Raiders



Rayden felt a jolt of adrenaline as he and hsi squadmates stormed the trench. The sound of blaster fire and artillery rang in his ears. Explosions were going off all around him. While most average people would be wetting themselves, Rayden found all the action exhilerating.

"Alright, get those rifles up.  They know we're here,"  Darr said over the Comlink. Rayden raised his rifle and sighted a group of troopers whose heads were above the Trench. Almost without thinking, Rayden spewed the superheated energy that were blaster bolts from his rifle into the trench. He could hear the screams as he bullseyed two enemy Stormtroopers in the face.

This was were Rayden belonged. In combat, bringing swift death to all those who opposed the Vast Empire. After two years, and numerous jobs, Rayden finally felt satisfaction. he felt content. he felt... purpose.

"This is Colonel Rizzit, those turrets are beginning to lay down some heavy fire.  All troopers, get to your positions and steer clear from that firepower.  One blast could take out half, or even all of your squad,"

Rayden pulled a frag grenade off of his belt and primed it before tossing it into the Trench. A moment later it exploded, launching a mangled Trooper and pieces of a turret into the air.

Rayden was a soldier. He didn't need to worry about politics, he didn't need to worry about anything, not even death. his only job and his only worry was to obey his orders, and be the best that he could be. Though the thought of death was scary, Rayden felt that their was no greater cause to die for then for the Vast Empire.

"Keep suppressing them, we need to drive them back deep into that trench.  Dragoons are coming from the right side.  If we get them in the middle, then we can easily take them out from there, and get that god damned E-web up"

Rayden fired into the large group of eney Troopers spilling out of the end of the Trench. He fell back, though he managed to take out one. He could sense Aphamos  behind him, firing and falling back as well.

Rayden primed his second grenade and threw it at the group of enemy Storm Troopers. They broke formation and scattered as the grenade exploded, engulfing two screaming troopers in flame.

"Had they estimated this much manpower?"

"I dont think so..."

"E-web up, this is Rogue.  I'm going to light this place up"

The large group of Troopers rushing at them were almost immediately cut down in a deadly shower of E-Web blaster bolts.

"Squall, keep firing.  We're going to hold this position until we can get a foothold here.  We need to get down into that trench!"

Raiders Squadron continued to hammer the Trench and what was left of the group that exited it until their were virtually no defenses left on their end.







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TRP/PFCRayden-Shiong/3SQD/1PLT/1Com/1RGT/1BAT/VEA/VE/Tadath

Raiders


Rayden tried to imagine his appearance. His suit was more then likely extremely dirty, covered in blood and black burn marks, and he wouldn't have been surprised if their were even a few cracks in it. He would have to remind himself to use his GLEEN armor polish later, that or just order a new suit.

Rayden allowed himself to relax a bit after that E-Web had been destroyed by Preditor. At the other parts of the trench, the battle was still raging ferociously. However, at the end were the Raiders were at, it was pretty calm.

"New Hostiles approaching from the west! Thrawn's forces are sending troops down the Trench!"

Rayden stared down the Trench to indeed see at least ten Stormtroopers heading toward them, rifles raised.

Damn, they must be trying to retake this position...

All of Raiders squad started firing as soon as the troopers were in range, except for Rouge and Aeos who were busy setting up the E-Web.

The combined fire of Raiders squad quickly cut down the enemy soldiers, who had no room due to the cramped trench they were in. Now, they just needed to wait for that damn E-Web to get assembled...

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TRP/PFCRayden-Shiong/3SQD/1PLT/1Com/1RGT/1BAT/VEA/VE/Tadath

Squall creeped up the side of the trench, peeking his head out just enough took look down the line towards the other trenches.  It was but one second and fire was whizzing past his head.  He quickly ducked down to get out of the way, and he knew, the E-web was their only chance at suppressing the enemy and moving forward.

"Cover Aeos and Rogue's ass, they're holding their trenches well.  Poke your head up once and your dead," said Squall.

Squall's ears rang as the turret fire pierced through the air and slammed into the ice covered battlefield.  The three emplacements were beginning to become annoying.  The Dragoons would have surely taken some shots by now....

"This is Sam, Dragoons are under heavy firepower from those turret enplacements.  The enemy mechs are coming up from behind those trenches, missiles and cannon fire all together.  Raiders, keep it up.  We need to make a coalided attack at them to bring down their mech forces."

"This is Tin Can, we've taken down another walker.  Coming around for another run.  Dragoon forces, pin that group of walkers down and we'll blow by and give you some suppressing firepower," said Kami

Squall looked up to see the hovervan stream by, cannons blaring.  He knew only a couple of the members of Dragoons, he had been one once, but it had been far too long for him to remember any of his good old buddies, except for Gio of course.  Damn I miss that guy

Squall snapped back into the fight as he heard Rogue call over the com link.  "Bah, we've got the E-web up.  Unloading what we've got as long as I can.  Now would be a good time to get those frags ready and rush the next trench"

Squall crept up the slope of the trench one more, just barely letting enough of his A-280 stick out so that he could pluck off a couple of soliers.  Bolts whissed by, but failed to hit their designated targets.  Squall quickly let off bursts from the rifle, letting the enemies know that the squad had their foothold now, and they weren't going to let go of it.

