NationStates Jolt Archive

Aozora waited until eveerybody was accounted for, then started the breifing. "Okay, first off, we have some bad news, for those of you who don't know. The Vampire D5 caught is dead, apparently offed by another vampire who thought he knew something valuable." He held up a tape and stuck it into the Television set he had next to him. In countries, this was a very unremarkable thing, but Saya actualy sat up to get a better look. Most Mereshkans hadn't even heard of TVs. An image of the captured vampire and the general appeared on the screen. "This is when he was being interrogated". Aozora explained. The onscreen Aozora walked to the captive, "Tell me, what were you looking for in Russia?" The vampire, whom had obviously been tortured extensively, answered incoherently. "Vietnam. It started there. We must search there." The image of the general made a disgusted sound and walked out. The real Aozora fast forwarded it, and it showed the captive apparently alone. Then, out of the shadows stepped a man. He was a relatively handsom man, with dark unkempt hair, and a double breasted suit on. It appeared that it had originaly been brown, but it was spotted and splashed with red. The man walked to the prisoner, "Oh, why must you let this happen? You know this isn't good". Said the same voice they had heard in Russia. The vampire looked up, "Ordeith? Please! you must free me!" Ordeith laughed, "No, I think not. You told them, this is not good, not good at all." The screen then went black. Aozora turned it off, "When I went back to interogate him, I found only peices, and the room quite literaly painted with his blood." He looked over the group, "Well, there you have it. Vampire activity has been detected in a small village in Vietnam. We are to investigate it, and the surrounding area, and save as many innocents as possible. Any questions"?

Crispy noded. "if it started in Vietnam then it quite possibly could have been a US military experiment. This could turn quite messy."

OOC; I'm heading out for lunch, be on in a few hours.

OOC: I'm gonna be off for a couple hours. Mereshka, you've got D5, and I'd perfer if he didn't get injured (mentally or physically) until I get back, if that's not too much to ask.

John gulped a bit and said incredulously "Vietnam?, of all places how could Vampires appear in 'Nam?"

OOC: Okay, I'll try to keep the progress slow, so you guys don't miss much.
IC: Aozora shrugged, "Who knows? How could the be in Russia?"

John said shuddering "How many vampires do you think we might face.." He nervously sheathed his katana..

Kirk and Morallis had been watching in the back of the room. Morallis looked at his refelection in his helmet's faceplate and quickly wiped something off of his lower lip as Kirk spoke up.

"So what you're telling me is this could be a possible screwed up experiment? Figures these things wouldn't be natural. Well, we have a point of origin. If it started there wouldn't it also hold a possibility that there would be some research data there also?"

Aozora shook his head, "Thats the thing, we don't know what started there."

John said "When we find the stuff, will we expect a chopper to come and pick us up?" He already had goosebumps about the place, and disturbing mental images came to mind..

He nodded, "Well, speaking of chopper, your rides here. Lets saddle up folks." Saya hopped up and ran to the landing pad, pulling Dagger along behind her

John ran, with Hail-53 in hand and katana sheathed on his belt, he hopped in the chopper, pushing all thoughts of defeat from his mind, and as soon as he sat down, he started to do meditation.

The pilot was the same as last time. "Okay guys, I have orders to pick you up around this time tomorow, can you make it that long?" Saya and D5 nodded.

Morallis and Kirk put their helmets on, checked their gear, and climbed aboard. Kirk pulled out the screen, making sure this time to plug the cord in all the way and pipe the audio to his helmet only.

"What've you got for me Victor?" Mick asked. Anyone watching the screen could see Mick, but only Victor had audio.

"Morallis became ill last night and went to the medical bay. I followed about five minutes after to discover he wasn't there. After a cursory inspection I found that three bags of blood were missing from the fridge. I stopped by his room and he was sleeping soundly, or at least that's how it appeared from the doorway. Our suspicions may be correct."

"Has he made any potentially hostile move?"

"Only against the vampires. After the last mission back home he's been pretty adament about exterminating all and I do mean ALL of them."

"...I see. We'll be looking into it. In the meantime notify him that we're working on cloning his new voicebox. An artificial one is en route and should be there by the time you get back. You will also be interested in hearing that our genetecists haven't found a cure yet but we do have a drug in the works that might help return an infectee to their former self while it's in effect. They'll still be dangerous, but sane and with minimal bloodlust. You can understand why we haven't been working on a way to stop the uncontrollable bleeding. If one got ahold of it.."

