Field  Fight!

 Gen Higgins  shouts  out some orders, the    trooper  split up.. two the   the  side of the  left Hash MArk... two in the middle of the field , and  2  past the right Hash Mark...

  they start moving   forward  spreading out a bit, to cover each other and make thier way towards   Roll

 Jax  yells,Move around   Roll  don't  let them   have a good idea.. like  running from building to building.

 Roll moved  from the Middle to the right a  bit.. holding his  blade..little   legs moving, then he would stop  and mover to his right...  and  stop.. watching the   Trooper s  with wide   eyes.

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In the 'Huddle' Jug asked All we gotta do is tag the general...right? not put him out or anything...just tag him with the business end of the vibroblade?" she wanted to make sure she understood the rules  "tagged and he is captured?"

She looked at Garrat "Ever throw ...what was it they called it?  Oh a dwarf?  Gots no problem bein' thrown" she grinned almost evilly.
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   Garrat raises an eyebrow, “funny you should mention it but I’m actually quite proficient at throwing Dwarves, first however I suggest we whittle down their numbers by playing defensively.”

Roy nodded quietly.  "We'll keep that in mind.  Right now, I'm more interested in taking them all down a peg, not just making the General look stupid.  For now, I'm staying put here, anyone coming to get Roll has to get through me.  Garrat, you and Jug go up our right side.  I want them down and needing a medic.  Lirg, you and Hirr go up the left...same orders.  I don't care how dirty you have to fight...the only thing off the table is outright killing them.  We'll stay here and hold the center."

"Good hand to hand.  This be good test" she said moving over towards Garrat and the left...er right side.

  General Higgins, as Your Commanding Offcier  I fee I should warn you....

  Begging the Admiral's pardon, Sir. The General. Much Like his  son, seems to know everything there  is to know...surely he  does not need  warnigns  from , mere Combat Officers...

  Higgins looked to  Shadow  ,I* serve on the  front, just as you  do, LC...

 Our waitresses serve on the front.. some of them, right  on the ground  a few yards  from the enemy...so... 'not  like us'
 Hack shrugged  and  stood  to watch   his 'back line'

  The Troopers  moved as  did the  rest of the  Group...

 Shade  was in the middle , in front of  Roy, like a sweeper in front of a goalie..  Rolls  had to stop moving to rest..he wasn't sued to this  much running!.

   "They will be focused on our heavies, Lirg, you and I can act aggressive distracting them while Jug and Hirr hamstring them with slashes of the daggers.  Then while they are distracted Lirg and I close and break bones.  They volunteered to stab a little boy.  I don't want any of them walking this month."


   No one had called him on the armor he was still wearing but Garrat had unbuckled his torso and shoulder armor leaving himself bare of anything but a tanktop just before .  Oh, if he hadn't just happened to leave it near Rolls.  The boy was a stemmer, any addition to his environment was something he could use.

   Garrat jogged down the right side conserving his strength and speed and assessing the first target.

Roy just nodded as Garrat summed up his notion on how to handle them.  "Hey, Roll?  Just try and keep me between you and any of them.  Save your energy...I'm pretty sure none of them will make it this far, but if they do, it's better they don't see how fast you can move until they're here.  But as long as any of us are still standing, they aren't touching you...and I don't think a single one of these pansy-asses has seen actual field combat in years."

He kept his eyes up the field, assessing who was squaring off against whom, and whether their opposition was thinking in terms of taking out the Hermes troopers or just in terms of trying to get to the end zone.  His money was on them thinking they could power through and rush the end zone...and they were going to be painfully surprised when they found out the Hermes people weren't going to give...

Shade drifted left, countering one of the others coming down the field...Roy saw the other one go right, and angled accordingly.  When the man got about to the twenty yard line, Roy beckoned him.  "Come get me, tough guy...I don't want to keep the kid up past his bedtime so some desk monkey can work up his courage..."
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 Shade Moved to  cut the  fellow off who came down the 'left' middle (#3) The Guard  stopped in surprise  as he  readied his Blade, Shade's  hed  shifted  right and  left quickly , as if he was  covering a kick, looking for the  blindside block.

 The Little verian Grinned   as he  waved his  Blade to taunt the  fellow.

 The Other   Trooper(#4), sneered at Roy  and Bowed  in towards him, but  his   eyes shifted  to roll for a second to 'keep track of him'.

