The Wolf's Den

[Sir Modemkill, Cyborg!]

James takes the radio and begins rattling off orders "Rally the men and march back to base, take everything of value with you, Any prisoners taken are to be transported back here for interrigation" James pauses to take a drink of whiskey then continues in the same cold, dead voice that chilled everyone when they heard it "As for the wounded, save all who fought with courage and Loyalty, any who showed cowerdice in battle are to be left to their fate" James took another puff of his smoke "Relay these orders to the commanders, that is all" James put the handset down and went to the bar Casualties...never welcome news, but an essential part of battle he went back to smoking and drinking in silence.

[TRHeadshot]

((I meant enemy casualties))

*Relays orders* "Alrighty men, round up the P.O.W.s... We're going home!" *Cheers* "Grab what ever loot you can get, we'll be sure to spread it evenly when we return to the bar.

[CrazyHobo]

Viktor was standing there, covered in blood of the soldiers he had tried to save.
He saved many, but some didn't make it. But good news is, only cliaths died, high ranking adrens and fosterns survived.
Viktor gets a radio transmision from the long range radio, he had forgotten to return to the thompson Adren of his squad.
"...any who showed cowerdice in battle are to be left to their fate"
Then he looks at the horror: one of the cliaths, that he had saved from death, was shot by an Adren. The Adren walks to the other end of the room to execute the other cliath, that Vik had saved, only to be stopped by Vik's saber.
"As your superiour, I command you to stop killing the wounded, that I have already saved."
"Command from the zero agent to kill all those who showed cowardice." - replied the Adren.
"How could he prove his bravery, if he spent the entire battle on the floor with a 7.62 bullet in his stomach? I order you to walk back to base, before I personally execute you for betreyal" - shouted Vik.
The Adren silently left, angered. The rest of the strike team left aswell. 100 people entered the warehouse. 86 are returning to the base on their own, another 6 are helped to get there, the rest are left in the warehouse, not given a proper ceremony.
Viktor looks at Ashley, who is still wearing the ZX11 armour and tells her
"You survived, so a promise is a promise. You get my LR8, I take the ZX11"
With those words, the two left the warehouse.

[Sir Modemkill, Cyborg!]

James did not start breaking down security at the 12 story building as would be expected when a crisis was over, something did not sit right with James despite having word of the AD base being destroyed, he decided to leave the maximum security protocol in place untill they at least recieved word from central command, so the snipers, patrolls, spotlights and machine gun nests would remain in place....at least for now.

It can't be right, I must be missing something James had come to the realisation that 42 AD were not enough troops to take down a base, even the most medicore of commanders should realise this, either AD's new commander is a complete imbicel or there is something james is missing...

[CrazyHobo]

Viktor walks back to the base alongside Ashley.
The three cliaths, that harrased her were standing at the door, being scared of how she looked like today.
Covered in blood, hatred in the eyes, pale skin.
Viktor turns his head to Ashley and says "I'll see to it, that your promoted. You've proven your discipline, awareness and willpower by infiltrating the enemy base"
As the words are sayed, a small smile can be seen on Ashley's face.
With that done, Vik heads back to the Wolf's Den, noticing the now heavy fortifications and patrols.
Quite a lot of security for guarding a bar

[Sir Modemkill, Cyborg!]

James's short wave radio goes off on his waist, it was the foreward lookouts "Sir, The assault group is back, they look pretty battered and covered in blood but otherwise not too many casualties" James reached for his radio and pressed the button on the side "Very well, take custody of the prisoners and have them placed into the holding cells in the basement" James was still mulling over the situation in his mind as he sat, drank and smoked.

[CrazyHobo]

James walks into the bar, the guards let him in.
He notices James having a radio convo, so doesn't bother saying "hi" to him. Not the time to do that.
Instead, Vik takes the envelope, that was on the table, reads it, then tells James.
"It doesn't make sense. This is a heavily fortified base. Atleast 200 people are needed to capture it fully. This must have been a false objective to place a fog among the lower ranking soldiersn and officers. The true objective is still not known, but I guess we will find that out, once the second envelope comes from the assault team. By the way, where is Craig? I heard he went to hunt a small team of heavily armed AD troops"

[Sir Modemkill, Cyborg!]

James sighs, then without even looking at Viktor replies "I know...I have been thinking over it aswell and I can't come up with anything..." James takes another gulp of his whiskey finishing the glass and placing it next to the large collection of already empty glasses on the table "Im keeping security tight for now, we can't afford to take chances right now" James pauses then looks directly at Viktor or the first time "How many proved themselves worthy today?" he asked, his voice sounding somehow a little softer than his usual harsh tone.