"Understood. I have to disconnect. I'll send my report to you once we get back."

He disconnected the screen and put it away, then nudged Morallis.

"Good news Joe, after this mission's over you'll be able to speak again."

Morallis nodded, expressing his happiness as well as he could without a voice. Though he did manage a choked and barely understandable, "It's about time."
He quickly popped a lozenge. It was easier to write what he wanted to get across than use his damaged organs, which was pretty painful to do.

John nodded and prayed that he would survive 12 hours of being in a vampire infested village..

The pilot took off, "Well, this should be a short trip, the base isn't to far from there. Okay, the General asked me to go over it again. You are to secure any surviving non-vampires, and get any intel you can find." Saya pulled out another bar of chocolate and snuggled up to D5.

John nodded and thought "Good luck finding any non-vampires..."

The Civil Authority officers nodded. Kirk was ready, but was watching Morallis out of the corner of his eye. He was unsure of what to expect now. His buddy had seemed pretty normal, but his trip to the medlab last night and the missing blood were most likely not a coincidence. If Morallis really was infected, wouldn't people be disappearing on base? Vampires did always seem to prefer fresh blood from a human they brought down. Wouldn't he have admitted it like Vanek did? He felt he should tell someone, but what kind of cop would he be to make an accusation based on circumstantial evidence?
He shook his head Too many 'if's'

In about an hour they made it to a jungle choked village. "Alright, have fun guys, "I'm just glad its not me whos going down there!" Saya jerked out of sleep. She had been having a nice dream to. She shrugged and grabbed a parachute.

Victor and Joe grabbed chutes and jumped. Joe didn't seem worried and Victor was getting more comfortable doing it, but he was still of the mentality 'Why jump out of a perfectly good airplane?'

They landed almost simultaneously, their chutes tangled in the canopy. Comfident in the Civil Authority armor's shock absorbers, they cut themselves loose and dropped the remaining ten feet to the jungle floor. They had long since removed their badges and adornment, but the dark blue of the armor still wasn't as good for camouflage as what the other operatives were wearing.

"One thing's for sure," Kirk said to Morallis over the com, "These guys sure do get out a lot more than us street cops."

They were both very cautious. The first mission was searching a building, right up their alley. The jungle was an alien place to the two officers. The closest they came was when they were rotated to patrol a zoo or park in First City. Suddenly it hit them how small the 47th Precinct was, despite how much of the Capital it covered. They swept the area with their rifles, leaving the motion alarms off. In this jungle there'd too much alive and moving for them to be of help.

John grabbed a parachute, and grabbed his Hali-53, and jumped out, and landed beside Victor and Joe and swept the area, checking to make sure no vampires would be rushing the landing zone..

Saya and Alex landed soon after words, Saya grabbing him for support. Again she felt the urge to throw up. It seemed to be getting worse. She drew her katana, "Okay, the pilot said the village is North, lets get going."

John kept his pace up with the squad, sweeping the area with his Hail-53 assault rifle, and keeping a keen sense of alertness.

Kirk and Morallis maintained a ten foot distance, trying to maintian some form of professionalism as they navigated through the unfamiliar terrain. Kirk didn't like it. It was too open. He felt exposed with only trees and moss for cover and neither officer enjoyed how they sank into the ground a little with each step. It certainly wasn't pavement.

All the while they kept their eyes trained on the surrounding underbrush. Most of what they'd heard about Vietnam was found in a history book, recounting the brutal war America had fought. In a way Kirk envied them: at least the VC were easier to bring down. Though this brought a disturning thought to his mind.

"Wait, if there's anything leftover from the Americans being here, you know, explosives, they wouldn't still work would they?"

John suddenly jumped and swore, for he saw some traps that the VC left out for the Americans and said "Yep, if anything, I bet this is Route Pack 5, woah.." He looked off to the right, alert, and saw the wreckage of an American F-105 that went down, but he looked around and kept up with the squad, sweeping the area with his gun.

Saya shrugged, "I don't know, explosives aren't up my alley."

Ordeith hopped from tree to tree, once again keeping an eye on them. Although it was bad that they were here at all, this jungle should be fun.

John wondered if vampires could leap from tree to tree, as he walked, he looked up at the right moment to see Ordeith leaping from tree to tree, he fired a auto burst at Ordeith and said "There's a vampire following us.." He had body armor that would prevent a vampire bite from contacting skin in case..

Ordeith once again laughed at them, "Haha, do you think that thing will sting much less hurt? Please, can't you people do better? I do want to have some fun with you."