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 Lirg and   Hirr   Moved   right towards the troopers  #1 and #2 as they  came at  them. Hirr Leaped in the  air  about  6  feet and  came down.. causing  both  troopers   to  slow.. as they watched her....

  they  set thier feet   to meet them.

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 Garrat and Jug  saw smiles on  #6 and #5  as they figured the  little one  wouldn't be much trouble, and the Bigger one they'll just  go around...
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Jug grinned and eyed the one in front of her.  She heard about hamstringing them, If she had her way the leg was gonna come clean off.  Let them run on stumps She bounced a little side to side  as if getting prepared to run.  Another good thing about Gava….They are agile.  stunning vibro blade in hand she would wait until her time shined.


The Gava on the sidelines whooped and Hollered for their team, and Jug.

"He's not going anywhere, dumbass..." Roy taunted 'his' trooper.  He stood casually, blade gripped easily in his right hand, taking a couple of steps to further isolate the point-of-contact away from the center of the field.  Inwardly, he grinned...the field wasn't wide enough to outflank the Hermes group, the attackers had yielded the center of the field effectively without contest.  It was a small thing, especially in this context...but it was a tactical mistake.

He continued standing as though he dismissed the man as a threat...until the distance closed to five yards separating them.  He burst forward with an explosive leap, accustomed to being burdened with full combat gear for such maneuvers and currently in a casual duty uniform, closing the distance in a couple of strides.  He led with his left hand, aiming to bat aside the man's blade or at the very least, force him to strike a non-fatal target in order to get his blade to anything crucial, and Roy didn't stop running until he had slammed into the trooper in a full body-check that would have been more in place at a hockey rink than a football field, his right arm coming around the man's body to repeatedly stab with the training blade in a hail of blows.

One of the troopers coming towards Garrat and Jug tried to go around Jug not expecting her to be as fast as she was given she was 'Just a Gava'.  Jug however was fast enough.  With a tumble roll she was right in his path and caught him with her vibro blade.  Not as deep as she wanted, but it did hit him in the knee area.  Made him stumble a bit.  He tried hobbling run, she chased after him.  When close she'd get him again.  She made drooling hunkered sounds to aggitate him.
"First blood Hermes!" she called.  The other Gava cheered louder.  One even spun like he was dancing.  A couple of spears went up.
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   Unfortunately they were right about Garrat, like the Hyrian shadow fought he had a lot of weight to shift and the earlier run had taken it's toll.  He had sheathed his knife so he could focus on the intercept preferring to grapple over focusing on his blade but a last minute dodge by the trooper Jug didn't catch put the soldier just out of Garrat's reach.

   Garrat pounded after the trooper like a runaway train, his long legs giving him more straight speed.  Despite the jinks in his aponents run Garrat knew where the man was going and stayed the course.

  Roy slammed  into the Trooper, the  Trooper  tried  a  Backhanded  Slash. Roy could  fill the   vibration hum past  his neck.. The fellow    bounced   back  a bit, he was a bit bent over, but he had the 'angry  calm' look'' his eyes shifted from Roy to   Roll..as if gauging His chances,

 Shade   hi the his  Guy Low, the  trooper#3  slashed at Shade   and Hot his shoudler.. Shade Balred in pain.., but it was only  a slash

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 Jug slashed  #5  He screamed as she stumbled..Jug  chased to try and wrap him up..

 Garrat's  Guy Broke around him to the outside, he would have  a wider path to Roll who was  where the goalposts  were.

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 Lirg  and  Trooper  1  Fought both slashed  each other..  Hirr   Jumped over her  trooper, she Missed  her sut, but was now behind the Trooper!

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 Roll  cluctched his   Blade..looking worried  , his  feet shifting a bit.

Roy stayed on his man, not giving him room to get a decent swing in, continuing a flurry of elbows, knees, and jabs with his empty hand to keep the man focused on avoiding the very real physical damage those blows could cause, gauging his opportunity...when he felt the man was more focused on either avoiding the blows or calculating a rush toward Roll, Roy lashed out again with the blade.

The trooper he was squared off against had similar plans...and Roy found his left arm smarting with a slash that left his arm burning and his hand barely functional as anything more than a bludgeon.  He continued the pressure on the man, gritting his teeth against the pain from the 'wound', striking strategically at points intended to impair the trooper's mobility, vision, or ability to breathe, fist jabs lancing in at eyes, nose, and throat, daring the trooper to take another swing at his arm, and ready to follow up the moment he did.
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Salivating like a wild Gava she continued to chase her target down.  In one leap she had tried to catch his bad leg and trip him and missed, but still let him know how close she was.  she meant to put her self between the kid and this trooper.

