Gama (IC) (CLOSED!)

[Elipida]

Jason stopped as Gilbert began dismounting. "Hey Gilbert wait!" Jason started. "You're commander. I have the most CQC experience here, and I'm the negotiator, I should be the one to..." Gilbert had already left. "...go"

He sighed. At this point it would be stupid to go in after him and leave not one but two VALKs unattended in the open. "Don't die on me, alright?"

[Imperialisium]

Valeria and Constantine pulled up and blocked each end of the street. Mowing down infected left and right, it was utter childs play as the infected shambling along simply were killed indiscrimately. It would have been suitable for a regular Infantry Battalion with some air support to accomplish.

[Monfrox]

Freya struggled under the force of the enemy VALK. "Come on. What do you have now? Nothing, that's what. You're as good as finished." Allison gritted her teeth. In the situation she was in, there was but one thing she could do. "Check cockpit structural integrity." "Cockpit integrity at 85%." "That should be enough...enable SDM." "Warning - Self Destruct Mode cannot be cancelled once activated. Are you sure?" "Yes." "Final confirmation." "Yes!" "SDM active. Set time. "Ten seconds." A red countdown began on her HUD. "I'm taking you down, altar boy." "What?" Freya let the beam axe go above up into her head and then wrapped her arms around the VALK.

"What? WHat are you doing! Let me go!" "Not a chance...goodbye Nuggets." Allison said. Three....two....one....the area far off into the distance lit up into a bright fireball. Back at Gama headquarters in New Mexico, Alexandra was walking through the hall with some papers when she suddenly dropped them. "Oh dear." She said, collecting them all up again. "Here, let me help you miss." Mary said, who had been walking there by random chance. After they collected the documents, they noticed they were standing under the monitor for the Valkyries roster. A little bleep noise caught their attention. They both looked up and then nodded solemnly to each other before walking on their separate ways. On the roster, next to Allison's full name, was a red acronym: KIA

[Tsuyoi Tekikoku]

Freya struggled under the force of the enemy VALK. "Come on. What do you have now? Nothing, that's what. You're as good as finished." Allison gritted her teeth. In the situation she was in, there was but one thing she could do. "Check cockpit structural integrity." "Cockpit integrity at 85%." "That should be enough...enable SDM." "Warning - Self Destruct Mode cannot be cancelled once activated. Are you sure?" "Yes." "Final confirmation." "Yes!" "SDM active. Set time. "Ten seconds." A red countdown began on her HUD. "I'm taking you down, altar boy." "What?" Freya let the beam axe go above up into her head and then wrapped her arms around the VALK.

"What? WHat are you doing! Let me go!" "Not a chance...goodbye Nuggets." Allison said. Three....two....one....the area far off into the distance lit up into a bright fireball. Back at Gama headquarters in New Mexico, Alexandra was walking through the hall with some papers when she suddenly dropped them. "Oh dear." She said, collecting them all up again. "Here, let me help you miss." Mary said, who had been walking there by random chance. After they collected the documents, they noticed they were standing under the monitor for the Valkyries roster. A little bleep noise caught their attention. They both looked up and then nodded solemnly to each other before walking on their separate ways. On the roster, next to Allison's full name, was a red acronym: KIA

Anako saw the fireball and shook in her VALK in fear."what..........what happened!?" Anako checked the rosters and saw KIA next to alison's name."no......no!"

[Utceforp]

Freya struggled under the force of the enemy VALK. "Come on. What do you have now? Nothing, that's what. You're as good as finished." Allison gritted her teeth. In the situation she was in, there was but one thing she could do. "Check cockpit structural integrity." "Cockpit integrity at 85%." "That should be enough...enable SDM." "Warning - Self Destruct Mode cannot be cancelled once activated. Are you sure?" "Yes." "Final confirmation." "Yes!" "SDM active. Set time. "Ten seconds." A red countdown began on her HUD. "I'm taking you down, altar boy." "What?" Freya let the beam axe go above up into her head and then wrapped her arms around the VALK.

