The trail of gunfire was fast, but not fast enough. Dom cursed, and dove behind the bar again, kicking the Bartender cruelly in the gut as a 'thank you'. After making sure nobody was going to come after him, he got ready for whatever Drsuj had gone out to get... Justin Pyorla, leader of the Commando team, saw Drsuj first, through the bay door window, running out of the bar followed by gunfire. "We've got ourselves a situation boys, suit up!" Immediately his team got themselves ready for action and prepped themselves. They weren't children when it came to battles, and it showed, and the entire team finished suiting up and assembled outside the 'Copter in under a minute. Justin nodded to the Pilot, and he lifted off and landed a few hundred metres away, so that their only escape route wouldn't be damaged by any stray gunfire. After looking around the town, Justin led his men to the door, quickly stopping to talk with Drsuj. "The Lieutenants been hit, right? Otherwise he wouldn't have come out with you. Don't worry Sir, we'll have the hostile dead at your feet within the hour, that I promise." He went to inspect the situation for himself, but a crowd of Pendragons escaping the bar, and stray shots following them made him stop in his tracks. "Pyola sir, we've got one, taking cover behind the bar, it's set up so that a flash or frag grenade would rebound... Looks like we're gonna have to wait it out... No way we can rescue the Lieutenant or take him out without possibly losing a man, he is the Gunslinger after all..." Justin growled, and took a spot by the door, leaving his men to surround the building and make sure nothing would escape... "I take that back Drsuj sir, it might take a bit longer than an hour..."
Drsuj growled at the man "That's not good enough! We need the Lieutenant out now! Or else, I'm not going to be the one to explain to Revol why his second in command is dead!" he wished he wasn't a quadrouped now so he could grab the man's shirt collar. He turned to the rest of them than back to Pyola "Tell your men to charge in their and take no prisioners. I'll fish out the Gunslinger meself if I have to." With that he wnet back inside the bar and took cover behind an upsidedown table. Moving from table to table, he managed to get over to the area where Dom was hiding and he dived into there
Dom had noticed the movement, and a quick glance over the bar with a set of crosshair eyes proved there was an elite team of possibly what were Revol's best. Sanders was still lying where he had knocked him out cold, and the black quad member, who had caused this whole thing, was making his way sneakily through the now empty bar. Dom got ready, knowing he was probably going to do something reckless, and as soon as he showed his face, he had a gun ready...
He moved through the area of the bar and around to the area that Dom's back would be facing. Sneaking up on him now, he decided to use the same thing he had used at first. He unsheathed his claws and drew them up to Dom's neck. Smirking he prssed them against Dom's flesh and said "Now drop the guns and stand up nice and slow and keep you hands where we can see them.
Dom froze, his gun stalled, pointing in midair as he felt the slight pressure against his neck. His graying wilddog fur twitched, only slightly, as he saw the shot, and positioned his gun only a fraction of an inch to the side, where it faced a pot hanging from the side of the back counter. The pot was facing him, and hopefully would bounce the bullet back into Drsuj. Dom's shooting was usually sure, but this time he needed pinpoint accuracy, or the bullet would soar off somewhere and possibly the claws would slice through his neck. It wasn't a requirement that he be captured alive... He chose to play the bluff none the less... "So you want to test your luck? Move those claws any closer to my neck and I'll fire..." He motioned towards the pot, and hoped Drsuj fell for the 'half bluff'...
He faltered slightly before looking at Sander's body on the ground. He snarled slightly at Dom. "Then I'll just have you surrender like this." he said smirking slightly.
Dom grinned, and slowly squeezed the trigger. The bullet was of normal variety, and bounced off the pot, but not at the angle Dom was hoping for. It bounced back, and hit Drsuj' claw, knocking his paw back a few inches, just enough for Dom to scramble out of the way and bolt through the back, followed by several bursts of gunfire and plasma rounds, provided by the Commandos positioned by the door. He looked for an escape route, and soon found one in the shape of a locked window. Leaping with more than a little effort, he smashed clean through the window and landed outside the building, directly in the hot rays of the sun. He was just as quickly hidden among the buildings and dust clouds around the town...
drsuj snarled as he was hit away and tried to follow Dom but he sson lost him. He snarled and turned to Pyola. "I want him found before the sunsets noone is allowed to enter of leave this town 'till he is found." he snarled. Without realizing it, he had come almost right next to Dom. Even though he put up a fiecr exterior, he was afraid on the inside that Dom would try to atttack him.
Justin quickly turned to his team, realising if the fugitive wasn't caught, he could be some real trouble down the road... "You heard the man! Fan out! root the old man out, make sure you stick to the shadows, he has an excellent shot and as far as I know, with those two guns of his, he's counted as heavily armed! He seems to have bullets for everything! Now scramble!" The commandos scattered, half of them running to the other side of the street, and half combing the buildings on the bar's side of the street. Luckily the bar was at the end, close to the desert itself, and it wouldn't be long before the fugitive was sighted... "Sir, I've put out a call for reinforcements, they're en route now, but due to the unexpectedness of the call, they could take some time to respond. Meanwhile we have to make sure the Lieutenant gets taken care of. Unfortunately, the only way to guarantee his safety, due to the fact that his walker isn't here, is to have the 'copter take him back to base. But it's your call sir."
"Do it!" he snarled again looking around. He really wanted Dom caught now, it was personal to himself. "But I only want to see only the needed amount of men with the Lieutenant." he watched as the troops continued looking for Dom. "But remember Pyola, I'm not the one who's explaining this to Revol." he smirked slightly at Pyola knowing perfectly well Revol would expole in anger.
