"New mission men.

"Our objective is to raid a military outpost under the control of a band of mercenaries by the name of 'The Green Machine'.  The outpost is located on the world of New Aragon.

"Intel believes that the outpost contains a cache of receantly intercepted communications, payroll, and other miscellanious supplies.

"The payroll in question is believed to be held for a transport to New Republic forces.  Intel wants the communications cache.  Two birds one mission.

"New Aragon itself is a temperate world with roughly standard gravity.  Largely a farming world there is no major presance beyond the mercenaries.  The world itself is considered nuetral but is actively being courted by the New Republic. 

"GUESSWORK has identified within easy reach the 18th Battlegroup and the 5th Sword of Light.

"That means we're going to have to get in and out without sending up too many flares.

"Our transportation will be ready in 48 hours.  Make sure you got everything you need on this one."  Kuroishi briefed Wraith Squad.
 
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Anubis looks down at the chest plate of his armor, with a few swipes of the patching agent, he removes the knicks that his armor took from the last battle.  "Well, I suppse that does it." He says, placing the piece of armor next to the rest of his equipment.  Anubis takes a look at his weaponry, ensuring that he has plenty of ammunition should the mission call for it.

Anubis takes a seat next to his equipment and with a sigh begins thinking of his past missions.  Things have really changed over the past year.  The Empire as a whole has changed ever since the death of the Emperor, fragmented by the various warlords. He looks down at his sniper rifle, taking in the fact that such a weapon holds so much ability to cause fear in others.  "What do I truly wish to do with myself?" Anubis asks himself, holding the weapon with both hands.

He sets down the weapon, then makes his way to his bunk.  He lays down with a sigh, and closes his eyes.  He begins to continue his thinking, this time about his own future in the Empire.  Then with a loud release of his breath, he drifts off to sleep.
 
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+ Advance Recon Commandos {ARC} +
TRP/CPL Anubis Benor/4SQD/1PLT/1COMP/1BAT/1RGT/VEA/VE
Wraith Squad
Vast Empire Army

    Snipes slumped down in a chair used his hand to wipe sweat from his brow; he had been called from training, it was something he had found himself doing frequently, trying to get up to the level, physically, that the rest of the Wraiths were, the years of RAIDERS run and gun methods had also let Snipes mind dull and he had been working to build strength there again as well. Snipes knew mission with the Wraiths would not be the firefight frenzies he was used to, and he understood this mission could not be. Snipes let his mind wander through how this would need to be done, they would need to sneak in without alerting anyone, split up into groups or by themselves and each group or person would have to go find a specific item, tag it with some sort of tracker for easy relocation, if at all possible and they could smuggle themselves in as some sort of techs or suppliers or something they might even be able to exchange the stuff they want for similar looking items of no value, and smuggle the stuff they wanted away; if that approach didn't work, they would have to keep their presence disguised until they were almost away and it would be too late for them to catch the Wraiths; but however the mission would go, Snipes hoped he was up to it. Snipes also realized they had two new recruits, he didn't know when they had started letting greenies into special operations, but it was scary any way it was put.

"So. . .planning on getting dressed? Or are content with blinding the mercenaries?" Lukas was there, somewhat a friend of Snipes although neither knew the other very well.

The fact that Snipes wasn't wearing a shirt couldn't be ignore, just as the lack of any real tan could be ignored, he'd been training a lot lately, it had taken a lot from him. Snipes pulled a semi clean shirt of a nearby bunk and pulled it over his head, it fit nicely, he wondered who it belonged to. "Just been training a lot now man, this is different than I'm used to"

"yeah, well, you're by far not the worst, we have two new guys to deal with, new recruits, never seen this kinda stuff before, ever; at least RAIDERS rounded you out pretty well."

Snipes grunted and became less amiable, in truth he didn't like thinking about those guys now, he had made himself so low and so undesirable that many of his one time friends had abandoned him, or rather he had drove them away, he was sad about that and it had opened his eyes again, let him see what he had become and swear never to fall that far again.

