In the Dead of Night (Open)

[Subject 37]

(Only tagging people I'm directly interacting with, easier that way)
[member="Kaiden Rohn"] | [member="Kaili Talith"] | [member="Taeli Raaf"]

Jorg shrugged.

He wasn't going to argue the whole point. The area around the Starport was completely lockdown and within fifteen minutes reinforcements would survive. He could take a squad inside along with the two women and the area would still be secure, plus with Kaiden remaining outside the man would be able to stop anyone from coming in. The Legionnaire quickly pressed his fingers tot he side of his head, issuing a few commands in the relative silence of his helmet.

Personally he didn't see the point of going inside of the Starport just yet, in fact he would much rather have glassed the whole place.

He supposed that was probably the piece of him that had been trained as a Stormtrooper talking. It was easier to wipe away the threat and secure the area than it was to search for survivors and root through those already dead. There was no doubt he would lose more than one man inside of that mess, but...if he didn't follow orders than they'd take a closer look at just who he was, and Jorg couldn't have that, his lips thinned and he regarded the two women.

Six of his men came up behind the two, the others under his command still being needed to hold down the quarantine zone. "Ma'am."

He motioned Taeli towards one of the 5th Legion Soldiers holding out a rebreather mask for her. He couldn't force her to wear it, but still he'd prefer she did.

They had no idea what was inside after all.

 

[Micah Talith]

[member="Desmond C'artyom"]

Well, things got a bit complicated then.

As they were always won't to do.

The screams and cries of the - whatever- the robot spiders did to the poor victims of the space port explosion resonated with blood curling frenzy. Now Micah had to not only deal with trying to track his target, but also the sudden staggered rage of the creatures. For a moment the Talith was frozen. Could this really be happening?

He personally never had to deal with anything like this. He's faced enromous creatures and hunted some of the most dangerous beasts. Yet nothing compared to seeing the mangled body of a little girl stagger up to go fling herself at-- wait.

She ran straight to Desmond, completely under the guidance of the bot. Another man joined. Then another, each snarling as if ready to come at the chiss.

Before he could stop, Micah drew up his Moph gun. He sent two powerful volleys at the adults before they struck at the Chiss. But the little girl was still coming.

The shots would give his presence up. Soon, the dead noticed Micah too.

 

[Desmond C'artyom]

Desmond shrugged the clone's corpse off the top of him, then picked himself off the ground. But, the undead were quickly closing. Desmond rolled to where his scattergun lay and grabbed it as he exited the maneuver. He fired at the closest Zombie and it's head exploded in a grotesque amount of gore. He swung around left and fired again, another Zombie fell. But, the horde was closing fast. As things seemed to grow dire for the Chiss he noticed zombies seeming to die from nothing. Blaster bolts appeared from an undisclosed location and it didn't take long for the Chiss to pin point their point of origin. Apparently the horde noticed as well as zombies began to charge at the unseen guardian.

Desmond cursed himself mentally. He wasn’t even suppose to be seen this mission. This turn of events complicated matters. He had to kill the man before he could report to any superiors. The Chiss was taking aim at where he believed the invisible shooter to be when a small girl attacked him with the strength that only the dead could manage. She grabbed hold of his scattergun and refused to let go. Desmond shook the gun violently accidently firing a round as he did. He abandoned the gun once again and his free hands shot to his hip.

He once more withdrew the ion pistol and fired at the girl. She collapsed and began to seize on the ground as the ion blast found it’s mark. Desmond walked to the corpse and fired three more rounds into her chest then pried his scattergun from her cold, decrepit hands. Desmond aimed down the sights at the source of the blaster fire and pulled the trigger. A hundred pellets with lethal intent would go racing towards the stealthed human. Desmond hoped this would be enough to kill the man, but he doubted it. As he finished firing Des rolled to cover. He sat behind a large pile of rubble and carefully peered over the top to spy more of the dead incoming, but no sign of the other shooter. Desmond received a transmission and he quietly whispered into his comms "I'm in terminal B2. Hurry, i'm pinned down,"

[member="Micah Talith"]

[member="Sanya Val Swift"]

 

[Taeli Raaf]

Allies: [member="Kaiden Rohn"] [member="Rebel Sunka"] [member="Jorg"] [member="Kaili Talith"] [member="Bryson Cadera"] [member="Micah Talith"] [member="Adele Adonai"]
Enemies: [member="Sanya Val Swift"] [member="Desmond C'artyom"]

"You can try, but I'll pass," Taeli replied, smiling sweetly but there was steel behind that smile and in her eyes. She had just got done explaining a breath mask would not stop the contagion if it was something like the Blackwing or Dark Harvest... but she had a feeling it wasn't that exactly. The Force didn't feel diseased like it had other times she encountered such things. No, there actually was only the leftover remnants of those who had died, but nothing to suggest that sticky corrosive feeling in the currents.

