[SRP] Black Sun

[Knight Errant]

Bright looks to Paula, then back to Claudia. "I'm not getting any kinda 'mom' vibe from her. 'Sides, I got my heart a nice big tattoo on it for my own back home. I think its all you, short stuff."

He looks to Hawkins. "Anyway... what should we do about this situation, sir?"

Hawkins barely pauses a moment. "It is obvious." He looks to Claudia. "Half of us will procure your shuttle, take it to the Hyperion, and get the spare dropship. The others will go find the colony survivors and escort them to the space port. When the first team returns, we will begin evacuating everyone to the Hyperion."

"And once that is complete, we begin orbital bombardment."

Blade finishes listening to Hawkins, then looks back to Chris. "Is this the right idea? Wiping them out?"

Meanwhile, Stryker sees nothing... but he hears the giggle again... it seems to be coming from outside the ship. Meanwhile, his throat felt raw, and his voice sounded... odd.

[Harri-chan]

Claudia turns slightly, and looks up at Paula with a scowl, "You obviously can't feel it yourself, but trust me... ", she began to say, before Bright cut her off. Her brow creased into her frown, and she glanced back and forth between them, a slightly worried look in her dark brown eyes. However, that concern was pushed aside when she heard Hawkin's proposal, "Woah, hold on there, G.I Joe". Her pistol was back up, pointing at him as she walked towards him, her hips no longer having that exaggerated sway. "I think you missed out the part where we go find the b**** that did this to me, and make her reverse it?", she snapped, her voice getting louder towards the end of the sentence.

[Haylie]

Paula looked ready to argue. Then she looked down as a light bulb went off in her head, her mouth still open from inhaling. Her eyes widened just a bit, showing off her blue irises as her expression went from realization to shock to revelation, then quickly to denial, and she didn't seem to know what to do with her hands. No way, she thought. Before, it was just common sense. Even she wouldn't fire at someone trying to help her. But she hates me... why would she listen to me...?

No way. But... still. It couldn't hurt to try, right? If she didn't listen, then it was just nerves and she just needed to calm down. If she obeyed... No way.

"Claudia! Didn't I tell you to keep the gun down?!"

It's not gonna work. Not with her. No way.

[Harri-chan]

Claudia looked enraged that Bright would dare head back to Earth with her like this, and was stood about a foot from him, her pistol aimed right at her chest when Paula spoke again. Her eyes, which were staring at Bright, suddenly widened. She froze for a moment, and then slowly turned her head to look back at the blonde Marine. First, the rage faded from her youthful face. She didn't exactly look happy, but neither was she seething. Then, her shoulders slumped, and she let out a sigh. The arm holding the pistol dropped, and she swallowed a deep breath, before turning away from Bright and brough her free hand up to clutch her forehead, now looking rather distressed. The feelings were getting stronger, while just a short while ago Paula had sounded full of authority... now Claudia felt sure it wasn't even possible to disobey her.

[Knight Errant]

The only one behind Hawkins was the unconscious Razor, so no one would notice as he slowly releases his grip on the handle of the pistol in his back holster. Continuing in his same even tone of voice. "Our medical facilities here are limited. The medbay on the Hyperion is much more suitable towards finding a cure to your condition, Claudia."

"Also, you will find the medical facilities back on Earth even moreso advanced. For that is where you will be heading. To a top of the line military medical facility..."

Bright humphs. "More than she deserves, sir..."

Hawkins looks over. "Need I remind you we need her cooperation to get off of this planet?"

Bright rolls his eyes, but nods. "As you say, sir."

[Zoey]

Stryker coughed holding his throat. "Little brat.." he murmered, going for his rifle and bottle of "water" (booz). He wanted payback for the attack. Stryker headed out of the ship with bloodlust in his eyes.

[Haylie]

Claudia looked enraged that Bright would dare head back to Earth with her like this, and was stood about a foot from him, her pistol aimed right at her chest when Paula spoke again. Her eyes, which were staring at Bright, suddenly widened. She froze for a moment, and then slowly turned her head to look back at the blonde Marine. First, the rage faded from her youthful face. She didn't exactly look happy, but neither was she seething. Then, her shoulders slumped, and she let out a sigh. The arm holding the pistol dropped, and she swallowed a deep breath, before turning away from Bright and brough her free hand up to clutch her forehead, now looking rather distressed. The feelings were getting stronger, while just a short while ago Paula had sounded full of authority... now Claudia felt sure it wasn't even possible to disobey her.

Paula had a damn good poker face. Even in the face of an entire platoon getting wiped out in front of her and her men, she could look every last one of them in the eye and give a rallying speech.

But this had never happened before. It was too easy. Even her men took a bit of arguing most of the time. But Claudia, the hard-assed bounty hunter that went out of her way to fight with Paula, who tried to KILL HER, was now lowering her gun after one sentence. Her poker face barely held together. She gulped hard, and her brow was knit. She didn't know what to make of this.

[Harri-chan]

Claudia looked as if she'd just had a revelation that she hadn't wanted. Her expression was a mixture of suprise, the wide eyes, and the red cheeks of embarrassment. She swallowed another deep breath, her throat muscles twitching slightly, and glanced at Paula for just a second before turning back to Hawkins as he explained what would happen if they got away from the planet, and quickly shook her head in a shower of brown curls, "I'm never setting foot on the planet again... ", she protested. She knew she was wanted there for her crimes in space, but there was more than that. There was also the hurt of her failure at the Academy, the rejection of her family. Her free hand clenched into a fist at her side as she again shook her head defiantly. "I'm not coming with you... ", she said in a quieter voice, her body seeming tense, her heart starting to race as she realised that decision wasn't exactly up to her anymore... and her eyes met Paula's again, gazing into them...

