern. Now, Where is the executive in charge of AgriBusiness?"

Cosmic waited for a reply..."Where!" Rasped Cosmic. "He's in the building right next to us!"

posted March 03, 2001 10:26 PM               

SGT Cosmic nodded. "Thank you for being cooperative...Now, you won't die." Cosmic turned and winked at the troops. "What's the quickest way out of this building?" Cosmic demanded.

"Uh, down the elevator or the stairs...But the building is heavily guarded!" Cosmic nodded...He turned to the window beside the president...

"OR the window, eh Mr. Pres?" Cosmic said menacingly. The president looked out the window...and down. "Oh God no! No! We'll die!"

Cosmic turned to the troops. "You guys, rig the door so that no one can come in...Seth, get the rope out of your backpack..I'll get mine out too...We'll tie 'em together and go down the window. Were on the twelvfth floor so we have to becareful."

Cosmic took a look down the window. "You got a buch of bushes down there Mr. Pres. How thick are they?"

"Uh, they're very thick...They are mainly cover for our troops in time of war."
"Will they hold our weight?" The President nodded.

"Seth, here's my rope...as soon as we get down to the last part of our ropes, we'll land in the bushes below...It should provide enough padding to protect us from the fall...by then, we should be on the fifth floor."

Seth nodded slowly..."The fifth floor!" Whispered Seth to himself.
The troops were done rigging the door...And Seth was done tying...

Cosmic broke the glass with a kick. Glass shattered and fell to the ground below.
Cosmic tied the piece of rope to a poll in in the middle of the room..."What's this?" asked Cosmic curiously. "It's an emergency line to our guards...It's strong.." Said the president slowly...

"Ok, here's the plan, were all going to climb down...Seth, you go first, I'll cover you just in case someone is one the ground." Said Cosmic, getting his sniper out. "When you get down, make sure the president doesn't escape." Said Cosmic.

Seth nodded as he made his way towards the window. "This'll hold?" Asked Seth...Cosmic nodded.
"Sure it will...the pres. said it was a strong poll."

Seth nodded and climbed down.

----------------------At the end of the poll--------------

Seth released his grasp and fell on the bushes. He waved his hand saying he was ok....The other troops went next...one...two...three...four..five....and more. Finally, all of the troops were out the window and on the ground, as well as the president, the ambassador, and one of the senators.

The two remaining senators made there way to the window...
"Don't try any tricks now." Said Cosmic...

They shivered as they climbed down...

After they were down, Cosmic made his way down to the ground....he made it to the end of the rope and released his grip....
"Uummff!" Said Cosmic as he landed.

"Ok, everyone down here?" Asked Cosmic, the troops nodded. "Ok, lets go next door...Let's take the least visible route to the next building." The troops nodded as they brought out a map..."Ok, we'll go this way.." Said Cosmic, motioning with his finger on the map.

The troops silently walked with their objectives in the middle of the group...Cosmic was leading the way towards the next building....

Cosmic halted about 100 feet from the building...
"Mr. Pres. Is there anythiing we should expect from this building? Anything like yours? Cameras, snipers, guards?"

The president nodded. "You can count on it..This man is the executive in charge of Agribusiness. There are diffenately guards around, but no snipers I'm afraid..just cameras and guards."

Cosmic nodded..."Where's the guards?"
The president was smart enough to answer this question.
"They're right over there...there are three of them with siege cannons. You have to take them out with your sniper if you want to be effective against them."

Cosmic raised his eyebrow..."Thanks for cooperating..." Said Cosmic slowly..he turned to his troops for a second.
He got out his sniper and aimed...he gunned them down in a matter of seconds..they didn't know what hit them...

Cosmic ran towards the building and the troops followed...they shoved their objectives too.

Cosmic ran inside the building and waited for the troops to arrive. Once they did, Cosmic motioned them to follow him. "Hey, Mr. Pres. Where's the camera room?" Asked Cosmic...the president motioned to a door to the right of them..."This building is unlike ours...their controls are right here beyond this door."

Cosmic nodded and kicked down the door...there were no guards to be killed...Cosmic twisted the necks of the camera controllers...The president shuddered.

Cosmic did the same thing to the camera controls as he did in the Presidents building. "The tapes gone..destroyed. Let's get this executive."

Cosmic went to the president. "Where's this executive located?" "On the first floor...same as were on...go straight through this hallway and to the left..you'll see a door that reads EX. OFFICE."

Cosmic nodded and motioned his troops to follow. Two guards were at the door...They spotted them and drew their weapons. They saw the president and put their weapons back, thinking that these people where his guests...Cosmic quickly punched them in the stomach...they leaned forward from the strike and Cosmic twisted their necks...he broke down the door and raised his heavyblaster..."FREEZE EXECUTIVE!" The executive was behind his desk, reading a few papers...He raised his hands and his eyes widened.

"What's this?!?" He demanded..."You're under our custody now, Executive...follow me...we gatta get out of this building immediately..." "You better listen to him, John...This man's dead serious." The executive nodded and walked towards the group...Cosmic quickly ran with his troops and their objectives out of the building...

posted March 04, 2001 04:42 AM               

Cosmic scanned at all possible exits while Seth and the rest of the troopers kept a sharp lookout. 'All Clear.' Cosmic said.

'Okay, now to haul our prizes to the ground. Seth just do what we did in his building,' Cosmic said as he motioned towards the President, who winced noticebly. Seth chuckled as he pulled out his rope. Wait a minute, the Executive looked rather well-fed ... nice ... round ... and plump. Seth was afriad that the rope would break under this Executive's weight, so he said, 'Hey Cos.'

Cosmic turned around and said,' What's the prob?'

'I'm afraid the rope wouldnt be able to hold this Executive's weight,' Seth said as he noticed the Executive's face turned indignant. He pressed his sniper against the Executive chest and said warningly, 'Just one word, and you can say goodbye to Life.'

The Executive gave a whimper and stayed silent.

Seth continued,

' I propose that we use our desention guns. Each soldier take on a captured prisoner and desend as quickly as possible. How's that?'

Cosmic thought for a while, and said,

' It's kinda dangerous, but worth trying. You must hook yourself firmly to your prisoner.'

With that, he turned around and spoke to all the soldiers,

'Okay guys, get yourself a prisoner and hook him to you. Get out your desension guns. Each would proceed as quickly as possible after another. Let this be neat and quickly. No uneccessary attention needed.'

'Seth, check all possible exits. Demi_Wraith, take Seth's prisoner for a while.'

Seth handed the Executive over to the Demi_Wraith and checked all the exits. Obviously not the entrance they came in. He looked out of the windows, shaking his head until he came at a window. Looking out of the window, he didnt see anyone, and the place was quite well-covered from anyone outside the grounds. It would be a perfect escape ground.

'Cosmic, I found it. It is safe for us to make our escape.'

'Good job Seth! Okay, Maul ... open the window and take your prisoner down.'

Maul nodded and hoisted the Senator, who was pale with fright, down. Next came Solaniel. Seth collected his prisoner from Demi_Wraith before going down. He was right. the Executive had really some weight on his tummy. Seth felt the strain on his gun as he went down the building.

Finally, Cosmic came down with President himself. He brushed himself and said, 'So far, so good. We better collect a vehicle. Our group is getting larger and larger. Any suggestions?'

Seth said, ' How about the President's vehicle? I'm sure that not much guards would dare to question the occupants.'

'Great idea. Okay, Mr Pres,' Cosmic said in a menacing tone. 'where is your beloved vehicle.'

The President looked as if he wasnt going to answer, but when Cosmic pressed his sniper against him, he faltered and said, ' To the right of this building.'

Cosmic and the rest of the VE Inflitration Team snickered. THey were enjoying this.

'Thanks Pres. Now you can see us in full action.' Cosmic said.

The group hurried over to the right side of the building. What appeared before them was a huge hanger.

They managed to get to the front of the hangar without being spotted. Cosmic had chosen a place in which they could survey the entire hangar without being spotted.

'Okay, now ... where's your ship? And kindly also state its modifications and specialities.'

'Sounds like food,' Seth thought as he grasped a firmer hold on the Executive.

'Erm, it is a specially made land transport modified from a escorting shuttle except it stays on the ground and it contains 7 revolving heavy blaster placed around the transport.'

'Good. It fits our usage exactly.' Cosmic mused. 'Now, Mr Pres, You'll havta do some acting. But I'll be behind you, so dunt even dare do try any tricks. You are to walk CALMLY over to your ship as show your pass. We'll just come along and you are to say that you are going for a light ride. Clear?'

He turned back to everyone and said, 'Okay, everyone, go to the back of your prisoners. DO not make it obvious that you are pointing your blasters at them. Ready? Let's go!'

The group strolled into the hangar, the President walking nervously with Cosmic behind him. A pirate technician came up, saluted to the President, and said, 'Your ship, Mr President?'

The president only nodded. Seth's best guess is that he's too nervous to say anything.

The pirate technician escorted the president up the ramp of the elegant transport, and tipped his hat. 'Have a nice trip, Mr Presient.' he said before going off.

Once the ramp is closed, Cosmic immediately motioned PFC Viper to come over. 'Viper, take control of the transport, and guide us to the outskirts of the City. We need to plan our next move.'

PFC Viper nodded and shifted the transport into position, and the transport slided out of the hangar, speeding towards the outskirts.

