<div class="floatleft">(http://31.media.tumblr.com/7d93b7a317519b035c0fbd5df40edabf/tumblr_mu1298zPjz1svtk2fo1_500.jpg)</div><strong>'DJ' Robins</strong><br/><strong>Dalton; Planetside<br/>Duchy of Oriente<br/>5 February 3145</strong><br/><strong>Tagging:</strong>Allia, Armina; Open<br/><hr/><br/><em><strong>"S'hot, Butterfly link up with Long Tom, and sweep to the south west towards the small mountain, see if you can't pick up anything with Long Tom's Beagle.  Stay at long range just in case.  Shinigami, Sloane, Link up with me.  We're going to sweep west towards the volcano edge.  Bear, Ronin, Rabid and Harper link up with command and spread out."</strong></em>came Allia's voice over the coms.<br/><br/>DJ replied,<em>"Copy that,"</em>but kept her finger off the com button, letting herself fall back into a covering position closer to the<em>Ghiestwulf</em>.  No need to add to any jabber going on on the frequencies after all.  Once in position, DJ took to the high grounds, letting her more maneuverable<em>Shinigami</em>have more vision over the area.  Her mech didn't have the sensors of the other two, but it certainly had the range, speed, and firepower to take on foes long before that entered into their own firing range.  DJ didn't really know the pilot of the<em>Griffin</em>very well, but she assumed that she was capable, else she wouldn't have been selected by the Black Suns.<br/><br/><strong>"Shinigami taking to the skies.  Going up the hillside to get better vision of the surrounding areas.  Keeping within the ECM bubble, over."</strong>She kept her conversation short as she fired up four of the seven jumpjets on her mech to leap up about 50 meters up the hillside, then another 50, landing atop the ridgeline that ran most of the way to the volcano.  That's when she noticed a strange blip on the edge of her sensors.  Frowning, DJ thumbed the communications,<strong>"Shinigami to Gheistwulf and Sloane, detected something strange just off the radar along the northern edge of the volcano.  Going up about 50 meters to see if I can get a better visual.  Staying within the ECM bubble to stray on the side of caution, over."</strong><br/><br/>She fired up a short burst from the mech's jets again, leaping up a few more meters, leaving her a few hundred meters up and to the front of the others.  DJ had her sensors on maximum and caught the blip, this time lasting just long enough to get a rough signal before it disappeared again.  She was already at the very edge of the ECM bubble and didn't want to compromise the rest of her squad, so she activated her Shinigami's ER PPC and scanned the area while toggling the communications again,<strong>"Shinigami to Gheistwulf and Sloane.  I am about 120 meters above your position and about 250 meters ahead of you.  I think we might have what appears to be a Locust.  It's out of my sensor range and appears to be keeping it that way.  I recommend we stay on full alert as this may very well be a trap we're walking into.  I'm not so worried about the Locust than artillery fire or a minefield.  Shinigami holding position and providing cover, over."</strong>