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Post by Scorpio on Jul 26, 2008 10:58:58 GMT
Drake caught the glowstick by reflex, before looking up at the thrower.
"Well stake me down for the crows. What the hell are you doing here?"
He watched her pass by as she climbed down, then once she got below him he grabbed the rope to stop her descent.
"Not here for the gold gorgeous. I've just been hired to keep balance. Lot of bad blood out here and I've got bait which may be the size of an olympic swimming pool.......it can also buy an olympic swimming pool."
He shook the rope a little.
"So, what brings you?" ***************************************************
PATRIOT stopped his truck at a small river at a cave opening. He stepped out and ran his metal hand through the water.
"Minor traces of gold residue. High purity."
This had to be a second entrance. He went back to the truck for weaponry, strapping 3 M72 disposable rocket launchers to his back and hefting a M134 minigun, thanks to his strength it would be easier for him to wield than the humans who would need to mount it to a vehicle to even move it around.
He walked into the cave activating his scanners. Nothing but cave for a good while yet.
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Post by Delacroix(Rei) on Jul 26, 2008 23:39:04 GMT
"I've been hired to eliminate all free radicals by J.O.T.E.I.E, Now if you'll release me before I actually have to hurt you." I say, getting a glowstick ready with a hand.
"And trust me, now is not the time for you to actually have cajones." I say sneering.
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Post by Scorpio on Jul 26, 2008 23:45:22 GMT
"I try to be friendly, why do you have to antagonise?"
He let go of the rope and started climbing down.
"How's married life treating you then? That McLaddy guy get sick of your temper yet?"
She sneered, he'd start insulting, they were both childish like that.
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Post by Delacroix(Rei) on Jul 26, 2008 23:50:36 GMT
"Of course not, we're still married, he's abit unnerved I'm assigned to a offensive agency." I say, rappeling down.
"And how is the ninja training going for you, Fail miserably yet, signs point to yes." I say, watching his rappelling footing.
"Right leg above the left, so you can quickly turn downwards and retailiate against anything coming up." I say, shaking my head in disappointment.
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Post by Scorpio on Jul 27, 2008 0:09:14 GMT
"It's actually going quite well. The Asuka master personally took charge of my training. He's quite the teacher despite his temper."
He looked down the shaft. The floor at the bottom was in view by now.
"and thanks for the advice. You got anything on what to do if a spider crawls up your leg? Like....that one there?"
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Post by Delacroix(Rei) on Jul 27, 2008 0:17:27 GMT
"Ignore it, I'm armored." I say, climbing down.
"Also, you're afraid of spiders, so you wouldn't mind this right?" I say, scooping the spider from my leg and throwing it at Drake's back.
"Intelligence is a great thing to have." I say.
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Post by Scorpio on Jul 27, 2008 0:23:06 GMT
ooc: Thinking of Quentin Savage Rei?
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"I think you have me mistaken for someone else. Happens a lot though, some say I look like a young Fred Ward."
Drake kicked off the wall, kicking back as he hit the opposite side, descending quicker than climbing until he hit the floor.
"Best get that over with. So you up for another temp alliance?"
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Post by Delacroix(Rei) on Jul 27, 2008 0:28:10 GMT
OOC: I was thinking of you. XD
I think for abit.
"Sure, why not?" I answer, I release the hold clamp and I start running down the wall.
"I'll see you at the bottom!" I yell up.
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Post by Scorpio on Jul 27, 2008 0:32:21 GMT
The pair continued wallrunning and jumping until they hit the ground.
"Okay. So you got a plan here? I forgot to pick up a map at the gift shop."
Drake readied his compound bow with one of the regular arrows.
"Been practising with this baby though. Dunno how I ever got by without it."
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Post by Delacroix(Rei) on Jul 27, 2008 0:48:21 GMT
I look at the bow.
"Better off with a gun." I say, drawing my gun.
"If the entrance is this easy to get into, best stay on alert." I say, sliding the slide back.
I step on a stone and infront of me, two gigantic blades swing across.
"Also, stay weary of the traps, they put these here for a reason now." I say, walking forward.
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Post by Scorpio on Jul 27, 2008 1:24:48 GMT
"Don't knock the older weapons, most people expect you to bring guns nowadays. It helps to be unconventional."
Drake stepped forward avoiding any trick stones.
