Sutoratosu

here's my Law that I use in place of Murphy's... "Murphy's and Smith's Laws are hogwash; anything that can go wrong will only go wrong if people do not act intelligently to prevent the situation from escalating." -Stratos's Law EDIT: And as for Ethic right now, no Interlopers, please... It's fine to be able to see what's going on, but there really isn't anything anyone can do to help him at this time. It's a battle he'll have to fight on his own. And it's also a battle in which he is guaranteed to die...the odds simply are entirely against his favor... but after he dies... now that's where the real fun will begin...

"I'm ready for action if I can just get a bandage on this," General McCarthy looked on as Nathan limped over, and cursed under his breath... Damn it... looks like there are injuries... The General Listened as Clint explained that they would probably need to heal their GAOs before embarking on the mission... Looks like Medical would be an issue here... though, perhaps not... They would have to pass by the doors to the Medical center on the way to the Atrium.... "Alright then." McCarthy said to the squadron, then turned to Erick "Freeman, help Grey." "Yes Sir." Erick replied, walking over to Nathan and putting his arm under his so that Nathan would be able to support the weight that would've been put on his injured leg onto Erick instead. The General continued speaking "Seeing as how we have an injury and most likely your GAOs are exhausted... We will stop in the Medical Center on our way to the Atrium, there's healing machines for the GAOs and I'm sure Dr.Ray can conjure up something for that bullet in Grey's leg... Which I'm sure was intentional given the fact that it's pretty much impossible for people getting hit by friendly the way you all were focusing your attack... I'll have to find the soldier who made the shot, but that's a matter for another time..." He turned and started walking off towards Central Command, echoing behind him as he set off with a brisk pace. "Operation Frozen Strom is a go! Let's move out, Fox1!!" Dr.Ray and Surge marched off after his wake, Erick turned to Nathan "You ready to start the walk, Grey?"

^allright, Murdoc lets go with that... again, sorry about fucking up like that though... I'll wait for Nathan to wake up and join in before I have the General or any one else go any further. (IE, right now, no one is to post next until Murdoc has) anyways, it's yalls first mission... a bit of debriefing is in order... Mission: Operation Frozen Storm Objective: Kill Ditto-Articuno Mission Party: (Formerly Cadet) Squadron Fox1 Staff Sergeant Matthew D. Surge General of the Army Arnold D. McCarthy Dr. Urban James Ray Professor Samuel Oak Professor Rodrik Rowan Lieutenant Donovan Caraway, Military Police Officer Mission Location: Fort Bexly, USA Time of Mission: 09:03 AM Current Load-out/ Equipment: 1 X-19 Assault rifle​ 5 standard issue rifles 1 MK-93 Heavy Anti-Infantry Machine gun​ 2 Beretta M11s GAOs Success Conditions: Ditto-Articuno is killed Failure Conditions: The Sqaudron is wiped out, Ditto- Articuno escapes, or Command Central is destroyed Reward: your next mission... and the honor of being able to call yourselves GAOWs... and the ability to capture GAOs directly. ((I still don't know what the hell's going on with Flux's and Maddies characters, but after Murdoc gets Nathan caught up, I'm just gonna cut the losses with them....so we're just gonna have it so that Lars and Enyo helped in the defense of the secondary entry ports but where defeated in combat and are now lying buried in the snow out cold... whether or not they embark on the mission depends on whether or not either of the two show up any time soon.))

"Those who fight for themselves in combat generaly live longer than those who fight for others... but when they die, there's no one there to mourn or remember them; they never gave themselves to anyone else is why" -Warren Lumenlux, dialog from Ending cutscene of "Zone of Enders: the Fist of Mars" (I know it was said by that character, but I can't find anything to back up the qoute and don't feel like going back to find out... might be paraphrased abit.) "Peace among men living alongside one another is not a natural state. on the contrary, the natural state of man is that of war. War manifested not only by open hostilities, but also by the constant threat of hostility. Peace, there fore, is a state that must be established by law." - Immanuel Kant, "Perpetual Peace", chapter 2

I tossed Murphy's law out of my tool kit because I find it a bit unfair to the players (Ex. In poke-war, I could've just had Articuno use Mind reader boosted, 100% accuracy sheer cold and destroy the whole defending party at the gates...then have everyone at it's mercy... though I didn't, because to me, I felt as that that would've been a real Dick move on my part...)