[CrazyHobo]

"My entire recon team, including Ashley, has proven themselves worthy. The rest you'll get from the reports of the other officers." - sayes Vik, as he notices, how the athro, that was leading the assault enters the room, with the second envelope in hand. He passes it to James, then reports.
"We are currently interogating the prisoners, but they are not telling much"
"No wonder, we killed most of the high ranking officers, all that's left are the lower rankers" - remarks Vik.
"Are you saying my decision was wrong, when I fought for the glory, when you were sitting in the safety of the roof with your team?" - angrily asked the other Athro.
"I'm saying, that we killed all the higher ranking enemy officers. If you ever want to have a blade dance with me, you better know, that you won't even last 10 seconds against me" - sayed Vik with an angrily annoyed voice.
"Think your better then me, because you have a zero agent as your buddy?"
"I'm better then you, because I think, while you can only break bricks with your head like a grunt"
Then the second athro takes out his machete, only to have a saber at his neck almost instantly.

[Sir Modemkill, Cyborg!]

James sits quietly through the whole thing with his eyes shut, as soon as blades are drawn he opens his eyes and in a harsh but quiet tone says "Thats enough, both of you" James looks to Thomas the Athro first "Viktor and his team were recon, there only to provide fire support, be gratefull they entered the building at all" James chose to ignore his earlier remark about them being friends, James next turned to Viktor "You should know better than to let anger get the better of you so easily, now both of you sheath those blades, I expect a full report from both of you on the battle and your recomendations for promotion and dismissal by tomorow" James waits a moment to let that sink in then continues to say "If you both have a problem to settle you know where the arena is....outside" James then looks back to Viktor "Take charge of the interigation downstairs, with your abilities you should have them begging you to tell you everything they know, when you feel they have outlived their usefullness, execute them, that is all, dismissed"

[CrazyHobo]

Viktor hides his sabre, then turns to James and says "For the glory". Thomas does the same.
When leaving the bar, Viktor turns to Thomas, and says "One more stunt like that, and you'll have to go outside with me", with a cold voice. Thomas noded in return.
Viktor makes his way to the Adren quarters, where he meets the two adrens, that were in his recon team. He orders them a report on who's worthy for promotions by the end of this day. Then those two run to the fosterns to do the same, only earlier.
Vik makes his way downstairs, where the prisoners are sitting at.
23 prisoners. Mostly ordinary grunt soldiers. 3 officers remaining, and even they seem to be low ranked.
"I am here to lead the interogation on behalf of the zero agent's order. I request a room with their most high ranking officer in 2 minutes"
The Adren, that was placed there saluted Vik and told the two fosterns to release the third officer, then they took him to a small room.
Small, dirty, little lighting, smelly, creepy, dark. Perfect for interogation.
Viktor sits down, infront of the table, the prisoner has done the same.
Viktor takes a good look at his prisoner, something doesn't seem right. His eyes are full of fear, fear of death. From what Viktor heard, Ascending Dawn soldier, before becoming officers, are put in a rigid training procedure, in which they loose fear of death and swear loyalty to the light, even if it means dying for making their idea a reality. This "officer", sitting infront of him is scared, like he never did that training.
"Your not a real Ascending Dawn officer, are you?" - Vik asks.
No reply, but Vik doesn't need it. The eyes, the body language has already told him everything he needs.

[Sir Modemkill, Cyborg!]

As Viktor and Thomas make their way out the door James lights up another ciggarette then picls up the envelope that was taken from an AD officer, he opens it and reads the contents.

Team four.

Your orders are simple, you are to provide distraction to the local power here known as Fenrirs Fangs under the guise of their enemy Ascending Dawn, Several crates full of AD Armorments are at your disposal taken from our search earlier this year in their territory, wear them, The purpose of your mission is to keep suspicion from falling on the other teams as they search the ruins for it, we cannot let anything stand in the way of us finding it, you know as well as I what would happen were it to fall into anyone elses hands

Do not fail me.

No signature is given I don't like the looks of this... James pockets the letter and orders another drink.

[CrazyHobo]

Viktor makes his way back to the bar.
Once there, he tells James from the other end of the room.
"They are not real Ascending Dawn soldiers. They are too afraid of death and you and I both know, that Ascending Dawn is a worthy enemy, that will rather die, then have a life of shame and embarassment. This is all a set up. A distraction from something bigger.".
James's eyes are the same as usual, but Vik is guessing, that James has already read the envelope.
"What does it say?" - came from the lips of Vik.

[Sir Modemkill, Cyborg!]

"It's not good whatever it is, It does not exactly give much detail of anything but something bigger is definatly going on here" James takes the paper from his pocket and hands it to Viktor to read, while he waits for him to read it he lights up another one of his seemingly endless supply of ciggarettes Im going to need another lighter soon he thinks to himself as he pockets the nearly empty bic lighter.

[CrazyHobo]

Putting the paper back on the table, Vik turns to James.
"It's exactly what I thought. But what anyone find pricefull in these corners of the city? Listen, Thugg is taking too long, must have found something usefull. We need to establish a radio transmission with him."
Viktor walks to the radio man and tells him.
"Get Thugg and his team on the radio, I want a report on what they found"
Then he turns to James, who is once again smoking, then taking a shot of whiskey.
"What should I do with the prisoners?"