Perfect.

posted March 04, 2001 11:49 AM              

Japer and his troops set up and then Zeather and Amanda went to set up in their sniper postions then Japer got a message on his comlink" Hello Jap, this is Seth. There are about 500 pirates coming to attack. I hope your ready"said Seth

"Don't you worry Seth. Have I ever let the VE down?"said japer

Japer laid down his comlink and right when he did he saw the first of the pirate leagion coming acrost the land. He told his troopers that they were coming."Hey Zeather Amanda can you hear me?" asked Japer

"Yes"said amanda

"Loud and clear Jap."said Zeather Knight

"Ok they are coming. Try and take out the commanders first. Rember the order. Commander,Officer, Troops,Medics."said Japer

Then the shoots started coming from the pirate line. The fight was on...

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you ever dance with the devil in the pale moonlight

posted March 04, 2001 10:38 PM               

---10 minutes before---

Viper sped the transport out of the hangar, and the VE Inflitration Team were silently rejocing their small victory, when they received an incoming message.

Viper pressed the intercom, and a deep voice spoke.

'Greetings, to your honour. This is Pirate Inflitration Commander Rasco here. In retaliation of the atrocious Vast Empire's attacks on our peaceful city, I would like to request for permission for an invasion plan of 100 pirates.'

The President looked at Cosmic nervously. He didnt quite know what to do. Cosmic whispered,

'Tell that bastard to send 500 pirates, saying that you have calculated that the Vast Empire's defence is rather weak and 500 pirates should do the job.'

The President nodded silently, and moved over to the intercom, wiping his sweaty hands on the back o his trousers.

'Rasco? Deploy 500 pirates only. Vast Empire's defence is weak, according to our latest reviews. 500 shoulod do the job well.'

'Yessir.'

The intercom clicked off.

The room was silent. Seth turned to Cosmic and said, 'Cos, why did you allow them to deploy 500 men when you could have refuse the request?!?'

Cosmic took a deep breath and replied,' If we said not to attack, they would become suspious, because they knew that if the President ... 'He nodded his head towards the President's direction.' refused it, they might suspect that the president in being held hostage. I have full confidence in Jep's defence team in tacking 2000 men, let alone 500 men. Do you understand now, Seth?

Seth replied, 'Yes I do. I never thought of that.'

'Send a message to Jep, informing of the incoming attack, and let them have some fun.'

'Sure Cos.'

Seth flipped open his comlink, tuned to Jep, and said ,' Jep, this is Seth. There are about 500 pirates coming your way. I hope you are ready.'

He heard Jep static reply and grinned. Jep was always ful of action. And truely, he has never let VE down.

It's all up to Jep. He has done all he could.

posted March 05, 2001 01:16 PM               

While waiting for the preliminary artillery barrages to end, Fury sat in his bunker...actually a shielded hole...and checked up on the platoon's activity. Cosmic's group had seemingly completed phase one of their mission in record pace and were delivering the hostages to a hand-off with the infiltration team for return to base.

Iron Horse was in the middle of a horseshoe configuration flanked by the Wraiths and Raiders. They would receive the last, but heaviest part of the enemy assault and as such, were still busily completed defensive works.

MSG Japer and the Panthers were skirting around the forward area, each one overloaded with every type of man-portable weaponry that the Corps had brought planetside. Some had sniper gear, others hauled missile tubes and anti-vehicle weaponry. One trooper carried an old V-90 blaster cannon. Lighter and a little easier to manager than an E-Web, it was a relic from the Old Republic rarely seen outside of an outer rim militia...and the occasional pirate army.

The Wraiths were doing about the same as the Raiders...sitting uncomfortably in the cold, dark earth waiting for an enemy force eager for destruction.

Convinced he was through checking a datapad for awhile, Fury powered it down and slipped it into a kit pouch on his gear. Maybe when he was able to assume the platoon leader's job full-time he could form a team like Japer was running around with. Of course, Major Anakin would probably just take the team and lead it himself. In fact, he was amazed that Major Talon hadn't set up shop with his trainees as part of his "live-fire" exercises. The problem with doing a good job was that somebody was always trying to keep you alive longer by weighing you down with promotions, paperwork, and desks. It was really hard to go hand-to-hand with a pirate or rebel when surrounded by a command speeder. Fury sighed, if he could live through today he had all that to look forward to in the all too near future.

Corps-wide comm chatter had just livened up and the artillery barrage was peetering out ahead of their location. Fury asked for, and got, an initial read on the forces they were facing. Taking a wax pencil and scratching some notes on his left armguard he got the bad news. Initial elements of some 1,800 soldiers supported by ULAVs and some CAVw compact assault vehicles. Not heavily armored, but troublesome for a stationary trooper. Amidst that, a lot of swoops and speeders with the occasional repulsorlift truck hauling a mortar or something of that nature. Behind that a lot of heavy equipment that either survived the first engagement or was held in reserve. For a pirate group to accumulate this much equipment meant a serious investment in a planet. No wonder they were fighting so hard.

Woolgathering was over for the time being though as the barrage stopped coming from the enemy side and the VE batteries opened up at close range. Between lasers, blasters, ion charges, missiles, and other projectiles, it could not have been a fun environment to be in. Fury watched as an advancing squad took an ion blast meant for a ULAV behind them. Excess static charges skittered harmlessly across the vehicle, which simply drove over the charred remains of the soldiers which saved it from being disabled.

Someone had opened up with the light repeater. That would be DarkLord...no, he had died overtaking the first base. Yillamien has passed on the day before in the field hospital. Ah, Sergeant Snake was performing gunnery duties. PFC Jediwannabe had an array of close-in weapons at his disposal. Right now he picked up a CSPL and announced his intent. Fury got out of the way, slapping the trooper's helmet as an all-clear signal. After emptying the attached tubes, two ULAVs and an assault vehicle lay smoldering and a missed shot had started a fire further back in the enemy lines.

Command had started pulling back the XR-85 tank droids. Having to turn to gain quicker momemtum, they were unable to use all but their anti-personnel repeating blasters. That kept most of the machines intact, but did little to stem the tide of enemy troops from moving forward. The third string of mines and traps did even more damage than the first two. The enemy was quickening it's pace and cared less for casualties in an open area than it did trying to get under cover and take it's chances amongst the Corps.

Japer's team, split between squads 3 and 4, were laying out a punishing amount of fire to corral the enemy into the box set up by the platoon. Surely the enemy could smell a trap but that was no concern to Fury. Besides, except for the long distance shots, the Raiders and Wraiths had been fairly content to let the enemy move in closer...closer than was comfortable actually. Fury kept low and tried very hard not to give the fire order. Listening to comm traffic, he found a break and asked for an update. Analysis guessed at 1,300 troops and 450 vehicles supporting them with 300 tank and tank-analog vehicle coming up with another 700 troops for mop-up.

Sithspawn! They could actually overrun the base with all that firepower. Fury and his troops could do a lot...a hell of a lot actually. But a battle-worn platoon of stormies still couldn't take out out some 300 tanks. They were gonna need some air support and fast.

For now though, the trap was about to spring. Watching as the leading elements were within shouting distance of Iron Horse, Fury gave three orders. One, to the regular army elements in the trench lines surrounding the platoon, which rose up and started moving forward. The enemy saw this movement and started running towards the troops, unaware they were racing into the mouths of the WildCards guns. Two, Fury mouthed a word to Japer ordering him to seal off the back end of the trap.

Three. With the enemy about to run past his position, and others within meters of Snake's firing pit, Fury grabbed a flame carbine and set two thermal dets. With a movement of his left arm he tossed both detonators towards the charging pirates and let forth one word on an open channel.

"Fire!"

posted March 05, 2001 07:15 PM               

SGT Cosmic smiled as they sercretly left the building after the meeting...for sending out 500 pirates.
Cosmic lead them to a nearby bush and huddled down.

Cosmic looked around to check if anybody was watching...when the coast was clear, he leaned towards his troops...
"Here's the plan...I'm afraid that we've got too many objectives with us...They will make us look conspicuos and we have a heavy load right now...right now it's taking all of us to keep an eye on our objectives..my plan is to take them back to EIH base..what do you say?"

PFC Viper looked at SGT Cosmic. "You mean like three of us leave you guys to take these guys back EIH Base?"
Cosmic nodded.
"Do we come back to help you with the rest of the mission?"

Cosmic thought about it..."No. It would be too risky...you won't know where we are and you might get caught..I suggest you staying there with the objectives until we return with the rest of them...all is needed now is a guy in charge of droid construction..then we blow the Fusion Reactor...then we come back..our mission would be successful..the thing is, if we bring our objectives, the president, the ambassador, three senators, and.....oh! I forgot! We still need to get two generals! Ok, we got a president, an ambassador, three senators, and an executive...all we need is two generals and blow the Fusion Reactor...bringing these characters along will make us easy to spot....so, this is the best scenario...everyone got it?"

Everyone nodded. "Ok, PFC Viper, PFC Maul, and PFC Thrawn, you three guys escort our objectives to the hoverboards and get the heck out of the city without being spotted! Get to the hoverboard and take off towards the EIH Base! 2nd Lt. Roach, Seth, and the rest of you will help me complete this mission...any questions?"

There were none.

"Very well..move out." the troops nodded and took off...the three troopers left with their objectives and headed towards the outskirts of the city where their hoverboards awaited their return.....

SGT Cosmic was still huddled in a small circle with his fellow troopers..."Ok, here's our plan...First, we need to Generals from the pirate army...these guys will be a little bit tricky since they will probably be more protected.."
"More protected than the President?" Asked Seth....Cosmic waited a moment then shook his head...

