[center][h2]Backup[/h2][/center] [center]Themerlinhawk[/center] [center][b]Day 1, Miday[/b][/center] [center][i]Megelis[/i][/center] Megelis strolled calmly into the mess hall. This was perfect. The chaos of the normal flow of life here was where the less sketchy and more crazy people showed up. They were his crowd. Leave the weird shit to Crow and the other masters and mistresses. These were his people. Calmly he climbed onto a nearby chair and queued into the mess halls audio. “Hey everyone sorry to interrupt your lovely morning I’m looking for some people to help me out on a job. I need several individuals who are capable of causing a scene and being capable of going undetected right up until causing such a scene. Yes its probably going to be illegal and we’ll probably shoot at some people maybe even get into a sword fight or two. If you’re interested I’ll be out in the hall for the next half hour taking volunteers. That’s all” With that Megelis stepped down from his chair and walked out into the hallway. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [center][h2]Bloodbath[/h2][/center] [center]Themerlinhawk[/center] [center][b]Day 1, Evening[/b][/center] [center][i]Megelis, Ralrisk[/i][/center] The repainted Redhawk Strider power armor now bore the insignia of The Stygian Blade as Megelis walked towards the front of the prison. Hefting the high yield rocket launcher to his shoulder Megelis fired it at the front of the prison. They would retract the bridge ofcourse. The rocket hit the front gate and blew it clean open. The rocket wasn’t anything even near normal. It had been packed full of elemental energy straight from the Shard. Megelis was still slightly surprised it had broken the gates. With that he snapped open the folding stock on his rifle and open fired on the smoke pouring from the main entrance to Southgate. The knights that stepped up next to him and open fired were some of the nastier persons from the Tower. They were ex convicts, hitman and enforcers; the perfect imitation of a Stygian burn team. As he advanced with the line of similarly armed and armored Knights his comm pinged. “What?! I’m busy.” The female voice that came through the comm link was pissed [color=salmon]”The hell?! Shard sends you on a mission I could do on my own? and I get left? You’re such an ass!!”[/color] The comm clicked dead and Megelis rolled his eyes. Ralrisk might seem like a mature capable female on the outside but she was barely better than an awkward teenager sometimes. Two of the Knights stepped forward and tossed out discs that snapped open sending cables across the gap between the street and the outer edge of Southgate prison before unraveling a large metal bridge for them to cross. The next two knights stepped up and held up their arms to project a shield wall for them to cross behind. As Megelis dropped back to check his rifle he was suddenly grabbed from behind.[color=Salmon]“What the fuck, Megelis?!”[/color] Ralrisk stood with a serious pout on her lips as she dropped her cloak and then disengaged the helmet over her face. Turning in anger he opened his mouth to shout and stopped. She was on the brink of tears. It was clear Shard had left her totally out of the loop for some reason. Megelis sighed and put his hand on her shoulder. “Go home ris, we’ll talk when I get back okay?” The second he said it he knew he’d said the wrong thing and she all but stomped her foot and tears rolled down her face. In a panic he looked over his shoulder at the Knights struggling to cross the bridge. “Ris we can’t do this right now-” Her nostrils flared and she turned to stomp away no doubt going to do something stupid. Megelis panicked. “Ris wait!!” She stopped with her back turned and arms folded the pictures of petulant pissed teenager. “Will you help?” The hmph that she gave was the most ridiculous sound Megelis could imagine hearing in the middle of the firefight they were in. [color=salmon]“You know I-”[/color] Megelis hit her from behind tackling her to the ground and shielding her from the hail of projectiles the struck his armor and she tucked herself under him. Looking up Megelis could swear she made eye contact through the visor of his helmet as her body heaved from how close she’d come to being destroyed by the hail of bullets. “will you help, Ris?” Ralrisk nodded, still lying on her back underneath him. [color=salmon]“Yeah.”[/color] With that she re-engaged her cowl and cloak before slipping out from underneath him and vaulting the shield wall and tearing off into the cloud of smoke. Then the screaming started.