Sector 37 General Hospitaliers

Tson

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Adams: "Imma have to sedate him or severe mental trauma may occur, he appears to be reliving what has happened to him constantly"
Jameson: "OK, we'll have to just work with what information we have"
Steel looks at the small medical telltale all Hospitaliers have embedded in their wrists
"No abnormal medical readings but i think we had better break out the respirators, I, Jameson Decontamination team 5 and trooper squad 67 will continue onward, the rest of you fall back to the shuttle and re-secure it, also, get some of those arc lights set up around the shuttle tube, make sure there are no patches of shadow, turn on all the lights in the shuttle including the duct maintenance lights, i don't know what were up against but if this guy says it is 'in the shadows' i'm not gonna take his words lightly"

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As the troopers move back to the shuttle, they look around in the complete darkness that surrounds them. Their flashlights attached to their slugthrowers brightly shine the way. The Way. Then, one turns around and sees that there is nobody behind him. But he swears that he didnt start off as the last one. In fact, there were three other troopers behind him... One second after the other, something big softly drops down from the ceiling. Behind him. Nobody had noticed it because they just shone at the ground. The trooper feels the warm breath of it caressing his head, and a drop of saliva dripping on his head... With all his power he turns around to face a massive wolf-like creature, a shoulder height of 4-5 meters, looking at him. But it does not look normal. It looks pained. Like something is in its head, forcing it to act liek it does. Then it lets out a terrifying howl, and the trooper cries in fear with it. It bites down at him, severing his head and upper body, ripping his heart in half. Then it shakes its head violently, and little flesh bits fly everywhere... The other troopers farther to the front turn around in fear, but all they see is the remaining bloodbath...
Soon, from seemingly everywhere a howl comes, there have to be a lot of them... All of them having a disease driving them nuts and killing in excrutiating pain...

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DocSlime
A Hangar emergency team run to the fighter and cut open it's door

DocSlime

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The pilot falls out along with the door. It is unclear what was he trying to do with it before falling out. Anyway, he stands up and greets the team.
"Hello, fellows. We've said "fck this" and left the ruined government. Why bother killing what already kills itself? Anyway, their leader, Hexer, is presumed dead. Nobody really knows if he has any-"
A voice emerges from the plane's inside.
"Yes, he does, I'm tracking it."
"Tracking? Holy Deus, what can't you see in this universe?"
"Your usefulness."
"Ehh, as I said, he has a backup-"
"-In the Second Tau Empire, precisely."
"-yep. We could either bring him back home to resolve this dumb ars-"
"You can stop it, we are in a more or less official environment."
"-to resolve this dumb war he started, interrogate or kill him. Of course, if we promise to do any of the latter, you will most likely kill me as allies. This way, we do not promise anythin-"
"Speak on your behalf, Alerauf."
"...well. We could not decide what to-"
"YOU F- ah well, go on."
"We could not decide what to do next. Can you help?"
"dumbass..."

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DocSlime
Emergency team leader: "err, this aint really my area, i'll go get Major Kamen fer ya."

Tson

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(Excuse me but could you please tell me why the crack troops of a semi-militarised organisation would not notice their teammates dissapearing? also besides this all trooper squad leaders have squad health indicators on their HUD, also these troopers have been trained with the harshest mental screening so why would the trooper just whimper at the creature instead of opening up on full auto?)

Tson

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(I will do the next post in a minute BTW)

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Tson
(I dont know, just wanted it to feel a bit more menacing, sry if I offended your soldiers...)

DocSlime

Tson
The pilot is silent. Whoever was in the plane responds instead.
"Sure. Get back here, don't stand around like an idiot. It's warm inside at least."
"Good idea."
Alerauf walks back in the plane.

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Sergeant Goldd hits the side of his helmet with his palm: "Damn, my HUD must be playing up, who have we lost Benss?"
Trooper Benss Numbers off the troopers: "Trooper Nam, Trooper Brent and Trooper limb as it seems sir"
Sergeant Goldd: "Ok men, you Decontam boys light the way with your heatthrowers, all troopers let off periodic Incendiary ammo bursts into surroundings, we'll see if these things like fire shall we?"
Doctor Adams: "wait, let me go ahead, then do what you suggested i have an idea..."
(BTW Adams will probably encounter these aliens seeing as he is going off on his own, however, there are several thing i know about Adams you do not yet, so please don't jump to the conclusion he is easy meat)

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DocSlime
A party of Troopers led by Major Kamen enter the hangar
Major Kamen: "Hrmmf, ah hmm Offworlders, so how can I help you? and how is my old friend Hexer doing?"