"I guess not..the presidents the main guy around here so we shouldn't have as much resitance with the generals as we had with the president, which, for us, was a really easy op. Ok, on this map," pointed Cosmic on the map. "The generals are near the far end of the city...Looks like another building..."

"A heavy bunker." Said Seth. Cosmic nodded. "Yes, so, we'll have to make a distraction while we capture the Gens. It'll be trickier becaues we'll have to kill everyone we distract.."

Everyone nodded. "So, keep your heavy blasters in their holsters until they are really needed..we don't want them to see any weaponry that we have. 2nd Lt. Roach and Seth will come with me...the rest of you will make a distraction for our victoms..." The troops nodded...Cosmic turned to 2nd Lt. Roach and Seth.

"Ok, while they are doing this, we have to break down the door to the bunker and kill any resitance in that bunker...remember not to kill any generals! They are our objectives...no one can be killed in this mission! As soon as we get our objectives, we come out and meet with the rest of our group...got it?" Roach and Seth nodded...

"Ok, let's move out troops!" Yelled Cosmic...Cosmic led the way to the far end of the city...to the unsuspecting bunker......

Cosmic stood quietly near a batch of thick bushes..the troops were huddled next to him...waiting to see the sign to launch their little distraction mission.

Cosmic watched...."Get ready.....not yet.......NOOOOW!" The troops quickly ran towards the side of the bushes, then quickly walked towards the left side of the bunker...

"Hey! You in there! Please come out! We have an emergancy! It's an emergancy!" Yelled a trooper.

The door opened and five pirates came out with lazer blasters...The VE troopers told them to follow quickly...the pirates took the bait and left with the troopers..Cosmic quickly took action...he lept from his spot and ran to the door...he signalled everyone to take out their heavy blasters...

Cosmic ran through the bunker door and met ten pirates with blasters...The troopers quickly fired...Cosmic fired and two pirates dropped dead...the troopers killed the rest...To men with four stars on their shoulders were trying to take cover behind a bunch of controls...Cosmic walked over to them..."Why are you two generals in the same bunker at the same time??? Don't you know that that's not a great idea...an op like this could take both of you guys out! IN fact, that's what were gonna do..but were not gonna kill ya...You're comin with us!"

Cosmic grabbed a general with one hand and tossed him to the troops...He then grabbed the other general and started shoving him towards the door...Cosmic turned to the troops..."It's a good thing that there are soundless-bouncing walls in here..or we would've been defeaned by the sound!"

The troops nodded.
Cosmic changed his attitude and quickly turned towards the generals.."Tell me this...general. Where is the fusion reactor?"

The general turned to face Cosmic. "Why do you want to know?" He asked menacingly..."DOn't fool around with me boy! Just tell me what I want to know! The last man who tried to do that, his head got placed on a pole!!"

Cosmic turned and winked at the troops...the general gulpled and spoke.."It's right near here...just about 300 feet to the west...It's looks like a huge powerplant..What are you going to do with it?"

Cosmic nodded.."That's none of your business...thanks for telling us!"
Cosmic walked them outside and saw that the rest of the VE troopers were walking towards them...their heavy blasters were kind of smoking a little..

"It got kinda outta hand.." Said one of them...Cosmic smiled.."THings happen."
Cosmic led them towards the fusion reactor...the last phase in their mission.......

posted March 05, 2001 07:16 PM               

SGT Cosmic smiled as they sercretly left the building after the meeting...for sending out 500 pirates.
Cosmic lead them to a nearby bush and huddled down.

Cosmic looked around to check if anybody was watching...when the coast was clear, he leaned towards his troops...
"Here's the plan...I'm afraid that we've got too many objectives with us...They will make us look conspicuos and we have a heavy load right now...right now it's taking all of us to keep an eye on our objectives..my plan is to take them back to EIH base..what do you say?"

PFC Viper looked at SGT Cosmic. "You mean like three of us leave you guys to take these guys back EIH Base?"
Cosmic nodded.
"Do we come back to help you with the rest of the mission?"

Cosmic thought about it..."No. It would be too risky...you won't know where we are and you might get caught..I suggest you staying there with the objectives until we return with the rest of them...all is needed now is a guy in charge of droid construction..then we blow the Fusion Reactor...then we come back..our mission would be successful..the thing is, if we bring our objectives, the president, the ambassador, three senators, and.....oh! I forgot! We still need to get two generals! Ok, we got a president, an ambassador, three senators, and an executive...all we need is two generals and blow the Fusion Reactor...bringing these characters along will make us easy to spot....so, this is the best scenario...everyone got it?"

Everyone nodded. "Ok, PFC Viper, PFC Maul, and PFC Thrawn, you three guys escort our objectives to the hoverboards and get the heck out of the city without being spotted! Get to the hoverboard and take off towards the EIH Base! 2nd Lt. Roach, Seth, and the rest of you will help me complete this mission...any questions?"

There were none.

"Very well..move out." the troops nodded and took off...the three troopers left with their objectives and headed towards the outskirts of the city where their hoverboards awaited their return.....

SGT Cosmic was still huddled in a small circle with his fellow troopers..."Ok, here's our plan...First, we need to Generals from the pirate army...these guys will be a little bit tricky since they will probably be more protected.."
"More protected than the President?" Asked Seth....Cosmic waited a moment then shook his head...

"I guess not..the presidents the main guy around here so we shouldn't have as much resitance with the generals as we had with the president, which, for us, was a really easy op. Ok, on this map," pointed Cosmic on the map. "The generals are near the far end of the city...Looks like another building..."

"A heavy bunker." Said Seth. Cosmic nodded. "Yes, so, we'll have to make a distraction while we capture the Gens. It'll be trickier becaues we'll have to kill everyone we distract.."

Everyone nodded. "So, keep your heavy blasters in their holsters until they are really needed..we don't want them to see any weaponry that we have. 2nd Lt. Roach and Seth will come with me...the rest of you will make a distraction for our victoms..." The troops nodded...Cosmic turned to 2nd Lt. Roach and Seth.

"Ok, while they are doing this, we have to break down the door to the bunker and kill any resitance in that bunker...remember not to kill any generals! They are our objectives...no one can be killed in this mission! As soon as we get our objectives, we come out and meet with the rest of our group...got it?" Roach and Seth nodded...

"Ok, let's move out troops!" Yelled Cosmic...Cosmic led the way to the far end of the city...to the unsuspecting bunker......

Cosmic stood quietly near a batch of thick bushes..the troops were huddled next to him...waiting to see the sign to launch their little distraction mission.

Cosmic watched...."Get ready.....not yet.......NOOOOW!" The troops quickly ran towards the side of the bushes, then quickly walked towards the left side of the bunker...

"Hey! You in there! Please come out! We have an emergancy! It's an emergancy!" Yelled a trooper.

The door opened and five pirates came out with lazer blasters...The VE troopers told them to follow quickly...the pirates took the bait and left with the troopers..Cosmic quickly took action...he lept from his spot and ran to the door...he signalled everyone to take out their heavy blasters...

Cosmic ran through the bunker door and met ten pirates with blasters...The troopers quickly fired...Cosmic fired and two pirates dropped dead...the troopers killed the rest...To men with four stars on their shoulders were trying to take cover behind a bunch of controls...Cosmic walked over to them..."Why are you two generals in the same bunker at the same time??? Don't you know that that's not a great idea...an op like this could take both of you guys out! IN fact, that's what were gonna do..but were not gonna kill ya...You're comin with us!"

Cosmic grabbed a general with one hand and tossed him to the troops...He then grabbed the other general and started shoving him towards the door...Cosmic turned to the troops..."It's a good thing that there are soundless-bouncing walls in here..or we would've been defeaned by the sound!"

The troops nodded.
Cosmic changed his attitude and quickly turned towards the generals.."Tell me this...general. Where is the fusion reactor?"

The general turned to face Cosmic. "Why do you want to know?" He asked menacingly..."DOn't fool around with me boy! Just tell me what I want to know! The last man who tried to do that, his head got placed on a pole!!"

Cosmic turned and winked at the troops...the general gulpled and spoke.."It's right near here...just about 300 feet to the west...It's looks like a huge powerplant..What are you going to do with it?"

Cosmic nodded.."That's none of your business...thanks for telling us!"
Cosmic walked them outside and saw that the rest of the VE troopers were walking towards them...their heavy blasters were kind of smoking a little..

"It got kinda outta hand.." Said one of them...Cosmic smiled.."THings happen."
Cosmic led them towards the fusion reactor...the last phase in their mission.......

posted March 06, 2001 04:44 PM               

While the group was heading towards the main reactor for the final destruction, Seth received an incoming line from Platoon Commander Fury.

'Hey Seth! Thanks for the hostages that you've got, but from what I heard from them, you werent very quiet from the way you abducted them. Because of this, the attack Squad from the pirates have tripled! I think they are notified by your presence. From now, do all things discretly. Clear?'

'Yes Fury!'

Seth clicked off the comlink and hurried to Cosmic, who was leading tha way with a triumphant look on his face.

'Cosmic! Fury has contacted me and said that we were doing all the abduction with too much attention, so the attack team from the pirates have tripled!'

Cosmic stopped dead in his tracks. He paled, and grasp Seth's arm so hard that it hurt.

'Are you ... sure?'

Seth only nodded.

'Oh my gosh! What have I done? I didnt mean to do this! ... '

Cosmic was becoming hesterical. He never meant to do this to the defence squad.