"What? WHat are you doing! Let me go!" "Not a chance...goodbye Nuggets." Allison said. Three....two....one....the area far off into the distance lit up into a bright fireball. Back at Gama headquarters in New Mexico, Alexandra was walking through the hall with some papers when she suddenly dropped them. "Oh dear." She said, collecting them all up again. "Here, let me help you miss." Mary said, who had been walking there by random chance. After they collected the documents, they noticed they were standing under the monitor for the Valkyries roster. A little bleep noise caught their attention. They both looked up and then nodded solemnly to each other before walking on their separate ways. On the roster, next to Allison's full name, was a red acronym: KIA

Anako saw the fireball and shook in her VALK in fear."what..........what happened!?" Anako checked the rosters and saw KIA next to alison's name."no......no!"

Jack went completely, utterly silent. When sad things happened, he turned into a turtle and tried to separate himself from the world. No. Feeling sad for Allison is wrong. A little voice said in his head. Nearly 200,000 people died yesterday and you only care about the one person you happen to know? What is wrong with you? Jack tried to feel sadder, for both Allison and the Samoans, but he couldn't. He broke radio silence again. "Team... Keep... keep working. This isn't the worst death to happen recently. Let's just try to forget about Allison for the time being, for the greater good." Jack quickly closed off communications again. He didn't want to talk.

[Xing]

"Oh, I'm touched that you still remember after so long." Charlotte said emphasizing the last word by tightening the lock on his right arm.
"Agh! Charlotte... I'm sorry. I doubt that's enough, but all I can say is that for the past three years of my life not a day has gone by that I haven't felt guilty about what happened."
"You expect to just say that and it'll be fine, is that it? Three years, Gilbert. Three. Years. Dammit! I've been here so long I've lost count, I wouldn't have even known had you not told me. You try going hour after hour, day after day not knowing if you'll live long enough to see your own rescue or whether it was even coming. Besides what do you have to apologize for, I still remember that day. I saw you trying to save me, you were drug out of there without any say in the matter."
"I wanted to bring you back, but-"
"But that doesn't change the fact that you never once even tried to search. It took three years for Gama to come back, I bet it wasn't even to find me was it?" Charlotte questioned. Gilbert was silent, it was true. "Answer me dammit! I want to hear the supposed reason that they finally sent their child soldiers back."
"We were sent on a recon mission to see why the city went silent." Gilbert sounded like a beaten child by this point. She was right. He had spent the time feeling guilty and running the stupid situations to see if things could have changed, but never once even thought to go back and look for her.
"Ohh, to see why it went silent ehh?" Charlotte said, the condescension saturating her words. "It went silent because I've spent all this time killing every son of a bitch that moved! Over the course of three years one person tends to eventually make a dent in the population."
"But how? What about Proteus? They attacked that day. How did you deal with them?" Gilbert asked.
"I never had to. They were never in it for the city, they were just there to attack us. Every one of them just hit and run cowards, in it just for the fun of it hoping to turn the world into infected monsters. Well they have yet to see what a monster even is."
"Charlotte, is this what the city has done to you? You've changed, you were never this spiteful."
"I'd rather not stand here and be preached at by the guilty man with a knife to his neck Gilbert. If you've got anything to say then save it, this is the most conversation I've had in years and its going to do nothing but piss me off if you start preaching at me."
She isn't pissed already? Gilbert thought to himself. How much more does she have in her? "Alright, that's fine with me. I can tell you aren't staying here, but we don't really have a transport available so we're gonna have to make due."
Charlotte knew exactly what he was implying, she's gonna get to ride shotgun for the rest of the mission. Her eyes narrowed and she finally let Gilbert out of the hold and took the knife away from his neck. She delivered a quick punch to his abdomen. Not hard enough to do any damage, but enough to knock the wind out of him and make him double over. "You're getting soft Gil, in a business like this if you're slow you're dead." She walked into the next room and grabbed as much of the stockpile as she could load on.

