Nightmare in the Laboratory ZOMBIES! (OPEN/ Shadow Empire)

[RC 212]

Location: Eclipstica
Unit: Shadow Empire Marines, 1st BN
Objective: Kill the Zombies!

[member="Ice"] [member="CC-420 Doc"] [member="Saki lin"]


TK awoke with a start as the alarms across the ship went off. Reaching over to his commlink he brought it in close, trying to see what was going on. It beeped and he answered.

"TK, what the hell's going on?"

"It's serious enough for me to wake you up Marine, get up to the bridge now!"

TK threw the commlink in disgust and rolled out of bed. With deft precision he donned his armor, snapping the pieces together and rapid succession. On the way out the door he snagged his A-280 rifle and the rucksack from the foot of his bunk and came bursting through the bridge doors seconds later.

The Admiral on deck turned and TK snapped a quick salute.

"Reporting."

"We have a situation that requires all forces on the ground immediately."

"Which is sir?"

"Seems there has been some kind of mutation experiment gone wrong in the laboratorys near the civilian districts. It sounds serious, so I'm dropping the Marines in ten and alerting all nearby forces. Contain it till we can get more men to clear it."

TK almost rubbed his ears, not quite understanding what was going on.

"Aye sir, on it."

As he exited the bridge to the Drop pods with the rest of 1st BN, the Admiral turned to the Commo officer. A message went out across the stars, to any and all frequencies as the following.

"Attention all, The Shadow Empire requests your presence for an emergency situation. Any and all Mercenaries, Freelancers, or personel period are requested as backup. You will be paid handosmely for your services. Coordinates as follows, Sincereley, Admiral Farsight."

 

[Saki lin]

Saki was at the helm when the comm officer called
"Miss Saki we've got a incoming transmission
OK out it on" she listened seetimg back, she grinned and sat up"set a course for eclipstica"the navigation officer nodded and soon they were in hyper space ,she watch the stars rush past the ship soon after about thirty minuted the ship came out above the planet"put me on a open frequency to the nearby shadow empire ship"soon she was patched through"this is Saki Lin ally of the shadow empire I've received your message and have come to help, may I have permission to come over
[member="TK-4261 Strain"]

 

[Edric Vanyan]

Ellain rubbed her eyes as the alarms went off and with a glance at the speaker system to her room it would die and the flashing light break. She could blame it on electrical issues later as she grabbed a comlink and listened in sleepily at what was going on. She sat up as she heard the conflicting reports and rubbed her eyes. "I really need to get a better job then fighting for Empires, this is annoying i never seem to get sleep anymore." Her metal leg, the left, pushed her up from the bed as she moved to head for the refresher.

Twenty minutes later she was dressed in her old Jedi robes and moving through the ship, hair still wet and kind of just not even attempted to look like it was put into order as she arrived in one of the briefing rooms, waiting for someone to explain what in the world was going on.

[member="TK-4261 Strain"] [member="Saki lin"]

 

[CC-420 "Doc"]

[member="TK-4261 Strain"] [member="Saki lin"]

Doc's unit had been on Planet when the figurative shit had hit the fan, command had no where near conveyed the seriousness of the situation to the incoming troops. Beings were running around and attacking others seemingly at random. Those who were attacked would often wither on the ground for a moment before shooting upward and charging like those before them. The streets were erupting into carnage, base security had quickly been overrun by a group of rabid folk, and high command were loosing their collective minds as the virus spread like wildfire. Something that they'd created.

Doc and most of his men had been sleeping in their bunks at the Company's Starfish shaped barracks when the base alarm sounded and they'd rushed down the three stairwells to get their gear, the entire company rushing to the armory to get their weapons. The sound of blaster shots radiated the area. The Captain had heard the reports coming in and put the barracks on lockdown, shutting down all entrances, and placing men on the roof to place landing beacons for any relief or extraction might show up. Doc organized his Platoon along with the rest and watches were placed on any possible location where a breach might occur. Soon there were both dead troopers and civilians throwing themselves against the durasteel frames of the blast doors separating his a Company from the outside.

