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Ermac Vesely
Molon Labe.
General Tso's Alliance
12
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Posted - 2014.02.11 02:48:00 -
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Ermac stands in front of his quarter door and types in the pass code while muttering to himself:" I need a new bar those stupid drinks they serve get more watery everytime I visit it....".
The door opens and the light flickers to life to show his rather spartanic looking home, after every light turned on is the market screen starting to fold open and shows the newest weapons, armors and vehicles that are right now on sale.
The neocom emerges from the ground and also unfolds it's holo transmitters and begins to project the screens for the contracts that are available for him.
Having nothing to do is Ermac starting to look through the contracts:" So what do we have?..." He thinks " Caldari Steel needs some people to protect a refinery against the fed marines too easy... , some Minmatar terrorist wants to kill some templars no interest with that payment " after 2 minutes of searching and seeing that his own corporation has nothing planned and that all squads are full and or deployed is he starting to get bored.
"Come on!" he yells at the projection " There must be SOMETHING to do that is worth my time!" he refreshes the screen and finds a new contract but oddly enough is it not one from the typical clients. "Concord has a job for me? well that is new..." he starts to read the details " Blood Raiders... mortal soldiers... no enemy immortal mercenarys.... good payment? yeah... sounds good to me".
He presses the button to accept the contract and feels how his consciousness is slipping away, he sees how the quarters are pulled away from his eyes and are being replaced by a darkness that seem to sorround it.
And then was he gone.
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He knew the feeling of being placed in a clone it was different from time to time and they managed to get most of the pain out of the process, in these days is it not so painful but he felt a lot of pain which shouldn't be except....
Ermac opens his eyes and saw that he was transported into a rather strange bureau, he saw several other beings in this room one of them was a rather nervous looking human the others also looked like humans but they were different .
"Maybe other Mercs in social clones?" He thought before he looked down and saw that he was wearing a white shirt with a pair of pants which had a grey city camo on them " And me too apperently." his eyes wander further down and he sees the cause of the pain of entering this clone.
"They had to use uplinks to get us here but why? What is going on here?". |
Ermac Vesely
Molon Labe.
General Tso's Alliance
12
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Posted - 2014.02.11 16:37:00 -
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Ermac closes and opens his eyes a few times to get his eyes adjusted to the rather annoying light of the room.
He then inspects the faces of the other people around him more in more detail, there are right now 7 other men inside the office, the one of which he thinks that he is the guy that lead them all here stood next to a table, he reminded him of a paper pusher who drank too much synth coffee.
The other 6 other people looked different, some seemed suprised, the others had a rather calm attitude but all wore rather casual clothes ( if you can count soldier pants as casual).
Ermac already realized that these guys are going to be his squad mates, he recognizes two familiar faces inside the group, Hawkeye and the strange templar that thought that he too was one of them.
"SOOO!..." Ermac says loudly to get the attention of all the others after they finished the conversations they had "Well I don't know about you guys but where I come from is it always a good idea to introduce yourself like mr. steady here to the group to create a rather smooth get together. My name is Ermac Vesely, but you can call me Mac if you can't pronounce my name properly, and I hope that we will work rather effectively as a team in whatever mission we are send to. And to answer mr . Steadys question, no I'm only here because I want to pay my bills and those blood raiders just stand in the way of my payment" |
Ermac Vesely
Molon Labe.
General Tso's Alliance
12
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Posted - 2014.02.11 22:03:00 -
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Ermac noticed that the introduction thing was not exactly the best idea of his but he could at least learn two more names of this group.
Still most of them seemed to be concentrating on the man sitting in front of the desk:" Hmmm maybe they think they can get some more information out of him except for the mission details." He concludes in his head" Nice try but they won't dig out much out of a strawman but you never know, maybe he has something interesting to say."
He decides to drop the topic and just to enjoy the show which could become an interrogation if someone becomes nosy. |
Ermac Vesely
Molon Labe.
General Tso's Alliance
13
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Posted - 2014.02.12 02:37:00 -
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"Turn the damn light off!" Are the first words that come out of Ermacs mouth after he woke up in the new clone suited with his typical dropsuit.