[Tsuyoi Tekikoku]

Anako saw the fireball and shook in her VALK in fear."what..........what happened!?" Anako checked the rosters and saw KIA next to alison's name."no......no!"

Jack went completely, utterly silent. When sad things happened, he turned into a turtle and tried to separate himself from the world. No. Feeling sad for Allison is wrong. A little voice said in his head. Nearly 200,000 people died yesterday and you only care about the one person you happen to know? What is wrong with you? Jack tried to feel sadder, for both Allison and the Samoans, but he couldn't. He broke radio silence again. "Team... Keep... keep working. This isn't the worst death to happen recently. Let's just try to forget about Allison for the time being, for the greater good." Jack quickly closed off communications again. He didn't want to talk.

"roger that!" Anako was silent for a moment and closed off her communications.Then she looked up with fire in her eyes."I will not let a comrade's sacrifice go to waste! ill make sure this mission is complete with everyone else alive!"

[Elipida]

"Gilbert" Jason started into the comms. "I don't mean to rush your kinda dry love-hate relationship-reunion-thing and all, but I'd like to let you know that we're still - argh fuck off will ya, you bloody bugger - Anyways please hurry up. I promise to go rent you two a room by a hawaiian beach later or something"

[Rowandel]

Jack went completely, utterly silent. When sad things happened, he turned into a turtle and tried to separate himself from the world. No. Feeling sad for Allison is wrong. A little voice said in his head. Nearly 200,000 people died yesterday and you only care about the one person you happen to know? What is wrong with you? Jack tried to feel sadder, for both Allison and the Samoans, but he couldn't. He broke radio silence again. "Team... Keep... keep working. This isn't the worst death to happen recently. Let's just try to forget about Allison for the time being, for the greater good." Jack quickly closed off communications again. He didn't want to talk.

"roger that!" Anako was silent for a moment and closed off her communications.Then she looked up with fire in her eyes."I will not let a comrade's sacrifice go to waste! ill make sure this mission is complete with everyone else alive!"

Vance sat in his cockpit, feeling useless. "Dammt. Dammitdammitdammit!" With every "dammit", he punctuated his anger with a punch to his display with his already-bloodied knuckles. He wasn't angry so much about Allison. People die. There's no point in letting it end the world. But he couldn't even help complete the mission.
He closed off his comms, then sighed, calming himself. "Okay... Belgrave. Listen to me. You're NOT leaving me like this. I know you can't move your legs. I understand, and I'm sorry. I can't help you right now. But please, we're being CARRIED right now. At least let me move your arms. I need to protect her. She's helping me, and I'm not low as dirt! I won't let her die for me! No one else dies today, especially not because I'm a fucking lowlife who can't get his fucking mech to listen to him!"
...BEEP. SYSTEMS AT 10%. ARMS OPERATIONAL. SCREENS OPERATIONAL. MEMORY BANKS OPERATIONAL-
"Yes!" Vance punched the display again, leaving another blood splatter but not caring. He reopened the comms. "Anako! Are you with me? Are you focused? Listen, I got my arms back. I can cover you. I know things are looking dark now, and I'm not looking so hot, but I've got you, okay?" His voice was soft, and even he was caught off-guard, but he didn't have time to think about it right now. "I've got you, Anako. We can do this. As long as you've got me, I've got you. I promise..."

[Xing]

Gilbert coughed. "... Right. Ugh, damn. Once I'm in the Guardian we need to head to the beach, I'm pretty sure that little blast we just saw in the air a couple minutes ago was one another member of our team finally making ground." While he was saying this Charlotte had grabbed the largest caliber rifle she had in the stockpile, it turned out to be about about a 30-06 rifle, and took a look out the window. She looked down the scope and fired a round off that caught Jason's valk right above the eye. The round wasn't big enough to cause damage, but it left a nice dent and got his attention. She flipped him the bird when he turned to look at her and then she ducked back in the window.

