What the men saw was a grim scenario. Blood Eagles were running amongst scattered Phoenix and all hell had broken loose. Morpheus noticed the hole through which Blood Eagles were charging in, he quickly pointed it out and the other two launched mortars through, sending bloody body parts flying across the room, a few diamond sword were caught in the blast but it was a nessicary evil.
Knight yelled into his PDA telling engineers to get here quick and patch the breach. A man in a hoplite quickly ran to the patch and began to setup a temporary forcefield, they were relieved that at least some people could keep their cool and do what needed to be done. They quickly found out from screaming warriors the generators had been taken down during the first attack, another report came they couldnt reach them for repairs. As the 3 set up a makeshif command center they saw a few of the mercenary group running down a hall after a squad of Eagles, there were a few explosions, then the mercs re-appeared. They must be pretty good Vega thought to himself.
After a few minutes they were able to set up a portable generator and a few inventory stations and a command station in one of the barracks rooms, they began to re-group there. One of the mercs ran in and quickly took over the command station, he began hading out orders to everyone in a last ditch effort to save the base, he seemed competent, Vegas HUD showed his callsign as Hurricane, if they lived through this, maybe the guy deserved a beer. IF they lived through it.. After a few minutes of hurricane handing out commands, the battle began to calm, and defenses were being reset.
As the yelling and screaming calmed down in the command centre, their room quickly turned into a hospital, soldiers being helped in by their friends, bruised, beaten, bloodied, a few unlucky warriors had had parts torn from them by enemy explosives, nano-packs were runnign short and they needed a true doctor. It appeared at the time the blood eagles hard retreated for a second attack, they probably thought they had done enough damage, and now was the time for a meticulous extermination, Vega knew how they worked, they were in his blood.
They needed a plan for escape, and finally someone choked up a good answer, apprently there were old tunnels to the mountains where there was an emergency exit. Hurricane was able to send out a distress signal telling of their plan. Since it would take time to escape all available soldiers began to set claptraps and mines everywhere, to stall the enemy for at least some time. As vega got a turret and mines and ran off to set them, hurricanes voice came over his comm,
"Go to the Com room, check the sensor readings, i cant tap into them here, we need to know what we are against."
Vega quickly ran to the Comm room to fufill his command, while Morpheus and Knight began contucting plans to cut off any other attacks. When Vega reached the Comm room he found a scared tribesman trying to work of the bodies of his fallen comrades, Vega asked him their situation, the sensors had picked up, just before the attack, a almost a Full Talons worth of dropships. It looked bad, the base here had hardly half a pyre.. but he wasn't sure how many of those mercs there were, not too many he imagined. Vega ran back to the hall where he left his new-found allies to discover it empty.
Something was odd, they couldnt have evacuated that quickly. And why need to, they had good time in which to prepare, they had left their defense system half set, claptraps lay on the floor, unset, and almost the entire area he was in was empty, he could hear the footsteps of soldier moving in the halls around him but he saw none, only the bodies of fallen warriors, mostly blood eagle.. the battle truly had turned to their favor. A hoplite ran by him and he yelled
"Where is everyone?!"
the nervous warrior, not talking time to turn back and answer yelled out "SELF DESTRUCT!"
Crap, thought Vega, the commander must have hit the button when they came in his office.. we can't have more than 5 minutes left. Vega ran towards where the launch pads were, or at least he hoped still were,he didnt know of the entrances to the tunels, he wason his own, he thought frantically, if that bombing ruined the only chance of escape he would have to take it on foot. He rounded many corners, nearing his goal, he started to shed his weapons, only keeping his chaingun, knowing not many would be here, and its just added weight. Wishful thinking it turned out to be..
He rounded what should be the last corner to run smack into a Blood Eagle Myrmidon, he choked and dropped his gun, his enemy at first thought of him as an ally but then noticed the Phoenix Ident plaque on his shoulder.
"You scum, you bring dishonor against the entire Blood Eagle Tribe by allying yourself with these pathetic fools" said the Blood Eagle as he laughed at the scarred Armor Vega wore. "You are the fool, your clan couldn't even see the true light of the blood eagles, your blind eyes prevent you from ever being anything more than a grunt," Vega yelled back.
Then the Eagle drew back his arm and slammed his fist into vegas faceplate, smashing it with spider-webbed cracks. The blow was returned with a 2-handed axe chop to the eagles head denting his helmet deeply and rattling his skull, the 2 men began a furious fist fight, powered by their mechanical armor. As both men reeled from the others hits Vega backed himself to the wall, kicked in his jets and lept forward, slamming his soulder into the eagles chest, sending him sprawling. Vega stood up over the blood eagle, "Maybe now you can see the true light of our existance, its too bad bretheren turned to foe, we shall meet again someday, may it be a long time before I see you where you're going," he raised up his boot then smashed down with all his force on the mans faceplate, already broken from the fight. The boot quickly met bet skin, then bone, then mush.
During all this time he had forgotten the countdown, there cant be much time at all now... He ran into the vehicle bay finding a small shuttle, that a blood eagle pletlast was attempting to board, Vega tossed him away and quickly boarded. He threw off his gloves and began to pilot out of the bay, as he was lauching he heard explosions go off all over the base, it had begun.. He raced out of the bay and into the sky, suddenly an explosion rocked the ship, he hadn't been far enough from the base, Vega cursed the elders as the control panel blew up before him, sending him into darkness...
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