Saya scanned the tree tops nervously, she really didn't like this.

Kirk and Morallis both knew from the zombie outbreak and subsequent vampire hunting missions that their armor was biteproof, multiple scratches and dents attested to that. However as they also found out that didn't mean the neck and joints weren't vulnerable. After the failed mission Morallis was sent on, an armored collar was installed in all Civil Authority armor system including theirs.

All the same they weren't about to let the vampires get close enough to test them. When John started firing they didn't hesitate. Controlled bursts were fired up into the canopy, silencers muffling the shots into little more than the sound of popcorn popping. After about ten seconds they gave up, they knew they wouldn't hit him. They'd just have to wait until he faced them on the ground. He'd be in for a nasty surprise.

Kirk spoke up, "Let's keep moving we're just wasting ammo. He's toying with us, trying to employ scare tactics. Ignore him, he won't come down here as long as he has minions for that."

They soon came in veiw of the village. It wasn't good. Smoke and flames were rising from the entire place. Saya shook her head, the prospects of finding survivors didn't look good.

Morallis shook his head. He had seen worse, but if you had half a heart you never got used to seeing carnage. His horror was replaced by one thing: rage. He was outraged at the existence of vampires in the Dominion, outraged at what they did to innocent unsuspecting people, and most of all outraged at what they did to his fellow officers as well as him. He'd been the only survivor, but even then he hadn't left unscathed. The smell of burning flesh brought an all too familiar craving to his mouth.

No, I don't care what happnes, what I see. I've somehow kept it together this long and I won't lose control. I've been blessed and cursed with maintaining my sanity where so many have lost it and I'm not letting go. I REFUSE to lose control...

He pushed the bloodlust out of his mind, clinging to the shame of being infected and the anger at how they could do this to him to keep the urge in check. He motioned for the squad to fan out and search the village, he'd take point.

Saya went to search the village. She and Alex went different pathways, they all did. She was walking past an alleyway, and she heard some whimpering. She went to go check it out and saw a little girl, probably around 10, maybe twelve if you pushed it. "Hey, come here, we won't hurt you." She said in a soothing tone. The girl came out hesitantly, but when she saw Saya wasn't going for her throat, she rushed out to her and grabbed hold, refusing to let go and crying incoherently. "Hey! I've got a survivor over here"! She yelled out.

Morallis was sweeping what was once the village square. He heard rustling coming from behind one of the burned out huts and readied his rifle.

"Civil Authority, we are here to assist," he keyed one of the programmed responses into his mic.

A cold voice answered, "Good, then perhaps you'll assist me by removing your armor so I could drop in for a bite."

A shape darted from the rubble and moved with supernatural speed right behind him. Morallis wasted no time in driving the stock of his rifle directly into the creature's midsection. He followed up by dropping the rifle on a sling and pulling his nightstick. He'd enjoy this. Not caring who saw it he moved just as fast as the vampire had, landing blow after blow in an endless series until the creature finally fell over dead from internal injury and blunt force trauma. Blood flowed freely from its orifices.

Morallis looked on with grim satisfaction. That was for my squad you son of a bitch
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Kirk was moving along the far end of the village, checking each individual hut for signs of life. Thermal was useless due to the flames. He came upon one relatively intact hut and stepped up the doorway to inspect it.

Just as he did he heard a loud bang and felt a huge impact in his gut. He stumbled backwards, recovering just in time to raise his rifle at a man wielding an AK-47, his hands shaking as he realized one, the man he shot wasn't a vampire and two the round didn't kill him. He immediately dropped the rifle and started yelling incoherently in Vietnamese. He ran up and hugged Kirk, tears streaming down his face. A woman and two small children stepped out of the house.

He gently pushed the man away and keyed his mic, "This is Kirk, I've got survivors, a family."

Crispy walked through the village, or what was left of it. This is why I need to complete my mission.... He had left several vampires dead behind him, and now was just patrolling an area encompassing several barricaded houses.

John shot several vampires as he stuck with the squad, and decapitated others with his katana, and said to Saya "I hope that their are more survivors.."