The rest of the time Snipes spent taking a shower, dressing properly, (although half in other peoples clothes) and picking his gear; he picked something akin to his old load out, a disassembled death wind, an E-11/M a DL-44 and a long, thin bladed knife, as well as one boot knife, in his boot. Snipes was ready again, ready to face the firefights, or face the nights, the nights in which he must hide and in which his worst enemy would only be himself and his perceived ineptitude.
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TRP/SSG Sniping101/4SQD/1PLT/1COM/1BAT/1RGT/VEA/VE [LoR][IH][BoA]

"Next time I hide something, I'm packing explosives around it. Explosives shaped like silver bananas! Stops thieves, monkeys and monkey thieves in one fell swoop." - Kang the Mad

After his rest, Anubis prepared himself for the day, taking a shower and dressing in his more civilian clothing.  He was ready to try a new simulation that had recently been installed, but another part of him was eager to work on installing a new piece of equipment onto his fighter.

As he approached the hangar bay, looking out at the vast array of TIE fighters, bombers, and interceptors, Anubis could remember his former days in the Empire.  Working with the Navy, Anubis had gained much knowledge of the various craft that the Empire used.  One of his favorite craft, a Cygnus Spaceworks XG-1 Assault Gunboat, came to be under his possession after spending a hefty sum of credits and convincing the manufacturing officer that it was needed for personal use.

Anubis looked in awe at his ship.  While certainly not the top of the line in terms of craft manufactured by the Empire or Cygnus Spaceworks for that matter, the Assault Gunboat still proved to be a wonder.  Anubis made his way to the receiving office, located just a few meters from the main hangar itself, to retrieve the new piece of sensor equipment that he purchased from a not so legal dealer on Corellia.

-Several hours later-

Anubis finished up with his fighter, securing it then returning back to his room.  After a quick shower, he returned to his room, finding most of his articles of clothing except for a shirt.  "Blast, now where did I put that." Anubis said, searching around the room in vain for the lost piece of clothing.  With a sigh, Anubis returned to his dresser, pulling out the last clean shirt.  "I really need to do laundry, oh well the mission's tomorrow so I won't need to worry about civies for a bit."  Anubis closes the dresser, and makes his way to his equipment locker.

With a good inspection, Anubis smiled at his weaponry.  Everything was set for the mission that was coming up, it would only be a matter of a day and a few hours before he would be once again back up to serving the Empire.  Anubis makes his way to the lounge, and turns on the holoviewer, awaiting to hear anything from his SL or ASL.
 
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+ Advance Recon Commandos {ARC} +
TRP/CPL Anubis Benor/4SQD/1PLT/1COMP/1BAT/1RGT/VEA/VE
Wraith Squad
Vast Empire Army

Slick sat in his room, and stared at the wall absently rubbing his shoulder.  He had caught a piece of shrapnel in his shoulder when Wraith was ordered to bring their Prefect back.  Recently healed the now seasoned stormtrooper found himself a little gunshy.  What if I die in the next mission? he asked himself.  He wasn't worried about his equipment.  His DL-54 was holstered at his side while his E-11/L was sitting next to his desk.  He was eager for the next mission, but was he ready???
He turned quickly as his door swung open and the one of the new troopers walked in.  He recognized Hunter from the new roster, and waved him in.  As Hunter entered the room he failed to recognize Slick's rank, and snapped to attention.  Slick laughed quietly.

"Hold on there kid.  You don't stand at attention to me.  I work for a living." Slick murmured. "How can I help you?"

"I was looking for an empty room to pack my equipment in.  I'm sorry if I disturbed you."

Slick waved off the comment. " No worries.  My room is yours.  I might even be able to help you.  I was a green recruit not to long ago myself."

Hunter thanked him, and as Slick helped this green recruit he noticed that Hunter was alot like himself.  I want to help this kid he thought to himself as he monitered Hunters packing.  Maybe this is exactly what I needed on this mission...
 
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TRP/PFC Slick/4SQD/1PLT/1COMP/1BAT/1RGT/VEA[LoR]

"Someday we will all be alone.  All alone in a combat zone, but the Corps going to bring us home."

