Chapter 114: On the Trail.
With the ceasefire in full effect and the conclusion of the peace talks between the Avian people who called themselves the Valkyries and the Brotherhood of Steel not to mention the Free Peoples of the Wastes, there were celebrations aplenty in the capital city of the Avians.
To cement their newfound alliance both sides had sent a permanent envoy/ambassador to represent their party's interests to the other's base of operations.
As the trusted neutral party between the two Raymond facilitated this exchange and more than that he even got the technology exchange underway with groups of Brotherhood Knights now being escorted into the ground-based territory of the Valkyries and true to their word both parties were sharing both the technology and knowledge gained equally.
Oliver was the envoy the Valkyries had assigned to the Brotherhood due to his experience dealing with them while from the Brotherhood a Chief Scribe called Darius Lancaster was brought up to the floating city.
The Valkyries decided that it would be a good idea if they attached a small team of their Featherguard to Raymond's team as the Brotherhood had done in order to not only put a positive face out there for the people to see but to represent their interests among the Free Peoples.
So a team of three Featherguards two males and a female of three different genus arrived the day before Raymond and his people were due to ship out from the floating city, all to be placed under the command of Jewal who thanks to some creative negotiating from both Raymond and an impassioned plea from Kight Hill had now been reinstated to her previous role and her honour restored.
"So what's the deal have you managed to speak to Seven and Wisp?" Jack asked Raymond as he carried his bags down into the little airship that was sitting in the dock ready to drop them off back on Terrafirma.
"Seven yes though I couldn't get hold of Wisp herself Malakai informs me that they are involved in a rather sensitive mission at the moment," Raymond said as he passed bags over to Lia who was standing in the back of the airship helping the team to load up.
"So?" Jack asked sounding almost eager to be heading on to yet another adventure.
"He wants us working on the new Enclave problem, he's concerned about the intel the Brotherhood intercepted about this mass operation they are apparently launching and he wants us on the ground investigating it, he also told us to make sure that we share everything we find openly with our new allies, he's stoked about this budding alliance we have going," Raymond said sound rather proud of himself.
"As are we, this is a tremendous accomplishment Raymond and a massive step forwards for not only the region but quite possibly the whole country, this could very well be the dawning of a new era we are standing upon the precipice of if we can prove without any shadow of a doubt that humans and non-humans can work together for the betterment of one another then there is no reason that this idea cannot be picked up by the other Brotherhood factions and sections countrywide, soon you could have chapters of the Free Peoples partnered with their new Brotherhood allies all over," Paladin Wright said handing her own kit bag over to Lia in what Raymond felt was a distinct show of trust.
"We agree, with peace finally once again reigning over our beautiful lands and skies we can now turn our attention to stepping outside of our lands alongside our new allies and showing the common people of this place that not only do we not bare them any ill will but we stand ready to aid them if we can," Latisha Firetail said in a high-pitched and very singsong voice as she too handed over a large kit bag to Lia to stow for them.
Latisha was one of the new Featherguard soldiers that had been assigned to Raymond's team by the Elders, she was a Condor Geneus and as such was a fair bit larger than her two other new comrades who were of the Golden Eagle Genus and the Raven Genus.
Infact she stood taller than both Raymond and Lia coming in at just about 8ft tall and anyone could see her size wasn't just restricted to height, she had muscles that could make just about any Super Mutant jealous.
She also had a personality to go with her size living up to the name Firetail as she was outspoken and somewhat loud but not bad-natured.
Her massive metal-covered talons clattered on the deck plating as she climbed over the edge of the ship and dropped down to the decking to help Lia with the loading of the gear which the large Claw girl was lifting and moving to hand to some of Jack's Ronin who was in the hold stowing everything.
"So where has our glorious leader told us to start looking?" Cho asked appearing from the hold.
Raymond had already noticed that she seemed to be spending quite a lot of time with Ronin these days and more specifically with Jack and just the simple thought made him smile, the big mutant guy really did deserve to have someone who could make him happy in his life, though if either of them had decided to take that step yet was a bit of a mystery.
"He's placed that in our hands, he told us to work as closely as we could with our new friends and to use our talents wisely, he also told us to be on the lookout to either undo any potential sabotage or damage that the Enclave may have already inflicted on the region as well as to also help anyone we can along our path, but he did advise possibly trying to seek out these Minutemen we keep hearing about as given their nature of being embedded in all the local settlements as a kind of widespread militia they might be able to either aid us or at least point us in the right direction," Raymond said.
