ICC- First Mission

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Miles shook the radio and grimaced...no answer either they where all dead, unlikely or the caverns where interfering with the trasmissions.


"Alright, Listen up get your weapons ready and then we are moving into this cavern, keep your eyes open and your ears clear" Miles steeled himself against what was to come and made sure his equipment was ready.


Slipping past the debris as quietly as possible he viewed a medium sized cavern, a pool of water was collected in the center and moss grew on the walls.The ground was damp and looked rather slick in places, algae or some other plant life seemed to grow around the edge of the water, all available light was reflected in small facetes by the walls.The remains of several humans where in the far corner of the area along with several dropped items.


Nothing moved in the chamber, even the air seemed to be stifling, trying to calm himself Miles moved into the cavern and kept against the wall breathing shallowly.Inching farther his back pressed against the wall, Miles worked his way around a large rock pillar.


The shadows moved...Miles froze, the assault rifle's muzzle swinging up toward the shadow.Nothing moved..Miles relaxed and kept moving slowly into the cavern.The farthest corner of the cavern seemed to have a depression in the wall a bunch of what looked like cracked eggs where gathered. Miles counted at least 3 broken eggs and what looked like 4 unhatched ones.Something moved among the stalagmites near the caverns northern half. Moving with great care and caution all his senses on high alert Miles approached the human remains.

Water dripped from the roof into the pool and the stench of what little remains where around grew as he got closer. Working his way across the cavern in the open Miles crouched and examined the remains.They had been dead for weeks possibly..or Death claws eat everything but the bones, Miles didn't know he never had encountered these before the past few days, but he had heard storys from the other recruits. A stone rattled behind him, Freezing Miles kept his eyes straight ahead, slowly glancing behind him.


The young deathclaw only saw food infront of it and the food had entered its lair...Mile's heart was beating a mile a minute, why hadn't it attacked yet. Tensing suddenly Miles rolled left trying to bring the Assault rifle up to at least get a shot off.Rolling and trying to stand didn't work, the algae on the floor causing Miles to lose his footing and start to fall.


Seeing his meal move the young Deathclaw struck quickly, its claws catching the creature in its left side.. Mile's left arm went numb and his fall got Disrupted, grunting as he Landed and slid across the stone into the water, his assault rifle clattering down next to him. Grabbing the assault rifle with his right hand Miles maneuvered the muzzle towards the claw and squeezed the trigger, not caring about shot grouping or his breathing a quick staccato burst of bullets struck the claw in its chest, a few penetrating, the rest bouncing off or just scratching its tough hide. The deathclaw stopped at the sudden assault, dropping the Assault rifle Miles reached for his sidearm, having trouble freeing it from the left side of his body with his good hand.Bringing the .45 up and squeezing off four rounds at the deathclaw, Miles tryed to stand up, his arm shaking from the pain in his left side. The deathclaw turned suddenly its tail sweeping Miles off his feet, the shock of landing on the stone floor sent agonizing waves of pain threw his body the pistol slipping out of his stunned fingers, the claw still hadn't turned all the way around, giving Miles enough time to roll further into the water, his side burning with pain as the dirty water immersed him.

god I hope those hate water.....Holding his breath miles waited under the water hoping the creature would go away.
 
Kahgan saw the baby claw attack Miles, but couldnt fire with Miles in the way.
As Miles rolled into the water, Kahgan was able to make that shot, emptying a clip into the claw, assisted by Jack's firepower.
The claw died.
As they approached the pool of water Kahgan ran to Miles and begain looking over the wounds.
'Not that bad.Kahgan thought. 'The armor deflected the claws, so they only raked the exposed flesh.'
"I feel like shit. Damn Im lucky I had this armor." Miles said.
Then Jack collapsed.
Tenel Ka, Kahgan, and Miles were on him in an instant looking for wounds.
All they found was blood leaking from under his armor.
As they pulled off the breastplate, they noticed a large gash caused by a necklace with a large tooth on it.
A deathclaw tooth.
"Musta been when that claw fell on him."
"That makes sense Miles." was Kahgans reply.
"That is a fact." Tenel Ka said as she begain bandaging the wound.
 
