Trial By Fire (Jenna Templar)

[Noah Corek]

Vandlehelm
Mercenary Compound

Noah sighed as he slipped into a suit of armor he had 'acquired' from the corpse of a merc he had dispatched. Why was Noah here on Vandlehelm killing mercenaries? Well two days before hand, a MICO agent had been captured while trying to ascertain whether these mercenaries were working on behalf of the Feds and the Fringe to sabotage and launch guerrilla warfare attacks against Protectorate forces in the area. While Noah had at first suggested just going into the compound with a Pyre wetwork team, the plan had been denied in favor of MICO sending on of their best agents into get the information quietly. "Not good enough to not get captured obviously.' Noah thought to himself as he pulled the helmet of the armor on a locked it into place. Picking up the mercs weapon, a Blas-Tech BTI-BR, Noah walked off, hoping he could find the agent before anything happened.

 

[Tanalth]

The room was dark. No windows. No real soure of light exepct for the one light just above where they had her tied to the chair. Eletroc cuffs on both wrists kept her bound to the arms of the steel chair, the cold metal against her body only adding to the harsh conditions they'd put her in. She was hald naked, down to her tanktop and underwear, with her skin starting to feel like it would stick into the steel more as she sat there. Her face was brused from the two slaps and pucnhes she'd taken from the interrogator, a slimy looking Chiss. But Jenna gave him a look that indicated she wasn't ready to break so easily.

"A pretty face as yours shouldn't be so damaged." he said, cracking his fingers. "So if you cooperate, perhaps I won't have to."

"Or I don't know." she retorted with a coy smile. "A few more love taps like those and maybe I'll start calling you 'panzy'."

He delivered another right cross to her face, she chair buckling with her body as she was hit, before he grabbed her hair and pulled her to meet his face, saying "I'm in no mood for games, my dear. You'd be wise to start talking. Otherwise I'll have to 'up my game', as they say."

He dropped her head before walking over to a nearby table with tools and tourture devices all set. Recovering from his hits Jenna could see him glancing over some, including needles and plyers and shock devices. He glanced back, seeing as she watched, and smirked in thinking he was making an impression. When she noticed him, however, she only gave another coy smile.

"Oh, I get it. You under perform and need a few toys to get the job done. Am I right?" she smirked. He grolwed looking ready to hit her before she said "Before you eve think of doing that again let me warn you. You're already on my poodoo list. So whatever you do next had better just kill me. Otherwise when I break out of this I am literally, not figurativly, going to feed you your own eyeballs."

The menacing tone had made the chiss flintch a bit but he scoffed it away before taking out the tazer tool and prepping it for her. Even Jenna had to admit she'd hopped he would've been more frightedned by that threat, and was running out of ideas.

[member="Noah Corek"]

 

[Noah Corek]

[member="Jenna Templar"]

Noah was baffled about just how unorganized and uncoordinated the mercenaries really were. They left weapon crates lying around, crates that were clearly marked as crates from the Feds, though this didn't surprise Noah, the Feds and the Protectorate had been at war for several months now, it didn't surprise him that the Feds would try something as underhanded as this and the fact that these men had already committed what could be described as war crimes, this always meant that the Feds were responsible. Shaking his head, Noah then overheard something that nearly made him laugh. "Yeah we're keeping the little queen in the shack off of the main road into the compound, I just hope Zandi leaves some for the rest of us!" Noah heard a merc tell a few of his friends with a chuckled. Well, now he knew where the agent was, step one of three complete.

Walking up the road, Noah finally made it to the shack that the merc had mentioned before, Noah opened the door a smidge and looked in. What he found surprised him, instead of finding what he thought would be a male agent, due to the fact that most of the mercs were male, he found a female. Quite a attractive one if he did say so himself. Opening the door enough so Noah could slide through, he managed to get into the shack without alerting the torturer. Pulling his blade out, Noah silently began to creep up on the Chiss. Finally when he was within a good distance, he struck out, grabbing the mans mouth to prevent screaming, Noah's blade sliced open the mans neck.

 

[Tanalth]

Some sweat started to form on Jenna's brow as the chiss came closer with his tool intending to electricute her. However she perked when the door opened, the chiss not seeing, and she could see someone sneaking in while pulling out a blade. A bit of relief went over her face as she looked back to the chiss, a coy smirk growing on her face.