^ Everything that can possibly go wrong will go wrong.

Ethic Watched as the young man below finished conversing with the others and went about putting the Loving Dead back into the earth... Where those filthy hevons belonged... He was oblivious to the conversation going on between the others behind him as he looked off into the air... seeing a small rift open there, with a golden light pouring forth into the eerie red light of the night... Lucian spoke up in his mind urgently "Damn it... looks like it's begun... they're coming for us..." Ethic watched as the rift struggled to get wider... though it seemed some strange force was acting to make it close at the same time... He looked to the others with a quick glance, and realized that chances were, he was probably the only one able to see it. The Rift sealed a few seconds later, leaving the space in the air like it was before... Ethic called to Lucian mentally... "What the hell just happened?" Lucian replied a few moments later "I don't really know... I guess..." Lucian paused, apparently thinking about something "I think it has something to do with this red moon here... I can feel something wrong with my powers... Like how I can't sustain a fire... I thought it was just the fact that Ethereal Fire is weaker when exposed to the light of the moon... but then I started feeling it interfere with my other abilities as a keeper... this little thought presence I do with you... it's a lot harder for me right now than it should be... usually, it takes little effort..." Lucian stopped talking... and Ethic noticed a strange tearing sound next to his ear, he turned to see a rift like the one a while ago now next to his face, though it rippled and slammed shut within seconds of him spotting it. Lucian called in his mind, sounding a bit tired. "Damn it... looks like I'm right... what I did just know, that rift you saw... I was trying to open a door onto the Arcane Path... You've been there before... when you entered into Hell... and when a certain someone dragged you to that mock trial by the Council... Invokers can't open doors onto the path themselves, but they can still walk on it just fine... though we Keepers should be able to open Doors to it with relative ease... I tried to just now, and It was the hardest thing I've tried to do in a very long time... I couldn't keep it open for more than a few seconds, as you could see..." Lucian's form appeared sitting by Ethic's feet, the young mage's legs dangled from the branch as he held his staff in the crook of his arm and shoulder. his face had a tired, ragged look to it... "I'm even having a hard time physically manifesting myself..." He looked up at Ethic "If I'm having these issues, that means that it's only logical that all the other Keepers would have the same issues if they came here... that's probably why Longicus decided to wait for a later time rather than coming through now to kill us..." Ethic looked down to Lucian, a bit Confused as to how lucian could tell exactly who had tried to open the first rift. "Wait a minute..." he began "How do you know for sure it was Longicus, it's not like anything was visible in there other than some light..." Lucian Scoffed at this. "Like I said before my friend, other senses than just the eyes... Though... it helps that I can sense when my Former Colleagues are nearby... And it was his presence I sensed on the other side of that Rift just now..." Ethic stared up at the blood red moon. "What's the prognosis on our situation then?" "We're apparently safe from them when the moon is up in this place... though not from those things that chased us... though, come daytime..things will probably not be so...." "How much time we got till dawn?" "I can't tell... time moves differently here than what I'm used to..." The two young men stared up at the moon, wondering for how much longer they would have it's apparent protection before their hunters would be able to close in... ------------- Longicus cursed under his breath as he felt the Rift he was attempting to create collapse on itself. he tried again, getting no result at all this time "Damn it!" he called, opening a portal in a random place in the world above, and getting no difficulty as he stepped through the Rift and onto a beach with palm trees and highrises in the distance. he took a look around, then headed back onto the Arcane Path, closing the rift behind him. "What's going on? why can't I hold open this Damn Rift for more than a few seconds!?" He ground his teeth as he tried again to make a rift into the area where he knew Ray and Ethic to be due to the trackers that Maxwell had been so kind as to sew into the lining of all the articles of clothing he'd given the fugitive... he could sense Lucian nearby as well when he concentrated on finding Ethic in his mind. the result of his latest attempt was the same; Nothing, but this time, he could feel his strength waning as he tried to Rift in... like something was inversely affecting him, though he had no idea what it could be... Letting out a sigh of pure frustration, the Roman Soldier turned around and began walking back up the Path of Light, heading towards the Door way to the Arcane Sanctum... The High Keeper would have to be told of these difficulties... -----

