posted June 16, 2001 02:55 AM               

�Listen up troops,� Lieutenant TJ shouted at the noisy troopers of Wraith squad. �We have a very important mission for you that will require lots of determination and problem solving.

One of our mining planets needs our help. You know just as well as I do that you are their best chance. Your mission is to reboot their generators that have been knocked by an enemy star fighter bombardment. In doing so will their machines will become operational once again. The catch, the generators� controls that you need are down below in the mine.

Reports have recovered very important information that you MUST put into consideration. I am sending you the rest of our information now. You will see the same as what is know on the screen.�

The overhead flashed on, showing the information. It read:

Equipment/Resources:
- Standard stormtrooper gear
- Slabs of magnetic metals. Found in storage shed.
- 50 ft. of rope
- 25 ft. of leather

posted June 19, 2001 03:19 PM               

Having jumped through a few bureaucratic and diagnostic loops, 1LT Fury had gotten a slightly cleaned up look at the visual and scanner information provided by the recon craft. Any more polished and there would have been little to discern. What was there was bad enough.

On screen he was viewing a pan-in by the recon camera, passing by a light orbital defense platform, basically a refitted XQ-3 refueling platform. At least it once had been. Darkened, it provided an eerie tableau over what was to come. Nearer to the planet's atmosphere were a collection of shattered ships and fighters. The remains of an old Trilon Mining Barque and a couple Ghtroc 580 freighters floated near the remnants of what was apparently the local TIE defense contingent. Further into the atmosphere was the shell of an Inclement-class tanker/refueler ship. Around it were quite a few snubfighters....StarWing Gunboats, Missileboats, Supa fighters, and more than a few Toscan 8-Qs. Whatever had hit this colony was meant to look like a pirate group.

Checking the comm channel data, Fury looked upon an almost silent cascade. Anyone who remained alive on the planet was in hiding or seriously injured. It was as if no one had survived.

On the planet's surface the husk of pre-fabricated structures smouldered next to the remains of groundborers and G-1 heavy labor droids. If anyone was to save this colony, it would be up to the Corps.

Already, replacement miners and beefed-up security contingents were being assembled for transport to the planet. All that awaited their departure was the efforts of Wraith squad.

Got a little bored waiting for someone to post. Come on people, don't be shy.

posted June 27, 2001 08:03 AM               

TJ brought the shuttle down on the landing pad. Equipping himself with a special eniro-suit, TJ lowered the shuttle's ramp and emerged to find the place deserted.

'Where are they?' TJ thought to himself.

TJ moved towards the storage buildings and after finding no trace of Wraith squad in the first two was starting to have his doubts. As TJ opened the third one, Wraith squad turned, guns raised.

"Hold your fire Wraiths, I haven't seen any progress from you. You can either get working on this or surrender your mission and join me on the trip back to base...but, doing so WILL hurt you. Make your choice soon...time is runnung out." With that, TJ stepped out of the building watching the door shut behind him.

posted August 02, 2001 11:51 AM               

"As for the two new squads...all of your equipment is back and you can use any means necessary to complete your mission. I would like you guys to work together on this. The generator isn't very big so spliting up is not the best way to go."

"I'll see you guys after its completed." Anakin saluted and walked out the door as the simulator flickered back to life again.

posted August 03, 2001 03:13 PM               

PS let's go guys, we can hve all kinds of fun. one question, does Kurioushi's (or however you spell it)ysalimir have a protective casing so it doesn't disintegrate?

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Aarin "g5" Smiter
1-2 in Viper
Snake
TRP in the Raiders

posted August 03, 2001 03:34 PM               

As soon as they were right on top of the landing platform, Cosmic dropped down the rope...it quickly liquified...then turned to solid mass.
Cosmic and the rest of the Raiders slid down the rope and onto the platform. They breathed regularly in their protective Stormtrooper Armor. Their Stormtrooper Rifles were in their holsters.
Cosmic took a deep breath then turned to the Raiders.
"Ok men, here we go. Let's do this quickly and professionally, as we did with our previous sim. The Fallen Angels will more then likely join us a bit later. Anyway, let's get inside this thing and start up that generator."
The squad nodded and followed Cosmic across the platform.

As soon as they got to the entrance door at the end of the platform, Cosmic pushed a button and the door slid open, upwards.
Cosmic slowly walked in, and motioned for the rest of the squad to take out their stormtrooper rifles.

The walls were bare, only electric lamps above them lit the eary, dark tunnels of the mining station.
Cosmic walked forward and looked for a map....he spotted one across the room.
The squad followed him silently, looking behind them every so often.