Crispy walked in between two huts and saw a body laying in a pool of blood. He went over to see if it was dead when it sat up with a jerk. "Are you one of those hunters?" Said the vampire. "Depends upon my interests." Crispy said. He flipped off his mic then crouched down next to him. "If you are why don't you kill me?" Crispy pulled of his glove and held out his hand. "Bite me." The vampires lips drew back and he lunged and sank his teeth into Cripsys hand. he only felt a small prick of pain before it dissapeared, he then pulled his hand off the vampires teeth. "thank you." Said Crispy, he pulled his pistol and the vampire held out his hands. 'Wait, don't shoo-!" Crispy didn't even wait for him to finish the sentence, just fired one round into its head. He puleld on his glove then activated his radio, selecting a secure channel. "You're going to have your sample, but from an un expected source." He then flicked his radio back to the TBCS squad channel. "Confirmed vampire, dead."


At the Union embassy

"I can't believe it, your sticking me with a bunch of nuggets?!" Ed had been saying that the entire time to the garrison coordinator, and no matter how many times he asked he never got a tsraight answer. The co ordinator finaly looked like he had had it with his smart mouth then pointed to a group of soldiers against the wall. "Those guys, aren't nuggets, they're the best we could pull without any serious impdiment." He then sat back down and resumed typing away at his computer. "Thy're probably nugets to..." He muttered under his breath. He went over to them and stuck out his hand. "General Edward Harrison, looks like I'm stuck with you guys." They all turned there head to him. "Eh, don't get comfy, I doubt theres really going to be any serious ..." An alarm went off through out the building. "Looks like I spoke to soon." Said the soldier.

Alex burst through a burning wall of a hut. He needed a moment's reprieve from this thing. It hesitated in the face of the flames.

"Checkmate."

Dagger-5 fired several rounds into the vampire's chest.

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moments earlier...

Alex was on the opposite side of the village from Saya, and was about to make his way over when he saw something barely moving. A women, possibly the child's mother, but he couldn't be sure lay in a pool of blood. Dagger-5's limited knowledge of the vietnamese language allowed him to make out most of what she was saying.

"Please... ambush... kill me... daughter... save..."

He moved closer, to try and understand more of her dying words. He didn't realize until it was almost too late that she'd been warning him, not telling what had happened. Out of nowhere a vampire came charging at him. He evaded and ran toward a burning hut.

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now back in the present...

The vampire cursed Dagger-5 and his family as it slowly exsanguinated. It couldn't move any more, and finally, its eyes glazed over and it was dead. He grabbed a burning piece of material, and ignited the body. He wasn't going to let others feed on this one, even if no part of his soul felt compassion for the creature.

He walked back to the dying woman. She still lay there. Her eyes were losing focus, but she still stared at Dagger-5. She spoke again, in hesitant English.

"Please, kill me, I not one of them. Kill me, save my daughter."

"I will. I promise you that."

He stood and drew pointed his pistol at the dying woman's face. A forced smile came over her, and she mouthed the words 'thank you'.

He pulled the trigger. The woman ceased moving, she was no longer tortured by the vampire genes running rampant through her body. He closed her eyes and reloaded the pistol.

"This is Dagger-5 to TBCS, confirm one dead vampire and one dead human woman. Cause of death for the woman, single gunshot wound to the head. I'll explain later."

He got up and shook off the sadness of having to kill someone who wasn't his enemy. He looked around and began heading toward Saya's location, very cautiously.

Crispy walked through the village, the fires were spreading from one house to the next. he was starting to feel it affecting him, he ran his tounge over his teeth, his canines were now razor sharp. He frowned. I wonder if this is how Ed felt when he became a UH... He turned to look for any of his squad mates, but didn't see anything. "This is Crispy." he said over the radio. "Any one, give me there position."

Back at the embassy

"Oh hell no.." Ed and the group of soldiers he was with turned a corner to see vampires feeding on the entrance gaurds and staff. He raised his rifle and fired off several rounds, only to be met by a dozen more as the vamped soldiers got up and grabbed their weapons. He ducked around the corner, as did the rest of the squad. "We need to establish a baricade, preferbly somewhere easily defendable." The soldier next to him nodded. "The stair well entrance to the third floor doesn't have any other access point except for the stairs, we should head there. Names Evan Grey by the way." Ed noded. "I'll shake your hand later, for now we need to get moving, evacuate all the cvilians up to the third floor."

John whipped his katana out as he saw a vampire charge toward him, John jumped, and at the same time in a very precise manner, he decapitated the vampire, and slashed another vampire, and decapitated it also, and another he shot with his pistol, until it fell over, and he stabbed it, and he cleaned off his katana and he re-joined the squad.

Dagger-5 flitted between buildings as he heard Crispy's radio call. He knew that he'd be passing through his sector.

"Dagger-5 to Crispy, I'm moving through your zone, coming from you 2 o'clock, behind the large building. Do not engage, repeat, do not engage."