Seth shook him hard and said, 'Yes I understand. But there's nothing we can do now. We better advance with more secrecy.'

Cosmic silently nodded.

Seth looked up at the ceiling of the bunker: covered with boards to hide all the wires and pipes.

Perfect.

'Cosmic, let's take that.'

Cosmic followed Seth's finger to the top of the ceiling. He said, 'Fine!'

Seth hoisted himself up into the ceiling, sliding one of the boards away. He climbed into the black space, feeling a bit squashed. Soon, the rest followed, and they were huddled up the ceiling. It was a wonder that it didnt break. Seth flipped on his infra-red googles to detect objects and heat. He scanned the area. Cosmic crawled (because it was too short to stand) and whispered,

'Are you sure this idea would work?'

'Positively, although we'll be a bit cramped. In here, we can also avoid all the walls that would be naturally in our way. Okay, where's the main reactor?'

Cosmic took over and guided them all the way there, avoiding wires and pipes along the way.

After 15 minutes of non-stop crawling, Cosmic stopped. Seth almost rammed into him.

'Here?' Seth whispered.

Cosmic nodded. Seth slowly and silently slided open yet another board and look down, to find a room with many controls and a cylinder-like thing that looks suspiously like a power generator.

The main Reactor.

Seth said, 'Yeap, this's the one.'

Cosmic turned and said, 'Okay, now listen. Seth and I will go down to destroy the main reactor. You know that once the chain reaction starts, it will completely destroy the entire building, so for this, I'll have to use the controlled thermal detonator, so that I can destroy when I touch the button. Keep a good lookout for us. Clear?'

The troopers silently nodded.

Seth and Cosmic slided down and landed onto the cold hard floor. Seth immediately went over to the main reactor. He noticed the typical controls, and reached out to deactivate some controls. He opened a portion of it and fixed a thermal detonator inside. He heard Cosmic doing the same. Suddenly, a trooper hissed, 'Patrol in your way!'

Seth and Cosmic immediately pounced behind a main control room, and heard heavy footsteps stomp by. After the sound faded, Seth causiously looked out. No one at side.

He slided out again and speeded up the procedures. Binding some wires together, he placed a thermal detonator on that.

Altogether, Seth and Cosmic placed 20 thermal detonators in all.

Cosmic wiped his head as he bounded the last thermal detonator.

'Done!'

Seth and Cosmic climbed back into the ceiling again. They made their way out as soon as possible.

Once outside and behind a bush, Cosmic pulled Seth and said,

'Okay, take out your controls. At the count of 3, let's blast this blasted building inti bits. Ready? 1...2....3!

Seth and Cosmic squeezed the button. Infront of them, the inside of the building exploded, destroying the main reactor.

'YES!'

posted March 07, 2001 02:11 AM               

Currently he was pinned down by return fire. Surrounding him was a gruesome mix of dead beings, some in the various uniforms of different pirate groups and others in imperial grey. This area had seen some brutal fighting today, and it was far from over. Fury would really have to thank the Field Marshal for the armor again once this battle was over. With the armor's red tones and extra-strength protection, he had either frightened away enemies who thought the elite had come to play or taken shots that would have seriously harmed standard armor.

In either case, he probably had a few cracked ribs and his left ankle didn't feel so hot. Some idiot in supply had suggested nerve-deadening shots and was thankfully ignored. At least the pain was a reminder that this was not fun. The last thing Fury needed to see among this carnage was a super trooper minus a limb still fighting it out.

Well, it wouldn't matter much what he thought. A couple shots were getting a little too close. Since getting separated from his squad, Fury kept up some radio contact with other stormies, even linking with an element from the Panthers as they fought to keep the enemy from retreating. But, as usual, coordinated efforts on a battlefield were useless, especially as a stormtrooper. The advantage of the armor and training was to be a one-being killing man capable of independent action. Just a simple set of orders was all that was necessary for a trooper to go forth and wreak mayhem. It would be nice however, to see if the Corps had managed to hold a coherent line. With jamming in place, Fury couldn't even do his job as squad leader, much less manage a platoon.

Grabbing a fallen slugthrower, Fury made sure the magazine was full. With a BlasTech A280 in the other hand, Fury popped up from behind his cover and took aim at the likely direction of the shooters. Peppering one stout human pointing a flechette gun at him, Fury dropped down again. From the looks of it there were four beings left focusing on him. Behind them about a dozen or so people trying to get a ULAV functional again. Well, that was not going to help the VE's cause.

Fury stood up and kept a couple heads down again...unfortunately making no hits this time. He had spied what looked to be a still operational PLX-2 missile tube nearby. It would draw more attention to him but he was getting bored anyway.

It wouldn't be long before the enemy got up to courage to charge a one trooper, so Fury field stripped the missile unit and dug out some...biological obstruction. Slapping the access panel back down, he crept up to a gap in the man-made hillock and dug enough access for a clean shot at the ULAV. Looking for anyone creeping his way...and finding none, he fired.

Instinctively, the enemies heads turned towards the explosion, even as they knew he had fired the shot. With that advantage at his side, Fury leaped over the dirt mound and ran towards the unattentive enemy with both blaster and slugthrower in hand.

A couple of lucky shots zeroed out three of the would-be snipers that had pinned him down for the last twenty minutes. The last pirate hit Fury square in the abdomen with a blaster bolt. Fury stumbled back from the blast, cutting down the soldier with a dual blast from both weapons.

Initial opposition eliminated, Fury took a breath and assessed the situation. One of his cracked ribs had been reinjured by the last shot and his armor didn't seem to quite fit right all of a sudden. Time to check that later apparently. For now, a collection of angry pirates were gathering around the burning ULAV, perfect targets for the stormtrooper on the go. Eventually, he'd like to see where the enemy's jamming equipment was and get rid of it. He could fight, but it would be nice to know if there was some way to do that better.

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2LT Fury
PLT CMDR/2LT Fury/1PLT/1COMP/1BAT/1REG/TF Devastator/VEA/VE [IOC]

posted March 07, 2001 05:46 AM               

Daishi had sent Argon, Master, and Narm ahead on an Assualt shuttle to prepare thier forward position, right now the rest of them had something to do.

"Allright our objective is simple, while Argon, Master, and Narm set up I am going to go have a talk with Anakin, mean while the rest of you are to help with a supply shipment. I'll join you once my conversation is finished." Daishi said over the intercom of the Royal Barkalounger as he began the landing cycle.

Some quick instructions from ground control placed him on a landing pad near the main command area.

As Daishi marched back toward the main area he started tossing blaster packs from his stores to the rest of the Fallen Angels.

"You'll need these. Don't worry about having enough, blaster packs are fairly universal so when you're out just scavange like we ussually do. Grenades on the other hand are entirely universal so have fun." Daishi said as he started emptying his explosives bins.

Daishi grabbed one last peice of equipment before disembarking from the Royal Barkalounger, a grapple rod.

"You all have your orders and know where to go." Daishi said as he marched toward Anakin's command AT-AT.

Daishi walked for a while until he was almost beneath the AT-AT and aimed his grapple rod above the main access hatch. Instead of realing in the line Daishi began his climb. A quick working of the controls on the door yeilded access.

Daishi started walking to the comand and control room of the AT-AT where he found Anakin standing over a holographic display of the battle.

"Daishi how can you be here and up in space at the same time?" Anakin said as he looked up from the display.

"Simple, I have a clone. No one is really sure which one of us is the real one any more so I guess I'll go ahead and differentiate myself from my navy counter part by changing my callsign from Daishi to Kuroishi. I have the Fallen Angels with me now that the Intruder Wing hs met it's demise. We are willing to help take some heat off your line, infact some of my people are already setting up. The rest are going to help protect your next shipment of supplies to the front lines, from there we will make our way to our prepared position." Kuroishi said as he indicated a position on the map.

After a moments silence Anakin finally regained his composure.

"That position will put you behind enemy lines." Anakin said.

"I know, but that is how we work. Before I forget you don't have to worry about equiping us." Kuroishi replied as he turned around to leave.

Anakin only stood there as he contemplated the thought of two Daishi's, one was bad enough but two? This did not boad well for the universe.

Things were now getting more interesting.

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"Indecent exposure is fun." Sonatina

"If we have all knowladge then we would not wish to seek what we know, but if we had no knowledge how could we even ask a question?" Plato on knowladge.

posted March 07, 2001 09:30 AM               

SGT Cosmic and Corporal Seth ran towards a small elevator that lead to the top of the building. Seth stopped and stared at the elevavtor.

"Sergeant, don't we want to get out of the building? Not climb all the way to the top? The building's gonna explode! It is right now actually!"

Cosmic stared behind Seth...a ball of flame was forming right before his eyes.."No time to explain! Get in the elevator now! I have a plan!" Cosmic grabbed Seth and ran into the elevator...Cosmic quickly pushed the top floor button and immediately he felt the elevator lifting up.

Seth turned to Cosmic. "What is your plan, Sergeant? Were doomed if we go to the top of this darn building..the whole place is gonna explode!"

Cosmic nodded. "I know this place is gonna blow, Corporal. Just trust me on this...Right beside the building as like a huge pond of water...Mainly, I think that's where they get the cooling systems for this plant...we can jump into the water down there and have a safe fall."

Seth shook his head violently.. "No! The water might not be deep enough for a landing like this! Heck! Were like twelve stories high on the top of the roof! How you gonna get us down.....from that jump and still survive?!?"

