[SRP] Black Sun

[Evra]

as he watches bedak walk up towards the woman he grabs his gun and raises it slightly just before the blue thing jumps at him chris goes to shoot but stops at bendak being put in the line of fire as he moves to the side to get a line of sight to take it down

[Brnin8r]

Bendak looked as the blue tendrils wormed their way into his wrist, "The hell?!" he yelled out as he dropped his assault rifle and reached for his knife. In more shock and awe than pain, he attempted to quickly bring the knife in his free hand across the alien's throat. He wasn't about to sit around and watch some blue-skinned thing probe him or something.

[Knight Errant]

The trio worm their way through the narrow tunnels... Hawkins staring intently into every dark opening they pass along the way. After what seems like hours in the dark, Hawkins stops. "The reactor core is just ahead, thats where the signal is leading. Be cautious..." He says as he goes up to an access panel... hacking it for a few moments before the door at the end of the tunnel opens up. "..."

Inside, the room is huge, the size of a large warehouse or small aircraft hanger. It is dominated by a massive spinning pillar, cables the size of cars coming from the walls and locking into the base and ceiling of the column. But something has obviously happened... the walls and floor are covered with a blue, leather like organic material. Strange structures of this material rise from the floor, walls, and even the ceiling... and scattered everywhere along the floor are faintly glowing person-sized pods.

Meanwhile, back at Central Operations...

The alien smiles, seemingly elated by the fact she has Bendack in her grip! So much so she dosent react in time as he brings up his knife. Staggering backwards, the tendrils release from his wrist as she holds her throat... blue blood leaking between her slim fingers.

By this point, Bright is beside Bendack. He shoves his gun at the alien's face. "Nice work, Marine... she get you?"

The woman looks between the two of them, backing up until she reaches the wall... then sinking to the floor.

[Harri-chan]

Claudia looked up in suprise as they entered the large room housing the reactor core, brushing passed Hawkins, her rifle lowering slightly, her nose wrinkling as she poked the toe of her boot into the blue, leathery coating across the floor. "What the heck is this stuff?", she asked, without looking back at them, and infact walks further ahead. Approaching one of the glowing pods along the floor, she aimed her rifle down at it, and then nudged it with her foot.

[Haylie]

Paula looks around the blue room, eyes wide in a mixture of shock and awe. "Oh, my God... What's going on here...?" She lowers her gun so she can see better. "This... is not a substance I recognize."

[Knight Errant]

Hawkins looks around, his face neutral. "I'm not sure... but we should quickly find our pilot, I think..."

Meanwhile, as Claudia boots the pod, it splits open... revealing it is hollow. The interior looks dry, and padded... there are several holes inside of it as well.

[Harri-chan]

Claudia watched intently as the pod split open, and then glanced back as she heard that Paula was just as confused as her. "Obviously not on the Space Academy syllabus... ", she muttered before bending down, holding the rifle in one hand, and squatted beside the hollow pod. She made a move with her free hand towards the interior, but then paused and used the end of her rifle to poke at it instead, the holes especially.

[Brnin8r]

Free from the blue alien's odd tendrils, Bendak laughed in victory, watching with glee as her dark blue blood leaked all over her hand. She deserved it. He hoped that the others had the dying alien girl covered as he staggered backwards to inspect the wound he'd received, "Yeah...don't know with what though..." he said as he resheathed his knife and examined where the alien had injected the odd tentacle things. into him.

[Evra]

chris lowers his weapon as he sees the violence happen he looks around the room laying his sniper rifle against the rifle next to the computers as he looks at all the computers seeing if there all working and making sure nothings happened to them letting the other two deal with the alien

[Knight Errant]

From the holes, tendrils whip out... wrapping around the gun. They go farther and farther up the gun, and soon will be around her arm if she dosent drop the gun!

Hawkins glances back. "You really should touch that..."

Meanwhile, back with our Brave Marines...

The alien topples over to the side... unmoving. But there is still faint movement... her chest rising up and down with breath as her hands fall to the side, revealing a slice that... looks less deep than Bendack remembered? Hmm...

Meanwhie, Bendack's wrist is not full of holes, thank goodness... but where the tendrils went in there are odd round marks, as if they had filled themselves in. What is most odd is that they are blue... the same color as the alien's skin.

Chris sees the computers seem unharmed! At least something was going there way. The room seems clear... no further aliens lurking. Bright glances over to him. "Marine... watch that alien. It isnt dead yet... if she should so much as twitch in a way you dont like, fill her full of holes."

Bright looks over to Bendack. "Are you alright?"

[Harri-chan]

Claudia's eyes widened in suprise as the tendrils whipped out from the holes in the pod and wrapped themselves around her gun, "Oh no you don't!", she snarled, and gripped the rifle with both hands, planting her booted feet either side of the pod, stiffening her legs as she began to try and pull the weapon free. "Someone get over here and help me with this thing! We need weapons if we're gonna get your pilot back!", she shouted.

[Haylie]

Paula growls softly as she rushes over to the brunette mercenary, then begins firing at the strange tentacles with her own rifle. "Tentacles! Why did it have to be tentacles?!"

[Evra]

chris nods to him as he begins working on the computers going through the files glancing over at the alien every few seconds before looking back at the computers for files or footage of whats been happening here on the planet his smg sitting next to the keyboard just incase

[Brnin8r]

Bendak's helmet hid his worried face as he stared down to the oddly-filled wound...or lack thereof. His hand gently rubbed over it, attempting to stimulate any pain at all. As far as he could tell, the alien had just fondled his wrist. "I...I should be. Looks like it didn't get in far enough...I'll be fine..." he said in a half-dazed state. He'd seen it all, the rioting civilians, organized shadow cells, disgruntled shoppers...but he'd never had much difficulty with any of them. Why did he feel this worried then? She hadn't done anything to him...and she was dead...or at least down for the count.

[Knight Errant]

((*swears this RP will move more than once every week from now on >_>*))

The tendrils continue their way up the weapon... getting closer and closer to Claudia's arms. They will soon wrap around HER if she dosent let go. And they seem... surprisingly strong. Some begin snapping as Paula fires at them, and those that miss bury themselves into the blue pod... causing it to leak... blue blood? The fleshy pod shudders.

Hawkins tuns around. "Did I not say dont touch anything?" He rushes over, drawing a combat knife.

Meanwhile, back at Central Operations! Chris finds the data scrambled, but pieces begin rising up... an attack, colonists disappearing... slowly more and more aliens swarming over the colony, a desperate barricade defense... and then nothing.

Bendack would find that beyond a faint itchiness... the small blue patches of skin seem fine. Besides being blue, and hairless. If his hand is not gloved, he would feel the blue patches were quite soft and smooth as well.

Bright frowns. "This whole operation is getting FUBAR. Chris! What did you find? Bendack... watch the girl you made friends with. Check her pulse or something. I dont want any more surprises. The rest of you watch the damn doors." He goes to his radio. "Lieutenant! We have a bit of a situation here.... lieutenant?" He taps the radio. "... oh f***."