"Just make sure no one with proper authorization or standing gets near here," she said, shrugging as she unclipped her lightsaber from her belt. "That includes any ships. For all we know, the person behind this called for a pick-up before he detonated his device."

With that said, she ignited the purple blade and strode towards the ruined terminal. Again, she wasn't getting the normal feeling she got in the Force when it came to zombies created through Sith alchemy.

"I'm not sure how in tune you are with the currents in the Force, but the area doesn't feel... diseased like it normally does with Sith-made zombies," she said to Kaili. "It feels... almost empty, except for a few pulses of energies like droids. Maybe some of the droids inside survived the explosion?"

 

[Vexen]

[member="Micah Talith"]

Vexen had felt the disturbance even from the Temple. She wasn't the only one of course. A loud chime sounded for too pleasant to be a warning alarm, but it had the desired effect. Jedi were rushing back and forth, the master's barking directions.

She'd seen this before. When they came under attack the temple was lowered closer to the ground. Civilians were sent deep underground and the shield was deployed. That didn't frighten her. Just one word did.

"... starport..."

There had been something about an explosion and a quarantine. Whilst she'd rented an air speeder and headed for the temple Micah had stayed in the port for some business.

Her heart was fluttering as she reached the speeder and found her bag of belongings. Inside was a long range comm-link tied to his ship.

"Micah?" She pleaded.

 

[Kaili Talith]

[member="Jorg"] // [member="Taeli Raaf"] // [member="Kaiden Rohn"]

Droids were most certainly alive, Kaili could feel them buzzing from all over. The buzz did seem awfully loud compared to what she was used to, but the girl wrote that off as fact of life when it came to starports. They had a tendency to bring in a bit more of the metal men than the most other places did and that alone was reason enough for her to write it off as nothing special.

“I’ve read about it but I never studied diseases much.” The girl let off a small shrug at her temporary companion. “I have extensive knowledge about viruses though. Malware. Computers.” The girl made a point to correct herself in light of the situation. A glance shot out at the soldier trying to hand Taeli a rebreather to no avail. She recognized the armor and what it meant, she had seen it several times before in the news.

“Fifth legion.” She nodded in approval and appreciation. A Talith among the Fifth, only it was the wrong Talith by some accounts. It was enough for her to smile just a little extra. Aela was the one who would probably be more suited for these things. The death and the saving of the world…

It wasn’t one of those things the youngest ever really considered her strong suit.

“So, we have our assignment set out for us. Find a security terminal to find out how this happened, and to find out who it was.” She looked at Taeli and then the soldier. “Seems fairly straight forward, right?”

“What could possibly go wrong?” A thick layer of sarcasm laced her every word.

Everything could go wrong. Always.

 

[Subject 37]

[member="Taeli Raaf"] | [member="Kaili Talith"]

Jorg wasn't about to argue with the Jedi, mostly because he didn't see the point. If this disease was airborne then she would end up getting infected and he would put a bolt through her head. It didn't really matter to him whether or not the woman ended up surviving. He was here to do his job, not anything else. He frowned for a moment as the other girl inspected him, giving a brief nod before slowly turning back towards the Other Jedi. For a moment Jorg stood in place, then motioned to the rest of his squad.

The mask offered by one man was quickly tucked away beneath one of the ammo packs, Jorg motioning for them to cross the barrier. "This way."

He told the two women. They wouldn't use the main entrance of the Starport, mostly because that was where the bulk of the fleeing refugees had gathered. It would be easier to enter the building through one of the side entrances. A map of the structure was quickly pulled up in his HUD, his eyes flicking through the blueprints so that he could find what he was looking for.

"There's a security office on the second floor." He informed the two women as they began to move, his squad surrounding them like a guard of honor.