The squad was useing two seperate speeders for this particular mission, and both sped off.  It was alittle cramped to say the least, but they made due.  Snipes, Rommel, Anubis, and Lukas were in Echo 1 while Slick, Hunter, Kuroishi, Otto, and Mandor made up Echo 2.  As they sped off to the port Slick stared out the observation bubble.  The new recruit with them, Hunter, seemed unable to sit still.

"Calm down." Slick said to him.

"I can't.  I'm so eager to do my first real mission.  It's exciting to think about." said Hunter in reply.

Smiling to himself Slick placed his hand on Hunters shoulder, "Trust me you'll get your shot.  But you have to remain calm.  Overeagerness, and fear are what get men killed.  You have to keep your emotions under control."

Hunter nodded quickly, "Thank you for your advice I appreciate it."

"It's nothing.  Otto was the one who gave me the same advice when I was in your shoes.  Hey Otto?  Any advice for the kid?"

The seasoned trooper, and Dark Jedi Knight turned in his seat.  He fixed Hunter with a glare that would freeze the strongest of men.  "Try not to get shot, and don't die.  Or I will find myself rather upset with you."

Slick smiled and raised an eyebrow, as Otto shrugged at the look.  "Well there you have it kid.  Inspiring words from one of the best."

"Cut the chatter men." said Kuroishi. "The ports coming up now.  I want a clean mission with no casualties.  Otto, Mandor, and Slick.  I expect you to keep the new recruit out of trouble..."
 
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TRP/PFC Slick/4SQD/1PLT/1COMP/1BAT/1RGT/VEA[LoR]

"Someday we will all be alone.  All alone in a combat zone, but the Corps going to bring us home."

Kuroishi saw something out in the open plains that boggled his mind.

A pair of AT-AT's were laying on thier sides as if they were giant metalic cows that had been tipped over.  Nothing Kuroishi knew of could cause that.

Kuroishi looked through his binoculars at the facility they were approaching.

"Okay Wraith if everything is as intel says this should be it.  Anubis, Slick, Hunter, Rommel I want you four to take out the comm array.  Everyone else break off in pairs and search the building for our objectives.  The Green Machine does not have much combat experience but they are highly trained and well equiped.  I'll keep them busy interogating me while the rest of you break off.  Lukas your priority is to find the comm intercept cache.  Otto you find the payroll."  Kuroishi barked over the comm to his squad.

Kuroishi knew with the open ground around the facility there would be no sneaking up on the base.  It'd be a matter of distracting the perimeter guards while the rest worked.

Kuroishi just hoped that the Green Machine didn't panic and call either the 18th Battle Group or the 5th Sword of Light right off the bat.  If they did Wraith squad would only have a matter of minutes to complete it's mission.
 
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"It's not what I'm on it's what I'm NOT on."-far as I know me
"Now equiped with Swiss Army Lightsaber!"
5/13/2005-My journey to the Darkside is complete

"Alright boys, form up." Anubis said, motioning for Slick, Hunter, and Rommel to follow him.  The group made their way into the grass and towards the military outpost.  After several minutes of jogging, Anubis signalled for the group to get down into a small portion of tall grass.  Taking out a pair of electrobinoculars, Anubis took a look at several of the guard towers that lined the sides of the outpost.

Anubis spotted several guards keeping watch in the towers and a few patrolling the wall.  Anubis then began his search for signs of the Comm Array.  Not long after beginning this search, he came across what was a large dish.  He put down the binoculars, and turned to the group.  "Alright, the Comm Array is approximately half a click West, and then straight to the wall.  Only problem we have is that there's little cover on the way to the wall.  There are three guards on the wall, and about two in each of the towers to the west and east."  Anubis turned around, pointing to where the towers were as well as the location of each of the guards on the wall.

Anubis then turned back to the group.  "Hunter, Slick, I want you two to take up positions in this patch of grass to take out the guards on the walls with your Whispers.  Rommel and I will begin making our way towards the wall using the patch of grass to the east.  There we'll make our way up, taking out the guards on the East Tower.  I'll let you know with a signaller when the guards in the East Tower are taken out, that's when you two take out the guards in the West tower."  Anubis tossed a small signaller to Slick.  "Don't lose it."  He added before starting off through the patch of grass towards the wall.
 