"A sound strategy and one I wholeheartedly approve of, I've been trying to get my superiors to sit down with the leaders of the Minutemen since we got here, but until now every attempt has fallen on deaf ears though with what has happened among the Elders I believe I know why, though I do have some knowledge on them which I would be happy to share if it helps," Paladin Wright said dropping down onto the deck with a heavy thud before helping Lia and Latisha with the bags.
"Excellent that will be most useful, well then we have a baseline plan, once we're back on Terrafirma we'll have a sit down to go over what intel you have on the Minutemen and see if between us we can come up with a plan to facilitate an approach that won't result in shooting," Raymond said.
"Sounds good," Paladin Wright said and with that they got the loading finished.
Once the airship had dropped them off on the ground and they'd unloaded everything they waved goodbye to their pilot as the little shit ascended back up into the clouds.
Raymond decided that the warehouse they'd used to host all the meetings was as good a place as any to host the sit down so the team got themselves into the building and set up to plan.
"Ok from what I understand the Minutemen leadership operate out of an old civil war fort they simply refer to as the castle, it's a fair old walk from here but not a hard one as the ground is pretty flat and we can follow the roads, though we may have to pass through some pretty dodgy regions filled with feral Ghouls, not so friendly mutants and everyone's favourite cuntbags the raiders," Paladin Wright said using her armour's headlamp as a projector to project an image of a regional map onto the table they were all gathered around.
"Feral ghouls won't attack us for the most part, if we encounter any area infested with them me and my team can run ahead of the main force and divert them away, which should make passing through a fair bit easier and quieter," Jack said.
"Same thing applies to the mutants?" Latisha asked curiously and both Raymond and Jack shook their heads.
"Nope infact they are more likely to attack us than anyone else, if we don't speak then they won't really do anything to us if they see us at a distance but if they hear us speaking then they'll attack with the fury of the stupid and ignorant," Raymond said.
"They hate you because you can speak better than them?" Paladin Wright asked in surprise and Raymond nodded.
"They see us as defective, that we aren't true mutants because we don't have to use our fingers to count so they see us as just green humans at that point," Raymond explained.
"Ouch intelligence envy, miserable thing that," she said and all of the Ronin and Raymond nodded in agreement.
"So yeah don't count on us to be a screen for those morons, it may work if we can get through an area without speaking but otherwise we're as boned as you," Jack said.
"Well at least the Radiers are straight forwards," Latisha said fixing her large golden eyes on the map and tracing a feathered finger along the route they were going to take as if trying to commit it to memory.
"Yeah SOP with them goombas is simply shoot on sight," Paladin Wright said and all of them nodded in agreement.
"Yeah pretty much, put enough of them in the dirt and most of the weaker ones run for the hills and leave you the fuck alone from that point on, only the truly psychotic or next-level stupid push on from that point, though to be fair most of them turn tail and run for it the moment they set eyes on this big sexy hunk of Claw right here," Raymond said patting Lia's thigh and making her growl purr at him.
"They know they cannot handle this much Claw girl," she said making Raymond and the others laugh.
"I doubt there's few who can," Paladin Wright said with a chuckle.
"In our group, you'd be surprised," Raymond said with a grin.
"Honestly in this group, I'm probably in for more than my fair share of surprises," she said and Raymond nodded.
"You got that right, ok then People let's pack up and get a move on no point dawdling about here, we got more peace talks to broker and Enclave fucks to root out, so let's hop to it!" Raymond said to cheer from the others.
Raymond just couldn't get over the odd sight his team cut as they all walked along the ruined roads that ran along the coastline of Boston, there were humans, humans in power armour, Super Mutants, a Nightstalker girl, a group of Avian Valkyries, a Claw and a little alien all strolling along together as if it was the most normal thing in the world.
Though to be fair not all of them we actually walking, Zixxy was riding along on Lia's shoulder and the pair were having an in-depth conversation seemingly about boys, while the Valkyries were taking it in turns to fly high above the main group to act as eyes in the sky for them which helped tremendously as it acted as an early warning system to ambushes in the road ahead.
A strategy that paid dividends rather early on because as they were set to pass through a small town along their road the Raven Valkyrie who was called Mattais Jetclaw swooped down and stopped them.
"What's up, laddie?" Jack asked as the Avain male landed on the road ahead of the group.
