Derek makes his run, leaving the AR on the ground beside Jackson and grabs up the Covenant weapon like a child on Christmas. He begins fiddling with it, but as Drackalicious has yet to tell anyone else about how he worked the plasma pistol, he has no immediate success. Mik fails the grab at the pistol but does see the un-claimed plasma pistol on the ground just a few feet away.
Drackalicious and Jackson jog over to examine the Elites corpse, sparing barely a glance at the other Cadet who may have still been alive, lying in the middle of the room. Drackalicious remembers that he is in fact on the ground floor of the officers quarters right now, hence the dead officers, and the officers lockers with weapons inside them, but he pretends like nothing happened and hopes no-one else mentions it. Will grabs up the fallen pistol as Rouge claims the dropped AR.
As they reach the body they see that it is very similar in many ways to humans, just with Blue blood. Flesh over bone, similar anatomical structure. the other thing they notice os the effect of the weapons on it. the bullets did much as they would to a human. dents and scars in the armor and holes in the flesh. The plasma however is very different. Jackson finally thinks he can sum up the effect of the plasma weapons on biological beings like humans:
Injuries inflicted to a victim can include severe third-degree burns. The Plasma shot by the weapon can instantly cauterize wounds upon impact. Adjacent body fluids are subjected to flash vaporization, inducing a strain or a shock on the body after impact, and the trapping of fluids in organs or blood vessels in addition to the rapid expansion of heat can cause ruptures or small explosions within the victim. Repeated hits can cause 4th degree burns where flesh is literally incinerated away leaving exposed and charred bone.
Derek then finally works out about holding a thumb permanently over the holographic symbol thingy to act as releasing the safely before pulling the thing vaguely resembling a trigger. He looks up to tell the rest of the team what he worked out when a slight noise behind him causes him to spin around, Drakalicious finds two strange purple balls on the elite's belt as he also hears it and looks up.
A Grunt is turning the corner of the stairs with a plasma pistol already beginning to charge, it seems like the noise they heard was the weapon starting it's charge cycle.
Init:
Elite 1
un-named cadet
Drackalicious
Derek
Will
Grunt 3
Rouge
Grunt 2
Mik
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Jackson
Grunt 1
Nina
Grunt 4