He knew that Crispy was still angry about Saya, but he had to work with the man, so he might as well treat him like he would anyone else.

He began to run across the open ground, his pistol at the ready, in case there were any suprises. It could be noted that for someone with a sword wound and tactical gear, he ran just slightly too fast, a lingering effect of U.H., he seldom felt any need to complain about it. It wasn't like he was permanently mutated into a blade-armed monster or anything.

John leapt up on the buildings quite agile, for he had told nobody, but he had been bitten by a radioactive spider, same as Spider Man, and he shot a web at a building and he zoomed, and as a Vampire attempted to leap up, he entangled the Vampire in the web and shot him dead, and released the web.. Heck this was starting to be not so scary, but more like an adventure to him, "WHYAHH!" he grunted as he decapitated a vampire.

Morallis had since moved on, checking more buildings and finding nothing. He was mildly surprised when Kirk stepped out from behind a hut with an entire family in tow. Even more surprising was the fact that the father was armed. Where he came from, armed civilians in public usually meant trouble.

"They're clean," Kirk explained, "I ran a few field tests and they're neg for the virus. The Kalashnikov's his and two guns are always better than one."
He keyed on his radio, "This is Kirk, where do we transfer survivors?"
As he waited for an answer he asked Morallis, "What about you buddy, find anything?"

Morallis entered a series of responses, "One. Tango. Neutralized."

John saw 4 intact huts, he entered each, and he found bunches of survivors in each one and called on the radio "I found about 4 families that survived, the males are armed, they and I can hold off, somebody come to our position over.."

"Roger that Dag 5, holding position." Something charged at him from a burning house and managed to smack him inot the ground. he got up and saw a very muscular man standing in front of him, whether he was a vampire or not, he couldn't tell. he flicked the switch on his hand gaurd and a knife protruded from underneath it, the latest in combat knife technology. he ran at his attacker and manged to slice open several deep wounds before turning to see him stumble and fall. The sight of blood unleashed something in him, a blood lust. He barley managed to keep himself from feeding off the man, instead he puled out his pistol and fired a roud through his attackers head. "Confirmed kill, unknown origin." he looked down at his knife and saw it dripping with blood. To hell with it, at least Its not a person. he popped off his helmet and licked all the blood off before snapping it back on.

At the embassy
"Did you say they've got grenades?" Ed shouted over the roar of gunfire. "f they got into the armory on the second floor, yes." Said Eliot Brown. "Oh shit, here comes another wave!" Screamed Andrea Winter. "your kidding me..." said Ed, then popped over the make shift barricade, sure enough another group of vamped soldiers were climbing the stair case, this time with riot shields from the armory. "You know... I miss the days when whatever I killed didn't shoot back at me..."

John screamed into the radio "I need re-enforcements now!, we're being attacked by vampire hordes for pete's sake!!" He was holding off the vampires with his Uzi in one hand, and katana slashing at vampires in the other..

Dagger-5 turned, Saya would be fine, he hoped, John was in mortal danger though.

"I'm en route, engaging at will."

He pulled his second XD and kept going. Rounding a hut he saw the battle. He began firing into the horde. Not entirely to kill, more to draw them off.

"Hey you blood-suckers!" Over here! Come get some!"

He reloaded and fired again. More vampires dropped with various arteries severed. Still, several turned and chased him. It all seemed vaguely familiar to him.

The two officers moved back toward the village square to redezvous with the squad. They set the family to work building a makeshift barricade and Kirk reported in, "This is Kirk and Morallis. We've got a family and a barricade in the square. We'll use it as a rendezvous point, bring all survivors here. Over."

They each took an angle and pantomimed for the father to take up a third position. Kirk took the time to favor the small puncture wound where the bullet had barely gotten through the armor. It wasn't much, but they had an extraction zone set up.

John slashed through the vampires, and just in the nick of time a CH-46 landed in the clear space, and he loaded the survivor's into the CH-46 and it took off crammed with survivors, and he slashed through the vampires, and leapt onto the hut with agility that wasn't like him, because of the spiderness in him, he threw grenades at the mass of vampires, making sure not to direct any near Dag5.

Crispy heard the transmission and headed to where John was entrenched, hopefully he could get there in time. Crispy ran towards the direction of the gun fire and turned to a row of houses, thing is, he was behind them. Might as well make a smashing entrance... He jumped through the weak wood of the hut and immideatly had several guns pointed in his face. "Friend" He managed to say in English ad Vietnamese.


