Zob grumbled as he looked over the door it was locked from the inside but not sealed, "Get ready to move" he then took a very small chunk of his C10 and placed it on the area where the lock was before then setting the detonator. He then gave a look to the rest of the team that had weapons ready before he pressed the trigger blowing the lock clear off the wall it was connected to, he then kicked the rest of the door open and stepped aside to let the team through and clear the room before joining them himself.
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  Zobs  C-10  went off,  Blowing  the  area  where a drop  down bar  would  be, the   holder  was   blown  free, the   rusted bar  fell, the  door swung open  with a  metallic cry.

 Inside were   2 Chinese  bodies.. Navy folk, by thier uniforms .. one was  a  woman who seemed to have been shot. on the bed,  another  was a Male  still holding a Japanese pistol.

 there were  some  Jornal on the table a cup with three  pens. a small fridge was open, enpty.. food wrppers  from long ago lay on the floor.

   aircraft  By Aircraft landed...  Vosts   damn near  knocked over the barricade that the  drop ship folks  put up...

   other  pilots  landed, the least  damaged    landed in the   regular   area,  the ground  crews  and  some drop  ship  vehicle  folks   started to repair, what they could.

 Flores   went  down be fore  Frans.. frans came in , next to last... with Shadow   dropping   down to the  landing area.

   he  looked  around  as the aircraft  as he started to climb out of his  aircraft,  Larry    Limped over  as quickly as he was  able, thumping  up a storm with his tail...ahhh?  Man?  You had to miss  going in?

  Kray hugged the giant  head causing more tail thumps. The Admiral came over...You called in a Barrage?

 Aye, Sir.  I had too many  shot up, and lost a couple. noy worth my pilots  to die  when we could just wipe them from the board? he Looked at the Admiral...I think its a processing pant?.. there were these tube  things,  i shot  some up and the   exploded. it was like Plasma, but  more liquid?  Maybe they were refining it  for  weapons use..i dunno... there  has to be  a 50 mile  wide crater  there..whatever they  were  making..and storing, went up   when the  Cap ship rounds  burrowed deep enough..

 Calling out to his Pilots.. go take care of yourselves  be ready to go if  our people need us.

 Hack   jerks his head to the mess Hall...Go? bring me  out  a cup of coffee when you come back..

Zob quickly cleared the room with his team before relaxing a tad bit, "Clear" he then started to look around the room to see if there was anything of interest that's when he came upon the bodies, "Looks like a mercy kill to me but i have been wrong before... do a through search of the room and gather what intel you can" Zob walked over to the woman's body and checked to see if she had any markings of contact with those spider creatures wondering if she had been attacked before her death by gunshot perhaps painting a better picture of what all happened here.

  they were both LTs in the  CSN.. there doesn't  seem to be  any wounds  , other then one shot  for each.

Zob shook his head the situation was still a mystery that made very little sense to him with what tiny bits of information that was being gathered... Creshian Hybrids, dead Chinese troopers, spider like creatures, oil lords perhaps it was time to leave the critical thinking to the highers ups and try not to worry so much, "Sgt Meari secure those journals next to you will need Izzy to look them over later... the rest of you grab whatever spoils you want then lets form back up with the SM" with that said he made his way out of the room to group back up with Roy and the others.

 Meari nodded to Zob and said," Already done Gunny." Meari then gathered up anything she thought was useful including the journals and stowed them away for Izzy to look at.

 She searched a little closer to look for more clues on what happened.

Jug and the gava followed and kept eyes out anything rat size or larger was gonna get killed it did not have a Hermes symbol.  They even would look up in the ceiling area as well.

Henry followed along, keeping his eyes open for any sign of critters.

"Stay close, Mila," he called as the dog ran ahead.

 Lizzy got the word on her fighter if it could be repaired and then saw Nikki and Vosts land. Lizzy was worried about Vosts and headed over to her fighter to help her out of the cockpit. " Hey Vosts how are you doing, you seem shaken come on you need to snap out of it ok. I got hit hard but because of you guys I got back safe ok." Lizzy wasnt sure if Vosts had what it took to be a fighter pilot for the Hermes, she hoped she would snap out of it but Lizzy smiled at Vosts," If I can help at all please just ask ok."

 Shadow gave Larry a   couple slaps on his good  side...Stay with the Admiral, I'm going into the mess   after  washing up, i;ll come back with something for you too..

  he  moved of , some of the pilots  were exchanging  stories  about the last fight..others   who saw the  'dome' burst open were shocked at , whatever power  was  under there.

 entering the barracks, The LC  put his   flight   jacket and armor on his bed  and  went to wash up,.. after washing his   face and hands,  he looked  into the mirror as he leaned on the sink, giving his head a shake.

 others  were going into the barracks as well, some  went straight to the  Mess hall

..............

 Vosts  was shaking...there were soooo many of them!... and the  ground fire.. i have  holes in my portside  wing!!..Theb LC  ..he will make me go up again..won't he?

 Frans was handling the   'order' process as to how many  aircraft that would need, a Big ugly could come down and take the ones that were too damaged  to be fixed on the ground.
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 Lizzy took her hand and replied," Yes and you made it flying scared, now you need to go up there and fly like you were trained. Fear is good, but too much of it makes you a liability, you stay with Nikki and I and we will get you through it ok. Now come on let's get some food." Lizzy patted Vosts on the shoulder, they waited for Nikki to land and join them and then they headed for the mess hall together.