"I believe Raiders are hiding in that town, I saw movement in the upper floors of some of the buildings and their positions lead me to believe they have set up a crossfire onto the road below, the road we would have walked," he said in a low caw.
"Around them or straight through?" Raymond asked looking at the rest of the group.
"Straight through," Lia said without a second of hesitation.
"Yup through them," Paladin Wright said.
"Aye laddie through the bastards," Jack said and by the way his Ronin all hoisted their weapons up they agreed wholeheartedly.
"Well then right through it is but let's do this smart shall we? In my experience underestimating your opponents never goes well so let's do this right," Raymond said and that made Lia smile.
"And that my sexy green male is why you are our Alpha," she said.
Raymond asked the Valkyries what they had seen and about the layout of the town and they filled them in by drawing a rough outline in the dirt at the side of the road.
As he studied it a few ideas struck him and he glanced around at the composition of his group and very swiftly possibilities and ideas began to form in his mind as it played through scenarios, that's when it settled on a plan of action and a smile lit his face.
"Alright people listen up this is how we're gonna do this..." he began and with that, he outlined what they were going to do.
It took a little bit of time for the various groups to get themselves into their various positions around the town as they had to move carefully and quietly to avoid being seen by the hidden raiders lying in wait among the various buildings, it was like radspiders setting up a web to catch anything trying to venture through its home.
But to catch a spider first, you had to lure it out into the open where it was most vulnerable.
Before they had made any kind of move Raymond had Zixxy check to make sure that those hiding among the buildings, were indeed raiders and not just some innocent settlers trying to avoid any kind of roaming war band and after reaching out with her mind, she confirmed that they were indeed raiders and part of a much larger group that operated from a location nearby.
So with that green light in place, Raymond sent his people out to take up their positions, this took a little bit of time as trying to sneak power-armoured humans and super mutants not mention Claws about was no easy task, but with patience and care they effectively managed it with Zixxy acting as their early warning system to any detection, she was constantly scanning the minds of the occupants for any sign of detection she was also covering them with false images so when one small group hiding in what appeared to be an old shoe shop very nearly heard Jack's people she sent an image of a wild Brahmin wandering past to settle them down.
That's when Raymond saw two flashes from both the belfry of a small church and a large water tower which indicated that both Runs and Riss were in position having silently taken care of the snipers hiding up there, honestly the pair made him a thing of living breathing ghosts at the best of times but when they did shit like that they were downright scary.
"Alright Zixxy you're up operation groovy man is go," he said and she flashed him a grin.
"Should have called it groovy girl but anyway let's see how they handle this," she said and she closed her eyes holding out her small hands to the sides as she did.
Raymond swore he felt a pulse of energy pass over him as she ramped up his abilities to eleven but the effect was pretty much instantaneous.
The screams began from all over the town as Zixxy began to attack random targets flashing psychedelic images into the minds of random radiers, to one team their leader turned into a snarling Claw right before their eyes which they promptly shot to death in their blind panic.
Another group heard scratching on a door only to find that when they opened it a tidal wave of tarantulas fell out before crawling all over them causing them to run screaming out into the street while tearing their clothes off and clawing at their skin.
Another was surprised when one of their members morphed into an angry Yao guai which proceeded to chase them into the street as the person inhabiting the false body ran screaming with their team from an enemy they had no idea about.
In short in only a few short seconds Zixxy had caused absolute chaos in the small town and now it was the turn of the others to do their bit.
Raymond signalled up to Riss and Runs who instantly signalled down to the other teams who were laid in wait and the trap was sprung.
From one side Lia came rushing out of an alleyway and barreled into the confused and unspecting Radiers tearing into them with her claws and scattering them.
From another side Jack and his Ronin charged out of a couple of different alleyways holding their large metal swords high above their heads and bellowing war cries at the raiders which echoed in the narrow streets adding to the symphony of chaos.
At either end of the two main streets which made up pretty much the entirety of the town two Knights and two Valkyries stood waiting and as soon as those that had enough wits left rounded either of the corners to flee from the carnage taking place in the heart of the town they ran smack into a wall of armour and feathers waiting for them with their weapons at the ready.
"Well, I must say that went superbly! I don't even think those animals actually had the time to fire a single shot at any of us let alone do any kind of damage to us," Paladin Wright said voicing not only her approval but also her awe at how well Raymond's plan had worked.