At the Embassy

"Whos got a grenade!" One of the soldiers ran forward and handed Ed a launcher pistol and a belt of shells for it. "Thanks." he said. he flipped it open to see if it was loaded, upon seeing that it was, he aimed very carefully for the ceneter of the crowd. "Smile blood suckers." he said, then pulled the trigger. the ensuing detonation sent body parts and pieces of the stairs flying everywhere, when he got up to look most of the vamped soldiers were dead, the rest bleeding to death.

John flicked the full auto mode on his Hali-53, he fired into the all vampire crowd, that was attempting to storm the beleaguered position, and dropping several, and he threw a grenade into the crowd, dropping more then he thought. He did front flip to land in the middle of the remainder, slashing and hacking with the katana, and shooting with the Uzi..

All of a sudden a large group charged toward the barricade, they weren't friendly.
"This is Kirk and Morallis at town square extraction zone. Multiple hostiles inbound. We're engaging. Do not, repeat, do not bring survivors here. Over."

The two officers and the villager turned and leveled their weapons at the crowd. The villager had his set to semiauto at the request of Kirk. He only had two spare clips and the officers didn't have 7.62 Cobra handy. A series of barks from the AK were met with a chorus of growls from the silenced DM-32s as they commenced shredding the oncoming horde.

"Best part about this is," Kirk yelled over the fire, "you don't need a head shot!"

John fired his Hali-53 at the rear flank of the large vampire crowd attempting to charge Kirk and Morallis's position, and dropping a few, charged at the vampires slashing and hacking, dropping 5 vampires and yelled "I think it's only 2 more hours, then we can leave!" He admitted though, that this adrenaline pumping adventure was kind of fun.., he leapt onto a hut to avoid a bit from a vampire, then turning around and shooting said vampire dead, and then jumping down and slashing more vampires..

The vampires gave up their chase as Dagger-5 entered a small religious hut.

"I guess some myths are true. Good thing."

He looked around to ensure it was safe. He grabbed a silver cross off a table, the preacher lay dead, so he wouldn't need it, The bottom slipped off revealing a dagger.

"Charming..."

He kept looking. Inside a small cabinet he found a pile of prayer books, and a packet of documents. He tucked them into his vest, and readied himself to return to the fight.

He loaded his TAR-21 and XD's and returned to the fray. Once more he headed for Saya, careful not to drag the vamps with him.

John was firing his Uzi and lobbing grenades and said over the battle noise "Only 1 hour left until pickup!" He shot and slashed more vampires, leaping to avoid a bite, he turned around, and fired at the vampire in mid air, shooting the vampire to death, he slashed and hacked his way through the vampire crowd..

Crispy had about had it with the blood suckers. No amtter what he did, they never seemed to stop coming. he unsheated the knife in his hand gaurd and holstered his gun. If they want blood, they can drink there own he turned towards the crowd and roared before leaping into the center of them.


At the embassy
Ed was not happy, the vampires continued to crowd the stair well, taking pot shots at any exposed amr hanging over the rail. He had had it with them, and decided to do something about it. "Stop shooting!" he yelled over the rail. 'Lunch is coming soon!" He went into the room where the civilians were hiding and picked up the scientist he was supposed to protect. He struggled for a bit, but then went still after he realized how useless his struggle was. Ed then swung him out over the stair well and held him there. "Now, either you tell me why your so damn inportant, or.." He looked down. "You get to become lunch for them." The scientists shook. " All right, I'll tell you!"

It was during the one-sided engagement that Kirk noticed something red and metallic on a farm cart. Gasoline.
Perfect
"John, hold fire! The sun's about to come out."

He fired one shot into the gas tanks, detonating them. The resounding boom was deafening as fire engulfed the crowd and a few surrounding huts.

"Send my regards to Ho Chi Minh."

The villager looked quizically at Kirk for that comment, but the remaining vamps quickly retook his attention.

John charged the remainder of the vampires, slashing and firing, then a voice from above said "Out of the way, we will finish the blood suckers off.." John moved the squad and the last of the survivors back, and the AH-64 fired Hellfire missiles, and fired cannon shot's into the vampires, eliminating them, then 2 CH-46's landed and the pilot said "It's time to RTB for a little break!"

Crispy staggered out of the pile of bodies near him, he wasn't injured at all, but he was completly covered in blood. That... was fun... He looked around and realized something, he was very hungry.