Cosmic felt the elevator shake violently..."Just a couple of more floors to go." Whispered Cosmic.
Seth grabbed Cosmic's arm. "Tell me! I don't want to die in this awful building!"

"You won't die, Corporal! No one will die under my watch...Now just follow what I say! I give you my word," Cosmic stared Seth in the eyes. "You won't die..."

The elevator stopped and the door started to slide open...but then stopped midway..."The door's jammed!" Yelled Seth. "The explosion below us is pretty intense I imagine...help me pry it open.."

Seth grabbed one end of the door and Cosmic grabbed the other...they pulled...Slowly but surely they opened the door. Cosmic started to feel heat beneath him...Seth felt it too and looked at Cosmic..
"Were ok." Said Cosmic calmly.

Cosmic and Seth ran out of the elevator and on to the roofs platform. A bunch of air conditioners and air coolers were on top of the building...it was like a little maze!

Seth turned to Cosmic.."Ok, Sarge...What's your plan now!" Cosmic ran to the edge of the roof and looked down......down the twelve stories...the height made him a little queezy.

Cosmic turned to Seth... "When we were walkiing towards the building, I saw a bunch of flags on top of the roof that had the Pirates' symbol on them. Wait....Ah! THERE!" Cosmic pointed. Huge flags were right behind them...Cosmic ran to them..Seth followed. They took out their vibroblades and cut two flags down...one for Cosmic and one for Seth.

Cosmic ran with Seth to the edge of the building.....they saw the water down below..

"Ok, when you jump, hold this over your body like this." Said Cosmic, demonstrating how to hold the flag like a parachute. Seth nodded. "The flags should hit the air when we fall and break our fall to the water..."

Cosmic looked down once more...the rest of the troops were down on the ground already...they made it out right before the Fusion Reactor blew.

The building started to shake.."JUMP SETH! JUMP!" Yelled Cosmic.

Seth jumped and raised the flag...the flag was working! His fall was being broken. Cosmic jumped also, the flag was breaking his fall too...Seth hit the water and started swimming for shore...Cosmic was still in the air...floating down.

Seth ran out of the water to the VE troops who were holding the two generals behind a huge bush...a very think bush...Cosmic was about 120 feet away from the waters surface..suddenly, the building exploded!

Cosmic turned just in time to see the building explode right in his face. The blast from the explosion caused Cosmic's body to make an unstopable twirl. Cosmic's flag had caught on fire and burnt to ashes...Cosmic was falling now....falling down at 40....50....now 60 miles an hour. He hit the waters surface with this back...his body was like a rock skipping on the waters surface...He was skipped along to the waters shore at 40 miles an hour.

He hit the ground really hard...His head hit a nearby rock....He lost conciousness for only a few seconds...he opened his eyes and saw the building on fire in front of him....flames were growing...in fact, one flame was really huge and was coming towards him.

The VE troopers ran to Cosmic's survice, two troops were left behind to watch the generals.
They arrived at Cosmic's side and looked down upon him.

Cosmic looked up. "The fusion reactor is going to blow again..I know these kind of reactions...this little explosion here is just the beginning...there's going to be a bigger, much more dangerous explosion in about two minutes or so...I think I broke my left leg...I can't move it...and when I do, it hurts bad! I can't move my right hand...It hurts when I move my left arm too...I'm too beat up, troops...Get outta here and save yourselves! Don't risk your lives to save me! If there's any pirates around, I'll cover ya! I'll be too much of a hastle to deal with on the way out of the city.."

The troops shook their heads quickly..."NO! Never! You're our group leader! And like objectives, group leaders are meant to be kept alive! Now help me help him up guys!" Yelled a trooper...The troopers all helped Cosmic up to his feet. The troopers had to carry him.

Once they got to the rest of the troopers, Cosmic yelled to them. "Let's get the heck outta here! This things gonna blow! And when it does, it's gonna make a biiiiiig boooom! Right now, don't worry about being caught...I'm betting that a lot of the pirates in the city will head towards the explosion...just stay around the perimeter of the city and you'll do fine..you won't be seen...just head to the outskirts of the city where our hoverboards are...MOVE!"

The troopers nodded and ran towards the outskirts...they stayed along the perimeter of the city so that they wouldn't be seen by pirate eyes.

Two minutes later, they were about halfway to the outskirts of the city..they only had about 50 left to go to be at the end of the city's limit. Suddenly, they heard a gigantic explosion! A roar suddenly appeared...A huge fireball appeared in the sky...coming from the location of the reactor.... as the troopers watched carefully, they noticed the fireball gaining speed throughout the city.

"Let's go! That fireball there will destroy everything in it's path! The explosion was so big that it will destroy the city! Let's hurry!" YELLED Cosmic.

They troopers ran at full speed...Cosmic got off of the shoulders of the troopers and started to try and walk on his one leg that didn't hurt...He leaned on the shoulders of two other troopers...He did this to let them and he gain speed away from the explosion..

"Ok! Were almost there! Just 40 feet more!" Yelled Cosmic...The troopers were now very near to the outskirts of the city...Cosmic was limping as hard and as fast as he could...emence pain was shooting through his body...His face twist and turned from the pain...

"Oh God!" Yelled Cosmic! He couldn't hold up any more...He fell to the ground..."God! Oh God! I'm in pain! Just go! Leave me here! Uncover the hoverboards them come back for me...The fire ball will not be as fast as you guys..MOVE!"

The troops obeyed. They ran about 20 feet away from him and uncovered the hoverboards...one soldier got on a hover board and had one general in front of him...another trooper did the same...Two troopers on hoverboards rushed to Cosmic...The troopers held Cosmic and they two troopers stayed close together so that the hoverboards hooked together...

"Ok troops! Let's get to EIH Base immediately! Let's head home!" Yelled Cosmic...The troops cheered at this....The troops headed to EIH Base at full speed...Cosmic and the two troopers holding him were in the lead of the rest...

SGT Cosmic was starting to get faint...He was losing blood...and fast! The troops carrying him noticed a difference in weight..he was getting heavier! That meant that he was starting to lose strength!

"Hold on Sarge! Hold on!" Encouraged a trooper...Cosmic took a deep breath..."It hurts too much...it hurts too much." Said Cosmic slowly...

They reached the EIH Base....Cosmic was now barely concious...The troopers carrying the two generals immediately went inside the Main Command Tent to see Platoon Commander Fury.

The rest of the troopers rushed Cosmic to the medic tent...Cosmic's face was turning pale...a doctor was in the tent. "Doc! Sergeant Cosmic here is doin' badly! He needs help! He has a lot of bad pain and he's lost a whole bunch of blood! He's barely concious and I think he's broken a leg, a hand, and an arm..He broke those during a bad fall during a huge explosion!" Yelled a trooper...

The doctor nodded and turned to six nurses and two four other doctors..."Guys! Emergancy! Come here immediately! This is an emergancy Red Alert! We have to get him into OR fast! He can't just stay still! He has broken bones in several places! Let's move!" The doctor quickly walked over to the watching troopers..."I'm afraid you'll have to leave...From what you stated about his condition...He might be in the operation for maybe five or six hours...we are not to be disturbed during that time. Is that clear?" The troopers nodded.

The doctor nodded and went back to his patient heading for the Emergancy OR Tent.
The troopers walked slowly to the Command Tent where Fury was...hopefully seeing the two generals that Cosmic and his wonderful troopers have captured....

Finally...Their mission was complete! And the mission: successful!

posted March 08, 2001 07:36 AM               

SGT Cosmic was in the Recovering Tent. He had just gotten out of the operation...it was a six hour long operation too. He was asleep on a white bed. His pirate clothes had been taken off and some light-weight white clothes were put on him.

2nd Lt. Roach, Corporal Seth, PFC Viper, PFC Karoch, PFC Maul, PFC Solaniel, PFC Thrawn, PFC Aphrodite, and PFC Xal Lazer were sitting on chairs right by his side. The President, the Ambassador, the three Senators, the two Generals, and the executive were the Prison Tent. The tent was guarded by ten armed troops carrying heavy blasters.

Platoon Commander Fury was also beside Cosmic's bedside. He looked down upon Cosmic's body...still kind of pale in the face but he was ok. A blood transfusion was going into his body. He was very near death when he had arrived. The doctors calculated that he had lost at least a half gallon of blood! Now, if you lose that much blood, you're really close to death...the doctors were amazed that he was even still concious when he arrived.

The Doctor walked over to the troops standing near Cosmic. "Is the Sarge gonna be alright?" Asked Seth. Fury looked up at the doctor for a reply. The doctor smiled. "He'll be fine, Private...He's gonna be just fine. All he needs is rest...He had a long fall, he lost a lot of blood, and he broke a lot of bones, as you can see," said the doctor, pointing to the casts all over Cosmic's body. "Poor fella. I'm sure he was a great leader to you guys. I know it's a shame to look upon him like this now. Body lyin' on a bed, casts all over him...pale face. It's a hard-ache sight."

The troops nodded. PFC Maul looked to Fury, then back to Cosmic. Maul leaned down and whispered softly and quietly in Cosmic's ear. "You'll get the Purple Heart for this, Sarge. You were and still are a great leader. You went out on a mission, completed it, gave orders, and successfully completed the mission...and the most important thing of all is that no one was killed. In that itself, you have completed the most important thing of all." Maul leaned back and stood up straight and saluted.

The troops saw this and saluted themselves...Fury smiled at this. A machine right beside Cosmic beeped every second, indicating his heart was OK. The troops stopped the salute and walked out of the tent. Fury took a seat next to Cosmic and took a deep breath..

