[SRP] Black Sun

[Zoey]

Stryker let the girl touch the ground as he started to feel funny. "What... the?" he asked in his grogginess.

[Haylie]

(Apologies for my hiatus. I'll try to get caught up)

Paula stood by the door, unusually silent, clutching her gun in both hands, sweating and looking around for anything out of the ordinary.

[Evra]

chris blinks seeing the tentacles and raises his smg stryker get away from her now" he says as he puts his finger on the trigger

[Brnin8r]

Bendack (after taking a while to ponder apparently...man...I swear these posts of mine will come more often than once a week...) held the rifle tentatively with the one hand for a moment to shake his hand. Holding your rifle as still as he was would do that, he thought. "Any orders other than have a staring contest, sir?" he asked Bright.

[Knight Errant]

((And opening with the intro for our new player!))

It was dark in the service tunnels under the colony, but as the Commander said 'Its also narrow. And narrow kill zones are the best kind.' The Commander was a bit reclusive lately. Rumor in the small survivor camp was he had gotten it bad when the aliens had assaulted the Central Operations building. But he had rallied all of them... getting them to impossibly fight their way out of the Last Stand and to disappear down here...

Down here was an old utilities complex underground. As mentioned, it was dark... cramp... but safe. And they could tap directly into the water and power grid. After awhile it became bearable... and the feeling of safety was worth any cramped conditions.

The camp was stirring... rumor had it that a scout had come back with extraordinary news... the military had finally come.

* * * * *

Hawkins merely stares at her. "No... you proposing to walk around in your underwear is, though. You will get dressed. That is an order."

Paula can hear this... odd conversation from her location outside the small apartment. Where did she leave Razor, though?

* * * * *

The girl giggles, ducking behind Stryker as Chris points his SMG at her. She maintains her contact as he continues feeling sleepy.

* * * * *

Bright looks over to Bendack. "... good point, soldier. See what you can get from her, if anything. We need intel badly. I want to know their numbers, their strengths, their weaknesses, and what happened to the colonists."

She glances over at Bright as he says that, then looks back to Bendack... a curious look on her face.

[Harri-chan]

Claudia looked confused for a moment. She had no intention of walking around in her underwear like this, but nor did she want to put that dress on. "I don't know if you've forgotten, but I'm not one of your team! I don't do whatever you tell me like they do", she snapped, the same old Claudia attitude, now spoken with the voice of a teenager from the wet-haired fifteen year old. "This is insane! You must have something to reverse this!".

[Brnin8r]

Bendak nodded and smiled beneath his helmet, this he could do. "Sounds good Sir." he said as he shook his hand another time, "So girlie...can you communicate outside fighting or do we have to do things my way?" he asked, the obvious pleasure at the thought of doing it the latter way in his voice.

[Danarth]

Stepping away from a newly welded barrier over one of the entrances to the camp, Christian would turn as he heard the commotion as one of the tunnel scouts retured, a mousy guy named Eric. There had been some sightings of military actions deeper in the tunnels. It caused a stir of excitement in the camp. They had been down here for a while, staying hidden from the aliens for a time.

“About bloody time they got here” came a grumbled complaint from one of the other surviving colonists, too which other survivors nodded. Christian himself nodded to this, but it was going to be problematic. They had lasted so far by managing to keep themselves hidden from the aliens because of their superior knowledge of the tunnels and underground.

After a report was given to the Commander, it was decided that they would link up with the military away from the camp to insure the initial safety of the camp. It was not that they weren't glad to see the military, but they weren't going to reveal location yet out of a sense of pragmatism.

Two people were chosen to go out into the tunnels too met up with the newcomers. Eric had been chosen because he had seen them initially, and Christian volunteered because he knew the tunnels well. Pickng up his goggles, maglight, the rebreather mask, his sidearm and a shotgun slung over his shoulder on a strap over his shoulder.

Leaving the camp, Christian and Eric made there way down some of the more un-used tunnels, taking a winding route to attempt to avoid as much contact with aliens as possible. Occasionally they would set of a brief transmission, which set a location they were going to be stopping next. The transmissions were done in particular cypher, that was likely not one able to be deciphered by the aliens.