"Yes, I must say Raymond you do seem to not only have a flair for leadership but also for tactical planning," Latisha said checking her laser rifle's fusion cell before lowering it into a side carry.
"He put all of our strengths to great use and I must say if it isn't too morbid that was thourally enjoyable, it was rather pleasant to go on the offensive against those vile wastes of potential and skin," Zixxy said riding along on Raymond's broad shoulder.
"Aye he did wee lassie, and I must say props to you for whatever you put into their heads, I honestly don't even think those drugged-up robbing fucks even knew we were hitting them before it was too late, they couldn't tell the real from the fake, a part of me kept wondering just what it was they were seeing and another part of me was fucking glad I couldn't see it," Jack said cleaning blood from his massive blade with the help of what looked like a shirt taken from one of the dead Raiders.
"Yeah, I did wonder about that myself, when I came out the two groups in front of me screamed where did all these Deathclaws come from?" Lia said doing the same as Jack with an equally liberated shirt but on her long blood soaked claws.
"Oh in their minds there was a whole pack of you attacking them from all sides, they had no idea which of you was the real Claw because as far as they were concerned you were all real, but thank you both of you your compliments are very much appreciated," the little alien woman said with a beaming smile.
"I get the distinct feeling I'm going to rather enjoy working with this group," Paladin Wright said clapping another of her Knights on the shoulder.
"That makes two of us," Latisha said echoing the sentiment with her own people.
"You said earlier that this group were part of a much larger one Zix, care to elaborate?" Raymond asked and the little alien nodded.
"From what I got from a few of their minds before I scrambled them like runny eggs they belonged to a much larger organisation that calls themselves the Red Eagles, they have lots of little ambush teams like this all over the place set up in towns and places scavengers and settlers not to mention caravans, as well as travellers are likely to pass through, now while I couldn't pull the locations of these other groups as none of them knows where the others are I did manage to pull the location of their main hideout from their leader which I confirmed with a few others," Zixxy said.
"Whatcha thinking laddie?" Jack asked looking at Raymond while he scratched his chin thoughtfully.
"Well I know Seven sent us after the Enclave but he also told us to look out for opportunities to do some good in the area, I get the feeling that we have a real hearts and minds opportunity on our hands here and can any of you think of a better way to impress the Minutemen than to remove what has to be a major thorn in their ass than for us to bust those fuckers up?" he said.
"Oh I'm really beginning to like the way this mutant boy of yours thinks Lia," Paladin Wright said with a chuckle as she hefted her plasma minigun and checked it over.
"Back off tin-plated human this one is mine besides we have plenty of others to go around," Lia said draping her arms around Raymond's shoulders while being careful not to either dislodge or crush Zixxy in the process.
Paladin Wright let out a burst of a laugh, "Oh yeah I'm definitely gonna get along just fine here," she said.
"Honestly I'd be happy to bust these featherless fucks up just for besmirching the good name of our brothers and sisters of the Red Eagle clan!" Latisha said to nods from her Valkyrie companions including Jewel.
"Alright then operation Eagle Plucker it is," Raymond said making all of the Valkyries visibly wince at that one.
"I'm just honestly glad you used a P and L, not an F in that sentence," Cho said making some of the other chuckle.
The walk to Red Eagle's base of operations was about a day away and while it did concern Raymond somewhat about the extra day being used by the Enclave to strengthen their roots here, there really wasn't too much of a choice here.
They did need a way to not only impress the Minutemen enough to agree to sit down with such an unusual group none of which they really had reason to trust but also it would aid the region as a whole to remove such an obvious threat to its stability.
As they walked Zixxy explained to them what she'd seen in their minds, the place was an old railroad and warehouse storage centre which had once specialised in shipping freight that came in off the nearby docks all over the country, it made sense for a group with such intentions to occupy as not only did it have plenty of room to store their ill-gotten gains but would also be pretty decently defensible, it would also offer good access to the transit lines crisscrossing the region.
It was infact one of these very lines that the team were using to navigate directly to it, being careful as they went not to trip any kind of trap or sentries that the group may have set up along their route.
But eventually, they reached their terminus and moved into a position to scout it out.
"Damn that's rather a few of them down there," Jewel said looking down from the little pumping station set into the side of a hill that overlooked the railyard below them.
"I counted at least a hundred plus the dogs they got roaming around," Paladin Wright said lowering her binoculars.