"Well done, Sergeant....Well done."

posted March 09, 2001 12:14 PM               

And then, they were there. An ancient fortress, made of solid tritanium. They entered through the main entrance and began unloading the hover dolly they had brought along.

The automatic gun turrets were placed in concealed positions near the main and only entrance, triggered to go off within 30 seconds of detection or in the event of an incorrect verbal passcode.

The unused portions of the base were mined, and all access tunnels to the used portions could soon be sealed off and magnetically sealed to make the wall blasters an even more deadly implement.

With their adequate defenses in place, the advance party settled down to wait for Daishi and the rest.

(CRP Argon Viper)

posted March 09, 2001 06:58 PM               

"Hey Sarge! Looks like you're doing fine. I was worried when we brought you back to base, we thought you were'nt going to make it since you lost so much blood on the way back."

"Hey! Come on, you've got to have more faith in me then that. Don't you know already I'm one tough Sarge? I can't be killed that easily. Anyways if i did die it would look bad on my record." , Cosmic says cheerfully.

Now that I know that Cos is alright, I salute to Fury and Cos before I leave the tent.

"Geez! Man I really stink, like a barrel full of rotting trout. I should go hit the showers. After all I do deserve a shower after successfully completing the mission with Cos."

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30 mins later
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"Ahhh... that was very refreshing. Now I'll just go grab something to eat and hit the sack."

Tomorrow is gonna be a long day...

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Private Demi Wraith

posted March 09, 2001 07:33 PM               

Stonefish tramped along with the walking wounded, those not injured enough to warrant emergency medical attention, but too injured to carry on fighting, they made their slow way back to the field hospitals.

Adjusting the blood-soaked bandage around his head, he wondered how the others were getting on.

posted March 10, 2001 05:52 AM               

Seth sighed as he slumped against his bunk. Yet another mission done.

It had been rather fun and slightly crazy. I mean, with Cosmic as the leader, sometimes things can be rather crazy. Cosmic was a trooper with charisma. That might explain his recent success in recruiting. And overall, he had been a trooper that edges people on even in dire conditions. In that point, Seth would have to salute him.

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Bar: VE's favourite Hangout
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Seth strode to the bar and started mixing for himself a glass of Super Raze, a combination of Corellian Ale and Volka. He glumped it down, and was about to mix another glass again when the Bar's door slid open and a trooper stepped in. It was Demi Wraith.

Seth motioned Demi Wraith to join him at the Bar counter, and offered, 'Want a drink, bud?

Demi Wraith replied, 'I'll take what you'll mix.'

'Sure!'

Seth got down and started mixing two Super Razes. He handed one over to Demi Wraith who studied it closely.

'A mixture of Corellian Ale and Volka?'

'Bingo! Yeah it is. Anyway, how did you tell?'

'Well, first the mixture was a strong brownish finish, a character found in Corellian Ale, and Volka could only be the one to alter the balance in such a mixture.'

'Hehehe, you sure sound like a alcohol specialist.'

'Well, maybe I have been drink since I was a baby.'

'LOL'

Seth and Demi Wraith sat down and discussed the wonders of alcohol and all the kinds of stuff that can be mixed from different kinds of alcohol. They managed to come up with the following mixtures.

Crazy Elephant: A mixture OJ, Volka (which is indispensable), and some punch.

Blue Cow: Black Label, Thunderbird, and Evan Williams.

Seth and Demi Wraith had a lot of fun experimenting alcohol at the counter, as they waited for another assignment.

posted March 10, 2001 05:22 PM               

After drinking my 15th Super Raze I noticed that Seth and I were getting pretty stoned. We were laughing at each others lame jokes and started to folk dancing. Of course we were getting funny looks from the other troopers in the bar but I didn't care, I was having too much fun.

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3 more hours later
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Seth and I were so stoned that we couldn't even stand up or even talk straight. Next thing I know is that two fellow troopers help me up and bring me back to the Barracks where I fell flat asleep. When I woke up the next morning I got the worst hangover I ever experienced.

"Oh man, my head! I feel like I got hit in the head by one of a AT-AT's legs."

"Damn I gotta stop drinking this much..."

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Private Demi Wraith

posted March 10, 2001 08:19 PM               

SGT Cosmic was sitting up in his bed, looking at the tent door. He took a deep breath then let it out in a big whoosh. He had just got over some of the worst pains a trooper could get: Broken bones and the pain of just being couped up.

SGT Cosmic's casts were off now, only small scars could be seen where they opened him up to operate. Sergeant Cosmic was taking Bacta to keep off some small pains, but overall, he was doing well. The doctor came in carrying a clipboard. He walked over to Cosmic and smiled.

"Hey, Sarge. I see that you're doing well with the rehab."
Cosmic groaned. "There's nothing worse than being in a tent, watching the days go by while you sit in a bed, feeling crippled and hopeless."

The doctor sniffed. "I've had patients with your exact feelings before, Sarge. All patients overcome this in a matter of days."
Cosmic slowly shook his head as he stared out the door. Thoughts were blazing through his mind...good ones and bad ones:

The mission was a success! All of the objectives were completed, and no casualties whatsoever! The other news was that he was in a bed, trying to recoup while his bones were healing, he had lost a lot of blood, and now he just didn't know what to do...The good thing was is that he was alive and well..no internal damage was inflicted upon him. The bad, his soul longed to be with his superior officers and being somewhere else other than this tent.

Cosmic watched as the doctor checked something off on his clipboard then walk away...leaving Sargeant Cosmic with more thoughts.

Corporal Seth walked in. Cosmic looked up at him and a smile came to his face. "Seth! How are you!?" Asked Cosmic excitedly. Seth smiled as he sat on a stool next to Cosmic's bed. "I should ask you the same question, Sarge. I'm doing well. The commanding officers are pleased with your work. You have done an excellent job on that previous infiltration mission, Sergeant. You are a great leader."

Cosmic took another deep breath. "If I was a great leader, why am I in this horrid bed?" Seth chuckled. "I have to admit this Sarge, you are stubborn, and sometime even hardheaded. But you saved all of the troops on that mission. It's not your fault that you're in this bed. The building blew up. The blast just gave you a hard punch, is all. You're ambitious and you have the "I want to do it" that all the officers like about you. In my eyes, maybe in others too, you are the heart and soul of Elite Iron Horse squad. You are coradgeous, and you love what you do. You want to make a difference in the Vast Empire. Maybe that's why I look up to you. A lot of soldiers do around here, if you didn't notice. You're like a big brother and a father here, Sarge. You're the man."

Cosmic sniffed. "Ever since I joined the VE, I knew that I would go far in it. I knew that I would be a great leader. Somehow I knew I was going to get a job like this...now that I have it, I look at the outcome...I'm bedridden for two more days."

"But you showed a great example for all other leaders and you inspired Privates to push harder and to believe in themselves if they want it. You're my insparation, Sarge. You taught me that if you want somethin real bad, all you gatta do is reach for it."

Cosmic wiped a tear off his cheek. "Thanks Seth. You're a great Corporal, and I wouldn't be surprised if you got a high rank soon. I'm very proud of you on what you did on the mission. You stood by my side...you're my hero."

Seth and Cosmic laughed a little before they saluted each other and before Seth left for the Command Tent.

Cosmic was once again in his bed looking out the tent door, but different thoughts ran through his head...thoughts of how he made a difference in the soldiers' lives around here.

posted March 12, 2001 01:00 AM               

Geist brushed some acumulated dust off of his field jacket as he led the remaining Fallen Angels over to a waiting supply convoy. Escort duty was one of the few missions he despised. It and static defense. A unit tied to a specific point, like a supply train, was always in the inferior position, especially if the unit in question was never intended for such opperations.

Even worse, it forced them to deal with their more regular army counterparts. Geist hated protocol.

"Advance and be recognized." The security officer guarding the convoy demanded.

"Seargent Major Jociam Geist. Fallen Angels." He was still getting used to his new rank. In the intruder wing he had held the rank of Lt Colonel, and a sudden drop to enlisted rank when he signed on with the VE occasionally got on his nerves, but not much. He barely ever paid any attention to rank anyway.

"You and your men aren't in uniform, Seargent."

Geist heard the others chuckle at the obviousness of the remark. He smirked. "That we aren't. We haven't been in uniform since..." He turned to Tycho. "When was the last time we were in uniform?"

Tycho shook his head. "Do we even have uniforms?"

"Loud tropical shirts and obcene neckties I heard." Jingo offered. "But that might have only been a legend parents told kids to scare them into submission."

"You hardly seem to be professional soldiers." The officer suggested.

"Wise man once said." Geist quoted. "Proffesional soldiers are predictable, but the world is full of dangerous ametures."

"I don't think..."

"Relax, kid. We aren't exactly ametures." Jingo said.

"We're just crazier than most," Geist finished. "Lets get this big juicy target going."

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Mars Gravior Sub Pace Latet

"Don't you pull rank on me young man!" Geist to his CO

posted March 12, 2001 10:58 AM               

After three continuous days of battle, the back of the enemy offensive was broken. After holding off a weakened squad or two around the destroyed ULAV, Fury had gotten reinforced by some regulars and eventually linked up with Japer and his ragtag band. Moving forward and tightening the noose, they collectively pushed the enemy forward and crushed many hundreds of hard-fighting pirates between their guns and those of the rest of the WildCards.

