Planet's Surface - Landing party
As the group began to move up as a whole, Megami's sensors would begin picking up faint returns from lots and lots of small, remarkably faint power supplies, though their very faintness made it effectively impossible to localize without much, much more in depth scans. For such faint signals, the question became whether or not it was actually worth it to spend too much time narrowing down the possibilities on what they were, when they already knew there were legitimate, established threats ahead of them that needed to be dealt with. As fire team Lady spread out, and made their way forward, taking their time with their progress since Riot wasn't exactly setting any kind of speed records, all four armors running their best, sneakiest sensors ahead of them. After all, there wasn't much point in being sneaky and fast if you stuck a gigantic beacon on yourself by running lots of active sensors.
However, as Riot started to advance into the woods in the general direction of the structures the attack had come from, they brought up their active sensors, the rest of the team following Megami's example. While the multiple data sources helped the suit's AIES systems start to really localize in on the source of those power supplies, but the answer still wasn't much help, as it simply came down to "Lots of them, all over the place." As they progressed further into the ground cover, Sigrid noticed her path was going to pass remarkably close to one of the power supplies, and pushed her sensor's up a fair bit higher, reasoning that since she already knew where it was, the higher power scan would effectively map out at least the shape of whatever contained that power supply, even if her systems couldn't tell her what it actually was. For what it was worth, that assumption was correct, and the AIES, operating as a group, even managed to identify what the objects were a whole second and a half before the projectors they'd spotted triggered, a beam of incredibly focused gravity lashing out as close to the source of the sensors that had pinged it as it could.
Kongo's life was probably saved by the simple fact that as powerful as the beam that struck out at her was, it was not only very narrowly focused, but the projectors weren't capable of a very wide angle of fire, meaning the beam "only" mangled the left side of her body as it triggered, the overpowered tractor beam effectively subjecting her arm and leg to almost 300 times the gravity that any body had evolved or been designed to survive. The projector effectively amounted to nothing more than a slightly more accurate mine, as it burned out in under 3 seconds, but that was more than enough time to do it's damage, crushing the entire left third of Kongo's body, and narrowly missing her head, just barely clipping it enough to knock her unconscious, regardless of the shock from the pain.
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Planet's Surface - Ingrid
As soon as the mine went off, Ingrid was in motion, diving directly away from the triggered mind before her conscious mind had even registered what was going on, years of combat training (and no small amount of actual combat situations) giving her reactions the immediacy and fluidity of a veteran. She came up in a crouch, weapon extended, just shy of being kneeling and ready to fire as her eyes immediately started scanning the area trying to figure out what had happened. "We need a medic over here,
now!" As her mind finally started to catch up to the situation, she realized that might've been a call she should've left up to Megami, but she felt fairly safe betting that her superior wouldn't have any complaints given the situation. The lack of any immediate attack slowly filtered through and she relaxed slightly, though her weapon remained up and ready to fire just in case, but her eyes were already scanning the area near Kongo's prone armor, looking for any signs of what might've caused it, the task made harder by the spread of the detritus from the projector firing up
through the dirt, rather than being placed at surface level to start with.
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Planet's Surface - Kumiko
Kumiko's only sign of anything going wrong initially was the way that Kongo's armor system suddenly started reporting failures all over the suit, followed in short order by the armor indicators going black all across the left side of the display, sending a chill down Kumiko's spine as she realized that whatever had just happened, had happened fast, and it was incredibly lethal. Without any further information, there was no telling-
"We need a medic over here, now!"
As soon as the call for a medic came over the net, Kumiko stopped advancing, and put her shoulder up against the nearest tree. The call had come from Ingrid, not Megami, though that was mostly just pure reaction speed, not any indication the Shoi was out of action or otherwise prevented from responding, but Kumiko trusted that Ingrid wouldn't have called for a medic if the situation would just put the medic in danger as well. "Amatsukaze, go. Everyone else, take cover, and keep your eyes
open. Until we know what just happened, assume we might be under attack. Matonaka, let the
Ryujo know we've encountered some resistance, and we have injured. Make sure Meiko-Juni is ready for incoming wounded and possible soul transfers."
