Nerrone's Rangers IC [Thread 1]

"The ship..." I looked into Bronsted's eyes, it was just too much. "T-The Ship is called t-the Lacuna." I said more reluctantly than I can remember ever being. "The crew on the planet with me during the murders should seem a bit obvious t-to y-you, but I guess you might as well know who you're up against. Kwa is our main co-leader, She's someone to watch out for. Dagon is another co-leader. There was also Zaglon, Ion, who's a powerful robot, Xol, Hitcam, and Naboo9. Not everyone I just mentioned murdered people on Ezikiel IV. We have more people than that though. We've got so many strong and sleek operatives that if their looking for me, you won't be able to say 'graviton' before your building is in ruins and I'm back on the Lacuna. As for their location, I'm not that sure. I hope their trying to get here, but they could still be on Ariid, or light-years away by now." I stared deeply without blinking, directly into Corporal Bronstead's eyes the entire time.

Celdryc started formulating a plan the moment the lights went out. He could see a faint glow coming from a room up ahead, so he could still faintly see things. He decided to go find the room Quark was in to free him. What he soon noticed while running down a nearby corridor was that he had not been the first to have the idea.

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IO thought for a moment, then decided to take advantage of the blackout. Just moments before the officer pulled out his flashlight(and before his death), IO, guided by a faint glow given off from the interior of his weapon, began making his way to the interrogation room, assuming the CLEU were using the correct room. Sure enough, there was a green glow coming from the interrogation room. He stood just outside the room and reached his hand to his back.

Click!

A large machine gun attatched to his left hand, which was mechanical. He waited outside the door, knowing the click would have been loud enough for the CLEU to hear.

Bor heard Celdryc leaving and followed the sound. Once they were alone in the corridor he spotted the Dralanian...and up ahead, IO with what appeared to be a cybernetic machine gun built into his arm. He stopped, hoping the large alien hadn't noticed him.

((The Enrichment Center reminds you that producing sources of light or night-vision related abilities / equipment that you have not previously stated you own is godmodding, and as such may lead to serious problems, such as horrible facial burns and death. Plasma weapons and other such things can emit a faint glow due to their munitions source, and I'll excuse Mitchz's flashlight attachment in this instance. ))

Corporal Bronsted smiled politely, "Thank you, mister Quark, that will be all for now. Interview suspended at 19:47," he turned off the recording device and swiftly transmitted the data it had collected, where it would soon arrive at the Coalition base on Tareen.

"We shall escort you back to your cell now: you can expect to be released without charge shortly, when we secure the vessel, assuming we can verify your claims." They handcuffed him and Bronsted opened the door, his glow-stick held aloft in one hand.


Unseen in the darkness, three figures — slender, dark beings equipped with a variety of vision filters to aid in their assignment — spread out silently across the station. Their operation had begun: by the time backup arrived to de-activate the lock-down, no-one in the building would be left alive.

(Sorry, I thought I mentioned the flashlights in my character bio. I edited my posts.)

Bor stepped over to Celdryc. Raising his Pulser high enough to faintly illuminate his face, he mouthed: What should we do?

Celdryc was careful. This IO was obviously powerful, but it seemed that he had the same intentions as them. He took a few steps back and answered to Bor quietly "We let him take out the CLEU, and attack him if he tries to attack Quark."

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IO was quicker than he looked, and the moment the door opened he reached his hand out to grab Bronstead's neck. "I thought I told your buddies last time to Stay off my planet!" He angrily said to him.

Bronsted was taken by surprise, and choked slightly as IO grabbed hold of him.

"Unhand me now," he gasped, reaching behind him for his pistol. Corporal Faust, still inside the interview room, had already done the same and was leveling his weapon at IO's head.

Celdryc was slightly stunned at what had happened when the door opened. He took out one of his daggers to shed some light, so that he was completely sure that the figure being held in the air by the neck was not Quark.

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IO tightened his grip a little as he saw Bronsted reach for his pistol. He also leveled his gun to point at Faust. Hopefully Faust got the messege: Machine gun beats Pistol. "Now tell me," he said to Bronsted "Why are you interogating a common bandit?" Of course IO knew he wasn't a common bandit, but he wanted to know if they knew. He acted as if he didn't notice the two shapes watching him, even after one of them pulled out a lightsource.

Delta wrote:

"Hrm, well we only sell transistors in packs of ten — 6 credits for everything," the shopkeeper told Kaaran. It had been a long day, and as the sun disappeared completely below the horizon he was looking forward to his bed.


"I'm sorry sir," the officer at reception told IO, alarmed, "but I can't allow you to—" The lights flickered again as he spoke — computers, land-line phones, coffee-makers all blinking in time with the ceiling lights. They flickered... and went out.

Darkness.