"We can check the terminal there." Jorg slapped a powerpack into his Disruptor. "Find out what happened."

 

[Allyson Locke]

Location: Spaceport Quarantine
Objective: Get out? Not get eaten?
Equipment: Blasters, Rebreather Mask, Cool Spacer clothes, couple of frags she picked off some dudes
People: [member="Kaili Talith"] @Anyone near the Spaceport

Allyson shook her head, she had arrived to the Sullest to meet up with Kaili and officially meet Micah as Kaili’s girlfriend. Things went downhill the moment she had landed on the transport. The last thing she remembered was crowds and things being thrown about. The spaceport had collapsed in various of places, smoke and debris filled Allyson’s blurred vision. She had been caught under some stuff and instinctively she reached into the small pouch bag she usually carried with her. The sound of digging was drowned out by the screams and other noises that echoed along the remaining parts of the spaceport. Allyson found the rebreather mask and placed it over her face and took a deep breath. It was nice to breath air that wasn’t filled with debris and toxins.

Pushing off some of the lighter debris that had fallen around her, Allyson discovered that she was mostly unharmed, which was a good thing. It seemed the room she had fallen into was barren and no one else seemed to have fallen this way. “Karking hell, I’m getting too old for this…” The bright eyed late teens girl rubbed her lower back. The fall she had endured was rather long and unknown to her, she should be thanking the force for her genetics. Allyson felt around her legs and felt the blasters still there and she looked around and noticed a few bodies of guards that seemed to have perished in whatever had happened. Allyson moved and picked up a few grenades off the men and continued around the room trying to find an exit. Didn’t seem like she had one, everything seemed to have been locked down which was interesting. Pressing her lips together, she realized the only way out was the way she had fallen in. Sighing softly, she stretched a bit and worked her way along the rubble that had gathered. Allyson worked her way upwards and climbed to the next story. It didn’t take her long to reach the first level, her head poked out and she noticed people.

They were moving weird and Allyson narrowed her eyes watching them before making her presence known. They shambled and made weird noises and Allyson figured this was the reason why everything seemed have been locked down. Something was wrong and Allyson seemed to be in the thick of it all. She retreated down the hole once again and decided she needed to make some sort of plan. She pulled out her comm noticed that the signal wasn’t the best, but she did her best to focus the force in the device and hopefully send a message to Kaili letting her know that she was alive, but was not in the best of places. Just a quick message, hopefully Kaili would receive it.

Starport. Alive. Help.

It was all she could send and now all she could do was wait or try and figure out the layout of the starport. Kit wandered the empty room for a moment, until the men that she had stripped of their weapons started to twitch. The movement was caught from the corner of her eye and she watched as the body reanimated itself, slowly dragging itself to its feet. Knowing that if she fired her weapons, she would draw more attention, but she needed to kill it before it killed her. Waiting, she let him get close enough to lunge, when he did, she dodged and watched as the reanimated body tumbled not able to keep its balance. It fell once more and she grabbed a stone and crushed the head as she dropped it on it.

“Karking hell, what in the name of the Force happened here?”

 

[Sanya Val Lerium]

[member="Desmond C'artyom"]

She got the transmission from the agent. She couldn't believe how careless the man was. For someone who went undercover he sure wasn't very good at staying out of sight. "I can do hanger bay B four, you have five minuets or I'm gone." She said very seriously and closed the com. After all soon as she past the quarantine zone her ship would be flagged. She took a deep breath, her hands gripped tight around the controls. "Here it goes." She pulled right swinging her ship in a tight turn. Hands pushed forwards sending the ship down towards the zone. Black smoke clouded the streets and what she could make out civilians were killing civilians. It wasn't her concern what was happening. The warmongers can mop up the mess. She had a mission to extract. Anything else she could involve herself to help in with aid the ga would refuse it anyway.

