Revan heard the explosion that knocked him from his kneeling position to his face. He scuffed the front of his helmet on the floor and jagged debris, and before he could readjust himself to a sitting position, or ask what had cause him to be knocked so hard from such a tight position, he heard Urakai come through the com-link.

"Reven! Durandal! Keep the explosions to a minimum! I'm so stupid; I exploded one of the bunker's foundations!"

He sounded frantic, Revan decided, swallowing. His idea hadn't called for the collapse of the entire base. But it wasn't a bad idea...

Behind him, in the midst of the room that lay beyond the debris wall that kept him and a bewildered looking Durandal safe from hostile fire, he could hear the Republic soldiers morale explode into a pot of frenzied emotions. Fear would set in, followed by panic. Good.

He looked up, over his shoulder, and noticed a Republic sergeant looking down at them. His gun wasn't ready to fire at them, and because of that detail, Revan knew this must have been their target. The "Sam" that was both his commanding officer, and his VR bullseye.

"You can tell the rest of the Dragoons that you don't have much time in this bunker left," Sam told them, before giving a laugh and turning his back to them.

Revan sat silent for a moment. His jaw dropped inside his helmet and his eyes went wide. Of all the nerve, did that SOB just turn his back on them. He looked at Durandal, who sat talking to Urakai on a private channel, then back to Sam as he turned from the debris. Stunned. He stood up, and gave the sergeant a furious look. He aimed his gun at the squad leader that began to converse with Sam and pulled the trigger. A three-shot burst belched from the cap of his blaster and made contact with the SL's back.

With a smug look of rebelliousness, he aimed at Sam, then past him to the console on the door on the far side of the room. It exploded and Revan grinned. He wouldn't shoot Sam, but this was the only way out without digging through rubble at the other door.

Revan pulled his helmet away, exposing a determined look, and a grin over a thin beard, turning on his headset, "Urakai, you read?"

He didn't wait for a reply, "Find those other support columns. Blow them. Tear this place down. The mission was to kill the command element of this base. It was a suicide mission all along, and they knew we'd be coming, that was part of the mission. There is no such thing as a surprise attack when the enemy knows you let yourself in."

His face turned to a solemn-toned stare, "We're the troopers. We're expendable. These officers need to be taken out, and if we have to go out to make that happen, then that's what the mission becomes. Durandal: Take it to the columns. Urakai, since you have fewer lives, run support and cover, and try to give the rest of us the time to bring the place down."

He kept his blaster on Sam, but his mind began to worry. He hated this. They told him at the acadamies that he was a good strategist, that he did what had to be done to make a mission successful, but making the calls made him doubt himself. Risking men's lives wasn't something he wanted authority for, it wasn't something he wanted on his hands, even in a simulation. Failing this would mean failing his squad, and the mission.

But fear of self-doubt would have to be something best saved for another day.  There was business at hand that was pressed to be concluded.

"Now what," he asked Sam, "Door's busted, only way out is through here, and as long as I keep you busy here, and the others do their jobs, we win.  This place goes down, and so do you."

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"Those who said the limits were endless were too afraid to go any further."

The old flush of fresh air gave Urakai a cooling feeling as he had been creeping down a hallway. With the tech map provided, he had soon found stairs that lead to a door that slid up and into the ceiling. As Urakai found the stairs after minutes a searching, he pulled his blaster rifle out in case it was guarded. No, Urakai thought, the building is about to blow up, or blow down should I say. They wouldn't be even near here. Urakai moved up to the doors, still clutching his rifle. The doors seemed like motionless walls but when Urakai gave it a slight kicked, it slid open. The gush of air came through the door, unnoticed by Urakai as the smell of trees and plants lit up the room with the blinding light that clouded Urakai for a few seconds. His fingers tingled as he stepped forward although he was focussing his mind that it was not reality, a simulation which he should give 100% concentration on.

Rustle of leaves made Urakai jump to one side, which he realised he was standing on grass. The doors slid back into the building, with a coating that matched the wall completely. When Urakai blinked, there was no wall anymore, but a solid wall. From what he could see of it, it was a metal dome, but instead of it being half of a domed sphere, it was more flat on the top. Urakai could only see as far as he could and could only see the edge of the top as the walls rounded. The rustle! Urakai remembered as he realised that the bunker was clouded over leaves of the odd trees that grew around it, preventing aerial view. The vegetation in all corners left Urakai confused as to where the rustle had come from and where the rebels were.

