Assault on City 17: Team Ninja

[acts_of_gord]

In better times City 17 had many, many ways of crossing town. For the most part, the citizens of today travel on the surface, and mostly on foot. This is partly because they're easier to track down, and partly because the alternatives haven't been maintained lately. On the other hand, the Combine don't use the underpassages any more either. Clearing one of the tunnels that crosses half the City is a priority for the Resistance; it'll give them a much better crack at getting behind enemy lines. Thus the infiltration team finds themselves in a small courtyard at the back of what was once a highway maintenance building, facing a poorly lit flight of stairs leading down.

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[acts_of_gord]

There's a reason the Overwatch normally wears those helmets. The post-human modifications made by the Combine leave certain areas unavoidably exposed. The stricken soldier drops like a brick.

[raptorcanaria]

Dinah exhales, not out of relief so much as the come down from fight mode, and continues on, rubbing at her throat.

It's sore, now.

[acts_of_gord]

The radio crackles. "Team Ninja! You guys still with us? Is Sniper Alley cleared yet? Valerie's on her way to pick you guys up."

[raptorcanaria]

Dinah finds John again just in time to catch this report.

"Tell him we're good," she says, redundantly. "I'm ready to go."

[jv-034.livejournal.com]

"We're all ready here; it's all clear. We're awaiting pickup. ...You copy?"

[acts_of_gord]

"We copy. Valerie's coming- over and out."

[raptorcanaria]

"Great."

Dinah clears her throat. Then clears it again.

"I need a week's worth of cough drops."