Her ship came lower down to the building flying past B2 at a quick glance she saw him dealing with the situation. As the ship came into the hanger she could see the civilians crowding towards the entrance. All covered in blood and moved strangely. Come to think of it she'd seen this before. The people were no longer people but the undead. She engaged the weapons firing the front laser cannons into the hanger bay. As she did the blue lasers would create explosions and crimson mist the had to be twenty or so. She needed Maria on the turret to cover the agents back, but that would leave the ramp unguarded. If she didn't have the rapid fire turret active they could get swarmed in the time it take him to get to her. Spinning her ship to the left facing the wall towards b two she'd launch one of the missiles crating a hole in the wall. "You'll wanna watch yourself gonna blow a hole between b two and b three. Once there is a hole run." She said whilst lining up the shot. The missile would rocket through the air and through the first gap. The nose she was making would surely attract more of the undead and authorities. As the missile collided with the wall the explosion would blast the hole. Debris would hopefully hit and stun the mindless things. The moment she could see him running to her was when she'd lower the ramp.

 

[Ashin Varanin]

[member="Sanya Val Swift"] [member="Adele Adonai"]

Science Vessel RNS Jubilee
Departing Cardea Medical Centre

The Jubilee was a light frigate, a small ship without much in the way of arms or defenses. What it had, true to Naboo form, was really good eyes. In the small circular bridge, buckled into the captain's chair, Ajira scrolled through raw data while her primary sensor operator pointed out the obvious.

Down there, a ship had just breached the containment perimeter.

Doubtless, the Alliance's air defense forces and orbital presence would be able to get a good look at the intruder, and find out what registry it had used to get planetside. The Jubilee's sensitive scanners likewise picked up some pretty decent footage of a small Corellian transport diving into the zone and firing a variety of weapons. A supplement to the attack? Some cowboy Jedi? A getaway car? One never could tell on days like these. The Jubilee relayed the ship's specifications and position to GADF orbital defense command, as well as a package of raw data indicating that the intruder didn't appear to have shields installed or activated. The science vessel wasn't specced for intelligence work; identifying the ship and its exact make and model was someone else's job. So was handling the situation.

Even so, though, the Jubilee entered geosychronous orbit over the evolving situation and charged up its ion cannons. If that was a getaway car, the science vessel might get a shot at it on its way up the planet's gravity well.

 

[Zantra]

[member="Allyson Locke"] | [member="Jorg"] [member="Taeli Raaf"] [member="Kaili Talith"] - because I may or may not be closer to any of you. Not sure.

He whipped his blade in a butterfly formation, taking a few steps back while he put some space between himself and his zombie enemies. Well...he'd seen Old man Rhen do it before so it thought he'd replicate it; It didn't really form a butterfly but...the point was these things weren't dying or even phased by the fact that he'd been slicing off limbs. And it seemed that the more noise he made the more obvious his location came to the others who would seemingly think of him as a snack; The baby, frightened, could only cry through the drama.

"Shhh little man!" He said as he ducked underneath a disfigured hand, "I know! I promise I'm gonna get you out of here."

The air was thick and almost humid, so of course he started to sweat. A slight force shove, and a jump backwards gave him the space he needed. He crossed the barrier of a stuck door and once on the other side he jammed his lightsaber into the terminal before twisting it and releasing the door to slam shut.

 

[H3xle]

As his spooks scanned the scene from behind the trooper lines, gathering data on the zombies and transmitting it to the shuttle on a secure channel, Bryson had reached the Korribani ship. The local bomb squad was already combing through the ship, disarming anything that looked like a bomb aboard with heavily armored droids. Bryson looked over the exterior of the ship closely, walking slowly around it and scanning it with his armors sensors. On the forward landing strut, he found an industrial data I/O module, likely for communication with stations that only had external landing platforms. It was the kind of junction you needed to have if you were refueling on the fly, or trading out air, you needed a data line to pass the communications over without clogging up the radio frequencies.

Bryson knelt in front of it and began to probe it, first with an actual physical probe to open the module, then with a data spike. He shunted the connection to a disposable drive, in case the agent who had been aboard this ship ([member="Desmond C'artyom"]) had left any surprises. He shut off his HUDs access to his other drives, and put up an optical overlay of the data structure. He began to poke through it. He wasn't an expert slicer, but he was competant. As he probed the ships computers for any countermeasures, he began to download the data to his disposable drive. Once it was done, he would send it to the shuttle for analysis.

"Sir, this is Beta One." A voice came over his radio, they wouldn't use real names, cause duh. "We are picking up signals from a ship that was denied access and a ground area within the quarantine zone. It doesn't show any official GA transponder code, and none of our organizations claim it." She didn't explain that they thought it might be someone who was responsible for this and their ride, as that was a little obvious.