The Captain had made a good call. [member="Ellain Hadrin"]

 

[RC 212]

[member="Saki lin"] [member="CC-420 Doc"] [member="Ellain Hadrin"]

On the bridge: Admiral Farsight

"Sir incoming transmission, support elements request direction!"

Admiral farsight whirled in place placing his hand on his chin and rubbing vigorously.

"Whats the situation on the ground?"

"The outbreak appears to be spreading faster than imagined sir, we have word the Infantry elements are holed up and pinned down."

"Alright, order the Marines to link up with them and get their position free'd up. Ask all support elements to head towards the Lab district and attempt to slow the spread from the source. The remaining elements will eliminate the mutants outside of the red zone and push in towards the lab, quarantine this before it gets off planet!"

"All elements sound off!"

TK watched the comms inside his pod as the battalion sounded off. He was in charge of Alpha platoon for this one, and they all winked their green lights on his frequency giving the silent nod that they were locked and ready to go.

"Time to drop ten seconds!"

TK ground his jaw together and held onto the harness. This was the part he ated, the drop.

"Five seconds!"

The timer ticked and ticked and then

WHOOMPH

TK almost let out a scream as the pods rockets fired sending him clear of the Destroyer and down into the planets orbit. His stomach lurched and he shook his head trying to hold back the vomit welling within. The sensors began to overheat as the pod was enclosed in a wreath of flame. Red lights flashed and sirens wailed drowning everything out.

"Ten seconds till impact."

The second part he hated.

But it was quicker than he anticipated. The pod slammed down in the main square of the capitol. TK clung for dear life as it careened into the ground, sending smoke and fire across the area. Overpressure from other pods rocked his whole frame and he counted the silent count, waiting to open the door and snap the harness, lest he be liquidized by still incoming pods.

"One thusand ten!"

TK slammed the release, and kicked the door hard, wrenching it free. The sounds of screaming civilians and burning flesh thrust their way into his nostrils as he crawled out donning his rifle and ruck. The marines were scattered everywhere. There was chaos in the streets, weird mutated forms attacking in waves.

"What the hell is this?" TK muttered.

"Sarge over here ahhhhhhhhhh."

TK whirled, a group of nightmarish humanoids were bearing down on the nearest pod. With second to spare the rifle came up and he squeezed the trigger, sending streams of fire into the creatures heads. They dropped like flies, holes in their craniums smoking. TK grabbed the marine by the harness with his free hand and ripped him free of the pod.

"Alpha, form defensive perimeter! RTO, get the fleet admiral on the line!"....

 

[Saki lin]

She linked with the destroyer and was escorted to the main room"admiral I've come regarding some.. Help your needing"she said she was wearing some medium armor and a cloak, a blaster pistol on her thigh as well as I vibro blade "I've got a handful of men that can help as well as me" she said crossing her arms, she heard a whoomph but ignored it as she waited for the admiral to reply to her"
[member="TK-4261 Strain"]
[member="CC-420 Doc"]

 

[CC-420 "Doc"]

[member="TK-4261 Strain"][member="Ellain Hadrin"][member="Saki lin"]

Doc cursed from his vantage point as drop pods came streaming in from low orbit. Those Marines had no clue the extent of what they were dropping into, he watched as men stepped out only to be latched onto by an infected person. Doc immediately flipped a hail all com the company could here. "We need shooters on the roof, LMGs, snipers, those Marines need cover."

He then hailed any Marine forces in the are that could here him. "Marines, activate your IRs and move towards the Blasterfire, we'll cover your approach. These things aren't people, don't hesitate."

The Soldiers obeyed immediatly, throwing down fire for the Marines and saving those who would've otherwise been caught unawares.

 

[RC 212]

[member="Saki lin"] [member="CC-420 Doc"] [member="Saki lin"] [member="Ellain Hadrin"]

The Bridge: Admiral Farsight

"Welcome aboard miss. To be certain I have no idea what's really going on down there, but it sounds bad. Get yourself and your men down there and help secure the the lab."

The Ground

"Left left!"

