#TheBarn – September 14, 2015

Skythix growls to herself. Running out there was suicide but all the other squads were busy with their own things. "If anyone is able to lend a hand in the hanger we'd appreciate it. Multiple ceiling turrets have us pinned down in the east doorway."

Ilyna continues towards the door at the end of the corridor, her weapon trained on it in case someone bursts through it.

Jason quickly follows up by slamming both fists against the ground where he last saw the fuckwad, hoping to catch him before he can get out of the way.

Renala fires in short burts around the area where he cloaked, doing her best to not hit Jason.

Pip peers around the corner and watches Jason and the operative fight, her shotgun at the ready.

Zaylus reaches the far side of the corridor, looking to the asari as he readies his weapon.

Watty is keeping a watchful eye in the area around Halisi and Vasquez. (Pip_summers)

Ilyna prepares her biotics. "I'm going to open the door, get ready," she says, waiting around 2 seconds before hitting the interface and stepping back. She raises her weapon again.

Halisi opens the door to the central room, letting out a relived sigh as she discovers it is still empty. She enters the room, hoping to get Vasquez away from the fighting. (TyrGM)

Renala reloads her weapon. "Great," she sighs. "Now we have some invisible fucker ready to attack us at any time." She pauses. "You alright, boss?"

Steve blinks and pats at his helmet a few more times until the readouts return to normal. "Sounds like we ain't gonna be gettin' much help this way." he sighs, giving a nod towards the door. "Whaddya say?" he asks, "Ladies first...?"

Jason stands up straight and spins around, looking for any sign of the agent. "Walking on sunshine..." he mutters to the asari as he slowly backs up to retrieve his weapon. As he scoops it up off the floor, he swings it back and forth, checking to see if it's able to get a lock on anything.

Skythix checks her shield levels to make sure they're full before doing anything risky. She let out a loud snarl followed by a shake of her head and a strong roll of her shoulders. "You better have this lady's back or I'll turn you into one." She said before planting her right foot back in preperation to run behind the closest cover. "Get ready!" She shouts before breaking off through the

Pip grips her weapon nervously, sweeping it to and fro.

Jason takes a couple steps back towards the corner and holds down the trigger, sweeping the weapon back and forth as he sends a storm of rounds down the hall.

Ilyna enters the room, aiming around in all directions and the ceiling.

Zaylus lowers his weapon and steps inside, looking between the two doors. He steps over to the east, but is still looking toward the generator, seemingly in thought.

Ilyna lowers her weapons. "I think the smaller door is most likely going to lead us outside," she says and walks over to it, taking position by the doorframe.

Zaylus nods, "Probably." He agrees, getting ready against the doorframe. "Could've been fun, though." He mutters quietly with a smirk, giving another dip of the head as he brings up his weapon.

Ilyna tilts her head. "Disabling the generator?" she asks. "That could turn out very badly if life support and doors depend on it." She reaches out to hit the door interface before popping back into cover.

Zaylus shrugs, keeping his eyes on the door. "That's probably why you're in charge."

Steve lets out a deep breath and gives a shake of his head. He gives Skythix a couple second head start before swinging into the doorway and rushing towards the cover to his right, letting off a few shots with his Tempest at the turret as he does.

Jason sighs as he reaches the corner. "This is going to complicate things..." he groans. "Doc! Where is it!?" he calls back, waiting to answer Renala until he even knows what direction they need to be heading in.

Halisi stops by the bench in the middle of the room, putting Vasquez down on it carefully as she tries to recover some strength. "Over here. The door on the other side." (TyrGM)

Watty pauses nearby, watching the surrounding area vigilantly. (Pip_summers)

Jason nods idly, continuing to back around the corner with a bit of unease at the disappearing Cerberus agent. "Alright, Renala, take point. Keep your eyes open and I'll watch our ass and make sure our little friend with the BDSM fetish doesn't blindside us." He continues to sweep his weapon back and forth, looking for any sign of their attacker.

Skythix practically falls into cover as her shields barely make it half way to cover. She could feel a few of the bullets bouncing off of her heavy armor but more than a few end up puncturing through her armor. She lets out a loud and painful cry as she drops her harrier next to her prone body behind the cover. She is clutching her side where multiple micro bullets pierced the armor as well

Steve slides into cover and gives a glance over in Skythix' direction. "You take some rounds?" he calls out, peering around his cover as he does to try and get a read on where exactly everything is and to keep himself out of the turrets' firing lanes.