" i'll take 5 out of the pack, then I'll have what i need, and be able to pay, and you won't lose anything."

He was sticking to his, tell them whats going to happen approach to haggling, it worked the vast majority of the time, he took the 5 credits he had left, out of his pocket, showing the vender exactly what was going to happen.

He could still hear the occassional piece of background murmuring on his comm, which he guessed could well be some unintentional noise from his aquaintances on their little task. he turned his comm off, whilst waiting for the shopkeeper to respond.

The shopkeeper rolled his eyes, "Fine then, 5 credits."


Bronsted was beginning to turn blue, "Investigating... murders on... *choke* Ezekiel," he replied.

Somewhere behind Bor and Celdryc, in the void beyond the pool of light provided by Bronsted's glow-stick, a soft, quiet sound — like metal being drawn across leather — was just barely audible in the silence between Bronsted's halting words.

Bor whipped around, aiming his Pulser into the black void behind him. Only silence greeted him, and he wondered if he'd really heard something or was just imagining it.

After a few seconds he turned back toward IO and Bronsted, though he kept wary of the blackness behind him. He hadn't stayed alive all these years by ignoring potential threats.

My eyes opened up wide. IO was doing great...While Faust and Bronsted where distracted, I began rubbing the handcuff chains against a pipe running along the wall. These cuffs wouldn't open to a key, but I could separate the link between the two cuffs.

Kaaran took all the components he had just bought, in one hand and depositted them into his small pack. He gave a leaving "Thanks." to the shop owner but made it as clear as he could that he didn't actually mean it.

He walked out of the shop, and headed straight back to the nearby Lacuna. There were lots of Aliens hurrying around seemingly in panic, but this just annoyed Kaaran further and he ended up shoving a small diminuitive grimy creature into the side of a building when it got in his way.

He finally boarded the Lacuna, and went straight to his room locking the door, depositting his pistol, and his components before lying down on the bed and attempting to sleep, oblivious to all that was going on.

Oh how I hate being in darkness this much! Chalen thought angerly to himself. He still kept bumping into things and this was starting to annoy him. Something rolled acrossed the floor and hit off at Chalen's foot. Chalen tried to feel the object and fumbled with it. Please let this be good thing for Chalen. He *stroked* to find a switch or button that might turn this thing on. Finally he found the rough bit which was the switch! He pushed it on and a strong beam of light lit the room up! "Tis very bright but least it no longer dark!" Chalen ran to the door which he came in. He tried to open it but it would not move. "Carp Diem! I'm trapped! I hope someone have comlink working still!" Chalen tapped into his comlink sending out a message to all of the group. "Hel-o? Tis Chalen speaking! I can't get out police station building! I think it's on lockdown or something! If anyone get's message please help me!"

Still on the hoverbike, Xol listened to Chalen's transmission, then swore under his breath.

"Lockdown. There's no getting at them now," he said to Grecsh.

As they reached the station, Xol and Grecsh hopped off the bike and squinted through the growing nighttime darkness. The police station looked somewhat normal from the outside, other than the reinforced and barricade doors and windows, and the lack of light coming from what cracks there were.

"We've got to figure out a way to get them out of there," Xol muttered. Grecsh didn't hear him, he was too busy smiling. He couldn't believe his luck. He grabbed two grenades from his pack and handed them to Xol.

"You'll need these, just in case."

He then brought out a small, magnetically charged heat grenade, and squatted down by a nearby vent grate, the kind that would have led to the inside of the station. Xol looked where Grecsh was kneeling, and smiled along with him.

Grecsh primed the explosive, stuck it to the grate, and the two of them ducked out of the way.

The grenade detonated, sending twisted pieces of metal in all directions and completely annihilating the grate. The sound reverberated through the entire building, sending vibrations rumbling through the entire ventilation system.

In their positions within the station, the three Silent Ones registered the new dynamic in their operation.

Operative Azure redirecting to Ventilation Access Alpha...

Grecsh was the first to enter the vents, followed closely by Xol. It was difficult to see where they were going, but the pulsating light from their electronic devices produced a nice glow by which they could make out basic shapes. Then a skittering was heard in the distance, seemingly from ahead in the vents. Grecsh primed his blasters and Xol drew his pistols from his sides, flicking them on. They continued on, more cautiously now, prepared to engage any enemies.

Celdryc was confused as to why IO wasn't attacking him and Bor, and slightly jealous that IO was choking the life out of the CLEU member instead of him. Just then there was a large rumbling sound, and the building shook slightly as well. Is someone bombing the police station? he thought. He prepared himself for anything.

