Logs - Aite RP

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Ilyna starts walking towards the door to the maintenance corridor, checking to see if it's unlocked.

Steve follows behind Ilyna, favoring his right shoulder a bit. "So... we did what we needed to do...?" he asks, "Just need the artifact and we're out of here?"

Skythix seriously hoped that that was all they needed to do now. "How is alpha doing?" She asks over comms

Ilyna nods. "That's the plan, yeah," she says. "First we need to get to them, because it sounds like their way to the hangar is blocked."

Zaylus trails close behind, just listening now.

Jason gestures towards Vasquez with the asari's sword. "Get her up. We need to keep moving." he says before activating his comms, "We're a little beat up, but we're back on task." He gives a glance over the sword, trying to get a read on whether or not it was the sort of thing that would fetch a good price or if it was just a... sword.

The monomolecular blade is an uncommon weapon to be sure, but not unheard of. Jason might remember seeing it used by asari commandos in the past.

Pip moans, still clearly not feeling 100%.

Watty turns and looks back across the hangar, watching in case Cerberus pulls anymore dastardly acts.

Halisi looks to Jason. "I can't be carrying her all over the base... I'm-... ngh... not sure I can carry her at all anymore."

Jason sighs and glances down the hall. "We don't have a lot of choices, Doc. Not unless you want to lead the way." He turns the blade around and hands it towards Halisi, handle first. "I can't carry her and fire a gun. Come on, I know you've got a bit more in the tank. We're almost done here."

Ilyna sighs and moves out into the hallway hoping the other door is not locked, frowning as she sees the red interface. "Do any of you know how to get around these doors?"

Renala walks over to the door to the halway, watching it while the other two discuss the next step.

Steve stops beside Ilyna and gives a shake of his head. "What about our little friend? Where'd she head off to?" he asks, glancing around for Viper, "She seemed to know a thing or two about this sort of shit."

Halisi nods faintly and stands up, not without effort. She takes a deep breath and then tries to lift Vasquez up over her shoulders again - almost immediately she cries out in pain, falling to her knees and just barely managing to stop the woman she tried to carry from falling to the floor. She gently lets her down and shakes her head, her breathing strained. "I'm pretty sure I've bro-... agh... broken something."

Skythix follows along with her squad. The things she was hearing over comms was bad. If their medic was hurt the most then they were in big trouble. She shook her head at Ilyna. "No, sorry. I used my only shape charge."

Renala turns around upon hearing the doctor, and jogs over to their position. "You alright?" she asks. "I can carry her. At least for a while."

Viper pops out of cloak in front of the door, typing on her omni-tool. After a while she shakes her head. "Mmm... nope. Uh... what happened to the original path?"

(Comms) What happened to your way to the hangar, Alpha?

Ilyna steps out into the hallway, looking north to see which doors are still open.

Jason sighs in frustration and gives a shake of his head. He jabs the blade back into the asari's chest. "Then our only option is to get Bravo to us." he says, giving a nod down the hallway, "I saw some terminals through that window. How about we get you inside and see what you can do about unlocking the rest of these doors?" he glances back at Renala. As he overhears Ilyna, he opens comms

once more, "Like I said. Explosion. Completely blocked the hallway back to the hangar. We're gonna try and open another path."

Viper ponders this for a moment. "Mech still active? Maybe it could clear a route, yeah?"

Skythix has a thought while they were walking. "We passed some of those offices on our way here. Maybe with the security down we can use them to our advantage. Might have something useful on the computers too." She kept her rifle raised while she took point.

Watty chimes in over the comms. "HallWAY s-s-structure severl-yyyyyy weakened. UnadvisabLe to tamper."

Viper glances down the halway. "Uh, yeah, didn't ask ya buddy. Don't have a lotta options."

Renala nods. "That's a better idea," she says, and starts walking towards the hallway. "Let's go do that."

Mr. Watson? O-ooooordeRs?

Ilyna takes a few steps down the hallway. "It looks like the offices are locked," she says. "Maybe we can break the windows from outside?"

Jason puts a hand up to Pip and Halisi. "Just stay here. Anyone comes through that door, blast them, got it?" He doesn't bother waiting for a response before setting off down the hall. "Hold your position for now, Watty. We're gonna see if we can open another route. Moving that rubble is going to be a last resort." As he nears the corner, he sticks close to the southern wall and peers out

to check the hall and test the turret.

Unde-ssstrrr-ood.

Pip groans. "Fine by me...".

Viper follows Ilyna down the hallway. She looks skeptical. "Doubt they connect to station's systems..." She starts typing on her omni-tool again. "Y'know, I should have door access... not sure what-... eh, I'll figure it out. I think I may have... locked everything when I took control."

Renala slows down to let Jason pass her once they near the corner.

Steve places a hand against the wall to steady himself, but remains near the maintenance door. "Sounds like they're on top of it, right...?" he asks, not particularly interested in doing much moving, "With Re-... Jasmine with 'em, they should have no problem gettin' the doors open. I vote we just catch our breath..."

Skythix turns around and waits when she realizes that her team has stalled behind her. She knew she was on borrowed time herself until the stim wore off. "The only thing I can see is that we need to unlock these doors somehow or blow them open. The final door to the hangar is locked too. The only reason we got here is because I blew a hole in one of the doors." She let out a sigh, the side of

her body still burning from the bullet wound.

Viper looks a bit dismayed, but admits: "I have a few more explosive charges. Not gonna use them unless we have to though."

Steve nods a couple times and hunches over as another wave of pain shoots through his shoulder. He quickly pulls himself together and straightens back up. "Don't underestimate my girl. She'll get these doors open." he assures them, "Just-... give her some time."

Ilyna nods, and gets on the comms. "We're waiting for Jasmine to get the doors open," she says. "We're stuck here for now."

The turret shows no reaction to Jason. It is still scanning for targets however - just... not him, apparently. The corridor is empty, all doors are now locked however.

Skythix walked up to Zaylus and tried her best to not look tired. "How you doing? Any injuries?"

Jason seems relieved and lets out a deep breath. He waves Renala over and, without hesitation, spins and unleashes a volley of fire into the window, making sure to aim high to keep from hitting anyone or any of the terminals.

Renala walks up to him at the corner once it seems Jason isn't being shot upon. She reaises her weapon at the window, as well, but doesn't fire.