Ilyna frowns. She was about to respond to the turian when she hears the one knocking on the door. "That must be the way out," she whispers and walks into the corridor with light steps, weapon raised. "Try not to make a sound."

Renala nods and starts moving east, keeping a brisk pace to catch up with Halisi.

Pip bites her lower lip as she turns back to the room she came from. Quickly, she types in a command to her omni-tool.

Zaylus waits to enter the corridor as he analyzes the sound. Nodding, he quietly follows the asari down the hall, trying to see around the corner.

Skythix struggled to her knees while trying to maintain her cover. "Yes! I -ugh- I got hit, a lot!" She could feel the sweet, sweet medigel starting to work and numb some of the pain but she knew she still had some internal injuries no doubt. Hopefully it would be enough for now. She was breathing heavily as she tried to think of a plan. Their shuttle was still taking hits but it was the only

Watty 's head snaps up and he starts to stomp out of the room and back towards the hangar at a brisk pace. He emerges into the corridor. (Pip_summers)

Watty clenches his fist and charges down the corridor, his footsteps bouncing off the walls as he fires off a sniper round aimed at the back of the Ogre's knee in an effort to cripple it. (Bowe)

Jason continues to watch the hall behind them as he backs up towards the room the others are in. "Don't do anything crazy!" he shouts over comms, "We're dealing with a few problems of our own right now, Ice. If you can hold your position and just stay in cover, the turrets should be dealt with soon. That was the whole point! Don't fight the fucking things unless you have no choice! As soon

Pip keeps quiet as she emerges into the large room. She may not like the turian, but she wasn't going to just let her get mowed down by turrets.

Ilyna raises her weapon at the man, and steps towards him. "No, they're not," she hisses. "Tell them you're joking, and stay quiet."

Steve ducks instinctively as a few rounds plink off of his position. "Lil' late for that now, boss!" he calls out over comms, "We're in the thick of it! Ice has taken a few hits. I got winged. I'm spottin' three turrets. High rate of fire. I mean, we can do our best to just hunker down and try to keep a little heat off the ride, but if they send backup we're prolly fucked."

Zaylus pays little attention to the man, starting to wander toward the northern door.

Ilyna sighs. "I'm sorry," she says before the built-up biotic energy manifests in a throw directed at him to knock him out.

Ilyna frowns and turns around, and walks north to catch up with the turian.

Renala arrives in the bigger room to the east and looks around for Halisi.

Halisi is still waiting by the bench. She points towards the eastern door as Renala arrives. "The labs are over there. The artifact should be in there. At least that's what they said." (TyrGM)

Watty crosses his arms in front of him as the flames lick his armour plating. When the flames subside, Watty lowers his arms as his armour glows red hot and his paint peels away. He charges up his shotgun and fires at the Ogre point blank as he charges, aiming to cripple the pulse weapon after a fierce hail of gunfire. When within fisticuff ra (Bowe)

Watty -range, Watty would try to shoulder charge it and follow up with smashing his fist into its optics. (Bowe)

Zaylus comes up to the next door. Man, we sure love doors. After getting in place once again, he shoots the downed human a look, huffing as he refocuses his attention.

Renala nods and jogs over to take cover beside the eastern door.

Ilyna walks up to the door, again preparing her biotics. "Let's hope this one leads to the airlock," she says before hitting the interface and raising her weapon at the door.

Jason continues backing towards the room. As soon as he reaches it, he taps the door's interface to close it behind them. He glances to the north at the sounds of the fight going on between Watty and the Ogre. "The hell is going on out there!?" he calls out as he maneuvers to get a view of the two large mechs going at it. "This-... Fuck. Keep moving." he groans, "We need to get this artifact

Zaylus | "I don't know if we're that lucky." He replies, too raising his weapon.

Pip takes off at a run as Watty feeds back his current situation to her. As she enters the corridor and spots the second mech, she swears colourfully and focuses her efforts on keeping Watty working, namely by boosting his shields.

Renala looks out at the hallway at the fight with a frown. "This is not going well," she mutters. She takes position beside the door, and waits for Jason.

Halisi looks over at the fighting mechs as well as a particularly loud impact sounds, before returning her attenion to Jason. "I don't know. In the lab. That's all I got from them. Should be a really big room." She glances back at the corridor again. "I can't get Vasquez back to the hangar!" (TyrGM)

Ilyna gets into the room and takes cover by the doorframe, trying to listen for where exactly the gunfire is coming from. "We've found the airlock," she says over the comms. "What's your status, Thumper? Ice?"

