USCMRPG

2179 AD 25th August
Location: CSC Sector, Crysalis, Main Colony, In Mayors house

23.30 hours local time

Sergeant Dugan cleared the living room. The furnitures were smashed and laid in a tumbled heap in one corner, scorch marks on them made evidenze that someone had tried to set them alight but failed. More propaganda graphiti could be read on the walls. The kitchen to the right was as desolate as the living room, pots and kettles spread over the floor.

The banging continued from the basement and once Windrider reported in clearing the upper floor the 1st squad started to move towards the stairs. The banging was very loud and somewhat uneven. The stairs twisted 180 degrees to the right on their way down to the cellars. The soft red thick carpet dampened their steps as they slowly descended. Suddenly Privata Tomala, who had point, halted mid step. "Sarge" he said pointing with his head. Sergeant Dugan knelt and saw the laser tripwire on the step below. Two small black boxes and a needle thin laser beam that was only visible due to the dust specks that lingered in the air. Suddenly the banging stopped and voices where heard from below.

"Ok...thats the upper one. Lets go for the below hinge...I just need to get some water first" a voice said hoarsely. "You heat it up meanwhile...and yeah...when did Tillman say he would be back with the pickup? He has been gone for over forty minutes now?" a female voice replied, nervously "I don't know robert...I hope he gets back here soon, this shit is making me nervous as hell". The Man, obviously named Robert, replied "Don't worry Amanda, we'll just bang in, grab the containers and pull the hell out of here. Think of the cash. The company pays good and in time...don't worry ok?" Amanda replied something unhearable. "I'll go check for Tillman..." Robert suddenly said, much closer than before.

With that the Marines heard heavy steps approaching the stairs and a shadow appeared at the base of the stairs.

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Simovic and 2nd Squad eventually cleared the ground floor after leaving the living room Simovic had a quiet word with Kurosaki "Listen to the orders I give carefully no one was injured with today's mistake but we may not be as lucky next time"



After the others reported their rooms clear, the Marines descended the stairs. Tomala's eagle eyes thankfully picking up the trip wire, which Simovic guessed could be some sort of alarm but he couldn't be sure. Before any of them could try to disarm it they heard the voices, from what he could gather were looters, working for some company. Whoever they were exactly they were definately criminals and as this was a war zone they couldn't take any chances.

The speaking stopped and one of the looters appeared at the bottom of the stairs. There was little chance of the Marines hiding or taking cover and any one shooting at them in these combined spaces would cause casualties. He had no choice and raised his Pulse Rifle and fired 2 bursts at the man.




O.O.C anyone who is unsure of how combat actions and phases work see here:

http://aliens.03b2.com/forum/index.php?topic=1274.0

the double burst of gunfire was loud as hell in the confined spaces of the stairs but patch loved that sound, something about short bursts of pulse fire just made him smile. he brought his weapon up to his shoulder and covered the bottom of the stairs crouching so others could fire over him, the shots were bound to alert the female they had heard but as to her reaction who could guess, if she came through to the stairs armed patch was already aimed and lined up she would recieve the same fate as her companion two short bursts.... war zone looters bloody opportunist scum.!

Erika was waiting for Kurosaki's plan, in the meantime, she found a good position near to a door to cover the rear of the squad.

(Posting assuming that second squad is covering the rear of the column.)

When the line of Marines stopped, Quinn chose some out of the way place to stand that was away from any windows or firing points down the stairs to the basement. Wishing he had brought his canister shells with him, Sixtus opted to just listen to the gunfire and cover the back of the column. He let Collins, Hoffman and Kurosaki do most of it, since Quinn was the only medic the squad had at the moment.

Sergeant Dugans first burst almost severed the burly mans right thigh, but somehow he managed to stay up. The next burst struck the left thigh, multiple impacts spattered across the legs in small puffs of tissue and blood. He didn't make a sound as he fell straight down into a heap, unconscious before his head smacked into the concrete floor with a muffled thump. A sub machine gun clattered to the groound as the man fell.

"Robert! Oh no!" A female voice shouted from below. "Tillman, come in over. Tillman! Tillman! For fucks sake we're compromised...we're compromised. Come in!" the woman screamed over what seemed to be an intercom.