Zaylus is swaying slightly on the balls of his feet, looking out toward the airlock. He swivels his head back as Skythix approaches, instinively bringing a hand up to his chest. "Alright. Better once we're gone." He says simply before adding. "I saw you take that hit. It's a rough one."

The window shatters, and the personnel inside, seemingly not having anticipated this, run away into a neighboring room.

Jason maintains his position, stepping back to the corner and crouching as he watches down. "Alright, Jazzy, do your thang." he says, reaching up to wipe at a bit of sweat that has begun to accumulate on his brow.

Renala runs into the room beyond the shattered window, looking around it.

Skythix gave the turian a concerned look. She touched her helmet where it was not dented from the headshot that nearly got her. "I'll be fine. You're not looking so hot though." She reached into the leg compartment of her suit and pulled out an injector. "Need one of these?" She says, offering him a stim shot.

The room mainly consists of several computer terminals. There is a locked door to the south and an unlocked door to the west.

Renala walks over to the closest terminal, and enables her omni-tool to start working on getting access to it.

Zaylus sharply exhales, bringing up two hands defensively. "No." He quickly replies, taking half a step back. "No, thank you. I'll be fine."

The terminal is already unlocked.

Renala disables her omni-tool and starts navigating the terminal's interface, trying to see what systems she has access to. "You can check the room they ran into, boss," she says, "in case they're going to send more crazies with swords at us."

Jason gives another nod, although he doesn't seem particularly happy about leaving the hallway unguarded. "Yeah." he acknowledges, backing over towards the broken windows and hopping through. "Anything useful?" he asks as he steps towards the unlocked door and taps the interface, readying his weapon.

Skythix narrowed her eyes at his reaction but ultimately put the injector away. "I hate this waiting." She said to just the people around her. "I feel so useless." She walked away from Zaylus to check up on Briggs. "How about you tough guy? You're pretending to be fine too?"

The terminal only has access to various pieces of lab equipment and notes on several research projects.

Fuck off, I'm good.

Steve frowns and straightens up just to prove a point. "Worry about yourself. Prolly have a concussion or somethin'."

Renala shakes her head. "Nope, just lab equipment," she says. "I'll check the other ones." She moves on the next terminal, and checks what it can access.

The terminal is much the same. Lab equipment and research notes.

Ilyna takes out a medi-gel canistes from her armor. "I have a spare can of medi-gel if someone needs that," she says.

The door opens into a fairly small room with two beds surrounded by monitoring equipment. One is empty, while the other holds an asari that is wearing similar gear to the one that attacked Jason and Renala before.

Renala downloads the research notes to her omni-tool for no good reason before moving on to the next terminal, repeating the process.

The asari does not seem awake.

This terminal contains more of the same, as well as a copy of N7 Code of Honor: Medal of Duty that probably shouldn't be there.

Jason raises an eyebrow and takes a couple steps closer, switching his weapon to AP rounds as he does. He sighs, feeling pretty horrible over the whole ordeal. It's obvious that they're being forced against their will. On the other hand, that first asari was no joke. Leaving her alive would put himself, Renala, Halisi, Pip, and Vasquez in danger. "Sorry..." he whispers as he squeezes his

trigger and dumps a volley of rounds into the asari.

Renala chuckles, and moves on to the next terminal, trying her luck with that one, as well. She raises an eyebrow upon hearing the gunshots. "What's going on?" she asks.

Skythix scoffs and walks away from Briggs without a word. Is he wants to bleed just to prove a point then let him. "Everyone's good here." She says to Ilyna.

The asari jerks violently as the first few shots impact, but it soon stops. You monster.

Jason winces and backs out of the room, giving a shake of his head. "Another-..." he sucks in a deep breath and shakes his head, "Nothing. It's taken care of. Were you able to find anything?"

Steve continues to rest against the wall. "Sure are takin' their sweet time, though..." he mutters, although he's quite enjoying the break in being shot at.

The second-to-last terminal contains more what she'd expect, as well as control over "sample incinerators".

Renala nods. "I think I've found something," she says. Out of curiousity, she checks if there's any documentation on the 'sample incinerators'.

Jason slowly makes his way over the the asari and glances over her shoulder. "Floor layout or door control?" he asks.

Viper looks around at the miserable, wounded bunch. "You guys always get shot up this bad on missions? I'll give you like... a 6/10. Would not hire over the Eclipse."

There is nothing on the incinerators other than an "activate" command.

Ilyna hasn't taken a single shot during the fight. "I don't think anyone of us is going to lose sleep over that decision," she says, putting the medi-gel canister away.

Steve snaps his attention towards Viper. "Yeah, because you were just so fuckin' useful, right? You set this thing up and didn't even know where you were goin'." He takes a couple steps towards Viper, "Just run aroun' the enemies base like a buncha fuckin' morons til' ya find whatever it is I'm lookin' for while I hide in the corner. Oh, what should you be lookin' for? Fucked if I know." he

continues, doing a poor imitation of Viper, "How 'bout you shut the fuck up and do somethin' other than runnin' your mouth? No, know what? Just fuck off."

Renala sighs. "Still looking," she says, and leaves that feature alone. She searches for a floor plan or control over the door locks.

Skythix was about to retort to Viper but Briggs' was pretty sufficient. She would have added in a straight punch to her fucked up face. Might have actually improved something. She just crossed her arms and leaned against a wall and took off her pack, checking its contents for a special biotic energy bar.

Viper grins in amusement. "You've gotta work on your temper, buddy. If you have an issue with the mission, I think you should talk it out with your boss. He's the one that agreed to this, yeah? I didn't hide how things were gonna be or anything."

There is no sign of a floor plan or any connection to the doors.

No, you've just got your head too far up your own ass to be useful to anyone. Now how 'bout you do that cute lil' trick you do and go invisible so I don't have to look at your ugly mug.

Jason blinks a few times. First she found something. Now she's still looking. "Can you get the doors open from here?" he asks with a sigh, "If not, lets get a move on."

Viper tilts her head. "Don't.. call me ugly. That's not cool. Okay? Just... don't."

Renala shakes her head. "I thought this terminal has some good stuff," she says, "i'll check the last one." She moves on to the last terminal, and repeats the process. "I wonder what the sample incinerator is for, though."