At the embassy

"..And thats all I know." Ed heaved him back over the rail and onto solid ground. "So you think you know where this 'true blood' is?" The scientist shurgged. 'Like I said, it may or may not be there any more." Ed pulled a grenade off his belt and leaned over the rail. "Hey, suck on this!" he dropped the grenade and stood back, two frag grenades clattered to the bottom of the stair well and detonated. "Should be the last of them. All right, we need a clean up squad!"

"And you called me a Mini-Rambo. I feel a sudden craving for an cruller, anyone see a Dunkin' Donuts?"

He readied the M1014 shotgun and ran like hell.

John helped the rest of the survivors into one CH-46, that one took off, and he helped his squadmates into the other, John was the last in, all squadmates were present and accounted for, he said as they took off "I am looking forward to a nice long break.." He cleaned his Katana, and smiled at Dag5.

Kirk laughed, "What can I say? We need to do SOMETHING when we're not giving out speeding tickets to people two over the limit."

John laughed and said "Man, that mission was like a good 'ole hack and slash computer game, hey, that'd make a good movie.."

"Anyone think this is premature? I mean, we've only just arrived. I'm not complaining, I got this."

He pulled out the folder.

"It was wierd to find a file folder in a church, so I grabbed it. Wierder still was this."

He withdrew the dagger.

"I've heard of being willing to kill for one's faith, but only figuratively in the last couple hundred years."

Kirk and Morallis had ushered the survivors to the safety of the helicopters, but vouched to stay behind.

"We didn't just come for survivors, and we're not leaving until we find what we're looking for. Oh, and by the way, they tried making a hack and slash game into a movie. It was called Doom and it didn't get the best of reviews if I remember right."

Crispy was slient, he had experienced way to much, and he needed to taker his mind off things.Wonder how lon I can go without feeding...

At the embassy

A soldier handed Ed a satalite phone. "Edward Harrison, you ar ordered to return to the TBCS as of now." Ed sighed. "finally, Harrison out." He flicked the phone closed and noded toward a pilot. "Hey, need you to take me back. The pilot noded, fifteen minutes later, Ed was inbound for the TBCS base.

John said "The reason that I am leaving is because of this.." He pointed to his guns being empty of ammo, he said "I don't feel comfortable without weapons, and ooh!" John's katana shattered as soon as he took it out of his sheath..

The CH-46 headed back towards the TBCS base, John fell asleep, to get some rest..

Crispy looked over at John. "That must not be from Mereshka, katanas from there don't shatter."

John said to Crispy "It isn't, it's a cheap Khilistanian one that I took from a dead Khilistan soldier in the third Khilistanian Uprising.."

Kirk nodded, understanding. Took a lot of killing to break a katana. The two offcers moved out of the square, looking for better cover. They knew just how those American troops must have felt. Well, almost. They had enclosed, climate controlled armor that could save them from a point blank rifle round. That and their enemies were ten times harder to kill. Kirk smiled a little to himself; all in all things weren't horrible and despite the new air of creepiness and inability to talk Morallis wasn't that bad a person to be stuck here with though no one else seemed to like him.

The two began searching each and every hut, leaving no stone unturned as they searched for this 'intelligence' they were supposed to be on the lookout for.

"If it is, then he must have really hammered on that thing. I mean, I can't think of a way to pull that off."

He looked at the blades of his chisakatana, they were fine. He was glad he'd gone with them, as opposed to other swords, they just seemed right.

"Hm, must not know much about steel working then, eh?"

John said "Yeah, the Khilistanian Katanas are usually very good, but I reckon the previous owner hammered on it alot. I am just kind of glad they are recalling us to base.."

"yeah, wonder how Ed fared on the most broing job ever."

John said as the CH-46 landed rather hard "Well, we are here, at least.." He hopped out and walked toward the building to go to the breakroom..

Ed walked out of the break room. "hey, your back! How'd the mission go?" Ed felt everyone staring at his armor, and he looked down, it was soaked in blood. "Oh that, I'll explain later."

OOC: Someone should post in the Breakroom thread..

IC:John sat down wearily and removed his helmet and suit and sat down with a Coke in his hand and smiled and said "Ed, we just had a vampire killing fest, man, there must've been at least 500 of them.."

OOC; lets continue this conversation in the break room... already posted.

Dagger-5 looked at the full chopper, out at the now quiet village, and then at Saya. A familiar expression crossed his face. The same expression as Dagger-4 had had long ago. The look meant one thing. 'I'm not coming on this run, so take care of yourself. I swear, I come back.'