"Before you do any of that, one last question." she said, getting his attention. "How's your neck feeling?" After the fellow agent had managed to slice his throat she watched his body drop before finishing with "Yep."

Now looking to the one who'd saved her Jenna was a bit suprised by the fact that he was wearing the same merc armor as the others who'd captured her. Either he was in disguise or for some reason he decided to turn on his friends and help her; but with her luck it was likely yhe former. Still he was one handsome looking guy at that, yet a little familiar to her too.

While still sitting there after he'd killed the chiss Jenna said "Okay, first thing. Please uncuff me. I feel like my ass is actually freezing to thic chair." After that she followed up with "And you wouldn't happen to be with the Protectorate, would you?"

[member="Noah Corek"]

 

[Noah Corek]

[member="Jenna Templar"]
Noah walked up to her and looked her up and down, she was surely female and damn more attractive than when he had peeked at her through the door. "Yeah I gotcha. Here, let me see what I can do." Noah told her as he put his blade down and reached into his pocket for a lockpick he had brought with him. Finding the lockpick Noah got to work on unlocking the cuffs. Working on the first one for a couple of seconds, Noah finally heard a satisfying click as the cuff came off of the agents wrist. Scooting over a bit, Noah got to work on her other wrist before deciding to talk. "Yeah I'm with the Protectorate, Colonel Noah Corek, Omega Pyre." Noah didn't need to tell her that he was the Pyre's second in command, since most people already knew that anyway.

"i volunteered to come and rescue you. You wouldn't have had to put yourself in harms way if they had listened to me in the first place and had sent a spec ops team in to gather the intel." Noah informed her as the second and last cuff came off. "Alright there you go. Can you stand?" Noah asked her as he stood himself and grabbed his blade off of the floor.

 

[Tanalth]

She watched as this Colonel Corek had started undoing her cuffs, listening to his comment about sending in a spec ops team instead of her. Jenna scoffed a little and said "I had everything under control. Well...up until one of them went through my bags and actually found my comm link with my jammer tech. From there they sort of put the peices together." After that she commented to herself "Still don't know why he was looking through...." It suddenly dawned on her to which she almost shouted "Oh! That disgudting son of a gundark!"

Once she was freed she needed a moment to stand taking a few deep breaths as she felt the refreshing sense of not sitting on the cold seat anymore. After that she needed a minute to strecth out her limbs and crack her neck, making sure everything was still working. She didn't care, or really mind, if it was almost like putting on a show for Corek. She was complaning.

When she finished she turned and said "Okay, few things. First: what sort of weapons did you bring? Second: What's our evac plan? And third:....did you bring any clothes? Because they sort of took all of mine when they took me captive." With that last statement she'd covered her chest by folding her arms.

[member="Noah Corek"]

 

[Noah Corek]

[member="Jenna Templar"]
Noah laughed out loud when he realized why she had been discovered. "Hahaha! You got discovered by some perv looking for a pair of your panties!" Noah laughed out as he doubled over holding his sides. Of course his laughing was cut short when she began to stretch, showing off her 'assets' to Noah. "Woah." Was all Noah had to say on just how attractive the agent was. Noah wasn't usually attracted to MICO agents, due to his inherent mistrust of spooks, but for her Noah would make a exception. "Weapons, clothes and a plan? Yep I got all three." Noah informed her as he took a small backpack off of his back and set it on the ground.

Opening the top flap up, Noah withdrew a few items, a pair of Protectorate fatigues that he had been given that should've been in her size. Next he pulled out a a Hekler'Kok P-2 with a suppressor. The last item was a holo-projector. "Get dressed and I'll explain the plan."

 

[Tanalth]

She glared at him when he laughed about how someone had been panty raiding her before he suddenly made the remark about her looks. With that she retorted with "Oh sure. Make the one word compliments after laughing about the fact that I made need to bring a lock next time I'm on an undercover mission." She was silent for a moment before adding "Ass."

Once Corek had shown her what was in the bag she smirked before gesturing for him to turn around. To make it more clear she glared at him again, obviously not in the mood for anymore pervy remarks from either him or anyone else. Once he had turned she started dressing before asking "Alright shoot, Colonel. How are we getting out? Covert or guns blazing?

[member="Noah Corek"]

 

[Noah Corek]

[member="Jenna Templar"]
Noah rubbed the back of his head in a little bit of embarrasment, he also had a slight reddish tent to his cheeks. "I'm sorry, I really didn't mean to be an ass, just really kind of trying to keep the moment light considering we're smack dab in the center of a hostile camp with nearly a hundred mercenaries surrounding us." Noah informed her and then turned around so she could get dressed.