Cosmic looked at the map and studied it for about two minutes.
He then turned to his squad.
"Looks like the generator is down at the bottom of the mine."
The squad took a deep breath.
"Down at the bottom? Last level?" Asked Snake.
Cosmic nodded.
"Yes."
"I figured as much." Said Kyp.
"They have to. It's the most safest place for the generator to be."
"And the most hardest to get to!" Said Epic.
Cosmic chuckled.
"Ok ok. Let's not waste time by standing here talking about how stupidly or unstupidly the generator was placed. Let's get going."
Cosmic walked to a little elevator and looked in.
"Wonder if this works." Said Cosmic.
"I wouldn't count on it." Said Montys.
"Where IS everyone anyway?" Asked Raziel.
"They're probably down at the genorator right now, trying to repair it."
"Or they were disintigrated or eaten by some unknown alien that we don't know about. Maybe it's one of those Beings again!" Said Kyp.
Cosmic shook his head.
"Pay attention to your job trooper."
Kyp nodded.

Cosmic looked once more down the elevator shaft.
He then got into it and motioned for the Raiders to follow.
"Are you sure this things not broken?"
Asked Epic.
"If I was sure this thing was NOT broken, do you think I wouldn't have hesitated to get into the darn thing in the first place? NO! I'm not sure...we've got to take the chance...there's no risk involved."
"Yes there is!" Said Epic, slowly walking towards the elevator.
"This thing could brake, we can fall down to the bottom and die, or it would just get stuck and we'd be stuck in that thing for a very long time."
Cosmic shook his head once more...
Snake pushed Epic into the elevator and Epic made a BUMP as he fell in. The rest of the Raiders chuckled as they walked onto the elevator.

The elevator made slow "moans" and strange noises. Suddenly, the elevator stopped.

"I KNEW IT! I knew it! But would you guys listen to me?? Nooo! You HAD to get into a broken elevator..."
"Epic..." Began Snake.
Epic shut up right then and there.
"JUST BE QUIET!" Yelled Kyp.
Cosmic looked at the ropes and such of the elevator...he then looked up.
"Bah! The rope is in a knot! It can't get through the little hole that the ropes in..."
"So what do we do now?" Asked Snake.
"We have to improvise. Let's see, um..hey, there's some light down here..I see it. We can just cut a hole in the bottom of the elevator and swiftly get onto that lower level."
The Raiders looked down at the wooden floor of the elevator and saw the light, they all nodded.
"Let's do this." Said Raz.

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Sergeant Major Cosmic
SL/SGM Cosmic/3SQD/1PLT/1COMP/1BAT/1RGT/VEA/VE [OPE][OTH][OPA][IH][CDS]

"Victory is not the true objective, the true objective is learning how you won." - Cosmic

posted August 03, 2001 06:10 PM               

The blast caused a small hole in the floor, Cosmic fired until he had a hole enough to fit one trooper.
Cosmic crouched down to the ground and poked his head through the hole and looked at the light coming from the lower level.
Cosmic looked at Snake.
"You got that 23 feet of leather?"
"Right here."
"Good. I'm going to tie a piece to myself and jump to that lower level wh-"
"But you can't do that!" Snake said quickly.
"I have to. This is our only chance. When I get to that lower level, I will tie it to something strong...then you will tie the leather to a piece of metal on the elevator. You guys will then slide down the rope, holding onto it of course."
Snake nodded and tied the piece of leather to a metal bar.
Cosmic looked down and took a deep breath.
He slid his body through the hole and held on with both hands to the edges.
Cosmic started to swing his body back and forth until he gained enough momentum then he released......

Cosmic sailed through the air and landed through the huge opening and landed on the ground with a 'thump'.
Cosmic shook his head quickly and looked around for something strong. He quickly saw a one of those overhead lamps. They looked strong enough...held together by metal bars.

Cosmic tied the leather and motioned to the squad: a thumps up.
Snake went first, he criss-crossed his legs on the leather and held on with both hands as he slid feet first onto the lower level.

The rest of the squad followed as soon as Snake was off.
Epic gulped, of course, before going.

As soon as the squad was on the lower level, Cosmic untied the leather on the lower level and quickly took aim at the other tied end on the elevator. Fired......
The leather quickly fell and Cosmic started rolling it up.
Snake found another map and started examening it.

When Cosmic was done, he walked towards Snake.
"Find anything of interest?"
"Yes, apparently, this map IS electronic, unlike the old paper map we saw at first. It appears that all elevators are 'dead'."
Epic sighed and rolled his eyes.
"Any other way down?" Asked Raziel.
Snake nodded.
"Yes, in fact there is a starway that goes down to the bottom...but it will take us a lot more time to get down there, since the stairway zigzags across the entire mine. Instead of taking a nice fifteen minutes to get to the bottom using an elevator, it will take us a two hour walk just to get to the lower level...not counting the time it will take us to actually find the generator."
Cosmic sighed.
"Well, looks like that's our only way through this mess. We better get going. Keep your rifles out just in case we have some unexpected guests."
Everyone nodded and checked their rifles.

