Rescue (Open)

[Kragen]

Ever since the shut down of Sector 12 civilians have been stranded on the roof tops of their homes with a sea of blood covering the streets below. Blood statues of the three Arashi towering over the sector from its center gazing into the eyes of those trapped on top of their homes. Choppers flying by above ignoring the pleads from the people still trapped as deranged bio weapons that escaped upon the flood swam through the blood making it a death trap for any citizen unlucky enough to fall into it.

One chopper however would not ignore the cries for help as it flew into the sector. Inside that chopper were members of the Resistance. Among them the Ex-Soldier Kragen who were checking through his weapons before preparing for drop down. They had two mission objectives: to rescue civilians who have been stranded and locate the research facility that Legion escaped and find anything they can on her. With a ladder dropped down Kragen descended from the helicopter and landed on one of the rooftops, seeing the rescue of the family there as he drew his HKG3 and began his survey of the area.

[Walter C. Dornez]

The Resistance weren't the only ones making a drop at the closed off sector. Vulture wanted to get those files from the research facility as well and he wanted them to remain out of the hands of the Resistance. To do this he decided to send his top man. The Angel of Death. Although he failed in his mission to eliminate Drake White he came closer to the task than anyone else currently available in Vulture's ranks and the General couldn't argue his unique resume with other targets he had eliminated. As such Walter was the perfect man for the job.

With a drag in his mouth, the Angel of Death came soaring through the air, dropped down from the Venom patrol craft that flew through the area and landing on one of the various rooftops several buildings down where the Ex-Soldier had dropped. Walter could make him out from here and he was certain the case was the same in the reverse. Not giving Kragen a second glance, Walter began roof jumping making his way for the research facility. His wires ready to slice through the first obstacle that chose to block his path.

[Garrus Vakarian]

As usual where Kragen were Garrus was not far behind. The M-29 Incisor in his hands, the Rebel Turian came down right behind the Ex-Soldier and also oversaw the civilians climbing up the ladder leading to the rescue chopper before his eyes went over to see a figure in the distance. Using his binoculars to get a closer look at the male who appeared to be in his early teens.

Garrus Vakarian
Looks like we have some company.

Garrus put down the binoculars and began to move.

Garrus Vakarian
Move out!

[Cazador]

"At long last... I have returned."

The fallen warrior had returned to Isafaro. When he originally came to the city, the man once known to some as Cazador, attempted to help drive out Vulture and help the city escape the iron grip that the citizens were held in. However, his feelings of being weak and his desire for power had corrupted him. In his moment of desperation he turned to the Sith Lord, Darth Ira. Offering him a chance at gaining power, Cazador took it and willingly slaughtered dozens of resistances soldiers; The same men and women who were fighting for the same cause he was. With their blood on his hands, he was dubbed Darth Harbinger. While he didn't care for either side, the only thing Harbinger desired were the secrets of how Legion gained her power.

The power of his Force Walk enabled him to capture the long departed and bind them to himself, but it was said that capturing too many would be dangerous to the host's body. Legion was able to hold countless demons with in her without having her body destroyed. He believed that the research on her creation would be the key to unlocking the full potential of his Force Walk ability. To find it, he would have to go to the research facility that Legion had originally escaped from. There were no doubts in his mind he would find the answers there.

As he over looked the ruins of Sector 12 from a building not to far away, he quickly realized that he wasn't alone. The Sith would see the two other factions he had made enemies out of. Both the Resistance and what appeared to be a solo agent for Vulture had appeared. Things were going to get interesting to say the least. It looked like the Resistance was more concerned with taking care of the civilians than finding any info in the research facility. The Vulture agent on the other hand paid no attention to their calls for help. Harbinger smiled under his helmet knowing full well what that meant. He must of been heading to the facility. All he would need to do is follow the lackey and dispose of him once he led him to the goal.

Darth Harbinger quickly leaped from building to building he as followed after his prey. Part of him knew that he should of cloaked himself in the force to become invisible, but he was too eager for a fight. The chance to test out his new armor and weapons as well as his new abilities couldn't be passed up. He would of never done something as reckless before, but the more time he spent with the Dark Side of the Force, the more of a thirst for blood and battle overtook him.

