Orders From the Top

S1: E1

(January 5th, 2548) [Aoric POV]

Aoric: *quietly watching the Dekota siblings in their positions. One clearly more patient than the other, which prompts him to think to himself.* What kinda mission do they expert this to be? *glancing over to where North is to see how he's holding up on his thermals.* Seems- *hearing the go ahead to move in on the target, before adjusting his systems to get access to South's comms thanks to some of the recording software in his armor*

Trooper 1: *faintly in the distance* Christ is it cold or what?

Trooper 2: *faintly in the distance* Uh huh.

Trooper 1: *faintly in the distance* How cold do you think it is? It has to be at least below freezing, right?

Trooper 2: *faintly in the distance* Well, there's ice. So, yeah. Freezing.

Trooper 1: *faintly in the distance* Patrolling in the ice. Give me a fucking break. You know who doesn't have to patrol in the middle of the night, in the ice?

Aoric: *quietly writing down notes based on what he can see and hear.*

Trooper 2: *faintly in the distance* I'm sure you'll tell me.

Trooper 1: *faintly in the distance* Jenkins. I bet Jenkins is sleeping right now. Back in his rack, with his big fucking melonhead on a soft pillow.

Trooper 2: *faintly in the distance* Yeah, that's Jenkins.

Trooper 1: *faintly in the distance* You know I had terminal duty 8 weeks straight? 8 weeks man!

Trooper 2: *faintly in the distance, but sounding like they're getting closer* Well lucky you.

Trooper 1: *faintly in the distance, but sounding like they're getting even closer* And then I make one fucking comment about the CO to Jenkins.

Trooper 2: *faintly in the distance, but sounding like they're getting closer to the point he can hear their footsteps through the comms* Uh huh that's great.

Trooper 1: And the next thing you know I'm out on patrol.

**One of the troopers is suddenly pulled up from his neck is by a rope, having barely been seen from the angle Aoric is at, but able to hear a bit of a scuffle over the comms.**

Trooper 1: And then Jenkins gets my next terminal duty. And I get to freeze my ass off out here with... Murphy? Come on Murphy. Hey where are ya? Murph. Stop messing around Murph. Murph.

**Aoric hearing the first Trooper pull out his pistol and looks for "Murphy". Who he assumes to be the first trooper.**

Modulated Voice: *the voice Aoric hears being rather close to the comms* Yeah, in here. Thought I heard something.

**Aoric taking a moment to try to figure out who's voice that is as he hears the holstering of the sidearm.**

Scully: Oh yeah? Whatcha hear, a ghost?

Aoric: Probably South messing around then. *expecting this mission to go south as he starts to scale down the edge of the building he was posted on top of. [Relocating.]

North: [To where?]

**The first trooper sounds to be chuckling to himself and sounds to be walking closer to South. Not to mention the faint dripping of a liquid as Aoric moves towards where South should be by now. Silenced SMG currently in hand because of the current combat conditions.**

South Dakota: *Using a voice modulator to sound like Murphy, which starts to glitch a bit.* Yeah, I guess you could say something like that.

**South hits the first Trooper as a quick scuffle ensues, followed by gagging, then ending with a distant splash below as Aoric quietly slits the throats and shoots the skulls of those in his way. Making sure to take pauses to make sure he isn't caught.**