Zaylus shakes his head quietly, beginning to wander in the small space.

The final terminal has nothing out of the ordinary.

Ilyna frowns. "We're only here for the chief," she says, "and with you because that was our only option."

Jason gives a shrug. "Probably to... incinerate their samples...?" he shrugs, "Hell, we should probably just do it to toss another wrench in their plans. Fuck 'em."

Steve smirks and lets out a snort. "Well then." he whistles, "Sounds like I hit a sore spot. Lemme guess, sweetheart, you get all that fucked up shit done to your face and regret it? Rip down all the mirrors in your house and cry yourself to sleep everynight?" He gives a chuckle, causing a pain to shoot through his right side, but getting his digs in was more than enough comfort for him to

push through it, "D'awww. Ain't that 'bout the saddest story I've ever heard."

Renala returns to the terminal that's able to do it, and taps on it to bring up the option. "Go ahead," she says. "I sure as hell don't want to take credit for it if their samples are explosive or something crazy like that." She steps away from the terminals, making her way towards the window.

Viper grins widely - quite clearly a fake grin, but unsettling as it moves past normal human capacity, baring all of her teeth. She lets out an unamused chuckle. "You're not very smart, are you?"

Jason reaches towards the terminal, but jerks his hand back as Renala speaks, his expression contorting into a grimace. "You're right..." he sighs, "...Or they could just be more people being held against their will. Gah! Wish there was something we could do, but we just don't have the time, equipment, or shuttle space for that matter." He steps away from the terminal and towards the locked

southern door, "Let's keep looking. Gotta be some way to get back to the hangar."

Skythix looks at the exchange and can't help but feel a shiver as she looked at Viper. "Can we just get this over with without needing more enemies?"

Halisi has sat back down next to Vasquez, scanning her own injuries now.

Steve rolls his shoulders and takes another step towards Viper. He squeezes the grip of his SMG as the dull thump of an onsetting migraine kicks in. "Such a pretty smile." he says sarcastically, struggling to keep from showing just how much pain he's actually in, "Bet you're a reeeeal heartbreaker, ain't ya?" He glances over at Skythix as she speaks up, causing him to take a shrink away from

Viper somewhat. She was right, now wasn't the time.

Pip has managed to prop herself into a sitting position, grimacing as pain shoots through her... Everywhere, really. "I'm quittin' as soon as we get back... You guys are fuckin' nuts...".

Halisi nods, turning her gaze to Pip after finishing the scan. "Can't say I blame you... I-... ugh... I... I'm mostly here out of... obligation, I suppose." She offers a faint smile, supressing the pain.

Renala looks around the hallway. "I'm worried that the locked doors are the only thing keeping them from coming to us," she says. "So, are we going back and checking the living quarters' hallway?"

Ilyna just looks away to not see any more of that unsettling smile.

Jason gives a shake of his head. "No, we need to keep pushing forward right now. If we can get the artifact, we can just have Watty go ahead and try to dig our way out. We'll just keep an eye out for any terminals as we go."

What- ah- obligation? You must owe him somethin' fierce to be dragged out like this.

Viper just continues to grin. Her gums are green like her lips. A dark green. Although her eyes are still obscured by the visor it's quite clear her gaze is focused right at Steve.

Steve takes another step back, pursing his lips together and kissing the air at Viper.

Halisi chuckles slightly, causing her face to contort in pain. "Saved my life. From the monsters."

Skythix opened her comms, looking at the floor. "Zach, the longer we're here the more in danger we are for reinforcements. We got what we came for. Is it really worth trying to take on a terrorist organization ourselves?"

Renala nods and starts walking down the hall, keeping her Locust raised.

Viper turns her head to the side, grin slowly fading as she studies the turian.

Pip furrows her brow. "Monsters?"

Halisi nods. "Terrible things... the kind that shouldn't exist. The kind that hides in the dark, forgotten corners of the galaxy..." her gaze moves away from Pip, out across the room.

Jason continues down the hall beside Renala. "No luck with the doors yet. Leaving without the artifact isn't an option, Ice. Besides, it's not like we have a way back to the hangar right now anyone. Doc and Jean are holding a position south of the hangar. Myself and Jasmine are proceeding towards the objective. I can't guarantee we'll be able to get the doors open, so it might be worth trying

to find another way in. Watty-... Pip...? Whoever, if you can get Watty to start on the hallway, have him move whatever he can safely get out of the way."

Pip stares at the woman. "That sucks... You talked to anyone about i- fuck! That smarts... About it?"

Muffled sounds of gunfire come from around the left-hand southern corner in the corridor Jason and Renala are in. Lots of gunfire, and faint screams.

Skythix | "Yes sir." She said slowly before turning off her comms. She found the energy bar she wanted and removed her helmet for the time being so that she could eat it. It wouldn't help her injuries but maybe it could give her a small burst of energy to keep going at full speed. When she took her helmet off, a small crack on her forehead was bleeding blue blood where the bullet hit her

helmet.

Yo-you can t-taLK dirrrrrrectly to me, Watson. I can UNnderstand what y-y-yyou are saying.

Watty begins to walk back toward the wreckage, testing his servos and joints as he does so.

Renala keeps walking down the hall until she can see through the window to her right. She looks through said window. "The fuck is going on?" she says. "Bravo's not down that way, are they?"

Viper is happily typing away on her omni-tool now, making quiet 'pew-pew' noises.

Jason stops in place as he hears the gunfire. He gives a glance towards Renala and shakes his head. "Don't think so... Either way, we've obviously got company. So stay alert." He hunkers down a bit and continues to stalk down the hall, watching any open spaces as they come into view. "Bravo." he whispers over comms, "We've got gunfire up ahead. That you?"

Skythix looked up from her bar and looked around herself at the word of gunfire. "Uh, negative, Zach. We're still waiting here."

The window has a view over another lab with plenty of desks and several surgical beds. There doesn't appear to be anyone in the room.

Halisi doesn't respond to Pip, just looking at the various doorways.

Ilyna taps on her omni-tool to unseal the armor when it looks like the air is breathable, letting the armor's limited oxygen tanks recharge for another potential trip into vacuum.

Renala shakes her head and keeps walking until she's able to see through the other window.

Steve sighs loudly as it's obvious that they're not opening the doors anytime soon. He gives a glance back at Ilyna. "What's the order, Blue?" he asks, "We holdin' this position or movin' on?"