A quick blaster shot sent Urakai running toward the sound that sang off in the distance, not too far away. Urakai followed the bending walls of the bunker until he looked stunned at a stormtrooper armoured man stood over a soldier helplessly shaking. Urakai saw another New Republic trooper, but only the corpse of it. Urakai's censors inside his helmet came up on screen with an identification tag: Kael. The stormtrooper looked up, and after studying Urakai gave another glance toward the NR trooper, who was ended by a blast to the chest, made by the stormtrooper.

"Urakai I take it?" He asked, studying

"Yes, Kael," Urakai said with a smile that he had finally met another Dark Dragoon member.

"Welcome to the squad. I heard there were a few new additions to our squad. You do know that bunker is going to blow in about three minutes." Kael said with a laugh.

The bunker! I forgot! Urakai's heart began beating as they only had three minutes to escape the bunker.

"Come on!" Kael yelled as they rushed through the shrubs and trees.

As they did, Urakai slowed, picking up his comlink, "Durandal? Revan? I'm outside of the bunker now, hurry, only about two and a half minutes left!"

There was no reply although Urakai did hear bumps in the static frequency.

"Hello? I found-" Urakai's words were short lived as Kael jumped to the left to avoid a blast by an NR trooper scurrying through the undergrowth.

Urakai ducked and rolled to his side, letting blasts rip past him. Kael jumped up and wasted the trooper in crossfire, only to run again by the sight of the rest of a squad. The amount of bushes and plants made it a maze down in a prone position, and a good hiding place. As the squad had not seen Urakai, he jumped up to let his helmet peak and fired. His blasts nipped a trooper on the arm and blew sparks on trees. Urakai was amazed at the detail of the terrain a simulation could generate plus having to keep the bunker wall skins intact. The bunker!

There was now no time for a fight, Urakai began to barrel roll to his side, trying not to rustle too many bushes as he realized they were only about ten meters away from the bunker! Urakai laid still as he saw the troopers advancing, slowing walking through shrubs. Urakai saw the squad leader pick up a comlink while jumping down to prone.

Urakai lost site of him but crawled a bit further to catch the words, "them busy, don't let them advance. Don't worry, there is still ten more minutes until the bunkers goes off."

So that's their game huh? Urakai quickly crouched upward, taking out the squad leader with two quick blasts.

"NO!" came a voice from behind him.

Urakai turned to see a blaster rifle coming right down towards his face. Two squad members rushed to what had happened, one bending down to check the NR squad leader.

"Dead." he said with a severe tone.

"It's my entire fault! I acted too slowly! I could had had this Imperial waste done with by now!" the New Republic trooper complained, now looking to Urakai.

"The Major said no prisoners." he said again, with a smug lying grin, now aiming his rifle at Urakai.

The trooper that had not come to look at the squad leader now erupted in a cloud of smoke that Kael rushed through, blasting the trooper that threatened Urakai. The squad reacted in blasting Urakai, which did not succeed because he had already leapt out into the bushes from where on he disappeared. Urakai looked up after several blasts had occurred to find Kael pulling his trigger for the last time, on to a now dead trooper. The taste of blood was in Urakai's mouth as he had not realised that the blow he took in the face by the trooper was actually quite severe. He took his helmet off and spat it out and he felt for the first time a fresh flow of wind.

"Nice job." Urakai complemented as he outstretched his hand to shake Kaels.

BOOM! The entire forest erupted as Urakai and Kael faced a new blow of wind that lifted them both up and into the trees, some catching fire as the first explosion blew the bunker up into chunks before the foundations collapsing inward. Urakai looked up with now scrapes over his face, blood trickling from a head injury from falling to the ground off a tree. His senses fuzzed a bit as his taste, sight, feeling, smell and hearing clouded in different types, but all pointed to losing of consciousness as the second explosion blew.

 
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Urakai

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Urakai/2SQD/1PLT/1CMP/1REG/1BAT/Tadath/VEA [LoR] [RoM]
Fight For Freedom Fight For Friends Fight For Fun

The entire complex shook with such violence, that one could only assume the end was near. Sam and his rather dwindled squad continued on their path, without any acknowledgement of the now collapsing structure, towards the last known location of the intruding imperials. With the power now out, no updates on the location of their target could be sent to Sam.

"This was a bad idea making them come with me," Sam thought to himself, "I can only hope that we all survive this." Knowing full well this was only a simulation; Sam could not help but feel remorse for the squad that followed, for he knew that it would be a stroke of pure luck that even he would survive this suicide run.

