Possibly for UG@

[lastfeather]

1) [Combat]

[You're in a pitched battle when a Black and Blood Red machine dives into the fray, letting loose a barrage of gunfire. He took out whatever was attacking you - but the problem was you were fighting in a city! Those shots he fired off just blasted open a building that had yet to be evacuated, causing who knows how many casualties! And it

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[change_getta_1]

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What the hell are you doing?!

[And as the machine blasts away, the Black Getter grabs it and lifts it up!]

There's people still inside, you ass!

[lastfeather]

And that honestly affects the mission how?

[The pilot replied evenly as the machine's Orange mono-eye focused on the Black Getter's cockpit.]

They didn't evacuate fast enough its their problem. They should've ran faster

[It raised a machinegun up.... and fired past the Black Getter's head... something explodes behind it.]

Now unless you want to keep arguing and get us both killed I suggest you let me go right now before something we both can't see kills us.

[change_getta_1]

You little...! Fine, you want to play it that way?

[He turns and LAUNCHES the machine towards the next target, not caring where it lands.]

[lastfeather]

[The pilot grunted and did his best to manuever his machine but slammed into the other target regardless - watching as alarms began to ring, he tasted a little blood in his mouth too. Oh look, the mook he was on was still alive. Better take care of that.]

Someone has a temper...

[desiredstrength]

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Hu...don't feel like joining them?

[Said with a wry smile as she settles down on the other end of the couch.]

Maybe you could actually make your way up for once.

[This is of course coming from someone who held no actual rank.]

[lastfeather]

Nah.. too much effort and not enough of a payout. Besides... the last thing I need is someone shooting me in the back after a bar crawl for not throwing a match or something.

[He shuffles up a little so he had an easier time to drink.]

Kinda funny to hear you of all people saying that Miss 'Independent Agent'... I didn't think this stuff was your thing.

[desiredstrength]

It isn't.

[Her eyes drift over to the TV.]

But these guys...they do end up out there one way or another. You'd be surprised by how much they reveal about themselves just by being on screen.

[lastfeather]

Making it easier money for whoever they got to butt heads with. Can't say I'm complaining... means more business for the rest of us when they get taken down a peg on the field.

[He raises an eyebrow as the two on screen are now resorting to a blade on blade duel.]

That sort of stuff usually ends with one guy getting shot in the face when we're out there.

[A chuckle and a shaking of his head.]

Swear to god its like watching a Comedy when you're drunk.

[momentoftherose]

[1]

Long afterwards, Doctor Zero is exhausted. Blood splatters still show on her uniform, a reminder of the attack. She remembers the way his AC had simply dropped in, heeding neither sense nor rules of engagement, and punched holes through the building and straight out the other side. The building had become a charnel house, too loud even to hear the autocannon rounds as they punched cinder block sized holes through the building and its inhabitants. Only her Stalkers had saved her.

She'd worked frantically for hours afterwards. Parents had begged her with their dying breaths to 'bring back' their children, as they'd heard the Ressurection Corps could do.

Exhausted, she still had the energy left to throw a human hand onto the pages of his book. A child's hand.

[lastfeather]

[Ryou raised an eyebrow as the semi-dried blood smeared on the page. He looked coolly at the hand as he picked it up by the thumb and carelessly tossed it over his shoulder like a crumpled scrap of paper before looking at the Doctor.]

You know, there are easier ways to get my attention than tossing around body parts.

[momentoftherose]

"Like killing civilians?"

She was enraged by flat response. Something needed to be done. About him. To him. She ran through every threat, every little piece of leverage she could think of in her mind. Only one seemed believable at that point.

"Rogue's Roost will hear about this."

[lastfeather]

The mission parameters didn't state that protection of the Civilian Populace was necessary. If anything they were in the way, just like they always are. I'm a mercenary. I'm paid to kill, burn and generally destroy things. You want someone to get killed trying to protect a bunch of bullet magnets, get a soldier.

[If she was angry before at his last statement, this would outright drive her berserk.]

Lives are cheap. Cheaper than the bullets that they had the problem of being in front of. If you want to toss a threat that won't do anything to me in the long run, go right ahead.

[bratty_savior]

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[Almost immediately the Shiranui grabs the enemy that you just took out and jumps in the way of the barrage of gunfire. Using the corpse as a shield he advanced up getting closer and closer to the AC until he was right up in it's face.]

If you don't practice some trigger discipline soon you might hit the reactor. I'm sure you don't want to be part of that explosion.

[lastfeather]

[Now this was something he can get. One of his guns is raised to the air while he carefully tracks the others and fires with careful bursts.]

Anything else you want to add that everyone else didn't? There wasn't a fucking reactor in the goddamn briefing.

[bratty_savior]

I'm not talking about one in the building.

[The frame of the machine he was holding falls apart revealing that it's reactor that looked ready to explode. Which is promptly tossed at another group above them taking it out.]

I was talking about the one that I was just threatening you with. Now if you're done with with wasting both ammo and time, I'd appreciate it if you would try to complete this mission without causing any more casualties.

[lastfeather]

[He made a note of this. The reactors of machines back in Layered were not as volatile as above ground... maybe not Kisaragi's reactors though... bah, a tangent for another time.]

We haven't taken any casualties as far as I've checked. Or is this another spiel about protecting civilians?

[i_like_shades]

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[The Onslaught shifted its laser rifle from the now downed attacker towards the interloper and fires it. The shot flies between the torso and arm and takes out an enemy target but comes out the other end to roast a pedestrian at the end of the street before blowing into an occupied hotel lobby.]

You have better things you should be worried about.

[While the obvious guess would be the other pilots own safety, he was actually more concerned about all that wasted money on missed shots.]

[lastfeather]

I probably do. The bills are gonna be murder...

[He barely even blinked when he saw the red blip on the radar disappear. They've been at this a while, if the man wanted to kill him here and now, he would have moved that shot a little more to the side.]

You going to start giving me a lecture on how I should give up bullets yet? I've actually been waiting for one all day.

[i_like_shades]

Unlike certain other people, I have no need to push my ways on others. You can give up bullets if you want more money but to each his or her own.

[It was another typical day at work but like other employees enlisted under Cortex, they weren't personally held liable for the ill fortune of others being at the wrong place at the wrong time and Castellan was calm as if he were growing grass in the yard.]

I will however say if you are the type to find fun in being trigger happy, energy weapons hurt less on the wallet.

[It was an understatement.]

[lastfeather]

[He chuckled at that, it did make a lot of sense in a way.]

Probably true, right until something important burns out. I'll take it under advisory.

[He said the last right as he unleashed a burst of gunfire at an attack helicopter above them, watching as it ground itself into a building before exploding in a vibrant plume of orange. He clucked his tongue in annoyance when he got a better look at just how many bullets he used.]

...REALLY taking it under advisory