Hunting Remnants (open - Post Fusion)

Ethan's ship, the Holy Knight, landed somewhere on the acid-rain blasted surface of Zebes. "This planet...are you sure it's the one?" the hunter asked, sighing. There was a beep from his computer, and then, a mechanical, but feminine voice. "Yes, this is Zebes, the former 'base' for the bio-mechanical criminal, Mother Brain, killed by famous Hunter, Samas Aran."
Ethan nodded. "Alright then, Io. So this is where the Remnant pirates are?" he asked, placing his helmet on the control dash, and hooking up a wire to the inside to transfer Io into his suit from the ship.
"Yes, and it would seem they are attempting to resurrect Mother Brain." the AI said, before going quiet, signaling that the transfer to the battle suit's helmet was complete.
"Shouldn't Samus handle this then?" he asked, sounding a little worried. He's heard stories of the famous Hunter who single-handedly crippled several space pirate operations, in addition to killing some of the most influential officers of said Pirates.
"Because she is MIA at the moment..." was all Io said. It would seem to be somewhat common for Samus to be unable to be contacted for odd periods of time. "Also, information from our employer suggests that other Hunters, and even some Federation Officers may be adding their strengths to the mission."
Ethan scowled, and donned the helmet. "Federation...." was all he said, though the WAY he said it spoke volumes. He still viewed them as slightly more useful then criminals...because they usually paid him to get shot at. "Well...let's get this done, before the Fed morons screw it up...or destroy the planet." he said, moving towards a cave opening, which ironically, was the same one Samus used years ago to start her journey.
"Speech patterns within 20 feet." Io chimed, shortly after Ethan had gotten himself horribly lost. "...Language recognized, standard Space Pirate dialog." she said, invoking another sigh from Ethan. "You really need to cheer up, Ethan...all that stress is bad for your heart."
"Shush...your not my mother." he said, pulling the rifle out of the holster on his back. Though he took a breath to calm himself, and hit the access to open the hatch. He fell to a crouch as it opened, revealing to Pirate grunts, talking to each other. One spotted him, and shouted something in their language, before a shot between the eyes put him down. As the second reacted, Ethan put the Pirate in his sights and dropped him too.
"Good shots. Might I suggest hiding the bodies?" Io asked, creepily cheery.
"Yeah..." he said, looking around the small room, apparently used for storage, from all the crates inside. He hoisted the body of one, slung it over his shoulder, and walked over to a pile of crates. He dropped the body behind the pile, and repeated the process for the other. "Won't work for long, but...will buy us some time." he said, turning from the dead end room.
"Warning! Multiple organic detections. Possibly wildlife, or Pirates." Io said, making Ethan frown and mutter a curse.
"I ain't getting paid enough for this..." he muttered, hoisting up his rifle, and getting himself into a slightly hidden position, behind some rubble, and waiting.

Apollo appeared from behind the doors and walked in front of the pile of rubble. "Ya really think dat a Humie is in this room huh, Is dat so?" Muttered Apollo under his breath at the Pirate commando who didn't listen because it was so quiet. "But Im sure sir we lost contact with the troopers in this room sir.... say where are they?" Asked the Commando. Angry with the commando,Apollo Grabbed him and threw him at one of the walls. The Impact was so powerful that the pirate's head was smashed up good and proper, brain splattering everywhere.

"Damn sneaky Boyz, Deyz never do anyting right. Teach dem not to bother my time, Especialy when weez got a whole base to rebuild thanks ta dem Tin can Humies" Replied Apollo as he stormed off to the control room.

Captain James Charon had orders to go to the planet Zebes and investigate. There had been reports of recent pirate activity. So the megathron comes to the planet Zebes and James takes his minmatar to the surface. He lands it by Ethan's ship. "So I guess I'm not the only one to get this assignment." he says before exiting his ship.

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The Kilepura Hunters also receive this mission and they head to the planet. Ryo lands the ship close to the minmatar. Hiraito hops out and sees James. "Hey, I guess I'm not the only one assigned to this." he says to James. James replies with, "That's what I was saying." They get together and go to the door. "I'll cover you from the rear." says James. "Roger that." Hiraito replies and opens the door.

Ethan took aim at the 'commando' and then blinked a bit as the other one, whoever the hell it was, splatter the thing's brains all over a wall. He shifted the aim to Apollo, but something stopped him, particularly Io. "It may be a bad idea to become involved with this one."
Ethan sighed yet again. "But if we don't..." he said, flipping Io's control of the suit off, and squeezed off three shots at Apollo's back, two at 'chest' level, and one at the back of the head. He had no idea if they'd hit or not, but after firing, he ducked behind his cover, trying to stay hidden, just in case.
"You never listen Ethan. Now we'll likely have many, many more if this one gets away...or even if he never returns."
Ethan cursed a bit, she had a point. Also, another problem was, these shots are not silenced, so...it's likely they will be heard, both by the target, and by the ones outside.

As they open the door they hear the crack of blaster fire. "That other guy must be around here somewhere. Maybe he'll be in trouble with all the noise he's making." says Hiraito. James says, "By the looks of the class of the ship, he's a hunter. They tend to do well on their own, most of the time. Just to be safe, let's find him and back him up." "Roger that." says Hiraito as they both enter the room, keeping an eye out for movement.

(OOC: James is a sniper, he's very good at spotting movement from even far away. Just a little FYI. And I take it this is post fusion?)

((ah...yeah. Forgot to mention that. It technically is.))

(OOC: Not to worry, I edited the title so people know that it's post fusion.)