I don't think we have any other options than holding this position.

Jason continues alongside Renala, keeping his weapon trained on the open windowed area as the pass it.

The other window overlooks another lab, this one filled with row after row of screens. About half of them seem dark, while the other half have live video feeds of a great variety of locations, all mobile. A lone woman in a Cerberus uniform sits by a desk some distance away from the monitors.

Watty would start carefully trying to remove the wreckage, stopping and altering if anything seems amiss.

Jason glances between the woman and Renala. "Maybe it's time we stopped and asked for some directions?"

The corridor holds for now, bits of wreckage starting to get picked away by the mech.

Renala nods. "Looks like the way in there is around the corner," she says, "or through the window."

The Cerberus woman is typing frantically on her haptic interface, either not aware or not caring about Renala and Jason.

Watty would continue to clear the wreckage, but only enough so anyone on the other side can squeeze through. He wasn't prepared to risk a major collapse.

Jason snorts and raises an eyebrow at Renala. "I've had just about enough of this place's doors." he grunts before squeezing off a few rounds at the direction. "Knock, knock!" he shouts to the woman as he uses the barrel of the Confetti Maker to push some glass shards out of the way and climbs through the makeshift entrance, "Hands where we can see them, no sudden movements. Answer our

questions and we've got no problem with letting you walk away."

The human stands up, subtly swiping a finger along the haptic interface as she turns, and then raises her hands into the air. "Ask away."

Steve gives Ilyna a nod, too exhausted and pained to really argue. "Your call, boss." he sighs and leans back against the wall.

Pip sighs, falling silent as well.

Renala climbs through the window after him. "You're going to give me whatever I need to get into your terminal," she says, "and to access the security controls and floor plans."

The woman nods. "I'll need to take out my omni-tool. That alright?"

Jason puts some distance between himself and Renala, figuring if they're not clumped up and the woman tries to do something, one of them should be able to react before she can harm both of them. "If I get the slightest idea that you might be trying something, this thing is gonna tear through you like wet fingers through toilet paper, understand?" he asks, giving his weapon a slight shake.

Renala nods. "And throw it my way," she says, "and tell me what I need to know to log in."

She nods again. "Yeah, I got it." The Cerberus member pulls out her omni-tool from her pocket, activating it and starting to type. She sighs faintly and a moment later she directs an overload at the terminals. Sparks fly as terminals are fried, the electricity jumping from row to row until none of the monitors remain intact.

Renala raises her locust, and opens fire at her, trying to not hit her omni-tool. "You had your chance," she says.

The Cerberus human falls dead with no resistance.

Jason groans loudly as he watches each of the terminals overload. "Now why in the fuck did you have to go and do that?" he asks, taking a step closer to the woman. He hefts the large weapon up and hovers a finger over the trigger, "Please-..." he begins, but his words are cut off by Renala's shots. He clenches his eyes shut momentarily, instantly feeling a pang of guilt. He lets out a deep

sigh, "Check her omni-tool..."

Skythix puts her helmet back on when she finishes the bar. Her extremeties were starting to tingle, a sign that the stim was wearing off. "Loosing precious time here." She muttered to herself as she sealed the helmet back in place.

Viper is still busy with her omni-tool. "Blam! Headshot!"

Steve shifts a bit, remaining against the wall. "Gotta be somethin' we can do. Hey ugly, you said you had a few more charges? How many?" he asks, tilting his head back against the wall.

Viper doesn't respond. She seems focused.

Steve rolls his eyes, assuming she's not responding because of his cheap shot. "Viper. How many more charges do you have?"

Renala moves over to pick up the omni-tool. "That was the plan," she says while searching her for the omni-tool. "She wasn't going to cooperate."

The omni-tool is fried - it seems to have overloaded itself as well.

Jason glances around the room and sighs. "Yeah, I sorta got that when she kablooey'd all the terminals..."

Skythix idly walks around to try and see if she can figure out how to unlock any of the doors in their hallway.

None of the doors seem easily unlockable by someone not tech savy. Viper does not look up from her omni-tool screen. "Not gonna use theeem..."

Steve groans and steps away from the wall. "Of course not. That would be helpful."

Renala throws the fried omni-tool into the wall in frustration. "Fuck, she fried it, too," she says. "Next time we just let them talk, okay?"

Skythix knocks on the door of the room she remembered where they knocked one of the Cerberus people out.

There is no response.

Skythix continues to pound on the door.

You're not gonna like it when I have to resort to shape charging the door and it blows a fireball into your room!

Jason sucks in a deep breath. "Let them talk? She had every chance to talk. The problem is this place is filled with fanatics who would rather die than sell out their psychotic organization." He gives a shake of his head and stomps off through the hole in the window before proceeding to the south.

The gunfire is still ongoing.

Renala follows after him out of the room. "Not what I meant," she says. "Don't let them use their omni-tools at all, and just talk us through what we need to know."

Skythix continues to knock on the door. "Or you could just unlock the doors so that we could leave. That would work too."

Ilyna looks at Viper. "Have you found out if you have door access yet, Viper?" she asks.

Viper shushes Ilyna. "Busy." She says.

With what?

Jason mutters to himself. "And then she would've tried for it anyway..." he says, continuing down the hall. "...But the equipment wouldn't have been damaged..." he admits, frustration heavy in his voice, "Sorry... I screwed up. I just wanna get out of here. Last thing I want to do is kill a bunch of people who pose no real threat to me. Regardless of their fucked up beliefs."

Steve winces everytime Skythix bangs on the door. "Can you knock that shit off? It ain't gettin' us anywhere."

Zaylus grows weary of pacing around, and slumps himself against the nearby wall. Absently turning his weapon over and over, he fixes his gaze on the wrecked airlock.

Skythix turned to look at Briggs with a scowl. "I'm practically on a time limit here and no one else is doing shit, especially not this futtari agent who's supposed to be doing her job." She was on the brink of shouting as the obscure turian curse came off her lips.

Renala frowns. "They do pose a real threat," she says. "If they get control of the security systems before we do, we might not last very long."

Jason continues to the corner and sweeps his weapon back and forth, looking in both directions. "So we hurry the fuck up, get this artifact, and get back to the shuttle. So long as that mech can clear us a path, we're fine."

