With no calls for adjusted fire, Roy concluded the gunman in question was done.  It looked like foot traffic coming out of the house was contained...he started looking for hover vehicles or even regular wheeled traffic that was trying to escape the area.

"Twenty minutes, copy that," he replied in the comms.  "Give us another reminder at ten, then at five, but I think we'll be out of here by then..."

   LT Hirr  and Yotolitia  got   up, the  Gun man peaked  around  and  fired   ay them, both  Felrites   took some round  in the  arms and shoulders

  they  went   down and   behind the Car  again. The     Gun man ducked   back to the Hole   that roy had  made again.Ahhh!!!... His  parents  were not legally mated!...

another   Van, Dark Blue  with no lights  was  zoomed towards the Building.. the   OPs  crew only knew it was there, because it had to  fly over  them to get there,-

 Lird   Fired  fired a  stot  at the eastern most wing of the  House  and   crcked the glass...  Lirg  called over to Roy...The Meta glass  is thicker  on the east end of the building

"Hmmm...Let's see how thick..."  Roy put crosshairs on one of the windows to the east and sent a round in at a shadow of a figure moving around behind the glass, watching to see if the round penetrated or just detonated against the metaglass.

 Roy's  round  hits  the   window that  Lirg  had  hit, the  Glass   'blew inwards '  as the  round  did its  work.

 Lirg fired  again. The fellow or one of them  that was moving around , instinctively    looked   at the  window, and his chest vanished


  Can some one   take care of the   fellow   where Roy  shot the House...maybe>  shoot person this Time. I am thinking the house   will not hurt us any longer!

Roy's annoyance was thinly masked.  "Well, I DID tell you to call out an adjustment on the fire for me.  How far, which way, is he from where the round came through the house?"

   Hirr  COMed back,he  went back   to the hole you made.. do you not hvae rthe Fancy optics  on you big long gun! We are  Also needing
  Med tech.. Yotolita   had  hole in  arm,   I  will foam it..but i rather  have Med Tech check for bone splinters.....

 Following that was Cross...Hey?   Twitch says  there is a Maintenace shuttle under that   'shore line  along ,  Hull that  runs to the  Shore  by the Metaglass, he  says  they  use that tunnel to hide  from SEC..and they can  sit on that shore  forever , because  no one   checks on there, unless a Cruise  goes out there.  Some one wwent  that way... what  do we  do? we can  run along the  shore and get that, but that's  on the long side of a Mile?

"Yeah, I've got some nice optice...but there's a HOUSE in the way.  These optics only see through so many walls..."  He put the crosshairs back on the same entry hole the first round had made, more or less in the center, and sent another round flying as he mulled over Cross' new dilemma.

"Liggins?  Can you fly dark out of here so the guys at the bottom of the hill don't see that you've left us up here?  Get down there and round up Cross and one or two others to go check that out?  It'll be a helluva lot faster than having you leg it over there, Cross..."

 NA-CE and Vaka where firing into the house and car area where NA-CE heard the call for a Med tech. " Doc here where are you located, Vaka and I will be right there."

  Roy's   rounds went through the   same  hole that was a bit darker then  it  was, and suddenly, he could see the  lighted  room  and the   man with the SMG was  splattered  across the room.  a few screams were heard. noy  as many as before.

  Nifty said .. I think all the  scaredy Rats are dead... lots  of  bodies out side that dor... Hemsly   got some out  back  too... I guess the only  people  left are  fighters..

 That  time..you have shot him, I do not think he needs  shot  again....   We are  by   red car.. both are hit ,Young one is hurt worse.

 Liggens...on my  way, I'll go across the  same   place  they  did  and  catch up....