Lirg was  Slashed  again, these  troopers   have  had  some skill... Lirg lashed out and punched him in the chest... this staggered  the  trooper.# 1

 Hirr     Grinned at   Higgins   as she Hunched to  Jumped   and  the  Trooper #2 she Jumped   over    wheeled to attach her,   She   let out a   meow of angry as the trooper managed  to slash her  right thigh.

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   The  trooper  tangled  with  Shade   slashed him again... the intense  pain of the blades, causing the little   verian   the blare out  a Bleep.. His own Blade  drove it  the man's Belly... he left it  there, and  picked up the trooper's  blade…

 Trooper  # 4 layed on the file d  twitching  his  hands  trying to remove the blade. but  couldn't  as he screamed and screamed  endlessly.. Shade's eyes   were pitch Black  as he looked  towards  the  rest...then to the General.

Roy  set himself on a course to head off  Trooper  #3 ..they would meet at the hashmark on the  10 yard line, away from the   side of the  'onlookers'.

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 Roll  moved towards  the   'people' side of the end  Zone. but only  to that hashmark..

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   Jug was  running  down   Trooper #5..he  was limping  but  pushing to  try to get to the Endzone...

  Garrat's  long strides   were  bringing him close to Trooper  #6.... These   men were  trained, that was  for certain...

 What he did  see, was roll move a bit to the other  side of the 'middle ' of the  field... he also  saw  Trooper #5  didn't see him chasing  the other  trooper..

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Sneak  shouted to Roll to  'not get trapped"..Jax  looked very angry  as he cast dark looks at the General

 Shadow  was grim as he watched.. a slight  smile   as the trooper went  down to the   'wounded' Shade

 through it all.. the troopers screamed and screamed

 The General  shouted  ay  Hack...we cannot let him suffer!

 Hack pointed at Chief Post. ya have no Rank her  , General.. this is my field.. I am god.... anyone  tried to help  him from the sideliens..ends  the match... Hermes is  winnign  by   the tie  breaker of  'one man down'.... the blades  are  set 'per team'..although  you can use  any blade.. only a team a member   of the  trooper's team can remove it...

Roy did some mental calculations, sorting through options.  One he rejected because they were still too far from the edge of the field...the man would have too much time to recover.  Another was too reliant on getting a hold on the mech of his shirt.  Instead, Roy opted for another body-check...this time intending to go to the ground with the man and keep him down, if the initial knife attack didn't get him.

At the hash mark, as their courses converged, Roy thrust hard with both arms, hoping to land a hit with the blade, and if not, to at least send the man stumbling and off balance, intending to pull him down.

The blade went wide of its mark, leaving Roy barreling into the man,  and trying to entangle arms and legs to keep him from turning, so that Roy would end up on top with the trooper underneath him, on his belly and unable to strike effectively.
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Jugs running the trooper down paid off.  Just as she contemplated whacking in the head with the blade she was close enough to pounce.  Literally using his body as a ladder she kicked his good leg hard sending him into a sliding face plant with Jug hanging on like she was surfing.  Coming to a stop she held his weapon arm tight, then painfully popped it out of joint at the shoulder.  Then in a very low menacing tone she spoke and drooled in his ear "Think of even touching him. I eat your ears off" she made sure he saw her teeth and snapped at him, only an inch or so from his eyes, and could smell her breath.
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Melia slipped into the Field Gym area shortly after the match started. It was a grim duel and she was disappointed she'd not been able to participate. Despite everything a big part of her enjoyed the thrill of a good bloody fight. Though as she sorted the rules and the stakes the excited fire in her eyes dimmed and her look became much more grim. She slipped down the stands close to the "enemy" side lines on the off chance that someone tried to influence the game or change the stakes.

Roy tried again with the blade, failing 5o get any sort of satisfactory hit...and they were getting close to the endzone.  Remembering what the Chief had laid out as rules for the match, and disgusted that he'd apparently forgotten how to fight with a knife, he opted for a different strategy...

He set himself on an angle from his man, and drove into him as hard as he could, legs churning in an effort to throw the man off balance and out the back of the endzone.