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IO tried to think quickly of another question to give him a reason to keep choking Bronson, but could not think of anything else he needed to know. Knowing he needed to interrogate Quark himself, he threw Bronson as hard as he could at his partner and said "Your sadly mistaken, this is the wrong person to interrogate. When have you heard of a murderer not killing the owner of the store when he robs it?" With that he fired at the two with several plasma blasts from his machine gun. He then went to Quark, who was trying to free himself, and said "You're coming with me. I have a few questions for you", then reached out to grab his arm, and pointed his machine gun at the door he had come in through, because clearly the two other shapes were accomplices of Quark's.

Using a series of hand gestures, Bor communicated to Celdryc: Take position on the left of the door. I'll take the right.

"Daggit," muttered Talvox. "Hey Crycell, I think we're gonna have to head to the police station." "Alright then, one sec, I think we might need a flashlight," replied Crycell. He looked around the ship for one, but didn't find one. "Nevermind, no flashlights for us." "Then let's head to the station.

As they reached it, they immediately knew it was on lockdown. "Oi, Crycell, break down the door," said Talvox, knowing his blade would be strong enough to break the door. Crycell The Dude of Honor it back, and rammed the door, blade first, causing the door to be knocked off it's hinges. Luckily, their blades made a dim light so they could see well enough without flashlights. They entered cautiously, knowing they might've ran into a trap. As Talvox reached the reception desk, a gruesome sight met his eyes. The receptionist lay dead on the floor, with a knife in his back. "Crycell, come here," said Talvox, fear jolting his body. Crycell obeyed, and he gasped when he saw the body. Memories flashed through his brain. Silent Ones. "Talvox, this is bad juju. This place is likely has assassins in it," said Crycell, a definite note of fear in his voice. "Uh, what the heck are silent ones?" he asked. "Assassins. The worst kind," said Crycell shuddering. "Watch my back, we don't want to be sneaked upon, especially if Silent ones really are in the building." Talvox complied, and moving back-to-back with Crycell, they advanced down the building's dark hallway. A minute later, they heard Chalen's transmission. "We're on the way, Chalen," said Talvox, knowing he owed his life to the pixie.

A shuddering went through out the building. "Do you think we're being bombed?" asked Talvox, a bit skeptically. "I doubt it," replied Crycell. Silence followed as they moved across the building.

"Did I hear some sort of exploishin go off somewhere or did I just imagined it in head?" Chalen kept his ears and eyes wide open while trying not to be jumpy/scared. "I hope they got message alright. Wonder if they here right now?" Chalen's flashlight started to flicker on and off on him. "No no! You can't be running out of power already!" Chalen smacked the flashlight hoping it would stay on longer. At first it refused to stay on. 20 seconds later, it came back on and lit up the room once again. "There we go! Now I can see room again." Chalen wonderd who got his message and prayed the exploshin did not kill them.

Feren was startled by Chalen's sudden appearance and was about to respond when the lights went out completely. He still had his RDA on, and was monitoring lifesigns, and indicated no electrical activity in the building. The screen was bright in the darkness, and he instinctively takes out his pistol and thinks on his feet. He assumed the station would go into loockdown.

"Well, this is an interesting turn of events." he said aloud, loiud enough for anyone within the vicinity to hear. He was using Chalen's light to to acquaint himself with the scene... a split second decision was probably wrong, but he decided to follow the four dots on his RDA and not try and escape - he suspected this decision would have dire consequences.

"Here have this" said Feren, to Chalen "It is of no use to me." He offered him a battery from his pocket, it was not compatible with any of his equipment.

I went with IO, as he seemed to be helping. "Sure, as long as I get out of here, ask away." I said, hoping this guy could get me back to the Rangers. It was a quick jail time, but I was glad to be escaping. Although I probably couldn't, I hoped we'd pass by the evidence locker. It was silly to still be thinking of ship upgrades, but what the heck? We'd need them to continue fighting these CLEU guys.

Vektrix wrote:

Feren was startled by Chalen's sudden appearance and was about to respond when the lights went out completely. He still had his RDA on, and was monitoring lifesigns, and indicated no electrical activity in the building. The screen was bright in the darkness, and he instinctively takes out his pistol and thinks on his feet. He assumed the station would go into loockdown.

"Well, this is an interesting turn of events." he said aloud, loiud enough for anyone within the vicinity to hear. He was using Chalen's light to to acquaint himself with the scene... a split second decision was probably wrong, but he decided to follow the four dots on his RDA and not try and escape - he suspected this decision would have dire consequences.

"Here have this" said Feren, to Chalen "It is of no use to me." He offered him a battery from his pocket, it was not compatible with any of his equipment.

"Err...thanks? Who might you be? I never see you before."

"Commander Feren Vulpigrax, I believe you are Chalen, correct? I am a former Ergonian Military investigating some missing artefacts that have been traced to this locality."

A bit of lie, he knew his response made his presence sound official, when it wasn't.

"Now, how to get to the evidence during a lockdown?"