[center][h1][b][color=92278f][u]NIKO RENZO[/u][/color][/b][/h1][/center]

He really hadn't expected it to be like this.  Any of it.

As they left the ship and he locked up, Niko was still shocked by the attack that had just occurred mere minutes ago.  Wu-Han was alot more chill, but Niko had been the one working at the controls, so all the other man could do anyway was ride it out.  They were here now on Mars, and the actions taken against them already told Niko that this wasn't going to be as easy as he initially thought.  He'd allowed himself to grow cocky, because he was one of the strongest people in the world, as of now, and that he'd just spent a good while covering his bets by training further.  But then, he hadn't reckoned on [i]missles[/i].  Had to be reminded here: Guns and artillery were still plenty powerful, and he didn't even have a pistol to his name.

[color=92278f][i]Really oughta' rectify that, if I can.[/i][/color]

In time, perhaps.  Speaking of which, it was time they got out of here.  The MMC may or may not have the ability to track them down.  No more missles, for now, but if some patrols were sent out to find them, that wouldn't surprise him.  Realizing that bringing out a Capsule bike or something right now would actually give their position away by prevaling dust cloud - Mars could still kick up dirt like going off-road on the deserts of Earth - it seemed wiser to take things by foot.  It wasn't hot and it wasn't gonna BE hot.  This was Mars, which meant that - even after all the progress in terraforming - it would still be kinda' cold.  Can't beat Earth's proximity to the sun, sometimes.  Anyway, they started moving and...  Okay, so you know how you might be driving in Kansas and, despite the speed you're going, you feel like you aren't moving?  Well, this was that in [i]reverse![/i]

[color=92278f]"Holy-  [i]What[/i] the...?"[/color]

Imagine surging forwards, but you get where you're going quicker than you expected, and you're not even trying!  Niko started moving, and then flinched while looking back, feeling that he was [i]already[/i] exceeding his fastest movement on Earth.  Was this just the weak gravity?  No no no...  This is what all that training gets you!  Oh...he made the [i]right[/i] decision.  The MMC may've taken potshots at them, and they may have all the guns, but right now, Niko was pretty sure he could whip [i]all[/i] of his peers from basic training.  It put a smile on his face.  He wasn't going to underestimate the fact that their enemy had a strong hold of this planet, but perhaps the odds were a bit more even?  Speaking of which, their enemy had an actual [i]stronghold[/i] on this planet, as in a monolith of heavy materials surrounded by an electric fence, a security wall, and likely numerous guards inside.  They were quickly approaching this now - as they didn't apparently even NEED a car, right now, when it'd been in view soon after leaving their landing site - while having used all the cover to get here about as undetected as was conceivable.  They hadn't sent a squad of James Bond villain henchmen after them, so the tactic seemed to work.  Now, they had their first real obstacle, Han looking to him for suggestions.  Niko had been thinking on the way here, looking at the structure and reasoning out the likely security procedures for this fortress city.

[color=92278f]"Well, it's an octogonal perimeter wall and fence with eight entrances and probably a decent security check at the gates.  The turret guns will fire at anything that moves within their general field of view, and while it doesn't look like they're too close to an entrance, naturally all the guards are armed so as not to generally matter.  This would be difficult on a standard infiltration team, which I've been a part of, but right now I don't have any kit."[/color]

Apart from no guns on his person, he had no camouflage gear, no body armor, no sensor baffles, no hacking gear, no nothing.  He was dressed in his civvies and had [i]that[/i] kind of loadout: Wallet, keys, cellphone, and a few Capsules.  With this in mind, however, Niko smirked.

[color=92278f]"That said...we've worked up a physical advantage that gives us options.  For instance, we could wait for a truck of some kind bound for the city, maybe get on its back without the driver noticing, and then get underneath it as it has to slow down for the gates.  We remain out of anyone's field of view while on back and getting underneath, we're good [i]at least[/i] until the guys with the mirror-sticks start checking the underside of the vehicle.  From there, depending on how fast we are, we could bolt through the gate or fight long enough to put the guards on their asses and THEN book it.  If I can get a handle on a gun, I could even disarm them with relative ease and we don't even have to dodge bullets, going in.  At least, until [i]someone else[/i] starts shooting."[/color]

He had always felt before that he didn't care too much what happened to MMC personnel throughout all this, that they deserved to be shot [i]especially[/i] if he was being shot at FIRST, but ironically the assassin's judgement of his character - the very thing that stayed Han's hand in attempting to kill him - made Niko re-think this in the time they were traveling in space.

[color=92278f]"The [i]other[/i] idea I have in mind is immediately risky, but we don't have to fight any people unless they're right on the other side of the wall.  Turrets will open fire on us as soon as we're in some unspecified range, most likely if we try jumping the fence or even a little before.  This company can afford to repair a fence.  So, they open fire, but maybe we're a bit quicker, and we get to the base of the wall and jump UP, tackling one of these turrets in the process.  It can't fire because it's no longer able to hit us, the other nearest turrets likely won't fire because of their programming.  They can afford to replace 'em too, but would you want [i]your[/i] turrets destroying each other by accident?  In any case, the second plan is simply believing that we can out-think a predictable killing machine, and ultimately at the end of this, we get into the city and they raise some kind of alarm on us."[/color]

He gave the assassin a serious look now.

[color=92278f]"There's no way into that place that doesn't make security aware of us somehow, not unless we actually sneak out from under a truck too quickly for people to notice and slip away, which isn't likely.  We have to think that they're [i]going to[/i] discover us, and only be surprised at our luck if we [i]are[/i] that lucky.  Well...that is, unless you have another idea that [i]could[/i]."[/color]

After all, an assassin like him could easily be a part of an infiltration team, as well.  He might have a brilliant idea that Niko hadn't even thought of.  Though...the way he'd been clenching his fists kind of indicated that he wanted to punch something [i]really hard[/i].