Eh... well, not all RP host toolkits... Notus might use it (Alot) , but I for one threw mine out of the kit...

Ray and Erick Erick woke up as a cold blast of water hit him in the face. he got up and turned to find Logan's turtle GAO standing beside him, the thing launching a volley of water into Ray's face, who inturn began to stir. Erick stood up, checking his surroundings, noticing that many others were on the ground and buried in the snow. he saw his squadron mates nearby, and thought to himself What the hell happened? Ray stood up as well, looking around at the Cadets. he heard a voice calling out, "Sir! Apparently Dr. Ray and Erick are wounded, sir!" Ray responded, noticing the General walking over in the distance and realizing the voice belonged to Lionel "Relax, Everyone... We're fine..." He turned to Erick "Yeah..." He responed simply "Confused as hell about what happened... but otherwise fine" Ray spotted Salem on the ground... he could tell by the GAOs labored breathing that there was some serious injury to it. he took out its capsule and recalled him to it, stowing it back in his pocket emotionlessly as he looked up at the remains of the guard tower, remembering exactly what had happened before the gusts hit... Niles... old buddy... You deserved a better death than that... He forced himself to look away from the ruins and to General McCarthy as he approached the group, machine gun resting on his shoulder.... The man looked a tad bit like he did in some old War footage from the last days of T.W.O.T. (The War On Terror) that Ray had seen once... though his face was older and marked with years of stress now... but that powerful, determined look in his eyes... it was exactly the same... he stood silently as the General began speaking... _____________________________________________ Surge Surge watched as the Cadets came out of their places in the snow our behind buildings and began assembling. he turned and spotted the General in the distance as Erick and Ray came to and announced they were fine. He looked down at Infantry, who still burned with a white fire around it's body, the snow melting around where it stood. "Good job." he said to him, proud of the Flareon's attack that had sent the bird fleeing. it looked up to him as the flames died down around it, blowing sparks from it's mouth in acknowledgement of the compliment. the sergeant was going to address his sqaudron, but he stopped as the general drew nearer and Lionel called out to him.... The old man looked quite intimadating with that machine gun propped up to a rest on his shoulder, that fire in his eyes... Surge had seen photos of the General taken during battle in Africa... and he could still see the beast of a soldier the man was, even in his older age. he stood silently as the General began to speak _____________________________________________ General McCarthy McCarthy stopped in front of the Group of cadets, looking at each of them in turn, then to Ray and Erick as the two came to, then to surge as he stood silently. He spoke, addressing the group as a whole "Cadets..." He began "What just occurred here was an attack on this base. The attackers have been driven off for now, but there still remains the matter of the giant GAO that was apparently leading the assault..." he turned, glancing back at the soldiers tending to the wounded and dead behind him, then looked back to the cadets "Cadets, you are probably the only squadron still relatively intact after this... by intact, I mean none of your members have serious injuries or are dead." He hefted his Machine Gun off his shoulder, holding it in his hands as he continued "Given the... extreme circumstances, there is no other choice but to select you all to conduct the kill mission for that thing... Staff Sergeant Surge and Myself will be leading you in this operation. Dr.Ray will accompany due to his expertise in his field of study." He popped the safety back off the machine gun as he finished his speech "Consider yourselves no longer Cadets. Today, at this very moment..." He cleared his throat as the snow began to fall... he spoke once again, reciting the basic lines of US Army Entry Ceremony and officially inducted the Cadets into the military. "I hereby find Cadet Squadron Fox1 to be fit to enter into the Army and land corps wing of the United States armed services. From this day forward, this Squadron and it's members will not be known as "Fox1, but of a name of your choosing at a later date given the situation currently. May God help you all as you endeavor to Fulfill a Service to thine country." that done, he could now officially assign these Cadets their mission. he got right down to business. "After that thing fled, I saw it land on top of Command Central, there is only one likely place it could be hiding up there, and that is in the Atrium at the highest level of the building. Our mission is to proceed to Command Central, make our way to the roof, and finish what that thing started down here. our objective is the Death of the large Bird GAO specimen that assaulted this fortress. Now, are there any questions relating to this Mission Briefing?"

