Chapter 3-A: Calm before the Storm Part 2

Well.. prepare to lose it.

=I peek at my cards and tap the table=

Check.

Anog wrote:

Well.. prepare to lose it.

=I peek at my cards and tap the table=

Check.

(I look at my cards)*Not good*

(I show my cards) Your turn

=I flip out three community cards=

I bet

=I lay 5 credits on the table=

Anog wrote:

=I flip out three community cards=

I bet

=I lay 5 credits on the table=

(I lay 10 credits on the table)

Don't make a stupid move Marcus

(I look at my cards)

I got a bad feeling about this...

= sarcastically = Nice Poker face

=I lay 5 credits down to match his ten and lay another card down=

Well.. go ahead and bet.

(As he searches he gathers ammo and other things)
(He is about to leave when he accidentally pressed a button)
(The wall moved to the left revealing anoher portion)
Interesting
(He walks into the secret room)
(Spartan Armor sets line the walls)
Well it looks like I found what I wanted

(He takes some armor from various sets and configures them)
(He gets the suit on)
(The head armor is EVA, left shoulder: EVA, right shoulder: EVA, left wrist: Jackel Shield, Knee armor: Fj/ Para, Chest: Assault/Commando)

Ready to Rock.

(He departs for the hanger)

=Ash walks back over to the terminal=
I think I should take a closer look at this info...

=She opens the file and starts studying it=

=i smile= Then I guess I don't have to explain it. Cmon, don't we have someplace to be? Like an abandoned training facility?

Well yeah, i suppose it would be better to scout it beforehand...

Would you like to do that now? Or when my (mock drama) horrendous injuries have managed to free themselves of this awful condition? (end) =i smile and grab her hand=

I wasn't thinking about you actually. Maybe Ash could come help me.

Oh, my wounded heart! =i laugh= I don't have to be in combat, I can just help you open doors. Unless you know how to open an encrypted hardline with tertiary security systems that will fry the wire if a mistake is made. I don't mean it as an insult, I just mean it as.....not an insult. I don't know what it is, now that I say it.

No i don't know how to do that. That's why i have this.

I pull a pack of plasma charges from my satchel

Generally gets through whatever i want to go through.

I shrug nonchalantly

Aw, you don't want to go through the exciting world of typing at a computer? =i kiss her= Can't blame you.

I turn my head away before he kisses me

No, i don't.

=i sigh= Okay, well. If you do decide you need my help, I'll be in the Dream of Luck. I need to fix the console anyway.

I shrug and head to off to the bridge to find Ash. Once i get there i see her waiting much to my surprise.

Hey you. Fancy a little recon? Bit of time away from all this.

I gesture to the ship around us

=She turns around and smiles at Jay=
Sounds good... How you doing anyway?

I shrug again and head down to the hanger with her

Meh, i don't know. What about you?

=i head off to the hanger bay, and begin working on the Dream of Luck's console that I smashed....on accident. Don't look at me like that, I wasn't really paying attention=

Okay, now, I need to reroute power for a second......ow, not now! =mumbles=

O'k I guess.. A little lost.

=She laughs to herself=
I've never done anything away from the unsc...

=She grabs a sniper rifle from a weapon stash and slings it over her back=

Aha don't worry about that then. We were all the same at some point.

I gesture to a pelican

You first? I'll be flying

=i continue fiddling with the console= Okay, this button goes here....that button there....ow! I thought you had no power you stupid thing.

=She nods and climbs inside=
I hope were alone down there...

=She straps herself in=

(He bursts off in the sabre and gets to the Tropheaum)
(He sprints off to the Bridge)
@All
Hope you aint startin without me

...

Hmm. No one here.

=heads to the trophaeums hangar to go over scheduled maintennance=

I'm sure we will be. Besides

I grin at her

Me and you? Nothings has a chance in stopping us.

I climb on board the pelican and start the engines, lowering the hanger doors and taking us towards the planet

=sees draco= can i help u dude

(He walks off)
Must have missed alot of stuff

=gets bored so he decides to head to the surface in a drop pod=

=after landing he decides to pop smoke incase the others are there a well and heads back to that one temple=

So why have we come here...? I was reading up in it but I didn't find a lot.

=She loads her Rifle just in case=

Well this place should be abandoned, me and you are here just to make sure of that before everyone else comes down. But we can hod up here. it's a beautiful planet and is a good place for us to camp out.

I jump down from the pelican and walk towards the main door.

This looks like the way in.

=Ash walks closer=
Looks like the main power is out... I can open the door could take time...

=She sighs=
I should of brought tools...

=stares at the statue trying to remember where he's seen it before he gets a brief flash but dismisses it as his imagination=

It's fine. I've got a quicker way in. Unless. Hold on a second.

I comm Dormii

Oi! Flyboy, you reckon you can get us the plans for this place?

=the console is almost fixed= How in the hell did so many wires get in this thing?

=i hit a button, thinking it was the test thruster button. i end up launching, my engines offline for testing= Are you kidding me??

=i begin to drift towards the planet=

=to Jay= Um..yea. Little bit a of a problem though. I'm drifting into the atmosphere. And this time it was my fault.

Wait.. do you feel that?

=I throw down my cards.. three of a kind=

That is drop pods..

=I comm all personnel=

What is going on!?

Well he sounds on top of things...

=She smiles and takes a closer look at the door=
These doors are thick... Blast doors maybe..?

=i keep fiddling with the console= Cmon, you piece of crap, where did I go wrong?

=i get zapped= Sonofa...last time i fix you then.

=i get a sputter out of the thrusters=

=hears anogs comm message but ignores it and starts to look around for anythign he missed =

I comm back to Dormii

Get yourself out of it. Just get us the blueprints

I turn back to Ash

Oh he's never on top of things.

I wink at her

(He goes to his room)
Its quiet
This aint good

=i come back, near frantic= No armor, meo amo. I gotta ride this down, or fly it back up. Neither of which i li-- ow! gods dammit! I will hit you again you damn console! Don't make me!

=i get a few more sputters out of the thrusters, but nothing that will allow me to fly. i begin to tumble and spin= Fuu--k!

=She laughs, then looks back at the door=
What was this place made for again..?

Spartan III training. I went here at one point. This is where they found me first aswell.

I comm back to Dormii

Oh bring your ass down here then.

=She nods=
I'm just going to check over there might be a back up console..

=She points over to a small bunker=

(He grabs his Angel Maker)
(He comms to anyone)
=to all=
I think I missed the memo.

Be careful won't you? I don't think Draco would forgive me if i lost you.

I'm trying to do that without leaving a smear on the surface of this planet. or my body. You know, don't want to ruin any chances of anything like the cave in the future.

=i begin to enter the atmosphere= Oh, shit.....cmon. Cmon! Work dammit!

=i finally get the thrusters to work, but I'm going to fast to go back into space. All I can hope for is a safe-ish landing=

I sigh and mark our location for Dormii to see

There's a clearing just southwest of us. About 3 miles. Land there.