Cosmic started walking and the Squad followed. After about thirty feet, Cosmic saw a narrow stairway.
"This must be it."
"Short and skinny...ummmm hmm! My kind of thing." Said Epic sarcastically.
"We will have to go down the stairwell in a single file line. I'll lead. Even by walking in single file it will be a little cramped."
"Why did they make this thing in the first place?" Asked Montys.
"Probably to be used as a means of escaping if the elevators don't work, as of now." Replied Snake.
Montys nodded.
Raziel looked at the bare walls as they walked down....down and down.....
The squad tried their best to make the best of the situation.

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Sergeant Major Cosmic
SL/SGM Cosmic/3SQD/1PLT/1COMP/1BAT/1RGT/VEA/VE [OPE][OTH][OPA][IH][CDS]

"Victory is not the true objective, the true objective is learning how you won." - Cosmic

posted August 04, 2001 07:45 PM               

"I'm really not so sure about this," Epic whined.
Cosmic gave him a cuff around the head.
"Hush your whining, this is fairly straightforward up until we have to activate the generator!"

Raziel was really, really, not so sure. He didn�t voice his opinions but something about this seemed, wrong. Why would they give them a mission like this to complete? There were the terrible conditions they had to perform in, but they had done dangerous condition training many times. No it was likely that something else was going to spring up on them, something that would really be testing.

Raziel kept his body fairly low to the ground and his rifle shouldered so that that torchlight followed his line of sight. He stretched his legs across more debris and carried on cautiously. The attack had obviously done a fair amount of damage, the generator was hidden deeply below the bowels of this mountain and still the generator had been knocked out.

Raziel was not too happy about being the last to descend the dark stairway; it was normally the man at the back who would disappear first. Cosmic was at the front but he could handle himself. Raziel kept wary as the carried on. He had the keenest senses out of the group and if he kept alert he would probably be the first the notice anything out of the ordinary.

The problem was his mind was still trying to go over to theories behind slicing. Between missions Fury had handed him a slicing kit from the Raiders old slicer, because he had thought Raz might have found it useful. The problem was that Raziel had never really been into computers, with the exception of breaking the occasional electronic lock in the old days. Raziel had worked hard at it however and was beginning to get his head around it. He was a fast learner. Fortunately he had very nimble dextrous hands that could work a board quickly and with precision.

Raziel raised his head sharply and went back to scanning his surroundings; he had been caught mentally napping. Raziel�s sharp ears began to pick up some noise. Raziel coked his head a listened intently, some kind of deep thrumming sounds.
Raziel motioned to Cos who signalled the squad to stop.

�Anyone else hear that?� Raziel asked.

A general negative murmur from the squad told him they hadn�t. Then the sound turned up a notch, rising in both pitch and volume.

�Hey I can hear something,� whispered Cosmic.

�I don�t like this,� Snake grumbled under his breath.

�We carry on!� Hissed Cosmic.

The carried on now but the noise began to grow�

(left this one fairly open for someone to seriously elaborate upon, story was a bit boring)
(Cos, weren't we meant to be going in WITH the fallen angles?)

posted August 05, 2001 07:34 PM               

Cosmic stared through the lowly lit stairwell through his visors and saw nothing, only heard.
They walked on....

They all came to a stop when Cosmic saw a door that had some writing, but was not readable. Cosmic tried to make the best of the writing and tried to make it out, but it was too old and the paint scratched off pretty easy.
Cosmic shook his head and just opened the door.

"Sir, shouldn't we be heading to the generator?" Asked Montys.
"There could be someone in here who could tell us more details on what happened." Said Cosmic, searching...but found no one. He walked back out and motioned the squad to keep following him.

A half hour went back and still no sign of the ending of the stairwell. Cosmic halted the squad for a rest, for it was getting really stuffy in the stairwell.
"This humidity is gonna kill me." Said Epic.
Cosmic had to agree...the humidity was horrible. It was even a little hard to breathe in your own helmet.

Cosmic wanted to let the squad have some water but he knew he couldn't let them open their helmets.
"Sorry for the delay of water here, guys, but as soon as that generator is turned on, the faster we can get out of here and the faster water will go down our dry throats."
The squad nodded and pressed on.

Finally, about another hour and a half later, then saw a light at the end of the curving stairwell.
Cosmic slowed down a bit and motioned the squad to be quiet.
Cosmic poked his head around the bend and looked for any signs of movement...none.
Cosmic then stepped into the huge generator room and turned to the squad.
"Ok, it's clear...keep your weapons poised just in case we have any surprises."
Snake and the rest of the Raiders started searching the room for anything alive...mechanics......nothing.