Chua, Fenix and Rob got through the dark tunnel and into a new room. There was no Deathclaws there, only an old skeleton of a man! They also met Dutch and Dick that came out from the left tunnel. Rob told Dutch and Dick to continue in the left tunnel. Dick and Dutch went into the tunnel, Chua and his group waited for a little while, then they went into the tunnel.

When they got through the other tunnel and into another room, they heard gunfire and screams in the distance.
"Where is Dutch and Dick?" Chua asked.
"I don't know!" Rob replied.
"They were probably taken by the Deathclaws!" Said Fenix.
"Yeah, well we will just have to keep moving!" Chua answered.
The group disappeared into the next tunnel.

Inside the tunnel the group heard groars behind them. They turned around and went back to the caveroom.
"Rob, use a frag greande." Chua wispered "Get it near it's feet." He added.
"Okay, no prob!" Rob answered.
 
OOC-sorry I dissapeared but I went on a forced, suprise vacation before I could post.

IC-Fenix was waiting anxiously behind Chua as the grenade went off when a deathclaw leapt from the darkness and landed on the tribal.

"AHH GET HIM OFF, GET HIM OFF!!!!"

Chua suprisingly grabbed the deathclaws arms under his own and laid back so that the claw was trapped by him.

Rob moved to grab it by the neck so it would not bite Chua's head off.

Fenix Almost ran away at the sight of a deathclaw when something inside of him snapped.

Instead of fear.......he felt anger.
he looked at his left shoulder with it's huge bandage and became furious. Taking a flare from Rob's belt he lit it with a fierce pull of the cord and rammed it into the deathclaws eyes. He was screaming in glee at the beast's pain as it fell writhing to the ground with it's claws over it's eyes. Rob and Chua quickly killed it with some shots to the eyes.

Fenix was shaking."Close one huh?"
 
The last burst was the rest of Kahgans 9mm ammo, so while Tenel Ka was bandaging Jack and Miles, Kahgan went over to the bone pile.

When he got there, he roamed through the remains and found 50 rounds of 9mm AP ammo, this was eough for two clips, but as they were fighting claws, it wouldnt last long. He held the flare closer, and he discovered four molotov coctails.

There was also a lot of ammo for weapons he did not have, so he decided to leave the rest for the others.

I'll just stay there and keep lookout! He said walking towards the entrance.
 
Tenel Ka qucikly went to search the bone pile.
Seeing something glint under the rubble, she searched further and found a plasma grenade, and some .45 pistol ammo.

Attaching the grende to her belt, she went back over to the onconcious Jack and put the ammo intp his pack.

As she looked over him again, she decided that he had been stabilized as well as he could have been.

Cupping her hands, she got some water and splashed it on his face, causing him to begain to wake up.
 
Miles winced as he looked around, moving his arm and pulling off his pack..a move he instantly regretted, searing pain shot threw his left side from where the claw had hit him. At least it had been young deathclaw at least he thought it was young. Felt like half his side was missing, Miles rooted around in his pack till he found one of his few stimpacks, Pulling the cap off the needle he jabbed it into his left side, feeling the healing liquid course through his side the pain abating.


Miracles of modern technology Miles grinned to himself and stood up slowly, walking around the pool of water and retrieving his Assault rifle and Pistol. Both needed a good cleaning after the past few days, He shook his head thanking whatever it was that kept him from ending up like those poor fuckers over in the corner.

The rest of the group was busy checking the remains and making sure the other guy was alright. Miles walked slowly over to the depression in the wall, glancing all around incase of a hidden crevasse that might hide some danger.