In the end, only seventy or so enemy troops chose to surrender. The bulk of enemy tanks were thankfully taken out in part by the MAS-2xB mobile artillery units. Through five separate deployments in two pitched battles, only six of the monstrosities remained...five actually as some engineering gurus decided they might actually make a copy of the specs of the machine and modify it for future production and use.

As it stood, with a couple hundred tanks burning far from the VE lines, the remaining tanks and reinforcements turned back towards the city. Thus, while originally ready to start an urban invasion, the battle had meant that the Corps would have to regroup before starting it's attack.

The good news was that SGT Cosmic's raiding party had achieved it's objectives without any loss. As for the injured sergeant himself, he seemed to be recovering well enough after apparently coming in bleeding like a stuck bantha. Fury came in from the field to get the team's report and managed to check in on the group leader. Sometimes improvisation came at a human cost. But other than rattling his marbles around, it looked like Cosmic was in for a lube job and a nap overall.

As for the rest of the team, other than wiping out half the alcohol that had come planetside, there wasn't a whole lot for them to do. Fury was going to see about changing that.

The captured heads of state had managed to provide some really solid intel, enough that even a platoon leader got to get a take on it. Apparently, the city the Corps was planning to invade was the manufacturing center of the planet. Which meant that the recent battle had done nothing if not buy time for more weaponry to be produced. In addition, as an actual planned city, fields of fire and defensive placements were endemic to the design. It would probably be better to bombard it from space than rush a bunch of bodies into it, but orders were orders.

As for any political advantage the capture of the leaders had achieved...well, Fury didn't see any masses of flesh coming to the lines waving any white flags lately.

Getting up, he left his paperwork behind, and stepped outside. The glow of the third target city was still evident on the horizon. Apparently the fusion reactor wasn't one of the more stable ones. Unless the enemy had another plan for stabilizing the pile, the corps might not need to take that objective after all. Not likely, but a comforting thought when thinking of how his ribs still ached from the last engagement.

The best thing about coming off the line was hot water, hot food, and soft sheets. Even though it was just a cot for now, sleeping in a set of armor was among the worst things in the galaxy. The armorer could work on his gear for as long as he wanted as far as Fury was concerned.

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A couple notes since I've been asked.

1. Objective #1 has been achieved. The first city is in our hands and is the main HQ for the planet so far.

2a. We have just held off an attack by the enemy at our forward base near the second city. Currently we are regrouping and preparing for an actual invasion of the city. Expect this one to be very hard. There are no super weapons, just a lot of hevily armed troops with good fields of fire and lots of armor (i.e. tanks) protecting them. Deploy all the rocket launchers you want within reason when we enter the city.

2b. The special mission to capture the planetary leadership is a success (big official thumbs up to Cosmic and Seth for their posts in that). This has a couple implications.

Command staff: What have we found from the leaders. Will the corporate heads work with us? Will the generals reveal any information or force a surrender? Will the government officials reveal any alliances or attempt to negotiate a deal?

Team members: this means you Seth Ixesis and Demi Wraith. Seth, you will lead the remnants of the team forward to grab sentries and interrogate them. Clear mines, Take some scans of weapons depot...whatever. Use PFCs Viper, Karoch, Maul, Solaniel, Thrawn, Aphrodite, Xal Lazer from the mission as you will. Basically, be our eyes at the front lines as you've had some extra days to rest...and drink. Pull back once you've found something of interest or wait and be part of the main campaign.

3. Stay involved people.

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2LT Fury
PLT CMDR/2LT Fury/1PLT/1COMP/1BAT/1REG/TF Devastator/VEA/VE [IOC]

posted March 12, 2001 05:06 PM              

"I guess your right. It does get old after a couple of days."said japer

Demi and Japer walked to the bar and had a couple of drinks and then he asked Demi what had happened on the mission." You havent heard what happend to Cos?!"said Demi

"Demi, I was in my room getting high a day before the misson was even over."

"Well Cos got hurt and had to have a operation. Hes almost out of the infermary but he would enjyo seeing you."said Demi

"Ok, I think that I will go see him now. Thanks for the drinks Demi."said Japer

"No problem Jap."said Demi

Japer ran down the recovery room.(He knew right where it was because he was in there 2 3 maby 4 times already.) When he got their he found out where Cosmic's room was and entered."Hey Cos, I heard what happend to ya on the mission."

"Hey Jap, thanks for comin. Where have you been the last couple of days?" asked Cosmic

"Well, after succsefully defneding the base from the invading pirates I had just been staying in my room getting high on pot, mushrooms and chlorene and maby 1 or 2 experiments with some stuff that if I told you I would be out of the VE for sure. (cough vikeden)"said Japer

" I think I get the picture Jap. Well Im glad your mission went well."said cosmic

"I gota go I think that i just got a message on my comnet."said japer

"Aight,see ya later."said cosmic

"See ya Cos."said japer as he left the room

As Japer walked down the hall ready to read his brand new message he could'nt even imagine how much this one messgae will change his life and many others for ever...

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you ever dance with the devil in the pale moonlight

posted March 12, 2001 06:29 PM               

He rushed to the main control room they had hastily set up, beating Master by a couple of seconds. Narm was already there.

"The lasers shot at something, and I saw two men go down, but they've regrouped, one of the lasers just got shot."

Suddenly, a volley of laserfire came from the concealed space, knocking out the remaining laser.

posted March 12, 2001 06:32 PM               

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Bar
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As I entered the bar I could see that not too many people were there. I sat down at my usually spot.

The Bartender asked, " The usual?"

I said, "No, coffee please, and make it black I'm still recovering from last night."

While the Bartender was making the coffee I started thinking about the infiltration mission and how big of a success it was. While I was thinking, the coffee was done and I started to gulp it down.

"Thanks.", I said. Then I left the bar. Right after I exit the bar, I get a message on my comnet.

"Hmmm....looks like I got another mission"

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Private Demi Wraith

posted March 12, 2001 08:54 PM               

"Don't worry sarge" responded a regular. I noticed him for the first time right then. "i'll be your grenade man, fury gaveus a hover mortar instead of a reapeater this time. I'll wait while you pick up your armor"

posted March 13, 2001 04:17 PM               

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Army Barracks
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Seth popped his head on his pillow, thinking of his just-assigned assignment.

Fury had told him that he, Demi Wraith and a couple of troopers will be heading towards the frontline of the City again, this time mainly to grab sentries interrogation, scanning out general army depots like weapons, aircraft bases and infantry barracks.

Seth knew that they will have an advantage. They had been in the pirate city before anyway. The only difference is that they might have to do this a little more discretly.

Glancing at the information Fury had provided for him, he sat down and thought out generally what they would have to do. He also sent a message to Demi Wraith to come to his barracks.

Soon after, Demi Wraith arrived at his assigned bunker.

'Greetings, Seth!'

'Lo, Demi Wraith! You know why I radioed you to come here, right?'

'Yup. Great, I was starting to get a bit stagnant at the Bar.'

'Been drinking eh? *Sniff* HEY, do I smell COFFEE!?!'

'Yup, ya better bet your life on it.'

'I thought you were a 100 % drunkard!'

'Hehehe, that doesnt mean that I dunt need a break, though I wished it was the other case. Been drinking rather hard last night.'

'Well, Fury told me that both of us got assigned this mission because he didnt want our brains to get punched up with all the amount of alcohol that we are drinking at the Bar.'

'Hehehe, actually I think I should have quite some alcohol in my blood to keep me going for some time.'

'Yeah. Okay, anyway here's a resume of the mission we are assigned to. Do you have any questions? We better clear up any questions before calling up all our buddies at the Main Hall.'

Demi Wraith took the resume from Seth and all was quiet as Demi Wraith read the resume and Seth waited for him to finish reading.

'Well,' Seth said as he saw Demi Wraith getting up and placing the resume on the bunk. 'Any questions?'

'I think there's none, Seth.'

'Okay, then I think that we are generally in the position to call our teammates again.'

Seth walked over to the comlink, and sent a message respectively to all the members in the team, calling for a meeting this afternoon at the Main Hall immediately after lunch hour.

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Seth 'Iarco' Ixesis
Coporal of the Wraith Squad
TRP/CPL Seth Ixesis/4SQD/1PLT/1COM/1BAT/1RGT/VEA/VE [IH]

posted March 14, 2001 12:59 AM               

Seth leaned against a wall as he awaited the arrival of his teammates. He hope that they wouldnt be late ; he had quite some things to tell and explain to them.

He was starting to get a bit worried, when Demi Wraith rushed. Seth welcomed his arrival.

'Hello Seth! Sorry, but I had to go and relieve myself. I met the rest there too. Seems like great minds think alike!'

'Hehehe, so you are saying I dunt have a great mind?' Seth replied jokingly.

'Heck. You still do know what I mean. Hey, they are here.'

Demi Wraith waved his hands, attracting the attention of the other troopers. Soon, generally the entire team was here. Seth swept his eyes over the team, and noticed that PFC Xal was missing.

'PFC Maul, where's PFC Xal?'

'He has called in sick, and the doctors at the Medical Bay has declared him unfit for suty.'

'Hmmmm...okay. Anyway, it means we might have to do without him. Now listen, because I will explain to you about the objectives and the restriction on this mission.'

It was a good 2 hours later before Seth had explained everything, in between giving them 3 minutes breaks to relax and slowly absorb the information. He didnt want to have a communication breakdown at the most critical momments.