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Tson
*As the Doc walked through the walkways, he felt a presence. No, not one. they were all around him. Then he came into something that looked like a lab. In the research tubes he found several of these animals... On the sign of one of these tubes it states:

Inhabitating Species: Kragan
Sex: Male
Status: Severe state of an unknown virus attacking its nerval functions

Then the Kragan inside of the tube noticed him and throws himself against the glass, trying to get out. Trying to get out and kill him. The other Kragans in the tubes all also started this behavior. Then one of the tubes bursted and as glass splitters rained down at the Doc, an abnormally large Kragan, reaching 6 metres shoulder height, leapt towards him...*

DocSlime

Tson
The same unknown voice from the ship answers.
"Well, actually, the Tau are clueless enough to not immediately abuse him like any other slaver would. I suppose that is a relief for you. In case you are just as clueless, they recently signed a pact that if Offworld weaponry or other combat items are encountered outside Offworld space, either Tau owns Offworld as a whole or Hexer as a slave. From what data I could gather, Hexer intentionally crammed himself up the stomach of some giant worm and claimed that the worm's stomach is absolutely not Offworld space, where he has blown up and voluntarily magjumped his backup backup, yes, exactly that, in the Tau's council room. I wonder why would he do that."

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Adams: "Now look here i think we need to talk about thi..."
the Kragan hits him head on and he is bowled over, the creatures sharp talons shredding skin and...
the creature's clouded mind is confused, as normally prey would be either screaming or dead by now instead the small being it has attacked grapples with it and it hears through the misty veils of neural pain "Oh, so you want to play rough eh?" suddenly Adams' "skin" retracts into his medical backpack and where the slightly meek human doctor was a second ago now appears a strange humanoid lizard being of unknown origin, yellow in colour and covered in thick plates of scales obviously designed to withstand such natural weapons as would appear on any predator of it's world which grins large Fangs at the Kragan as it grapples with it, a toungue like that of a snake flicks in and out of it's mouth and it speaks
"Didn't expect That did you?"
It throws the Kragen off and stands up, brushing off the remains of it's tattered medical coat, standing in a defensive stance
"Now, I am a doctor, you are a patient, let's be sensible about this eh?"

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DocSlime
Kamen: "Err, sorry? what exactly is going on, and what do you need us to do?"

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Tson
The kragan grunts in pain, clearly confused. It turns and tries to crawl away...

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"Yeah, I would like to know as well. It may or may not be about my friend being indecisive."
"Well, I thought, these guys can give only one biased answer because they are allies, right?"
"Right."
"This means that asking them is pointless."
"Of course, genius."
"Then why are we here in the first place?"
"Because you wanted to ask them what to do."
"Can a magdrive get us there directly?"
"Yes, but both Tau and Hexer would not be entirely happy about it. The last thing we need is a 3-side free for all fight with both enemy sides being far more powerful than ours."
"Can we, like, infiltrate them?"
"So you want to kill strangers to do something about another person, and you don't even know what to do with them?"
"Ehh. Yes."
"I have located a vent in their area, and I'm not going there under any circumstances."
"Bye then!"
The pilot vanishes.
"Great. I suppose I'll just jump back home."
Whoever other was inside vanishes as well.

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Kamen: "WHAT ON EARTH..."
Trooper: "Careful sir, remember your blood pressure"

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Adams grabs it and flips it over onto it's back, he injects it with a strong dose of sedative, and begins to scan it's cranial area "Now lets see..."

Meanwhile the Party of troopers continues toward the shuttle using the tactics suggested by sergeant Goldd, and Lieutenant Steel's party continues onward toward the ship's control room, they are also using Goldd's tactics as he informed Steel of the previous events

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Tson
*The Kragan stops resisting, but something seems to happen to his brain, Its Starting To Boil!

The other Troopers cover a lot of ground, but then the ceilung begins cracking and moments after the way out has been blocked. Suddenly one of the troopers misses his Head! A Kragan literally hung from the a bar on the top and munched on him, then pulled itself up again and out of sight. When the HUD showed the troopers vitals stopping it was already too late... He literally couldnt see it coming.*
(Im just gonna assume theres a small delay between someone dying and the HUD showing it...)

Tson

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Sergeant Goldd: "5 ROUNDS STUMM AMMO OPEN FIRE"
(Stumm ammo comprises a gel round containing a powerful stun chemical)

Meanwhile Adams starts to work on his Kragen, he injects a small solution containing nanobots which will try to destroy the virus bodies whilst Adams tries to synthesize an antiviral solution that will deal more effectively with the problem using his portable medi-comp

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Tson
The Kragans Brain seems to get hotter and hotter and in less than a minute it will have been rendered completely useless- Doc will have to act fast...

The Kragan already had pulled back out of sight, but the next time it dropped down it a got five round burst in the face...
But at the same time another Kragan had bitten a trooper in the leg while a third had bitten off that ones head and arm, dragging him into the darkness...
Interesting... pack behavior...

Drakador_Chaos

Tson (Just remembered the Hospitaliers still have the TATC equipment they purchased.)