Roleplay part 6

Yes, UltimLux has hit the mark quite well. It would be quite Out of Character for some of us to be amazed at this Metro 2, and I doubt Jet would instantly say yes to a cigar from someone we just met. Especially if it would mean smoking in the surface.

"Good that we see eye to eye. Now sit down and keep quiet, there's another problem we have to deal with." I said to the new-newcomer. Atleast he was... being cooperative. I turned to the other man who was talking about his Metro 2 and said, "And you were hoping to hitch in? Sorry, no can do. You're as agile as a pregnant cow, and as dextrous as a broken sprocket. Besides, we have a job, and idiots who are stupid enough to unmask themselves in the surface aren't something we need on it."

As I said this, Darkbringer shouted angrily, while opening fire with his shooter. Instinctively, I turned around and began to open fire as well, only seeing a glimpse of my target, a dark blur of shadows. "Chyort!" I cursed as my rifle went over my mark, "The hell in shit's name? Die, sooka!"

 

"Alright everyone, pick up your guns! You too, strangers. We're all humans here and we have bigger problems to deal with right now than pointing guns at each other and saying who did what. We're going to need all the firepower we can get." I picked up the newcomer's weapon and passed it to him. He seemed like a smart man, so I decided to risk it. "Now let's move up onto the second floor. From the looks of things, we are going to get overrun by swarms of these ubloodki soon. If we run out now - we will get slaughtered. We'll have higher chances of survival if we retreat up the stories of the building, as that way we won't have to worry about any side entrances or doors; we'll only have to cover the staircases. Judging by our numbers, we should have enough ammo to hold off a few waves of these bastards."

I wanted to wipe a bit of sweat from my forehead, but then I realized I still had my gas mask on. I paused for a moment to catch a breath, then continued: "If we show these snouts who's boss by holding out here for long enough, they'll retreat and stop the attack. They are mutants, but they're not stupid. They still have animal instincts." I checked the magazine of my AK, switched to semi-automatic and started making my way up the stairs. "Come on people, let's move! Those with long-range weapons: look out the windows and give them hell. Those with pistols and automatic weapons: surround the staircases and point your guns down there." I looked at my watch to see how much time I had left with this filter and sighed in relief, only to jump after hearing an increasing number of howls and growls from outside. "Let's make every bullet count, comrades."

 

*I just coud not believe some idiot would take his mask off up in the surface. suddenly he was giving me a cigar. I took it just to speed up the process of getting the truth out of them when Dark's warning changed everything. as quickly as we could we got ready. I pointed my IL85 towards the back and saw dark shadows closing in rapidly. the only chance was upstairs*

'Dark, upstairs, go! I'll cover you!' I said shooting a volley towards the dark shadows getting closer.

 

Accepting my pistol back from the tall man, I ducked as the woman fired off a volley towards the back and the man who had told me to put down my weapon started firing towards the front. These people are going to get me killed. Tucking it back into my holster, I pulled the brown coated man to his feet, and turned towards the stairs.

I bounded after the man I assumed was "Dark" and rushed upstairs, grabbing my rifle from its place against the wall as I did. At the top, I picked my gear up from the floor and slung the backpack over my shoulder. "Watch that big window at the back, Dark." I called. There were dark shadows moving across it.

 

Suddenly the beast lunged for Darkbringer and he fired twice into flesh. It crumpled onto the floor nearly hitting him as dark jumped back onto the floor. Seconds later another beast came roaring out of the darkness. Pyotr shot but the beast was moving to fast and his shot missed. I had to react. Shouldering my rifle I fired a lengthy burst into it's side putting it down for good. Then running over to Dark I gave him my hand to help him up. As I did my eyes caught glimpse of the massive horde charging at us. Not wasting time I booked it up the stairs and took place at a window next to Benji who was just as amazed as me seeing the horde.

As I stuck my rifle out the window I could see Zhenya across the street. All alone. All we could hope for was that the beasts did not see him. "well, no time to lose" I thought. "if you've got a shot take it!" I yelled.

 

Seeing that the situation wad getting bad I decided to use my prototype grenades. "stand back" I yelled at the top of my lungs. I threw a fungus gernade that held the mutants in place and we all shot at them with a volley of bullets but more and more of these came from the horizon yelling out a stupendous howel.

