Assault on Murphy's Gap
Murphy's Gap is a backwater town on the backwater planet of Verbena. The grandly titled Murphey's Gap Federal Station is little more than a low single-story concrete blockhouse, built way back during the U-war when it was expected that this might be a front-line battlefield. Now the concrete is crumbling around the gunports, exposing rusting rebar, and the letters on the wall are fading in the sun. A few dish antenna dot the roof, for comms to the main Federal Station at Verbena spaceport.
Inside it's likely a standard design - an outer office where the general public and rabble can enter, somewhat isolated from the rest of the building, leading to a corridor off which lies a breakroom, restrooms, an office, a generator room in the very likely event the power goes out, a small bunkroom, an even smaller armory, and the cells. Mostly they are used for drunks sleeping it off, but today Murphey's Gap Federal Station is the home of one 'Bull' Drummond, who served time for killing an Alliance agent in a bar brawl and has now been arrested again for brawling. By all accounts he's loyal, even if he is a murderous thug. He might make a fine ally. <English>
A car has conveniently broken down in front of the Murphy's Gap Fed Station. One of the last beacons of Alliance control on Verbena after several investments and properties were take by some folks sympathetic to some more Independent minded folks. Unbeknownst to the Feds inside the young man and his wife, a very pregnant women who is obviously in pain with heavy contractions and the like, are actually undercover Churara of the Fifth Division. He is running through the mud to the door to the lobby now. "Help, can someone help... my wife is having a baby!" The screams echo into the lobby as the man please.
About Forty Thousand feet up in the air flies a Humming Bird Fighter Craft, Zank's Baby Bird, though the name is blocked out. It's not uncommon for ships to fly that high and the echoing engines just sound like a cargo jet making a fly over on it's way to the more populated ports. The Aft bay opens and reveals The Vizard in all his Gas Mask and red lined black great coat glory. The harsh wind from the flight allows it to flap rapidly around him ad a gloved hand holds onto the railing there. He wears a para shoot over his back. He looks over his shoulder with his glowing goggles to the man behind him. "Are you ready?" He asks once. Behind that man are three other Churara dressed in black with masks.
Lazorith nods his head as he looks to the others on the bird with him, and checks his weapon to insure things are good to go. "As ready as I'll ever be." he says through his own mask muffling his baritone as he looks to the leader then the other on the bird, "Not like I've not jumped out a bird before." he grunts by the sounds of it he's obviously more hopeful for this jump than his last. "Lets get to it." he says securing his weapon as he nods his head again this time more confidence in his voice. <English>
The lobby area is basically divided into two by a counter and bulletproof glass partition, a door in the far end. Behind the partition sits a uniformed Fed, a weaselly fellow with a squint and a broken nose who is in charge, and a civilian Fed, a chunky young woman with stringy blonde hair, a cotton-print dress, who opens her mouth to greet the screaming man. "Um..." she says helplessly, turning to her colleague for assistance - women having babies aren't in the Rules and Procedures. The Weasel blinks several times. "What, now?" he asks fatuously, then stands unhurriedly to make his way to the door, unlocking and opening it to head out into the outer area to lend whatever assistance he can, which will probably be limited to robotic assurances to breath and push. "Carrie, call an ambulance, and get Derek." "DEREK!" she yells, and a fat, porcine fellow in barely-fitting uniform comes panting down the corridor behind the glass. <English>
"Please you've got to help me!" The man says. His screaming wife is getting out of the car now and heading towards the door way. He looks back, "Baby stay back there..." She grabs he large belly, "It's comming I can't!" Then the man suddenly remembers, "An Ambulance what an idiot I am!" He reaches into his pocket to pull out and old transmitter. He still hasn't gone all the way inside the lobby yet. He's just holding the door open. He goes about conversing with the emergency operator as his wife comes closer to him.