He shields his eyes from the bright light from a torch which was used by a technician who stood above him.
"OH! uhm sorry I didn't wanted to blind you I.. I uh mean..." Are the only words the person stutters before Ermac cuts him short with a rather aggressive sounding "Zip it!".
He get's up and cleans himself off from the potential dirt that could be stuck on his armor, after that is he activating his wrist module and opens up the neocom to order some suit fittings.
"I need my proto fits, I would say my railgunner suits 20 of those, 10 of my Assault rifle fits and 5 of my Swarm launcher fits just if something like a tank or LAVs show up." He thinks while he places his market orders and looks to the other clones who are waking up or are already staying and ordering something via the neocom.
"I should ask them what the reason is that these "Blood Raiders" are so special." Are his thoughts while his eyes follow one Merc who moves towards one of the Templars who already was ordering something.
"Maybe I can learn something from that."Is what he is thinking while he moves into hearing range of the Heavy Sentinel and the Templar. |
Ermac Vesely
Molon Labe.
General Tso's Alliance
14
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Posted - 2014.02.12 13:45:00 -
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The Restaurant that Ermac found was rather crowded but he managed to find a table for him alone next to one of the market street windows, his meal containing of a rather generous amount of meat , scrambled eggs with a piece of bread and a glass carafe filled with water which he poured into a rather big glass which fitted his hand better than the regular ones.
He looked trought his bank account ballance while having already eaten half of the plates contents, he sees that the money has been transferred and a notification message shows him that a delivery corporation which is known to work for CONCORD exclusivly has taken the job to transport his gear.
"How nice of them" He muses while biting of a big chunk of bread "They really don't want anything to happen during that mission."He takes a sip of water to flush down the bread and let's out a relaxed sigh after it all landed in his stomach:" Ahhhh now that hits the spot. Okay how about I do some research on these blood raiders while im here. I mean no one can escape the faithful eye of the news reporters now can they?"
He opens the sites of the better known news agencys like "the scope" and the" Amarr Certified News" ( the last one because it seems that his templar squad mates are the ones with the infos).
He finds some hits, a bunch of articles all about how the raiders attacked and then dissapeard, if the prey was tiny enough "scope" says nothing about the aftermath of a successfull raid.
The ACN always writes that the Raider attacks got defeated by the will of God and that these " heretics" who are still alive will be send into someplace they call "hell".
After he searched for the meaning of the word "heretic" can Ermac pinpoint some conclusions from these articles.
1. Blood Raiders are somekind of cult inside of the Amarr empire which the Amarr hate with a burning rage, almost as much as the Minmatar
2. They use hit and run tactics when they operate in outer space, could also apply on the ground.
3.They seem to work in Bleak Lands and Devoid most of the time.
4.It seems that they take slaves, because the ships always end up empty after a completed raid.
5.The favorite target of these pirates seem to be Capsuleers
Still this doesn't answer his questions of what he is going to face in the field, he fills his glass till the carafe is empty and continues to eat up.
And now are there two more questions, what are they doing with the captured people, and why of all the things you could attack are they so fixated on capsuleers?
"I need to ask one of these Templars but first do I need to check if my gear has arrived in good shape."
He feels a wave of nostalgica wash over him after doing this research it reminds him of the old days where he always did some investigation on a subject before he headed out with another sec officer to detain and interrogate some criminal scumbag.
And he would always say one sentence before they left the office, maybe just to reassure himself that they will solve this case:"Let's hope the machine didn't make a mistake this time." He says to his invisible partner and let's out a small chuckle
He eats up and chucks down the rest of the water, puts on his helmet slips his bank card through the computer terminal to pay his bill and walks in a fast pace towards the loading bay, and no one in the restaurant even noticed him leaving. |
Ermac Vesely
Molon Labe.
General Tso's Alliance
14
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Posted - 2014.02.12 18:09:00 -
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"Mr. Ermac Vesely" asks the courier with his datapad in his hand on which he looks down to the check the informations on it.
"That's me" says Ermac while he looks past the head of the even for normal people rather small man, and surveys how the bay workers are unloading his gear, the courier meanwhile looks up and stretches out his arm and asks non chalantly:"Can I please have your ID sir?"