Cosmic turned to them.
"Well, looks like this is gonna be easier than I'd expected."
Snake looked around.

Suddenly, Montys came running up to Cosmic.
"Sir, looks like we got company. I think we found the reason why the mechanics weren't down here."
Cosmic eyed him carefully then followed him to a hole, four feet in diameter.
"This hole wasn't drilled." Said Raziel.
Cosmic nodded.
"No it wasn't...it was dug up...the dirt on the sides of the hole are not even...like claws just dug right through."
"Aahwh." Said Kyp.
Cosmic walked back to the generator.
"Well, we better turn this thing o-"
Cosmic stopped.
"What is it?" Asked Snake.
Cosmic pointed to the generation switch...or the place where the switch was SUPPOSED to be."
"Looks like someone came down here and deliberatly took off with the activation switch. The whole thing has just been...taken off."
"Is it reatactchable?" Asked Raziel.
"Heh! Only if we can find the actual switch...and that means finding these aliens who did it."
"Well, were gonna have a heck of a time, since these things are obviously not human and looks like they can survive the atmosphere here....which is nearly impossible! The skin would vaporize."
"Unless they didn't have skin." Said Kyp.
"They could've had some other means of protective armor that was of their own anatomy."
"Or technology." Added Epic.
Cosmic took a deep breath then headed towards the hole...
"Looks like this is our only choice...lets move!"

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First Lieutenant Cosmic
SL/1LT Cosmic/3SQD/1PLT/1COMP/1BAT/1RGT/VEA/VE [OPE][OTH][OPA][IH][CDS]

"Victory is not the true objective, the true objective is learning how you won." - Cosmic

posted August 05, 2001 09:32 PM               

(i know you guys will have funwith this. on the subject of the FA lets start writing them in if they don't show.)

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Aarin "g5" Smiter
1-2 in Viper
Snake
TRP in the Raiders

posted August 06, 2001 05:47 PM               

Cosmic threw the thermal detonator up and down in his hand until Snake looked up at him.
"Why'd you do that?" Asked Snake.
Cosmic smiled.
"We may have taken over a mission that a squad hasn't completed, but this is still a MISSION and not some game to be played. We have some unknown alien out there and I know that it is very dangerous, now don't you think we'll need all of the weapons we have to kill this thing?"
Snake nodded slowly.
"You hold on to this for something IMPORTANT. Now, the alien should be out of the hole or almost done digging through, I don't know. But we'll catch the end of it if we hurry, we can destroy this thing too."
"What if this thing digs with its rearend?" Asked Montys.
"Well, then we'll just blast the head off. Now lets move."

Cosmic got up and went through the hole with the squad behind him...of course they had some room between persons so they wouldn't get bunched up.

It seemed like ten minutes before actually hearing a noise.....scrttchch....scrtthch.
"Hear that?" Asked Cosmic.
Everyone nodded.
"Sounds like death." Stated Epic.
Cosmic raised his eyebrows then slowly crawled on.

Cosmic finally heard the sound get louder and then tunnel curved sharply.
Cosmic poked his head around the cornor and saw a creature digging its way through the tunnel. Two razor sharp claws were digging through the dirt, while two other smaller arms carried the activation switch on its back.
(The creature looked like a Zergling from StarCraft)
Cosmic motioned to the squad to make sure their rifles were set and ready.
Cosmic made sure his was too. He looked and tried to find a 'head'. But he couldn't seem to find it...he wanted to shoot but he didn't want to risk hitting the switch. Cosmic then aimed at one of the claws' arms.....fired.

A red glow rolled along the walls of the hole as the laser blurred through the air and hit the leg....
The leg had no damage, but the creature stopped and slowly turned around.
"EVERYONE OUT OF THE TUNNEL!" Yelled Cosmic.
Cosmic fired at what looked like the head.
Nine dark, small, eyes glared at him..the creature started moving towards them....

Crawling backwards was hard enough, now there was an alien on their tail!....well, in front of them!
Cosmic continued firing...

Epic was the first one out of the hole...them Montys, then Kyp then Raz and so on.
Cosmic was the last one coming out of the hole....the squad was ready to fire now....they saw the alien....fired...

Yellow bolts of lasers shot at the aliens head. Green ooze started emerging from the creatures eyes.
"I think this is working!" Yelled Cosmic.
Cosmic fired hard....finally, after what seemed like five minutes of firing, a huge digusting sound arose....the head blew apart from the body and green ooze spilled out. Everybody looked, disgustedly, at the alien....Cosmic then walked towards the hole and got a hold of the activation switch, he then gave it to Snake.
"We better clean that off."

Snake took a better look at it.
"Sir, some of the wires are totally messed up...we won't be able to activate this thing...we'll need replacement wires."
Cosmic moaned.
"Ok. Call back our airride and tell them we need the supplies for the activation switch."
"Yes sir." Said Snake.

