Utterly Mad

#This is Warwolf, we are ready to deploy.#

After they are lifted off, Duncan will help Pvt. Moore with any questions she has with her new role in the crew.

Smaher:
You scrub the system, reboot, and reconfigure it from default.

Soon, the system is back under Uniware control. The still functioning sensors and cameras begin scanning the surrounding area anew.
You see on the screens that the battle at the approach has concluded, and the teams are moving over to the tower.
Using the cameras, you can see your squdleader among the teams, looking a bit roughed up. Still alive though.

The heavies seem to remain on the top level, watching the horizon.

Wolf:
James moves the walker out on the yard, and the H-VTOL comes in from above. It's not using cable to carry the walker, but instead lands on it, and grabs on. This makes it possible to move around without belts in the walker.
Within a minute you're airborn, and on the way south-eastwards.

While airborn, you turn your attention to your new engineer; Moore, mounting the turret on the bottom of the hull. The seat is minimal, which is good considering she's wearing heavy armor.
"I get that I'll carry out repairs in the field, but what do I do when there's nothing in need of repairs? Just point and shoot with this thing?"
She pulls the handle of the turret, and it turns slightly to the right, suprising Moore.

Lucas:
You toss your dismissed dogtags to the ground on the hut, and tell the hounds to get out. Unsuprisingly they don't understand english, but you manage to pass on the message with gestures, and the family scamble out of a hole in the back of the hut. They leave you with the corpse of your former CO.
You grab his shotgun, and check for any possible tracker on you. There's no physical tracker that you can find, and you're quite sure there's nothing inside you.
So unless you're willing to cut yourself open and double check, you could call yourself clean.

As you're about to leave, the radio of your dead CO comes to life.
#Sir, we're facing resistance here at the center! Orders?!#

You leave the hut, into the burning village. Around you are burning huts, and dead hounds. Most of them are charred, the others are shot. It's pretty quiet, if you don't take in the distant gunfire, so the village has most likely been cleaned soon.
There's gunfire maybe 100 meters away from you. By the sounds of it, both Uniware guns, and hound guns.
There's paths to both the center of the village, and out of the village into the jungle. Both paths are quiet and cleared.

Lucas decides to grab whatever ammo the CO has on him for his shotgun along with the CO's radio. He heads out and to the path leading into the jungle.

Lucas looks at his radio and drops it to the ground and stomps on it, no need for it now that I have the commander's. Until they find out that he's dead, that is. He heads towards the Outpost, hoping that it's just abandoned.

Hettie gets around to doing minor tasks like fixing the perimeter fence and attempting repairs on any busted cameras or surveillance equipment.

Lucas:
You drop you own radio on the ground.
#Private, where the helll are yo-#
And promptly stomp on it, smashing it.

Then it's off towards the lost outpost.
The jungle is unforgiving when you want to travel through it, although being on foot helps.

Through dense bushes, across one or two streams, under the high roof of trees. Soon you reach a good lookout over the outpost, on a hill next to a manmade clearing.

It consists of 6 prefabricated structures, tied together with pipelines and gravel roads. In the middle stands a more permanent concrete structure dug into the ground, seeminly some kind of storage.
The outpost is overgrown, and there are old signs of battle like bullet holes and craters. There are also the wreckages of 3 tread-born tanks, and a medium walker.

At first, the outpost seems empty and quiet. But as you look over the outpost, you note movement. A lone hound roams around the outpost, looking through the remains of the outpost. The hound seems perticularly interested in the downed walker, always returning to it to examine it more.
The hound doesn't seem armed, and is wearing casual human clothes. Could either be stolen clothes, traded of some smuggler, or even some kind of gift of kindness from some human.

The hound seem to pay no attention to his surroundings, focusing entirely on the search.

Father:
The sergeant tries, and tries again to make the soldier breathe again. She doesn't even notice you standing next to her.
After a few more tries, she sighs, and gets up on her feet, leaving the soldier dead.
She looks around. The sight of her downed men seems to dampen her spirit.
"What a disaster..."
She turns her head to you. You note that she's covered in blood, most likely not her own.
"We're the only ones left, aren't we?"
She unloads her gun, and looks at a lone bullet in her magazine. She then reloads, and turns once more to you.
"Did we atleast capture the commander?"

Smasher:
You note that you are indeed the only engineer here.

First you fix the broken sensors and cameras, clearing that out of the way. The fence, could not be fixed. It was replaced by a palisade of logs by the hounds, and even if it's a bit roughed up, works rather well.
Then you're tasked with fixing the AA-gun, which proves as simple as realigning the barrels. It was simple, and didn't take much time at all.

You squadleader comes up to you.
"Well done with restoring the OP to it's former glory, and giving us another weapon to use in case of attack. Now I have another task for you, so follow me"
The squadleader leads you to the yard, then around to the side of the tower, there he moves a bunch of bushes in the cliffside, revealing a large metal gate, enclosed by a concrete frame. Beside the gate is a smaller metal door, accompanied by a broken keypad.
"This is one of the reasons the colonel wanted this place back. It's some sort of storage."
He points at the broken keypad.
"All I know is that once the hounds were about to overrun this outpost, the men stationed here smashed the keypad, thus sealing the gate until fixed. I'm glad they haven't succeeded in fixing it themselves...
But now I need you to fix it, and restore the systems deep inside aswell. Take some soldiers with you.
You never know what Vita will throw at you next..."

He then leaves, and goes back into the tower.
You're in front of the previously concealed gate, to the side of the tower. It's the middle of night, and the moons are high.
The yard of the observation post has been turned into a camp, with tents and campfires. There are relaxing light infantry, patroling heavy infantry and a lone medic tending the wounded.

Wolf:
Leon pouts, crossing his arms in the gunner's seat.
"Hey! I'm the one in charge of blowing up buildings!"

You give Moore some instructions on how to use the belly-turret. It's as straight-forward as it gets, since she's only basicly manning a defensive machinegun. But she appreciaties the help and instructions nontheless, brining her mood up a bit.

Your radio beeps once for attention, then you hear mission control.
#Come in Warwolf.#

Hettie begins fixing the keypad, sighing.   "First day in active duty and you're already doing stuff like this."  When she's finished with the keypad, she tries to get a squad assembled.

"Are you with anyone else? I, uh, despite looking like it, am not with the soldiers." Lucas says, he rubs his chin. "Anyways, who taught you English?"