"Here's the thing though. If the rumors are true. How does anyone expect to lay claim to the gold, let alone move it out? Not like they can just tear down the temple."
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Post by Delacroix(Rei) on Jul 27, 2008 1:28:48 GMT
"Suck it out, pour it into a ingot mold, and then it's easily transported." I say, stepping over a tripwire.
"Those who do find it, will have to be killed though." I say, looking back at Drake.
"You excluded, since you're with a Guardian Agency anyway." I say, reaching the end of the corridor.
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Post by Scorpio on Jul 27, 2008 1:48:19 GMT
"Well, thanks for that. The clans being insistant that noone...what the hell is that?"
Drake turned back to see PATRIOT walking up behind the pair, out of range of the traps.
"I should thank the pair of you, your heat signatures were easy to follow."
Drake aimed his bow.
"Okay. You're seeing the robot too right?"
PATRIOT fired a quick blast from his flamethrower at one of the tripwires. As it snapped several wooden spikes extended from the walls, Drake and Misaki ducked and weaved to avoid them as they encircled the pair like a cage.
"I'm thinking this is one of those types we are supposed to watch out for."
"Cease your insolence." PATRIOT bellowed, extending his arm and sending a cloud of knockout gas down the tunnel.
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Post by Delacroix(Rei) on Jul 27, 2008 1:53:56 GMT
"Drake, if you're a ninja, you've most likely brought a gas mask for yourself." I say, as I activate the hood system, a liquid like hood encasing my head and leaving one orange dot between where my eyes should be.
The suit's combat systems flicker on and I draw my pistol and I aim and fire at it's head.
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Post by Scorpio on Jul 27, 2008 2:03:02 GMT
PATRIOT didn't react to the gunfire, the rounds only scratching the finish on his head.
"Admirable for you ape descendants, always fighting against extinction."
Drake dived out of the gas cloud and fired his bow to even less effect than the bullets.
"Yeah, us humans are all about fighting back."
PATRIOT extended his arms, his first attack throwing Drake against the walls and his second grabbing Misaki by the throat and picking her off the ground.
"It would help in the long run if you two took what was coming. Since you have no chance with your primitive weapons and inferior synthetic muscle suits."
Drake stood and threw a rock, it shattered off PATRIOTs chest. He barely flinched whilst still strangling Misaki, turning his other arm to grab Drake.
"Wait your turn."
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Post by Delacroix(Rei) on Jul 27, 2008 2:11:32 GMT
I grab the hand and I start to slowly twist the metal downwards. The grip weakens.
"You have no idea what you processing through that binary mind of yours." I say, snapping the metallic joint.
I raise him high by his arm and I throw him into the wall, he releases Drake.
"Know your place droid, it's one the floor." I say, rubbing my throat.
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Post by Kan on Jul 27, 2008 4:15:44 GMT
Helljumper:
By the time the two were climbing down I had just about to head to the hole and do so myself, before seeing a metallic armored person, walking towards it. I managed to get up behind a nearby corner and avoid being seen.
I wait for a few minutes before moving, to make sure I stay undetected for now. That ends however as I clip my TAR to my chest and grab a small launcher from one of my pouches. I aim the device up and fire a small hook into the ceiling above the hole, I take a look around before clipping my self to the rip line and jumping down the hole, the rope hissing against the clip.
I grip the rope tighter to slow my descent enough so I land with barely a piece of dust being disturbed. I unclip myself and my TAR, shouldering the weapon before moving along the tunnel, hearing gun fire.
I dash down the tunnel, avoiding a pitfall trap on the way, just barely though, caught me off guard.
I round the next corner, weapon raised, in time to see the women bring down the metallic armored man.
I back up against the closest cover before I am spotted, staying low enough so not to be seen.
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Post by Captain Obvious on Jul 27, 2008 8:46:18 GMT
David snorted and sat up quickly
"Wow, those packs are potent!" David said, looking through his opened rucksack. He was referring to the knockout patches he had brought with him. Slap one on a persons neck and they would be out cold for hours.David had taken an eighth of one as a test.
Rubbing his face, David zipped his backpack back up and slung it across his back as he stood. His helmet emitted a small beeping sound to remind him it wasn't attached to the suit. He sighed and bent to put it back on.
