fandomhigh | Alternative Tactics, Wednesday 09/19

Today, the Danger Shop had been programmed back into its Badlands setting. The students, as they came in, found themselves standing in a valley with only one exit, with a line-up of Marine armor propped up against one of the walls. Kerrigan stood atop the rocks, her rifle in her arms.

"I have assigned you all groups of two. One of you will be the team leader, another will be assigned a stealth simulation protocol so they can operate what basically amounts to a personal cloaking device - but only within the confines of this sim. Don't try to take this one home, boys," and she may have shot Sokka ~~if he was there~~ a look, "You'll just end up disappointed. Your mission, and it's not up to you whether or not you get to accept it, is to get your stealth unit past enemy lines to the command centre some two miles from here. Check your minimap if you need to retrace your steps -- and good luck."

She turned around and vanished behind the rock.

POINT	CLOAK
TEAM A
Seely Booth	Harry Potter
TEAM B
Peter Pevensie	Bridge Carson
TEAM C
Michelangelo	Rikku
TEAM D
Gwynn Hood	Adam Park
TEAM E
Molly Hayes	Lee Adama
TEAM F
Z Delgado	Sokka
TEAM G
Anemone	Marco Conrad

[ ~~wait for~~OCD UP! I will ping in with omg bad guys after every two rounds of pings from every member of the team; teams changed to two a piece because your timezones break my brain. for those of you not playing, handwavey is our friend! ]

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Pings in here!

Molly scanned the area as she waited for Lee.

"Hey," Lee said, wandering up. "Ready to do this?"

Molly couldn't help but smile as Lee arrived. "Hi! Yep, I'm ready when you are."

"I'm the stealth guy," Lee said, adjusting the stupid armor. "So, you've gotta get me to safety. Think you can do that without getting me hit with needles?"

And, as luck would have it, a single marine in white armor took that exact moment to open fire on them.

"Frakking needles!" Lee yelped after getting hit with a few before returning fire. "I think we've started," Lee said to Molly.

After taking a few of her own hits and after Lee had fired back, Molly moved to block him from the enemy and took a few shots of her own. "I guess so. Can you turn on your cloak thingy now?"

Lee found the button and clicked it on. "Done. Ready."

"Okay, let's see if we can get rid of this guy," Molly said, putting action to words and firing at where the white marine had been.

The first two volleys winged him; Molly's final shot brought the marine crashing down to the ground, leaving the road open in one direction. There was a visible peninsula on the map, some distance away, with bridges leading out towards the objective.

There were also some somewhat menacing-looking shapes in the distance.

"You lead," Lee said, still keeping his gun at the ready even if he was cloaked. "Watch the needles. She seems to like having those things shoot at me."

Molly nodded understanding and pointed towards the peninsula after checking the map. "We need to go that way," she said. "If we run into any more marines, I'll play slow and clumsy so that you have time to get into a good position to fire back. Sound good?"

"Sounds good," Lee said, nodding. "I'm ready."

"Let's go then," Molly said with a grin and moved out with her gun ready, scanning for enemies.

There was a small cluster of five marines up ahead, blocking off access to the peninsula. They hadn't noticed either of them yet.

With a small warning hand wave to Lee, Molly carefully moved into cover.

He nodded quietly, raised his gun slightly and tiptoed behind Molly, staying back so he'd have a clearer shot.

Once Lee was in position, Molly nodded to him, aimed carefully, took a deep breath and fired as fast as she could at the group of them, hoping to at least injure them all before they got a chance to fire back.

Lee added his own fire, spraying it across the group and looking out for any frakking needles.

Two marines were injured, one more got a lucky shot (or rather, several shots, considering the rapid fire of marine weapons) in the head and crashed down. The remaining two marines locked onto Molly and began firing rapidly while their two wounded comrades searched for their stim packs.

Molly ducked and ran for secondary cover so that Lee would be for sure out of the line of fire and could fire unhindered as the marines tracked her. She got hit a couple times as she ran, but nothing the armor couldn't handle.

With that opening and knowing that there'd be fire coming in his direction now, Lee started moving a little so as not to be a stationary target and started spraying fire towards the remaining marines.

"No needles no needles no needles," he might've been heard muttering.

As soon as Molly reached cover, she turned and started firing at the marines again.

"This is easier than last time," Lee muttered to himself, keeping the gun tight and the firing. He advanced slowly, careful not to give away his position.