Zaylus stiffles an abrupt laugh, tired though amused by this exchange. Clearing his throat, he looks back to idly monitoring the outside. "Sorry. Inappropriate." It sounds less than sincere.

Viper stops typing, looking over at Skythix. "Huh? I am working."

The gunfire, which seemed to have been coming from a door at the end of the eastern corridor branch, stops. The corridors are empty in all directions, with locked doors.

Steve puts a hand up, palm outward towards Skythix. "I ain't defendin' the lil' gremlin. She can drop dead right this second for all I care." he snorts, "I just ain't exactly all too fond of sittin' here listenin' to you punch doors and yell at yourself, either."

Renala walks towards the window opposite the door leading to the room they came from, trying to see if there's anyone inside. She reloads her weapon on the way there.

The window is to a completely empty, white room.

Skythix curses to herself and throws up her spare hand. There was no point in arguing with this... thing. "Spirits, I can't take this shit anymore." She says with an exasperated tone and walks back to the room the room where she blew the door open, checking to make sure no one decided to somehow appear in the room behind them.

Hey, Pilot, hope everything's good on your end.

Renala sighs. "Yeah, but we're trapped here until that happens," she says. She looks for any signs in the hallway.

Each of the corridor-ending doors have a sign. West says "Medbay", East says "Hazardous Materials Lab", South says "Elevator".

Jason scans the hallway, more frustration seeping into his expression. "How many fucking doors can this place have!?" He steps right into the middle of the intersection and looks at each door before tossing a hand up. "Well, 'Hazardous Materials Lab' sounds about right so, fuck it, pop the lock." He stomps down the hall towards the east.

Ilyna looks at Viper. "I asked you what you were busy with," she says, her patience starting to wear thin, as well. "What is it?"

Renala nods and jogs over towards the door. If nothing happens to interrupt them, she starts working on the lock.

Jasper is pacing back and forth in the shuttle. "Oh, you know. Sittin' here with two racist sonovaguns that are prolly itchin' for a chance to free themselves and choke me to death. Other than that, everything is hunky-dory."

Skythix | "At least you're doing something." she says dryly. She continues in her search to try and figure out how to open a door. Perhaps she could develop a knack for opening locked doors if she continued to study the door as hard as she could.

Jasper shakes his head. "If you count 'waitin to die' as doin' somethin'. Sure."

It wouldn't take Renala too long to get the lock open. The slides open right after the lock disengages, a dead Cerberus trooper falling right at the asari. On the other side of the door is a huge lab, largely empty space, with equipment on both sides, and in the middle, a large glass-encased setup holding a familiar orb. There's a locked door to the left and windows at the far wall. The floor is littered with dead Cerberus personnel. Scientists,

guards, mechs and a woman in a skintight outfit similar to Jason's, all of them riddled with bulletholes. There's an autoturret in each corner of the lab, one destroyed and three still online, but not moving.

Renala raises her brows, and gets on her comms. "Is that your doing, Alpha?" she asks. "The turrets turning on their people, I mean."

Viper wiggles an eyebrow at Steve and then activates her comms. "Yup. I've got manual control. Pretty neat, right?"

Jason jerks back as the trooper falls through the doorway, raising his weapon somewhat. He eases up as he realizes they're not being attacked, but steps forward and examines the room with a confused look on his face. "Bravo, we've found the objective. And a whole lot of dead terrorists." he sighs, "Doc? Viper? What do I need to know about handling this thing? Is there any chance they've-....

activated it?"

Skythix isn't in the room to see Viper being ugly.

Steve rolls his eyes. "Great. You managed to do something.... hooray." he says as unenthusiastically as possible, "You want a coo-..." he furrows his brow a bit and tilts his head to the side, "What do gremlins eat?"

Viper responds to Jason fairly quickly, ignoring Steve. "Doubt it. We'd have ran in to some freaks if they did. Should be safe to carry."

Jason slowly approaches the artifact, but doesn't chance anything yet on the word of Viper. "Doc? Does that sound right to you?"

Renala steps into the room. "Could you use that control to find us a new path out of here?" she asks over the comms. "I can take care of the doors on the way, I just need directions."

Halisi ponders the situation for a moment before responding. "I... I don't know. It was inert last we saw it... I just don't know if they'd have the capability to activate it. Guess we don't have much choice... just be careful."

Jason sighs and steps up to the glass case. He holds the Confetti Maker in one hand and slams a fist against the glass, quickly stepping back in case-.... anything happens.

Viper is back on comms in a moment. "No can do. Doesn't seem like there are any other ways to the hangar. None that you'd want to take anyway. Security teams have been kept at bay by the locked doors, but they're advancing. I'd suggest everyone get back to the shuttle soon as we can. How's the debris clearing going?"

The glass breaks. No alarm sounds. The artifact does nothing but sit in its metal cradle, looking the same as ever.

The ceiling has not yet collapsed on Watty. He should be making good progress with clearing the debris out of the corridor to the hangar.

Jason glances around the room, looking for anyone in any sort of coat or something he can remove to wrap the artifact in so he won't chance it making contact with his skin.

There are several dead scientists around, all wearing lab coats.

Skythix stands next to the locked door to the hangar. "Feel free to open the door then." She says over the comms to Viper.

Watty pulls more of the wreckage away, his progress slow but careful. "TaSK a-a-almost completeeeesssttrrr."

Jason quickly removes one of the scientist's lab coats and returns to the artifact. Using the coat, he grasps it and lifts it from its cradle before wrapping it tightly in the coat and turning back. "Got it." he says, "Everyone, back to the shuttle!"

Viper starts heading towards the door to the hangar with a pleased look on her face. "Gotta say, this is going better than I expected."

Steve stomps off towards the hangar behind Viper. "No thanks to you..." he mutters.

Are there any base defence turrets we need to worry about? We did technically get in here covertly and they might not want us to fly out.

Pip forces out a laugh, grimacing in pain. "Almost home, doc...".

Renala nods, and walks out into the hallway. "I'll take point," she says. She raises her weapon while walking into the hallway.

Viper slaps an explosive charge onto the door as soon as she reaches it, taking a moment to calibrate it. "Nope, the hack should have 'em down until we're out of reach."

Zaylus pushes off the wall, biding farewell to the busted airlock and heading down the corridor back into the hangar.