After walking though a few corridors, David happened upon a shaft leading deeper into the temple... with two rappel ropes hammered into the rock face. "Son of a B***!" He thought to himself. I shouldn't have tested those patches. David's suit was to heavy to be supported by the smaller ropes, so he had to open his pack and take out his own rappel launcher.It was broken down, but he was proficient in its use, so it didn't take long to fix.
David shouldered the weapon and was satisfied by a pneumatic hiss and a small crunch as the hook embedded itself at the top of the shaft.He attached the rope to his belt and rappeled down in large leaps.
As David reached the bottom he heard a smacking sound, rock on rock.He quickly released himself from the harness and drew his silenced XM8.Sneaking along the wall with night vision active David almost few into a open box in the floor.Looking down, he saw it was filled with spikes... and a skeleton.
David took a few more steps down the hall before hearing a electronic voice say something about muscles and a crash immediately after.He hugged the wall and reached to his belt to withdraw a small camera on a fiber optic cable.
He snuck the camera around the corner and was surprised to see four people.A soldier holding a rifle, preoccupied with trying not to be seen, one of the bodyguard types from the camp area on the surface, a robot lying in the corner and what looked like a knockoff of his suit.
"You have GOT to be kidding me."
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Post by Scorpio on Jul 27, 2008 12:08:13 GMT
PATRIOT stood and snapped his arm joint back into place.
"Impressive stunt, but all for naught."
He reached behind his back and pulled out one of his M72s, extending the barrel and sight before aiming.
"Hey Gort." Drake got back up and squared up to the machine.
"Do you know who you deal with meat puppet?"
"Do you?"
Drake kicked upwards knocking PATRIOTs aim off and causing him to misfire at the ceiling. The room started rumbling as part of the ceiling gave way.
"Time to go." Drake ran towards Misaki, throwing her over his shoulder on the way and getting them both out of range of the cave in. **************************************************
PATRIOT gave the area a once over. No matter, many more routes around the tunnels. Perhaps easier ones than fighting, two launchers left just in case though, not to mention his internal weapons.
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"Okay." Drake put Misaki down and dusted himself off. "Was that guy a friend of yours or of mine?"
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Post by Delacroix(Rei) on Jul 27, 2008 12:15:41 GMT
"Patriot, one of the DoD's many failed attempts at creating the ultimate stratigist." I say, dusting myself off and taking off the reseacher's uniform, exposing the impressive black and dark purple assault suit.
I take a deep breath through my nose and I exhale through my mouth.
"He's near indestructible, except to EMPs" I say, sitting on a overturned pillar.
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Post by Ty on Jul 27, 2008 18:30:24 GMT
Con heard the cave in, though he couldn't quite tell where it had come from.
"The hell was that?"
Dragonfly chirped suddenly. It took off and flew down another hallway, and Con followed after it. He stopped short when the robot suddenly flew straight down. There was a huge hole in the floor.
Con pressed the button on his earpiece, but Snake didn't answer right away.
"Snake?"
After a moment, there was a response. "I'm here. What was that noise in the background?"
"Cave in. I'm not sure what caused it yet, but I'm looking at the hole right now. There's a whole 'nother set of tunnels down below."
"I can see it. Dragon's almost to the bottom. I'll call back to let you know it's clear to follow."
"Follow? Wait, you mean..."
"What? It's not that hard a climb. You have your grappling hook thing, right?"
"Uh, yeah, of course. Talk to you in a minute."
Con hit the button again, then looked down the hole and sighed.
"Grappling hook. Figures, the one thing I forget..."
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Post by Kan on Jul 27, 2008 20:27:29 GMT
Jackal:
I decided to follow Con for now, he might have a better chance at finding the Gold than I will.
I walk up behind him and shine my light at him, "Here" I say, tossing a Blacklight zip line launcher to Con, along with a clip to slide down.
"I figure you might be able to use some back up"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ HellJumper ~~~~~~~
I cover my head as the cave starts to come down on itself between the robot and the other two. I stay down, behind some rubble to avoid being seen by the robot, I might be able to take it but I don't want to at the moment though.
As the robot is going away I take a few looks out watching it go down another path. I step out and dust myself off, and head down another path, slightly hopping I don't run into Misuke.
"She always seemed a bit off tilter to me" I mutter to myself, "I feel bad for Paul"
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Post by Ty on Jul 27, 2008 20:51:41 GMT
"Much obliged," Con said. There's a phrase I don't use often.