"Do you have the frequency they are transmitting on?" Bryson asked, taking his mind off of the data mining for a moment.

"We've narrowed it to a band of public use. There are a few music channels that use parts of it in the city, but this is short ranged bursts."

"Block the whole bandwidth section. Apologize to the music channels, but block them out too. Triangulate where the signal is originating from and see if there are any resources nearby. Have GADF hail the ship and imbound it." He instructed.

"We'll see what the troopers are willing to do." She replied, then signed off. Technically, they didn't have jurisdiction over the GADF, so she was going to have to request it. However, they were in a crisis, so interagency cooperation was at its highest. She started triangulating the agents location, which was difficult to do with only short ranged bursts of communications. She also sent out a burst on GA frequencies to see if there were any resources near the general location of the agent. ([member="Micah Talith"]). While she was at it, another agent was talking the GADF into contacting the target ship ([member="Sanya Val Swift"]) and instructing it to land in a secure zone away from the quarantine zone. Fighters were scrambled to cover the ship as well, moving some from interdicting any traffic around the spaceports airspace and moving towards the hangar the ship had been moving towards.

 

[Micah Talith]

[member="Desmond C'artyom"]

The creatures controlled by the spider bots were beginning to swarm. A telekinetic wave brought the Force up for the Talith. He took hold of a large metal floor grate. The sound of screaming metal went screeching through the area, the slab coming up to take a bulk of the damage from the pellets.

It did not, however, get them all. A few pelleted Micah's phrik plates, making little dents at how fast they managed to hit. Bruises would bloom, and a few managed to tear through the alchemized leather. Blood welled and he swore.

Another sudden push and he shoved the grate forward, throwing off the mad creatures to clear a path. Where did he go? Spinning his head to search, the Talith went forward. The Force swelled again, concentrating to track the Chiss as he brought his Moph gun back up to stun the zombies that came at his direction.

 

[Desmond C'artyom]

Desmond watched as the pellets flew and hit a metal grate that was seemingly tore up by nothing. The Chiss cursed. Fething force users… He reprimanded himself once more and wished he had brought a sonic weapon instead. Then the Chiss was knocked off his feet as something rocketed into the wall nearest him. A large crater now sat where the wall had once been and Desmond knew it was his ride. “If they didn't know I was here before they know now!” Des shouted into his comms, but received only static.

The plan was being bollocksed up at an alarming rate and Des began to panic. There was always option b. His tongue fingered the cyanide capsule in his mouth. No… Not like this. Des thought as he picked himself off the ground. He crouched low and began to fire at anything in his path. He made it into the next hangar and found Sanya Val Swift shooting with her ships turrets at the dead. The sound was near deafening and the Chiss knew soon it would attract the whole horde. Desmond had to run up a catwalk to avoid the full force of the horde that had amassed around the vessel. He fired into the crowd without truly aiming at anything. The mass of bodies was so great he didn't need too.

As the horde took notice they began to climb up the cat walk wherever they could. Desmond ran as close to the ship as the walkway would allow him and jumped. “FEEETTTHHH,” time seemed to slow as the Chiss flew over the crowd of undead, his arms splayed wildly and his legs kicked viciously as if willing him to fly. He smacked into the ramp with half his body hanging out the vessel. Clinging on for dear life his hands grasped at anything they could. Slowly he wrenched himself aboard and fell to the floor. He began to laugh as he lay their “Sanya he said into the ship's comms. Get us out of here!” he said still chuckling.

[member="Micah Talith"]

[member="Sanya Val Swift"]

 

[Sanya Val Lerium]

[member="Desmond C'artyom"]

Sanya watch him run through the gaping hole in the wall and up the walk way. "Maria kill anything that's not Desmond!" She said loudly as the ramp opened. She could hear the snap hiss of the droids lightsaber and now the haunting growls of the living dead. Sanya kept most her focus killing what was infront of her as more of them piled into the room. She'd keep glimpsing at the chiss as her ran then made a jump. There was a thud that ran through the ship. As he spoke sanya lifted the ramp up flicking the switch. "Bottom turret now. Maria top." She said giving orders over the com in reply. "Next time Desmond your on your own." It wasn't a serious threat but maybe he'd think twice for his next stupid stunt. As she pulled the ship backwards she began to shoot the supports of the hanger toppling the ceiling on the dead.