Pulling a fresh flare from his pouch Miles lit it, the refreshing hiss sound as it popped and flooded the area with a harsh chemical light. Inside the depression there was a crude nest made of bones and other materials, the three broken eggs where near the opening of the depression and the four unhatched deathclaws where near the back.Crouching down he lifted one shell up and examined it, Like large fucking lizards..cept these ones would eat you instead of the other way around.

the unhatched eggs didn't even move as Miles visciously brought his boot down on each of them in turn, his face not even moving as he killed the unborn creatures."They'd eat the first thing they could get their little bastard mouths on" Miles grinned and looked at the dead creatures.

Walking over to the remains of the townspeople, Miles grimaced what little flesh remained had rotted and the smell wasn't the best.Trying as best he could to move the bones and other items of the previous owners Miles looked around. A unused Stimpack lay in the remains of a coat."Poor bastard never even got a chance to use the damn thing" Miles picked it up and slipped it into his pocket.

A few moments later he came across a small pack that had been torn and slashed. Inside lay a small treasure trove, at least to him, three brand new flares and a pair of what looked like binoculars.Miles slipped them in his backpack and vowed to examine them later.

"You all stay here, Im going to go find some info on where to bring Jack for medical attention"

Rising from his crouch He looked around, Still rather damp, he exited the chamber and jogged slowly back towards the main well. The sound of gunfire and shouting could be heard echoing all around the caverns and tunnels. The BOS soldiers where hopefully winning. Jogging slowly Miles turned and headed towards what sounded like the use of heavy weaponry and tech that the BOS uses.
 
Scorp and Thorgrimm continued to walk about an hour after the sun went down, walking in the twilight with a bright moon and passed a small hollowed out ridge.

"This seems as good a place as any to take a rest. At least we will be protected from the elements." Thorgrimm said while checking out the surrounding vegetation.

"Sure, no problem if you wanna rest old man. But a brave man likes the feel of nature on his face, Thor." Scrop replied with a little teasing smile on his face.

"Yeah, and a wise man has enough sense to get in out of the rain." Thorgrimm hit right back. "Not that it rains a lot overhere anyway..."

"I understand we are just bashing eachother, but make another crack at my smarts and i'll shove my foot so far up your ass that you'll be smelling shoe polish for a week..." Scorp said now completely serious.

Thorgrimm immediately understood that jokes about mental capacity were off limits and made a mental note of it. He concluded Scorp could take a lot of shit, but to keep his head up high, he would probably need to act tough. Which of course didn't mean he wouldn't actually go so far as kicking Thors ass. Scorp didn't make threats, he made promises...

"On another note, we need to clear up something. You said I was an ex-raider. Well, that isn't exactly true, i'm still a raider. But i'm kinda on 6 months forced leave from my raidercrew..." Scorp said completely calm again.

"What did you do? And I didn't realise there was such a thing as forced leave for raiders." Thorgrimm replied with a smile on his face.

"It's kinda complicated. Let's just say I went one on one against the raider captains son on a matter of honor. He ended up knockout with a broken nose and four busted ribs. The captain concluded we both needed to cool off, and of course he wouldn't send his own son away. One of us would've ended up dead anyway. Either him with a cracked skull or me with a knife stuck in my back. Needless to say, both outcomes would not have been good for the clan. So he send me away for 6 months, so the situation would cool down a bit."

"You just have to crack skulls everywhere you go don't you, Scorp?" Thorgrimm asked.

"Aye, it's all I've come to rely on, being a simple-minded, skullcracking son-of-a-bitch. My real name is Mike by the way."

"Kenneth." Thorgrimm replied as they shook hands and shared some dried beef.
 
"To be honest Scorp, i do not give a rats ass if you are on 'leave' or not, as my only concern right now is to exterminate every mutant from the face of the earth. They will pay for the murder of my wife and son. Nothing else matters, everything else is secondary". Thor stated with evident bitterness and hatred.
"Sounds good to me, as i want to help you wipe out the muties". Mike said with evident glee in his voice at the prospect of killing mutie scum.

