Location: Space
Allies: Team Valor
Enemies: Team Mystic
War games, Ge'tal thought to himself as he walked down one of innumerable halls of the ignobly named MC Hammer capital ship that stood as the capture objective of the mock fight. Funny how death can be reduced to a game. The Mandalorian stepped over one of the limp bodies of the small strike force that had made it inside, nudging another aside gently with a boot. A full six Mandalorians had managed to crash-land their vehicles straight into the open hangar bays, and of that, four had jumped out, ready to go. But the problem with crash-landing into hangar bays was that, of course, the hangars were an expected entrance. What followed had not been pretty. Not for Team Mystic, anyway.
Several stun grenades, set to blow on a proximity sensor, had gone off the moment they crossed the threshold from the hangar to the halls. From there, Ge'tal and his supporting duo of Bralor brothers only had to clean up. A stun bolt here, a smack in the head there, and one hand-to-hand duel between one of the Bralor clansmen and the last man standing on the strike team that had ended quickly due to the latter's injuries. Ge'tal had only watched, offering no encouragement for either of them, until finally the Mystic Mando dropped. Though the fight mainly had consisted of the Bralor man toying with his opponent, it did Ge'tal some good to see that things hadn't changed since he had last actively been thinking of himself as a Mandalorian rather than a Bounty Hunter. They still fought until they could fight no more, rather than surrender.
The two Bralor men yet remained in the hangar to intercept any further attackers and reset the explosives, but Mystic had been more clever than they'd given them credit for at first. Amidst the chaos, another strike team had entered through an emergency airlock by ditching their spacecraft and putting their beskar'gam to good use, taking advantage of built-in EVA capabilities to get the job done. No less than three Mystic Mando'ade had arrived inside, armed with mock explosives to take down the reactor as per the objective. A battle continued to rage outside the thick hulls of the ship, but those battles were a mere distraction, no more significant than the pretend battle a child might imagine. The real battle was here, on the Hammer, where a single team's efforts could mean the difference between winning and losing.
Ge'tal was not going to lose because he'd been outwitted. If he was outfought, sure. But he hadn't erased the letters on his buy'ce marking him as mir'shupur just to be outsmarted by such a blatant distraction. It had been a mistake to let them past, sure, but he was not about to lose them.
"Skirata, vaabir gar haa'miitir ni?" (Skirata, you read me?)
"I copy." Though the Mandalorian was far away, he was coordinating the Hammer's crew's movements, and was reliably keeping them functioning as a unit thus far.
"Three 'ade, inside through one of the airlocks. G59, far as I can tell. Do you have anyone who can intercept?" As Ge'tal spoke, he calmly continued walking toward the reactor. The distinct advantage that Valor had here was that they knew the layout of the ship, while Mystic had to use guesswork to get to where they wanted. Vendet knew he could easily head them off, but was expecting that Skirata's men would at least be able to delay them.
"Got a two-man patrol nearby. Worst-case scenario, they fail to stop the strike team and fall. What's your backup? Rest of us won't be able to get there in time, guarding the other entrances right now."
"I'm heading them off already. Keep me posted on your two-man team's status, tayli'bac?"
"You got it," the Skirata clansman said amiably, then cut the line.
Ge'tal turned the corner and activated his stealth field generator as he went, the narrow-visored countenance of the Mandalorian who was both reviled and praised as The Hunter disappeared, replaced by a faint haze. He would intercept the strike team, ambush them, and eliminate them, or the battle would be over.
At least he worked well under pressure.