Ermac who got a little confused by the guys behaviour thinks ,:"Man working for CONCORD makes you see some **** it seems", while he gives him his ID with a nod, the courier checks it with his pad which has an inbuild ID card scanner.
The Datapad makes a quiet ping and he gives him his card back:" Everything is okay, now here is the cargo list in physical form and one digital copy on your mail address, can you please check if we got everything sir?"
He hands him the paper cargo list and he goes throught it just to be sure.
1 .20x Caldari Assault Suits model ck.0 fitted with:
3x complex light weapons damage mods,1x complex shield extender,1x complex cpu upgrade,1x advanced shield regulator, 1x pack of advanced reactive armor plates.
-Weapons and gear:Rail Rifles model Kaalakiota, Scrambler Pistol standard model, locus grenades standard model,Nanohives model K-2
2. .10x Caldari Assault Suits model ck.0 fitted with:
3x complex light weapons damage mods,1x complex shield extender,1x complex cpu upgrade,1x advanced shield regulator, 1x pack of advanced reactive armor plates.
-Weapons and gear:Assault Rifles model Duvolle, Scrambler pistol standard model,locus grenades standard model,Drop Uplinks model Imperial
3. 5x Caldari Assault Suits model C/1 fitted with:
3x complex light weapons damage mods,1x standard cpu upgrade,1x advanced shield regulator.
-Weapons and gear:Swarm launcher model CBR7, Scrambler Pistol standart model,AV grenades standard model,Nanohives model K-2
Ermac checks the list twice with his own list that he made to be sure that he made no mistake and yes every suit fit he wanted is on the list, which he confirms to the courier.
"Thank you very much sir and if you could give me your autograph on this field here are we both done." he holds his pad out which now shows a fat line where he needs to sign.
Ermac had heard worse jokes but he still gives his "autograph" to the man:" And again." reminds the courier to make Ermac clear that he needs to sign a second time on the now a clean fat line which he does.
The Courier then proceeds to put the pad under his arm pit and then moves his other arm for a handshakes which Ermac accepts:" Thanks for the buisness sir and don't think about the transport costs those are already covert." He spins on his heel and walks towards his ship.
Ermac then jogs towards the crates with his suits inside and checks again if everything is there and not damaged. "looking good no damage, and nothing misses looks like I am ready".
He then takes every gun, nade, suit and equipment piece out and makes a maintenance check just to be sure that none of them breakes or is jamming during the mission. For him was it a rather automatic process which he could almost do with his eyes closed.
As he hears the last familiar click of a good Rifle is he done "Is there something more relaxing than the sound of a good working machine? not really." He thinks while he packs his gear back into the cargo box.
Still he needs more information on these Blood Raiders but he couldn't find one of the Templars.
"Seems like I need to find them and the others now." He mumbles to himself while he walks along the cargo bay to see if someone else wants to get check his gear. |
Ermac Vesely
Molon Labe.
General Tso's Alliance
14
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Posted - 2014.02.12 19:40:00 -
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Ermac didn't find one of the templars during his search but apperently one of the others found him.
"My name is Ermac Vesely but you can call me Mac." hey says while he shakes Hawkeyes hand with his prothesis " And let me guess you are also looking for the templars for some more intel on the enemy forces? Or are you here to inspect your gear?".
He then let's go of his hand but before he could speak again does he hear the sound of his and hawkeyes neocom and sees that mr. Steady has send them a message.
"Or they could send us a message to tell us to hurry up with the question time it seems."
He opens up the message system and sends Steady a message with the question:" Should we ask via neocom messages or should we meet up? Tell us a location and we are going to move to that place." |
Ermac Vesely
Molon Labe.
General Tso's Alliance
14
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Posted - 2014.02.12 20:05:00 -
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Ermac reads the response and first thought he meant the sec officers in this place, but then did he realise that he meant the Blood Raiders.
He writes "Okay first off all what are we going to face?
what kind of weapons and tactics can we expect on the ground?" |
Ermac Vesely
Molon Labe.