Halisi smiles at Pip. "Told you it'd be okay."

Jason nods and slings the artifact over his shoulder, holding his weapon loosely in one hand. "Lead on." he acknowledges, following behind the asari but leaving a bit of space between them.

Ilyna leaves their position last after a last glance out to see if anyone is coming in, and moves towards the others.

Renala keeps walking down the hallway, looking left and right once she reaches the intersection.

Jason halts a few paces behind Renala and awaits the 'all clear'.

There are loud bangs against the southern door, as if someone is trying to break through.

Viper finishes with calibrating the charge and walks back into the hallway. "Not a shaped charge guys, might wanna leave the room."

Skythix doesn't need to be told twice. She backs out of the room to what she assumes is a safe distance.

Steve pulls back into the hallway and takes a position beside Skythix. He clutches his shoulder as another bolt of pain echoes through his side.

Renala frowns. "It's clear, but we've got to hurry," she says. "Can you run while carrying this thing?"

Viper detonates the charge, blowing the door to the hangar open with excessive force, rocking the entire area and nearly collapsing the ceiling of the room. When the smoke clears there is a sizable hole in the wall where the door was, and the floor is warped and cracked. She stumbles but laughs.

Jason doesn't exactly need to be informed of the loud banging, but he gives Renala a nod of acknowledgement anyway. "Yeah, let's get the fuck out of here before whatever is in there gets out." he says, quickly rounding the corner and stepping into a jog.

Ilyna has taken cover about two meter from the doorframe when the explosion hits. She looks into the room once the dust has settled.

Steve nearly falls, slapping a hand against the wall to stabilize himself. "Shiiiiit. Lil' much, don't you think!?" he grunts. He gives it a few moments for the dust to clear before stepping back into the room.

Renala lets Jason jog past her before following him at his pace.

Skythix recoils from the blast and waits for the rumbling to subside, not totally sure if it's from the blast or the probable concussion she has. She hustles into the hangar and turns through the other door to check on Watty's progress. "Status, alpha?"

The banging continues, but the corridor is still clear.

Jason gives one more glance back, but quickens his pace forward. "Doc. Jean. We might be coming in hot. Prepare to get the hell out of here!" he announces over comms.

Watty would find himself successfully able to remove the last but of rubble needed to create a clear path through the corridor.

Zaylus holds the wall until the blast subsides, shaking it off as he steps through the battered room and into the hangar.

Pass-aaagggeee clear. Advise Alpha hURries.

Halisi starts to get to her feet with a pained wince. "Copy that. What about Vasquez?"

Jasper peps up a bit and rushes to open the shuttle door. "Sorry fellas." he says as he moves over to the nearest Cerberus trooper and begins to awkwardly push him towards the door.

Jason continues onward. "I'll take care of Linda. Just worry about yourselves right now, okay?"

The unconcious trooper is successfully pushed out. The other one looks at Jasper. "Uh... do I get to leave too?"

Jasper grunts as he pushes the trooper out. He stands up straight and places his hands on his hips. "Mmhmm... We're all done here." he says, taking a step towards the man. He leans over and puts on his best scowl, "For now! Now if I hear ya'll have been terrorisin' some nice asari-folk, I'm gon' come back and I ain't gon' be quite as nice. Understand!?"

Ilyna walks into the hangar, and hurries over to the corridor to see how that's going. "Bravo, get into the shuttle, and make sure it's ready to go once we're all inside," she says. "I'll help Alpha's retreat." She starts jogging down the corridor.

Renala glances back a few times before they reach the corner.

Skythix turned at Ilyna's order and jogged to the shuttle, each step a reminder to her injury. "Yes ma'am!" She looked at the two prisoners they had on the ground. She almost forgot about them. She would help anyone who needed it into the shuttle.

The trooper looks confused, and considers saying something, but opts to just step out of the shuttle, dragging his unconcious friend along with him away as fast as he can.

The door at the southern end of the lab corridor bursts open and a squad of Phoenix operatives come running. The one at the front fires a harrier at jason and Renala while running.

Steve continues towards the shuttle, pushing through the pain. As he nears it, he veers off and approaches the Cerberus trooper with the tied up hands attempting to drag off his friend. He swiftly raises his SMG and presses it to his head, squeezing the trigger without missing a beat. Should that kill the man, he'd proceed to do the same to the unconscious one.

Jason ducks instinctively as the rounds sound off. "Fuck, keep moving!" he shouts, "We've got incoming! Get that shuttle ready for extraction!" His shield flickers as he rounds the corner.

The trooper just barely manages to throw himself to the ground to dodge the shots, covering his friend he yells out loudly: "Come on man! We're cool! We're still tied up! Not gonna hurt anyone! Please!"

Skythix was about to protest Briggs shooting the prisoners but she honestly didn't have the energy anymore. "Will you forget them and get in the fucking shuttle?" she barks at Briggs.

Renala starts sprinting to get away from them, her shields holding off their fire. "You got a grenade to slow them down with?" she asks as she catches up with him.

Zaylus nods at the command, heading toward the shuttle at a reasonable pace. He watches as Steve veers off, ignoring the ensuing exchanges and getting into the shuttle with some degree of difficulty.

Steve winces as the recoil of the weapon sends a pain shooting through his right side. He gives a glance back at Skythix. "Gotta be thorough." he says, sighting his SMG at the downed man, "He saw our pilot's face. No point in any of this if they're just gonna come after us anyway." He squeezes the trigger once more.

Ilyna reaches the room at the other end of the corridor and runs towards the room where she hears shooting and running. A biotic shimmer forms around her.

Viper is on her way to the shuttle when her omni-tool bleeps. She brings up the screen and lets out a "Huh..." and starts typing. A moment later the turret in the lab corridor opens fire on the Phoenix operatives.

Jason gives a nod. "On it!" he says, skidding to a stop. He steps back to the corner and shuffles his things around, gripping the material of the coat with the same hand he has the Confetti Maker in. He reaches down, primes a grenade and leans out, giving it a toss a little ways in front of their pursuers as the turrets begin to open fire. "That should slow them down." he says as he hurries

towards the central room.

Halisi moves over to Pip, glancing back at the lab corridor for the rest of Alpha. "Can you move?"