you all have basic knowledge of battlefield medicine. but If you want for Logan to serve as the main Medic on the team, then sure go right ahead... We can just say that was what he was specifically trained for during those six monthes and @ K_H I'm afraid we need to talk about that little thing you did in Post #57 in the Chapter 2 thread...and in post #59... Go back to the OP of this thread and read the rules before responding. (and there's no possible way for Eve to be able to burrow her way up into the atrium... it's on the top level of Command central... but seeing as how I'm too late to intervene for that specific bit in this situation... oh well, just gotta go with it I guess...)

I was gonna ask you, actually... well, we can just have it so that he was heading over to assist in the defense of the front gate, when McCarthy ordered the soldiers around him to hold the side entry ways... you can have him follow behind McCarthy right now as he approaches Surge and the others... As for Lars and Enyo... guess they'll get the same explanation... oh well... as long as it makes sense... Edit: OH...oh my... I'm terribly sorry about that Murdoc... seems I somehow overlooked Nathan's presence... I'll go back and edit him in to take care of that... but Lars and Enyo still get the fate of holding the side entries Edit 2: Allright, he's been inserted where he should've been... again, very sorry about messing up like that... you can write up what he did from the time after being handed the rifle to where we are now in your next post

^Lols... I see what ya did there...

Oh... don't start fighting each other, people... That thing... it's fled and is now using Roost in the Atrium. Follow Surge's orders, and hunt that thing down and kill it. you have approimately thirty minutes before it has fully healed (Those were heavy injuries from the fire blast) the General will accompany you... and Erick, if I can get him to wake up... now, where the hell did Flux and Murdoc and Maddie go? Do not fail me... That mother fucker has killed to many NPCs for one day... and as RP host, this infuriates me... my characters are my children... and as my father before once said: "Don't fuck with my children" also, @ super You are absolutely right, I say "Screw off" to that battle mechanic of one move per post... damn it, if I want my bosses to go firing off insanely sick and cruel combos, I'll do it! :Kappa:

Articuno The beast, it's name Articuno, not that any of these pathetic humans knew that, banked hard to the left as a rock snake began throwing rocks at it at such velocity it actually had a hard time timming it's movements to evade it. several minutes ago, this had been easy... it could go about wreaking as much havoc as it so pleased... as it's master had ordered it to destroy this facility... but somehow... these humans had gotten stronger.. their attacks were far more ferocious now... far better chosen... it was not often that the beast was struck by an attack, but when it did, it stung every time... The beast managed to dodge this latest round of stones being tossed into the sky, but it's evasive action had caused it to fly straight into the path of a powerful electric blast, hitting the bird on it's leg... It could no longer feel the limb, but it ignored this... it had it's mission... it's master had sent it to take down this area, and it was hell bent on doing that... It let out another screech as it decided it's current strategy was not working, leaning backwards and beginning to flap it's glorious wings with all it's might, willing for the air to turn bitter and cold... it would clear these pesky fools out of it's path one way or another... ________________________________________________ on the ground A immensely powerful gust of wind blew from the Beast, buffeting the defenders of the gate and sending the paneling of the roof of the remaining guard tower flying through the air and becoming deadly projectiles. several soldiers were picked up of their feet and sent flying backwards as the beast flapped it's wings with even more fury, generating an even stronger gust of wind and causing the air to drop to an even colder temperature, the gust blew away the smokescreen Sid had ordered his partner to make... more and more soldiers were picked up and blown away, those left standing either lay low on the ground or taking cover behind structures... many soldiers GAOs had either been recalled or had been blown away as well, laying unconscious just like many of their masters. The six Cadets had all taken refuge behind various buildings as the fiercesome windstorm tore through the defenders of the front gate, being sure to take their GAOs with them as they took cover. Surge lay on the ground, covering his neck with his hand as his face went numb from being in direct contact with the snow. he stole a galnce at the beast, seeing it still flapping furiously... then it stopped, let out a shrill screech, and it's body began glowing a bright blue as a ball of energy fromed in it's mouth like last time... like when it had killed Niles and Remus... Surge sprang up. Infantry, who had been smart and took shelter behind a building, rushed to his masters side, awaiting orders he knew would come. Surge thrust out his arm in an authoritative matter... he was quite literally the last of the Defenders of the front gate still standing. He called out his orders to infantry as the ball in the huge birds mouth grew larger... "Infantry, FIRE!" The Flareon answered immediately, digging it's paws into the earth, stabilizing itself as it began charging up a bout of combustion in it's mouth... _______________________________________________ Salem nearby, Salem Came to... he'd been picked up by the wind storm and sent flying... he had fallen unconscious upon landing. he could feel a sharp pain in his front right leg and side... he looked around, spotting his master, Dr.Ray, nearby... along with Erick....the men were unconscious and sprawled in the snow... looks like they were picked up by the winds as well... The Arcanine looked to the front entrance... seeing Surge and Infantry there, the last two standing against the bird... the tiger limped over, finding it too painful to put a lot of weight on his paw... he focused and willed his body to become cloaked in white hot flames as it had been before... it took two attempts, but finally he managed to get the fire hot enough... he began focusing power into his maw, a ball of hot flames flickering there... He aimed at Infantry, and unleashed his strongest attack, a white blast of pure fire... Infantry had an ability to gain strength from being in the presence of fire... as did he himself... he intended for his friend to gain the strength needed to strike that beast down... for the both of them. he saw as the blast hit the Flareon, engulfing it in the same white hot fire as had cloaked Salem, then the arcanine shut it's snout, the world blackening as it fell to the snow covered earth, it's consciousness fading once again... ________________________________________ Infantry Infantry could feel as a new power surged through his entire body, glowing white hot with fire... the ball of coalised flames in his mouth grew far larger and brighter, it was actually struggling to control it... in his periphery vision, he could see Salem collapsing to the ground, and he knew it was from him that this boosted strength had come from... he could sense it. the Flareon took aim at the Bird in the sky, his eyes and heart filled with a fury for those fallen, Human and GAO both... they were all in this fight together... they would all die together if this thing wasn't stopped... and Infantry knew this. He let out a fierce howl as the blast escaped his lips, hurtling right towards Articuno... he was actually straining to keep himself planted on the ground from the force of his own attack ____________________________________________ Articuno Articuno felt as the blast of white hot flames caught it right in the center of the chest as it was preparing to rise into the heavens and cirle around for an attack with the beam it had been forming.. it loosed the beam into the sky on accident as it's whole body was racked in pain... it felt as if hell itself had been unleashed... the fire licked and burned... it consumed flesh... the bird did the only thing it could thing to... it rose into the heavens and soared above the cloud layer, the blizzard ending as it retreated... it broke out of the clouds a while later, spying a garden... it descended and perched itself upon a frozen pound, a charred carcas of one of it's followers at its feet. it leaned down and ate it, then it's body glowed a pale white as it began to try and recover some strength, it's burns still very painful... _____________________________________________ at the front gate Surge cursed under his breath as the thing flew off out of sight... he turned around... he knew that some of his squad was refuged behind buildings "Fox1," he cried "Get out here, front and center! we've got a monster to chase down!" ______________________________________________ at the lesser gates McCarthy grinned as he watched a blast of white fire hit the bird, then as it flew off... he turned to see the waves backing down and retreating into the forest... Good... He thought Now to find that bird like a good general, he took survey of the battle aftermath... it wasn't good... at the front gate, he saw only surge and his GAO still standing... all others were on the ground... he looked at the men he'd personally led... and realized they hadn't faired much better... Sighing, he failed to see many men even standing still... then he noticed six cadets kneeling behind buildings Well... better than nothing... The general called out to those still standing around him "Tend to the wounded! and count the dead..." The soldiers scrambled to fulfill his orders as he walked over towards Surge and the cadets, the machine gun he'd wielded resting on his shoulder.