 

Shortly after my close shave with the howler, Dima helped me up and we ran to the others on the second floor. Benjamin had opened fire, and I quickly joined in. The mechanical precision in the time it took from you fired the shot until the shell hit the ground made our turkey shoot sound like a symphony, the wind outside acting as violin.

We thinned out the horde rapidly, but they were quickly replaced by other, even more willing mutants. They were driven by their instincts, an ancient force, overruling what ever brain capacity they might have left, pushing them forward to the death.
I thought about an old military saying: "God will judge our enemies, we'll just arrange the meeting". As we didn't exactly judge our enemies, but more shot everything that moved, I found that saying quite fitting for this situation.

 

"N-No grenades you schmuck" the building could come down on us!" I shouted as the new guy who claimed to be an egghead tossed them against the muties charging us. I wondered why he was going to my Tulskaya, my homestation, had something happened?

I shook of the troubling thoughts about home as the situation grew more and more dire for every second. I positioned myself so I could cover Dark and Pyotr when they would retreat upstairs. "M-move people, this is n-not a drill"

 

We need to trap them I realized so I yelled "dont let them get close while I load my volt driver"
The heat from it could melt the snow and trap the mutants in a frosty sheet of fleet.
"go" I yelled at them to signal firing. In the blackest of nights the volt driver's spark was almost as butiful as the arkaling snow in the morning.
The snow was melting and traping the instinct driven beasts into the immovable piles of snow

 

*we were in the middle of a deadly fight when a thought came to my head. in a situation like this, Jet had always been my decoy so I could get to safety quickly, joining me afterwards and acted as bait for me more than once. slowly I unstraped the lid of her 'carrier', and placing a hand on her neck, stroke her once. then, in a low voice said to her to go. she shot off like a bullet towards the stairs and out the back. I took my binocs out and scaned the area, smiling. I saw her run across the courtyard at top speed*

'there she goes, good girl' I said in a whisper.

*after the newcomer with the bolt driver managed to trap some of the beasts in the snow, the mutties that were left suddenly stopped in their tracks and went through the back door, chasing after Jet. if all went well, she would be back soon enough and the mutties would have been side tracked enough to give us some breathing space. I rested my back against the wall and took a deep breath*

'right guys, we wait five minutes, then we get the hell out of here, back down the metro. the next entrance is about ten minutes run. we will make it, if we go as quickly as possible, as quietly as possible, understood? Jet will find me, don't worry about her' I said looking at the two newcomers with a hard, cold look.

 

"okay and then from there we can go to my base and stock up " I said in a hurried tone twoards the beatiful lady.
But we needed luck I thought and thenn i'll tell why we need to take the metro 2
but my head started pounding almost like a dark ones influence and in a hurried fashion I yellef"run as soon as possible"
i had no idea what was stressing me so badly.

 

*I listend to what the bolt driver guy had to say and shook my head*

'we regroup first, rest, have a smoke and a coffee, and then, once you two tell us who you are, and what you want, we will decide what to do, and only then. and to be honest, going around metro 2 is not my idea of fun'

*I took out my radio and called Zhenya*

'Zhenya, you copy? come back to us, we are gonna make a run for it' I scanned the area again, no mutties.

 

"I'm n-not going anywhere til I know w-why you are going to tulskaya" I said in threatening tone and and aimed my rifle at the egghead and waited for a reply while Odessa called for Zhenya and the others reloaded and took a breather. I had to know if there was a threat to the station. "As far as I know there is no way to metro 2 from there."

 

It's the only way to my secret metro 2 tunnel I said not scared at all
note this was a short post cuase im wating for odessa to say move out

 

*I lokked at the egghead and was about to say something when Zhenya came running*

'now is not the time, we need to get the hell out of here first. Jet might be able to buy us ten minutes, no more, so let's go and get down as soon as we possibly can' saying this I ran for the exit, took a left turn and headed across an empty street, towards a building in the far right, all the time my eyes scanning for danger and my ears listening to the night.

*sweat was puring down my face, but I ignored it. in the corner of my eye I saw a low dark shadow come towards us and Jet came bounding up. she jumped on my shoulder and from there back into her 'carrier'*

'we are nearly there guys, just a last effort' I said not looking back.

 

"No need for such trobull i will follow you to the ends of hell" I said in an unshaken voice to the man ."also I gotta admit your gas mask is epic" trying to sweet talk the man.