Galactic Society (Open/Lounge RP, but READ FIRST POST)

[Blaiiine]

"Alright lads, last one on the ship gets to be my bullet magnet," Blaine ordered from the top of the ramp. Before they strapped in, he looked over their setups and gear. "Full battle rattle? Okay then, let's kick it," Blaine stated to the captain, then sitting down next to Zuko. He set his rifle down between his legs, pulled his helmet off and lit a cigarette. Here we go off into the wild blue yonder, he thought to himself.

[Romulan_Furry]

As the pilots went through the pre-flight checks as everyone got strapped in, Zuko looked to Blaine. "You haven't been outside of UNSC space much, have you?" he asked him.

[Blaiiine]

"Not really. That's left to another intel group, and even then we ha e very little info on space outside our control," Blaine replied, leaning forward and pulling the hammer on his rifle. "I was in the war but even then, I mainly was on Earth. Mombassa, all that." He finished, pulling out his sidearm and sliding a clip in.

[Romulan_Furry]

"You were at Mombassa? Impressive. Not many can say they survived that," Zuko admitted. "But... you may find, as Andrew and I did, the Covenant and the Insurrectionists aren't the only threats out there, and a fair number of them have had their sights on UNSC space for some time. Tal Shiar, Interstellar Concordium, Zaarin's Empire... and that one Rogue Sith Lord, whatever his name was."

"Nazar," Frosty corrected his Sangheili friend. "Darth Nazar. Spoke to High General Indari's brother on that matter; he was a Sith Lord that was frozen in cryo-sleep since the Jedi Civil War, originally believed lost to the stars. Visiting salvage crew found his ship, inadvertently woke him, and he's been a thorn in everybody's side since then. Word is, he's looking for something here in UNSC Space. If you ever see him, steer clear - he's... not someone you'd want to tangle with."

"Stand by, people - we're taking off," the pilot announced. The drop ship shuddered as it lifted off the deck.

"If you ever do run into Nazar - or any lightsaber-wielding opponent, for that matter - a word of advice: Keep your energy shield charged, if you have one," Zuko told Blaine. "Lightsabers, while powerful, have trouble penetrating most military-grade energy shields, like those in my armor and Andrew's."

[Blaiiine]

"I'll be sure to remember that," Blaine said, tossing a cigarette to one of the ODSTs'. He began tapping his boot as he took a drag, then looking to Lee. "Hey, jarhead. Don't you guys have a cadence or something? Let us hear it, get us in the fighting mood," He asked, laughing. Lee looked to the other two troopers, and in unison they belted out:


"Helljumper, helljumper where you been?
Feet first into hell and back again!
When I die please bury me deep!
Place an MA5 down by my feet!
Don't cry for me, don't shed no tear,"

At this point Blaine had already joined in, remembering his time in boot camp. He sang this song many times before this.


"Just pack my box with PT gear!
Cuz one early morning about zero-five,
The ground will rumble, there'll be
Lightning in the sky!
Don't you worry, don't come undone!
It's just my ghost on a PT run!"

The three men and Blaine burst into laughter and yells of Oo-rah. Blaine even ribbed Zuko with his elbow in a friendly manner.

[Romulan_Furry]

"The Helljumper Cadence," Zuko chuckled. "I know it well."

"I'd advise some silence back there - any kind of noise can give us away, cloaking device or no," the pilot warned. Internally, everything remained unchanged except for the lighting, which went dark as the drop ship's cloaking device was engaged. Outside, the drop ship shimmered and vanished as it headed for the planet.

[Razuel]

From the distance, more soldiers could be heard.. But these ones sounded different, they sounded sinister, they sounded like they crawled from the pits of hell... The soldiers stopped and began to panic. one of them examined in a fearful voice, "It's them! The Krieg Division! We didn't do our job! THEY'LL KILL ALL OF US!" Alfred grabbed the girl and pushed her away, "HIDE JUST HIDE! Don't help! FIND A PLACE TO HIDE!"

As they marched closer, they could be heard singing, their boots crashing against the ground with loud BOOMS. Their uniforms were also vastly different as well. Something about them screamed 'STAY AWAY'

Angel looked at the men screaming, growing concerned as they started to run, and she ran after the man who had the accordion, trying to hide with him, following with what she saw them doing.