[Evra]

chris thinks for a moment "well the obvious choice would be the destruction of them but the scientific choice would be capture at least one for analyzing and study " he says standing up

[Danarth]

Christian kept looking out of the window of the control centre , which looked out over the overground part of colony complex. The corner of his lips slowly turned into an aggrivated frown as he looked down over the abandoned settlement. It was not due to be turned into a proper colonies for years to come still, but this alien invasion had knocked those plans even further now. It had delayed several time crucial tasks and no-one would feel safe on a planet that had been invaded by aliens, and now these military types were planning to bombarb the planet from orbit which if it didn't ruin the colony completely, would at the very least set them back years.

Turning away from the window, listening to the peculiar conversation involving the young looking girl, Claudia, who was apparently not really that age. Shaking his head for a moment and looking at the woman who seemed to be commanding Claudia's attention. He raised his eyebrow for just a moment as he noticed that this woman, Paula, did indeed seem to be able to control Claudia, as he watched the girl putting the gun down at Paula's command after it had been pointed at the Lieutant. He thought about the Earth for a few moments after the fuss had died down, He had not been there to earth in a long time and he did miss his home to some degree. Shaking his head again he would watch as Erik picked up the rest of the needed readouts then nodded to him.

"Well, Lieutenant, Who is coming with us to the camp ? It's a bit of a twisting route and it's better to travel light and fast so we don't draw too much attention...."

[Brnin8r]

[Just when I think I'm back in the game, my internet dies and my landlord doesn't know how to use a friggin' telephone...]

Bendak was unnerved by her calm, cool statement, "What do you mean, received well? This doesn't look anything like a normal reception party." he argued with the blue-skinned alien. " In his intense guarding of the girl, he'd nearly tuned out everything else that was going on. He had his orders, and maybe this particular alien was more important...or maybe he was just standing around doing nothing. He rubbed his wrist against the gun to scratch the persistant itch on his wrist.

[Haylie]

(Of course! Don't you know anything about the Terrible Three? )

Paula was breathing just a bit harder than before. It wasn't quite noticeable, but it was there. Otherwise, her poker face was back at full strength as she looked back down at Claudia. "Look. I know you're probably wanted back on Earth, but... well... you look different. Best case scenario, they won't recognize you. Worst case, they'll think you're a daughter or little sister or something, and they might question you over it, but I'll be able to get you out with my status. There shouldn't be much problem. We'll just have to find an independent labratory so you won't be exposed when you're fixed up."

She sounds so calm. As if this was just Tuesday for her. But, being a decorated commander, she'd naturally appear this way.

[Harri-chan]

Confusion swept across Claudia's features as she listened to Paula. She shifted her weight nervously from one foot to the other, her skinny legs pressed together at the knees as she continued to tug on the short, tight blue dress. "And if they can't fix me up? You heard Hawkins... he'd never seen anything like this... how am I supposed to earn a living like this?", she whined, sounding far more like a teenager than she wanted to. Of course, it made her feel oddly fuzzy inside that Paula would even offer to keep her out of prison like this, especially since she'd come here with the intention of kidnapping the other female, but she tried her best to keep a lid on those feelings. More embarrassing thoughts were creeping into her mind, such as the spike of fear she suddenly felt at the thought of being separated from Paula back on Earth. She knew it was the toxins from the Alien that was causing her to feel this way about her rival, but that didn't make the emotions any less real.

"There's people missing... there were more on your team earlier... ".

[Knight Errant]

((Sorry for the delay everyone. I'll try my best to keep this moving...))

As Stryker leaves the dropship and into the courtyard... which direction to go next was rather hard. Black shapes of the buildings surrounded him... casting shadows black as ink. But then the giggle echoes out at him from one of the dark streets. Just then his comm opens up with Hawkin's voice: ''Stryker... whats your status, over?"

Meanwhile, Hawkins cooly watches the interactions of Claudia and Paula. At her question, he pauses. "... Stryker isnt here." He looks to his comm. ''Stryker... whats your status, over?"

Bright looks over to Christian. "I'll come with you." He pauses. "If thats right with the lieutenant."

Blade nods to Chris. "Well we have one captured. So..." He pauses as Razor stirs. He rushes over to her. "Sis! Are you..." He stops as he nears her. "Wh-what the hell?"

Razor slowly sits up... but besides her flight uniform you would probably not know it was her. Her skin was blue and hairless, her hair had grown out to mid back from the close cropped style she had before... and had turned pure white. Her flight suit was a bit strained... her chest and hips looked quite larger than they had before. Also her nose seemed to have vanished, leaving her looking... exactly like the alien who was smiling at Bendack.

Said alien looks over to Razor, nods over his shoulder to her, and looks to Bendack. "That is what I speak of... look and see your future."

[Zoey]

Stryker cleared his throat. "Im following an intruder" he replies follow the girls voice, his demeanor not the happiest as he looks around. "Check with you later" he says before turning his attention back to the sound of the girl. "Where are you?!"