General Tso's Alliance
14
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Posted - 2014.02.13 12:06:00 -
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" You told us that they drain the blood out of the hostages how are we going to stitch them together on the ground? I mean im not a doctor, nor am I a logi and I didn't hear that someone here is a medic so how are going to get them out and that alive Kador?" |
Ermac Vesely
Molon Labe.
General Tso's Alliance
14
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Posted - 2014.02.13 12:47:00 -
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Ermac could feel his rage boil as heard Steadys statement and he already wanted to yell at him for even thinking of it, but it remembered him of his the incident that turned him into a clone, the day he became a human torch and thought that the entire world was burning infront of his eyes.
He forms a fist with his kybernetic arm and relaxes it again:"kill the enemy forces with extreme prejudice and get everyone out that can be saved understood." He says in a rather emotionless tone
He has to accept to that you can't save everyone and sometimes is that better so. |
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Ermac Vesely
Molon Labe.
General Tso's Alliance
14
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Posted - 2014.02.14 00:04:00 -
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Ermac stands there and watches the heavily armored Templar leave.
He touches the shoulder plate, where his big hand rested, and somehow does he remind him of his Captain back home, in the time when the riots got more common and everyone had at least one shift in the riot control squads.
He teached him a very important lesson after he wittnessed how a group of protesters almost beat one of the sec officers to death and Ermac wanted to let out some steam on that day by breaking one of the inmates who trash talked to much. His Captain noticed it and punched him into a bloody mess in the cell where the prisoners was still lying on the ground with his broken arm and the open wounds Ermac had inflicted to him.
"We are here to protect the people of this station! Sometimes do we have to protect them from themself! And sometimes do we need to protect them from us too! You have sworn to protect them you idiot even if they attack us, even if they kill us are they still the people of this station! I understand your rage but if you let the hate control you are you not better then a murderer or a psychopath!" He then threw him out of the active duty for 2 weeks and made him work in the offices during that time.
Ermac took this lesson to his heart, but it's a hard fight with his emotions, sometimes does he lose this war, and becoming a merc didn't help much in that aspect.
Still both of them are right, and it's getting closer to this "life changing" mission as both of the Templars stated.
Ermac starts walking towards the dropship, feeling an ominous feeling of dread inside his guts and with one question in his head:" Why do I have the feeling that he thinks that im a young man? Seriously it's either that or he is far older than I think." |
Ermac Vesely
Molon Labe.
General Tso's Alliance
15
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Posted - 2014.02.14 15:22:00 -
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Ermac turns towards the provoking merc and answers his question:" And you seem to be part of pradox one how interesting, didn't we showed you guys that it's not a good idea to fight against us? In my honest opinion do I not care what you think of me or my corp because that doesn't matter here or down on the field."
He turns around and goes inside the dropship but stops infront of the opening, he turns around one more time towards the Pradox merc and shouts:" Oh and one more thing look for the district control for Elfrard I think you will be shocked to see that you guys are not as good as you think you are!"
With a smirk under his helmet is Ermac taking his seat and trys to relax before the mission starts which is harder than it sounds with the danger of becoming a never depleting blood fountain for these raiders if he doesn't watch out.
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Ermac Vesely
Molon Labe.
General Tso's Alliance
15
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Posted - 2014.02.15 00:06:00 -
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PAUSE right? |
Ermac Vesely
Molon Labe.
General Tso's Alliance
16
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Posted - 2014.02.15 11:27:00 -
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Im going to Hijack this too with my PAUSE |
Ermac Vesely
Molon Labe.
General Tso's Alliance
16
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Posted - 2014.02.15 23:02:00 -
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Pause because the "Blood Star" demands it |
Ermac Vesely
Molon Labe.
General Tso's Alliance
16
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Posted - 2014.02.16 15:14:00 -
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Pause cause respawn |
Ermac Vesely
Molon Labe.
General Tso's Alliance
23
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Posted - 2014.02.18 18:31:00 -
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the interrupt this part of the violent action with a brief Pause |
Ermac Vesely
Molon Labe.
General Tso's Alliance
24
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Posted - 2014.02.19 00:52:00 -
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Pause because of a distraction |
Ermac Vesely
Molon Labe.