Apollo felt the ting of a bullet round bounce off his armour and quickly turned around to see Ethan and slapped a magazine into his large Autogun (Of course being a Elite Pirate with muscles even on his face held it as if he was holding a 10mm Pistol) "I see a humie with nice kit ta boot, Love ta kill em" Laugehed Apollo as he aimed at Ethan's skull. "Oi why iz it dat I ain't got his skull yet, Neder mind, Iz kill the Grot lover and take hiz skull" He said as he fired the first shot.

James caught sight of the pirate aiming at something, must be the other guy, and quickly aims up the pistol. Right as the pirate pulls the trigger, he fires a sniping shot at the end of the pistol, redirecting the shot away from the hunter and possibly knocking it out of the pirate's hand.

Ethan notices the aim, and ducked further behind the rock, frowning a bit. "Heavy armor." Io said, causing Ethan to sigh yet again, though he recgonises the sound of two pistols firing at the same time.
"Someone's here." Io said, going silent for a moment. "Friendlies." she said in an oddly cheerful tone.
"Bout damn time!" he said, dropping the rifle, and standing straight up. "Io, activate the 'Striker' system." he said, launching himself from his high spot using the thrusters on his boots. Three 'claws' came out of the gloves on both hands, looking metal for a moment before they started to glow green. He swiped the laser claw on his right hand at the pirate's gun, and the left shot forward with a jab-like motion towards the head, making the attack two prong and coming in quite fast, thanks to the thrusters.

(OOC: It's not a pistol, it's a precision sniping beam, pretty much the federation variant of the imperialist. It's yellow instead of red. I'm talking about James's weapon.)

Apollo Immediately dropped his gun with the pain of a laser burning the flesh and fired the shoulder mounted plasma cannon at the human ambusher behind him. "Great, more of dem sneaky boyz" he replied in pain and also retaliated at Ethan by punching with the same power that turned the commando pirate into chopped meat.

Hiraito rushes in, changing his arm cannon to alt form, activates his energy claws and lunges at the pirate. James gets in closer, but keeps a fair distance away from them. He absolutely hates close quarters combat.

Apollo stopped in mid fight and turned on his communicator "Oi iz dis thing on?" asked Apollo. "Yes Boss, dis iz your elite bodyguard listening and yes da bombs are ready" Replied the voice on the other end. "Den use da splosives den" Commanded Apollo "Da what?" Asked a confused elite pirate. "Da bombs ya git, Da bombs" Replied an already angered Apollo and carried on fighting. "Gotz one more suprise fer ya humies". He immediately ran out of the room while a large ship above pounded the room that the remaining people were in with kustom power bombs.

(OOC: Aren't we in a cave like structure?)

((Yes...we're in the underground area of Crateria. The caves area.))

The cruiser fired the bombs on top of the structure and smashed through the ceiling and landed with a monstrous thud. "Boss da bombs dey didnt work" said a panicking elite pirate. "Damn yez, you can't do anything right either, you'ze almost as bad as ridley".

Ethan was a little...surprised that he had missed his target, and a little angry that the oddly speaking pirate had gotten away. "Shit..." he said, shaking his head, and deactivating his claws.
"Warning! Incoming artillery." Io chimed, just as the cave rocked from the explosions. Several rocks started falling from the ceiling, though Ethan was more then nimble enough to dodge them.
"Thanks for the heads up Io." he said, speaking out loud, though he would be the only one who could hear the AI. Not only that, but not many knew of Io's existence, since AI are closely watched ever since the incident with the infected Aurora Unit.
After the tremors stopped from the failed bombing, Ethan noticed the others in the area. "I suppose I have to thank you for allowing me to keep my head." he said, nodding towards the two others in the cave with him. He frowned a bit behind his mask as he realized that they could have heard him talking to Io, and wondered how that would play out.

"You should thank James for saving you first, he's the one who made that shot aimed for your head miss." says Hiraito. "It was nothing really. Any sniper could do something that simple." says James. They didn't seem to notice or care who he was talking to.

Apollo stopped short at the control room and stepped into the lift transporting him down into the under constructing tourian area. Two of the engineers had turned round suprised to see him standing next to them. "Err boss um the construction project haz hardly begun but should get started in abou......" Started one of builders, "Is da deff dread ready at least snotling". Err no boss we havent found the materials for it and lets just say is that we havent brought the pilot back to life yet" replies the other builder.

(May I join this one?)

(Ask thunderstrike hes the one who started the rolepley)

((Yeah, you can join. Just make sure you can fit your character in ^.^)) Ethan nodded to the sniper. "Nice shot." he said, before switching gears. "Io! Scan the area, tell me the location of any activity. He said, pulling out his stun pistol out of it's holster on his left leg. He cocked it, and put in a cartridge.
"Activity in this area, lower in the cave structure." his AI said, into his helmet.
"Lower?" he asked, looking at the floor. "Io, scan the floor here." he said, keeping his visor at his feet.
"..Weakened rock, could likely be destroyed by a concussive blast." she said, making Ethan nod a bit.
"Everyone step back." Ethan said, pulling out a small explosive charge and putting it on the ground, before jumping back and away. "It's a satchel charge. Going to blow a hole in the floor." he said, pulling out the detonator. "Io says that there's activity a little deeper in this area."

"You got any plans on how we get back up after? Or better yet, how far will this go down?" asks Hiraito.

Ethan shrugs. "Usually I just climb back out." he said, pushing a few buttons, the detonator letting out a beep so that everyone knows it's armed. "Weither you follow or not...it's your choice." he said, looking at the detonator. "Besides...sitting here will just get us caught." he said, pushing the button, and ducking behind a rock. "Five seconds! Find some cover!" he shouted.