Into the Abyss

[Dane Summers]

Ketsu looked unhappy - the medical tape and foam-wound sealant made his stomach feel unpleasant. The aftermath of adrenaline made him jittery, and the ache in his everywhere just made him tired. His shoulder hurt like hell, his ankle was starting to come back around that way too, and his skin felt itchy. He was still lightly bleeding, and everytime he took a step, the torn skin of his waist pulled apart, then was pulled back together by the bandages. It was...not fun.

Dasha tossed a bent ration can, years old and covered in dust, through the doorway - soon as it crossed the threshold, automatic weapons fire lit up the silence, turning the can into metal confetti.
"Well...were not going in that way." She said. Middleton just grunted, and Ketsu rolled his eyes. Pressing his fingers to his throat mic, he dialed the transmission power as low as he figured he could get it and still get a message off. At this range to the facility, it probably wouldnt make any difference, but if he kept it to burst packet transmissions, and low frequency power, maybe it would keep there position hidden.

"Claus. Location. Over." He recorded, then hit transmit - the burst protocol encrypted, broke down, and transferred in tight packets the message, before decrypting and opening it. Ketsu waited, and got nothing. His headset beeped, and the radio unit itself displayed a message saying "no signal found" - He was dialing the frequency power up, when a crack of far off thunder sounded high in the air, and the sound of cascading rainfall added an almost soothing background noise to the silence of dead JiangXi.
"Everyone get out your anti-rad med's, jab 'em in your neck - thyroid gland - roight 'ere" Middleton said, pointing to the area just a little under and behind the ear, jabbing a yellow fluid filled syringe there. Dasha shrugged, tossed one to Ketsu, and did the same. "Great" Ketsu sounded less then enthusiastic, and gritted his teeth as he stuck himself in the neck with it.

Dialing up the frequency, he repeated the transmission - got a static burst reply, and dialed up again. Barely making out the words, it was enough to get a location fix - "Alright, found Claus - he's in, but had some sort of trouble with an Elevator shaft - its a good way in - we'll use that."

Moving out of underground, gunfire erupted, from the far side of the imposing structure. Pretty much where they needed to go. Moving through rubble, keeping quiet, they crouched in the broken front of a former delicatessen, sighting the damaged jeep, Villers, and someone else - putting heavy metal into another one of the same robots that attacked Ketsu. As soon as it was dead - they moved out one by one...

"Dont fire! Militsiya coming out!" both Villers and the Marine raised weapons, but seeing no threat, they lowered them. Dasha and Middleton jogged to the jeep, with Ketsu taking up the rear.
"Good to see you Muppet's arent dead." Villers said, with no compassion in her voice. Ketsu let out a grunt, and tried to stretch to relieve some of the tension ache "Not for lack of trying..." he said. He slung the SMG, and checked his gear while Dasha filled in the two on the current situation - heading to the factory elevator shaft, to make it into the facility.

Restocked on ammo (somewhat), loaded with weapons (a couple), they made there way into the factory, prepared to repell down into the darkness of the elevator shaft.

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