The ship turned as local authorities showed up. The YT-1300 dropped down lower close to the floor. It should make targeting them harder also less hesitant to shoot. Clearing the quarantine zone she remained close the the floor passing over one of the check points with troopers covering the area. They had taken pot shots with a few hitting the Hull of the ship. "YOU GONNA FIRE THAT THING OR WHAT?" She shouted as the ships kept on their tail. Taking a tight turn between two buildings with a sky bridge between them maria would shoot at it bringing the ruble down taking out one of the enforcements ships. The others went over, just missed it or went around the buildings. With another tight turn into traffic sanya pulled back on the controls as they plummeted up at full speed.

Those behind couldn't keep up after they had cleared the buildings. As speed increased she could feel the g-force push her back into the seat. Passing through the clouds of the molten world they would be able to see the black of space soon at reach. The sensors could pick up hundreds of ships in the area. Some now making there way to ambush them. Although they were to late. The YT-1300 slowed down as the him of the hyperdrive began to activate. Red laser fire began to hurdle towards them, one hit but the rest missed as the ship entered hyperspace. Sanya relaxed into the chair with a breath of relief. "To close." Her hand pressed the button to put on auto pilot then stood up. Her feet sounded heavy across the floor as she made where way to the ladder of the top an bottom. Waiting for Desmond to get up first she'd look at him with a dissapointed face. Raising her right hand Sanya would strike him across the face with her palm avoiding scratching him with her fine claws. "It will be a punch next time got it." Her voice displayed she was annoyed in it's tone. She was also angry at him for almost been caught again. "Get your self cleaned up. Like hell are you stinking this ship up."

 

[Ashin Varanin]

RNS Jubilee, positioned directly over the region where the modified YT-1300 was rising, got off a few good ion shots from the prepared cannons. The Jubilee was no warship, and her gunnery crews weren't exactly crack warriors: the barrage missed.

The scans, however, did not.

The Jubilee wasn't good for much in a military sense, but its advanced and specialized scientific sensors could pick up all kinds of interesting things related to the ship that was accelerating past. For one thing, it wasn't an actual CEC YT model, but some kind of '1300 knockoff plated in duranium, a somewhat expensive choice. Its engines had starfighter-grade acceleration capabilities but unusually antiquated components. The ship boasted no shield generator, also an antique touch and one that helped the sensors get a good clear picture.

Then there were the readings from the other scientific sensor packages. Only a handful of beings were aboard. As the freighter leaped to hyperspace, the analysis banks started kicking out tentative species identifications. One was Chiss, interestingly enough. Another was a total unknown -- the Jubilee's life-form scanners couldn't peg it down at all.

Ajira forwarded all the data to the GADF and set course for Naboo.

 

[Taeli Raaf]

Allies: [member="Micah Talith"] [member="Bryson Cadera"] [member="Rebel Sunka"] [member="Ajira Cardei"] [member="Allyson Locke"] [member="Jorg"] [member="Kaili Talith"]
Enemies: [member="Desmond C'artyom"] [member="Sanya Val Swift"]

An explosion or two sounded from another part of the hanger, drawing her attention as the Sergeant spoke about the security terminal. A frowned started to form on her face as some sort of freighter looking like a Corellian model blasted away with pursuit fighters... and frigate hanging over head. Whoever was behind this must have called for a pick up ride... how irritating. Still, the frigate would probably get plenty of good data from the ship as it tried to leave the heavily guarded capital of the Alliance.

"It would seem we are in clean up mode now if that freighter is an indication our responsible parties left," she said, continuing to frown. "Well, that will just tighten security even more. Sergeant, Miss Talith, I would recommend you head to the security station and I'll search for survivors and obtain samples of what caused all of this. If you see the undead... well don't hesitate."

With that said, she entered the facility and started her search for answers.

 

[Kaiden Rohn]

Location: Starport
Objective: Clear threat


He waved his hand. If the perpetrator had escaped- there was no need for containment. He moved a hand forward, and the machine gun crews picked up and put forward. The infected that were near the barriers were cut down with brutal efficiency. The 5th Legion troops were crack at drills- sweeping and searching, they removed a huge swath of the undead with little problem. Kaiden picked up his blaster, dropping several himself. The machine gun crews picked up and moved further inward, with the rifleman creating a circle around them. A circular, constant moving defense was going to penetrate deep into the infected's AO.