When she asked what was the plan, Noah smiled, though she could not see it. "Covert, considering if we tried guns blazing we'd be killed. What I'm thinking is that not too far away I've got some more gear stashed. Armor, weapons and a hell of a lot of explosives. Once we get there, we can get that gear, plant the explosives on the ammo dump and fuel depot and basically turn this place into once giant firecracker to cover our escape."

 

[Tanalth]

As she slipped everything on Jenna heard Corek's plan. She did like the idea of blowing this place, along with everyone in it, sky high. In fact if she could she would plant a gernade under every last merc's chair just to watch them go flying into the air in dozens of peices. However one question did bug her.

Finally dressed and armed she asked "What about extraction? If you have a ship or something on standby we'd need to send a signal. And unless you have a comm, since mine was taken, we'd need to use the one in the control tower. Which is....direclty in the middle of the base." After letting it sink in for him she added "Yeah. Starting to see how we'd be in deeper trouble than before."

[member="Noah Corek"]

 

[Noah Corek]

[member="Jenna Templar"]

Noah turned around as she finished dressing, what he got was the stunning agent filling out the fatigues quite. "Wow, you are probably the only person I've ever seen to pull of the whole fatigue looks." Noah informed her as he looked her up in down in the fatigues, hoping he wouldn't get socked.

"I have my own comm. But we're supposed to be responsible for our own evac. Good thing is that somehow these idiots got the hands on a Skocha-class Main Battle Tank. Another good thing is that they also don't have any ordinance big enough to pierce the damn thing. The final good thing is that I know how to drive it to. So once we get the charges in place, we'll get to the motor pool, steal the tank and drive our way outta here."

 

[Tanalth]

After his compliment she gave a small "Aww. Thanks." before adding "But can we save the good look compliments until after we're out of the potential hot zone?" After that she checked and made sure the blasters provided were ready, the safety and all off, before hearing him mention the tank and means of evac. "Oh yeah. Forgot about the tank. Guess part of it will mean dealing with any guards around it, because it would just be stupid of them to leave one lying around on its own. Alright then, let's get to it."

With that all settled Jenna only nodded to whatever orders Corek had before following him out of the cabin and into the mercs base. She intended to pay them back for everything they put her through; not just while as a prisoner but also while she was undercover. Especially when all of them would always say something about her looks, always try to sneak peaks when she needed a shower, and not to mention the one who apparently went on a panty raid through her things. Oh yes. She was going to enjoy seeing this place blown to hell.

[member="Noah Corek"]

 

[Noah Corek]

[member="Jenna Templar"]

Noah chuckled at her when she thanked him and told him that he could compliment her later. "Oh trust me Agent Templar, you will be hearing a lot of endearing and heart-felt comments later." Noah informed her, half-sarcastic and half-serious. Walking out of the door, Noah brought his rifle up, aiming his sights down to quickly take out any merc. "Here, take one of these, you'll need a knife if your to be effective in stealth combat." Noah informed her as he reached down to his belt and pulled one of his vibro-knives out as he handed it back to her.

"First thing first, we need to get to the gear I've got stashed, it's not that far. I hid it in a hole I dug in a thicket behind a latrine. Once we get there, we can get some heavier firepower and four baradium charges to plant. Once we get the charges, the ammo dump is closest. I'll plant one charge and you'll plant the other. From there we'll got to the fuel depot and plant our charges. Once those are in place, we'll get to the motor pool, kill the guards near the Skocha, commander it and ride outta her. Any questions?"

 

[Tanalth]

After she was handed the knife Jenna only sild it into a holster in her pants, knowing full well that it would be effective when dealing with stealth combat. She'd even went so far to say to Corek "Thanks, Colonel Ninja. I think I know that a knife is better than a guy when sneaking around and killing guys." She immedtialty followed up with "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to sound bitchy. I'm just still a little ticked about these guys sniffing my panties...."

After a little awkward silence she listned as he explained the plan. As he did she made a mental note of each step as he told it. She even repeated allowed so he knew. "Get the gear. Dig it up. Charges on the dump and charges on the depot. Get to the pool. Kill guards. Take tank and then watch the fireworks." Even though it seemed like she knew she was quiet for a moment before asking "Wouldn't it be easier if we split up? I'll set charges at the depot and you at the dump? Just saying, seems we'd get a lot done faster that way. Thinking more conservitavly here."