Pip groggily gets to her feet, grunting in pain. "My legs still work," she confirms. "Get her through the wreckage and Watty can carry her...".

Jasper hurries into the pilot's seat and begins the process of getting everything prepared for their departure. He's sweating bullets as he pokes at the haptic interface.

The guard's kinetic barrier takes several of the shots, allowing him to yell out: "We're unarmed! Please! You don't have to-..." He is interrupted by a bullet through the skull, falling dead over the friend he was shielding.

The Phoenix commandos stop out of the grenade's range, being forced to deal with the turret. It doesn't take long for the four of them, and after the grenade detonates they are on their way again, running after Alpha team.

Steve moves on to the second one, eager to reunite him with his buddy. He coldly presses his weapon against the unconscious guard's temple and squeezes the trigger again.

Renala runs past him while he's throwing the grenade. "Anyone need a hand?" she asks before entering the central room.

Skythix watches the morbid display or execution with disgust before she enters the shuttle and takes a seat. She's just barely able to stow her gear and sit down before almost passing out.

Viper frowns and puts away her omni-tool. She observes Steve as he executes the second guard. "Sheesh. Y'know, I might have some job opportunities for you once this is over."

Jason trails behind Renala, giving a few glances back behind him. "Can you carry her?" he asks, "Or at least hold the artifact so I can?"

Halisi points at Vasquez as Renala enters the room, and then starts limping towards the hangar.

Steve stomps off towards the shuttle after the guards are dealt with. He stares Viper down as he passes her by without responding to her comment before hopping inside and drooping into a free seat. "Fuck this place." he groans.

Pip follows closely behind Halisi.

Viper shrugs, waiting outside of the shuttle.

Ilyna retreats back to the doorframe to the hallway north seeing as Halisi and Pip might be unable to outrun them. "I'll hold up a barrier to slow them down," she says over the comms. She has a grenade in her right hand.

Renala nods. "I'll carry her," she shouts and runs over to her position. She uses a biotic field to lower the woman's mass before lifting her up and slinging her over her shoulder.

I-I-I will c-coveR the RetReeesssssst-at.

The Phoenix agents are rapidly approaching the corner, one firing a harrier and another a Locust.

Watty primes the dual assault rifles.

Halisi passes Watty, hurrying best she can towards the shuttle.

Renala starts walking towards the door in a brisk pace, unable to jog or run with the woman over her shoulders.

Jason stops once he's near Ilyna and raises his eyebrows, happy to see his old friend again. He gives her a nod and turns around, reorienting the stuff in his hands so he's able to hold the artifact in the same grip as he holds the handle of the Confetti Maker. He turns and faces the door, readying himself to open fire if anyone comes through. "Keep moving!" he orders, slowly backing up

towards the opening.

Pip limps past Watty. "Don't be a hero now," she says, glancing at him.

I Aaadddviise haste, Mr. W-aatson.

Zaylus falls into the seat adjacent Skythix, letting out a long breath. He looks around, sitting forward as he awaits a hasty departure.

The Phoenix operatives burst into the main room, the one with the Harrier firing at Jason, one without weapons biotically charging at him and Ilyna and the one with the Locust launching several orbs of biotic energy at Ilyna's barrier, putting it under heavy assault. The last one, armed with an Eviscerator, activates her tactical cloak and disappears.

Halisi is closing in on the shuttle, panting and groaning from pain. She eventually reaches the door, practically falling into a seat.

Ilyna throws her grenade towards where they're coming from once they enter the room and then quickly makes a barrier around her and Jason, although it wouldn't be hard to step out of for him.

Pip is not far behind Halisi, tripping over as she enters the shuttle. She slams into the floor and moans, trying to find purchase on something nearby to help her up.

Renala is through the door once they pour into the room, and starts walking around the barrier. She quickens her pace slightly.

Jason continues backpedaling towards the hallway as he unleashes a barrage of rounds towards the pursuers, sweeping the weapon back and forth in an attempt at pushing them back into cover.

Jasper punches a few more buttons on the interface and the shuttle comes to life. "C'mon! Get yer butts in here!" he shouts over comms.

The operative with the Harrier backpedals into the corridor to avoid Jason's fire and Ilyna's grenade, while the one with the Locust leaps to his left, taking cover behind the bench centerpiece. The one that charged activates his whips, smashing them against Ilyna's barrier hard.

Ilyna grits her teeth as the barrier is subjected to the abuse and pours a lot of energy into dissipating the barrier in a rapid outward expansion, hoping to knock the commando over. She fires her weapon towards the commando nearest to her as she backpedals into the hallway, and takes out her other grenade from her holster.

Watty retreats out of the hallway, pausing at the other side of the door. He raises his weapon arm at the weakened ceiling of the corridor and readies his weapons for when the duo make it through the wreckage.

Ilyna | The expansion is mostly into the room, so it would have little effect on Jason and Renala.

Steve bows his head a bit and reaches up, placing a hand on his forehead as another ache shoots through it. "Shit-... Ren..." he mutters. He seems to struggle with something for a few moments before shaking his head, standing up and stomping out of the shuttle in frustration. Once outside, he slowly enters into a jog towards the hallway and removes the second SMG from his thigh, beyond

worrying about the pain at this point.

Pip finally manages to clamber to her feet and takes a seat in the closest free harness.

The nearest commando has his own barrier completely wrecked by the burst, and is subsequently gunned down. The one with the Locust lashes out with one of his whips, trying to snatch Ilyna when her barrier disappates. Meanwhile the operative with the Harrier is back in the room, firing after the retreating team.

Renala keeps moving through the hallway. "Fuck, fuck, fuck," she mutters.

Jason sweeps his weapon back to the side, tracking the Harrier Phoenix and dumping round after round into him. "Keep! Moving!" he repeats, continuing to pull back.

Ilyna barely dodge the whips as she jumps to the side, and follows up by throwing her grenade into the room. She starts running towards the hangar.

Skythix feels the pain coming back full force from her injuries, the stim wearing off completely. She's now too exhausted to even do more than just keep her breathing steady. She reached into her suit compartment and grabbed the other stim injector in her hands, contemplating shooting another dosage.

The Harrier-wielding commando is forced back into cover by the Confetti Maker. The one with the Locust is charging right across the room when the grenade explodes, sending him flying.