Epic was near a corner when Snake made the comlink to AirRide.
Epic heard a little chittering...not voices, but bug-like scratches.

Suddenly, a huge blast came from the wall right next to Epic and another alien creature came out...it's claws raised and ready to strike...Epic screamed as the creature came out....it hit Epic with its arm and Epic flew and hit the wall...it then targeted Snake who just saw the creature and then got hit...

Cosmic and the rest of the squad quickly fired.....
Suddenly, another hole exploded into view...another alien came out!

Cosmic quickly turned to the two troopers...
"YOu guys get Epic, I'll get Snake! WE MUST EVAC NOW! We have to get cover! MOVE MOVE!!"
The squad immediately went into action...Cosmic quickly put the activation switch into his stormtrooper pack and then picked up Snake.
He then looked at the rest of the Raiders as they picked up Epic and ran towards the exit stairwell. Cosmic fired at the alien creatures until Montys and Kyp were safe behind him.

"I would use the detonator but that means blowing up the generator as well...lets move!!"
The squad ran up the stairwell and Cosmic fired down at the aliens as they trailed behind them.

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First Lieutenant Cosmic
SL/1LT Cosmic/3SQD/1PLT/1COMP/1BAT/1RGT/VEA/VE [OPE][OTH][OPA][IH][CDS]

"Victory is not the true objective, the true objective is learning how you won." - Cosmic

posted August 06, 2001 07:48 PM               

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Aarin "g5" Smiter
1-2 in Viper
Snake
TRP in the Raiders

posted August 06, 2001 08:54 PM               

First Lieutenant Cosmic met up with Second Lieutenant Kuroishi, Fallen Angels' Squad leader, and exchanged salutes. Cosmic then saw the rest of the FA's troops fall-in and get their weapons poised right behind Kuroishi.

Corporal Ramon Stonefish, First Sergeant Tycho Celchu, and Private Argon Viper met up with the Raiders squad and spoke of the situation.

"How are you handling things?" Asked Kuroishi.
"Well, we could always use a hand with these alien creatures about." Replied Cosmic.
Kuroishi nodded.
"How'd you guys get down to the landing pad? Air Drop?"
Kuroishi nodded.
"We heard that we wouldn't be able to land on the pad so we had to use the rope."
"As did we."
Kuroishi looked at the aliens...and the partly blocked doorway.
"Looks like we'll need to do a little diggin' to get back to the generator." Said Cosmic.
Kuroishi nodded.
"Well, let's not waste anymore time. Let's get started."
Cosmic nodded and they two Squad Leaders began issueing orders to their squads.

A half hour went by and the two squads managed to get all of the dirt out of the way. At that time Cosmic received a message from AirRide.
"Lieutenant, the atmosphere is starting to get nasty on us. Somethign wierds going on up here. We can't drop down the supplies you need at the moment. You'll need to standby until this 'weather' gets cleared."
Cosmic nodded.
"Understood. Cosmic out."
Cosmic looked at his squad.
"Looks like we got some waiting to do. In the meantime, we'll take turns watching the door to make sure no more aliens come out from there. The rest of us will scout out any other strange holes made by these creatures."
The squads nodded and immediately went into action...

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First Lieutenant Cosmic
SL/1LT Cosmic/3SQD/1PLT/1COMP/1BAT/1RGT/VEA/VE [OPE][OTH][OPA][IH][CDS]

posted August 07, 2001 08:27 AM               

The tunnel ahead looked clear, but with all that they had seen so far, who knew for sure. The creatures living down here looked awfully reminiscent of those employed by Amon Nezumi to guard his bases on Gauss, and now sworn in alleigance to 'the Great Death' as they knew the Daishi/Kuroishi twins. This may be their homeworld, or it may be that some former ally of Nezumi had placed them here.

[For those not familiar with Amon Nezumi (read: those not from IW), he's a villain character from one of our run-ons (among other things), it should be on the Storynet]

Stonefish signalled to the Whipid, Viper, behind him that it was clear to advance, and ducked into an alcove to clear the tunnel for him to pass. As he did so, Stonefish saw his finger tighten on the trigger almost before he heard the detonation ahead as another creature jumped out of the wall. Dropping prone, Stonefish rolled into the tunnel giving himself line of fire between Viper's legs. Eventually the thing dropped, and melted into a puddle of green goo.

"Funny," said Viper, "how that skin of theirs only works when it's intact."

"Yeah," replied Fish, "you'd expect we could drop them in one shot, but I guess it takes them a while to work out that they're dead."