He ran out of the chopper before it got too far up, and landed in a roll. His Shotgun swept the area. He recognized the bootprints of the CA troops, and ran after them. He radio'd the squad.

"I'm going to finish the search. I've got plenty of ammo, I'll be fine. I swear. Send another chopper and I'll be on that one."

Then he opened a secure channel to Saya.

"I know, I'm in deep trouble. Just, trust me on this one. I left the documents, so if something happens... Stay safe 'till I get back."

He felt regret begin to well up inside him. He suppressed it. He'd be going back shortly.

"Dagger-5 to CA, I'll sweep the buildings opposite you. Move to UHF Secure - Channel 9."

He switched to the secure tactical channel, and began clearing the buildings.

Many would not have recognized the weapon he carried. It was a heavilly modified Benelli M-1014, mounted with a MARS reflex sight, a green LAM, and a specially designed shotgun suppressor. (OOC: surprisingly, they do exist, and work well) He found the first few buildings to be empty.

He heard the sound of DM-32's whispering off to his right. Dagger-5 knew that the CA guys must have come upon something. He looked across the path and saw where their rounds were headed, and emptied the shotgun as quickly as he could. The normally thunderous sound was reduced to a frightening level. He quickly reloaded and continued.

At the end of the building he paused and brought up the TBCS channel.

"Dagger-5 to TBCS Base. 3 Friendlies are still engaged in AO Niner Niner Victor. Requesting exfil and air support be on site in 10 minutes. Come back."

"We copy your request Dagger-5, birds in the air, ETA 12 minutes. Requesting situation report."

"Situation is Variable, repeat, situation Variable. Appreciate the exfil Dagger-5 out."

(Variable is the Shenyangi military code for semi-controlled, he'd have brief the communications guys on this before the mission)

He moved into the next building. An angry vampire met him there. It didn't leave. A double tap from the M-1014 ensured that. He found a small bag full of documents. Obviously the vamp had been getting ready to cut and run. He appreciated that it'd decided to gift wrap the intel for him.

Kirk called over from his position, "Good shooting, nice job avoiding the documents. If that's what we needed all that's left is evac. I'd say the village is reasonably sterile. We get a response yet?"

"Roger, evac should be on site in Three - Zero seconds.

Sure enough, moments later a pair of Shenyangi MV-22 Osprey appeared. One raked the perimeter of the village with machine gun fire, while the other touched down in the town center.

"Move, move. We're coming from you 7, do not engage us."

"Roger."

The two Civil Authority officers piled in, stopping for a second to cover Dagger 5, carving up vampires with a hail of bullets.

"Move it man, let's go!" Kirk screamed, half pulling D5 into the back bay.

"GO!" The MV-22 lifted into the night, and Dagger-5 emptied the rest of his shotgun's magazine into the village. He sat back and reloaded.

"You guys really ought to give me more notice when you arrange suicide missions."

Vanek came back from his hunting trip and was in the helicopter. "What's happened?" he asked. He'd been thinking the whole trip and not paying attention.

bump

OOC: We made it back, we're on the breakroom thread now.

Doesn't seem like it to mee-whatever.

OOC: Most of the unit headed back on the first choppers. RS and I stayed to find more intel. The MV-22s are assumed to have made it back.

Oh.

John leapt up on the buildings quite agile, for he had told nobody, but he had been bitten by a radioactive spider, same as Spider Man, and he shot a web at a building and he zoomed, and as a Vampire attempted to leap up, he entangled the Vampire in the web and shot him dead, and released the web.. Heck this was starting to be not so scary, but more like an adventure to him, "WHYAHH!" he grunted as he decapitated a vampire.

OOC: I'd just like to say: WTF???!!!!!

OOC; Exactly what I said.

OOC: I must have missed that the first time, so all I can say is... OMGWTFBBQ!!!!!11111111!!1oneelevenone.

OOC: Sorry for not getting on yesterday.

OOC: I must have missed that the first time, so all I can say is... OMGWTFBBQ!!!!!11111111!!1oneelevenone.
OOC: Heh?

OOC; Hey you were busy, right now we need to get mission 3 started. (Everyone except Vandek is on I think...)

OOC:Hehe, actually, next is an intervention.

OOC: Broken down its OMG WTF BBQ (barbeque, not anything else) exclamatins, the numbers 1 and 11 (since shift-1 is exclamation) then the spelling of them, as a joke. I know basic N00BISH (also known as LEET or L33T)

OOC; Intervention, ooh, cool.