Renala gets past the wreckage and immediately moves to the left so that it covers her somewhat for the rest of the trip to the hangar.

Steve takes a position alongside Watty, but doesn't risk hitting the others by opening fire. He raises his weapons, biting down hard as it causes another jolt of pain to shoot through his body. As Ren emerges past the wreckage, he smiles wide behind his helmet. "C'mon. Let's get the fuck outta here."

Ilyna reloads and turns around as she reaches the wreakage, opening fire towards the room in hopes of suppressing them for how long the 12 round clip lasts.

Zaylus watches the other turian begin to crash, feeling the weight of his own injury as he struggles to keep his head above water. "Spirits. You hanging on?" He questions as she heads for another dose.

Jason 's firing only halts for a split second as the weapon cycles to the next thermal clip, then he's back to sweeping the weapon back and forth, painting the doorway with projectiles as he backs up beside Ilyna.

The operatives are held back for the moment by the hail of gunfire.

Skythix suddenly grasps her side where she was shot a few time with a pained grunt. "N-no." Her voice wavers with a slight keening noise. At this point she didn't even know if the stim would do anything but her strength was waning. She didn't even think she could successfully inject herself. She could see her arm shaking as she struggled to hold it up.

Renala nods, and continues down the hall. "Working on it," she says. "If you can help me carry her faster, that would be great."

Halisi looks to the turians. "I'll-... I'll do what I can for both of you once we're out of here."

Ilyna reloads the weapon and continues helping Jason, although it's doubtful her pistol even makes a difference. She gathers up some biotic energy, as well.

Steve glances back and gives a nod. "Yeah. Yeah, sure." he agrees. He reholsters one of his SMG's and moves to help Vasquez off of Renala's shoulder. He tosses one of the woman's arms over his own shoulders and quickly ushers towards the shuttle. "Ugh..." he groans as Vasquez' weight puts more pressure on his wounds.

Jason backs up through the opening and steps aside, using the cover provided by the wreckage to balance his weapon against, and continues to fire until the next clip runs dry. Once more, a moment of silence passes as the Confetti Maker cycles to the next clip.

Zaylus grimaces, a moment of indecision passing before he takes up her hand in his, assisting her with administering the stimulant. "You can nap when we're outa this deathtrap." He mutters lightly. "Almost there now." He adds, looking around apprehensively.

There's a sudden crash as the door to the mech lab violently flies open. An Ogre mech steps into the corridor.

Renala is about to thank him when the loud crash happens. "Fuck!" she shouts, and starts running. She keeps Steve's pace.

Watty falls back around the side and out of the mech's view. He is in no place to take this thing head on.

Skythix could barely even feel Zaylus touching her arm as he guides the injector to the emergency medical port. Her head lulls back as she takes in a long breath of air as she feels the drug coursing through her. Her heart races and her eyes open wide. Her body slowly straightens up and her vision shifts from black around the edges to all light being nearly blinding. She tries to stand up to

assist the others but faulters and falls back into her seat with a loud wail of agony.

Steve gives a glance back at the sound, his eyes widening. "Alright now, get a move on!" he says, deciding the pain of quickening his pace is probably better than the pain of being squashed by a mech.

Viper yells out in frustration: "Hurry up! We gotta get out of here!" She readies her omni-tool, preparing to fight if needed.

Ilyna sends a biotic throw at the mech before she starts running around the wreakage and towards the hangar. The throw is most likely not going to affect the mech much.

The Ogre starts pushing its way through the debris, its pulse cannon charging up and opening fire at the running asari - the throw has no discernable effect.

Watty falls back towards the shuttle, closing the distance rapidly.

Ilyna 's shields are taken out entirely by the mech's pulse cannon, which makes her run faster, hoping to get into cover before it resumes firing.

Jason steps aside and halts his gunfire as Ilyna passes through. "You got anymore of those grenades!?" he asks. He backpedals a few steps as his eyes dance over the mech before simply turning on his heels and booking it straight towards the shuttle. "Fuck it, just ruuuuuun!" he shouts.

Watty hastily collapses himself and squeezes into the shuttle, leaving jussssst enough room for the last few to squeeze in.

Ilyna manages just a simple "no" while running.

Zaylus flinches, holding her arm as she crashes back into the seat. "That was not an invitation to stupid heroics." He says gruffly. "You're not helping anyone now. Sit your ass down, soldier. Stay put." He says firmly, hoping to contact something burried under her stim-fueled haze.

The mech pushes through the debris and unfolds its left weapon arm, revealing a large set of mysterious barrels. It's optics jerk around as it designates targets.

Jason continues to book it, not bothering to look back at whatever shenanigans the mech is up to. The artifact swings to-and-fro as he moves towards the shuttle.

Skythix didn't bother trying to fight moving again. Her entire body was on fire now with the drug introduced, all that adrenaline having no outlet. The commanding tone from Zaylus was enough for her to realize that she shouldn't move. Little did he know the history she had with the stims and what it usually meant to be injected during battles. She would only let out a small wimper between

short breaths as she felt like her heart was beating out of her chest. Each thump made her head hurt like hell.

Viper curses under her breath and runs up between Jason, Ilyna, Steve and Renala, hastily typing on her omni-tool.

Ilyna barely manages to keep Jason's pace, as the previous barrier has taken most of the energy out of her.

The Ogre suddenly fires a volley of a dozen small missiles that split up, heading for the various fleeing Redrock members. Viper presses a button on her omni-tool, a surge of power going to the kinetic barriers of everyone near her just before the missiles strike.

Ilyna stumbles and falls as the missile hit her back, though the added boost to her shield made sure that it wasn't the end of her. She scrambles to get back to her feet, and looks back to see how Jason is faring.

Renala crashes into the shuttle's thruster by the time the missile hits, hitting her head hard, and falls to the ground. She's moving, but not immediately getting up.

Jason , having had his back to the mech, wasn't even aware of the impending doom. The explosion causes him to tumble forward. "Oh shit, oh shit!" he mutters as his things fall to the floor. He scurries forward a few feet on his hands and knees as he collects the wrapped up orb and machine gun. With a grunt he pushes himself back up to his feet and casts a glance over his shoulder towards

the mech. "Keep going!"

Zaylus shakes his head, sighing to himself. "Sorry." He mumbles, releasing his grip and turning away, though keeping on eye on her.