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Ramon Stonefish
Daishi's Fallen Angels

posted August 07, 2001 02:31 PM               

Raziel noted that he still had his slicing equipment. The stuff that the raiders deceased expert slicer had used. Raziel was only part proficient with the stuff so far and he doubted it would come in handy. Unless of course they needed to break into the computers for some reason when the power was back online.
His knives were at his belt as usual; the atmosphere hadn�t dulled the monomolecular blades at all which was reassuring. His throwing knives were as usual around his chest on a bandolier and he had his small hidden blades in his sleeves under his armour. Not that they would be useful Raziel reflected, if his armour was breached he would be dead anyway. Well they had come in useful before when people searching him had failed to detect them. Raziel smiled.

Raziel raised his head and looked around at his squad, a few knew armour suits but mostly the same squad he had learned to fight alongside. He was a sergeant now he remembered. Fortunately cosmic and snake both outranked him. He never particularly liked being in charge of people. He had always worked alone in the dark before the Vast Empire. Well he had learned to trust people since then, maybe he could learn to make team decisions and take responsibility.

Raziel�s elfin features twisted in curiosity as he swore he heard something.

�Hmm anyone else hear something?� Raziel asked.
He got a negative reply that he expected. If Raz couldn�t hear it clearly yet then most other people probably couldn�t hear it yet. Raziel had learned to be deadly silent and work in the dark and as such had developed great eyesight and hearing, but still he couldn�t make out the sound.

Then he realised what it was, except something about it wasn�t right. To test his theory Raziel walked over to the nearest wall and placed his helmet against the wall. If not for the atmosphere he would have removed it. It sounded like the noise was coming from this wall; it was definitely coming from this direction. To test out his last idea Raziel walked to the opposite wall and finally the floor. He was right.
The others in the squad looked questioningly at him, Raziel merely groaned and raised his rifle.

�Lieutenant sir, I think we�re in trouble�
�What is it Raz?� cosmic asked as he got to his feet. The rest of the squad did likewise, fully alert now the alarm had been raised.
�You know the noise the creatures made when digging sir?�
�Of course I do sergeant what is it, do you hear something?� Cosmic looked around the room but failed to hear anything. He looked questioningly at Raz
�Well I hear it now, its very faint, but erm�
�What??�
�Its coming from all directions sir and I mean ALL directions!� Raziel stressed his point by waving his arm around the room, encompassing the whole area. �I�m fairly certain they�re a few hundred meters away, but there�s a lot of them!�
�Right everyone, stand ready and get your weapons out!� Cosmic said. Snake started balking out orders to the squad, getting them into the best possible defensive position.
�Wait Snake,� Cos calmly said. �Radio in all scouts, I have no intention of standing of standing here and doing a last stand!� he whispered something to Snake.

If he didn�t have a helmet on the troopers would have seen a huge grin spread across Snake�s face.

posted August 07, 2001 05:08 PM               

Cosmic and Kuroishi quickly ordered their squads to meet up at the surface. The squads did so in a hurrying-like fasion.
All people were out within one minute.
As Cosmic and Kuroishi turned to run towards the surface, the surrounding walls literally exploded around them....they quickly ran towards the stairs that lead to the surface but a huge pile of dirt landed on top of them as alien creatures not only came out from the walls but also the ceilings....the whole place was infested! As if this whole planet was a huge hive of some sort, filled with these creatures! Cosmic and Kuroishi managed to get themselves out of the rubble and up the stairwell before two huge claws came crashing down onto the dirt, flinging dirt everywhere.

Cosmic and Kuroishi ordered their squads to take position and ready to fire.
The squads did so in a hurry. Suddenly, the first wave of alien creatures appeared from the door.
"Fire at will!" Yelled Kuroishi and Cosmic simultaneously.
The two squads fired at seperate and same targets.

Cosmic knew that the troops' weapons wouldn't keep firing forever, he knew that they would get low on ammo really quick if they kept fighting like this.
"AirRide, this is Lieutenant Cosmic over."
"This is AirRide, we copy you over."
"We need immediate ammo. Over."
"Copy that. Ammo is dropping down."
Cosmic looked up and yelled to the squads to prepare to catch the little boxes filled with extra ammo.

As soon as that was done, Cosmic looked back up at AirRide.
"Hows the weather coming AirRide? Over."
"We have another ten minutes of 'bad atmoshpere'. Over."
"Copy that. Are there any thermal detonators in the ammo boxes?"
"Yes. Over."
"Great. Make sure you get those activation supplies down here immediately. Looks like this whole planet is a huge infestation of alien creatures...They must surely breed here. Over."
"Ok, we'll be sure to send a message to VE base, over."
"Raiders out."

Cosmic looked at more and more waves of alien creatures appearing from the door.
"It won't be long until they start coming out from every wall." Said Cosmic to Kuroishi.
Kuroishi nodded and took a deep breath.