Watty takes a staggering step back, the sounds of another mech entering the fray causing his head to turn. The situation was dire and he recognised it as so. He quickly closes the gap again between the Ogre and him. This time however, he uses his significantly better manoeuvrability than most mechs his size to get behind the Ogre, all the - (Bowe)

Zaylus mirrors the asari's actions, taking refuge on the other side. With a tilt of the head, he spots the very clearly marked airlock, and lets out a short, low laugh. After a thought to himself, he recomposes, too searching for the source of the gunfire.

Jasper peers out through the window, looking up at the turrets for a few moments before sighing. "Ahhhh tits!" he groans as he plops himself back down into the pilot's seat and begins the process of ascending. "I'll see what I can do..." he responds over comms as he attempts to rise straight up and kiss the ceiling before sweeping back and forth, hoping to damage the turrets.

Skythix tried to keep her breathing under control as she got her return message. "We weren't making good time on finding the security and Jasper was in trouble." She growled over the radio, hoping it was enough of a case. Her hands were starting to shake from the pain but it was all starting to fade away as the course of medigel finished. She grabbed the small holo projector that was left in

Watty , now behind the mech, shoves his weaponized arm at the lower back of the Ogre, priming a high-powered sniper shot and firing. Failing that, Watty would simply try to topple the mech by switching back to his shotgun and firing at the back of the mech's leg at point blank range whilst smashing his fist into its back. (Bowe)

Jason has a momentary eye twitch as Pip takes off towards Watty. "Are you-..." he trails off and groans once more as he taps his weapons interface to return to disruptor rounds. With a few steps to the north, he begins pouring ammo into the Ogre to assist Watty, hoping to help put an end to the fight as quickly as possible. "This is not how you follow orders!" he growls. "Shut the automated

Pip would now attempt to hack into the other Ogre mech, pouring the processing power of both of her omni-tools into the attempt using her own "Lockpick" programme based off of hacking into a YMIR mech for extended durations. She had no idea how it would affect the Ogre, but hey, worth a go right?

Steve watches Skythix as she readies for another attack and situates himself to join in. As the decoy is deployed, he listens intently and then-... nothing. He frowns and glances back at Skythix. Eh, fuck it. He swings out of cover to the north, hoping to only gain the attention of one of the turrets due to his positioning, and tries to empty a few rounds into it.

Ilyna jogs towards the airlock door. "Viper, are you with us?" she asks over comms before turning to the turian. "Make sure your helmet is sealed." She taps on her omni-tool to seal her helmet and armor.

Viper 's voice can be heard over the comms. "Got some problems here! Bunch of assholes came outta the-..." A few stray shots strike the jammed door. "...-generator room. Be with ya shortly!" (TyrGM)

Pip grins. "Now we're talkin'!" She continues to focus her efforts on keeping the mech immobile, her electronic attacks consistently being blocked by the Ogre's firewalls and electronic warfare suite. She attempts to shut down the mech's weapon systems.

Jasper lets out a loud, adreneline fueled, "Whoooooooooo!" as the turret explodes and swipes back in the other direction in an attempt at taking out a second one, the loud sound of metal-on-metal screeching throughout the hangar as he slides the kodiak across the ceiling.

Watty peers around the corner to get a bead on the situation. (Bowe)

Pip blinks. Well that wasn't what she was hoping to accomplish, but it still worked out... She hoped. She continues to run her Lockpick programme to see if she can't hijack the mech, or at least power it down for good.

Renala waits by the doorway for Jason to catch up. She hasn't a very fond experience of going off on her onw.

Watty crosses the gap between him and the downed mech, ignoring the brave or foolish operator for the moment. He reaches down and shoves his weapon arm at the elbow joint for the pulse cannon and fires a barrage of shotgun rounds into it. Failing, or succeeding that task, he would start to pummel the mech's torso and face, hoping to cause - (Bowe)

Watty - enough damage to at least cripple it or damage its targeting system. (Bowe)

Pip blinks. Well... Piss... Time to go. "Get down!" She yells as she throws herself away from the door and to the side.

Skythix tried her best in her injured state to fire off rounds at the remaining turrets. She spots the Cerberus agent that they missed in between peeks from her cover. She would fire off suppressing rounds to try and keep him in cover.

