:. Imperial Palace Ball

"Hello can anyone hear me... hello" shouted Motoko into the radio before chucking it back down the corridor however, this brought her arm out into the path of fire and a few rounds caught her exposed forearm blasting bullets straight through. yelling out in pain Motoko withdrew her arm and made her way back up the stairs before entering the ball room again with blood all over her military uniform.

OOC: Someone had to get hurt :). I also just remembered she isnt wearing a dress she is wearing a military uniform.

This post has been edited by Forces of NOD on Jul 26 2007, 07:05 PM

Justinian gets up horrified at what just happened. He picks up his radis and tells Baron Uberstein the code to get into the server room. Justinian looks up again and sees three men dressed in all black decending toward him. He pulls out his gun and starts shooting at them, while running down the hall.

Two GAIN troops come down from the opposite direction and stop Justinian, "what's wrong sir?" The spooks fallowing Justinian fire at him and the GAIN troops. "That is what's wrong" Justinian says. They start running toward the bunker entrance, when a dark and sinister voice comes over the pa system (think Yuri from C&C red alert2).

"Emperor Justinian this is your captor, I have ordered the capture of you and all delegates in the palace. You will not be harmed… yet, but if you continue to resist there may be an uncontrollable accident."

Meanwhile the Arctic special operations team is pinned down outside the palace. Two of the soldiers are bleeding against a wall, wounded. The bodies of a dozen terrorists lie around the corner while the whine of a turning sentry gun emanates from further down the way. Another ten GAIN soldiers, just arrived, stand behind the wall with them. Some of the dead terrorists have large, messy holes blown in their chests from the Jackhammer one of the team brought.

Vedran, hearing the announcement, orders his bodyguards to get rid of their weapons. They do, but the president manages to conceal the handgun. "That means we'd better surrender, eh Emperor? Justinian?" Vedran notices that in the heat of battle the groups got separated.

This post has been edited by Vedran on Jul 26 2007, 07:11 PM

“Grenade!”
*BOOM*
Several minutes later Generalissimo’s impromptu group has made moderate progress against the automated defenses, already making it out into the courtyard.

"Lieutenant, provide suppression fire while we take out that gun…"

"Good than consider this a promotion. "
RATATATATATAT
(Posted Image)
And thus falls Procinctia’s first casualties of the day.

Generalissimo’s group:
Generalissimo and Ms. Atka, one of Lady Liselle’s military escorts, two Section Eight agents, three Finnish bodyguards, four Cuban soldiers, five Transvaal security officers, three members of the Procinctia delegation and six Procinctia commandos, and one of Don Brando’s men.
Losses: Three Procinctia Commandos, and most of the Union of Socialists guard.
7 Sentry Guns destroyed

This post has been edited by Generalissimo on Jul 26 2007, 10:56 PM

The helicopter Annan was being transported in, a Bell 401 (civilian), landed on the military facility's helipad, and he ran inside. Already the soldiers were aware of the situation. Annan ran into the general's office and demanded what was going on.

The General in charge at the facility looked up at Annan, and smiled, "The Palace situation is being dealt with, please return to your estates."

Annan knew a liar when he saw one, and demanded once more, "What is going on General?"

The General's face turned mad, "Son, you're asking too much, now I suggest you keep your mouth shut and walk away." At that moment, the screen behind the General went over his public commands.

Annan slowly reached behind his back, where he had a small handgun.

The General turned around, his face fell in shock, and he spun back, "Sorry, that was classified, I'm afraid i'll have to get rid of you." When he said that he attempted to take out his gun but Annan had already pulled out his and shot the General. Annan walked up to him, and saw a contract.

Seems like the General was working for Dark Hand. An entire squad of troops ran into the room and aimed their guns at Annan. "Freeze!"

Annan twisted around, picked up the contract, and showed them the words. They immediately put down their guns and asked what to do now.