^*Laughs maniacally, as I did not know that until you told me*

Ethic was perplexed when he felt Ellaria snatch away her hand, turning but yet not being able to spot her... He looked to rose, about to ask where Ellaria had disappeared to, when he noticed that the crowd was growing larger below... he turned, staring at them... then grabbing hold of the tree's trunk as he felt them shake it, causing leafs to fall... We're all screwed... he thought to himself Where's Jesus when ya need him? He had actually begun hoping that some type of higher power, or even a lower power for that matter, would intervene and help them... and then he noticed as a voice echoed through the air... young sounding, like his own did... "Back off" it said, and surprisingly, the Loving Dead did just that, and as the crowd parted in what seemed to be a mix of fear and... respect actually, he could see who the voice belonged to... a young man in a polo shirt and black jeans... he called up to Ethic and the Others "Oh, hi. I don't think I've seen you around yet, are you new here?" Ethic looked at the others, stealing quick glances then back at the young man on the ground... he spoke, not caring about security or trust or anything like he would've just a while earlier... this guy had just saved their asses, and Ethic figured that pegged him good enough. "Yes." He called from the tree "We just arrived here a short while ago, actually... while the sun was still up."

well, hold on on that thought now... this guy you introed may make up for all this... assuming he helps get us out of here and doesn't kill us all, of course...

Damn... knew the days down here were short... but not that short... Good God... that's barely enough time to do anything really, let alone a plan like I've outlined above... ah well... Guess we'll be sticking to the Hack and Slash method then... (Or rather, the hack and shoot method) Seems to be working so far... not... I don't really see any viable way out of this except to travel as far as we can by daylight and bunkering down in the night... seeing as how the threat after dusk is so damn great, chances are Sleep will become a very rare thing... I think it only appropriate that after about two our so days, pretty much everyone in the group will be falling out from exhaustion... unless we do sleep shifts or something... but I mean... Two to Three hours Daytime Tops? Notus, my friend... that's just cruel... even for you...

((Welcome to the game, McMc... now, down to business...)) "Silly fool... we don't fight for the mountain... We fight for the Hill!" *Round house kicks to the moon and inducts the Summit Sniper into my army* We have a new king.... his name is... ME

that's one more. well,the plans pretty much like I said above. gather some tinder and fuel come morning, spend the day setting up pyres (Preferably in a circular arrangement, forming a perimeter around where we will be taking refuge in the trees) then rig the areas by throwing down a bunch of flammable materials like dead twigs so the fires can spread (though, the Loving Dead will also do as means to spread it) then we climb les trees and wait till nightfall. after the Loving Dead pop up, we send someone (*Cough* Who can manipulate fire at will and follows a certain character as a presence at the back of his mind! *Cough*) to light the pyres and set the trap to activate. simple enough... and maybe... maybe the Drake Thead may be of some use with all that fire for Lucian to manipulate... :Kappa: gotta make them abilities as Keeper useful while they last... (We should probably set some barrier up to prevent the Loving Dead who'll be burning from coming into contact with the trees and setting them on fire as well)