"Darr Rann to Dragoons, think we could get a flyby on that second trench?" called out Darr to the Tin Can.

"Sure thing, coming around on your mark," said Kami over the com system.

Squall looked to the left and watched as the speeder bike squad of Eclipse whissed past the enemy lines.  The distraction was working, and now Eclipse could get in and take out the turrent emplacements, which would aid the assault on the facility greatly.

"Kami, now!" said Darr, rushing up over the trench.  Squall followed, and the attack worked just as they had planned.  The troopers on the left side of the next trench were dumbfounded as the firepower poured out of the flying mech, ripping their forces to shreads.  Squall could hear Rogue cursing as he let open the throttle on the E-web, shooting anything that came out of the trench.

"I want you to dive into that trench Raiders, and make no mistakes by letting those soldiers know that we are there.  Rogue, dismantle that E-web and Aeos, you help him," Darr said, in between pants of breaths as the two soldiers jumped a dove into the trench.  Squall unloaded his rifle, catching what was left inside the trench off guard.  Darr tossed a grenade in hopes to take out what was left.  Leon and Preditor were now in the trench, firing on anything that moved.

"Alright, keep up the firepower.  How's that E-web coming guys?" said Darr

"Nearly there.  Shit! Sniper fire from I dont know where!" yelled Rogue.  Within a couple of seconds, Aeos and Rogue were into the second trench, the E-web parts attached to both of them.

"I know damn well there are snipers out there, one of their shots nearly clipped by boot!" cried Rogue

"Your damn lucky two.  You guys have got to move faster with dismantiling and putting that E-web up.  We dont have much time as it is, assaulting these trenches.

Squall's eyes flashed as grenades dropped into the trench, and they weren't his own.

"MOVE!" yelled Squall, "Grenades!"

The grenades went off, sending shrapnel throughout the trench, one small piece slicing Squall's leg wide open.

"ARG!" cried Squall as he felt his flesh seperate.  He looked down to see blood flowing out of his leg, not to mention he'd been thrown back a couple of meters from the explosion.  Squall was now laying on the ground, blaster up, ready for anything to come into the trench.

Squall dug into his pack and brought out the large roll of gause rap and wrapped it around his leg, cutting off the flow of blood so that he would be able to move around, but his leg was starting to grow numb.

"Damnit, I've been hit," said Squall, "Shrapnel caught my right leg, its a bad one"

"Leon, Preditor, keep suppressing.  Aeos, Rogue, you know what to do," said Darr, coming over to Squall's position.

"This is Kami, coming around for another run on the 3rd trench, hoping to relieve you guys a bit," said Kami as Squall saw the flying mech van swoop over the battlefield.  Squall could hear cries of victory from those within the hovervan, knowing that they had done some sort of damage.

Darr took a knee beside Squall as Squall brought him self up to his arms.

"Can you walk?"

"Hell yea I can walk, I just cant feel anything in my leg," said Squall, grabbing another stimulant from his pack and jabbing it into his throat, injecting the fluid straight into his blood stream.

"I don't know how you can inject those there? Does that hurt?" said Darr

"Doesn't both me.  Lets get moving," said Squall

"Righto," replied Darr
 
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Squall Lionheart
Sergeant
*-Raider Squad-*
+ Advance Recon Commandos {ARC} +
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TR/SGT Squall/3SQD/1PLT/1COMP/1BAT/1RGT/VEA/VE [LoR] [EWI] [WM]

Raiders

Aphamos stared at the backside of the trench, his entire body gone numb.  He sat and waited; he didn't know what he was waiting for, but he did know one thing.  He didn't want to fight.  Something seemed out of place?there was an odd feeling in side of him, and he knew that something was about to go wrong.  Something drastic would happen and change the entire course of the battle.  Well, get the hell up and do something about it.  He tried to get up to his feet, but he couldn't make it.  He looked over to his squad leader, not hearing a word that Darr-Rann was saying.

He closed his eyes once more, trying to calm himself down.  Damn deep breaths.  Never worked in the first place.  He smiled for a moment, the expression soon fading off of his face as he opened his eyes.  A trooper next to him fell to the ground, a hole straight through his head.  Aphamos turned his head, facing his squad once more.  They had all lined up at the front of the trench, weapons drawn up, and waiting for Darr's count.  What the hell?  They are all going to die.

"WAIT, WAIT!" yelled Aphamos, picking up his sniper rifle and running to his squad leader.  "They can't rush out there, every single one will get cut down by sniper fire."

"How was your beauty sleep?" asked Darr-Rann, another smile forming on Aphamos' face.

"We have to take out as many of those snipers as possible.  Once they are preoccupied and we have that e-web up, we lay down covering fire and then rush."  He waited for his squad leader's reply, ducking down to escape from a flurry of blaster bolts.

"Alri-," said Darr-Rann, his voice being cutoff by a grenade.  "NADE!  MOVE MOVE MOVE!"  Aphamos dove to the left, the explosive going off and sending shrapnel through the air.

