Posted by Gamemaster Deus Ex Machina (Gamemaster) in Alpha Company - 2242 Hours

Posted by Mar. Captain Kate Hawkins (A. Co Commander) in Alpha Company - 2242 Hours

Posted by Gamemaster Deus Ex Machina (Gamemaster) in Alpha Company - 2242 Hours
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An explosion that would have been loud in the great outdoors reverberated uncomfortably, even in the cavernous marine barracks. A moment later a pair of marines looked into the open hole. The hummed appreciatively and then two ropes were dropped down. Marines two at a time disappeared into the hole landing on the deck below. =^=First squad, second platoon Dog company is on the deck and moving out.=^=

A minute later the team at the ceiling repeated the process upside down. It took longer for them to get through the hole but the end point was still the same. A squad was on the deck above and would be spreading out from there.

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“Move, move, move.” Kate said as she motioned the 1st platoon up the ropes. They started to spread out just as planned.

“Colonel. Good hunting,” Kate said right before her turn to go up the ropes. It didn’t take long to haul herself up, and by the time she did the demo team was already getting the next round of ordinate in place. One deck down, 6 more to go.

“Let’s keep it up boys, and try to avoid the engineers for a bit after this. They are definitely going to hate us.”

MCapt Hawkins - A Co Commander

A couple of them chuckled for a moment. It was pretty easy to breech a wall if you weren’t required to fix it after it was done. The team moved about twenty meters before they hit a closed bulkhead and the obvious shimmer of a force field. The lead marine turned around to the Captain Hawkins as he tapped the forcefield over the door with his gloved hand. There was an electric hum as he did so… “Force Field and a bulkhead.” He offered unhelpfully.

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Kate cursed. Of course this couldn’t just be done the easy way. She pulled out her tricorder and started seeing just how far the force field extended. Moving the tricorder, she pointed it up at the ceiling. They still had 6 more decks to go, it wouldn’t hurt to just keep going up.

MCapt Hawking - A Co Commander

A marine looked at her incredulously… “Seriously, Ma’am” He started to chuckle.... “If you say so.” He pulled a chair out of a nearby room. Standing on it he put a circular charge on the ceiling. Shaking his head as he worked, he thought about how much the repair crews were going to be pissed at them. After a few minutes he moved a could of steps back… “Fire in the hole!” He cried as he turned a corner out of the blast radius.

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Kate grinned as he started placing the charges. “Unless we run into any vital systems, let’s just get this done and over with. The XO did say to make this fast, and let the repair crews deal with it later.”

Turning the corner with the rest of the team, she covered her ears.

“Is it clear?” she asked looking back at her demo team.

MCapt Hawkins - A Co Commander

The Marine popped his head through the hole. A moment later he leapt through the opening. The rest of the team followed. If the marine detachment would just blow holes in every deck at every intersection that was blocked they would reach their objective with a full dozen internal breeches.

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Kate was one of the last one through the hole. “Alright, screw the doors. Let’s just blast holes. We don’t exactly have time to crack through every single doorway and forcefield. Just make sure to avoid anything critical.”

“Yes Ma’am.”

Ah, the smell of explosives in the morning. There was nothing better to get the day going.

MCapt Hawkins - A Co Commander

“It took over an hour but they were able to blow their way through six decks somehow without cutting a critical conduit. It might have been by luck or by the demolition’s officer comprehension of ship design and where the power conduits were. “What we going to do now.. Ma’am” The marine looked around for a minute. It just occurred to him virtually every senior officer was a woman… what were the odds of that?

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“Good work Gunny. We are headed to the flight deck. Alpha Squad, head for the ready rooms. Beta Squad, you’ve got the maintenance bays. Charlie and Delta Squads, you’re with me. Orders are simple, if you find any of the fighter jocks, tell them to get their birds in the air. We need our CAP.”

Kate looked around at her company. “Keep an open channel, and do what you need to do to get to your objective. Let the fleet clean up the mess when they are done ‘saving the day,’” she said with a chuckle.

“Good luck. Charlie Squad, you have the lead. Go, go go.”

As the squads broke up, her squad led the way towards the flight deck itself.

MCapt Hawkins - A Co Commander