General Tso's Alliance
29
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Posted - 2014.02.19 23:22:00 -
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PAUSE to shake deaths hand |
Ermac Vesely
Molon Labe.
General Tso's Alliance
31
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Posted - 2014.02.22 00:37:00 -
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Pause for mop up |
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Ermac Vesely
Molon Labe.
General Tso's Alliance
33
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Posted - 2014.02.27 11:07:00 -
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PAUSE because we get company it seems |
Ermac Vesely
Molon Labe.
General Tso's Alliance
34
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Posted - 2014.02.27 18:22:00 -
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"Great well that means that we can forget to learn what they are protecting here exactly by reading between the lines of this bloody wall." says Ermac with a little frustration in his tone, still he is right one of the templars can explain this to them when they decide to shows up.
Before Ermac could look where the templars, are is he hearing Heathens voice that says that 2 clones where still left in the facility and that 2 dropships where on the way.
"Seems like the break is over we are getting company and who knows where the damn clones are hiding."
He says to Hawk while he starts sprinting towards the position of where they are going to see the dropships first
"And I hope you can cover my back, while I hold yours free comrade!"
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Ermac Vesely
Molon Labe.
General Tso's Alliance
39
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Posted - 2014.03.06 02:32:00 -
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Pause because I think we can still use this rule? Whatever. |
Ermac Vesely
Molon Labe.
General Tso's Alliance
39
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Posted - 2014.03.08 09:28:00 -
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PAUSE because get that scout off my throat! |
Ermac Vesely
Molon Labe.
General Tso's Alliance
41
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Posted - 2014.03.12 19:19:00 -
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Pause because GET THAT SCOUT AWAY FROM MY THROAT! |
Ermac Vesely
Molon Labe.
General Tso's Alliance
42
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Posted - 2014.03.15 20:38:00 -
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I'ma charging ma Pause LAZOR |
Ermac Vesely
Molon Labe.
General Tso's Alliance
43
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Posted - 2014.03.24 22:44:00 -
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Ermac reached the supply depot without meeting any other guristas, CONCORD troopers or anyone from his team which made him nervous, still he would be rather useless in this fight without a proper weapon, but now is the question what gun should he use?
"The Rail rifle or rather the Assault rifle?" he thinks "The Kaalakiota is good but we are fighting Guristas who concentrate on having a strong shield , weak armor and staying in long range which means that flanking manouvers are going to be the go by tactic, in other words I will need to get into close range and the best weapon for that is truly the Duvolle Assault rifle."
While he punches in the code for the Duvolle with blaster packs ,a new helmet, 3 locus grenades and scrambler pistol batteries in the interface of the depot, are his thoughts concentrated on the mission and how it went.
" 3 deaths killed a bunch of crazy fanatics destroyed 5 tanks with a bit of luck and a hijacked tank, got at least 3 of these damn knives in my body, our team leader got mad and I killed a proto scout bastard with the help of Hawkeye, I didn't get captured by one of these damn Raiders, got one of these damn dreams again got to see CONCORD troopers who are a bit scary to be honest but they are going to help us oh and that warning thing which means that we should do something about it!....
Yeah I can still work with that"
The depot clicks and clacks inside and gives free to both the helmet and the rifle with a full blaster pack, by sliding a panel sideways in front of Ermac.
Both of them lie in an opening inside the depot, he grabs inside to pluck both out with a click, after he retrieves the objects, slides the panel back in place and closes the opening.
Mag locking the rifle on his back does he start grabbing the ammo that get's dumped in a small pouch right from him in arms height which he stuffs in his suit in the various pouches and pockets.
He puts on his helmet above his head and turns it a little so that it hooks up with the suit and connects with the suits energy systems which in turn activates the helmets HUD and his COM channels.
Opening the team channel is the first thing he does before he starts moving towards where all the others are heading,
the Templars position.
While he sprints are his words:
"Ermac here im back into the fight, you guys don't have to worry about that Thale sniper anymore, but watch out there are friendly CONCORD soldiers on the way so make clear who you guys shoot.
Oh on another note we should hurry the F&-º$ up that quake that we felt came from this complex and I hope you guys are ready to find a way to stop whatever is going to happen or we're gonna get toasted here!" |
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