Aphamos came to his feet, looking down at his leg.  His leg armor was stained red, blood oozing out of the wound.  He bent down, touching the cut with his finger and examining the lesion further.  After a few moments, he ripped off a piece of his cape and wrapped it around the wound.  Like that's going to do any good.  He stood up, grabbing another sniper rifle from the side of the trench and walking towards Squall.

"Squall," said Aphamos, throwing the rifle at the trooper.  He pointed toward the bunker in front of them and on the right, signaling to the trooper to start firing.  "You know what to do."  Aphamos looked over to Rogueboy and Aeos, both of them positioned at the e-web to the right.  "Are you done yet?"

"No, not yet," answered Rogueboy, Aeos hard at work setting up the turret.

"You have two minutes," said Aphamos, walking toward the left of the bunker now.  He aimed his sniper rifle up and at the enemy bunker in front of them.  He saw a sniper out in the open, aimed right at their bunker.  Aphamos aimed his rifle and fired, the shot hitting the enemy trooper straight through the head.  He ducked down back into the bunker and made his way for another position.

Moving his rifle up again, he aimed at another sniper, firing and hitting the trooper in the chest.  Finding another position, Aphamos decided to scan the battlefield instead.  "Squall, e-web on your side.  Take them out quickly," said Aphamos.

"Gotcha," replied Squall.

 
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Raiders

War is cruelty. There's no use trying to reform it, the crueler it is the sooner it will be over.
--William Tecumseh Sherman--

Riqimo heard the commotion about a bomb, but he had his own worries, nine Thrawn speeders were racing in, trying to take out the Eclipse squad.  Riqimo starting singing, "Nine little speeders tempting cruel fate..."

Jelly came on his com link, "What the heck was that for?"

Riqimo replied, "Just a little nursery rhyme I remember"

Just as Jag shot one speeder, causing it to smoke badly, that speeder turned away and retreated, leaving a large, black smoke trail behind.

Riqimo finished his line... "One got religion and then there were eight."

Jelly, pulling his swoop quickly to the right and kicking another off his bike, Riqimo continued his parody sing song rhyme, "Eight little speeders, jumping for heaven, one feel down and then there were seven."

Then a large explosion came, That must have been the first speeder

Next Riqimo pulled out a cable and threw one hook onto a speeder to his left, and glancing behind him, quickly pulled to the left, narrowly dodging some laser bolts.  The speeder attached to Riqimo was pulled as well and Riqimo released the cable.  The speeder that was behind Riqimo suddenly crashed into the hooked speeder and Riqimo just continued cheerfully singing over his com link, "Seven little speeders thinking thet were alive, Two tripped wires and then there were five..."

The turrets were starting to appear out of the mists, their towering appearence almost terrifying.  Not for long, we're gonna blow these babies to bits and pieces.

Seeing Jag starting to handle another, Riqimo continued, "Five little speeders...

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EclipseSquad


TRP/LCP Riqimo/2SQD/2PLT/1COM/1RGT/1BAT/Tadath/VEA     Imperial Baronet

Hi ho, hi ho, it's off to war we go, we'll find some Rebels or lose our marbles, hi ho, hi ho

Antiquis temporibus, nati tibi similes in rupibus ventosissimis exponebantur ad necem.

Subtle and insubstantial, the expert leaves no trace; divinely mysterious, he is inaudible. Thus he is master of his enemy's fate.

"Five little speeders... Trying to even the score... One got company, and then there were four." Riqimo continued singing happily.

Turning his swoop near RK's he tried to blast another speeder with their combined blaster bolt fire... Jag took out another one, causing Riqimo to sing again, despite Jag's protests... "Four little speeders, not looking so cheery, one got pushed and then there were three."

Next Garet swooped over next to Riqimo and RK, aiding their firing, next thing that happened was the engine of that speeder to fall out, threatening to hit the three eclipse members behind it.  They all dodged it though and everyone focused on the last two speeders.

Also, Riqimo to continued getting on every one's nerves with yet another rhyme, "Three little speeders, none of them new, one lost its nuts and bolts and then there were two."

Riqimo called Jelly Bean over his com link, "Get the one on the left, he's close enough to use your vibro-blade soon."

Jelly Bean acknowledged, with a hint of uneagerness to hear Riqimo's next verse, which had already started, "Two little speeders, with running like huns..."

Looking over at Jelly Bean, he was the enemy speeder's driver recieve a gash across his stomach, quickly improvising his lines, he came up with, "...one got a stomach ache, and then there was one."

Motioning to jag, he moved in on the last, "One little speeder, with nowhere left to run..."

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EclipseSquad


TRP/LCP Riqimo/2SQD/2PLT/1COM/1RGT/1BAT/Tadath/VEA     Imperial Baronet

Hi ho, hi ho, it's off to war we go, we'll find some Rebels or lose our marbles, hi ho, hi ho

Antiquis temporibus, nati tibi similes in rupibus ventosissimis exponebantur ad necem.

