Lost Among The Stars - The RP thread

The Rebels passed the doors with a roll, spreading around with their guns at the ready, except for the Vanguard and Akran.

The Vanguard did not - could not - roll, because of his bulky weapon. He entered the room walking backwards, trusting his cormades to watch his back; while doing so, he fired another missile at the rushing Tyranids.

Akran, while he did enter the room, spun around almost immediately, and shouldered his rifle again; he fired repeatedly, seeking to delay the Tyranids.

Whilst Signum was simply standing on guard, ready to attack anything that got through the door (or any of entrance) at a moment's notice, Fate had pointed Bardiche's energy blade at the door. She did have one bombardment attack, even if it wasn't as powerful as Nanoha's Starlight Breaker, barely, and it was seeming an increasingly good idea to cast it...

"Plasma Zanber..."

Seeing the sword swung back as if Fate was going to attack whoever was in front of her was a big clue to not be directly in front of the woman, though the fact that the sword had been struck by lightning from nowhere and become a seeming inferno of dancing orange was another good clue.

"Breaker!"

That was a big laser. Fortunately, it was aimed from above People's heads, so they wouldn't get caught in the blast, but that did mean it would likely miss anything on the small side.

"Fall back." The stormtroopers retreated in a disciplined manner, pausing occasionally to send a burst or two toward their pursuers until they reached safety. Praji had been a bit more proactive in getting behind the door, sprinting and only stopping once to send a few hurried shots back down the hallway.

The calmest of them all, unsurprisingly, was Darth Vader, who strode down the corridor as though the Tyranids didn't exist. Walking after his men, the Sith Lord reached the blast doors a minute or so after the stormtroopers, who were trying to get a few last shots in.

As the last of the various members of the various crews of the various ships who had been brought to this bug infested hell hole, Tali hit a button with her fist, hard. "Get clear!" There was a grinding sound as the bulkhead's unoiled gears worked their way down.

CLANG!

The door shut, seconds before the creatures reached it. There was the sound of scraping as metal met talon. The quarian shared a sigh with her turian companion.

Garrus spoke up first. "Well... now what?"

One of the Marines looked over to Garrus. "We call for an evac and get the fuck out of here before those bugs breach the door."

The combined attacks from the mages and the rocket launching soldier blew back the attacking horde long enough for the doors to slam shut right in their faces, cutting them off from the group.

The bugs smashed at the door for a few seconds before quieting down.

Aries had held her pistol on the door for those seconds until the sound died down. Lowering her sidearm, she calmly ejected the half empty magazine, and put her last fresh one in place and then picked up the magazine on the floor.

“Ammunition check.” She said.

“Not good...we ran through most of our ammo in that firefight. We're going to be hurling harsh language if we don't find something else to shoot.”

One marine chuckled,

“We could throw rocks.” Aries fixed him with a withering glare.

Hearing the one soldier who said they should call for Evac, Aries replied,

“That sounds like a great idea...have any of us actually tried to see if our vessels are even in this area to communicate?” She realized that they might not even know who she was.

“Cornelia Aries, XO of the Typhon”.

"Callsign "Alpha." I lead the Wolfpack." He gestured to the Marines - and the grunt.

"As for whether or not our ships are actually here, well, one can hope. One of these guys has been blaring an SOS signal for the past little while. If it didn't get through then nothing will."

"One of my soldiers tried to hail the Liberty before those Bugs found us," said Akran. "He did not succeed." He paused for a moment. "Also, soldiers, XO Aries is right. Ammo check."
"Not good," said the Vanguard. "I'm half-empty, though I still have the mines."
"We're fine," said one of the other soldiers. "we've fired something about..." -he checked his rifle for a moment- "a quarter of a cell?"
"All-right. I'd offer some ammo to you, XO Aries," said Akran, "but I think that the technology is incompatible."

The Marines checked their ammo. "We're still good up. Lazy bastard here with the shotgun," he pointed to the Marine with the Anvil, "only fired once. The rifleman's expended about two plasma batteries. I've got enough gauss cells left to last me a while."

Aries nodded. So they weren't the only ones running low on ammunition.

“Yeah. Those damn ray guns of yours don't exactly work with our firearms.” There seemed to be several doors leading out of here, all of them dark and foreboding.

“I wish we had a damn map of this place.” Muttered one Marine.

Aries was about to say something in response when she heard something. In truth, everyone would hear it.

It was a high pitched snap, like electricity crackling. Then there was a bang...not unlike a gunshot.

It was coming from the doorway on the far side of the room. It only held a dark corridor but clearly something was shooting at the far end of it.

“Is that weapons fire?”

The lead Wolfpack marine nodded to the shotgunner. "Wolfpack 3, you're on point. Find out what that shooting is."

The heavily armored Marine nodded, and began to clank over to where the gunfire was, Anvil raised and ready to pulp.

"I will cover you," said Akran. Carefully, he followed the Marine from a few metres back and to the side, his sniper rifle aimed toward a point a few metres ahead of him; his squad followed, too, weapons raised.

The stormtroopers and Prahji also checked their ammunition - they managed to mostly conserve their ammunition, but all the same they would likely expend a lot of it if they encountered a large swarm and couldn't escape. Prahji took the opportunity presented by the lull in the action to produce his comlink and make a stab at regaining contact with the Devastator. "Commander Prahji to the Devastator. Do you read?"

Regardless of whether this was successful or not, the Imperials' attention was immediately attracted by the sound of what seemed to be slugthrower fire. Rather than make a verbal command, Darth Vader merely nodded at two of the stormtroopers. Apparently understanding what the black clad figure wanted them to do, the stormtroopers cautiously moved toward the source of the sound, their blasters raised as they scoured the path ahead with their helmet enhanced vision.

There was a beeping noise from one of the pouches in Lt. Chambers' vest. He reached into it, and pulled out a handheld device.

"Sir, I've got incoming movement. At least four contacts."

As everyone was introducing themselves, Garrus decided to join in. "Garrus Vakarian, leader of Squad B." It was hard to tell with the massive amount of scars on his face and the weird facial structure, but it did seem to be a bitter smile on his face. "If you need a more unique name, designate it Archangel."

He then looked at the two other member's of Shepard's crew. "This is Tali'Zorah vas Normandy, our tech specialist." he said, pointing at the woman in the bodysuit. He then nodded in the direction of the krogan. "And that is Urdnot Grunt, beserker." and pain in my ass, the tough bastard. he wisely did not say.

"And general pain in the ass, if he wasn't so hard to kill." It seemed that great minds think alike.

The krogan shrugged off his teammate's words. He didn't care what they thought, he was interested only in the upcoming fight.

Speaking of which, gunfire rang out. Something deep, throaty and raw. Grunt liked that sound. "Let's get moving." He said, taking point. His claymore, it's side lit up with Inferno ammunition markers, seemed to hum ominously. Or perhaps that was the lizardlike alien, shaking in anticipation for another good fight.

edited 4th Mar '12 7:05:03 PM by MaskedAndDangerous

The Wolfpack leader looked Grunt up and down. "I see why he earned the term berserker - fucker looks like he could flip a hovertank without any armor."

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