Cyber Wars Ch. 13: "Fallen Knights"

[Darth SS]

"I dibs first one in. Okay? No offense to Wraith or yourself sir, but I'm signifigantly more intimidating then either of you. Even without the katana."

He stretched, the muscles in his shoulders audibly popping. "Gah that stung."

He stretched his wrists, and grabbed his rifle. "I'm hoping no one has any complaints."

[Zephie]

"I dibs first one in. Okay? No offense to Wraith or yourself sir, but I'm signifigantly more intimidating then either of you. Even without the katana."

"None taken," Wraith notes, looking him over.

"I'm hoping no one has any complaints."

To which Wraith shakes his head with an agreeing frown.

[Wolf99x]

Wolf shrugged. "Go ahead and have fun." He said as he took the time to reload his Uzi.

[Darth SS]

Angel sighed, and checked his rifle. "Oh man...guys, you might want to switch your comms off. I have neither the finesse nor the speed of you guys...so it might get a bit noisy."

Angel dropped into a crouch as he went into the next computer room. Blood was smeared everywhere.

Great. At least one of them has some sort of large blade. Angel sighed, and made sure his rifle was ready to fire. He would need to be fast, giving no respite.

Then he had a stroke of genius. The Rifle would probably slow him down...so...

He waited until he reached the door. The three guards were standing right in front of him. Quietly, he aimed for the one farthest from him.

Then he rose, and burst out the door. His bullet spray caught the man farthest full in the face, leaving a splattering trail down the hall. In a normal situation, you would kill the second, then hit the one closest to you.

But Angel knew it was anything but normal. He threw his rifle at the one closest to him, catching him full on in the face. The second was starting to level his rifle. Angel kicked it, and using the momentum to spin and sweep his legs out.

This part was crucial. Angel dropped to one knee, pulling his massive combat knife, then stuck it into the fallen man's throat and pulled it roughly to the side. Amazingly enough, the man was still in the stage of falling when Angel did this.

The blood sprayed and caught the third in the eyes, blinding him. Angel rose, and jumped back. Blinded, but undeterred, the man swung a very very VERY large machete at Angel. It cut a nice hole through his shirt and scratched him.

Angel dove to the side in a shoulder roll. The man wiped his eyes and brought the blade back around to Angel. Angel flipped his combat knife to stabbing grip and met the blow square on, blocking it. Then kicked the man in the side of the leg.

As he turned, Angel grabbed the back of his head, and slammed his face into a wall, leaving a bloody mark, but not dropping the man. As he recovered, the man tried to grab Angel. It got the cut in his shirt instead, ripping it wide open, but managed to stop Angel's backpedal.

The man almost had time to get his machete to bear...but Angel rabbit punched him. Hard. Groaning, the man tried to rise, so Angel kicked him full in the face, then slammed his elbow down in the middle of his back.

Panting, Angel started to walk away. Then heard a scraping behind him. The man came at him again. Angel side-stepped the overhead slash, then stuck his knife through the man's forearm, twisted, and pinned that arm into his stomach.

Amazingly enough, the positioning was artistic. Avoiding any major blood vessels or organs, but causing amazing pain. The man would live if given medical attention. But he had more immedeate concerns. Like Angel spinning him around, and slamming him against the wall again.

He pulled a colt and put it against the base of the man's skull.

With his tongue, he hit his comm. "Wolfy, we're clear. I even got another talker."

The man hissed and said, "I AIN'T TELLIN' YOU SPIT!"

Angel took the gun away, and shot open an electrical panel. Free electricity sparked and crackled. Angel hauled the man over, and kicked him in the back of the knees, then held him from his neck.

The man's face was mere centimeters from the charge's maximum distance.

"Talk. Who's directing this attack?"

"GO TO HELL!"

Angel pushed his face closer. "Come on now."

"NEVER!"

Angel pulled him back, and slammed his face against the wall, breaking his cheek bones.

"Just talk man."

"DIE!"

The prisoner used his still working arm to pull a knife, and try to stick Angel. Before he could however, Angel fired his colt, splattering brain matter all over the ceiling.

The corpse hit the ground about when Wolf entered. Angel looked at his shirt. It was basically ripped clean open. That, and the knife had cut some more fabric.

"Will it never end!?" He ditched his muscle shirt as well.

"Sorry 'bout the interrogation chance."

He then noticed why Miller looked so shocked. There was a pair of large bloody spots from where the man's face hit, a very large streak from an arterial spray, brain matter, stray skin, some eye material from Angel's first victim...

"What a mess."

[Wolf99x]

"That...is an understatement" Wolf said looking around. He tore these guys apart...holy shit. "And it's pointless for us to keep trying to take prisoners...Mastermind probably has some kind of failsafe way of eliminating them, like how our last prisoner met his end."

He checked the door. Mastermind's soldiers had failed to cut through the wiring on the thumbprint door locks. However, when he tried running his own thumbprint through the scanner on a whim, access was denied.

A mechanical female voice resonated through the hallway. "Sorry Commander, but you do not have a high enough rank to access the Armory. This door will open only for people with a rank of Captain or higher."

Hmm...the locks have been upgraded...but I'm not a commander anymore...I'm a Colonel goddamnit! Ah well...better think this thorugh...who in FLAG is a Captain...oh...right.