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First Lieutenant Cosmic
SL/1LT Cosmic/3SQD/1PLT/1COMP/1BAT/1RGT/VEA/VE [OPE][OTH][OPA][IH][CDS][IOC]

posted August 08, 2001 05:28 PM               

AirRide sent down a box and Cosmic caught it. He nodded at the box then set it down. He then walked over to the ammo boxes and got out two thermal detonators.
He walked over to Kuroishi and gave him one.
"Order your squad to cease fire until I give the order to throw these dets."
Kuroishi nodded and ordered the FA to cease firing.
Cosmic did the same.

The aliens started to tumble on top of each other, trying to get out...the started stacking up onto each other to get forward...making themselves a huge hill.
"Now!" Yelled Cosmic, as he set the detonator to five seconds...
Kuroishi set his for five seconds also and threw it towards the aliens.

The detonators bounced on the ground and slowly rolled towards the aliens.

"Everyone duck!" Yelled Cosmic.
A huge explosion erupted and alien parts flew everywhere. An arm fell on Cosmic, Cosmic just threw it away.
The aliens were gone..
"Now! Let's move to that generator! HURRY! WE DON'T HAVE MUCH TIME!"
Cosmic and Kuroishi lead the way, running at full speed.

They entered the facility and ran down the stairs and towards the generator...

A half hour later, the running turned into a jog, but they were at the end of the stair well. Snake carried the activation switch and quickly ran to the activation switch area on the generator.
He then asked Kyp to bring him the supply box he was holding. Kyp did so and Snake replaced some wires and added some metal parts.

Suddenly, Raziel heard some more 'critter footsteps'.
"Guys, I hear them again."
Cosmic took a deep breath.
"Try to go a little faster, Sergeant Major." Said Cosmic.
Snake nodded as he tied wires together.
.......
"Done!"
"Ok, turn it on!" Yelled Cosmic.
Snake did so....a low hum got louder and louder as the generator was being regenerated.
The squads cheered as the lights started to get brighter around the generator...

"AALKHAHKLHACC!" Yelled Montys. The squads turned towards him and immediately brought their weapons to bare...a tentical was around his neck....squeezing his vocal cords and throat.
"Cosmic fired at the tentical....nothing...
"Come on!" Yelled Kuroishi as he ran towards Montys.
Raziel got his knife out and started cutting at the tentical....green ooze started to emerge...suddenly, the alien's tentical just vaporized since his inner organs were exposed to the atmosphere.

"Ok," began Cosmic. "Let's get out of here."

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First Lieutenant Cosmic
SL/1LT Cosmic/3SQD/1PLT/1COMP/1BAT/1RGT/VEA/VE [OPE][OTH][OPA][IH][CDS][IOC]

posted August 09, 2001 01:03 AM               

Argon Viper led the way, using the skills learned from being the FA's primary scout for years.

Suddenly, they ended up in a massive cave, about the size of thirty city blocks, and twice as high...

...filled to the brim with those massive insects.

"ohhh, $h*t..."breathed Viper into his helmet.

"Yeah,"said Cosmic,"we might want to leave before they notice that we're here..."

Unfortunately, they had been taking unconcious steps forward as they had been talking, and as they turned around to leave, they found their exit blocked by one of the creatures.

"We are in sooooo much $h*t..."said Geist as they backed away from it.

Luckily, the things appeared not to have noticed them yet.

"I don't think they know we're here,"said Snake,"let's try to keep it that way."

"Just one question,"said Viper,"how do we get out?"

[Cos, I'm a SGT MAJ, not a PVT]

posted August 09, 2001 10:44 AM               

"Cosmic, this is Jedi I have run into some more of those alien scum!" said Jedi over the comlink
"Where are they? Can we just avoid them?"
"No sir. They are blocking the only exit."
"Oh great! Well, we will have to wipe them out!"
"Well, do we have anything left to wipe them out with?"
"Crap, no we don't!"
"Well, I am going to come join up with you guys, before they discover that I am here."
"Okay Jedi, In the meantime let's see if we can't find another exit or make one."
"Agreed. See you in a couple of minutes."
"Okay Jedi. See you then."

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Corporal Jedi
Raiders' Squad
Army of the Vast Empire
TRP/CPL Jedi/3SQD/1PLT/COMP/1BAT/1RGT/VEA/VE

"It is not the Victory that counts, but the Rebels killed in the fight!"

"Winning is not the true objective. The true objective is learning from your errors."

"If Stormtroopers were meant to fight, why did God invent siblings?"

"Death is not an easy thing to live with. It happens so frequently, yet it still takes us by surprise!"

posted August 09, 2001 04:46 PM               

"What type of explosives do you have with you?"he asked.

"Enough to put that thing out of it's misery,"he responded.