Subtle and insubstantial, the expert leaves no trace; divinely mysterious, he is inaudible. Thus he is master of his enemy's fate.

Jag now having commandeered the speeder bike from Thrawn's forces, seeing Riqimo signal him towards the last speeder. When they were side-by-side within an inch from each other Jag said over the com channel, "Listen, get ahead of the last speeder! I have an idea." With that they both shot in front of the speeder when Jag shouted over the channel again, "Catch this!" He tossed over-one end of a garrote wire. "Pull it tight!"

Jag suddenly braked his speeder and Riqimo followed suit. When they passed the final Thrawn speeder Jag and Riqimo felt a small tug from the wire, then Riqimo looked ahead and noticed that the trooper on the final speeder bike was suddenly missing a head. He was amazed at how the wire had performed and then said, " One little speeder, with nowhere left to run. One lost it's head and then there were none."

When the others caught up Garet said, "I told you not to bring any personal equipment!" Jag kept quiet as he kept the wire back in his belt but then Garet said, "But even though you gotta get me some of that wire you used!"

Jag laughed at this and then the whole squad did. After that they managed to avoid most dangers but there was one point were a mech tried to stop them but it was too slow and the speeder bikes just carried on until they were in reach of their destination. They kept there speeder bikes in a place out of the way were they hopefully wouldnt be spotted until they could safely bring the explosives without too much risk. When they could clearly see the turrets they could also see a few guards. Jag being the point man counted ten guards in total and he took out his carbine to take aim on the first one but Garet stopped him.

"Wait until we get a little closer all right." Jag obeyed and re-holstered his weapon. When they were close enough that each member of the squad could each take one out- but still far enough away so as not to be easily spotted- took careful aim and on Garet's signal they all fired. With only two left before Jag's shot found his mark he had all ready aimed and fired at the second whilst Garet took out the last remaining guard.
 
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EclipseSquad
TRP/PFC jag fel/2SQD/2PLT/1COMP/1BAT/1RGT/Tadath/VEA/VE
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[Red Dragon Order]
SM/Com Jag Fel/Task Force 1/Eta Squad/2nd Platoon/Red Company/1st Battalion/KBcC Helsa/OFF/Army/RDA(O)

"The fate of the free world is in the hands of a bunch of hustlers and thieves" XXX2
"Say hello to my little friend" Tony Montana
"Im going to make him an offer he cant refuse"
"Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer" Godfather

Catching the wire that Jag threw at him, Riqimo suddenly realized what Jag wanted to do.  Watching the head come off was no pleasant, but it was necessary to stay alive Just on of the cold, grim horrors of war.

Finishing his nursury rhyme song, Riqimo sang, "One little speeder, with nowhere left to run. One lost it's head and then there were none."

The squad made it to their turret targets without much problems, as their swoops and Jag's speeder could easily out race anything that came their way.

After sniping any guards around the first turret with their stormtrooper carbines, they carefully made their way to the turret, the snow being thick in this area, impeding their progress.  turning to Jag, Riqimo said, are these explosives timed or command detonated?"

Jag replied "Both, they are timed, I can set the time easily enough."

Jelly Bean overhearing the conversation said, "Well make sure we are far away enough when that thing blows."

Riqimo added, "If you are timing them, give us some extra time, this snow is thick and we are gonna have to hurry pretty fast."

Riqimo and jag advanced towards the turret while the rest of the squad stayed back, guarding against any Thrawn force that may present itself too close.

Riqimo watched as Jag set the explosive device to explode at the signal sequence that Jag specified.  Jag commented, "That should be set, let's move"

Riqimo and Jag hustled through the snow, back to their squad.

"All set," Jag said.

"Okay on the speeders," Garet ordered, " We are running a little slower than we should be due to those speeders challenging us."

The squad raced off, but quickly slowed down when they realized Jag's military speeder was not as fast as their swoop bikes.

The two other towers stood like proud giants... "Get ride of your pride" Riqimo whispered to himself...
 
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EclipseSquad


TRP/LCP Riqimo/2SQD/2PLT/1COM/1RGT/1BAT/Tadath/VEA     Imperial Baronet

Hi ho, hi ho, it's off to war we go, we'll find some Rebels or lose our marbles, hi ho, hi ho

Antiquis temporibus, nati tibi similes in rupibus ventosissimis exponebantur ad necem.

Subtle and insubstantial, the expert leaves no trace; divinely mysterious, he is inaudible. Thus he is master of his enemy's fate.

Raiders

Rifles blazing, Leon, Darr-Rann, Aphamos, and Squall jumped into the trench below. Leon pounded bolt after bolt into the opposing forces. And being on the far left, he had many to deal with. An enemy snowtrooper charged at Leon with a vibro-bayonet, who stepped aside and dodged it with ease. At the same time Leon stuck out his foot tripping the Thrawn soldier, and then pounded a bolt into the back of his head.