Wolf activated his codec. "Miller, I need you to unlock the doors to the armory...they've been upgraded to only open for Captains...and my last FLAG rank was Commander."

"On the way." Miller replied. Miller showed up at the door 10 seconds later and scanned his thumbprint in.

The doors slid open. "Welcome back Captain." the female voice replied.

Wolf grinned. "Okay, everybody file in!" he shouted.

All of the soldiers filed into the Armory. Wolf had Beowulf lock down the armory doors to prevent Mastermind from entering.

OOC: I'm going to go through all the shiny weapons we'll be getting our hands on tomorrow. I'll need a full post for that.

[Zephie]

(( *becomes chibi and jumps on a huge, shiny metallic one, giving it a big bear hug* My gun, mine! >< ))

[Squishy Cheeks]

"So what did you find on the guards harressing jade?"

"She's clean"

"Damn it. Oh well it's time to make somethings up. Bring out the photoshop."

"Oh come on, photoshops sleeping."

"Well I guess you'll have to wake him."

[Wolf99x]

Miller and his team unlocked the weapons lockers and tossed a few different guns onto a table.

"Now before you all start grabbing guns and going on a shooting spree, you have to know that these guns have special features added to them. Wolf knows about most of them because he field tested some of the weapons. In fact, if he remembers I'll let him describe said features."

"Oh, I remember all right." Wolf said grinning as he picked up what sort of looked like a hybrid MAC-10/Uzi SMG. "This," he said addressing the assembled soldiers, "Is the TMP-75. TMP stands for Tactical Machine Pistol. It has a 30 round clip that can be fired on single shot, 3 or 5-round bursts, or full auto. It's special feature lies in its ability to lock onto enemies. With that mode activated, it uses a small forward pointing heartbeat scanner with a detection beam pointing straight out. If you line up an enemy in your sights, the gun's grip will send tiny electical pulses to your brain to make your arm follow the target it's locked onto until the target is terminated. It's not a perfect system though, so I wouldn't get too attached to that feature."

Wolf then picked up an odd looking assault rifle with what appeared to be a small computer screen where a scope would usually be.

"This is the KI-42 Guardian Assault Rifle. It has a 30 round clip with the same firing options as an M4 or M16. The screen on top of the gun has two features. One, it's a 2x scope, and two, it's a threat detector. The front of the computer gear has an explosives scanner that can detect almost any kind of bomb, and it will map out it's location on the screen."

Wolf set down the KI-42 and picked up a sniper rifle. "The KI-550 Sniper Rifle has a 25x zoom scope and an 8 round semi-automatic clip. In addition, the scope has both night and infra-red modes. The weapon is designed so well that within its maximum range, you will almost alway hit what you aim at."

Wolf grabbed an assault rifle that looked like a larger version of the old Belgique P-90. "This is the KBP-360 Light Machine Gun. It has a 120 round clip shoved into an assault rifle body. It has a great rate of fire and can clean out rooms quickly."

Lastly, Wolf picked up a laser rifle. "This, is the laser rifle. It has two firing modes, beam and pulse. It's pretty self-explanitory."

OOC: I need to wrap this up later...but it's shaping up nicely.

[Darth SS]

Angel sniffled and wiped his eyes.

Kaitlin looked at him in confusion and amazement, and asked "Are you crying?"

Angel's voice quivered. "It's just so beautiful."

"You ARE crying!"

"These are tears of joy dammit."

[Wolf99x]

"That pretty much covers it for the weapons Mastermind is trying to get his hands on."

"Not quite," Miller said. "There is one more gun." He openedu up one last locker, which had a vault inside of it. Opening the vault, he removed a handgun that kind of looked a bit like a Desert Eagle.

Placing it on the table Miller began to describe the weapon. "This is the Omni-Falcon. It looks like a Desert Eagle in some ways, but it is much more than that. Using nanotechnology and shape memory alloys it is capable of firing any kind of small arms ammunition ever developed; From .22 to .50. Basically the nanomachines can detect what caliber round has been loaded and chambered, and adjusts the size of the barrel accordingly. It has semiautomatic fire, as well as a 3-round burst option, although you probably don't want to use that for anything larger than 9 mm. The techs working at GuildHall (OOC: Knight Industries' version of Q Branch) developed these only a month ago, and as such we have not had a chance to 'field test' them. There are 10 in the vault, plus this one. Anyone who wants one can take one."

"Way ahead of you." Wolf said grabbing one of the Omni-Falcons and putting it in his hip holster. "Okay...if that does it for guns...everybody grab what you can carry and load-em-up."

Wolf picked up a TMP-75 and a KI-42, slinging them over his shoulder and pocketing extra clips for them, in addition to two clips of .45 for the Omni-Falcon. Miller grabbed a KBP-360 and two TMP-75s in addition to his Omni-Falcon.

Kaitlin ditched her uzi, and picked up an Omni-Falcon, a KI-42, and a KI-550 Sniper Rifle.

Wolf looked at her puzzingly. "Sniper rifles are going to be near useless in CQB..."

"Im taking it so that Mastermind doesn't get this one, and also it's for when we extract off the flight deck."

"Oh, right." Wolf nodded.