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+ Advance Recon Commandos {ARC} +
TRP/CPL Anubis Benor/4SQD/1PLT/1COMP/1BAT/1RGT/VEA/VE
Wraith Squad
Vast Empire Army

[OOC:  Time for some fun I guess.  /OOC]

Kuroishi adjusted his cloak as he calmly drove up to to the main gate check point.

"Excuse me, I seem to be a bit lost.  Could you direct me to Bob's Bait Bar and Grill?"  Kuroishi said to the guard before the guard even had a chance to say anything.

The guard looked at Kuroishi with perplextion on his face.

"Leave now or I'll have to challenge you to a Trrial of Anhiliation."  The guard finally said after composing himself.

"What did you say?  That makes absolutely no sense.  You can't challenge someone to a Trial of Anhilation."  Another guard said as he strode forth from inside the complex.

"This may be easier then I thought."  Kuroishi wispered to himself.

Hopping out of the speeder Kuroishi strode up to the first guard and just casually planted his fist in the face of the guard.

"You better call for some back up while you can."  Kuroishi said as he walked toward the other guard.

Kuroishi hoped his distraction would last long enough for the rest of the squad to get inside.
 
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"And the sound of many heads hitting many solid objects was heard throughout the land." me
Avatar by scientist computer graphics subdivision of Clan Wombat.
"It's not what I'm on it's what I'm NOT on."-far as I know me
"Now equiped with Swiss Army Lightsaber!"
5/13/2005-My journey to the Darkside is complete

Hitting the wall hard, Snipes leaned against it and ran a quick visual check of the area, no one saw him; looking to his left Snipes watched his partner crouch down and jump, throwing him over the wall and into the courtyard beyond, Snipes heard the thump of a body hitting the ground and then another. Sighing, Snipes tossed his bag over the wall and crouched down, then jumped, he managed to get high enough to get his hands on the wall, looking down his fee were three feet from the ground. Snipes pulled himself up the smooth surface of the wall and pushed himself over the side, only to thud onto two dead bodies. Snipes pulled himself up quickly and grabbed his bag, out of hit he pulled a cylinder about six inches long and about an inch wide, pointing one end at the bodies (which had been arranged to lay nicely one next to the other) Snipes pressed the other end. the cylinder made a *pwooft* sound and the bodies were covered in a camo netting, chuckling Snipes tossed the cylinder into his bag and looked around for Otto or anyone else, he found Otto leaning against the wall watching him about five feet away, Snipes walked over, but Otto held up a finger to keep Snipes quiet. It took Snipes a second but he he heard it eventually, the comm array was buzzing and moving, the scary sounding light brigade would be on their way, they needed to hurry.

"Go time people. Anubis forget the comm array. Switch focus to sensor array to cover our escape. Clock is now counting down." Kuroishi barked

But too much hurry was bad and could get you killed, so Snipes took a second to see where was exactly, it was a small pie slice shaped area between two buildings, one seemed to be and extension of the main facility and the other was possibly a storage shed for chemicals or explosives, either way Snipes motion to it to let Otto know he was going in, Otto made a signal Snipes wasn't quite sure about, but he thought it meant "catch up when you're done" and So Snipes nodded his head and turned to the door, hitting the switch it slid up in front of him, looking around Snipes determined it was a chemical shed and that there were no guards in it, which made sense, they would have been outside both exits. and now two of them were dead.

Snipes went about his work quickly, this hadn't been in the plan, but it would help, Snipes found every non-flammable chemical in the place, or at least the ones he could find quickly and stacked them as best he could against the wall he that the door he had come in through was located, then Snipes placed a about 12 pounds of plastic explosives in the center of the room, close to the door, quickly Snipes stuck a detonator in it and piled a large amount of explosive chemicals around it. Snipes left then the way he had come in and went into the door on that side, which came in about halfway through a hallway, there were no signs of anyone except a scratch along the floor leading to the left, it normally would have been over looked, But Snipes assumed Otto was leaving bread crumbs and turned down that side, Snipes wasn't going to bother being terrible sneaky, he pulled a Silenced slug thrower out of his bag and held it in his left hand, coming to a bend in the hallway Snipes stuck his head around it, there was no one down there either, Snipes jogged down the hall way, checking the doors for any sign of Otto, there was none until he reached a crossroads, there was a blaster laying on the floor with a hand attached, Snipes picked it up quizzically.