"Leon watch out!" shouted Squall who was closest to him. Leon ducked as soon as he heard Squalls voice, an enemy Vibro-blade slashing at where he had just been a moment before. In return, Leon quickly whipped out his Treppus, spun around on his heels, and stabbed the enemy Snowtrooper in the gut. Leon quickly pulled the blade out and then stabbed the trooper again in the neck. The enemy Snowtrooper slowly sank to his knees, the blood squirting out from both wounds, and then fell face forward.

For a second, Leon was shocked. The trench was littered with opposing forces bodies. The once pure white snow was now a crimson red. Leon brought his gloved hands up to his face, and saw that blood was all over them. It was everywhere, on his chest plate, his helm, and on his boots. Oblivious to what was around him, Leon continued to look at his bloodied hands.

A wounded enemy Snowtrooper was slowly crawling behind the shocked Leon. With every second he was getting closer. Slowly the trooper rose to his feet, not making a sound. Blood was pouring out of the troopers chest, but he did not care, he wanted revenge for what this bastard had done to his friends. He did not care that he was going to bleed and freeze to death; he just wanted to kill this man that stood before him. The trooper raised his knife above Leon's head, getting ready for the kill.

"I have you now..." whispered the trooper to Leon.

The trooper brought the knife down, a smile spreading across his face knowing that he was going to get his kill. But unfortunately, he wasn't. A huge claw had caught the troopers arm in mid-swing. The trooper slowly turned his face to the giant lizard that loomed above him. "This one thinks you are very stupid. But it doesn't matter what this one thinks, because you are now going to die," and with that Preditor broke the mans arm, and with a quick slice of his wrist, cut the mans throat with his gigantic claws.

Preditor then turned to Leon, who was oblivious to had what happened behind him. He tapped Leon on the shoulder, who suddenly whirled around, Vibro Blade in hand, and put the knife to Preditors throat. "Oh its you, sorry about that."

"This one saved your life. You now owe this one and the rest of the squad free drinks when we get back home. Now lets go help the rest of the White Knights."

"Yea, let's go..."



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Raiders
May god have mercy upon my enemies, for I will show none.
TRP/LCP Leon/3SQD/1PLT/1CMP/1RGT/1BAT/Tadath/VEA
And so we go.
I am the one...The one who made the 100,000 post.

Arnaut peered around, they'd been planet side for almost an hour and half, they should be in the facility already, he looked at his crono again, there was no way to know if the distraction had been set up or not, not in this white out, even with the filtering properties of their helmets it was hard to see more than a few meters. It also seemed their long range transmitter wasn't working, or the snow had disabled communications, however all their in helmet systems seemed to be functioning well enough, even intra squad communications. Arnaut sighed, he didn't like the idea of shooting off without Nightstalkers, however there was no way to know what had happened to them, and they couldn't delay the mission very much longer. With this in mind he climbed atop his swoop and powered it up.

However, then he heard the the Stalkers jet packs coming down, moments later they landed in the midst of the Wraiths. Kairo stepped forward.

"We couldn't contact you, decided that the snow storm must be interrupting your communications, those guard towers are down, the main force has Thrawns mostly engaged, theres a small squad of snowtroopers that seem to be moving around them in a flanking motion, we're going to go engage them, but as long as you keep near this cliff wall," Kairo pointed, "you should be fine."

The Nightstalkers disappeared then, into the snow, the rest the Wraiths got up and mounted their bikes, the weather and weight of their armor was already beginning to have a toll, they needed to get moving. It only took them a matter of seconds to get underway, all eager to be moving, this time tough they tore off into the snow, their only guide being the nav-computer on the swoop and the distant, almost imagined, sounds of fighting. The squad did as they were told and kept to the cliff wall, they kept the speeders at full throttle, occasionally having to dodge a stray bolt or two. They lost track of the wall eventually, but kept up the same speed, flying over one abandoned trench, the VE line, then keeping their swoops at full throttle they flew over a second, going almost full speed, where there were signs of fighting, however it was gone in a flash, and then the squad was forced to weave between large bolts as the turrets targeted them, the superior maneuverability of the speeder seemed to be paying off though. They were forced to turn though when they caught sight of another squad of snowtroopers coming their way, so they veered towards their original cliff wall, weaving in and out of the battle going on around them, trying to find a clear pathway to the facility itself, finally when they found the cliff wall they were able to fallow it around the turret emplacement and then to the one side of the facility. The gray building was covered mostly in white, however the smoking guard towers around it gave it away, those places the snow had been scorched away to show the buildings true gray color. The wraiths pulled their swoops into the small space between that building and the cliff wall, here they would remain hidden in the shadows and the snow, Snipes just hoped the squad would be able to find them again when it came time to leave.

Snipes parked his bike and dismounted, watching the others do the same, he grabbed the bag that held his armor and other weapons and carried it in one hand, in the other his Stormtrooper-II blaster was held. He waited for Arnaut to take the lead, then he fallowed, as did everyone else. They didn't even take the idea of going through the front door into consideration, they would never be allowed in, Wraiths found their breach of the wall, it was where at one point a guard tower had stood, that entire section of the wall was missing, the snow storm seemed to be keeping anyone from seeing it since even inside the wall there was no visibility.
 