"They also got the place surprisingly buttoned up for a bunch of radiers," Latisha said.
"The leadership of the group believe in protecting their assets and there is nothing they will not sacrifice to hold onto either their power or their wealth," Zixxy said suddenly as she came out of the trance she had been sat in for the last hour.
"Oh great Raider zealots that's all we need," Cho said sounding kinda bitter about it.
"What else did you learn from them?" Raymond asked turning to look at the small alien woman.
"That not only is this hub their main HQ it's where they produce most of the Jet that gets sold in the area to all the other groups in the region," Zixxy said with a smile that matched the little twinkle in her black eyes.
"Jet? As in the drug?" Raymond said and Zixxy nodded obviously seeing he'd clicked onto what she was saying here.
"Yup, these guys are the biggest suppliers of the stuff in all of Boston," she said and a smile began to creep onto Raymond's face.
"Well now isn't that something?' he said with a bit of glee in his voice.
"What are you thinking big green?" Spectre asked and he glanced at her and then around at the others.
"I think we've just been handed a one-two punch on a fucking silver platter, all we gotta do is get this right and not only do we remove a giant pain in everyone's ass but we fucking cripple a large chunk of the chems trade in the area which in turn will weaken the other raider crew's as the withdrawals kick in along with the desperation, this will lead to a lot of infighting among them as they try to get each other's Jet stocks," he said and then he noticed at his creeping grin began to spread to the others all around him.
"Why Raymond are you suggesting we start a Raider gang war?" Paladin Wright asked and he nodded.
"If we do this right we should be able to get all the other Raider groups to not only start fighting amongst themselves to steal each other's supplies of Jet but if the remaining Red Eagles believe that this was done by one of the other groups they'll go after them for vengeance, should turn into a giant cluster fuck pretty quickly, if there's one thing you can always count on its that an addict will do just about anything to get their next fucking fix," he said.
"So how do we do it, there's a lot more of them than us and by the looks of the hardware some of them are walking around with they got us pretty heavily outgunned?" Spectre asked.
"Outgunned yes, outsmarted no chance, you forget we know what they know and what they don't know is that we even exist," Raymond said glancing at Zixxy who nodded her understanding.
'I'll start looking for known weaknesses in their defences that we can exploit," she said and Raymond nodded.
"Good, ok our first target is gonna have to be that Jet production lab, if there's one thing I know about that shit it's that producing it is more dangerous than fucking crystal meth, the lab will be pretty heavily guarded but the shit inside it will be volatile as a group of withdrawing tweakers all locked in a room that someone just tossed a single dose into," Raymond said.
"Blowing the lab should make a pretty nice distraction and cause a lot of damage," Jewel said nodding her head approvingly.
"Exactly but as big of a boom as that should make I want to make it bigger," Raymond said and they all glanced at him curiously.
"What are ye thinking laddie?' Jack asked curiously.
"I'm thinking we take a leaf out of Seven's book and he has a real liking for locating and targeting the armoury of places like this, we blow that too and not only do we deny them a decent chunk of their heavier weapons and gear but all that ordinance going up is gonna do some major damage," he said.
"So in short we gotta not only get in silently but we gotta both locate and sabotage what are most definitely gonna be the two most heavily guarded places in there?" Cho said.
"Yup and I do believe we got just the people for an op like that," Raymond said glancing at both Runs and Riss who nodded at him.
"We's got this, me's and beautiful wife make some serious fireworks out of poison," Runs said.
"Think that will be enough?" Latisha asked and Raymond shook his head.
"While it will be pretty dramatic and showy for sure we're gonna need a bit of an extra edge to push this royally over the top and really yank their pants down so we can spank them hard," Raymond said.
"But enough about what you and your Claw girl get up to in the bedroom what about the raiders?" Cho said making a few of them snort some laughs as Lia growled at her.
"Their treasure horde," Raymond said and now they all looked confused.
'Their loot horde? What about it are you saying we rob them?" Paladin Wright asked in confusion and Raymond shook his head.
"No I'm saying we fucking burn it to the ground," he said and that's when realization began to dawn across their faces.
"Because there is nothing they will not do and sacrifice to protect their power and their wealth," Jewel said and Raymond pointed and nodded.
"Give that girl a cracker, if we send that lot up in smoke the chaos will overwhelm them with blind panic, first their drugs, then their weapons and finally their money, while the first two will be complete losses the leaders will panic hard when they realise their wealth is about to go up in smoke, they will throw everyone they have into trying to save it and while they do that we simply walk in and close the jaws of death around their fucking throats," Raymond said with finality to his voice.