"I'm not a military man, I'm a banker. However, the Vozhd and I have a personal comlink, i'll contact him." Annan spoke quickly and took out a small device out of his pocket. It was like a Text Messenger. He requested permission to send all units and the situation.

Solomon, who had disappeared in the hub bub, appears as if out of thin air, ghat in hand...

"Were are the intruders, he asks, im ready"

ooc: Annan, you have permission to use your armed forces.

ic:
Uberstein punched in the code, and opened the door. Suddenly the window across the hall shattered as Dark Hand troops burst though on zip-lines. He pulled out his pistol and shot two though the chest before going into the server room, closeing the door behind him.
"Now, the robotic turrets should shut off if I take out the entire system...Scheiße, I don't know anything about computers!" He said to himself. He pulled out his pistol and shot the server several times untill it stopped makeing noise.
"That should do it...I think"

He pulled out his radio again, and called his escort. "Get those F***ing Black Eagle tanks over here, there is direct contact with the Terrorists."
He then changed the freqency to Justinian's radio, "Justinian, I've taken out the server, are there any backups?"

This post has been edited by Baron_Uberstein on Jul 26 2007, 07:54 PM

A Shillan military helicopter flies over the palace and transmits this short message before departing the area.

"Prince Chang wishes to send his deepest regrets and states that his father was assassainted recently and thus was not able to attend the ball. There is currently a civil war raging in what was the Shilla Commonwealth which is currently holding the attention of Prince Chang."

The turning turret near the Arctic team and GAIN troops started whining at a higher pitch, and the rapid fire was heard as well as screams.

"I didn't see anyone go over there," one of the GAIN troops commented. An Arctic soldier took a quick look when he thought the turret was facing the other way, and when he took cover again he reported what he saw. "It's shooting the terrorists, someone must have done something to make it disregard the FOF tags." After a few more seconds of mayhem the gunfire stopped. The soldiers stood from behind their cover. The sentry gun was facing directly at them but it didn't fire. "Someone shut it down. Now we have a chance," someone said.

Another soldier commented, "That may be just the ones in this section of the palace, we should get the wounded out of here."

Just in case there was a remote power source for these things, the soldier with the Jackhammer blasted the base, detaching the gun and let it fall to the ground.

This post has been edited by Vedran on Jul 26 2007, 08:02 PM

OOC: There is usually a back up system to things like that.

IC: Annan received a message from the Vozhd, granting to bring in all forces. Annan ran to the transmission station, and sent out a message to all units.

"Calling all units, strike the Imperial Palace. Dark Hand operatives taking all delegates captive. Proceed with caution, some turrets may open fire. Only destroy what is needed. Bring armored units to assist."

Annan turned away from the panel, and got together a squadron of the top soldiers. He put on armor, and suited up. This was all new to him, but losing every single person would be devastating. He and the squad entered the most armored thing there was there, and took off towards the palace. The radar in the APC showed the other units flanking the palace. Casualties would be expected.

Justinian and the two GAIN soldiers take cover behind sculptures lining the Grand Hall, Justinian pulls out his MP5A3 and fires a storm of bullets at the spook soldiers fallowing them. The spooks fall limp to the ground, and justinian runs down the stairs to the bunker. Just before he gets there he sees the group of delegates, "What's wrong, where's Motoko?"

at that moment Baron Uberstein's voice comes over the radio, and Justinian puts the radio up to his ear. The signal is fuzzy, but he is able to understand what is important, "There is a back up in the bunker, I have about a minute to open this door and shut it off." Justinian runs up to the door and enters the code, and places his palm on the bioreader. The door opens and Justinian escorts everyone in to the first room.

As every single unit made it's way to the palace, Annan went over plans. All he could really think of was to flank the place and to move in slowly. It would work, the numbers would overwhelm the Dark Hand, unless they had aircraft too...