They both then began to gather very dry firewood so they could make a small smokeless fire. Thor then began to take his firemaking equipment out of his pack, which included the following items; 2 boards with carbonized indentations, one of which had a small notch running off to the side of the board, a wooden dowel, bent stick, twine, and some tinder of dry grass. He then placed the notched board on the ground near the teepee style of wood stacking. Then he secured the twine to the bent stick and wrapped the twine around the dowl. Then he placed the dowl in the indentation, and put the other board on top of the dowel. He then began to use a back and forth sawing motion, which eventually the tinder began to smoke. He bent down to lightly blow on the glowing tinder which burst inot fire. He then threw it into the bottom of the stacked firewood. They then had a light meal as they did not want to be put into a deep sleep with the mutant still out the somewhere.

After the meal was done and the leftovers were policed up, they sat back for a little relaxing before figuring out the watch order.
"You have your shit together about survival don't you Thor"? Mike said in appreciation of his evident skills at outdoor survival.
"I have had to, as i have spent more time outdoors than in, in my quest to exterminate the muties. you take first rest period, i will wake you up at midnight". Thor said to Scorp.
"Will do".

Scorp was fast asleep in a few seconds as he trusted that Thor would wake him if anything happened. Thor sat with his back to the fire so he could regain a little of his nightvision back. He was on edge and did not know why, something was tickling the back of his mind. So he was on heightened alert, even though he neither saw or heard anything.

It was about 1am, as he could not sleep so he let mike sleep, when that sense of unease came back to him, he just could not put a finger on it. All of a sudden it popped into his mind, he had been smelling something, and was unused to having to use his sense of smell instead of his sight and hearing. What he had been smelling was the slight smell of wet dog, that dire wolves had!

without turning his back on the dark, he said to Scorp, "Scorp, we have company, it looks like we have some Dire Wolves wanting to pay us a visit". As he was saying that he was pulling his out his desert eagle in the realisation that this would be more handy in a close up fight.
Scorp was up in an instant, 'where are they"? He asked.
"i do not see them, but i i definitely smell them". Just at that moment 6 sets of eyes appeared out of the dark to Thor.
"Dude we have a serious problem, there are 6 dires surrounding the campsite. They must have been tracking us because of the scent of blood i am giving off by my steady dribble"."Well at least they ain't claws" Mike said without a trace of humor in the statement.

"I say we build up the fire, as those critters do not like fire". Scorp had just turned to add wood to the fire when the howls of the Dires brought on the rush of the hungry beasts.
 
Chua and his group got back to the tunnel they were actually going to. They went over to the left tunnel, slowly. Chua were bleeding a bit from a small wound on his arm after the Deathclaw struck him.

When they got over to the tunnel Rob slowly looked around the corner, it was to dark for him to see anything. He threw a flare into the tunnel.

It became more brightly inside the tunnel and now Rob could see two dead bodies lying on the cold, rocky floor. They were lying on their stomacs so Rob couldn't see who it was.

"Cover me!" Rob wispered to Chua and Fenix, and started walking towards the bodies, slowly. When he got to them, he turned them around, so he could see their faces. It was Dutch and Dick, and they had three large cuts over their chests.

"They're dead!" Rob said.
Rob went back to Chua and Fenix.
"What shall we do now?" Chua asked.
"We'll just have to keep moving!" Fenix answered.
The group started to move over to the other wall of the caveroom. there was another tunnel on the other side of the room.

Chua, Fenix and Rob started walking through the tunnel, they did not know if there were anything, or what was waiting for them around the next corner. Maybe other recruits, or more Deathclaws?
 
Arco led a group of recruits down the long winding passage of the caverns. They had not spotted any deathclaws yet but had heard the screams and cries of those who had. Arco turned a sharp corner and much to his surprise found one of the deathclaws charging at him. Arco only got two shots off from his plasma rifle, both of which hit. Still the awful pain from such a weapon was not enough to deter the savage beast. It rammed Arco into the wall dislocating his shoulder. The other recruits had begun to fire upon the now raging monster but their small arms were little more than a nuisance to it.