Ethic took the rope in one hand and Ellaria's hand in the other... wondering why she would not to go with someone.. did she have trouble with vision or hearing r something? he simply went with the flow for now and looked back to Annie. "Nevermind!" he said "Rose came up with a solution, but you'll need to get off the branch before we can try!"

well... if we all get into trees that are a considerable distance away before setting the place alight... we could set up multiple pyres and rigg areas to go up, having someone go down and light them... And I think I now just the guy who could do that.... of course, this plan is assuming that there are others who would like to say "Aye" so that we can get a count for the group in favor.

K_H "I think that this Monster is a Dual Flying and Ice Type, so this is most likely your time to shine, those of you who have Fire, Electric, Steel, and especially those of you who have Rock Type GAOs! We cannot let this base fall!" Lt.Rinefell watched as the Cadet surprisingly took charge and began calling out advice before ordering his GAOs to assist... it was impressive to see such drive in one still in training... hell, most of the soldiers here had just for the most part of the battle been shooting... not trying to figure out an efficient method to end this mess. I'll have to make sure I mention this to the General... he thought to himself as he actually took the Cadets advice on exploiting the Affinity Trump System He reached to his belt, sending out his partner, a GAO species called "Golem" Then ordered it to begin generating Stones and tossing them at the beast over head, which it followed with out hesitation, the Thing let out a screech in pain as the blows found their mark, but it looked to have angered it more than injured. the thing circled around the crowd and let out another Screech, this one of rage as it altered it's flight path and swooped down towards the crowd at a different angle. All in the crowd, Soldiers called their GAOs over and then began taking the advice of the msyterious voice that they had heard echo up... it was a bit youngish sounding, but from what it had said, they just assumed it to belong to a high ranking officer. soon various effective moves are sent towards the beast, though it manages to dodge most of them... ______________________________________________________________________________ General McCarthy Ordered his GAO, a species named "Magmar" to unleash a torrent of flames at the advancing hovering creatures... He'd been on his way to the front gates when he noticed that the things were beginning to gather around the east and western enrty ports as well, and he had no choice but to order all of the soldiers around him, who were also heading to the front, to split themselves into two coalitions and hold the enemy back from breaking though... now the fighting was fierce at both secondary gates, with gunshots and various GAO attacks sounding off. his Magmar obeyed it's master, rushing atop the wall next to the eastern port and letting a hot bout of fire escape it's lips, charring some of the White monstrosities trying to infiltrate. McCarthy watched as the Guard tower was destroyed... and though it was quite a distance away, he could see a blonde haired soldier with a red beret rallying the troops and then attacking the huge bird that had been reported to him by Niles before his death at the hands of the very creature he had warned the general about... But the fighting was poor... random, un co-ordinated GAO attacks... then he noticed that they suddenly got much more effeicient as mostly giant rocks or electric blast or torrents of flame now went up in the beast direction... though they seemed to be missing their marks due to the massive thing's speed. His attention was stolen away as a white terror managed to get atop the wall and tackled his Magmar, sending it off balance and tumbling towards the earth. he whipped out the capsule and recalled it, saving it from the landing before taking out his beretta and putting to shoots into the thing, bringing it down. he then addressed the soldiers engaged around him "Come on!" he cried "Let's give these bastards hell!" with that, he picked up a fallen machine gun and opened fire, not noticing a certain young man dressed in black and gray in the distance... a small black lion-like GAO at his side...

no probs, es fixed now. and you all can feel free to have your GAOs to try and get a few hits in on Ditto-Articuno... gotta lower that massive invisible measurement of stamina called "Health" somehow, Right?