After they had walked to the street they saw the others holding their own against the infected that remained, more of mopping up than anything. They rode the line back up to the cockpit of the Guardian and Gilbert took his place and readied to sync with the Guardian. "Well that's new." Charlotte said as it attached to the plug in the back of Gilbert's neck. She could tell this was going to get boring for her really quick.

"Alright team, how are we looking? Is it worth finishing them off or should we leave them and check on our comrade?"

[Tsuyoi Tekikoku]

"roger that!" Anako was silent for a moment and closed off her communications.Then she looked up with fire in her eyes."I will not let a comrade's sacrifice go to waste! ill make sure this mission is complete with everyone else alive!"

Vance sat in his cockpit, feeling useless. "Dammt. Dammitdammitdammit!" With every "dammit", he punctuated his anger with a punch to his display with his already-bloodied knuckles. He wasn't angry so much about Allison. People die. There's no point in letting it end the world. But he couldn't even help complete the mission.
He closed off his comms, then sighed, calming himself. "Okay... Belgrave. Listen to me. You're NOT leaving me like this. I know you can't move your legs. I understand, and I'm sorry. I can't help you right now. But please, we're being CARRIED right now. At least let me move your arms. I need to protect her. She's helping me, and I'm not low as dirt! I won't let her die for me! No one else dies today, especially not because I'm a fucking lowlife who can't get his fucking mech to listen to him!"
...BEEP. SYSTEMS AT 10%. ARMS OPERATIONAL. SCREENS OPERATIONAL. MEMORY BANKS OPERATIONAL-
"Yes!" Vance punched the display again, leaving another blood splatter but not caring. He reopened the comms. "Anako! Are you with me? Are you focused? Listen, I got my arms back. I can cover you. I know things are looking dark now, and I'm not looking so hot, but I've got you, okay?" His voice was soft, and even he was caught off-guard, but he didn't have time to think about it right now. "I've got you, Anako. We can do this. As long as you've got me, I've got you. I promise..."

"okay! we really need a evac right now! these guys are like a pack of wolves!" Anako kept firing at the Proteus VALKS."Firing Katyusha missiles!".Angeloid opened up it's missile pods and fired multiple missiles at different targets.

[Rowandel]

"We need to move south of the city. We can follow the river out." Vance opened fired on a crowd of enemy VALKs, tearing them down. "I'll keep on fire support, you keep us moving. I have the modem, so remember, we're VIPs right now." He opened up the channel for everyone to hear him. "Everyone! I need you all to focus! I have the data, both in the modem, and in Belgrave! We need to move south along the river, and extract as soon as possible! Anako and I are a little weighed down right now, so any support will be appreciated!"

[Monfrox]

"Does Team Bravo have the data?" Alexandra asked in a monotone. "...Affirmative. Primary objective complete." The AI responded. "Good. Have the extraction team move in on the double. I want the rest of them out alive, understand?" "Yes ma'am." Alexandra sighed. "Not once ever has someone died under my command..." She sat down and watched the overview of the battle.

While the team moved South, other Gama VALKs arrived to give the Valkyries cover. With the combined force, Proteus backed off and retreated. Within an hour, the Valkyries were loaded onto the air transports and moved out. All planes were full, except one. "Hey, I don't mean to be 'that guy', but aren't we one short?" The pilot of the empty transport asked over the open radio as the air convoy made for Japan.

[Rowandel]

Vance was the first to speak, a surprise to everyone. "Yeah... Yeah, we are." He figured he'd leave it at that.
He sat in the plane, looking at the wrecked hull of Belgrave, then glanced down at his hand. It was still bleeding heavily, and the knuckles had split open. He was going to scar for sure. He looked over the faces of his team, hovering over Anako the longest. She was the only reason he had made it back. He was going to make sure that, after some RnR, he thanked her properly... Somehow. He sighed. He was right. The whole team was fidgety little kids. He was no exception.
He leaned back. It was only going to get tougher from here on out. He had to be ready, and now, his team was broken. He wasn't going to be friendly. But he was going to get stronger. He was going to pick up the slack. He HAD to. Or else it all meant nothing.

