Two weeks had passed, daily PT, firing range, tech splicing, weapon maintenance, and today was breaching procedures, the designation was for larger facilities that required more personnel to raid. Sabine and Ezra were on one side with four other two man teams, and another five on the other side. Sabine clicked her blaster carbine to fire and waited for the breach charge to detonate. The sub-base was setup while everyone was asleep, and all day they were running drills through it, both defense, and breaching. This was the biggest one they were running, everyone was for Sabine's breacher to go off, it was in the final seconds, everyone prepped their blasters, they needed to get the package out with losing too many to the enemy, and maybe take down the entirety of the enemy force. Juggernaut and Crimson with a number of other teams at their backs. Just as they had done at least a dozen times prior, the charge popped the bulkhead of its hinges, the Specters charged in first Sabine pulled out her Westar carbine, activating the flashlight on it, Ezra pulled out his blaster pistol, utilizing the Center Axis Relock system. Sabine took the first shots, stunning several hostiles, Ezra took the second shots missing once or twice but remaining accurate, the remaining teams funneled in and either stunned or subdued the combatants. Ezra stepped to a terminal hooking in a hard-drive and began hacking the terminal. This whole operation was only a couple minutes before it was finished, Ezra secured the objective, and the teams began their retreat to their 'evac', hallways leading to the locker/briefing room.
"Battle Group Epsilon! Move south, south east to the evac point and secure it! Battle Group Zulu, cover the package to the evac!" Sabine yelled in the comms, coordinating the two groups with her right arm.
"Wilco! Epsilon triple time it, I want standard defensive perimeter! Kilo Five, slice the bulkhead, get it open!"
"Zulu, form up around the package, don't let it get compromised!" Team leaders announced
Sabine pulled shouldered her Westar Carbine, checking her areas, ensuring Epsilon had gotten into position, that was until several cracks had sounded through the training grounds, and several members of Epsilon had collapsed due to shock rounds, it was an ambush. The supervisors in the watch towers had taken up to making the test increasingly difficult. Sabine gave an order for the group to halt, and take what little cover it could, she listened to the shots from Epsilon slowly die down, Sabine began slowly traversing the cress of the hill peeking through the grass to the evac site. "Shit." Whispered Sabine trying to think up a tactic to deal with the snipers, and newly appeared simulation troopers. She examined their patterns and movement as her team started to come up behind her awaiting the order, the last leg of this operation was becoming increasingly difficult every second.
Looking back to her battle group, she silently announced, "We're splitting into our original teams, Juggernaut and Crimson, you stay behind and give those snipers hell. Foe hammer, and Golf Niner, take the right side, Sivo One and Two take the left!" Sabine gave an urgent order. The teams got into their original patterns, stacking into their ordered positions. Sabine scooted to Ezra telling him to hang back until they clear a path.
Looking to Sabine, Ezra argued, "I can't hang back and do nothing, that's not what I do."
"I know Ezra, but you have the objective and you're the fastest runner here with higher than average agility." Sabine replied back, she was more than serious about this option.
With resignation, Ezra hunkered down, "All teams, on my mark, I'll something they can shoot at while you move in and take care of our friends, wilco?"
"Wilco." Came the response of the teams, more than ready to finish this. With that she activated her jump pack and rocketed into the air firing off two rounds to garner the simulation trooper's attention.
The troopers patrolling the area around the "Evac", only to see a target soar into the air taking down two of their own, many kneeling down and returning fire, a few ran to cover, others did a combination there of. After a moment, Sabine was on the receiving end of fire solutions from the Sim troopers, that was when the teams fanned out to their given objective, the snipers in the watch towers began receiving fire from two differing positions, and ground units started receiving fire from surrounding positions, it was here when Sabine gave Ezra his mark, and he began a rapid sprint to the Evac point. Sabine gave Juggernaut and Crimsons retreat order as she fired rounds from her carbine off continuously.
"Sabine you need to get yourself, and the rest of the teams to the Evac, I'm starting the liftoff sequence!" Ezra alerted Sabine, it was then she gave the orders to the remaining teams. Juggernaut and Crimson scurried up the ramp, followed by the Sivos, followed by Golf Niner and Foe Hammer. Ezra made a quick head count and immediately knew Sabine was still in the air, "Sabine, you need to get down here now otherwise the bulkhead will seal you out there." Ezra stated, slightly uneased.
"Wilco, en route." Sabine adjusted her flight pattern to the Evac, well, shit went sideways and a sim managed to squeeze one good shot in on her jet pack, grunting at the impact from the bolt and sudden downward lurch of her rapid descent to the ground, Ezra tossed the packaged to one of the other team members and stepped out to slow her fall. Raising his hands, closing his eyes and concentrating she slowed down enough to handle the impact, landing on her feet and quickly rolling to expend the inertial energy, after rolling she sprung up and made a run for the Evac point. She was a hundred yards out at an all-out sprint that was when the bulkhead began sliding close, Ezra concentrated again and pulled Sabine to him. Making several strides to the bulkhead before it closure.
Hours later Sabine left the infirmary with a fixed fracture, walking with a slight limp to the armory where Ezra would be, she told him to head there after the exercise before being taken to the infirmary. Upon arrival she could see Ezra sitting on a bench with several paint canisters to his right and a duffel bag to his left. Hunched over slightly elbows on his knees, seemingly frozen, waiting for his partner, Sabine crossed the room swiftly, he sat up straight, knowing she was approaching.
"Hey Sabine, we need to recoat your armor for the planet environment, and tomorrow we head out for Algolis, on the Ardent Reclamation." Ezra began stripping the paint off her armor as Sabine sat across from him and began doing the same.
'Scrape, shrick, shlack.' Both scraped the paint and began painting on a new coat of paint. It would take a couple of hours before the new paint on Sabines Beskar plates were finished, although they took the time to put on a non-reflective transparent paint layer and a duracoat layer over that one. Both were exhausted and had to get some sleep for their departure the next morning. They had six hours ahead of them, so it should be enough for them.
Jesus this was a difficult writers block, And I'm sorry this chapter is sorely lacking.