Both Barack and Rick use their special ability to heal Chaotic, bringing him up to 4 HP.
Emperor moves up and makes an active search, seeing the enemy Leader. He ducks back into cover.
This is the formation that CJ, Rick, and Barack are in at the end of the turn.
Enemy Turn!
Cue Mission Impossible MusicEmperor looks out. The coast is clear, so CJ unties the hostage.
Like the protagonist of an existentialist German short film, the hostage dramatically runs for it.
CJ starts shooting at their leader, but he gets down to 1 AP (the H&K takes 2 AP to fire), and he's 2 squares away from the leader. It seems as though we will finally have a fatality.
But then Emp sprints across the fucking map and stabs the Leader to death. YEAAHHHH
At this point, I have Zako start going back down for the potential show down with the enemy at the flag. There are some shots of Barack and Rick with the hostage, too:
Enemy Turn:
We moved into this position: Zako hopped the pipe to get in front of the hostage.
Map included so everyone is visible.
Enemy turn: Nothing important.
Rick moves down and GUUUESSS WHHHAAAAAT
The SMG he chose just so happens to be fucking perfect for this particular situation. He kills the enemy with one attack action. Rick is promoted to WEAPON GUY. Rick, start suggesting weapons for people.
After shooting the guy, Rick moves back up, and our team gets into this position:
Meanwhile, Emp is coming down the left side.
Enemy turn:
The last enemy came up and shot at Rick at least 5 times, missing every shot.
If we kill the last enemy, we get points for that, but not for fulfilling the Mission Objective. We can't let that happen, so we form a dramatic human wall and get the hostage just barely close enough to make it to the flag next turn.
The enemy throws like 4 grenades at us, but it doesn't matter. The power of heart keeps us alive, or something.
At this point, Emperor sprints across the stage (again) and gets in a spite stab before everyone packs into a small area (it looks better) and the hostage touches the flag. YYEEEEAAAH
We won, unlocked a new handgun, and Zako got an evade bonus!
YYYYEEAAAAHHH