It lunged at the recruits tearing into one’s flesh and exposing his innards. He screamed and agony and the claw took a swipe at him. Arco had regained his composure and begun to fire his plasma rifle with his good arm. He got two hits out of the four at he fired before the deathclaw came back it him. This time it attacked with its claws. Arco narrowly dodged the attack and tried to get another shot off through the pain of his shoulder. He loved the battle and the challenge and he even thrived of the pain.

The claw was badly burn but it lost none of its determination. It took yet another swipe at Arco, this time scraping and tearing through his outer layer of armor. He took a shot at the beast’s leg, burning it like a pyrotechnician at a Great White concert. It was slowed but not beaten. It turned to one of the recruits and limped close enough to reach her neck. It maliciously slashed at her throat, cutting part way through and receiving a shower of blood in return. Arco took his aim, six shots and two hits. The claw collapsed but still tried to get up until silenced by one final shot from Arco rifle.

“This is Arco; do we have a secure place to treat the wounded yet?”

Arco awaited the answer of the other teams.

*Meanwhile elsewhere*

“Who do those normals think they are chasing me off that cliff? It is time for both of them to understand the way. They will both make fine additions to our stock.” Krogan was injuried but it only increased his motivation to find Thorgrimm and Scorpio. He was down to a day before he was to return to the main group. One day to find his prey and bring them to the true meaning of strength.
 
Chuas group got through the tunnel, and into a new caveroom.
They didn't see any Deathclaws, but there was a pile of bones and a dead recruit lying on the floor with three, bleeding red stripes ovr his body.

Chua went over to the dead guy, he did not have much. Only two frag grenades and 9 mm ammo enough for two clips for Chuas mauser.

The group made their way all the way over to the next wall, there was another tunnel there. Chua took a quick look inside. It was a bit dark but he couldn't see anything inside.

The group went through the tunnel, hoping that in the next caveroom they would find some other recruits so they wouldn't be so vulnerable!
 
Miles jogged slowly down the tunnel, ahead he could hear the sounds of combat. Screams and crys along with the sound of automatic weapons fire filled the corridors of stone.


Suddenly he pitched face first into the dirt, His breath leaving him temporarily from the fall. Turning around carefully Miles noticed a dead soldier on the ground."Poor bastard" Miles crawled over and turned the dead man onto his back. Half his stomach was missing the intestines and other vital organs ripped to shreds, His mouth was open in one final scream of agony that probably never left his lips judging his expression.


Miles quickly searched threw the soldiers pack and other equipment.Inside the backpack there was more explosives and detonators along with extra ammunition for the soldiers now missing assault rifle.Placing the new found items in his pack Miles stood up slowly, then stopped when his foot kicked something.Crouching again He shinned the flare at whatever it was.A small red journal lay at his feet, Miles picked it up and put it in his pocket.


"This is Arco; Do we have a secure place to treat the wounded yet?" The radio that was in his vest pocket crackled. The sounds of combat from down the corridor had stopped. Miles began to run as quietly as he could till, his assault rifle held in his good hand.


Around the corner Miles surveyed a battlefield of broken bodys. The dead recruits lay on the ground eviscerated and dead. A badly burned Deathclaw lay nearby.Scanning the area for threats Miles saw Arco leaning against the wall, the radio still in his hand and the plasma weapon held in the other."Are you alright Sir?". Miles stepped closer and saw the gash in Arco's armor but didn't notice any bleeding or other horrible wounds."I was just about to head for the surface and see if i could find the aid station when I heard fighting this way Sir. My team encountered one young deathclaw in a small cavern and a nest with three broken eggs and four unbroken ones, I killed the unborn claws but didn't see any other live ones on my way here". What do we do now Sir?
 
“Okay, your name is Miles, right?”

“Yes”

“Fine. I want you to hunt down all of the supplies you can. Pillage bodies, do whatever you need to. Also I want you to gather everyone you find to regroup at the central well. We will set up a medical center and finish the job off.”

“Yes sir, I am on it.”
 
Fenix was starting to pass out again.....but didn't quite know why until he looked at his shoulder and saw his bandage was thick red.

Before he passes out for the third time that day he tapped Rob on the shoulder.