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Dragonfly continued down through the hole created by the cave in. It flew through another opening, into the lower passage, and landed upside down on the undamaged part of the ceiling. It focused its camera eye on the two people below.
Meanwhile, outside the temple, Snake watched the video feed with surprise. He called Con on his communicator.
"Yeah?" Con's voice answered.
"More foreign agents. One man, one woman..." He squinted at the screen. "I think I recognize her from one of our files... Misaki Inoue, if I remember right. Not sure about the other one."
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"Thanks for the heads up." Con said. He ended the call and turned to Jackal. "We've got some company down below. Could be dangerous..."
Con stepped aside and made a kind of 'right this way' gesture.
"After you," he said with a smile.
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Post by Kan on Jul 27, 2008 20:55:35 GMT
"Anyone we know" I ask before clipping to the zip line, jumping down after Con answers me.
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Post by Ty on Jul 27, 2008 20:58:24 GMT
Con took out his PDA. After a moment to boot up, he checked his files on foreign agents.
"Not sure about the guy, but I've dealt with the woman before. Misaki Inoue. Japanese Offensive Target Elimination and Information Extraction. She's classified as 'Highly Dangerous'. But, I'm sure we'll be fine."
As long as we don't make any sudden movements, he thought as he hooked up the zipline.
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Post by Scorpio on Jul 28, 2008 0:56:11 GMT
"EMP eh? Fat lot of good that'll do unless we either get a nuke or one of those shockpulse bombs....currently still in the theory stage and the size of a 18 wheeler."
Drake checked his gear over, before lying down on a slab and looking up at the ceiling.
"This is a sacrificial chamber right? Is it morbid for me to lie here?" ****************************************************
PATRIOT finished checking over the caved in area, he'd simply backtrack to a fork he'd passed earlier and find a new path.
"Activating light amplification and image enhancement."
He walked back the way he came carrying his spare launchers and discarding the used one.
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Post by Delacroix(Rei) on Jul 28, 2008 10:00:34 GMT
"Or, I could use these." I say, pulling out a clip that looks like it's emitting a blow glow.
"These are sticky rounds, designed to stop anything electrical to the size of a 18 wheeler,upon impact it releases a large pulse towards the impact." I say, pocketing it.
"It's my only clip but as you know, I have 20 shots to use." I say, I say, snapping off a bronze sword from a statue.
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Post by Captain Obvious on Jul 28, 2008 23:40:46 GMT
"Crap"! David exclaimed as the robot started in his direction.
He readied his XM8 and waited... as it passed right next to him and entered the doorway opposite the wall David was hugging himself too.
"What have I gotten myself into this time?" He asked himself.
He peeked around the corner for the soldier who had been taking cover behind a fallen pillar and saw he was gone.
"Damnit! I should have kept on eye on that blackops ass****!" David muttered to himself.
Turning on his thermal goggles, David scanned the area for anyone, or anything, that might be sticking around.Satisfied he was alone, he started walking towards the fork in the passage where the roof had collapsed andstarted the task of clearing away the rubble.He needed info on the person wearing the other powersuit.
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Post by Scorpio on Jul 29, 2008 0:14:20 GMT
Drake took a pair of the bullets from the clip as she held it.
"I'd better take a few of these. In case it can't pierce his armour we may have to take a more unorthadox move with them."
He tucked them into his belt and took a look around the room. Two remaining passages marked with different symbols.
"Okay, we got winged snake eating a village one way, and sun over a holy man the other. Both sound just lovely don't you think?"
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Post by Kan on Jul 29, 2008 19:04:48 GMT
Bout time you showed yourself I think to myself as I watch the armored man begin digging through the rubble, I had noticed him a while back but feinted not noticing. I step away from the wall I hugging out of sight and grab a magazine loaded with AP rounds, we have been issued with these since meeting up with some of the more dangerous LADON agents.
I quietly load the magazine and walk up behind the man, maybe ten feet back, and pull pack the charging rod of my TAR audibly chambering a round.
"Alright Lucy, hands up, and I suggest you disable that tampering system,and I won't ask nicely again" I say to the man, keeping my rifle trained on him.
"By the way, I am authorized to kill your sorry *ss so.... I suggest you do as I say, because I would gladly do it"
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