"Yes that's it... lead me right to it."

[saneatsu]

How he hadn't felt it before he didn't know, but this place seemed to be teeming with the force and it's users, though the darkness that clouded his sight gave reason as to why. He had left Denarius' shop with the promise that he would return for her. He appears on a rather tall building near where he sensed the dark side. It had taken him a long time but he had finally tracked it down.

He pulls his aura inward, cloaking it as best he can before he disappears again. He had been trained in the ways of stealth but never really needed them so he was a bit rusty. His eyes glow bright silver as he tracks this man, the dark side teeming around him. He isn't sure if he should be doing this as he had hoped to leave the Jedi behind. But now, when faced with the situation he most wished to free himself from, all he could do was work to balance the force.

He stalks the man outside of normal hearing range, his force sight letting him track him even as he passes in front of walls.


I hope this doesn't backfire. Dammit Mul, why didn't you teach me better.

[Xemnas]

Rookie

This was his first Mission with the Resistance group here, assigned to assist Kragen and Garrus with their Objectives. One time when he was out on his own he managed to get a full 3d blueprint map of the entire City which included some, not all, secret locations of interest to the Resistance. It was how he managed to survive in this death trap of a city.

He approached the experianced Garrus with only one word. It would probably be the only thing he would say for weeks. That's right, he don't talk much. "Orders?", the ODST asked Garrus, with his M7S Caseless Submachine gun in his hands. He also carried his M6C/SOCOM in his side holster just in case. Just in case they ran into large amounts of enemy contacts, he carried four HE-DP grenades.

[Red Queen]

Soon after the deployment of Walter another carrier flew through the air. This one deploying Shock Troops onto the rooftop opposite of the one the Resistance were now on. Raising their fully-automatic armor-piercing rounds assault rifles and activating their auto-target system so they didn't have to worry about aiming, the five Shock Troops began open firing on the Resistance to slow down their pursuit of the research facility.

[Legion]

All eyes were on the blood statues of the Arashi three that towered the heart of the broken and shattered sector. Compliments of the Fourth Aspect who came through here from the research facility that has now became a place of interest for Resistance and Vulture members alike. Even a few third parties that wanted the information for their own selfish motives. The Essence hung over the area like a disease, corrupting the minds of the survivors of the flood, twisting the world around all who entered the sector, twisting it into horrors none could have ever imagined. No one would dare go near the blood as it bubbled, and the surface moved, as if something even more terrible laid beneath it. Watching, stalking and waiting for the first person to slip up and fall into the river of blood. To be lost forever in the crimson.

The legacy of the Arashi was a well enough known legend for the citizens of Isafaro to fear. And though they did not recognize the first, nor the third, they knew all too well the mask of the Second Aspect. The creature who came through the desert sand of Jherrazad to the holy city. The one who nearly wiped out all life on Genesis with a single explosion. The one who gave birth to the second sun in the sky. They knew, they understood to fear it. But a large figure made up entirely of blood couldn't kill you...

Then you turn your head away...

Then you blink...

“AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!”
A terrible scream bellowed through the air for all those in the sector to hear, followed by a splash as a rotted corpse sank to the bottom of the ocean of blood. When eyes returned to the known spot where the three blood Arashi stood they would find, Veran, Aper, The Third... Were gone...

And on yes it can...

[Ayen]

Imai was the last one out of the Resistance's chopper. In the face of the threat posed by the Shock Troops Imai lifted up her right hand and generated a biotic barrier offering herself and the rest of her crew cover so they could combat the troops standing on the rooftop across from them. All was going well until Imai's eyes turned and saw the giant hand of the First Aspect outstretched and mere inches above their heads as it came out of nowhere, and now, the blood statue stood perfectly still before them.

Her own heart pounding from the sudden appearance while backing up a couple of feet. The Veran statue standing between and blocking both sides from firing at the other. At least it was good for one thing but not being of entirely solid matter it still wouldn't be able to stop any bullets that were fired from the other side. That said, the soldiers could now no longer rely on their auto-targeting as it would lock onto the blood statue by default. Even with the threat of the Shock Troops momentarily gone, Imai still didn't like that this statue had moved.