[member="Noah Corek"]

 

[Noah Corek]

[member="Jenna Templar"]
Noah patted her on the shoulder after her little outburst and chuckled a bit. "Don't worry, you spend thirteen years as a Republic Commando and you tend to led things like that slide, that or you just snap the neck of the person who said it, but I really don't wanna kill you because I feel this kind of connection, so yeah." Noah informed her as they quietly crept towards where he had stashed the equipment.

When she gave him her version of the plan, Noah nodded. "Alright, sounds like a plan, you take the ammo dump and I'll take the fuel depot. Once we plant the charges we'll meet at the motor pool. Oh wait! I have five charges, I guess I'll take a extra one and we'll plant that at the motor pool." After another minute of creeping, they finally came upon thicket Noah had hidden the gear in. Digging up some disturbed dirt, Noah pulled out a bag about four feet long and a half foot wide. Reaching in, Noah pulled out five baradium charges, two Corek Custom Spec Ops Rifles, a OPSR-1, a Corek Custom Spec Ops Shotgun, four frag grenades and four flashbang grenades. Grabbing a rifle and two of each grenade, Noah motioned for her to take either the sniper or the shotgun.

 

[Tanalth]

When Corek had mentioned a "connection" Jenna hd given him a bemused look before asking "Seriously? In this situation?" After that she made it clear to drop it for now as she walked out of the cabin and waited for him to take the lead. As they walked on Jenna was at least glad that Corek though her plan was better than wasting time for both of them to go to the same place when it would be easier to slpit up. Also because it meant she could take a break from every guy jumping on her leg; she knew she was hot but she didn't have to keep getting the same reaction all the time when on missions and the like.

Once they'd finally reached his stash Jenna was suprised Corek had managed to sneak so much in. She had to admit she'd need a lesson or two from him. After that she saw him take his rifles before he gestured for her to take her pick. In all fairness Jenna didn't care which, since she knew how to use both, but wndered which would be better given the mission status.

After a small shrug she picked up the sniple rifle, figuring it was better given the fact that needed to hug the shadows as much as possible. After getting that and the gernades she nodded to Corek, indicating she was ready, before hearing any last words he might have had for her.

[member="Noah Corek"]

 

[Noah Corek]

[member="Jenna Templar"]

Handing her one of the assault rifles, Noah checked his own to make sure everything was in order. Reaching into the bag, Noah pulled out six of the assault rifle magazines and one of the sniper magazines. The assault rifle magazines had yellow tape on them while the sniper magazine had blue tape on them. Giving Jenna the two sniper mags, Noah divided the assault rifle mags up evenly between the two of them. "Alright, these assault rifle mags with the yellow tape? These are tungsten armor piercing rounds. Use them sparingly because you only have three mags. These sniper mags with the blue tape? These are explosive tipped rounds. Use them only as a last resort because they are loud as hell." Noah told her and then took out the baradium charges.

The charges were basically square metal containers with a number of wires and a keypad in the center. Giving two to Jenna, Noah held it up so she could see it. "Alright, these are the baradium charges we'll be using. They are basically idiot proof. But guessing that your fairly intelligent, you shouldn't have a problem. All you have to do is enter the four digit code on the number pad and then flick the arming switch. For all of the charges the code is 0-2-1-8. They are all hooked to this detonator." Noah told her and then produced the detonator. "Once all the charges are planted and we're at the motor pool. I'll set the charges off and we'll make our escape." Noah informed her and then remembered one last thing. Noah pulled out a small ear-comm that could easily fit in her ear. "You'll need this, its already on my frequency so don't worry about that."

 

[Tanalth]

Even more specifics were handed to Jenna as she armed herself with Corek's instructions. At least the color coding on the mags for both the assult rifle and the sniper made sense, given that some looked the same from others. But when she'd heard how they were specially tipped Jenna ad started thinking of more ways to put them to use, even if they were supposed to stay in the shadows. Still she knew to keep it professional and only nodded at Corek's explanation of the charges and the code to set them.

After taking the ear-comm from him and sticking it in she said "Alright, I got it. And I'll have mine ready by then. Meet you at the pool, ETA 0200." she was about to walk off before looking back and explaining "That's two hours, in case you didn't know." actually sounding as if she wasn't sure if he knew.