[Eaglleia]

In his VALK, Razrel paused for a moment. 'Shit.' It was to be expected, they were in a military organization that dropped them into high-risk areas for combat. And Allison wasn't the first person who was KIA on a mission with him, and in particular, in the earlier days of Gama, before he was a pilot, they used to drop like flies. But all the same, it was still different when someone you knew, even if just a little, died in front of you. But she died so that the rest of them could leave the area with the data alive, and successfully complete the mission. Fortunately, they received reinforcements soon so she didn't die meaninglessly. When the other Gama VALKs arrived, they loaded up quickly. Razrel said nothing to the mans question, Vance had already answered it. And now, they had to get ready to be dropped into another combat zone.

[Elipida]

"All clear" Jason answered. "Though it would be best to ask the siblings that. A certain someone damaged the sensors in the head piece. A small little dent is enough to prevent a sensor from doing its job you know" not entirely true, its just the annoying ringing the shape makes when signal waves hit the dome that 'prevented' Jason from scanning.

He stopped firing when all of the infected in the area were dead. "Well, there's the missing zombie problem. You girlfriend Charlotte or Charlette or whatever mentioned Protus. I wasn't paying attention, where did she say they were?"

[Imperialisium]

Valeria and Constantine moved with the others, Constantine taking up the rear and Valeria reported, "Not worth the ammo. if need be a regular OP could just mop up Singapore." Truthfully the number of infected was lighter than expected, probably thanks to Charlotte, but altogether it was eerily easy. Like the easy that was way to easy for a regular OP in a city this size.

[Tsuyoi Tekikoku]

"Does Team Bravo have the data?" Alexandra asked in a monotone. "...Affirmative. Primary objective complete." The AI responded. "Good. Have the extraction team move in on the double. I want the rest of them out alive, understand?" "Yes ma'am." Alexandra sighed. "Not once ever has someone died under my command..." She sat down and watched the overview of the battle.

While the team moved South, other Gama VALKs arrived to give the Valkyries cover. With the combined force, Proteus backed off and retreated. Within an hour, the Valkyries were loaded onto the air transports and moved out. All planes were full, except one. "Hey, I don't mean to be 'that guy', but aren't we one short?" The pilot of the empty transport asked over the open radio as the air convoy made for Japan.

Anako stayed silent and then opened her mouth to saying something."alison.............is in a better place now.......".Anako was crying,but she didn't show no tears.

[Xing]

"All clear" Jason answered. "Though it would be best to ask the siblings that. A certain someone damaged the sensors in the head piece. A small little dent is enough to prevent a sensor from doing its job you know" not entirely true, its just the annoying ringing the shape makes when signal waves hit the dome that 'prevented' Jason from scanning.

He stopped firing when all of the infected in the area were dead. "Well, there's the missing zombie problem. You girlfriend Charlotte or Charlette or whatever mentioned Protus. I wasn't paying attention, where did she say they were?"

"Yeah you keep giving me lip. I can always give you another nice little hole in your head." Charlotte said. "If you had actually been paying attention enough to notice more than the select bits you called "emotional" you'd know that I said they left. The most I've seen of them is flyovers."

"

Valeria and Constantine moved with the others, Constantine taking up the rear and Valeria reported, "Not worth the ammo. if need be a regular OP could just mop up Singapore." Truthfully the number of infected was lighter than expected, probably thanks to Charlotte, but altogether it was eerily easy. Like the easy that was way to easy for a regular OP in a city this size.

"Alright you two." Gilbert said trying to calm the situation, he figured it would be best to not single out Charlotte considering she was sitting next to his defenseless body. "Team we're moving out, back to the sub. We weren't sent for cleanup duty."

