audio | un: carolina | team locked to alpha + beta

[leaderboards]

Alright, everybody, listen up! Beta's on their way out and we need to move.

Alpha, I need you all to wreck what you can. Make it loud, make it messy, try not to kill any teammates in the process. [ which is to say, if you're going to blow up anything (and she really hope you will) make sure none of your friends are nearby. ] Beta, I don't care which one of you has the relic, but if you clump together and the Trilk get it back, mission failure's all on you. Everyone's running decoy and distraction here. We need it. We'll rendezvous in the shaded valley due south and if you're not there in half an hour, we're leaving you.

[ unless it's the poor sap with the relic, or someone manages to coax a few more minutes of sympathy into her. her voice doesn't give much room for it right now, but she just wants to get everyone moving to safety asap. ]

Got it? Thirty minutes starting now. Sync.

( ooc: take place immediately after this is successful. tagging free for all, threadjack away unless someone marks a private thread. )

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[realimperfect]

Oh go to hell! If this mission fails because you've left than the failure is on you! [ She's out of breath from running, and there's a too loud sound that sounds like she's resorted to her old faithful of the short barreled shotgun. Thankfully she's gotten used to the whole being attacked in small quarters thing when trying to escape from Romdeau before it fell out of the sky so to speak, so after she takes a moment to grunt after hitting a wall, she'll fire again. ]

If you haven't got the back for this kind of shit then stay off recovery missions and stick to the military posturing, how's that?

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[doxing]

Oh shit, Re-l got real on your ass, hahaha!

(EATS THIS RIGHT UP, enjoying the cackling laughter over the comms.)

[leaderboards]

[ sombra was this necessary? ]

Look ladies, my mission was getting you here and escorting the relic back to the LZ. I don't need to have the rest of you with me.

[doxing]

(yes, so is this.)

Don't worry, Re-l. I'll make sure to clear a path for ya. I mean... If you're qualified to keep people safe, you have an obligation to do it.

[realimperfect]

Well, at least I can count on Sombra. [ A pregnant pause, there's a small noise of pain that she doesn't bother to explain, and then - ]

Typical, though. Those who like to bark orders are the first to turn tail and explain away death for the sake of the 'greater good.' I ought to start calling you grandfather.

- - Sombra, I'll be counting on you. ...I'm one arm down.

[leaderboards]

[ there's a click of carolina turning off her mic for a moment, but when she's back, there's a fresh, nearby explosion in the background. ]

There's a difference between turning tail and wanting to be done with a goddamn mission so get your asses out here.

AUDIO TO ACTION

[doxing]

(a smug smile to herself, at both of their expenses. this mission is more fun than she thought it'd be.)

Yes, ma'am. (sly, before mentally turning to re-l.) I'm at the front, you'll see me when you get outta there. I'm not much of a bodyguard, but both Lee and I should be able to do something for ya.

(sure enough, should re-l pop out of their alternate route, sombra'll be lifting her gun from a downed fek's skull.)

You don't look so good.

AUDIO --> ACTION

[realimperfect]

Don't you patronize me. The mission isn't over until the Relic is out of here! If you leave before then you might as well be a dog with it's tail between it's legs! And God knows what the hell they might to do you for a failure on the Eluvio, so unless you're trying to slaughter us all, wait!

[ Also wait for her to get back Carolina - she's probably got a thousand other mouthfuls, but right now she's just focused on getting where they need to be, and if everyone else was along with them, that'd be grand too. After all, she wasn't looking to get anyone killed purposefully. It definitely takes her longer than she would've normally liked for her to reach Sombra, but when she does, her pack looks like it's got more in it than when she left.

The other woman comments on her injuries and she makes a quick, dismissive motion of her hand, as if focusing on what was hurting right now would put her at a larger detriment than she already was, gathering a breath, continuing that militant pace - ]

Don't tell her, but it's in my pack. We need to keep moving, and get the others to move out.

[ She pushes a finger to her comm, and adds cryptically : ]

Beta team, pull out.

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[ouzel]

Who needs what?

[ Since the call has been given to pull out, Cassian is going to assume they got what they came for. ]

More importantly: who needs extracting?

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[realimperfect]

I believe I'm taken care of from an extraction stand point. However, I could use a little field dressing if that's something you have any experience with.. [ It's worth a shot, right? ]

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[ouzel]

Doable. Gimme a location or we can meet outside?

[ There's a distant rumble. ]

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[realimperfect]

Outside. I'm coming that direction and I'm almost there anyway... [ God, she's tired, but then again, there's plenty of time to rest when she's back on the Eluvio and generally out of danger in the first place. Her arm is still bleeding pretty readily, but it's slowed since the initial shot, anyways, and she's done her best to tie some sort of cloth around her arm to cut down on the amount of bleeding.

It's just hard to properly do these things one-handed and pursued. ]

Once we get back I'll have to give McCoy a call I guess.. Daedalus isn't really an option.

