Into the Black, Part IIIc: Team Alpha

[bring_a_sponge]

"Stick close," Zed mutters, as he leads the way down the hallway.

"No damn cover here at all," he continues. "Asses hanging right out in the open."

You better believe he'll remember this moment at renovation time.

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Shooting gallery

[bring_a_sponge]

The thunder of bullets and metallic reverbs from the alien weapons still echo through the air. There are heavy shadows everywhere, here in the shooting gallery.

Most of this room is taken up by a mock-up of a city, with lots of windows and doorways. Cardboard images of strange aliens and human bad guys stand motionless at various places in the display. A small table is right in front, probably where the guns would be placed right before a test. One-way windows are set up high on the opposite wall. Probably an observation room where agents could watch how well the recruits are doing.

Right beneath those windows is a door, but it blends so well into the city scene, you'd miss it if you hadn't been told it was there.

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[sime-channel.livejournal.com]

"OIL OIL OIL OIL OIL OIL OIL OIL OIL!" Why, yes. Yes, she is hysterical. Yes. Uh huh.

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[captainryan.livejournal.com]

Ryan backs through the door getting off one final shot at the trash bin. He takes a quick glance around the room, looking sharply to check that all of the alien cutouts are really alien cutouts.

This would be more reassuring if his nose agreed with him. And if Suzi wasn't screaming 'OIL'.

He's already moving forward, putting her behind him. "Where?" he asks grimly, Deatomizer directed towards the shadows he can't see into.

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[bring_a_sponge]

Krycek and Oracle slip in after Ryan, just in time to hear Suzi's screaming.

Suzi hesitates and moment, and then points to the right wall, "There!"

"No, wait!" she turns to the left, "There!"

There's movement in the shadows, but Ryan can already see three aliens coming forward, with metallic guns in their.... hands?

And every alien has eyes of deep, deep, black....

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[gone_byebye]

Ray was holding his own against the bullets on the trashcan, but when Suzi started screaming- well. "Peter! You're doing great, keep it up!" he shouts, and dashes for the shooting gallery, 'saber in hand.

"Oh hell," he says in a small voice before pulling himself together. "Uh- I'll take that one there?"

It's not like he hasn't raised a weapon against a hostile alien before, after all. And this is one he actually knows.

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[doc-venkman.livejournal.com]

"Always am, Ray!" He yelled back to the retreating Ray as he and Bill cleaned house in the last room.

Peter had grinned back to Bill with a 'you too.' But it was time to move the party elsewhere.

He caught up with them, and skidded to a halt at the side. Oh hell... There were likely some Catholic prayers scrolling in his mind as well too now.

It was here, and it was ugly. And everything inside was screaming to

run away right the hell now.

He hoisted ol' Betsy, and got ready to aim and blast as soon as he could.

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[wheelsy_sheriff]

Bill came in behind Peter and stopped when he saw what they were facing now. "Jesus!" He brought his gun up again and sighted on one, "Well, they're not as ugly as ol' Grant was at least."

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[captainryan.livejournal.com]

Well, that certainly explains some of the scents he was getting. Live hostile targets. He doesn't smile, he's not the sort, but those who know him well can tell he's pleased about being here. This...this is what he's done for years. He's missed it.

Ryan doesn't step forward, remembering that the Oil can lash out, but he does move to keep in front of Suzi. The Deatomizer comes up and he fires at one of the aliens. Hopefully it affects them better than the trash bin.

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[sime-channel.livejournal.com]

Suzi...still hasn't remembered her shield. But she's REALLY GOOD at hiding behind Richard. Really, really good at it.

She's not screaming. But she REALLY WANTS TO BE.

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[gone_byebye]

"Suzi!" Ray calls. "Your shield! Turn on your shield!"

He's not even looking when the first alien fires. But, you know, the weapon the ugly's carrying? Might as well be a blaster. And what, exactly, does the training drone fire? Blaster bolts. The alien's not nearly as fast as the drone. As soon as the sound is in the air the 'saber is up and the first round of fire gets parried. By the time Ray realizes what he's just done there's more incoming fire, of course- but he's never had to make the parrying count more, so he's not going to bother thinking about it. He's just gonna throw himself into the fray full-bore.

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[doc-venkman.livejournal.com]

Peter was right there as well, covering for others as much as he can. Trying to avoid the blasts.

And take down the sons of bitches anyway he can.

He yelled at them, or toward the oil really, "Remember me? It's Dr. Venkman. That's right. You're going down."

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[wheelsy_sheriff]

Bill starts firing when the others do, stepping up to get closer to Suzi incase anything gets past Ryan. Although the guy really looks like he knows what he's doing so there shouldn't be too much worry for that.

"Suzi, these shield things work pretty great. I already been shot a few times by that robot thing out in the hall an ain't got no holes to show for it." She looks really, really scared. If here weren't busy shooting at ugly aliens he'd reach down and give her a hug or something.

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[bring_a_sponge]

The good news: Ryan's Deatomizer blast, richocheted blasts off Ray's lightsaber, Peter's proton stream, and Bill's pulse blasts take down the aliens within seconds.

The bad news: There are now three entities of Black Oil rising up from their steaming corpses.

Might be time to make a break for that door over there.

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[captainryan.livejournal.com]

Venkman gets a disdainfully raised brow as Ryan fires at the aliens. Civilians. The other brow goes up at the emerging Black Oil.

Hmm. That's interesting. Time to move.

"Suzi," Ryan says, keeping his voice calm and nodding a thanks to Pardy. "Once your shield is on, start moving towards the door. I'll keep you covered until you're through."

He's still firing at the masses of Oil, but he's already edging sideways. He'll be right behind her.

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[sime-channel.livejournal.com]

"Yes, Richard." Her voice wavers and she can't control it. She's heading back for the door at speed. Not anywhere near top speed, but she's certainly not walking.

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[gone_byebye]

"See you on the other side, Peter," says Ray. He wastes no further time- he just bolts.

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[wheelsy_sheriff]

"Oh hell, that's not good." He keeps shooting at the Oil, not sure of the good it's doing, and moves towards the door, hanging back just a bit to make sure everyone gets past the creepy black stuff.

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[livewithrats.livejournal.com]

"Everybody go! I'll take care of this!"

Krycek's standing his ground and watch watching the Oil figures approach with the tiiiiniest of smirks on his face. Revenge is going to be sweet.

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[twiceahero.livejournal.com]

Oracle has only been keeping half an eye on the battle, she's been staying near Zed and trying to keep him updated on the progress of the other teams while keeping the other teams up to date on everyone else's progress.

"Team Delta looks to have things under control, they should be moving on momentarily. Something is approaching Team Omega's position, I don't have a good visual of it yet."

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[doc-venkman.livejournal.com]

Peter gave Ray a cursory nod and grin before he continued firing. PKE was up around him, and doing a few more blasts with the thrower for good measure. Soften them up some.

He then slowly back up with some more fire, and there was brief glance at Krycek before he followed the group.

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[livewithrats.livejournal.com]

As soon as the group was gone and Krycek was sure they were safe, he turned to face the Oil figures with determination and revenge in his eyes.

"Come get me."

And like moths to the flame, they go --

-- and Krycek fires. Multiple shots, all searing straight through the Oil, turning them to puddles on the floor.

But one's still moving!

... well, was still moving.