Tasking some of the GAIN soldiers to remove the wounded soldiers, the now 6-man Arctic team made its way through the palace, encountering little opposition. They finally found the president, seemingly unarmed, one of his bodyguards missing, presumably dead. He had decided to enter a room near the center of the palace to wait out the attack. One of the soldiers handed the remaining bodyguard a gun and they took up positions to kill anything that looked like a member of the Dark Hand.

OOC: We left out a bunch of people so I'm just going to wait a while before posting again.

Uberstein turned off his radio. "With the autoturrets taken care of, and GAIN forces on their way, I guess I can just wait here. The door looked about an inch think, and it's steel, so I don't have to worry about much." He said to himself as he reloaded his pistol.

At last, the units reached the Palace, and immediately Dark Hand opened fire. They were set up all over the lands, and they used quite professional tactics against the units. The radio was being overloaded with "Help!", "Man down!", and "Too many of them!" messages, and Annan didn't know what to do. He pressed forward through the middle of the courtyard, with the Dark Hand firing at the APC. The armor seemed to be holding out, until a couple land mines blew up right below the APC. It got thrown to the side and went into flames. Annan and the men inside the APC clung onto whatever they could, and jumped out of the APC. The rest of the units were a bit behind them, and they were all alone. Them, against many Dark Hand operatives. Annan crouched down, and loaded his Tec 9. He pulled the trigger whenever he saw a Dark Hand, and bullets blazed by his head. The other soldiers were covering him, and killing the Dark Hand. They were doing what they did best.

It seemed like the middle was covered with land mines, so the units had to break formation and go by the sides. Annan and his squad used the trees and shadows as cover, and at last they reached the Palace walls. After ducking into a hidden spot, they rested, and all of a sudden heard the turrets firing. They had enabled once again. Annan hoped that the units would pull through, and he also hoped that someone inside the Palace would be able to disable them once more...

Once inside the bunker Justinian finds the control panel for the palace's automated defense system. He punches in the code and all the machine gun turrets go offline. Justinian turns on the pa system, "attention Dark Hand, you have failed."

Annan heard the turrets die down. The units would pull through for sure now. The squad looked for an open window, and jumped in. After a few shots, they helped Annan in. They slowly made their way into the middle of the main room, and as Dark Hand initiatives moved in (with the soldiers shooting them of course), Annan was watching for ways out. Just as the stream of Dark Hand men stopped, the units made it to the palace itself and many soldiers streamed into the palace. The mechanized units were outside patrolling, with some soldiers outside.

As the commotion dies down, CSM and his entourage are safe to stand. CSM runs back to the videolink and connects with the Jesusland Military Headquarters.

"What's up, Mr. Secretary?"
"A scout drone was shot down in the backwoods of Slavorussia. \m/ Satellites are scanning the area now."
"Great. Please upload all finds to the Slavorussian database."
"Will do, sir."

CSM leaves the room and returns to the Prime Minister.

"Well, that was fun."
"Not really. Those stained glass windows were priceless."
"Oh well, @#$% happens. Anyway, I think we have a lead on where warbud's HQ is. I'll update you."
"Thank you."

And so CSM pours another glass of brandy and relaxes.


ooc: I made this thread cooler. :awesome:

General Castr0 comes out from behind a fallen table.
"Goddamn it, why does this happen everytime i try to have a party. In the 60's I was having this great gala and these CIA bastards tried to hand me a C4 cigar..."

Meanwhile, he calls his transport
"Yeah Franco, get your chopper down here NOW. I dont care if you're tired. Get in the freaking chopper."

The Dark Hand recognizes it's defeat and try to escape when the Imperial Army rolls up in pointing high powered weapons at them. "By order of the Emperor and the Royal Empire of Slavorussia you are under arrest, for attempted kidnapping and murder."

In the palace Justinian steps out of the bunker and begins talking to himself, "I just spent millions rebuilding this place, and now it's ruined again. 100 year old glass ceiling destroyed, Damn terrorists."