"la la la," sang Fox as he came back with the active camouflage generators, "Here ya go," he passed one to everyone, except the sentry.
"Thanks," said Tex "well if were all ready, lets go!"
Larry activated the active camouflage by smashing the pyramid shaped thing over his head. A shock ran through him, and he knew that the downside to using active camouflage without an armor system what that it would drain the body if used for too long, so he quickly reached out with his mind through the Force and moved everyone forward toward the entrance of the base, being led by the sentry, whom Larry was controlling with the Force.
"Remember, mess up and you'll regret it!" Tex said softly in the Sentry's ear.
"I'd listen to her if i was you," Fox whispered.
The group continued to a sheer rock face and the Sentry pushed a button and waved to a camera, and an opening appeared in the rock side, and it increased until it was apparent that the facade was false.
Following the sentry inside, Larry felt as though a slight tingle went across him as he entered the threshold. He opened his mouth to scream a warning when a voice cut him off, "I think you should put down your weapons."
Larry looked forward to see a big man in a long black coat staring right at him, right through the active camo. Behind him sat two troopers behind mounted machine guns. M-60s by the look of it.
"I trust you are just here to find out our intentions, and that does not require you to have your weapons."
The strain of the active camo was beginning to build on Larry's body, so he and the rest of the squad deactivated their camo.
"Fat
chance!" Said Assim raising his weapon.
"NO!"
Shouted Larry.
Fox grab the barrel of Assim's gun and shoved it down "Chill man!"
"Great!!! ALWAYS expect the unexpected!! ALWAYS!!..." said Tex, she really upset that they got caught, "Alright, ok, put your guns away guys." Tex whispered to Assim; "Were in their territory, lets try to make this as bloodless, and diplomatic as possible" she put her pistol in its holster and snapped it shut so that they can see it closed, and put her hands up so that she wouldn't appear threatening. Everyone else followed her example.
"So what do you want," Assim said crossly.
"I would ask the same about you" said the big man
"But you already know that."
"True. but you can tell us why exactly you're inside our base."
"Eh. It was his idea." He said pointing to Larry.
"MY Idea? It was High Command who sent us, and you're our commanding officer! sir, so don't blame me. Just tell him."
"o burn," came Fox from the back
Assim glared at Fox. And turned back to the huge guy. Who had a very confused look on his face.
"Ok here it is..."
Assim proceeded to tell the big guy some complete random story about why they were there. He activated the secondary communication link between him and the rest of the group, and starts a text conversation to plan an escape with them.
Tex messaged: "you could have told them the truth... "were the welcome party " lol and Tex has cookies for you!"
Larry typed: "There is another problem, this guy can do something. It's like the Force, but it's completely different too. I didn't notice it until we got in his line of sight."
"Does this means we're screwed?" was all Fox could say.
"Not if we play this right. I recommend defusing this situation," said Larry.
Larry moved forward toward the man in a black coat with his hands palm up. "We mean no harm. We are, as you said, scouts. Our only purpose for being here is because our Clan has recently fended off an invasion of SeeDs from this Ring and to see more life on this ring made us a bit edgy."
The man nodded, "So you wanted to check us out." The mans eyes narrowed, "that's close enough, Jedi." The man's words had finality about them.
Larry winced: he knew that Larry was a Jedi. "I can see we are not going to get anything done here, so can I ask you a question?"
The man in the black coat ran a hand over where a beard would be if he had one. His large head tilted to the side, as though listening to something. "Very well."
"What is your Clan's name, and what is your name?"
The man glared at Tex for a moment before saying, "My name is Craig, and this is the CORE clan."
"Well that's nice to know i guess we can leave now right?" said Fox.
Tex messaged: someone remind me to do a thorough search about the core clan when we get back to base... that name sounds too familiar...
Larry Texts: "No. We need to find out their intentions, I'll leave that to our Assim though."
Tex messages: "oh k! I'm open for suggestions! Though, what if Craig here decides we have different intentions and throws us in the dungeon?"
"Hellooo! Jedi! No dungeon can hold me!" Larry paused, "In addition, I doubt he wants to do that. The Force tells me that he is not willing to take such a drastic step. Plus he does not want to start a war, I believe his clan is small which is why we did not notice them earlier."
"so why don't we just do some Jackie Chan stuff kick ass and get outta here if they're so small?" Fox asked.
"Their small, but they have a "Jedi" he might be of use to us! Maybe even a powerful ally!" said Tex thoughtfully.
"Because, what if we can solve this without gunfire? Are you willing to take the risk of those!" Larry pointed to the two machine guns, "In addition, he is still...I don't know...not Force sensitive but...I don't know. Something similar..."
"I think he's 1 of 2 things." said Tex "a Sith or a Jedi there's lots of differences... but 1 thing in common they both are force intelligent. This Craig is probably trying to hide his force... id be careful if i were you... but just to be safe for now and to keep us on our toes lets stick to calling him a Jedi. Okay? And Fox I'd if I were you, I'd stay your hand. AND your tongue... we're guests and i don't know if we can get out of here... i don't see a button on our side of the door..." Tex was a little worried about all this but wouldn't let the clan know. She was strong and felt that she gave the team motivation. It was almost a kind of "If I can do it so can you" push.
A mutter came from Fox "yes ma'am."
"Ok... that's settled then..." said Tex as Assimy walked over to Craig to explain their intentions.
"Man I hope he doesn't screw this up," Fox muttered.
Craig seemed satisfied with the explanation, "Very well come with me, I think we have warmer places to give you council."
He lead them down the hall, but the procession stopped when Tex and a woman who looked much like her stopped in a hallway and began staring at each other.
Startled
Tex took a step back and pulled out her pistol. "wha... what are
you doing here!?"
the
woman smirked, her figure and looks were very much like Tex's only
she had very short brown hair and had a tattoo, on her arm just below
the shoulder, it was Japanese kanji for Evil or Aku and instead of a
katana and a pistol she carried an automatic rifle, no blades of any
kind on her person.
The woman made no gesture to grab her rifle. She just stood there smiling enjoying Tex's sudden fear, "Put your weapon away... I won't hurt you," the woman said, "You need to keep walking or you'll miss your meeting... Tex," she finished before walking away.
Still dumbstruck Tex put her weapon back in the holster but left it unclipped, just in case. She turned to follow the group and saw everyone staring at them... "What are you staring at?" She said angrily. She was very upset that she had just been caught in this very embarrassing situation. "I'll tell you about it later!" she exclaimed and stormed down the hallway.