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upon hearing the woman's voice patch sprang down the rest of the stairs, more people in this mess would only make it worse. as he came through the door way his gun was already aimed " COLONIAL MARINES!! drop the comms and the weapon NOW!! any other movement and your gonna be plaster all over this basement!" patch aimed his pulse rifle squarely at her chest one twitch in any other movement or one word in that comms unit and two bursts were headed her way.

Pitt's voice rang in Jones ear. Seeing his sergeant and marines had things in hand for the moment he responded.

Jones looked at the trip wired explosives to see if it was worth trying to remove.

After firing Simovic was contemplating his next move when Patch ran passed him into the room. Shit he thought they had no choice now. "1st Squad get down there and secure that room".



Simovic then contemplated what the female in the room below said, there was someone else on their way. "Marion get up stairs and keep and eye out with your Scoped Rifle any enemies take a step near the door and you take them down".



Simovic then carried on down the stairs offering support to Patch.

[I'll take a 2 phase burst followed by a 3 phase burst at her if she doesn't want to surrender]

Kurosaki had said nothing, pleased that his squad was doing so well under present conditions.
"Squad 2, we'll take the rear. Hoffman, your in the far back."
tag second squad

A rather stupid marine from first squad quickly ran ahead. Kurosaki had no chance but to hold his position.

AstroBoy wrote: Over the comms Jones' voice rang.

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"Try and hold your position, we're busy and too far to help anyway. Find out what you can.

"Roger that. They seem to have fallen back. I'm takeing Morse forward to scout. Pitt out." Dirk whispered over the comm

Ishizawa nearly jumped as Simovic's burst roared in the stairwell and hit home. The next thing he saw was a Marine running down followed by Simovic and first squad, apparently there was still the woman downstairs.

"WATCH FOR BOOBY TRAPS!", Ishizawa yelled as the Marines ran downstairs.



He just prayed that the trap they had found was the only one. With 1st squad on their way downstairs, that left 3rd squad next in line. Ishizawa quickly shuffled down the stairs to where the Lieutenant was disarming the bomb. He stopped short of Jones and waited, 1st squad could need backup. While crouching, Ishizawa craned his neck around Jones so he could see the man who had just been killed. Blood and gore was splattered on the wall behind him, and the body sat motionless in a pool of blood, which started to drip down the stairs.

Ishizawa felt sick all of a sudden, as if he was going to hurl. But he held it back. It was going to take him a while to get used to all this.

When first squad barreled down the stairs, Quinn looked up.

"Collins, I think you're the best comtech we got. Think you can remove the mine?" Quinn asked his squadmate. Upon hearing that first entered the room, Quinn peeked down the stairs and saw the first victim.

"Corporal, I'm headed for the casualty!" Quinn barked as he headed down the stairs, carefully stepping over the tripwire/light and made his way to the man that Sergeant Dugan had sawn the legs off of. He'd lost a lot of blood already. Pulling his medbag off his shoulder, he knelt next to the dying man. Removing two tourniquets, he tied them three inches above the wounds to stall the blood flow, then grabbed the bandages. The legs might be able to be saved, but at least he'd be able to save the man's life if he could be gotten to a proper hospital in time, at least a clinic.

Pulling a bag of plasma, a bag of saline and an IV line, Sixtus inserted the line into the vein of the patient's left arm. It was a good thing the patient was unconscious so Quinn wouldn't have to use any of his limited morphine supply.

Private Mongo heard the burst of fire from down the stairs and was frozen for several seconds with indecision.  The rest of First squad had the stairs covered while Second were ready to go down in support, leaving Third to cover security in the rest of the house...maybe.  Mongo wasn't sure he was ready for command responsibility but he knew he wasn't going to let down his buddies and get them killed so he did what he thought was best.

"Ishi we are going to hold our...um defensive position here.  Your watching the stairs, Roberts is watching the right, Corporal Silvanus is watching the left and I've got our back" he said into his commset.



Turning Octavius settled his smartgun into a comfortable position and kept his eyes peeled for any sudden rush of bad guys.

Erika took her position and started scanning around. She needed to be sharp and clear, so she took a deep breath and she kept on with some deep breaths while scanning around.