TK switched left, opening fire with a zealous ferocity. Two marines screamed as they were torn apart, and eaten alive by the mutated freaks. TK held his fire,knowing there was no way to save them and switched targets to a nearby group, unleashing a hailstorm of bolts.

"They're everywhere, we can't hold!"

TK looked left and looked right as the blaster ran dry. The dead corpses were overrunning the square and his marines were being taken down one at a time. It was a hopless situation, they would never make it out of here alive.

Thats when the square became a killzone, and Docs troops opened up from the roofs of his nearby compound. As the fire escalated and pushed back the surging mass TK reloaded, slamming the new cartridge in and straining to hear Docs crackling transmission in his helmet.

"Sarge what are we going to do!" One Marine yelled hysterically.

TK grabbed the man by the collar of his armor and pulled him close, screaming through his helmet into the Marines face.

"Your going to shut your yap and fire your rifle until you can't marine, now get yourself together."

TK dropped the marine, letting him soak up the words and opened his own link to the platoon.

"Fall back, this is Sergeant TK, fall back now! Make for the garrison!"

The gray armored marines fell back with a quickness, back-pedalling over dead bodies and rubble as the city plunged further into chaos. TK couldn’t count the amount of shots he fired, trying to keep the dead back. Two more leapt down from the rooftops, landing atop a nearby marine. He screamed as they ripped into his legs.

"Kark they got us cutt off from the doors!"

"First and second squads, static fire-line,hold em back second and third with me, make a hole to the entrance!"

TK surged forwards with the two squads in tow. Green bolts sizzled the flesh of the monsters as they threw themselves at the blast doors. He fired left and right, and center then left. The rifle clicked and his hand automatically reached for another clip. But there was none. Without a second thought he dropped the rifle to it’s sling and a ten inch combat knife slid from his thigh.

"Kill em, kill em all!"

 

[Edric Vanyan]

[member="TK-4261 Strain"] [member="CC-420 Doc"] [member="Saki lin"]

Ellain smiled as she strode out, almost bored, into the middle of a warzone and one of the said weird mutants came right towards her as she jumped up, in an instant the wings, the only thing she could grow now thanks to the blasted loss of her left limbs, stretched and kept her in the air for a moment before her saber activated and she shot back down to the ground, cutting the mutant down the middle as it died then and there. Grinning she powered off the saber and clipped it to her side before pulling a rifle off her back and firing into the mutant ranks, taking cover near Strain himself, the winged woman in Gungnir armor she had gotten from a mission a while back when she was with the Silver Jedi.

She had arrived only a few moments before this though, her body having crashed down in a dropped and her eyes shooting from enemy to enemy. "Hello Sir, i think you needed help?" The Force user, the Genetically modified half Shiido, looked at him with a full grin that spoke volumes. "Shall we deal with thin infestation Sir?"

 

[Saki lin]

She looked at him unsure, she didn't like not knowing but then again life of a bounty hunter cane with that same perk"alright then if its not to demanding can my men get some better weapons "she said looking at the admiral as she looked around, she's never been on a destroyer and liked the layout of the shop, she snapped back into reality looking at the admiral again
[member="TK-4261 Strain"]
[member="CC-420 Doc"]

 

[RC 212]

[member="Ellain Hadrin"] [member="Saki lin"] [member="CC-420 Doc"]

The Bridge:Admiral Farsight

"Absolutely, head to the armoury, but get down there stat."

The Ground:

The dead parted under the onslaught of the Shadow marines as they made their desperate scramble for the door. TK used the knife with deadly accuracy impaling two right through the eye then spinning t break the grip of a third with a well delivered punch. The mutant stumbled back and he finished it with a hammer fist stab to the skull.

They fell up against the door, slamming it with their fists.

"Shadow Marines, Battalion One let us in!"

TK ignored the door turning to take a knee and observe the situation as the static gun line fell back. The edge of the line was being picked off one man at a time, despite the heavy cover of Docs soldiers. Then the woman sniper appeared, which was a slight relief for TK.

"Yes cover the door!" TK roared.

Moving with speed he snatched up a fallen troopers ammo and brought his rifle back up, slamming the clip home and unleashing a trio of bolts into the horde as they swarmed towards the gun line.

