While the three Marines are at the Medical tent, they heard that one of their fello comrades have wandered off in the storm, and they gonna send a search and rescue party to retrieve him from the clutches of the invisible and the swift ones. Kidd turned to Hicks and asked him if he wants to search for the soldier, Hicks just shook his head to Kidd because he have forgotten three things happening out there. 1. The sandstorm is still throwing it's weight around them, 2. It's getting dark, and it gets really cold out in the desert regions through the night and 3. the Xeno's dark colors can blend into the darkness and their speed will be unimaginable during the night as they act like they can do hit and run tactics to harass us marines during the search. Kidd knew this, but forgot to think before speaking out loud. Hicks just said told him to just be more careful what you say or you'll send thousands of men to death's door. Kidd just nods.
(This goes with Hicks' last post on the RPG)
The evening light from the sun is still being a blur down within the sandstorm's ground level, but the storm itself has finally begun to leave the battlefeild so that the Alpha Draconis Marines can resume the their mission to find the lost people, but they ran into some odds and ends that have to be settled to, for it will help the marines to fully complete the mission. Hicks and Kidd were standing at the entrance of the medical tent waiting for further orders and the orders were, Search for the Lost Soldier. Hicks just shook his head, because every second that pass.es slowly turns the light they need to see into darkness which favors their enemy, the Serpents of the Night.
Hicks look back into the tent and told Karrigan that'll she be safe here until she is up and ready to fight, and then he disappear behind the door and the two brave soldiers walked into the pitch black darkness, with their Night-Vision on, to search for this soldier.
The duo walked the outside perimeter with the scanners on and they found nothing except a few beeps from the enemies that want to tear them to shreds but couldn't because they were still in range with the Sentry Guns behind, so they just lie and wait for their prey to come to them. They circled the whole perimeter but it beared no fruit. They radioed TDN and his voice had the sound of sterness and worry. All the soldiers in Alpha Draconis worry about each other. They knew the people they stand, eat and study with, they were all like a family with many backgrounds, many stories and many happy and sad times like everyone else, and they all don't want that or those soldiers out there on their own in the darkness. The Alpha Draconis is a big family themselves, for all the soldiers in that unit know each other very well, they party on their spare time or train to keep them up to date for the next mission, it doesn't matter, they all have different intrests and that what makes them a lethal team for any mission. TDN told them to keep looking and then Hicks told him the three things that he told Kidd, so he then called the Search party back but not until Hicks spotted two Pods that dropped onto the surface of the planet, and Hicks told Kidd to tell TDN about it, Kidd radioed TDN about the pods and they got ready for combat. Kidd wondered why there so many fights goin on against them at in such a short amount of time, and then TDN came. They got into a group and rushed to the pods hoping they won't open until they get there. As soon as they saw the sentry guns, TDN told them all to hold up , they are not in our perimeter, so they are not a threat until they head out. So the Squad turned back to camp with disappointment that they can't find that soldier nor can they fight another battle, but this is for the best. It'll keep us ready without anymore wounds until the tomorrow comes and greets them.
(This goes with NAVYSPAZ's post on the RPG)
Next morning, TDN walked out of his command tent restless for that the burden of one soldier that is missing and he don't know if he is alive or dead, but still they need to find him. The early sun shown it's radiant light over the faces of the soldiers and they walked out and look at at it with their sheilded eyes. Kidd stepped out into the open to, and he saw that some snow as formed over the night, the wind blew a cold chill over the HQ, most of the soldiers all started to shake, for that the body can make it's own heat, but to no advail for that the wind have to make it's trip around the world or unless it runs into a mountian to change it's direction. Kidd looks over at TDN and TDN never looked back, just stare out toward the desert. Kidd walked over to TDN and told him what lies ahead on the outside perimeter of their base, there is a canyon, and it'll give a shiver down any ones spine for the feeling of someone or something is watching you while you walk down it's rocky halls of mountian as walls and the sand as the floor. Just a sight like you see in the Grand Canyon but this planet is like a experiment of building the Grand Canyon into a planet which will be great for those people who likes to go sight seeing, but the war rages on so it's really rare for someone to go out sight seeing without a Xeno popping up or a razor sharp weapon flying at you. No! it's not safe to sight see in these Dark Times of trying to liberate colonies and planets from those evil monsters. TDN and Kidd walked around the Camp and see that if anyone that is ready to go on with the mission, they are already one day behind, and they have to search for a soldier which was lost during the sandstorm yesterday. They passed the medical, but not before they can search it to see if Karrigan is ready but she was not there, instead, she was in her tent already for this day, and it was clear to them she wants to kill some of those sons of -censor-.
After they walked around the camp Kidd, gave TDN an idea, but it was his choice to see if it goes out the Idea is:
Seperate the squad into two groups one bigger one smaller. The smaller group searches for the Lost Soldier and the bigger group goes out of the mission, and IF everything goes their way, all that's left, is to call the retrieval boat and to fight any enemy comes their way.
But that is for TDN to decide, The Great LT. Veteran of many attacks and missions, it is his voice the squad needs to hear today.
(Just to let yall know, I did that with those two's post so that I won't become confused, and to let everyone know what goin over at the Marine camp. LOL. Even though I don't want to die in the RPG but what the heck, I'll die, it's just for fun. ^_^ TDN, you can put me in the smaller group. Why? Because I know we are Marines but as I have it in my Profile, I'm a Ranger, and the "Rangers Lead the Way" but also, they "Leave No Man Behind" so if you want to, go on with that idea, send me in that little group and yall the big group can go rescue the colonist and restore power to get Communications up to call the boat and we might get there to rescue yall or IF everything goes ok, you can pick us up at the temporary HQ. Why am I doin this? Just to live up on my side of the deal to fight BlackWarrior. ^_^ I know I making the Marines sounding like the Big Heros but what the heck, yall are evil to us. LOL)
Look around each corner before you move because the chances are, you are not gonna make it.