The walk to the sub was fairly uneventful and they reached the beach without a problem. "Sorry that you had to deploy and head back, but we're already done Alex." He knew most of the pilots actually liked going on missions, so he figured Alex would be bummed that he didn't get to do much. Suddenly the sensor's on his valk started going off to tell him there was a large heat signature up near the city. He looked to see a single proteus valk atop a building. It hailed over open comms "This city has been claimed by the Proteus federation! Prepare to die Gama scum!" It jumped from the building and began to run towards the group of valks on the beach. "So they're a federation now are they?" Gilbert mockingly said. "Kid you should have just stayed home. All valks open fire." Gilbert fired a single burst from his laser rifle. It raced forward and straight into the Valk's head, vaporizing about a quarter of the front of it and knocking off the rest. The now headless valk staggered, and opened fire. Not a single shot came within 10 degrees of hitting the group so it was safe to assume the targeting and sensors in the valk had been taken off along with its head. He was walking blind into a fight he hadn't a chance of winning in the first place.

[Rowandel]

Anako stayed silent and then opened her mouth to saying something."alison.............is in a better place now.......".Anako was crying,but she didn't show no tears.

Vance sighed. He didn't know any way to help her. He should, shouldn't he? Isn't that what he should be doing? Suddenly it hit him that he was showing weakness, yet a part of him got mad at that notion, She had just helped him get out of there alive. He OWED her a show of weakness.
"Hey, Anako," he said over the comm. "It'll be okay, alright? We'll make it worth it. I promise."

[Imperialisium]

Valeria and Constantine crouched behind the expansive dock buildings and they both sighted down their weapons. Valeria let out an ammo burst that tore the legs from under the Proteus Mech, crippled Constantine made a minute adjustment and with a final word, "Auf Wiedersehen." The Beam Rifle fired one controlled shot hitting between two armor joints. Destroying the cockpit and emolating the pilot, the Mech's powerplant went up with a secondary explosion and shrapnel slammled into neighboring buildings.

"Target KIA Team Leader." came Constantine's methodical icy voice.

[Elipida]

"Aye aye, we'll get you something for your PMS when we get back" Jason joked. "Still, why would they pull back? If they've taken the city it would be nearly impossible for us to take it back, and yet-"

"This city has been claimed by the Proteus federation! Prepare to die Gama scum!" An idiot began yelling over the comms as he charged at the originally unsuspecting group which he could have easily caught off guard and killed at least one of them.

Jason prepared the wrist blades of his VALK and prepared to engage in CQC until the siblings took him out in one or two shots. "You two aren't the slightest fun at all" he sighed as he retracted the blades.

He turned back to Gilbert. "Right, I'll go log this. Enemy presence still within the city, something along the lines of in ambush, found at the city, met minor resistance from both hostile entities. Recovered lost personnel, scouted a small segment of the city. Well Gilbert, shall we continue scouting, or is this enough for us to call in an EVAC? Your call commander"

[Setinel]

Alex pulled out his shotgun but the siblings took the enemy VALK down.
"Ah who gives a shit?" He thought firing several rounds of glowing shrapnel into the VALK as it fell knocking it back another 50 ft. And and ripping an arm off with a loud screech causing the group to shudder in pain. Alex ran a diagnostic on the VALK.
"Shit..." He thought. "We gotta go!"he announced. "One hit to the back and my fuel tanks goes boom."

[Xing]

"I believe that we've done enough recon, we accomplished the objective of finding out the source of the limited activity so we're done here." Gilbert said. "I'd rather not stay to find out if this guy had any friends so its off to Japan." Gilbert reported the mission complete which was reported back to Gama HQ in New Mexico. So long as they got the message, the extraction team would arrive shortly and they could load up and get ready to go.

---

"Well, looks like he didn't crack after all." Dr. Jarnefeldt said, watching her monitor in her office. She liked to keep tabs on Gilbert's missions to make sure he was alright. She had both teams' missions pulled up on her computer and she looked over to the KIA reading next to Allison's name. "However this I do find intriguing. I was led to assume that the cockpit shell was borderline impervious."

[Setinel]

"Aw. I was hoping to pound some more metal." Alex said cracking his fists in the cockpit as the robot did similar. "Oh well. Maybe I'll go back to base and try out some new weapon."
He turned to the VALK.
"You sure that thing doesn't have a type of martyrdom?