[doxing]

I'll take ya to where Cass is, then I'm washing my hands of this whole mission. ("cass" is totally acceptable when you've had (1) conversation and have bled together on the same team; sombra wholeheartedly agrees with herself.) But I won't tell, amiga, your secret's safe with me.

(and she likes to play around with others, that much is obvious. re-l gives her the perfect opportunity for it.

crooking her finger at re-l, her machine pistol is jerked away from the body at her feet and held aloft, searching the scene for the path of least resistance.) You really think Eluvio is gonna do us like that? I mean, we all got sucked in by anomalies in space-time, but surely they get that it's not our decision to be here.

(punctuating her sentence as they take a sharp corner, unfortunately, with another spray of bullets. fucking feks.)

[realimperfect]

I'll feel much better when I can do the same. [ She nods her approval of that plan, though. After all, it wasn't like she wanted someone around her absolutely all the time to baby sit or something. Maybe it was a subconscious need to take care of herself, whatever - but one arm down and carrying the item they came for, she can't exactly afford to try to be head strong and is at least present enough to realize that fact.

Or, well, getting less stubborn. ] I'm just not very sure I can trust in someone who wants to play leader but is all too eager to leave an entire block of the team for an arbitrary time frame.

[ She pauses at the question about the Eluvio, then - ]

I'd be remiss to place too much trust in a place that sends us in to this - [ Head tilted to indicate the chaos all around. ] - without all the supplies we could need and more when it came to fire power.

[ Her good arm is still useful, at least, and well.. she'd been taught to be ambidextrous too a stray Fek meets its end with the loud discharge of the gun, and Re-L presses forward. ]

A healthy amount of caution can never go too far astray.

[doxing]

Hey, don't worry. You're not the only one not feeling the love from our higher-ups. I mean that in regards to Eluvio, though, not Carolina. (honestly, if she was the one leading the team?) Know what I would have done to light a fire under everybody's asses?

(watches the fek fall without so much as a flinch from either woman, satisfied with how efficient their team actually has been — because in the grand sheme of things, they really did work together. albeit with a few seams here and there, but they were strangers before humping it all the way out here for some stupid relic.)

I'd have said something similar. I mean, I wouldn't be in that position 'cause I prefer to work alone or with a couple others I can handle, but some things are just said for shock factor. She just sucked at the empathy part.

(says the hypocrite; the liar.

reaching down as they walk to shake free a hard-light shield from the downed fek's forearm. activating it lights up their dirtied faces, but it's extra precaution... better safe than sorry.)

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[k_2so]

There will be someone out here waiting for the last of you. If they leave or not. Just get out alive and we'll cover from there.

If you die in there however, that is a different answer. ,small.[So, hurry up. Also, if Cassian is one of the last out he will for sure sit there and wait while knocking out targets.]

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[realimperfect]

Understood, K2-SO. Thank you. [ She's doing her best to get the hell out, and soon. After all, she's got the Relic so there's no reason to hang around. But, now her challenge is to stay alive and bring it to the rest of them. ]

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[k_2so]

[He's scanning the coms for anyone who might just be dead. Who hasn't answered. unless Cassian orders him to pull out before everyone is out, he will stand there blowing up and shooting aliens at the exit he has covered.]

You could try to make it quick though? It's getting messy out here. [Sass was bound to come across the line, whoops.]

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[realimperfect]

Listen, once you have an organic body that's been pummelled to hell you'll get it. [ Ah, she's used to these verbal sparring matches with a being that isn't even human, so much so it's sad. ]

I'm coming at the best pace I can keep.

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[k_2so]

Having an organic body is the last thing I want. So fragile.

[There is an explosion from his side of the comms and silence a moment, before he adds in a calm tone.]

It's a wonder you all have made it as far as you have.

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[realimperfect]

At least an organic body doesn't go obsolete. [ Well, unless they're counting old age. But let's not count old age - ]

Need I remind you that without organic beings developing brains big enough to imagine it, you might not have come together at all?

[ Joking with Kay is helping to take her mind off of how much she aches, at least. So there's that. ]

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[k_2so]

Try again. I can be updated. Organics in old age can not be upgraded. [Whoops, went there.]

And need I remind you I said I would rather not have an organic body myself. Not that I do not care for organics and think they are not needed. You are fragile, yes, but important. [Look, that is high praise from the KX droid, okay? Important.]

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[realimperfect]

Not if your parts go obsolete too. [ Hah! ]

Important, huh? I almost feel like that's a privilege.

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[k_2so]

For the most part... [A pause for an explosion, whoops.] ...my parts can be upgraded and it will not matter to me.

And please, don't read anything into that. it's not as sentimental as it may seem. [or is it?]

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[realimperfect]

Oh? And where is the line? [ There's a small sound of pain as she hits a wall in eagerness to attempt to hide from a stray alien of some kind running by her, and, thankfully, she doesn't seem to be noticed. A small breath of relief and she's picking herself up to get running again, leaving a smear of blood on the wall if any aliens were to pay enough attention. ]

Right, sure. Maybe you aren't as picky with your words as an autoreiv.