>>35220165
An dark, empty warehouse.Nothing of interest.

"Where's the ship?" As you ask Vivel approaches you with a cheerful smile, your Pulser Bullpup in her hands. You gladly take it from here, giving her a nod in thanks.
"What's left is outside Boss, we're in a rather...poor part of the city. And the cops aren't too far.
"Great. We got ways out of this mess?"
Shizi answers you, looking at her handheld device.
"Lot of alleyways outside but those alone won't do, plus we might run into some of the gangs around here. There's a barely-used canal nearby, a hospital undergoing heavy renovations with a lot of maintenance tunnels leading to other buildings, and then there's the sewer. Canal's farther away and the hospital’s still got staff working in some areas."

You can hear aerial vehicles and sirens in the distance. It won't be long.

Where to go?
[ ]Stick to the alleyways alone despite Shizi's advice.
[ ]Head for the hospital and the tunnels.
[ ]Sneak to the canals.
[ ]Enter the sewer.

(Field too long first try, forgot my name and trip when trying to post the second time.)

>>35220188
[ ]Enter the sewer.
And try to raise Command for extraction.

[x]Enter the sewer.
And try to raise Command for extraction.

"We're going into the sewer, least risky. Closest choice I assume?"
Veronika looks at you with both disgust and apprhension, Hazuko displays a very rare frown, and Jezori gives you a questioning look.
Teza looks excited, Suko's unreadable, and Vivel's expression hasn't changed from earlier.
"It is. Big grate just outside that backdoor." Shizi simply sighs as she answers, gesturing to said door.
"Then we move now."

...

"Fucking shit, literally shit..." Veronika swears, moving on the ceiling while the rest of the squad sticks to walkways on the sides of the tunnels.
"Oh can it, you're upside down on the ceiling. Besides, this kind of place crawlies like you call home." The mage and the sniper-spider argue start up again.
"Conmmand, come in..." You've been trying since you got out of the warehousse.
"I don't think we've seen anything alive so far..." Jezori worriedly states.
"We read you, Nomad. You're off our grid. Explain."
"In the sewers. We need extraction."
"Are you aware of what your escape did?" Calm but noticably angry.
"To an extent."
A few moments of silence.
"There's a naval asset at the Fisherman's Pride Docks at the eastern area of the city. It is not too far from the crash site. We cannot give you directions as we cannot pinpoint your exact location. Hurry up."
The link is cut.
"Shizi, you got a map of this place? We need to reach Fisherman's Pride."
"It's outdated but yes. Start by taking a right here..."

...
Minutes pass, sometimes Shizi's routes are blocked requiring small detours. It's going down one of these that Able Squad finally hears the sign of other life in the sewers.
A loud, metallic clanking mixed with a gooey sound. Loud chittering followed by a sound not unlike that of a whale. It's big.
"Maybe we should take another detour instead of going this way..."

[ ]Go a different way.
[ ]A monster can fight a monster...

>>35221574
>[ ]Go a different way.
Fuck no, we are not fighting an animated ball of shit, human fat, and used diapers the size of a 747.

[x]Go a different way.

"We should."
A sound best described as the choking and vomiting of a 30-meter tall human being done in symphony with what sounds like a massive industrial grinder cements this opinon amongst the squad.
You all waste no time taking going down a different path, hurrying.
"Shizi, new4 route. Now." The song of a whale emits once more, the source clearly in a different location.
"Sanitation facility just up ahead. It's not too far, turn right, left, and then forward!"
Right turn, more clanking. Left, more singing. Straight, silence.
In front of you is what looks like an underground bunker next to a waterfall leading down and some turbines at least as tall as the highest point of the cathedrals's ceiling, atop.
"Stop, stop!" Teza abruplty shouts.
"It'll hear you damn i-" Shizi begins to say before the vomiting sound from earlier returns, as something smashes through the turbines, metallic fans and massive sparks flying through the air. Brown, yellow, silver, red, definitely more. That's all you have time to glimpses.
"Get in there!" At Shizi's urging Able moves into the bunker-like place. Looking at a map on her device, the mage keeps moving and leads the squad through various rooms before coming out the exit of the sanitation facility into a tunnel.

>>35223348
From the left comes the song of a whale.
No words need to be said as everyone charges down the right tunnel, ignoring the sewage as best as they can. The clanking and chittering commence in concert along with loud thumps behind. After a minute and a turn some light is visible. You squad rushes to the end of the tunnel, where a small walkway allows you all to exit without going into the river. Following the walkway and breaking a through a door with a warning sign, you've reached Fisherman's Pride.
Mostly empty, few ships moving about here and there.
One catches your eye: Dark colors, several weapons emplacements, armed crew members and the acronym 'RDBFO' on the side.

You all dash to it as a loud whale song echoes throughout the docks.
"Took you long enough, Unable!" An officer shouts.
"Shut up and get your gunners ready!" You shout back while boarding via a bridge extended to the dock.
"For what?"
Once more that vomiting sound returns as a massive...thing charges into the river from the waste tunnel.
A hideous segmented blob of liquids and matter you don't want to think about held aloft from the water by massive appendages of good, metal, and massive swarms of insects.
Your ship wastes no time in moving away as the abomination assaults the few ships at the docks. More than a few of the spacecraft above the city divert their course either to watch or fire what weapons they have at the thing. Elsewhere in the river other armed ships move to help.