"Hey man I think I need a medic..."
 
"woah......what the fuck!"said Rob
"i dunno....but look at his shoulder"said Chua as he pointed at Fenix
"shit........we need to get him to a medic"said rob as he picked Fenix up and slung him over his shoulder

the grouped headed back out of the tunnel and into the day light,they headed down the street and stopped by a broken car in the middle of the road.

"chua.......go and see if the coast is clear"said rob

chua headed down the street and stopped,he turned around and waved his hand signaling it was ok,rob headed over to chua and then they headed back to base camp.
 
"Yow, heads up." Scrop called out as he threw his sidearm towards Thorgrimm. "Use the taclight. 15 shots a clip, it's chambered but not cocked."

Thorgrimm caught FN P9-M pistol, lit the tactical light and started looking at the forrestline. Nothing was to be seen, but obviously there was something moving in the woods. The smell of something like wet fur was also omnipresent now. Scorp disabled his gun's safety. One handed he started throwing more firewood onto the small campfire, while being careful to keep a close eye on the treeline. Scorp didn't think the fire would really scare these Dire Wolfs, they were too savage for that.
 
Chua and his group got back to the base camp.
"MEDIC!!" Chua screamed. "MEDIC!!" He repeated.
There came a guy running over to them with a first aid kit and a doctors bag.

"You've gotta take a look at him!" Rob said to the guy.
"Oh shit, he has lost a lot of blood!" The Doc said. "He will need rest and a new bandage, I suggest you leave him here to heal." He added.

"Well what shall we do?" Rob asked.
"You will have to get back down to the well!" The Doc replied.
"Yeah, but we are only two people, we are gonna get killed down there!" Chua answered
"You will still have to go down again, you'll have to hook up with another group, if you have plans on living!" The Doc said
"Fuck!" Was Robs reply to that!
 
Miles moved down the corridor slowly sweeping his vision across the ground while still watching for any sudden movment that might betray a deathclaw laying in wait.Miles returned to the body he found earlier Miles Stripped the shoulder bag off the dead man and then placed his Sidearm and all ammunition he found inside."great now im a fucking errand boy.He moved down the corridor slowly, till he hit the main cavern then turned and headed down one to his left.


Up ahead he could see lights flashing. Suddenly three recruits bowled into him, knocking both of them down.Rising quickly Miles could see two men in leather armor and a female in metal all looking at him with scared eyes."Get your ass back to the main chamber and wait there, Orders will come threw soon. Understood?.The three nodded nervously and took off running. Miles moved down their corridor and found four dead recruits.Sighing Miles began the task of stripping the dead, throwing all their useable equipment into the bag he had found.Once that was full Miles returned to the Main Cavern and hid the bag under a pile of small rocks.Turning he noticed more people where milling about the main cavern.


Miles headed down yet another corridor..frankly they where all beginning to look the same, Water,algae,damp,cold places that death stalked.Miles Searched the ground as he walked picking up any small items he could till he found a dead BOS soldier, His combat armor had been ripped to shreds along with him.Miles held his breath at the smell and began stripping the soldiers equipment, placing it into the satchel that lay on the ground.Miles wondered how many deathclaws might be left, couldn't be that many he hoped.


Miles moved on down the corridor coming across more recruits and ordering them back to the main cavern. continuing his task of scavenging the dead..
 
Thor thought to himself, "why the hell did he throw me this pistol when i had my Desert Eagle already drawn? hell my Eagle is much better at killing Dires than that little popgun he gave me".
"Dude thanks, but no thanks, my Eagle is better than that thing for killing these things". To prove his point he quickly took aim, and popped a third eye into the skull of the closest dire, when the sound of the eagle sounded the other dires halted for a couple of seconds which allowed Thor to to kill the last two on his side with 2 well placed shots that put the dires on the ground, as the size of the bullet will put anything under the size of a deathclaw on its ass.

It also allowed Thor to toss the 9mm pistol back to Scorp, "i think you will need this more than me".
"How you doin back there dude?
 
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