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{Comnet Hermit}
-=Wraith Squad=-
TRP/GSG Sniping101/4SQD/1PLT/1COM/1BAT/1RGT/VEA/VE [LoR][IH][BoA][CDS]

Stultior stulto fuisti, qui tabellis crederes!

   



Talstorin watched as the other squad faded into the distance.  Arnaut looked at the rest of the squad.  They had all readied their swoops, eagerly waiting at the edge of the cliff.  Arnaut grinned and nodded.  "When the Nightstalkers commence their battle, we'll immediately rush in.  All guards will be focused on their attackers leaving us room to enter.  There'll be a breach in the wall where we can enter, so quickly get to the building and get in as fast as possible.  We don't want anyone noticing."

    The squads nodded and got ready, watching the specks in the distance.  Talstorin backed up, and leaned forward, his streamlined swoop was ready to burst into action.  They waited in silence though.  It wasn't until a while later that sounds of blasters could be heard.  The battle had started.  The squad immediately dashed down the slope, heading for their goal.  Talstorin let his brakes go, the swoop instantly roared and zipped headlong.  Catching up with the rest of the squad quickly, Talstorin ducked down to avoid a blaster shot.  Soon after, he was ahead of the squad again, going at a dangerous speed.  The snow and armor had tested his driving abilities however, the added weight made him unsteady as he steered.  Occasionally he'd almost fall from the weight, re-adjusting his position barely in time.

    It didn't take long to get to the building.  Talstorin hopped off, slamming the brakes right before he did.  He fell in a crouch in the snow, the bike tipping over as if about to roll down the rest of the way, though it didn't.  The snow had cushioned it.  Talstorin hid it under some snow, and stood as he watched the rest of the squad descent down.  They all hopped off, hiding their swoops and began to look for the breach.  It wasn't an obvious thing, the snow and blizzard had hid it mostly from view.  Finally, Snipes yelled to the rest of the squad.  He had found it.  The squad rushed to Snipes, who was standing next to a entrance. 

    The squad crawled in, Arnaut going in last.  They had made it in, unseen.  "Okay," said the squad leader.  "There are rooms around here, I'm assuming temporary rooms for in transit troops.  Just get changed there, hide you're armor and let's quickly move out."    The squad responded with nods and split up.  Each trooper went into a room, trying to change into their storm commando armor as quickly as possible.

    Talstorin got in his armor, grabbing his blasters and putting them on his belt.  He attached his Verdicator scanner to his right arm, grabbing his carbine after.  He ran out of the room, holding his snowtrooper armor in one hand.  Half of the squad was already out.  "Place your armor in this container, we'll keep it in the trash so now one will check.  They'll be too busy to empty the trash."  The squad listened to Arnaut, placing their armor into the container.  Finally, the other half of the squad came back out as well.  They dumped their armor in.  Yillis closed the container and went into another room to hide it.

    A sound was heard suddenly.  The squad stopped what they were doing abruptly and perked their heads up.  Everyone looked around.  It was the sound of echoing footsteps.  Yillis stepped out, carbine ready.  "Did everyone hear that?" he asked.  The entire squad nodded and looked around, ready to shoot the nearest moving object.


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In the brightest light,
We find darkness...
-=Wraith Squad=--=TRP=-
TRP/PFC Tnepres/4SQD/1PLT/1COMP/1BAT/1RGT/Tadath/VEA/VE[LoR]
Memoirs of a Withered Soul- Compendium of Short Stories on Talstorin's Background/Story of Talstorin and Durandal( out now- read it on army story board)
Happy Holidays! Cause Wraith is going to leave you others in the dust for the HSC

   

    Alan flew unsteadily.  His flight was shakier than regular, the heavy armor was taking a toll on his ability.  To add to that, the heavy snow and blizzard wasn't helping.  He gripped his blaster tightly, flying in position.  They were in a triangular formation, Kairo in front, himself in the right corner.  Alan had noticed the squad was flying slower than usual, he wasn't the only one being hindered by the weather and armor apparently.  "Get ready, we're getting in range of the battle site," barked Kairo.  The squad descended a bit, heading for the unsuspecting snowtroopers below.  Alan loved this part, getting the first strike was the best.  The squad headed down, swooping almost, forming into an arrowhead formation.

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    The snowtrooper hummed to himself.  Another dull day in his job was what it seemed like.  Enlisting in Thrawns army wasn't as fun as he had imagined back in the day.  It usually meant standing next to a building for a half of a day, pointlessly looking around, standing guard in case some random army invades.  Why he signed up for this job was beyond him.  He regretted every minute of it.  The trooper looked around, his heavy armor caused him to move rigidly.  The man began to whistle, toying around with his blaster.  Where were they?  He was informed a certain army would land on Illium today.  He had gotten all excited about it too. And yet, he had stood there for about 12 hours already and no one came.

    The trooper sat down.  He gave up.  They would never come.  It was back to boring old life again.  He sighed, the boredom wasn't worth the pay he got.  It was so unbearable, it made him want to carve out his eyes and eat them.  Glaring down at the floor, he felt him brain numb over.  It was too much.  The boredom, the cold, the uneventful droning routines, he couldn't take them anymore.  He stood up, facing upwards at the sky.  He screamed.  "MAKE IT STOP!!!! I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE! FREE ME FROM THIS BORING LIFE!"