Moving past the Raiders, who were scouring the thing for weak points, he placed two explosives on the creature, set them for remote detonation, and backed off.

"Hey Raiders,"he called,"you might want to back off."

As they backed off, Argon hit the switch.

For a moment, nothing seemed to happen.

Then, with a loud roar, flame shot from the junction of the creature's abdomen and thorax, blowing the body parts in different directions, clearing the door.

"Quick,"said Daishi,"run, before they swarm us!!"

They ran out the door as the other beasts, with no qualms about cannibalism, swarmed in, and, deprived of the squads as prey, contented themselves with the body of their dead comrade.

"Okay,"said Geist,"that was fun, let's not do it again..."

"Well,"said Daishi,"that's not the way out..."

posted August 09, 2001 07:46 PM               

BOOM!

A huge explosion erupted, green ooze was squirting from the wall that the dets were placed in...a hole! A way out! The squads ran out of the, was thought to be, belly of the huge organism and ran towards the stairwell up ahead.

Cosmic and Kuroishi stopped and made sure every trooper in their squad made it out...once that was done, they looked at the creature..

"Looks like a big sucker." Said Kuroishi.
"It's probably like a hundred kilometers long or something!" Said Cosmic.
"Well, let's kill it." Said Kuroishi..."Put it out of it's misery."
Cosmic nodded as he watched the little alien creatures swarm inside the belly...as if trying to seal off the hole....Cosmic then took off his pack and looked inside....he found six detonators...
He gave three to Kuroishi.
Cosmic nodded and set his to ten seconds...Kuroishi did the same...
Before Cosmic through his, he spotted an even stranger hole...in the middle of the belly...a huge one...
"Throw your dets into that huge hole in the middle of the belly!" Yelled Cosmic.
"Aight!" Yelled Kuroishi...

They threw their dets with four seconds remaining...
The dets slowly bounced on the ground and then fell into the hole...
Cosmic pulled Kuroishi's arm and they both started running up the stairwell....

An huge explosion erupted from inside the creature...
Cosmic and Kuroishi finally got to the top of the stairwell and saw all their troopers on the landing platform...

The troopers cheered and started jumping up and down with joy...
Cosmic nodded and immediately looked up at AirRide.
"You guys ready for pickup?" Asked Cosmic.
"Affirmative, Lieutenant. Prepare for pickup."

AirRide dropped down a ladder, the rope on the ladder turned to liquid, then to a solid mass. The Raiders climbed up and shot the ladder off since it wouldn't fold-up again.

The Fallen Angels got their ride too and shot down their ladder.

"This is AirRide to ArchAngel, come in. Over."
"This is ArchAngel, all of the Fallen Angels are aboard and accounted for."
"Roger. We are now scanning the generator to be sure it's still operative."
Cosmic waited for the news...
"Affirmative...Generator still operative."
The Raiders cheered, as did the Fallen Angels.
Cosmic then got the comlink radio from the pilot and spoke to the FA, "Lieutenant Kuroishi, this is Lieutenant Cosmic, I figure the generator is safe because the thermal dets exploded inside the alien creature..."
"Ya...Exactly my thoughts!" Replied Kuroishi.
"Good job FA!"
"Good job Raiders!"
Cosmic then turned to the pilot.
"Scan for any alien lifesigns."
The pilot scanned but nothing was detected.
"None, sir."
Cosmic nodded.
"Good...thanks."
The pilot nodded and headed back to VE Base...as did ArchAngel.

The two shuttles landed on the VE's landing pad and the squads stepped out and congratulated each other for a welldone mission.

"Excellent job on the timing, Lieutenant." Said Cosmic.
"You too." Replied Kuroishi.
The troopers were congratulating each other on a mission complete as well.
"Well, looks like we can get out of this simulater for a while." Said Cosmic with a smile. He shook Kuroishi's hand once more and let him get out of the simulator first. The FA was right behind them. Cosmic and the Raiders were next to get out...

Ah...the fresh air! Cosmic and the Raiders and Kuroishi and the Fallen Angels were now out of the simulator and headed towards the Debriefing Room were they awaited Colonel Anakin for further orders.

Once inside the debriefing room, the Raiders and the Fallen Angels sat down around the huge rectangular shaped table and awaited for Colonel Anakin.

Mission: Complete

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First Lieutenant Cosmic
SL/1LT Cosmic/3SQD/1PLT/1COMP/1BAT/1RGT/VEA/VE [OPE][OTH][OPA][IH][CDS][IOC]

"Be The Leader, Not The Follower." - Cosmic

posted August 09, 2001 07:49 PM               

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First Lieutenant Cosmic
SL/1LT Cosmic/3SQD/1PLT/1COMP/1BAT/1RGT/VEA/VE [OPE][OTH][OPA][IH][CDS][IOC]