"Alright..." Kyoshiro says before the pilot gives the go-ahead to jump out of the cramped aft compartment. He jumps and starts to fall towards the ground. He'll need at least a few minutes of gliding before he pulls his shoot. <English>
Lazorith checks his gun one more time watching the others jump after Kyo one after another untill it reaches him bringing up the rear. He counts to his designated number the makes the jump after checking his gun is secured yet again, not willing to lose one of his babies. His arms and legs go out to slow his descent and glides through the air keeping a close eye on the others following their lead, no showboating for him with a head first dive at least not yet as the man follows the plan. <English>
The Weasel pushes past the Expectant Father, moving to take the pregnant woman's arm. "Come in here, love, there's a bench for you to sit on." Wooden, stained and pitted, carved with graffiti, hard, but nevertheless a bench. It's not clear that he's precisely the caring type, though, his gaze lingers on the woman's form just a little too closely. "I'll get some hot water and towels!" Carrie pipes up, hurrying down the corridor and out of sight, her comm unit in her hand. She's trying to call an ambulance as well! She's seen the movies! Fat Derek is much more suspicious, or perhaps the eight-yard run has taken it out of him, for he stands in the doorway of the bulletproof partition breathing heavily, watching with narrowed piggy eyes, one hand on the gun at his waist. <English>
The expectant Father is pushed out of the way and the women with a bit of a worried glance towards her baby daddy allows the Weasel to drag her into the lobby and to the bench. She takes a sit, her hands still on her stomach, clenching tightly as if something were to fall out. The sound of sirens can be heard getting closer from inside the town. However, inside are two more Churara, armed, and with a comm jammer activated. Their signal for turning it on; the Expecting Father when he 'called for an ambulance'. Oddly enough the Father stands still in the doorway with it open, watching for the Ambulance which he can now see while keeping an eye on the women and The Weazle. "We're so sorry to bother you all, our car broke down..."
Kyoshiro looks to his smart comm as he continues his dive, his overcoat flapping rabidly as he falls. And at the right mark he pulls his shoot and starts the slower controlled decent to the Fed Stations roof where his team will land. "2 minutes..." He says to himself. "2 Minutes..." They can't use comms because of the jammer. <English>
The Weasel hovers over the woman (from where he can get a fine view down her shirt). "You need to breathe deeply, in and out," he says predictably and uselessly, patting her on the shoulder in a totally gratuitous manner. Carrie hurries back, squeezing past Derek in the inner doorway with a couple of somewhat stained towels. Her comm is still in her hand, "I can't raise the base station," she chatters, likewise hovering with the towels as she clearly has no clue what they're for anyway. (As anyone with half a clue knows, the call for 'towels and hot water' is simply to get the father out of the room long enough to get the messy parts out of the way). Derek continues to block the inner doorway, piggy eyes darting everywhere. <English>
Lazorith grins as he starts to fall behind since he controlled his jump from the get go. So thats when he goes into a nose dive to catch up. His over coat is more like a cape attached to his shoulder and flaps around violently as he increases his speed. His gaze looks down the road to make sure things are going smoothly and sure enough from his vantage things seem to be going swimingly. His gaze goes back to the fellows he's quickly gaining on before he throws out his arms again along with kicking out his legs to ensure he sticks to where he's supposed to be. "Danm what a rush." he says to himself as he breathes deeply a grin crossing his features beneath that mask of his. <English>
The Ambulance comes to a abrupt halt in front of the station and the two men step out of the front pilots area of the thing and open up the back. There's a medical bag on the stretcher filled with all sorts of goodies. They takes it out the back and head into the Lobby, the father holding the door open for them. He blinks his eyes once to the EMT and Paramedic. As the stretches is wheeled over to the Pregnant women, the fronting Churara tells the Weazel to please stand back. He kneels in front of the women and takes out his flashlight and starts to act like he's checking her vitals.
Just as this is happening Kyoshiro and the three other Churara and landing with boots clanking on the roof of the Station. The rush to bundle up and control the slowly falling shots and place them somewhere out of the way. Kyoshiro's glowing eyes look over the decapitated roof as he seems to try to spot something. He moves and stands right where the bunk room is... "Bunkroom... We'll insert here..." He says, "Clear each room as we go. Stick together and don't die. Dieing is for pussies." He takes out his thermal gel and starts to trace the outline of an entry hole. His other hand grabs a flash-bang from his bandoleer. As soon as the gel dissolves through the roof, the rectangular peace falls with a great crash onto the center of the Bunkroom's floor. He then waits a few seconds and then pulls the pin on the flash-bang, dropping it through the hole. BANK FLASH....
From inside the lobby the two loud bangs of different origin and separated cause the EMT and Parametic to even go silent as the looks towards the big man guarding the door. The hesitate to see their reactions. <English>
Lazorith skips a few times with his landing obviously not as used to it as the others luckily he wasn't closer to an edge or he would have gone over. His hands go to... his gun making sure its still there, and surprise surprise it is! Thats when he turns his gaze to Kyo and nods his head keeping chatter to a minimum. Though as that part of the roof falls through he starts to unsecure that gun a bit. <English>
Derek whirls at the crunch of the roof section, eyes staring behind him. "Krystal?!" he bellows, to be answered by an inarticulate but definitely female yell from the direction of the cells. Then the flashbang in the bunkroom going off, knocking the bunkroom door off its hinges and sending a billowing cloud of dust and smoke into the corridor. He lets loose a colorful obscenity and draws his gun, swinging round to pant back towards the bunkroom. The Weasel jerks back like he was stung, and he seems to put two and two together; he goes for his gun, stepping back against the wall to give himself space between him and the EMTs. Carrie darts backwards, her useless comm in her hands: "Help! This is Murphey's Gap, we're under attack!"