Regardless of his response she eventually left and started heading for the weapons dump which was at least 10 minutes from thier area. She was clever enough to keep to the shadows, especially since it was night out, while avoiding any wandering glances from the mercs she passed. As she did, however, Jenna took a head count and realized there were at least twenty-five mercs statoined around this entire base; te majority she counted being the ones she avoided before actually reaching the dump.

Upon arrival she'd spotted five guards in different key poisitions for standing guard. It surpsoed her that there were that many to keep an eye on what was basically a junkyard for weapons. She needed to play it smart. Given her hiding spot Jenna considered her options for dealing with the men before hatching a plan that made her smirk.

[member="Noah Corek"]

 

[Noah Corek]

[member="Jenna Templar"]

Noah rolled his eyes and laughed when she said that she would meet him there in two hours. "Two hours? HA! I'll have it done in forty-five minutes." Noah informed her as he trotted of his own way, towards the fuel depot. Sticking to the shadows, Noah was creeping slowly through the camp, taking his time, even though he was bragging to Jenna that he would have it done it only forty-five minutes. Quietly, Noah crept up towards a guard house noticing one of the sleeping inside and another one patrolling the outside.

Walking up silently to the guard booth, Noah quickly entered and slice the sleeping guards throat. Searching the guard, he found a pair of keys, good thing was that they were labeled, one of them was labeled 'fuel depot.' and one of them was labeled 'my stash.' Raising a eyebrow at the one labeled 'my stash' Noah just shrugged it off and pocketed the keys.

Creeping outside, Noah noticed the other guard had been leaning up against the wall. Quietly creeping forward, Noah drew one of his vibro-knives and stabbed up into the back of the mans skull. Grabbing the man under the armpits, Noah dragged him back into the guard booth and deposited him with his buddy. Closing and locking the door, Noah began to make his way to the fuel depot.

After a couple more minutes Noah arrived at his objective, look through the scope of his rifle, Noah noticed that there were five guys guarding it, two on the roof, two patrolling and one inside sleeping. Noah lowered his rifle and began to formulate a plan. First he would need to eliminate the guys on the roof, if he didn't they would spot him. Next he needed to eliminate the two patrolling the ground and finally he would take care of the one in the warehouse. Looking down his scope again he prepared to enact his plan.

 

[Tanalth]

Rolling her eyes at his bragging Jenna failed to mention the extra amount of time she would need to handle a "personal matter". Double-checking her weapons Jenna knew wat to do, starting with making the right distraction. The sudden sound of something breaking would get one of the guards attention, which was what she needed to get him and the others looking the right way. A good stone tossed where she needed it, which was basically on the other side f the dump, and all of them had thier guns pointed that way.

Taking advantage of the men's backs to her Jenna crept up behind one and sliced his throat. She laid his body down and out of sight from the others before walking up to the next guard and snapping his neck with a good twist. She ladi him down as well but upon seeing the others starting to turn she laid down with him, or rather it, and waited.

Of course the men took note of thier friends missing and started to search. Creeping her way over she waited until one guard had reached the corner of the fence where she waited. The moment he stepped into view she covered his mouht and shived the knife into his eye, killing him instantly. She could see the other two still looking and knew it would be easier to handle them since they were so close. As she followed them Jenna realized they were about to discover the first two men she'd killed.

Upon finding them one of the men said "What the hell?" only for Jenna, who was standing behind them, to say "Hello, boys."

Before they could make a mve she bashed thier heads together, knocking them out. Seeing all were down Jenna smirked with victory before setting her charges. She mentally repeated the code 0-1-2-8 as she put it in before seeing the timer already start. With that done, and knowing she had time, Jenna turned and made her way not for the meeting point but for one of the barracks.

**********

As one of the mercs, Kinzly, had finished his lunch with his friends he needed to "relieve himself" in the bathroom. Once he found a stall, with a magazine of PlayHutt in hand, he was ready. His private moment was interrupted however when Jenna, who'd snuck into the bathroom of the barracks, had kicked the door down to find him alone. Just as she wanted him.

"Hi, Kinzly." she said, pulling out the knife with a cold look. "Hope you enjoyed going through my stuff and trying to steal my undies. Becuase I'm going to enjoy every last second of this."

With that she'd slowy closed the door behind her with the cowering Kinzly realizing he was dead.

[member="Noah Corek"]