You look at the vessel you're on. Despite it's average size it's the most heavily armed, with barely-hidden missile launchers and prominent cannons.
You look to the gigantic creature as it smashes apart a ship charging at it.
You look at its non-existent face as it sings through random holes opening.
You look to the officer.

[ ]Let the RDBFO ship continue departing.
[ ]"Turn this ship around."

>>35223402
[x]Let the RDBFO ship continue departing.
Everyone else is firing at it, the police will be too preoccupied with taking this thing down to care.
We can fire at it, no more than what other ships are doing, while retreating.

>>35223402
>[x]Let the RDBFO ship continue departing.

[x]Let the RDBFO ship continue departing.

You look at the monster once more.
"Fire at it while we depart." You say without looking to the officer.
"Yes...we can help a little..."
You don't hear him give the orders, hear the missiles take off, hear the cannons unleash their salvoes.

The missiles and cannons definitely hurt, their impacts destroying large portions of it. But not enough.
Four minutes later the ships that charged at it are all gone. More are coming at it in the near-distance, but the thing slowly seems to crouch down and tense up before leaping out of the river and onto a building which it immediately begins tearing apart, smashing walls and floors like a chainsaw to cardboard. The officer orders his men to cease fire out of fear of further collateral damage from the shots.
A short amount of time later the behemoth is out of sight and engine sounds from above alert to the approaching spacecraft.
"There's your ride." The officer says as he moves into his cabin.

1/3?

>>35225472
You and your squad rest in the chairs of a white-colored waiting room of sorts in the ship. Dominating the room is a massive screen, which flickers to life.
Two entities appear on-screen; an old, bearded general with no small amount of metals and a floating holographic robot head of sorts.
"Unable Squad," the general begins with utter contempt. "...Are you aware of the results of today's events? No, don't answer that. Grand Senator Program-C7 Goroth?"
"Way ahead of you High General Alburn."
The screen changes to a news channel.

"Today the Holy Cathedral of Blessed Gunnara was brutally attacked and Gunnara's worshipper, proud believers in self-defense via firearms, were viciously slaughtered by unidentified assailants. All that could be gathered is that most of the attackers were female. However, not a single eyewitness has been able to provide more than a vague description." The broadcast displays the numerous corpses left by Able Squad's attack before switching to a bloody witness missing an arm.
"They shot everyone they could....all I got was a glimpse, a blur. Some of their weapons went through anything...I was dragging my sister to safety when a shot went through a pew. I saw her head explode and felt my arm disappearing at the same time....what did we do to deserve this?!" Tears stream from the man's eyes before the news channel disappears.
In it's place twenty other ones are spread across the screen, showing on everything from the shootout to the damage from the Crash Ship's second flight to the death and devastation left by the monster from the sewers, which was ultimately put down by nearby military aircraft.

The screen switches back to the two from earlier, the floating holo-head Senator Goroth speaking first.
"Over a thousand people died today. However...it is not your fault."

2/3?

>>35225490
"Earlier you were told that the deployment was unauthorized. It was however, in fact, 'authorized' by one Major Gregori Thomo." The general continues.
"A corpse gave the order to make more corpses..." Suko states darkly.
"Correct!" The being you assume to be an AI exclaims. "Major Thomo's execution was broadcasted live on the Outernet three years ago."
"How did he authorize the mission when any access he had was revoked shortly before his arrest?" Shizi asks.
"We don't know, it is one of many things that are under heavy investigation. One of those things is how he authorized multiple deployments."
The screen changes again, this time showing news reports from other worlds of no less than twelve similar massacres and disasters.
"I said over a thousand earlier? That was my turn to tell a temporary lie as the High General did concerning the authorization. In particular, due to the more drastic actions undertaken by four of the other squads, the death toll has reached approximately 24,975 dead with another 4135 expected to die of their injuries within two days. Suprisingly, given the mental state and history of its members, Able Squad killed the least amount of people and without suffering any casualties of their own. Several of the other teams have lost members, some are being court-martialed, and some are undergoing both loss and trial."
"Major internal and external investigations are being conducted. In the mean time, Able Squad and several of the other squads are being granted a vacation until 10 AM Hegemony-Scape Time tomorrow. Yes, that includes you This vessel is taking you folks to the RDBFO's Orbital Cityscape "Little Downtown". Enjoy yourselves for a bit, tomorrow's going to be busy."
The feed cuts.

And sorry but that's all for tonight.
I do have a Twitter set up now: https://twitter.com/GalsQuest_OP

I'm not sure about the time I'll be able to run again tomorrow though.

thanks for running, and dont forget to archive!

i missed ~90% of the thread sadly, only got here for the final vote.

>>35220188
>>35221574
QM, you should leave a little more time after the first post of a new thread for people to notice the new thread.
otherwise its basically one guy calling the shots.

Also, would be great if you got a twitter to announce new threads. announce them like an hour in advance and then post the url for the thread once it has been posted.

>>35225527
hey, we did good.

>>35225565
thanks for running.

>>35225904
Will do. And as I said I got a Twitter.
>>35226077
Welcome.