“Guys... Where did this statue come from?”

[Starkiller]

Starkiller had been within the city for some time, indulging himself in the negetive emotions that ran through this city. A sith would enjoy a place like this, but they should be other places, where the dark side was weak. The dark side is the only way to reach power that even Jedi find unnatural. However, the Darkside was dangerous as it could corrupt your vision for your goals. Only the strongest can handle the darkside enough to enslave the force and make it his/her own.

Only the strong belong on the darkside of the force, which was why the Sith of old could not handle a large empire of such force users. They tore each other apart, and then all was lost for centuries. Now they have returned. Starkiller had sensed a dark power in the city, and close to his position. The new Sith didn't even sense his approach, or so thought, but he was sure he could hear the clanking of his every step, and the Jingling of his many lightsabers as trophies.

The man began to leap from building to building, but Starkiller gave pursuit. Unlike the one he was following, Starkiller had cloaked himself in the force. He would rather let the two factions rip themselves to shreds rather than focus on him.

[saneatsu]

*Saneatsu's eyes glow bright silver as he gives a 360 sweep. Something he had learned from Wakanda, ALWAYS look around and be vigilant. It was then that he spotted someone following them. They were silent and had he not been so wary he would have missed him. A shiver runs down his spine as the darkness of this area almost gets to him. The last time he had felt it like this he was near the Sith temple. It did not bode well for this city.

When the woman spoke about the new statue he knew that trouble was moments away. Not wanting to wait around for it he decides to interrupt the two Sith's adventure. He pushes out with the force, his aura encompassing quite a large area, enough to reach the Sith and possibly the statue. All in it would feel cool calm, like walking through the morning mist.

He stands with his back to Harbinger but his senses on overtime. If you were to look directly at his back it seems normal, but it you approach it from an angle you will see space swirling like a fire is lit underneath it. His face is calm and his hand twitches at the saber in his sleeve.
*

One Sith apprentice was enough, but did you really think you could sneak with the clanking? I guess you wanted to be noticed, though the assassin you are not I do not recognize either of you. Tell me who are your masters?

[Kragen]

Kragen nodded his head towards Garrus and followed suit, but they wouldn't get far on the rooftop before they met more opposition at the talons of the Vulture. Quickly taking behind the cover Imai provided, the Ex-Soldier fired his G3 at the squad. His eyes looking up to see the large blood statue that now hung over them with its hand outstretched, a chill running down the Ex-Soldier's spine at the mere sight of it.

[Walter C. Dornez]

Walter paid no heed of the Resistance. Right now they weren't his concern. His concern was with acquiring classified information on the Legion project. A task that would be halted, if only for a moment due to the giant blood figure of the Second Aspect that now blocked his path to the next rooftop. Eyes of the Arashi gazing upon his form as the blades were aimed towards his figure. Making him look like a mere ant in comparison. Walter snapped his finger, and the thin razor sharped wires sliced the figure to pieces and he leaped to the other building's rooftop. Only to see the Aper figure had reformed and was even closer to his position than last time. His eyes remaining open and still in the face of the blood Arashi that had survived his most basic means of attack.

[Garrus Vakarian]

Garrus Vakarian
Rescue the civilians stranded on the rooftop and retrieve any and all documents on Legion from the research facility in the area. In case we get separated use this.

Garrus handed Rookie a flare.

Garrus Vakarian
It will alert the chopper of your position when you find a civilian.

The Rebel Turian went onward and followed Kragen's lead of getting behind the biotic barrier Imai had set up to use in this fire fight. A fire fight that would see an abrupt end as a large blood figure now blocked their path. His eyes looking up towards it masked face.

Garrus Vakarian
I have no idea, but you can bet it has something to do with Legion.

[Red Queen]

If the Resistance thought they were safe due to the interruption by the environment, they were gravely mistaken. The soldiers continued to open fire, this time at the Veran blood statue, their bullets strong enough to blow holes through the figure and continue on to the Resistance members. That biotic barrier wouldn't hold forever.