Justin knew very well how Revol would react, but since Drsuj was the superior officer here, he didn't comment. "Yes sir, I'll spare two men to go with the Lieutenant, and the rest will continue the search. I assume you yourself want to start looking for the fugitive as well?" He could tell Drsuj had something against Dom, and wasn't just trying to take him down because it was his job. But that didn't make him have to like the guy. He was a superior officer, and there the "quaintness" between pendragons cut off. Two Commandos were quickly called over, and the 'Copter began landing on the ground, as the two Commandos loaded Sanders onto a stretcher and placed him on the floor of the 'Copter. Just as the pilot was about to lift off however, two Commandos nearer to the vehicle fell over, blood spattering from the front of their armor. A third, fourth, and fifth shot slammed into the side of the 'copter as well, and the pilot couldn't hold it. The 'copter touched back down, smoking from the holes, unable to move anymore, as the three armor piercing rounds had gotten into the main drive engine. "Cover!" Shouted one of the commandos, and immediately the men scattered, Pyola grabbing hold of Sanders and yanking him behind the 'copter as he slid clean through the two open side bay doors of the aircraft...
Drsuj snarled as the shots were heard. He looked about trying to find the source of them. Climbing ontop of a building as the wind started to pick up slightly, he looked around. "Gunslinger!" he yelled out into the wind "Show yourself! Fight in the open. Then, maybe your death will be considered honorable." He ususally wasn't one to speak of honor. He had been disgraced so many times, it wasn't much use for him trying to be honorable. He knew his words would astound a few of the commandoes down below and he was right as some of them stopped in their tracks and stared up at him in amazement and confusion.
The wind roared suddenly, and after going for a few moments, subsided. Along with the quiet came Dom's reply, which didn't raise the morale of the Commandos very much... "I'm an old man! Old men like me tell tales and sing songs for booze in dirty old bars! I have no honor left to fight for! So shut up and die already! The way you're going, the way Revol and his group are going, you'll be dead soon anyways!" Three more shots rang out, right after the other, and the roof at Drsuj' feet exploded in splinters. "That was a warning shot! Now leave this town! And take that albino with you! I don't want absolutely anything to do with you and your organization! I've already given up trying to stop you!!!"
He snarled and gestured with his head at Pyola to send a few of the lower ranking commandoes out to find Dom. He looked back at the village before yelling back "and do you really belive one who's soul was basically stolen from him in Kokori has any honor left, he dosen't! We won't be leaving this town until you are either dead or in chains, so i suggest you coopertae to avoid the former!"
Dom immediately changed positions, scrambling into a different building, as a few Commandos came his way at Pyola's hand signal. He checked his guns. "Two Armor piercing, Three Poison, One normal, And A Tranq..." He swore and reached into his coat, knowing he only had a few armor piercing and normal rounds left... Justin quickly heaved Sanders onto the 'Copter, and closed the door facing the town, a dark look on his face... "Drsuj sir! I don't know about those reinforcements! Maybe we should pull back for now!"
Drsuj snarleed angrily as Dom basically diaspeared from the commandoes view. He yelled out into the air at them "Fall Back!" he jumped off the building and moved over to Pyola. He seemed very agrivatted as he walked right past him and without even bothering to look back he said quietly. "You can wait for reinforcements. But i'm going to keep searching. I just want your men to keep this town free of any body coming in or out." with that, he walked out from behind the copter again and began to head towards the last place he had figured Dom was.
Justin nodded, and removed his helmet, letting his dark green hair spill out onto his neck and back. "You heard the man! Get the hell out of there! Rodriguez, Vyjka, clear the bodies! form a defensive perimeter around the outside of the town, the F.L. here is gonna search for the Gunslinger himself! Fire if you see him, but if Drsuj is within 30 feet, don't dare loose a shot!" The Commandos followed his orders, the two named men dragging the bodies of their fallen comrades to the 'copter, as Pyola took a position as close to the town as possible... Dom knew he was in hot water. The longer he was held up here, the more likely he was to get caught or killed. "I'll have to toy with em..." Came the muted whisper, as Drsuj got closer...
Drsuj's ears twitched rapidly about trying to pick up any sound. His head flicked to the side where Dom was. He thought he had heard something there, but he must have been mistaken. He wandered by slowly though, one ear fixed in that direction. Thinking he heard something else, he turned and began to head down the alley though his eyes still couldn't pick up Dom's form.
Dom flinched as he watched Drsuj' head turn towards his position a few times, his crosshair eye pressed up to the crack of the buildings simple wood walls, but when he started getting closer, going as far as to wander down the alley directly beside the building he was hiding in, he knew something had to be done. He pressed one gun up to the cracks in the wall, and another was grasped firmly by a graying furred hand. "Take this you bastard!" He suddenly screamed, and fired the rest of the rounds through the crack at Drsuj, A Poison, Tranq, and Two armor piercing rounds, while running out the door and firing another two poison, and a normal round at the closest Commandoes at the 'copter. They fell, one with a poison round in his head, directly between the eyes, the poison spreading through his body, even though he was already dead, and the other with a bullet hitting him in the unprotected neck, dropping him instantly, screaming like a baby as the blood from his jugular flowed freely. Dom turned an eye to see what Drsuj was up to, but couldn't see anything, and being pretty much out of ammo, he ran into an alley on the opposite side of the street again, soon vanishing from the Commandoes view, although if Drsuj saw his stealthy leap into the second story window was questionable...
Drsuj had managed to avoid the poision round, but the tranq and the two amor peircings hit him dead on. He dropped to one knee with a howl. Angrily, he reached up and pulled the tranq from his neck. He was bleeding from his side due to the armor pirecings. He saw vaugely Dom jump into a second story window. He barely managed to follow across the street. Instead he fell to one side breathing heavily. He glared where Dom had gone. "You know! I've never needed any weapons! But for you, I think I'll make an exception!" he yelled after Dom's form.
