Operation: RETRIBUTION: Difference between revisions

Mark and Ash, hidden by the [[photoreactive panel]]s of their SPI armor, flanked the eight people at the tree line's edge.{{Ref/Reuse|R18}} [[Miguel|One]] was armed with an [[SAD-8|8mm Sevine Arms Defender]] but otherwise they carried [[Wikipedia:Panga|panga]]s or kitchen cutlery. Veta slowly began making her way toward the group whilst giving her [[SPARTAN-III Gamma Company|Gammas]] instructions on what to investigate. At this point, Kelly announced that she had found [[Jiralhanae]] tracks. [[Kig-Yar]] and human prints from what must have been ten attackers in total were also present. Though it now looked as if Dark Moon had intentionally framed the Keepers for what happened to the ''Donoma'', signs pointed to this being an actual Keeper raid. The evidence indicated that [[Castor]] had learned about this location from the operatives he had gotten away with and had just managed to beat the ''Silent Joe'' there.{{Ref/Reuse|R18}} Lopis handed Olivia her [[M6C/SOCOM]] [[Suppressor|suppressed]] automatic pistol. When he was just five meters away from the civilians, one of them, a stocky woman in her forties named [[Nita]], called for her to halt. The group was made up of service workers who had worked at the field complex and had been assisting survivors of the raid get to safety before the Turaco had shown up. They were under the impression that the UNSC had sent the Keepers to strike them. Veta's accent betrayed her as a Gao native, and for that she was labeled a [[Treason|traitor]] by Nita. Keeping a cool head, Veta managed to talk the survivors into divulging a good amount of information about the operations at New Leaf, mainly by inventing an armored track-shovel she named "the M606" that they would supposedly need to dig out the lab, in addition to an imagined resolution referred to as "the [[Ganymede]] Accords" that she used to threaten Nita and the others with. She convinced them that if they did not share what they knew, she could have them arraigned as co-conspirators to an illegal [[bioweapon]] plot per the accords. Through these tactics she learned that for the past two weeks, the service crews had been banned from the laboratory itself. It was also shared that the Keepers had entered the lab during the attack seemingly intent on recovering something within and had taken the lab's director, [[Agnes Sabara]], with them when they left. Veta pressed for information about the presence of any [[cryo-jar]]s, and [[Miguel]], the man with the SAD-8, revealed that they had been gone before the Keepers showed up. Nita corroborated this, saying that she had personally seen a Dark Moon team leave with cryo-jars the previous night. Kelly, speaking on [[TEAMCOM]], asked if the situation might be developing into a [[Hydra (code)|Code HYDRA]] problem. Veta believed it could be. It was also now clear to her that President Casille must be involved in some fashion, but she wasn't convinced he was behind it all. She told Fred she wanted to question him. At the mention of the president's name, the eight civilians reacted in a way that Veta read as indicative of the fact that they wouldn't need to hunt down Casille, as he was actually coming to them right that minute.{{Ref/Reuse|R18}}

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