It was the all too familiar calm before the storm. The few seconds of utter silence before you found yourself up to your neck in the shit. Gunny's eyes scanned the room, waiting, when Rakdaar moved into the breached portion of the ship. Gunny was about to call out a reprimand telling Rakdaar that he had not ordered anyone to enter yet, but too late. The trap was sprung.<br/><br/>Bolts of superheated plasma began lacerating the too short lived silence and Rakdaar took a shot directly, the Canicid's back still sizzled where he was hit. It was only a moment before Shayne, who decided to be this raids resident badass, was out on the other side of cover and calling for covering fire. Gunny replied with actions and not words. Before Shayne was half way to Rakdaar one of the slavers dropped and by the time he reached the wounded crewman another slaver took a shard of magnetically charged shrapnel to the throat, blood gushing as he crumpled to the floor.<br/><br/>"Start pushing them back!" Gunny yelled. These slavers were no match for the Scarlett's seasoned pirate crew.<br/><br/>Shayne brought the wounded Canicid back behind cover, shot off a quick order, and was back in the fray. He uttered a rather frightening threat and was off to have a bit of fun. Gunny watched as the 3 troopers, that weren't checking on impatient rookies, began returning fire and inching the enemy back. "Cover and cover boys!" Gunny ordered. Cover to cover was an older tactic that the pirates had been using for years. It entailed half the group laying down suppressing fire and the other half moving forward to in turn lay down suppressing fire so the group that stayed behind could move up.<br/><br/>Gunny looked over to the Canicid to vocalize his annoyance when he saw him get up and go back to the fight. Ok, Gungnir thought, he's got balls. I just won't yell at him. Gunny laughed to himself and then mildly grimaced. Rakdaar, in what felt like seconds, went from being wounded to ripping the heart out of a slavers chest. Oh, again Gunny thought, maybe I'll wait til he calms down and ask him nicely to wait for orders. Gunny smiled again, he never asked nicely. Pulling Lucyl up, Gunny sent another piece of metal into the chest cavity of a slaver, leaving a satisfying hole that you could through, and walked out into the open area firing with precision.<br/><br/>"All right ladies!" Gunny yelled to the slavers. "This is your only chance to surrender!" Gunny just smiled. "But if you surrender, we're just gonna kill ya slow!"