Keeping moving, heading to the next set location, hoping that the military people would find them at one of the locations...

[Haylie]

Paula, standing in the hallway with her trusty assault rifle in hand, turns her head toward the door, silently debating on whether or not to go in and talk some sense into that stupid bounty hunter, when she noticed her voice sounded... different. Higher-pitched, and maybe a bit faster. Almost like a kid.

She shook her head, her pony tail waving around behind her. What a stupid idea. What alien technology would do something so useless? Wouldn't they want adult slaves or whatever they wanted with them? Why would they want children?

After a few second's hesitation, Paula reached for the doorknob to the apartment. Just one peek. Just to prove herself wrong. She turned the knob and cracked the door open...

[Knight Errant]

Paula would get a view of Hawkins walking over and slapping a young teenager girl in her underwear! Wait... is that Claudia?! Hawkins stares at her emotionlessly. "I saw you dont do whatever I tell you to. Because if you DID, you wouldnt be in this situation right now. You will stop this defiance... this... instant. Or else."

* * * * *

The alien looks up at Bendack, then looks down. "Can speak a little human..."

Bright snorts. "Good... we dont have time for English lessons."

* * * * *

Eric and Christian sneak through the tunnels silently. Every noise causing their hearts to beat faster. At one point, they plastered themselves against a wall and held their breath as they heard a giggle down an adjoining tunnel... they soon saw its source. The blue alien walking by the entrance to their tunnel with a smile on her face. She looked mostly human... but with white hair, no nose, and blue skin. Eric lets out a breath as she passes.

"Can you believe we got taken over by those hot alien chicks?"

[Haylie]

Paula's eyes narrowed a bit upon seeing the teenager and she leaned a bit further in for a better look. Then she gasped as she recognized the blue spots on the girl's neck. She had to throw a leg forward to keep herself from falling forward. She stopped herself, but kicked the door hard enough to break the knob off the door and create quite a bit of noise, besides her swearing.

In a last ditch effort to look nonchalant, she tossed the knob aside and crossed her arms, saying, "Okay, what the hell is this?"

[Harri-chan]

Claudia found herself rising onto her toes without even meaning to, just to try and make up a little of the height difference as she argued with Hawkins, clearly not in the mood to back down. "I was HELPING you guys out! Do you know how lucky you are? What Bounty Hunter agrees to help her target and their friends?". Her wet brown curls flicked across her back, turning her head suddenly as the door across the room flew open with a bang. As her brown eyes fell upon the other female, a definite look of shock washed across her features. Her chest tightened, and her mouth fell open slightly, staring across the room at her rival. Her face twitched, and she squeezed her eyes shut tight for a couple of seconds before looking again, still seeming just as suprised. "Did they... get you too?".

[Haylie]

Paula seemed to notice something different about Claudia besides the age difference. However, she didn't voice it. "I'm surprised you care enough to ask. I'd have figured you'd be throwing a party, then looking for my corpse to field-strip for my armor to sell on the black market." She turned to Hawkins, arms still crossed. She didn't change her tone. "Sir, what's this? Why is she shorter than me all of a sudden, and looking like she just saw a ghost?"

[Harri-chan]

Claudia felt a heaviness in her chest as she listened to Paula, hearing the other woman talk about her own death was oddly... painful. Now having to look up at her rival, it was a deeply embarrassing experience for the Bounty Hunter. Her head began to shake from side to side, "I never came here to kill you... ", she said, in a tone they'd not heard her use before, almost pleading. Yet soon her brown eyes narrowed in a familiar glare as Paula inquired about her lack of height as she stood there in the white cotton panties and sports bra. She shifted her weight uneasily, folding an arm across her chest, as if to hide the development that had been undone there.

[Knight Errant]

Hawkins looks to the Marine. "Paula... Claudia had an adverse reaction to whatever the alien had used in her. But that is less important than getting moving."

He looks to Claudia. "Since you wont obey orders..." He looks to Paula. "Marine. Dress the bounty hunter. Thats an order."