[Blaiiine]

"Oh, now I'm wishing we used the drop pods," Blaine sighed, stretching his legs out and taking a puff off the cigarette. He pulled his MEDREF patch out, slapped it on his left pauldron then looked to Zuko and Frosty. "So, I've been wondering about that Nazar guy. What's he exactly looking for in UNSC territories?" Blaine asked, laying his rifle in his lap.

[Romulan_Furry]

"No one knows," Zuko sighed.

"And it's not like we can ask him," Frosty added. "No one's ever been able to get close to him; he's like a ghost, most of the time, and the few times we actually had him cornered, or thought we did, he just upped and vanished without a trace."

"Whatever it is he's after, he wants it for himself - gods know why. And he won't hesitate to kill anyone or anything that gets in his way," Zuko concluded.

"LZ looks clear - touching down in five," the Pilot announced. Zuko readied his Storm Rifle, and Frosty checked the load of his MP340A3.

[Blaiiine]

As the ODSTs' hopped up in formation, Blaine tossed his cigarette down and stood up. He slid his helmet on, hissing as it sealed, and looked back to everyone. "Alright, we are two klicks out from the meet site! Check your fire and keep quiet! Oo-rah?" He yelled, the ODSTs' replying with a loud Oo-rah. Blaine then looked to Frosty and nodded, his visor turning from clear to a opaque blue-silver.

[Romulan_Furry]

Frosty and Zuko returned the nod, both of whom engaging their personal cloaking devices (PCDs) and following the ODSTs and Blaine.

[Blaiiine]

The ship shook with the landing and the ramp came down. Blaine's VISR activated and his HUD pulled up. He moved forward, ODSTs' in tow. He crouched down once outside the dropship, ordering each trooper to a defensive position. They were surrounded by trees, which shook with wind from the ship. "Alright, let's see what we got," He said to himself, pulling up the recon map in his heads-up display.

[Romulan_Furry]

*** Sedra ***

As the troops cleared out of the drop ship, the pilots put the ship in standby mode, ready to come online should the ship's weaponry be needed. Frosty took up position near the right flank, while Zuko quietly - for a being as large as he was - took up a position just ahead of the ODSTs. He looked slowly around, noting a strange occurrence on his motion sensor.

"Andrew, Bear - keep your eyes open," he whispered over the radio. "Getting ghost readings on the motion sensors.

*** *** ***

A lone, cloaked figure sat crouched on a thick, sturdy tree branch, watching the new interlopers who'd brazenly intruded on his current hunting ground. Three wore armor he recognized as ODST armor; one was wearing a different variation he was not familiar with, and two of them were nearly invisible to his hunting mask.

All of them were armed, as far as the hunter could tell.

But, as tempting as these new interlopers were, they were not his target. He returned his attention to his real target - a lone Dathomirian human, creeping through the forest foliage...

[Blaiiine]

Blaine stood up and slowly moved forward, making a gesture for the rest to follow him. He swayed his MA5K assault rifle around, checking for any movement. "I'm not seeing anything, what about you Lee?" Blaine asked. Lee replied, "I got nothing. Garcia?" The trooper with the sniper rifle shook his head. Blaine breathed heavily, checking distance to the meet. "1 and half klicks outs, be ready for anything."

[Romulan_Furry]

(Question, Blaine - the gif pic in your sig; what movie is that from? And don't mind the Hunter I'm using - just a side-event. Unless you want him to become involved.)

Zuko and Frosty followed the ODSTs to their destination, Zuko keeping an eye on his motion sensor. It was still giving off ghost readings every now and then, and it was making the Sangheili jittery.

Someone was watching them.

*** *** ***

The hunter had no choice - the "Innie" that had been watching from the trees had unfortunately stumbled across the hunter, and had his radio not gone off, he would have reported the hunter to his pals - and worse, given his position away. The Innie ran, but was cut short when he was ambushed by the Hunter, cloaked in his PCD. But just when he thought the unintentional prey was dead, a shot rang out, and briefly disrupted his PCD field - though he was removed from the area the interlopers were in, and would not have been seen, he did take a hit, and howled:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8tZVlPi0lA

(Listen to the third sound for how the Hunter howled.)