[member="Allyson Locke"] was spotted as the men moved deeper into the circle. Obviously, she wasn't stumbling around. Several other civilians were picked up in and put in the middle of the circle, protected by not a wall of iron or stone, but a wall of men with rifles and two machine gun crews. He heard them doing a barrel change drill. One team went down, replacing the overheated barrel while the other picked up the rate of fire. It was a good drill, especially when they were dropping as many bodies as they were now.

Refugees flooded into their protective arc of fire, thankful for the constant barrage of death that the troopers and Kaiden were providing. Kaiden had to hand it to the 5th Legion- they were some of the best soldiers he had worked with. Perhaps it was the desire for redemption, or the sense of duty- and the fact that they were plain old good at their jobs. Their job, being killing people. Kaiden turned to the girl with the blasters, and pointed at her, and motioned to the circle. No comms- must've been blocked to deter the escapee.

He amplified his voice by his helmet.

"Get in here and help us shoot, lady!"

Anyone could be a marksman against the undead- they were after all, particularly slow.

 

[Kaili Talith]

[member="Kaiden Rohn"] // [member="Taeli Raaf"] // [member="Allyson Locke"] // [member="Jorg"]​

Starport. Alive. Help.

Between explosions, the very ambiguous nature of the message and the fact that Kaili was by many other means occupied already, the nature of the situation was not one that the young Talith was all that keen for. She had seen zombies before in her life, but this was something else and the fact that Allyson was involved in all of this made Kaili hesitate.

She looked at Taeli and then the 5th Legion soldier.

Eye shot out for the direction she could sense Allyson in. The hologram on her wrist kicked to life as Kaili threw the message a quick lookover again. Leaving people behind because they were beyond her reach was one thing, but this was Allyson. Rapid breaths burst through her nose before she gave Taeli and the soldier a quick raise of her index finger and a, “I’ll be right back.” Before she vanished and burst over in the direction of the Corellian. Only problem was that when she arrived at her location she found the brunette was already in the process of being rescued by someone else.

She was torn. One hand, responsibility for the well-being of all, on the other hand her own interest in keeping her girlfriend alive. The thought process took too long and one of the walkers proceeded to lunge at her. Kaili whacked it across the head once, twice, thrice before the dead truly turned dead again.

As the dead body slumped to the ground she could have sworn she felt something that was quite familiar. Not the death of a human, or even an alien, but rather…

“A droid?” Kaili asked herself as she knelt down by the man who had attacked her. Her eyes shot out for the top of his head.

No, something was wrong. Kaili went back to where she had last seen Taeli and Jorg again.

Find me in the security office or stay with the soldiers guarding you.

Something's fethy.
-K

 

[Allyson Locke]

Location: Starport
Objective: Find Kaili and the security office


Allyson was startled for a moment when the man shouted at her. She quickly examined him and the others that seemed to be with him. They were moving like normal and she figured it was the safest bet for her. Better to be in a group than die alone. She moved from her hiding place and assimilated into their ranks. The man that had shouted at her she nodded towards and spoke to him, thanking him for his help. “Thanks, know a way out yet?” It was the only thing on her mind at this time. There had to be an escape route, even with everything on lockdown. Whatever was going on here, they were determined to keep it here. Which meant they might be stuck in here until whatever it is - is put down.

There was ping in the back of her head, she could sense Kaili which meant that the girl was still alive. A soft sigh of relief escaped her lips as she followed the group of men that moved throughout the starport. Her comm vibrated, which mean that a signal was caught and she was able to catch a message. A few more of the zombies or whatever they were came up and Allyson quickly fired down the assailants then continued with the men. Who ever they were, they were a good shot and the man leading them, knew what he was doing. Allyson read the message quickly and then worked her way up towards the man who seemed to be in charge.

“Allyson Locke by the way, we should head towards the security office…” Remembering the message that she had just read meant that Kaili had seen the men pick her up. Which meant that the girl was close. Allyson hesitated and looked around trying to figure out where Kaili would be. Quickly, she sent a message that would hopefully reach the blonde Talith.

Where are you? I’ll head to the security office with these guys hopefully...please be okay.

[member="Kaili Talith"] [member="Kaiden Rohn"]