The bunkroom contains four figures, three men and a woman; the reinforced concrete roof section fell squarely on one fellow's head and chest and there's now just a spreading pool of blood onto the pillow, but the others were struggling up, reaching for weapons, when the flashbang goes off; now they're stumbling in the dark. <English>
Then EMTs open their bags and pull out their Ares Pistols aiming them towards The Weazel and the retreating Big Guy. "Stop!" He shout, "No one needs to die! Surrender this outpost and all will be quartered properly under the rules of war." In the mean time the pregnant women his now not so pregnant as she takes two SMG's out from under her dress, throwing one to the 'Father'. They each take up proper position (assuming the Weazle dosn't shoot, along with the two EMT's. The Women is glaring at the Weazel... not happy with the way he ogled her.
Kyoshiro draws his large pistol and is the first to jump in. He lands with a solid thunk on the large piece of collapsed roof, looking down at the blood and cumpled body that it fell on. He sighs, "Gorram it I didn't mean to do that." He looks around at the stumbling and confused Feds, "Ladies and Gentlemen... Surrender now and no harm will come to you." The other Churara jump in as well then, taking up guns to the rest of the confused feds. One goes to the door to look out and down the hallway. <English>
Lazorith waits for the next three to jump in after Kyo before he jumps down his gun fully unsecured by now. He waits for a clear area then jumps down with his gun drawn. "Wrong place, Wrong time is all. It wasn't his lucky day" he mutters out as he looks around at the people with his gun trained expecting no resistance but more than ready just in case. <English>
The Weasel flushes. Hot pregnant women with guns clearly are his type, at least in his fevered imagination. With a flushed face he slowly lowers his gun, squatting to set it on the floor. Carrie squeals, dropping her comms unit, and raises her hands; her eyes are wide with fear. The disorientated three in the bunk room have had all the fight knocked out from them by the flashbang, and surrender easily. Derek, though, lifts his gun and blazes away at the guy who sticks his head out from the bunkroom doorway, screaming obscenities at the top of his lungs. "Die! Die!" he adds. There's a reason why he's posted to this backwater, clearly. <English>
"Secure them..." The mother says to the EMTs and the Father and they move to take any guns, comms, and weapons from them and cuff them and seat them on the floor together. She takes the moment to kick The Weazel in the nuts though as sweet revenge... "You don't look at women like that, pig!" Romany women were feisty.
However, The Churara who sticks his head out has well... his time has come. As Derek fires, his head explodes in red guts and brains. His body slams back against the doorway and then slumps to the ground still and void of life. Of course, Kyo watches this as his men who are still alive go about securing the other three prisoners. "On me, Paradice..." Of course that's the code name he's chosen for Laz (That seal he gave him that one time) at this time... and Kyo marches his way towards the door to see who's killing his men. He motions for Laz to take the other side of the door while he pulls back his dead man out of the way. "Don't be stupid!" He calls out. <English>
Lazorith nods his head and moves to the side he was motioned too, he moves swiftly for a man his size and its only a a few moments before his back is pressed against the wall his gun held pointing towards the door as the dead man is pulled out of the way. A thought crosses his mind but now isn't the time for smartass remarks something he's learnt in his years as he waits for Kyo to try and talk the man down as he flicks his own gun to semi automatic. Stupidity seems to be strong in this one that decides to try and take on the world all by his lonesome. <English>
The Weasel sinks into his own little ball of private agony, tears of pain in his eyes, as he and the others are cuffed and secured without incident. Derek, though, comes charging up to the bunkroom door, flattening himself (as well as a three hundred pound man can flatten himself) against the wall just the other side of five inches of concrete from Lazorith. He's heaving for breath, "...you...surrender..." And then his voice changes, bellows, "Krystal! They're after Drummond! Kill him!" <English>
Kyoshiro finishes pulling his man away from the door just in time to hear the large man slap himself against the other side of the wall. He tilts his head as Derek commands the women in the cell block. "Kill him, don't kill him... Doesnt matter... it'll just make you look like shit when we broadcast the security footage." He puts his gun away and draws his Katana, a slow and deep shhhhhhing as he pulls the blade from it's Saya. He puts his self next to the door and waits taking a breath before pushing out into the hallway and swing at the large Fed positioned against the wall. <English>
Kyoshiro yells, "Paradice, secure the Cell Room!" <English>
"Rodger." 'Paradice' calls out and moves out and moves towards the cells away from where Kyo is facing. Lazorith then calls out, "Krystal, its over no one else needs to get hurt today." he calls out as his footsteps carry him to the cells. He skids to a halt his gun at the ready the man takes the risk and not halting at the door way instead he skids to a halt facing into the cell room. He's riding on hopes here as he hopes krystal doesn't have a gun. Hopes she isn't going to follow the other guy's command. Hopes she's not waiting for him to come around that corner. <English>
Derek is slow and fat, and the katana slices through his hand and his chest, cutting his heart in half and killing him instantly before he has a chance to pull the trigger. His eyes glaze as he slowly topples over, blood immediately pooling under him in a rapidly spreading puddle.