'Alright troopies, I think I have covered every aspect of this mission. I am assuming that you know what wou havta do right?'

'Yes!'

'Okay, meeting closed. Meet here at 6.30 sharp next morning. We need to cover a good distance, and we need an early start. Okay, see you til then. Get your much needed coffee guys!'

Seth exchanged salutes with the team before strolling back to his barracks.

Along the way back, Seth decided to name the team Vast Empire Team 'Shadow' (VETS , pun intended. You see, we'll get into contact witha couple of pirates, and vets do get into contact with animals.)

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Army Barracks
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Seth kicked off his boots, flopped on his bunk and waited for tomorrow.

posted March 14, 2001 01:27 AM               

Seth tossed and turned in his bunk. He just couldnt get himself to sleep although he knew he was tired. He opened his eyes and stared at the ceiling, and closed them again, trying to sleep.

After 5 minutes, he gave up. He jumped out of his bunk, slipped on his boots, and thought what he could do. After a momment, he decided to visit PFC Xal in the hospital, and visit Cosmic in the meantime too.

Seth brisk-walked down the corridors, saluting to more senior officers along the way.

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2 minutes later
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Seth stepped into the hospital and looked around, seeing a handful of troopers getting treatment from the best doctors VE could offer. He stopped a passing doctors, and asked him a few questions.

'Hey Doc, what's Sargeant Cosmic's ward number? ... Erm, and what's your name anyway.'

'Sargeant Cosmic's ward number is 1232, and my name is Dr. Raze.'

'Dr. Raze? Okay, anyway, what's PFC Xal's ward number?'

'Same as Sargeant Cosmic.'

'Oh ... anyway, thank you Raze.'

'My pleasure.'

Seth hurried off to Ward 1232. He scanned through the wards, before finally locating Ward 1232. He quietly pushed the door open and stepped in.

Two figures in the bedroom perked up immediately. Sargeant Cosmic and PFC Xal looked pleased to have a visitor. Seth pulled a stool and positioned it in between the two beds before sitting down.

'Lo! I didnt expect both of you to be in the same ward. It made my job much easier.'

'Hahaha ... it had been some time since we had a visitor other than the doctors and nurses.' Xal said wryly.

'Heard you were down with an illness. What is it?'

'Pretty wierd. I had a combination of flu, and EXTREMELY low blood pressure. Hope it'll get away soon. I want to join you all.'

'I hope you'll get well soon. We always welcome another hand.'

'Sure, Cop!'

Seth turned to Cosmic, who was figiting with his bandages.

'Feel restless, Sargeant?'

'Yeah, you can bet your life on it. I'm all eager to leave here.'

Seth looked at Cosmic's health log.

'Your woulds are almost healed, Cos. Take heart man! Anyway, I think I havta go. Til then!'

'Bye!'

Seth left the hospital, feeling better after meeting Xal and Cos. He stiffled a yawn. He might be able to sleep now.

Seth made his way back to the barracks and fell into a deep sleep in his bunk, until next morning.

posted March 14, 2001 04:06 AM               

Stonefish was still with the walking wounded, ambling through the lines of armoured vehicles, and troop brigades back towards the enemy field hospital.
People always have a moral problem with destroying hospitals, thought Stonefish, Why? After all, it's a very large number of enemy troops who can't fight back. And if the doctors die too, so much the better. That way, any more troopers who are wounded are less likely to get medical attention.

As they passed yet another platoon of soldiers, Stonefish hoped that it didn't notice that his stolen uniform was a little too tight across the shoulders, and that nobody tried to stop him to look in his bag. A dozen thermal charges, and projectile rifle, disassembled to fit in, a lightsaber, and non-standard clothes may be a little hard to explain away.

At last, they neared the hospitals: a number of memory-form buildings arrayed across a plaza. Stonefish realized then that he had no clue where he was on the planet. He had just followed the man in front. Ah well, this wasn't entirely a bad thing. All he had to do was blow the hospitals, and then get himself assigned to a front-line unit. From there, it should be fairly easy to get back across. Provided his own allies didn't shoot him first.

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Ramon Stonefish
Daishi's Fallen Angels

posted March 14, 2001 07:26 AM               

"................*yawns*................hmm..... its already 5:00am? I'd better get ready for the mission." After getting dressed I proceeded to the Bar.

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Bar
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I sat a my usually place at the Bar. I can see that I'm the only person here. The Bartender comes over and asks me what I want today.

I replied, "Coffee, and make it black please."

While the Bartender started to make the coffee I started to think about the recon mission with Seth. If we successfully complete this mission we would have no problem taking over that base. Soon afterwards my coffee was made

As I gulped down my cofeee, I looked up to see what time it was. Its was only 5:30am.

"Hmmm... so much time left. I guess I can order a couple of drinks.

After I gulped down my coffee I asked the Bartender if he can make a Corellian Ale, Jamaican Surprise, Alabama Slamma, and some more coffee.

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45 mins. later
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While drinking my last order of coffee, I looked up to check what time it was, it was 6:15am. It was time for me to go meet Seth.

I left the bar and walked toward the place where Seth told me to meet him and the rest of the squad.....

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Private Demi Wraith

TRP/PFC Demi Wraith/2SQD/1PLT/1COM/1BAT/1RGT/VEA/VE

posted March 14, 2001 11:19 AM               

After dropping off the supply convoy to the forward units Daishi led his troops on a wide round about path to avoid the enemy's forward positions. During this time Daishi heard over his comlink Argon's request for help. Since Stonefish was taking advantage of his abilities and Daishi's loose orders to him that left the squad a bit under manned but this was the kind of fighting the Fallen Angels were accustomed to.

Daishi marched slowley but carefully successfully avoiding all enemy positions until he saw the rear elemeants of the company assaulting Argon's position.

"Allright, you all know what to do." Daishi said as he reached behind his back and pulled out a length of rope.

Daishi watched the rest of the Fallen Angels disperse into supporting positions. Daishi then removed all of his command detonated explosives, armed them, and tied them together with his rope, leaving a great deal of slack.

"Now." Daishi said over his comm as he began to whirl the explosives in a wide circle and let them fly and dispearse over the enemy troops.

Daishi was glad that the company was all infantry or otherwise the Fallen Angels would be no more after this fight in all likely hood.

As Daishi pressed the detonate button several streaks of blaster and projectile fire raced into the concentrations of enemy troops.

A collective evil smile seemed to spread to every member of the Fallen Angels as the company of enemy troops was now hurt and broken.

"That'll keep them off a us for a while but thay are still a major threat." Daishi said as he gathered up the Fallen Angels.

"Are we going to give chase?" Narm asked with a bit of glee in his voice.

"Not this time, we got other things to do." Daishi said as he looked at the fortress.

"I think I know what you are thinking boss and I like it." Geist said as he was obviously thinking on the same lines as Daishi.

"Our job now is to repair those automatic guns and prepare to drop that place on my command. Argon, Narm, Master, and myself will skrimage the battle feild while everyone else works on the base." Daishi said as he started moving out.

"There is nothing quite like luring your enemy into a static position by making them think you value that position." Daishi said mostly to himself.

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"Indecent exposure is fun." Sonatina

"If we have all knowladge then we would not wish to seek what we know, but if we had no knowledge how could we even ask a question?" Plato on knowladge.

posted March 15, 2001 04:53 PM               

Stonefish slipped away from the column of wounded as they approached the hospital, and queried a passing civilian as to the location of the nearest toilet.

Having doffed the bandage, and washed the remaining blood from his head, he walked back over to the field hospital, and approached one of the medical staff.

"Excuse me," he said, "I'm looking for Corporal Punishment?"

"Err," replied the medtech, "I'm not sure. He's not in my area, you could try over that way."

He gestured vaguely off to the left.

Walking that way, he slipped between two tents and while no one was looking his way, planted a thermal charge under a loose slab, and moved away again.

Moving among the tents, he continued in this vein, planting his remaining charges to cause the maximum damaged to the field hospital. He also eavesdropped on a number of conversations to find out the lay of the land on this side of the lines, and to find out which units were heading to the front soon.

"By the Force, it's a mess up there," he heard one trooper say, "We're getting badly mauled, the entire front is on the verge of collapse."

"Yeah," said another, "I overheard some of the brass talking as they toured the hospital, they're thinking of moving the entire hospital back to the next city, and fortifying this one. Probably going to fall back to here, and make their next stand. I'll take two."

Stonefish heard what sounded like cards being drawn.

So, he thought to himself, they're going to fall back to here. Which means that there's likely to be an officer of some rank here overseeing the fortifications. They couldn't possibly leave their noses out of it, since it's likely to be crucial to their defense. Fall back here, and marshal their forces for a counter thrust. Or possibly something tricky.

He stroked the radio-detonator delicately, pondering whether to set off the charges now and kill some wounded men, or leave them in place until they would really cause some havoc. When the battle was raging in the streets, an explosion like this could really savage them. And if I can capture this officer, perhaps secrete him in a basement somewhere, hmmm....

posted March 15, 2001 07:56 PM               

He pulled out his new E-web type custom sniper rifle and took aim at one of the remaining officers.

His E-web spat out hundreds of kilojoules of hot light at the officer and anyone near him as Narm opened fire at the flank platoons.

Both Daishi and Master charged out of the nearby cover and entered the firestorm, which stopped as soon as they entered.

Viper charged down the hill with his new lightsaber at superhuman speed, right into the middle of the enemy with Narm and his vibroblade right behind him.

Within seconds, it was all over, no one had escaped alive.