"Fall back, break break break!"

The Marines turned and ran as fast as they probably had in their collective lives, completely abandoning their guard and trying to make it. Two more went down under a mass of creatures. TK swore opening the Comms back to the channel doc should be on, though his helmet was screwed up from the landing.

"Doc if you can hear me open the karking doors on the east side!"

 

[Saki lin]

She nodded and turned her men coming over then being escorted to armory, she looked at the walls and around admiring again the ship she was in, it was a beauty, so they arrived to the armory "OK men grab some weapons ammo and anything you need and let's go admiral says we need to be down there now
-yes captain
They hurried grabbing some lmgs grenades one grabbed a rocket, Saki looked and found a medium rifle hefting it up and checking the sights on it" perfect OK men let's go back board a landing craft and move"they were escorted again to their ship where they ran to the ctsft boarded and started their descent into hell"patch Me to the men down there"she waited soon she heard sound many people reporting mutants biting raising of the dead people being torn limb from limb"OK that is something I've not heard"she even through she had a orange face seemed to pale "I hope I made the right choice " she said as they entered atmosphere and soon was above, she looked down seeing fire and men shooting"OK pilot take us over the main building now"she yelled above the engine ad the pilot swung around, she spitted some men pinned with a door behind them"crap cover them now"soon from above two lmgs started raining hell on the mutants gunning them down"hahaha nice one hope we didn't arrive to late"she said
[member="TK-4261 Strain"]
[member="CC-420 Doc"]

 

[Ice]

Ice rolled out of bed at the sounds of an emergency communique he was receiving. "What in the world..." He said groggily as he looked at the flashing red light with annoyance. Moving to his work desk, he opened a channel. "This is Ice. What in gods name is going on, that seems to have us all at battle stations?"

A smirk began to play on his face. "Sir, if you think this is a time to be funny. I'll have you digging latrines for our field units on some far away backwater world." As the man insisted on the situation as he told it was accurate, his smirk began to fade. Although relieved to know the issue wasn't with any research STI had been doing. He was still left pondering what to do.

"Has the military been called up? What response have our men been giving to this....outbreak?" Ice nodded in reply to what he was being informed. "Ok, in addition to what has already been done. Shut down all starports immediately! Any Ship trying to flee the system is to be destroyed. Give them a chance to surrender of course, but if they refuse. Wipe them from the face of the galaxy. I'll be damned if I'm going to let another gulag plague scenario play out across the galaxy again. Not on my watch. Not from our capital world. This ends here today! General orders are all ships are to be grounded that aren't military vessels. Eclipstica is in a state of quarentine...."

Closing the channel, he patched another through to [member="Saki lin"] his one time bounty hunter turned ship captain, when he was not available to captain his men.. "Saki. Where are you and my ship? Are you safe? I need a pick up immediately. Can you get to my location at all? I'm currently at my residence on the outskirts of the capital."

[member="Saki lin"] | [member="TK-4261 Strain"] | [member="Ellain Hadrin"] | [member="CC-420 Doc"]

 

[Saki lin]

She smiled and kept firing"OK land us on the roof and keel providing cover fire for those marines"soon the craft turned and lowered down settling on the roof all 8 of her men including her stepped out and continued raining fire on the zombies, soon her communicator went off"oh hey there [member="Ice"] I'm on eclpistica and your ship is in orbit right now, as for if I can get you depends on if your on the planet"she watched the craft fly up only to be pounces by the mutants causing it to lose control and smack into the ground with s loud explosion and grinding of metal"crap I'm sending my location to you [member="Ice"] I've got a problem Saki out*SGD put her communicator down and looked at the mutants"you are so dead
[member="CC-420 Doc"]
[member="TK-4261 Strain"]

 

[CC-420 "Doc"]

[member="TK-4261 Strain"][member="Saki lin"]@Ice[member="Saki lin"]

The blast doors flung upon as Doc signaled the men downstairs to open them for the frantic Marines pouring toward the barracks. Another example of command supremely underestimating what they were sending their soldiers into. It drove Doc to no end of madness watching the senseless deaths of men and women like himself. The Soldiers inside pushed slightly outward, helping to drag their stumbling comrades inside whil laying down fire of their own. After everyone was successfully in the doors slammed shut again with a resounding bang, mere seconds before more of those things slammed themselves into the doors.