When Lazorith reaches the door and peeks in, he sees the cellblock - four cells, basically just metal cages. Two are empty. The third contains a tall gangly girl in her late teens or early twenties, blue-dyed short hair. The fourth contains a short, squat thug of a man, a bodybuilder, massively hairy head and face and chest above the edge of the raggedy and bloodstained t-shirt he's wearing. Drummond. Facing Lazorith is the final Fed, a small, petite young woman with her hair all braided up. She's clutching a shotgun, aiming it from the waist at the door that Lazorith is coming through. But she doesn't shoot, instead yells, "Hands up or I fire!" She takes a step backwards. A step closer to Drummond's cell, and his eyes glint as she almost gets within reach. <English>
Kyoshiro watches Derek fall dead, his head canting to the side and goggles glowing red eyes watch his dead body for a long moment. He flicks the blood from his blade in the traditional manner before replacing the blade in it's Saya. First sliding the flat edge along the Saya's back, then pushing it inside as the tip is lined up properly. Then the thumb from the hand on the Saya reaches up to push the Tsuba forward to lick the blade in. He turns on his heel to look towards the Cell Block, walking that way, his greatcoat flowing. "Paradise?" He questions having heard the voices. <English>
Lazorith sighs and shakes his he head, "I'm fine." he calls out to Kyo, "Krystal, its over put down your gun and no one else has to get hurt." he says loud enough for her to hear as he stays outside of the room. "I've been shot by a shotgun before, It hurts but I'll live." he says calmly, as he makes a show of looking her up and down sizing her up. "Would be a shame if you got hurt beautiful," the man sounding confident, danm confident. He is careful not to make any sudden moves, "Everyone else has already given up, You have an Iron will and I respect that but I rather you walk out of here alive. Just lower the weapon." He steadily raises his instead of lowering it his finger on the trigger seems we have a standoff. <English>
Krystal swallows, staring at Lazorith, and very slowly, his iron will overcoming hers, slowly she lowers the shotgun. In doing so she takes a half-step back, hands rising...and Drummond reaches through the bars, grasps her collar, and slams her backwards against the bars. There's a sickening crack, and her eyes roll up, and then he's supporting her with a hand across the neck and digging in her pockets for the keys to the cells with his other hand. <English>
Kyoshiro walks into the Cell Block just in time to witness Krystal being slammed against the cell. He rushes over towards her and checks for a pulse, unconscious, before looking up to Drummon... "Are you happy?" He asks the old Browncoat. He looks to Laz and gives a nod. "Nice job... Round up the men and prisoners... and our dead... Tell them to load up the Ambulance. Once that's done, send two men in to grab any supplies we could use or weapons as well as security footage and then we'll get back to one of the safe houses Fawzy set up for us." He takes Krystal into his arms and picks her up bridal style. He stares a Drummon for a moment and waits for the man to Exit. "You are Free to Go... You can come with us or go your own way... it's up to you." He then nods his head towards the girl in the other cell, indicating for the old Browncoat to give her the keys so she can let herself out. He then looks to her, "Same to you as well, Miss." His voice is a core accented monotone and there is a patch of the freedom movement on the shoulder of his greatcoat. <English>
Lazorith very nearly growls as the young woman's life is snuffed out before him, unable to do anything about him. He squeezes his gun tightly but its Kyo's voice that cuts through the mans anger. "It's shit like that that got you in here, in the first place." he growls before nodding his head to kyo and moving to carry out his orders. He walks back down the hallway in to the bunk room. "Gather them up bring em to the front." he sighs shaking his head at the poor man that was crushed before he bends down to scoop up his fallen comrade and puts him over his shoulder with a shake of his head, "Too many danm hot heads here." he snaps to himself before he starts to make his way to the entrance. <English>
In the Aftermath of the assault, the security footage and any weapons/supplies are gathered from the station. The Prisoners and Dead from both sides are loaded up into the Ambulance and the 'broken down car'. They then speed off towards safe houses to lay low for a while. Baby Bird is called in to lay down a missile strike on the now empty Station, blowing it to kingdom come.