Large chunks of rubble began to fall upon the hunting New Republic squad. Fire began to bellow out of the air vents. Sam's squad began to fall, being crushed by structure fragments and burned by the licking flames. Sam turned to the few remaining troopers.

"I'm sorry," Sam said coughing, "My mistake has cost you all dearly."

Just as he finished, his squad was crushed under tons of rubble right in front of his eyes. Only pausing for a moment out of respect for the digital dead, Sam turned quickly and ran through the decaying obstacle course.

After turning a corner, Sam was hit with an idea that may just allow him to get out of this mess in one relatively intact piece. He grabbed a few grenades, pulled the pins, tossed them down the hall. He braced himself as well as he could in a crumbling doorway. The blast sent fallen rubble across his back tearing his armor.

He turned out to view the hall and the location of where his grenades had exploded; a hint of light shown through the dust. Sam darted for the opening in the ceiling of the collapsing structure.

"Well it kinda worked," Sam thought to himself as he ran, being scorched by flames and pounded by falling debris.

Just as he made it to the opening he stumbled and fell over fallen debris. Then the roof came crashing down on top of him.

/OOC: Left it open for interpretation and I can't make myself superhuman. :P /

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SL/SSGT Sandwich Sam/2SQD/1PLT/1CMP/1REG/1BAT/Tadath/VEA [LoR][BM][GS][EW1]
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Urakai crouched back as he kept his eyes peeled for any activity.

"Any sign of her?" Urakai whispered under the patch of reed grass.

"No," Kael whispered back tilting his head to a side, "seems she's in hiding."

Before Urakai could turn his head to see Kael's view, a buzz alerted them both.

"Urakai? Durandal? Anybody? It's Revan. I'm outside, are any of you still breathing?" came their comlinks as they both ducked underneath the grass, trying to kill their comlinks.

"C'mon, don't screw with me, someone send me a rendezvous coordinate, or something. I'm all alone, in hostile territory, and to say the very least, I'm not comfortable with it at all." it crackled once again, this time Urakai and Kael threw the comlinks over into another patch of grass and crawled away through the undergrowth.

Before Urakai or Kael knew it, two squads were up and alert, searching through the grass, and one whole squad was already on top of their comlinks.

Not again!

"Search the area! Call for back up and secure the Major!" yelled the squad leader, motioning a search plan.

"The Major has already anticipated that, sir! She is safe." an elderly trooper remarked.

With a nod, they began to cut their steps through the undergrowth, battle ready. There's no way we can escape this! Urakai thought as Kael stopped under a small bush where he curled up. Though he was wearing white stormtrooper armour, he had completely disappeared, so Urakai quickly scanned the area for another bush as Kael started frantically waving his hand. Confused, Urakai began to crawl toward him before a blaster bolt tore through his shoulder. With a plea of agony, Urakai turned around to be raked up by a trooper, with a squad behind him, blasters pointing.

"Foolish Imperials, take him over to the camp and keep scouting the area!" commanded the squad leader as they dragged Urakai and dropped him head on to the ground.

Urakai knew he had only one life left, and at this pace, he was doomed. Then, Urakai noticed a short vibro knife in the squad leader's hand that he was toying with.

"You know," he began, walking over to Urakai and crouching down. "I don't quiet understand you Imperials. But maybe you will understand me."

He pulled the knife out and stuck the tip into Urakai's wound, making him yelp in pain.

"Were there any survivors!?" he demanded.

As he stuck the vibro knife in further, Urakai reacted in grabbing the jaw of the NR squad leader and punched it so hard, it almost cracked his armour on the glove not to mention his hand. The SL went flying to the side and Urakai seized the opportunity to pierce his heart with the vibro blade and ran towards the small medal encampment. Urakai had also pinched his blaster rifle off the small metal container next to him. If all New Republic troops are that stupid, our survival is almost guaranteed. An array of blaster fire surprised Urakai, but he kept standing as he noticed it was out in the bushes. Running as fast as he could, he saw Kael cornered into a tree by a group of NR troopers. Fixing their rifles, on was about to shoot his should like he did with Urakai, but failed as a flying vibro blade cit his hand off, sending a wave of sound from his mouth.

"There he is!" shouted a trooper, now aiming for Urakai.

"Kill this one, I haven't had practice in weeks." called another.

Urakai span around and knocked the trooper off his feet, preventing any accurate shots at him. One trooper leaped up and tried to grab onto Urakai but he was met by a stormtrooper boot in bid air to the face. Kael had joined in, although with a blaster, blowing up a NR trooper's torso. With a final stab, Urakai ended the last trooper, only to be greeted by another squad, already opened fire. They both bolted through the forest, only to be knocked down by something. Kael rolled over to see a stormtrooper behind a bush, dragging Urakai behind and motioning Kael to do the same.