    His prayers were answered.  He heard a low hum and stopped talking.  He squinted, looking straight ahead.  Nothing.  What was that sound?  Perhaps excitement came.  He smiled.  And was then shot down by a hail of laser bursts. 

    Kairo grinned as he saw the snow trooper fall face first.  "Let's get this mission started, Nighstalkers!"  The squad cheered, readying as they saw the rows of snowtroopers rush at them.  They were vengeful, ready to pay back for the death of their fellow soldier.  The Nightstalkers stood there, ready as ever.  Alan kicked the dead body out of the way.  The helmet rolled off.  The dead trooper had his eyes closed, his mouth shaped in a smile.  That was the Vast Empire.  Making sure people could die in happiness.  One scum after another.

 
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In the brightest light,
We find darkness...
-=Wraith Squad=--=TRP=-
TRP/PFC Tnepres/4SQD/1PLT/1COMP/1BAT/1RGT/Tadath/VEA/VE[LoR]
Memoirs of a Withered Soul- Compendium of Short Stories on Talstorin's Background/Story of Talstorin and Durandal( out now- read it on army story board)
Happy Holidays! Cause Wraith is going to leave you others in the dust for the HSC

(About: Nightstalkers. By: Wraith.)


Kairo let loose a few blasts on the oncoming enemy, as did the rest of his squad, killing five or six enemy troopers, then Kairo gave the signal, to move, the squad turned and activated their packs, pulling quickly away from the on coming troopers, instead they moved to the side, and forward, they split into two teams and went for different guard towers.

Kairos team reached their guard tower, Alan placed an explosive on one of the transpera-steel windows, then the whole group hit the ground and got out of the way before detonating. The explosion was loud, and debris reached almost out to this fire team of the Nightstalkers, tumbling down, however there wasn't time to consider this, they moved to the next one on foot. Now the enemy would be looking for an airborne enemy.

They weren't under any fire, they were too close to the wall and the blizzard kept them masked from sight, so they set a couple more charges, Kairo on the lookout for enemies coming to investigate the first explosion. Several seconds passed as Alan rigged this new charge up, this one had to be more explosive than the last, this one had to bring the whole tower down. So Alan was rigging charges up all around the bottom of the thing and linking them together, Kairo imagined the snowtrooper armor made this delicate work a little more difficult than usual. So he kept his eyes out for an enemy.

And then he saw one. Or rather a great many 'ones' moving towards them from the enemy line, to the other side Kantar gave a yell, telling him an enemy was approaching from the side of the main gate.

"Alan, hurry it up."

"Just about there boss."

"Well hurry up."

"Just a sec, Just a sec. . .and. . .done!"

Kairo yelled the command to take off as he let loose a burst of blaster fire in the direction of the approaching troops. The 'stalkers moved away from the oncoming squads, back towards the first tower they exploded. There they set down and waited for the oncoming troopers to near the tower. He could just barely see it through the snow, finally a shadow came into his sight, he could just barely see them, however, they seemed to see the Nightstalkers, they let loose an uncoordinated barrage of fire. Apparently they couldn't see them that well, or they were bluffing.

"Oh, just hit the button." Kairo said, growing impatient with the blaster fire flying over his head.

Alan obliged, and another tower fell to the ground with a resounding boom and crash.
 
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{Comnet Hermit}
-=Wraith Squad=-
TRP/GSG Sniping101/4SQD/1PLT/1COM/1BAT/1RGT/VEA/VE [LoR][IH][BoA][CDS]

Stultior stulto fuisti, qui tabellis crederes!

   
    The squad walked forward, trudging along the seemingly never-ending tunnel.  The icyness was beginning to cause the squad members to wish they hadn't changed so early.  Talstorin found his fingers numb from the cold.  He had to constantly rub them together.  Other squad members were doing the same, he noted.  Suddenly, Yoder stopped.  "Are we going the right way?"

    Arnaut turned around, raising a brow.  "Of course we are.  Why wouldn't we be?"

    Yoder looked back, concerned.  "We took a fork a while ago and so far we've reached nothing." 

    Arnaut took a second to think.  "Fork? What fork?"

    Yoder answered, "You mean you didn't see it?  Didn't anyone else?"  The squad shook their heads.  Leth walked up to Yoder.  "I think you're just being your delusional self."  Yoder backed away, "NO! I'm sure of it."  He pushed Leth away, obviously concerned.  "We have to go back to check."
   
    Yillis butted in.  "No you idiot.  It'll take too much time."  Yoder gave him a cold stare.

    "So you'd rather walk on not knowing if we went the right way?  Don't be so ignorant!"

    Yillis's temper flared.  "What did you say?" began the ASL as he stepped forward.  Luckily, Arnaut intercepted.

    "Guys, calm down, I have a map.  We can clear this up in a second."  Resourcefully, Arnaut reached for his datapad, turning it on.  He then browsed through the menu, loading up a telegraph of a map.

