[center][h2][color=BF1010]Spartan Lucas Ryker[/color][/h2][/center]

Lucas offered no objections when Major Yalu spoke up for wanting to pair up as the only non-human member of Aegis to have put in training time with the SPARTAN. The pair had a feel for each other's tendencies already, so the pairing was solid. Following the ping from Team Lead Aviza and then the updated ping from Shih, Ryker moved with his partner into the darkness, switching on his visor's night-vision mode.

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His DMR had never stopped its sweep from left to right, occasionally checking their rear more out of habit than genuine concern, but then, the Brutes were known to deploy Stalkers on occasion, stealth equipped monkeys who were as prone to bash your head in from behind as put a mauler shot in you from the front. Yalu was fairly restless on his own watch from what the Spartan could see, but he would double their firing cones on occasion in case something popped up while the Sangheili was aiming another direction.

Eventually, as Lucas was coming to a pause to use his armor's built in zoom optics to see what the patrol pattern on the phantoms was like, the Major finally spoke, asking who amongst the humans of the team was the most likely to get tunnel vision. Making sure that his outbound comms to the team was turned off, he answered as he surveyed. "The ONI spooks, easily. They try and hide it, but they think this whole team is a sham and a joke, as I imagine a lot of ONI's top brass does too. But, so long as they can follow orders until we need to break stealth mode, they should be fine."

Nodding to himself as a couple of phantoms peal off, he speaks into the team COMMS again, asking what he was sure was on all their minds. "How do we want to handle this? Crags or plateau? Splitting into two groups would be a bad idea."