Board Thread:Role Plays/@comment-26104528-20170312033542/@comment-26104528-20171108005814

Estellia started to return the high-five, only to make a fist at the last second.

"Turkey!" she smirked before trying to remember the last time she suspected she ran into Laelia.

"Laelia...you tell me..."

(I have no real idea if Laelia/Zila's rules-of-engagement has changed since the last time any of my characters saw her. I'm assuming yes since you really played up her switch to pure non-lethal as character development but looking over her new weapons I'm not so sure. I'm just going off what I do know.)

A month ago...

A known Black Dawn hideout on the edge of Vale, surrounded by a police cordon. SWAT teams positioned all around, the more novice troopers waiting for the go-ahead order to storm the facility but the veterans knowing exactly what their purpose here was.

"Talk to me, chief." Estellia asked as she walked up to the sergeant on duty.

"We've got at least a dozen hostiles sighted inside but they're not coming out. My boys are eager to move in, but higher doesn't want us blowing this block sky high if they go "Remnantum vo hult" or whatever the fuck these guys say..."

"Mm-hmm." the tigress nodded as she started loading up on ice dust from her ammo package. "You turn off gas, electric, water..."

"First thing we did; lost a remote drone turning off the gas main but better than losing a guy. Other than that, we've just been keeping the place under seige and telling them to surrender."

"Allright then, poor man's box 'n bash." Estellia said with finality as she rocked in a cryogenic drum mag for her SMG and apporached the backdoor. To her, a 'box n' bash' was a standard Flagg combat formation involving BCU and drone forces forming a perimeter around an area and providing support fire while one or two eliminators did the actual dirty work. As the battle lines shifted, BCU would start pushing in to shrink down the size of the battlespace until there was nowhere for anyone to run.

"I'll let you know which rooms I've cleared so you know when it's safe advance. Sniper cover'd be nice too." she said over subvocal mic as she jammed her shotgun's hook bayonet into the deadbolt of the door. "Also, ROE I need to know?"

"Just do what you have to to keep the place in one piece."

"Copy. Breaching now." with that, Estellia sliced the deadbolt off and eased the door open, sticking only the barrel of her weapon through. The hallway was dark, save for the glow of a few flashlights taped to fallen weapons. Very slowly, the Tigress proceeded deeper inside. "Hmm...looks like we're not the early birds this time..." she mumbled as her CATSAI kept scanning over everything.

"Hostiles have been incapacitated with blunt-force trauma to head region. Signs of light electricution and some penetrating trauma on extremties detected." CATSAI reported and sure enough, there were indeed slash wounds on one of the target's arms but he seemed to still be breathing, if not concussed.

This reminds me of Laelia's handiwork...

Stella's trigger finger grew that same itch whenever an Order Cultist or Grimm came within 50 meters of her, but she knew executing suspects in cold blood, right when Vale's SWAT team was parked outside, was just a plain bad idea. That, and she wasn't one of those revenge-fueled coldheads from the Realm. She was, as she said before, a Trained Professional.

"Chief, we're going to need an ambulance out here." she said into her radio, cringing slightly but re-focusing on the mission at hand.

Beverly's suit activated and she was now sprinting at highway speeds towards the action. Her visage beneath the helmet grew grim as she could see the glass pillars and sand coyotes but she still kept running. Time to earn her salary.

"Obidiah Squad, prepare for combat." she radioed her team who loaded up into the other van, leaving the noncombat personell with the local law enforcement. (Hopefully, them deciding to be trusting first would be a good move.)

"Wolfe, I'm right behind you. Ever see BCU in action?" with that, she sprinted up the back of wooden mount and lept off the head. Drawing both her crossbows and switching them into thier power drill forms, the Jaguar found herself above the airship, its cloaking mechanism flickering from Everest's first strike.

Her boots glowed a dark purple as the Gravity and Earth dust conduits wamred up and with a slight adjustment to her fall, Beverly let herself drop right on top of the airship's starboard wing. The systems activated and a deep bass blast resonanted through the hull as a singularity based around the Jaguar's feet yanked it off balance. The dust alone would be enough to keep her anchored to the aircraft which left her one hand free to fire on the cockpit while the other was aimed the other way in case this thing had a roof hatch.

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"Weapons free!" Geuda ordered as sand-based creatures came running towards them. Like in the countless operations from their old Firefly days, the rebels unleashed a well-trained and mutually synchronized counterfire on the enemy.

Seeing as the EMP knocked Talos's plasma weapon offline, Bison immediatly took out his assault cannon to fire at airship's hull which was now at an excellent angle for him thanks to Beverly. Maren and Sigalit followed suit with both rockets and javelin sized bolts. A burst of 4 rockets then as Maren reloaded, a Javelin would be embedded into the hull; rinse and repeat.

Talos grabbed his friend's SMG and switched its dust element to ice to fire at the coyotes, intending to freeze some of the sand particles in place to hamper thier mobility while Geuda opened up with his favorite Sonic rounds, blasting one of the coyotes clean open.

"Cordelia, armor up!" he called and right on cue, Cordelia managed to find a break between firing on the glass pillars to shatter them to use a semblance of her own. As a coyote came charging in from one side, she threw up a path of earth dust as a makeshift shield. Being a quick construct, the creature smashed through with little trouble but she could just see a hint of regret from the Coyote as it found its body riddled with an absolute torrent of sonic ammunition from her SMGs and Erez's metal storm rifle.