 Jax  got on...all stations  are built the same, more or less?... the  access  tunnels  come  from each end of the Metaglass  there will be Hatches     about 100 yards  from the ends of each side..there are no tunnels inbetween.. they'll have  to pop out the Hatcg and   run the  whole  2-3  Miles  to the other Hatch..The Hatches  with   be  behind 'rock formations' they use  to make it look nice... I would look for  fast  boats  or ships headed to the   Metaglass....um... its not a good idea  to get into the water where the Metaglass is?..bigger creatures that help  eat things the  eggheads  drop in the water,  will attack  rather  quickly... They have  Nets about  500 yards from the shore that keep out the big hungry creatures...also? if   you would  find you way at the Bottom..that isn't good either..there are water  creatures who 'clean' the  sea... you can see them on tours.. they'll  suck up anything  that isn't a plant.

 wonderful...really makes me  feel like swimming now... no oneever  told us that , all these years?

 no one  expects people to go  swimming  where the water  is 1200 feet deep! the water  at the Nets  is  about  700 feet, where
 we play it  is only about 20 feet at the deep  end where the Buoys are.

Roy made a sweep across the house with his scope, sending another round in where he saw something moving inside the house.  "I'm gonna give a look along the beach and see if I spot any panicky runners..."  The distances Jax was describing were practically point-blank for the weapon he was firing, although there was certainly more distance between his perch on the mountain and the house they'd just redecorated with extra ventilation.

"Anyone on the ground who isn't going on a beach excursion or patching holes in the kitty-cat pool toys, start moving in.  We need a sweep of the house and verification that the target's down.  You see any sign of trouble, call for fire-support, we've got plenty of reach-out-and-touch-someone available on every landward side of the place."
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  All Roy  could see.  was  Cross  leading  Hemsly and the others  down the  20  yard  wide   dirt  and  grass that serves  as the  'side  shore'   the   'shore' in front of the Metaglass  was 50 yards  wided,  and Mostly   cand  with  some  tufts  of   reed-like grasses  and some stone formations.. the   Metaglass shore was always a great place  for people  to sit  and sun and be  by themselves.
 no one  was  on that shore line....yet

  Nifty and  Zob  Moved  up to  a car a few 6yards  from where  NA-CE  was Patching  up the   cats.. Vaka  was  taking Pot shot s at the  house. anything  some one moved..

 Gresh['s Voice:; <Aqua>6 minutes  .you  should see the   FUJISEC   cars and Vans  rising   near the  entrance to the Stem<   /Aqua>

 Liggins   stopped   everyone  got in  But  Brooks  who , Liggins  dropped  off on the lawn and he ran towards the  House...Going  to  try to remind them , they should   stay in the House!
  it  took a  minute  or   two but   somethign  that looked like Bolos   twirthed  through the   air and Landed on the   eastean  eade4 of the House.. the   chain  stopped the   Ends  from going anywhere.  after  a heart beat or  two.. 4 Bright, Blue/white  flashed  lit up the  night   and the  rood   caught  fire  at  those    four  holes m dropping down into the Building


 I can see the  FC  v trucks  comign as well... they won't make it... Brooks  said.. as he  ran    to the back   and  shot  any one  moving...

 Lyric  called out.., I'm  getting oue other Van  get   our  folks out of there..

 Nifty  says...I see a bunch of   huamsn, one is on fire... one dead Sanri...a litle purple person, it has long hair so we'll say that's a chick?..

Zob, looks through his Scope..I see the  same...  the  mark must be in that tunnel.. He wouldn't  think we know about that.

 NA-CE worked on the cats to patch them up as best she could and made the call if they had to head to a van and wait or they could still fight.

Any of those humans still up and moving?" he asked, still sweeping the area, but moving back more to focus on the house and switching to enhanced IR scans to see if anyone was moving behind the walls facing him.

"If they are, make 'em lay down..."

  Brooks    said into his mic... No one  But the Burning  guy.. hes  screaming.. I sorta  want to let him  do that, Its  not a big step from this  to Loyalty feasts.. if  I'm wrong  , I'll apologize  to him when i get there.

 there was a burst of  an SMG   and  a man in a  suit  was  laying on the east  side, , Jax   ha d brought him down.