Jason continues cussing and muttering to himself as the Confetti Maker cycles to another thermal clip. "How... hard... is it.... to-..." he grunts to himself as he taps at the interface, switching back to AP rounds, "...follow.... some fucking... orders!?" He stomps back in Renala's direction, not particularly interested in whatever Pip is doing at this point, and stands before the door.

Watty would then switch to disabling the other arm of the Ogre, favouring on smashing it to the point of being inoperable. (Bowe)

Renala nods and opens the door before getting back to cover by the doorframe.

Steve 's shields are, once again, rocked by the combined arms of the turrets. With the addition of the Cerberus agent, there's not much time before rounds are plinking off of his plating. A blue glow envelopes him once more and he jerks his arms back, attempting to violently rip the Cerberus trooper in front of him and block the turret's rounds.

Ilyna releases her prepared biotic energy to telekinetically stop the door fragment, or at least try slow it down to the point it won't do them harm.

Steve quickly realizes it won't work and elects to simply whip the trooper out into the open with as much force as he can muster before swinging back into cover. His suit administers more medi-gel as the realization sinks in that he took a few more rounds in the exchange. "Shit-... These fuckers are mean!" he grunts over the gunfire, "How do you wanna play this!?" he continues to call out

Watty is engulfed in the explosion, rearing back as he once again glows red at the intense concentration of heat. He staggers forwards, over the downed mech with fire licking at his armour, more of his paint peeling away. But he is still standing, albeit with heavy damage. He turns his blackened head at the human shooting him. He lumbers- (Bowe)

Jasper begins to cackle with glee as the second turret is destroyed, but his excitement is quickly ruined as the kodiak goes careening towards the wall. "Son of a twelve-titted-turian!" he curses as he wrestles with the controls, attempting to at least diminish the damage taken by the collision.

Watty -towards the human and fires a single assault rifle round at the human's shoulder. (Bowe)

Ilyna breaths a sigh as she gently moves the thing to the floor. "Goddess," she mutters. "That was close." She raises her weapon at the doorway in case any hostiles are moving in.

Halisi speaks up once again, as she recieved no response last time. "I can't get Vasquez back to the-..." She's interrupted by the explosion, and barely has time to push the unconcious woman behind the bench before the shockwave hits. (TyrGM)

Watty is knocked forward, crashing down on consoles and any people unfortunate enough to be beneath him. He quickly reorientates himself and stands, turning his head to look back at the corridor. (Bowe)

Skythix | "A tank would be nice." She mutters through gritted teeth. "We can try to focus a single turret together and trade hits with our shields. They won't be able to hit us bo--" She was interrupted by the large explosion that rolled through the door. She instinctivley ducked behind her cover as the boxes she was behind moved minutely toward her from the blast.

Viper steps through the blown open doorway. She seems to have taken a shot in the arm, but seems alright otherwise. Several broken Orcus mechs litter the floor in the corridor she came from. "I think that was all for now, let's go, ye-..." She's interrupted by the somewhat distance explosion, both sound and shaking easily travelling to Bravo. (TyrGM)

Pip had already ducked and covered, but the explosion and shockwave still managed to drive the wind out of her and effectively make her deaf.

Renala looks towards the explosion's direction, but loses her balance and falls to the floor as the shockwave hits. Her shields do well to keep the shrapnel from hurting her. "What the fuck happened?" she asks over the comms before getting to her feet.

Jason takes a step towards the hall as the door slides open. "Alr-..." he begins before the explosion sounds out. He swings towards the sound, but before he can even get a read on what's happening, the force sends him flying against the southern wall, causing him to reel in pain on the ground. He groans loudly and begins the process of shaking the cobwebs loose. "Wha-... Huhrmm..."

Zaylus too releases a sigh as the shard is set harmlessly down, training his weapon on the newly created gap as he struggles to reorient after the blast. Upon seeing Viper, he gives a bewildered and somewhat frustrated look. "The hell is going on?"

Steve listens as Skythix begins to formulate a plan, his breathing beginning to get a bit heavy. As the explosion rings out, he braces himself against his cover and hunkers down, hoping nothing is hurled into him.

Ilyna nods, but remains still as the entire facility shakes. "Let's go," she repeats and hits the airlock door's interface, hoping the other two has sealed their armor suits.

Jasper is heavily disoriented from the blast, causing the kodiak to slam into the wall quite harshly. Jasper holds on for dear life and tries to set the kodiak down without completely destroying it.