"You know what to do!" the squad leader yelled, as the troopers rolled into action.

"Revan!" Urakai whispered, keeping still.

"Yeah, I wondered when the hell I was going to find you!" Revan responded before receiving a short greet by the earlier member of the Dark Dragoons.

Always the same procedure. Squad comes, squad leader yells, they start searching. Urakai thought, but cut out when a blast set a fire right next to the bush they were behind. Hundreds of blasts cut through the forest, burning up all in their path.

Quicky, Kael whispered, "We've got to get out of here!"

Urakai jumped up and blasted all out, giving Kael and Revan a time to escape. Before Urakai could turn around and follow them, the blast in his shoulder jolted, sending him to the ground.


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*Dark Dragoons*
Urakai/2SQD/1PLT/1CMP/1REG/1BAT/Tadath/VEA [LoR] [RoM]

Revan skidded to a halt when he realized a set of footsteps fell short to a thud on the ground.  He gave Kael a light push on the shoulder to keep him moving, then turned completly, opening fire on the Republic soldiers that were closing in on him.

"Get up, Urakai," he commanded.  Under his helmet, his teeth were gritted, clenching tighter and tighter with every pulse of fire, "I'll cover you."

As Urakai scrambled to his feet, keeping low under the fire, Revan backstepped after him.  A few feet back, his peripheral vision picked up Kael firing along side him, suppressing the oncoming fire into stary shots that missed their targets by varied degrees of bad aim.

Urakai took shelter behind a tree.  He checked his rounds, slapped another clip into his blaster, and spun from the cover, firing alongside his teammates.

"I saw a larger bunker on the southeasterly side of the encampment," Urakai said over the fire, "If Kami is in that base, it'll be there in that bunker."

Revan nodded, "Alright, let's fall back to a safe distance away from the camp, wait, and trek around to the far side.  We should be able to catch them by surprise if they think we've given up..."

He smirked and shrugged his shoulders, "I mean, hell, who'd have thought three Imperial Troopers would give an entire enemy Garrison such a hard time, right?  I doubt they have any pride left at all after all this."

The enemy fire fell to nothing as the trio of Dragoons fell away into the trees and brush, out of sight.
 
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"Those who said the limits were endless were too afraid to go any further."

Sam coughed as the dust settled around him. He was unable to move anything but his arms and upper torso.

"Fantastic, I just love being pinned down by debris," Sam thought aloud. Sam began to push large chunks of debris off his legs.

In the distance, Sam heard blaster fire and started to work faster, not wanting to be caught like this by his opponents. After only a few moments, sweat was dribbling down his face. He was able to see just a little bit better now that the dust had finally dispersed some. With every piece of debris moved and tossed to the side came a small puff of dust that made Sam cough.

Suddenly, the environment began to fuzz and scramble.

"Now what is going on?" Sam shouted aloud and then the entire simulation was killed.

Sam tore of his simulation gear and stepped out of the booth. He moved rapidly towards the technician with a look of 'I'm going to kill you' on his face.

"Explain," Sam said sternly to the technician, "This is the second time."

"I'll do that," said a voice from behind Sam.

Sam flipped around and saw Rizzit standing there. Sam's face lightened just a little at the sight of his superior.

"You don't really seem all that happy to be out of there," Rizzit began, "But, we have other needs for you and your squad.

Sam nodded and went to inform the rest of the Dark Dragoons.

* * * an hour later * * *

Sam was seated with Kami in Rizzit's office, with the rest of the squad in the lounge relaxing.

"You have any clue as to what this is Kams?" Sam asked.

"No I don't," Kami replied just as Rizzit entered and took his seat.

"Here is the run down. There have been a few members of your squad that are needed else where and have been relocated as it were," Rizzit said, "And there is a possible mission that we need your squad to do. Lastly, Typex has returned and has been placed into the Dragoons again."

Sam had a look of bewilderment on his face.

"All this happened while we were in the simulation," Sam thought, "Great. Oh well, at least we will be out in a real field again."

Sam stood up saluted and left without a word said against what was happening.

[ooc: This clears up all the troop changes that have happened and has gotten Typex written back into the squad.]
 
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*DarkDragoons*


SL/SSGT Sandwich Sam/2SQD/1PLT/1CMP/1REG/1BAT/Tadath/VEA [LoR][BM][GS][EW1]
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