 Liggins had the Van half  way to the  Metaglass

......

Lyri said ,OK.. Fujisect will be here   in a few more  heart beats..  we should pack  up and Go?

"I hate leaving without knowing that the target's taken down, but we can play the hunch that he went to ground in the tunnel and work on that.  Start clearing people out from the premises...cats first.  Once you get everyone off the grounds, go check out that tunnel.  Lirg and I can lay low up here if we have to, and get picked up later on the far side of the mountain.  Everyone at the house get within sprinting distance of the cats and keep cover fire on the house so the van doesn't get bagged."  The dissatisfaction was plain to hear in his voice.

"Liggins, after your group reaches the metaglass, keep a low profile.  Make sure that tunnel's clear, then take the most obscure, unobtrusive route out of there that you can, and try to blend in with normal traffic.  It's gonna take a while for SEC to sort out what's happened at the house and that will hopefully give us all time to disappear into the woodwork."

    Lyri  ha the others   in the van..  well?  we  don't know  if  anyone got out that Middle  tunnel that goes under the bridge..we  do know  people  are  using the seaward tunnel to  head to the Metaglass ... the  FUJISEC  is   closing in on the Mounting, I'm going  down the
  beach  road..for  1000 feet or so and make a   right  to the Mountain.

 I stopped , were  about  1/4  mile  from the  Middle of the Metglass.. we;re  dark.. cross and the other   are waiting  at the Hatch  way.. we'll ley you know  who come out.

 Lirg fluffed you his   shoulder and  hunched close to a  rock, to look like a Boulder..I am  watchign the Building.. the Burning man has  fallen.. i see no movements out side..or what i can see in the windows.

Roy kept his scope on the building, watching with the thermal optics to see if he could spot any motion that was hidden from Lirg.  "Gotta love incomplete intel," he muttered, not really worrying about his mic being open.  "Woulda been nice to have it clarified that they had two other tunnels they could take, it sure as shit sounded like there was just the one, to me..."

He took some comfort in the fact that, even if they had missed the target, things had been chewed up enough that Nolte would have a hard time getting her operation running at capacity again.  On top of that, if the 'evidence' he'd planted at the other site filtered through the right channels, the Occui would have a hard time even staying on Fuji...

And a thought dawned on him.  "Hey, Home-Slice...you ever considered the option of putting bounties on some of these people and letting other bad guys do this work for us?"  That was spoken loudly and clearly enough to be obviously intended to be heard on the comm channel, as opposed to just being low background noise.  The idea would require some extensive work to hide where the money was actually coming from...but it might be worth trying, if for no other reason that keeping the EDT fronts from getting complacent.  It would be hard to focus on doing business when any new business contact you made could actually be someone looking to cash you in...

  gresh    answered, never  have given it a thought.. Might  ave millins of  creds  by not havign buildings burning down.. I thought your Dark Walker stayed  home?

 Lyri Giggles.That's a new one...

 Cross    says.. were   are  using these  rocks for cover.. 6 people came out of the   hatch..  they are heading   across the   shore ..i would assume the  other   hatch  the Tunnel kid spoke of...we are goign to  wait  about a minute..maybe  two, to make sure  there isn't any one in the tunnel..shoudl ahe brough a Larg, we  could ahve let it  Run back to th hosue and eat anyone in the tunnel

 O'day says.....eh!  we 'ave  a bleedin  boat headed this  way  is dark, but  from here the light  picks up it s flashes... Think i might be a rescue boat?

Roy gave a quiet grunt.  "Don't do anything to the boat yet.  Not likely, but it COULD be totally innocent.  But if the people leaving the tunnel start getting on, light it up and burn it down.  Keep someone watching that tunnel, though...see if anyone else pops out, or make sure whoever's got the boat doesn't get clipped by someone from the tunnel."

Seeing no additional signs of movement from the house, he shifted to pan slowly along the metaglass shore, trying to pick out where his people were, as well as the boat and the tunnel-runners.  If the boat was in range, he could solve that problem for them with a trigger-pull...