((For the map, refer to squad topic))

    "We are here," began Arnaut, pointing in the middle of the gray path.  "We landed on the mountain edge, which would be here."  Arnaut pointed to the mountains, forming a green dot on the screen.  "Nightstalkers landed besides us."  He pointed besides the green dot, forming a purple dot.  "They managed to distract the troops and take out the guard tower, which toppled and took out the middle turret."  He crossed out a guard tower and a turret.  "So we went to the barracks and took the underground tunnel."  The squad stared at the hologram.  There was a fork indeed.  But how did they miss it?

    Yoder looked up.  "Told ya."  The squad looked at each other, confused.  Arnaut traced the paths.

    "We're going the wrong way, the facility is below the command.  Let's head back."  Arnaut motioned the squad back and started walking.  The squad backtracked, walking silently.  They forgotten their discomfort and just walked back, not doing anything else.  The rubbing of hands, complaining and the occasional whistling had ceased.  They reached the end the point where the fork should have been.  The only problem was, there was no fork anymore.  The hole had been sealed off with heavy snow, obviously moved by troopers.

    "How'd that get there?" asked Draken, touching the snow.  It was solid and packed.  No way to pushing right through.  Arnaut didn't seem to care.

    "It's been holed up.  No big problem."  He looked on his map.  They were besides the dropship hanger.  "We'll do the hanger objective first then take the long way around the second barracks to the research, that's all.  Wraiths, head out."  With that, the squad started moving again.  Little did they know they had somehow been found out and they were marching to a trap.


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In the brightest light,
We find darkness...
-=Wraith Squad=--=TRP=-
TRP/PFC Tnepres/4SQD/1PLT/1COMP/1BAT/1RGT/Tadath/VEA/VE[LoR]
Memoirs of a Withered Soul- Compendium of Short Stories on Talstorin's Background/Story of Talstorin and Durandal( out now- read it on army story board)
Happy Holidays! Cause Wraith is going to leave you others in the dust for the HSC

Wiping his turret inside scope, Urakai peeked through to Kami's destination, seeing giant legs stomping up the snow, followed by red flashes off in the distance.

"Oh that's handy" Urakai mocked the GX-12, realizing his blasters had overheated. "Come on, come on!" He whispered impatiently as the hover van slowed down, giving Kami more time to dodge an array of blaster fire from another AT-ST that changed it's stance to a defensive position. Seeing a clear shot, Urakai opened fire along with Kael, drawing the heavy blaster barrels almost locked position on the shifting Repulsortank.

"Watch out!" Urakai screamed, seeing two large red blasts streaming towards the motionless hover van.

With a quick slide on the joystick, Kami evaded the two blasts, letting them explode into the ice while yelling, "I'm not as untrained as that, rookie".

Indeed, she was talented in speed and trickery, letting the AT-ST pilots think that they were trapped until Kami would flick her wrist. Urakai gained trust in her thinking and soon had his own plans of what he would do when Kami evaded the next set of blasts. Soon Urakai began blasting up the windows of the AT-ST, causing much frustration as all they could see was sparks and red explosions. Finally the Repulsortank launched a rocket that lit the AT-ST like a candle before the fireworks.

"Yeah!" the four yelled as the van comlink hissed to life.

"Alright, an AT-ST is causing trouble a couple of hundred metres away at your 9 o clock." suggested Zafo, who took his time connecting.

"Ok we're on it, better let us go first." Kami responded, clicking up gears and zooming away.

Kael switched to his scope to try and see ahead but sat back with a sigh at the endless white wind. Kami twitched an eye on the ice ahead and, quicker than any one of them had seen before, she spun the hover van and, out of the fog of the blizzard, a pair of moving mechanical legs zoomed straight past as they spun out. Hitting the brakes, Kami made the van strafe around, giving the stunned troopers a chance to fire but all that came out of the barrels was steam.

"You guys want those barrels to freeze?! Shoot!" Kami roared as their advantage of surprise was almost lost.

All opened fire with straight shots except Urakai who looked crazily at Kami, not concentrating on his accuracy. Shaking his head in amazement he joined the firing as the repulsortanks came into view with their blasters lighting up the white area. A flicker of white movement and blinking gear caught Sayah's eyes as the AT-ST, stunned, fired wildly.

Realising what he was seeing, Sayah yelled, "We got a demolition squad around here! I'm sure!"

Each person shifted their gaze to him in surprise, Kami almost letting the hover van meet a pair of shiny blasts.

"Zaf, Sam! We got a dem squad in the area, be careful, we will try and protect you guys but we can't do that and draw fire!" Kami yelled into the comlink as the rest of the troopers peered out of the port side views.

"Ok, roger that, we will keep an eye out, tell us if you see them on us." The comlink whizzed after crackling to out.

Urakai and Kael soon saw white movements, "Wait, ok I see them! Zafo, they are strapping explosives on your tank!"

 
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Urakai
*Dark Dragoons*
TRP/PFC Urakai/1SQD/1PLT/1CMP/1REG/1BAT/Tadath/VEA [LoC]