"That's a fucking ballsy plan, to say the least, but I gotta say I like it, you're gonna use their fucking greed against them and weaponise it to make them sloppy and stupid," Paladin Wright said scratching her chin as she looked at him thoughtfully.
"It's ambitious laddie and a pretty big if there to say the least, how are we supposed to get to those targets without being noticed?" Jack asked.
"With some serious co-ordination and yeah I agree hitting multiple targets this size increases the risk of discovery greatly but we still have our little secret weapon up our sleeve," Raymond said glancing at Zixxy who appeared to have gone back into a trance again as she roamed the minds of those down in the railyard looking for weaknesses.
"Think she has enough power under her hood to be able to misdirect that many people all at once?" Paladin Wright asked and Raymond shook his head.
"Maybe not a crowd that big but she doesn't need to hit them all at once, just a select few at the right times, plus it doesn't need to be something as potent as what she did back at the town, this time subtly will be key in the beginning, something like a perceived noise causing a sentry to open a security door to investigate only to get silently ambushed by an invisible intruder who dispatches them silently," he said giving an example and he began to see nods breaking out among them.
"Yeah that could work, if she can get the right people to look the right way at the right time we'd be able to walk right past them," Spectre said and Raymond nodded.
"Exactly, they already got the infrastructure we'll need to get this done on-site, sometimes you don't need a man-portable shoulder-launched nuke when a barrel of ether and a plasma grenade rigged to a trip wire can do the same job just nicely," Raymond said.
"You're gonna get them to blow up their own shit!" Latisha said and Raymond grinned broadly.
"Now you're getting it, when that place goes up not one of our people is going to be inside it," he said.
"But what I'm still missing is how are we gonna convince them that it was another Raider gang that did it?" Spectre asked.
"Yeah, I was wondering about that too?" Latisha said.
"You guys ever hear that old adage that history is written by the winners? Well, it just so happens it's written by the survivors too and memories can be tricky things, especially in the heat of battle and chaos," Raymond said with a sly grin and a glance at Zixxy.
Dawning realization began to pass from one to the other in the eyes of the group, "You're gonna get Zixxy to make them believe that they are under attack by another Radier gang!" Lia exclaimed catching his train of thought.
"Not all of them, just the survivors, of which there will be very few, we pick out the most cowardly among them, the ones most likely to run when the shit hits the fan and we show them what we want them to see, that way we control the narrative that they will carry with them on to the other groups," he explained.
"That's genius, they'll run around telling all of their shit stain brothers and sisters that one of the other Raider families hit them and fucked all their shit up and then they'll be all out for blood!" Cho said and Raymond nodded.
"Exactly then they will go off hunting for the ones that 'hit' them and with a bit of luck wind up starting an all-out war between the gangs which will leave them more vulnerable for people like us and the Minutemen to simply mop up at our leisure," he said.
"You really do have quite a talent for this tactical planning malarky," Spectre said grinning at him.
Suddenly Zixxy woke back up and smiled at them all while blinking her big black eyes a few times as she focused on them, "I do believe I have our way in," she said.
"What do you have Zix?" Raymond asked.
"See the perimeter fence over the far side of the compound near the back of the warehouse?" she said pointing.
Yeah, what about it?' Jack asked.
"Well apparently there are two large warrens of molerats that live in that area and they have a habit of playing merry hell with the electric fencing and motion sensors that they tried to set up around the perimeter of the place, something tells me it wouldn't take much to stir those molerats up and drive them into the fence and the sensors, should drive the perimeter alarm crazy and get most of the out guards looking the wrong way, something like say an angry Claw for example," Zixxy said shooting a grin at Lia who just nodded her large horned head.
"I can piss off some molerats," she said flatly.
"That should cover Run and Riss breaking in though we will have to short out that fence, Lia think you can lob some of those molerats at the thing enough of them get stuck on it and the fuses should pop," Raymond said.
"Molerat pitch and toss sounds like it should be a national Claw sport of some kind," Cho said making Jack snort a laugh.
"I can handle that," Lia said.
"Alright that covers team one, let's get to work on planning out the rest, I want this flawless understand?" Raymond said and the rest of them sat and they began to discuss how to get the other two sab teams into place.