"psst. up here," Snipes looked straight up, and was greeted with Otto's face staring down from an open vent.

Snipes smiled and tossed the blaster hand up, Otto caught it and tossed it behind him, then jumped down himself.

"so, you're only this far? i was gone awhile" Snipes smiled, he knew there was a reason Otto hadn't gotten vary far yet.

"well, unless you want to do a room by room search i thought it might be handy to get directions"

Snipes smiled again,"so, where are we going?"

"level B2, theres a turbo lift down the hall that should take us down there and once there its in storage room B4"

Snipes nodded and let Otto lead on.
 
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TRP/SSG Sniping101/4SQD/1PLT/1COM/1BAT/1RGT/VEA/VE [LoR][IH][BoA]

"Next time I hide something, I'm packing explosives around it. Explosives shaped like silver bananas! Stops thieves, monkeys and monkey thieves in one fell swoop." - Kang the Mad

Anubis and Rommel made their way up the wall to the East.  Anubis was the first to reach the top, and dispatched one of the remaining guards with a swift smack to the head.  After Rommel reached the top, Anubis took a few seconds to find the location of Slick in the grass.  When he noticed that Hunter was missing, he knew something wasn't right.

Anubis took out the signaller, and with a few bursts of light from it, informed Slick to make his way up the wall.  After a few careful overviews of the area from the top of the wall, Anubis came to the conclusion that somehow Slick and Hunter became seperated.  Anubis and Rommel made their way down the wall till they reached Slick.

"What happened to Hunter?" Anubis asked in an inquisitive nature.  Slick could only shake his head and shrug.  "He decided to go check and see if anyone else was on the wall.  I heard a blaster shot, but I couldn't determine where it came from."  Anubis' face turned grim behind his dark helmet.  Anubis sighed, knowing that if they were to stay behind to look for Hunter, it would endanger their objective of destroying the sensor array.  However, in his heart, Anubis couldn't leave a soldier behind.

Anubis spent several moments at a point of indecision, till he finally came to the conclusion he felt would be of best benefit to the group.  "We need to take out that sensor array quickly.  The sooner we get that down, the more time we'll have to find Hunter.  Either way we'll be strapped for time if the 5th Sword of Light is on the way.  Come on, we can only hope that Hunter has enough training experience to survive."  With a wave of his hand, Slick and Rommel began following Anubis.

The group only made their way a few meters before encountering a large group of guards coming up the stairway.  With a shot of his blaster rifle, Anubis dodged for the nearest cover, which was simply a corner to one of the watch towers.  He noticed Slick and Rommel doing the same, and now Anubis knew that this could be one of the most dangerous missions the Wraiths could encounter yet.
 
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+ Advance Recon Commandos {ARC} +
TRP/CPL Anubis Benor/4SQD/1PLT/1COMP/1BAT/1RGT/VEA/VE
Wraith Squad
Vast Empire Army

A blaster bolt glanced off the wall to Slick's side.  He turned his head to avoid the heat wave, and snarled low in his throat.  Without looking he thrust his E-11/L around the corner and started firing randomly.  He was awarded with a scream, and ducked behind covor again. 

"Where is Hunter?" he said to himself.

Another bold ripped a piece of the durasteel doorway out from his side.  Slick ducked not wanted to experience THAT again.  As he returned fire he heard a noise from above.  He motioned to Anubis, and the Corporal proceeded to fire upwards.  Several small holes appeared in the ceiling, and Hunter's stunned face appeared.

"What are you doing!?!?" he screamed.

Slick yelled at Anubis.  "Cease fire!  What are you doing up there?"

"I'm pinned down, and I can't find a route to your position."