  As Roy looked over the   shore line, he  count  just barely make out the van.. he  had a damn hard  time  finding  Cross and the others , But he could see  6 People  running, 2 women in dresses  that were slowing them  down.. 4 men about 20 yards ahead of them.

  The   Boat was  making good  time, but  it ran to not produce a rooster tail.. from what   Roy  could discern , there was a  human at the wheel and Two Occui in the stern

Keeping his scope on the boat and following it, Roy said quietly (to avoid jostling the rifle and scope or shifting his eye off position), "I've got the boat...Human driver, two Occui passengers at the stern.  If they make landfall and people start boarding, I'll take out the boat.  You all mop up afterwards."  A grenade from the shore could probably take out the boat just as reliably...but it would reveal the presence of Cross' team and alert any armed personnel that they had company, whereas a long-range anti-materiel round would just make the ship go boom without tipping anyone off about where the round came from (not that they'd be in much of a position to do anything about it, anyway...)

As he watched, a couple of thoughts dawned on him.  "Lirg, while you're watching the house and grounds, stay alert for anyone who might be approaching the area.  I don't think anyone would connect our presence up here with what's happening down there, since they saw people on the grounds, if anyone's alive to tell stories...but there's a chance that some overachiever in station SEC will send someone to check on us, just in case..."  He quirked a little grin, mostly to himself, and added, "Plus, there's a chance that one of those bear-things that was the cover story for us coming up here might actually come poking around...so keep some situational awareness, even if your eyes are busy."  And take your own damned advice there, Sarge... he reminded himself.  It would be easy to develop target fixation, blank out everything except the boat in the scope...but he couldn't afford to do that.

    Lyri  COMs,we have a  building between us  and the Mountain.. let us  know  when you want Evaced

   ........

  Cross COMs...our own Tunnel kid s say  the lead runner  has  about   a half mile Until  he reached the 2nd Hatch.. so far, no one has   tried to ope  this hatch

"Lirg...any sign of motion down there?  If nobody's moving, come round him up, Lyri."  He paused a moment, focused on the boat.

"By then, we should have a pretty clear notion whether this boat is there to pick up their buddies, or just enjoying the night sky as up-close-and-personal as this station lets most people get."

 FUJISEC are  coming over the Mountain, they have FC  with them. There  are  MedTech Vans... Lyri said  as  FUJISEC, split  and   some  when to the seaward  side, some went to the  Hull side,

 Lirg COMed ..  I am moving down the seaward  side , when i  reach the fence , come get me....

   Out   On  the sea, one of the Occui   climbed up the  stairs  to stand  By the pilot. The Occui used a  handheld  Light, to flash  three   quick  flashes. Then re peated it.

From the  Metaglass shore  there was a flash of a tiny light, the boat started to  veer towards the South.

   Karson  said ,I can use   what  i have left of  My C-10 , drop it in the hathc  way and seal it,, the blow  back  should  take  care of  anyone   100 tards or less from the hatch...but it will make a noise...

"Hang onto the C10 until the very last thing...when the boat's done and the people who've already left the tunnels are down, then you can seal it.  But once the boat goes up, the rest has gotta happen fast, because you can bet FujiSEC is gonna hustle right over there to find out what's exploding right next to the metaglass..."

He let the crosshairs wander over the boat, trying to decide where the powercells were most likely stored.  Propulsion was in the back, and, traditionally, fuel was kept close to the motor, but anything could be possible...

Finally, he settled on a target...he couldn't be sure he'd hit powercells, but if he killed the boat's motor, it would keep them from going anywhere and Cross could mop up if he needed to.  He let the boat continue towards the shore, tracking along with it as it moved in closer.  If it stopped and started taking on passengers, that would be the time to fire...the boat wouldn't be moving more than a couple of inches up and down in the water, he could be more sure of his target that way.

"That's it, boys...just ease on up to the shoreline and let those runaways start climbing on board..."