Doc made his way downstairs to greet the newcomers and let them know what a horrible situation they'd dropped into.

The Captain sat angrily shouting at a com that no doubt linked to a superior. [member="Ellain Hadrin"]

 

[Edric Vanyan]

[member="CC-420 Doc"] [member="Saki lin"] [member="TK-4261 Strain"]

Ellain slammed the but of the broken sniper into the face of the mutant that had gotten too close, grabbing a dagger from her belt and finishing it off before grabbing another and changing tactics as she moved into close and started to cut up the enemies. Avoiding hotzones ranged fire wise, she moved from creature to creature, blades being launched until about a few minutes later, her chest heaving as she heard an order to fall back. "Karking.... Eat Thermal Detonator." She grabbed a grenade from her side, activated it, and sent it flying towards the entrance where the blast send metal falling and bodies flying, or turning to ash. Her own body was hit by the shock wave as she started to move towards the others soldiers, sending her flying.

 

[RC 212]

Location: Doc's barracks
Saki lin [member="Ice"] [member="CC-420 Doc"] [member="Ellain Hadrin"]



TK watched the sniper woamn fly to the ground from a blast and swore. With no thought he lunged forwards, grabbing her by her combat harness and dragging her backwards towards the doors that had just opened. In quick order TK and the other Marines flew through the doors, stumbling and tripping over themselves.

Hands reached out and grabbed them all throwing them unceremoniously down the hallway, to make room in the door to snatch the rest. TK winced as he slammed belly first and slid the length of the hallway, breath knocked out of him.

When he could breathe again he pushed himself up and cast a glance around. The barracks was full of wounded or dying Marines. There was a fifty percent casualty rating from this hot drop. The situation looked critical.

"Sarge what the hell were those things?" One Marine asked removing his helmet.

TK popped the seals on his own and tucked it under his arm. His visage was locked in a scowl, outside the dead pounded the bulkheads, making dull thuds that echoed in the sterile halls.

"I dont exactly know, remain here with the Infantry, set up fireteams at every entrance, I'm headed to the com center."

TK took off down the hall at a brisk pace, looking for Doc.

 

[Saki lin]

Another shuttle was sent to [member="Ice"]'s location to pick him up from his location mean while Saki looked as hand reached up at her as she stood on the building roof looking out"the heck are those things "she watched the marines stumble in" its like the rakghoul plague...but instead they keep their form "she looked at her eight men" patch me to the marines now"she was soon patched in"hello this is Saki Lin calling to whoever is in charge of this mess over"she'd wait for a response
[member="TK-4261 Strain"]
[member="CC-420 Doc"]
[member="Ice"]

 

[CC-420 "Doc"]

[member="TK-4261 Strain"][member="Ellain Hadrin"][member="Saki lin"] [member="Ice"]

Doc spotted Strain as he reached the main floor, approaching him relatively quickly and giving him a swift acknowledgment. From the completely disheveled looks on the faces of the Marines without their helmets on Doc knew that their intel had been bad. The snipers on the roof continued to pound away. Trying to pick then off more in areas where their were other survivors were taking shelter.

"They didn't tell you at all did they?" Doc asked Strain in an annoyed tone.

 

[RC 212]

[member="Saki lin"] [member="CC-420 Doc"] [member="Ellain Hadrin"] [member="Ice"]

TK nodded to Doc and gave him a wide grin, partly from adrenaline still ramming through his veins. His armor was covered in blood and he could smell something akin to bantha meat sitting in the sun on Tatooine making its way into his nostrils.

"Sure didn't old pal! What the hell are those things?"

That was when Saki's transmissions cut over the speakers of the Com center. TK gave Doc a quizzical look and then looked back at the radio operators.

"Well, who exactly is in charge now? I suppose the Shadow Hand is here somewhere. Let's get everyone together and make a game plan."