As Slick was conversing with the trooper, Anubis glanced to his left.  Out of the window he noticed that several tanks, and ground troops were rushing the compound.  All were wearing a sword with a sundflash emblom on their chest. 

"The Light is here!"  he screamed.

"Dammit!  Anubis!"

The Corporal looked in Slick's direction.  "What do you want Slick?"

"Get to the sensor array!  I'm going after the kid!  If we don't make it back... Leave without us!"

His words seemed filled with approaching doom.  Slick took off to help his comrade while Anubis stood stunned.  Once again the squad was torn apart.  He silently prayed for their safe return, and then turned to Rommel.

"Let's show these troops how Wraith does it." While he slapped in a new power pack with a grin.
 
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TRP/PFC Slick/4SQD/1PLT/1COMP/1BAT/1RGT/VEA[LoR]

"Someday we will all be alone.  All alone in a combat zone, but the Corps going to bring us home."

Slick ran down the hall until he found a passageway.  He turned, and ran firing at any troops that showed their faces.  When he found a set of stairs going up he took them.  Within moments he found Hunter, and entered the room.  Hunter was just straightening up from firing down one of the holes.  He tapped Hunter on the shoulder, and the young trooper turned.  As he did so, he brought the butt of his sniper rifle around... straight at Slick's head!  Slick ducked, and grabbed the rifle from Hunter with a grin.

"You could've brained me kid!" he laughed as he threw the rifle back to him.

"Sorry." murmured Hunter.

Before Slick could say anything else the entire facility shook with the force of an earthquake.  Both troopers were thrown into the wall, and stood there stunned.

"What on earth?" yelled Slick over the shakes.
 
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TRP/PFC Slick/4SQD/1PLT/1COMP/1BAT/1RGT/VEA[LoR]

"Someday we will all be alone.  All alone in a combat zone, but the Corps going to bring us home."

Kuroishi had been forced to duck back behind cover from the fighting.

Despite being combat inexperienced there were a fair number of troops and thier equipment was good.

As Kuroishi assessed the situation he saw new lights appear in the sky.

The pilots were a bit psychotic coming in so close to a gravity well from hyperspace but the 5th Sword of Light and 18th Battle Group had sent in thier reinforcements.

Kuroishi had known since that incident with Fury that the New Republic seemed to be stepping up thier efforts to coral the Vast Empire's elite elements.

Even this mission smelled like a trap to Kuroishi.  If Wraith acted quickly though they could still achieve thier objective and escape.
 
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Kuroishi Wraith VEA
Daishi Raptor VEN
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"And the sound of many heads hitting many solid objects was heard throughout the land." me
Avatar by scientist computer graphics subdivision of Clan Wombat.
"It's not what I'm on it's what I'm NOT on."-far as I know me
"Now equiped with Swiss Army Lightsaber!"
5/13/2005-My journey to the Darkside is complete

Slick came to conciousness and found Hunter with a gun to his head. 

"Ah, you are finally awake little recruit.  Now, I'll make this simple and short.  Where is the others?  If you dont answer or answer wrong your little friend will be shot, in the head... resulting in death if you dont know."

Hunter was struggling and thrashing sometimes hitting his assailent in the face.  Slick took his chance and kicked his attacker.  The person dropped Hunter and cried in pain and then fell after being shot by Slick.  Hunter thanked Slick as twenty gaurds came in the room hearing the shout.

Slick didnt know what to do.  He was outnumered, the others are elsewhere.  If he was going to die , he might as well go with a fight.  Hunter being a fresh recruit was still quivering and threw a grenade.  Slick saw the grenade fly past him, bounce of a wall and blow up every single gaurd.  Slick stood there, his heart beating fast, the blast was millimeters away from his face.

As they hid the bodies, Slick didnt talk but he swore he had seen a stormtrooper run past the hall to the room....
 
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HUnter EMnis

"Combine self-hate with pride,
a leader with a follower,
seriousness with immaturity,
smartness with idiocy,
merciful with relentlessness,
a friend with an enemy.
Combine two opposites,
and in the middle,