Assault

Posted on Thu Feb 20th, 2025 @ 12:45pm by Lieutenant Commander Hunter Carey & Lieutenant Commander Aalis Rinne

Mission: Those who are left behind
Location: Planetside
Timeline: Current

Hunter watched as he wiped some of the blood off his hands. Knife skills were a specialty, though not one he was proud of. As they approached the door, he turned to the commander. "Any final words?"

"Be safe. it's for both of us," she whispered quietly. She was sweating something fierce with having fought their way through too many people, and the fast pace that they had taken to get to this point.

Tapping his combadge twice, pausing a moment, he tapped it twice more. When nothing came back, he frowned. "Lets get going." He replied as he used some infrared camera under the door, it was ancient technology, but it worked, better than those bigger bulkier things they had today that told them exactly how many and where.

"Looks like five hostiles around various bodies on the ground."

She hmmed quietly looking over his shoulder to try to gage what was going on with what they were seeing on the screen in front of them. Old technology was something that they had employed throughout the years as it was something that always worked in some shape and form and because it was ancient tech, most sensors didn't pick up on it. "We may not be the first, the question are they friendly or foes?" she asked quietly.

"I don't like the look of this." Hunter replied as he noticed something familiar. "Those bodies... they are our back up."

A bit of dread washed over Aalis realizing that she might have bitten off more than she was willing to acknowledge out loud. "Then we figure out what happened to our back up and do them justice." While she may have been spinning it more for them to succeed in the current situation, it was all she could do to try to manifest their desired outcome.

Pausing, "You take left, I take right." Hunter finally responded as he rounded his corner, taking his down swiftly.

She went through and flanked through the left side of the entrance. While she wanted to go in just phasers blazing, she knew they'd drop her just after she released a shot. That was the thing about distant weapons, they weren't silent by the stretch of anyone's imagination. As well, by no means was she the largest one here, and used her slight height to her advantage. Getting a quiet running start, she managed to jump her foot on the back of the guy's calf propelling her up to his shoulder level, allowing her to wrap her arm around his neck and she squeezed hard, suffocating him.

Within seconds, he had taken out his klingon blade. A personal favorite in these types of missions, and sliced the other cardassians throat, as the cardassian was gurgling, he threw the blade at the one near the door, only for three more to enter.

Walking through the next doorway, there were two guards that were there: one was standing and the other was sitting. She threw a knife at the back of the throat of the standing fellow and then ducked down under the half rail as he tried grabbing it from the back of his neck. His vocal cords were no longer functional so he couldn't quite call out for help. Seeing that the other guy hadn't become alerted yet, she stood, ripping the knife from the standing guy and pivoted, hitting the guy in the eye that had been alarmed. Quickly she took the knife out of his throat and wiped the knife off on her sleeve.

With the current threat over, "Not bad Commander." He put his blade back. He checked the officers, making sure he was dead. "Maybe another time another place, this wouldn't have happened."

Eyes darting between the dead bodies around them, their own people included, she nodded in the Lieutenant's direction. "Maybe. Let's make sure it doesn't happen again?" The almost rhetorical question came off more question than rhetoric. "Next?" the Trill asked.

"This building controls all power, we cut that, we should have a slight advantage at least. Or we keep them on, and try the stealth still. Cutting power will give us away."

Mulling it over didn't take long. "I say leave the power. It'll be harder to work with, but I rather not put a bullseye on us right now if we cut the power, unless we could cut the power to the shipyard as well, and make it systemic problems, considering the battle that should be going on in space."

"Leaving the power it is then." Hunter replied. "We have one more stop, and its the main facility."

"Well let's do it then," she replied.