Pip slowly sits herself up against the wall, slowly rotating her jaw and holding a hand to her forehead. All she can hear is a whine. A constant, high pitched whine! She opens her mouth, but nothing comes forth. Or, at least, she can't hear anything. "The mech blew up, guys! Guys?"

Halisi is hurled across the room as she doesn't have time to take cover, smahing against the far wall and falling to the floor. Vasquez fares much better due to being behind the bench. (TyrGM)

Viper activates her comms. "Anyone blow up?" She says in a mostly uninterested way. (TyrGM)

Watty enters the hallway, observing the damage as he walks back towards the room he left Pip and the others in. He arrives to see meatbags strewn across the floor. Pip looks relatively intact as does Renala and Jason. Vasquez seems in one piece but Halisi is unknown. (Bowe)

Jason reaches up and rubs at the dull pain in the back of his neck as he climbs to his knees. "That's why you need to stop fucking with the fucking mechs! BRAVO IS FUCKING SHUTTING! THEM! FUCKING! DOWN! DOWN! DOWWWWN!!!!!!!!!!!" he shouts, his voice going a bit scratchy. He sucks in a few deep breaths and attempts to stand back up, but quickly thinks better of it. His eyes rest on

Pip looks over at Jason as she scrambles to her feet. "WHAT?!"

Halisi lets out a pained groan, trying to stand up but immediately falling over again. (TyrGM)

Ilyna sighs. "Thumper, Ice," she says over the comms. "Move to our position, through the damaged door in the hallway. Double time."

Watty looks like he has just fought the entire Skylian Blitz single handedly. His armour is blackened and torn in many places with his chest more or less exposed. The plating on his fist is bent and crooked whilst sparks flick out from his damaged throat. The only part of him that seems partially intact is his back which is dented and warped. (Bowe)

Viper pulls out a breathing mask from a compartment in her armor, putting it on and then heading towards the airlock door. "Pretty quiet. Guess they blew up." (TyrGM)

Skythix could have sworn she felt her bones shake in her body from the explosion. Thankfully her helmet stopped her eye drums from exploding and giving her any other injuries. She had to suppress every fiber of her being from telling Jason off. "Pinned down by turrets. Cannot comply with relocation." She mutters through pained breath.

Renala gets back to her feet and walks over to try help Jason up. "You think you can carry on, Zack?" she asks, sounding concerned.

Ilyna enters the airlock once the door opens. "Copy," she responds over the comms. "We'll head out without you. Relocate to airlock as soon as you're able, and report."

Zaylus gives a quick check of his armor, relieved to find it sealed. With a pained sigh, he steps over to join the asari.

Jason takes Renala's assistance and gives a few nods, wincing as a loud whine echoes through his head. "I'm fine..." he grunts. He rests his weapon against his shoulder and activates comms. "We're fine-..." he glances around the room, "I think. Just-... Mech explosion. We're continuing on towards the artifact. Get the defenses offline as soon as you can."

Vasquez is still sedated, no doubt dreaming lovely dreams of better days, completely unware of what is going on around her. (TyrGM)

Steve nods along as Skythix responds over comms, reorienting himself in cover now that the explosion has passed. "It's these fuckin' turrets. They've got us held down pretty good."

Watty wanders into the hallway and stares at the carnage caused by the exploding mech. He tilts his head and quickly determines that he is not getting back through here without some time and effort, which the damaged mech is not particularly feeling right now. (Bowe)

Skythix attempts to crouch down behind her cover which sends a shooting pain through her side. "You okay, Jasper?" She asked between long breaths. "Shoot the assholes in the ship if they wake up. I'm tired of surprises." She growled between her teeth. She leaned her head to the side to look at Briggs. "Gotta find a way out of here. We're useless against these things." Her voice sounds pained

Jasper is seated in his chair, watching out the window. "I'm fine." he says as he sucks in a few deep breaths, the adreneline still coursing through him, "Sorry I dragged ya'll into this! I-... thanks fer comin' back."

Steve peeks out just in time to catch a glimpse of an incoming grenade. "Fuck!" he shouts as he considers trying to pluck it out of the air with his biotics. Realizing he probably just doesn't have the finesse to do so, he builds up biotic energy and thrusts his hands outward, attempting to push the crates he's using as cover in every direction, hoping one may collide with the grenade mid-air