When they  landed Justin walked over to Nikki You'd best get the Techs to check your disabled com. Justin mingled with C Flight comerads.
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  The Next door   down, Shade   came up  with  Maygin and her Omnicom, they looked  at the others, as  Rolfe    with his rocket Launcher  and Folks  with his grenade  launcher  moved passed to stand  with Kia  and Morgan  Sims  checked the   Door..he shook his head   and Motioned that it was Locked.

....................

 Outside, Stoly  had  Tulliun Fennes  and Cavi  ..Stoly  said,If  all goes well,  we  just load up like Normal... If   there is  an EVAC, then get our people and the Largs  jammed in, and try to  take  any of the troopers who can't reach their  shuttle. We don't want to leave people behind.

As the techs inspected her skeeter, Madison also looked it over. She couldn't see much damage while flying it, but from the outside the cluster of perforations and blacked gaps in her armor made her cringe. The skeeters were awfully tough, it seemed, but se couldn't help but feel very lucky she wasn't taking a very long hike back from Mount Doom.

"How long before you can tell me the time to repair it?" She called out to the tech leader. After hearing that answer she waited for Flores to land and find her.

"Looks like I'm down until they fix that mess. I guess I can go eat and get some coffee, but if there is a reason for the rest of you to go back up, what else can I do here to make myself useful?"

  Flores give a  wave to the  ground folks, Shadow or Frans  will be   send ing up   a wish list for  fighters., we'll have alot more ESN Blue  fighters then  custom paint  jobs... but that's the way it goes.

 This isn't setting well with the LC... its one thing to  be in a battle, or  fleet action, or an invasion... but this cap? it doesn't seem right. Oil lords   running around..that damn base   that we attacked.. that has nothing to do with  Arch-Techs...

 Steele   walked beside  them  after  catching up...You see larry? Larry isn't  with the SM?... that's nota god  sign.. I thought the Larg was a tank with legs...

In reply to wreck (msg # 967):

Kira spoke over the coms, "I can break the door down if you wish its your call" the SM and them were in charge of the operation and didn't wanna go over there ahead in assuming but if given the word she would break the door down.
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In reply to pilots (msg # 969):

When Steele came up beside them, Madison looked over. She didn't show it but she immediately worried that Candy and he would butt heads. Perhaps a quick but civil answer to his simple question might keep things friendly "Sorry, no. I haven't seen him. I just landed myself and haven't been in the compound. By the way, I don't think we've met. I'm Madison Perry. You're.. Steel?" She offered to sake his hand.
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Trailing along with the other five C fighters as they headed to the mess. Justin rolled his eyes in a what pick-up ploy is Steele trying on the ladies now.
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 Taking her  hand , Steele  smiled... Flores   just  said   'Uhhggg'


  Yeah.. James Steele.. one of the best  pilots in the Fleet... then he looked  to  Flores who started to walk a bit faster. hey Candy? How did the LC  survive  with  out his  sword Maidens..

 .. Don't  Push it Steele....

 what?  what did he do after you guys were Gone?

 Kat's  rather angry voice    popped   up on the other side  of Maddy..we was shootingdown the bad guys, Da?   And we  was  being the target as he dove  down  on the  base and shooting many  things up!

 Waggles Looked at Justin and shook his  head as he  spoke up,Look? Steele?..you never went down closer to 800 feet

 Gia  walked  passed   and just said , in passing,you are , how they say... 'the wussie'...yes?

Nikki had already landed and had done a walk around of her craft, checking on what needed to be done.  As she submitted repair work, she nodded at Justin as he walked by.  She jogged to catch up with Lizzy and Vosts.  "Hey you got past your first real fight, Vosts.  Trust me ...my first I spent a good 5 minutes after landing just shaking and asking myself what the hell was I doing and getting a grip" she draped an arm around Vosts and gave a squeeze her about the shoulders "You kept it together.  Now next time It will be a bit easier because you'll know what to expect and look out for.  You'll get your war claws in no time." She gave Vosts one of her slightly crooked smiles she always had.

In reply to pilots (msg # 973):

Madison literally held her breath as the other pilots made clear their distaste for James Steele. The animosity was palpable, but in her mind it still seemed so disproportionate to his reported offenses. She couldn't understand it, but Steele did instigate it with his own snark. This game of bite-back felt like a petty feud but she wasn't going to get shot down by it.

"So, Jim -  do you mind if I call you Jim? - Jim, I don't know you, but that jab was completely unnecessary. Maybe tone down the snark a bit. I think if you did, we would all get along better. It seems a shame that we as fellow pilots on the same team can't be civil."

Zob was moving with purpose as he came up from the rear with his team and pointed to the door, "Break that door open and lets get moving, will have the mechs do the heavy lifting and save the C10 for when we really need it"

In reply to Nicole Rutledge (msg # 974):

Justin returned Nikki's nod. Grinning at Waggle Should we start a tally on Steele's crash and burns.

  The  teams  made  way for the mechs,  Rolf  Maorgan and Ffokes   , along with Wil, watched   down range Freddie stayed  near  Roy.

   more  trops  came up, stoping  about 10 ya4rds away from the   door in question