Upon hearing the Taisa's instruction to attempt the capture of one or more of the enemy snipers, Reika responded with a sharp "Yes, ma'am.", and headed back towards the enemy still under stealth, moving to and from the available cover to avoid being his by stray enemy or friendly fire. It appeared Klein was already occupied with getting Lime out of danger, so Reika was going to have to do her best on her own for the time being.

After some careful effort relocating herself, the operative came up behind one of the enemy snipers. She timed her movements for when either the sniper was firing or her companions were returning fire to mask the sound of her movement in the snow as she gained increasingly closer proximity. Once she had closed the distance, she gently set her rifle down, and then lashed out with a precise blow to the back, then rapidly placed the converted Nekovalkyrja in a stranglehold with one arm, knocking aside her weapon with the other. Reika had to mix speed with careful and calculated movements so that she could render the enemy unconscious, but do so with sufficient speed that the enemy neko was unable to send a telepathic call for help to her allies. Accidentally breaking the Neko's neck with her strength amplified by the Daisy armor was also a risk.

Reika then reached down for the unconscious Neko's legs and discarded weapons, breaking them with her armored suits enhanced grip -- just in case the sniper regained conscious after she had continued on. Now the enemy would prove unable to get very far or do much damage.

After making sure that the enemy was knocked out but still apparently breathing, she recovered her rifle and continued to move through the enemies line until she located the next sniper -- hopefully, she could acquire at least one more captive before she was forced to resume more immediately lethal methods.

Takeyu gave a quick nod before he moved out from behind cover and unleashed fire in the direction that he saw the sniper shot come from that had missed Sune.

"Taisa, one minute till air support arrives," Takeyu shouted, trying to get his voice heard over the raining of enemy fire before he got up and re-deployed his forearm shield and placed himself between Sune/Armundo and enemy fire - the shield dome would protect them from enemy fire, or at least that was Takeyu's plan.

Takeyu then sent an order to one of his drones that was in the nearby area, it shot up into the air and then flew toward the location of the sniper that Takeyu pegged for it to harass. It's tiny laser wouldn't do much good at damaging the soldier, except maybe blind the bastard, but any time he could buy for Sune and the rest of the squad he would take.

"I wish I had a sniper rifle here..." Takeyu said absentmindedly.

"I'm a little busy at the moment Taisa, I'll start picking them off at my earliest convenience. However, I'm patching up Lime at the moment." Helen spoke over a comm-line as she went about doing just that, stabilizing Lime and ensuring that she would survive until Sune could get to her. Once the Nekovalkryja was stable, Helen spoke a reassurance; "I'll be back later to check on you." With that, she stepped out of the back of the tank and brought her CFS to life, hovering above the ground and evaluating the situation.

Noting through her AIES that Reika already had a portion of the sniper situation under control, and that air support was one minute off, Helen knew that she mostly had to ensure that until that minute passed, the tank and crew would not be overrun, and that the enemy would be unable to shoot down their air support before they were effective. What that led Helen to do, was to put her Kylie's forearm projectors into SMG mode, as she hovered about the tank, darting about it using it as cover, as she began to spray aether fire in the directions that sniper fire continued to come from. She wanted to make them put their heads down, or lose e'm. She knew full well those bursts of aetheric energy were enough to really ruin anyone's day if they were not in a power armor.

The NMX Nekovalkyrja began focusing on Reika, taking advantage of the weather to spot her armor's shape. Blue particle beams slammed into her torso but did not penetrate. As they fired the enemy nekos were moving away in a tactical retreat now, with an alternating cycle of some shooting while the others would move away. Their movement kept them away from Helen's aether fire.

Meanwhile, the Neko that Reika had tried to choke was up somehow up again, crawling on her knees over to her weapon to check it. It didn't work as a gun, but she used it as a bat to smash Takeyu's drone.

The Troll tank took a hit to the turret, sending it sliding back down the sandy riverbank and flinging everyone inside around into the left side wall as the tank spun to the right with the heavy impact. A large gouge was left in the turret's highly sloped turret front armor.

Luckily the hit also put the tank out of view for the other Flayer tanks. The attackers turned their attention on the TASHA. In turn, the TASHA was moving away from Hanako's group, trying to keep out of the Flayer tanks' gun range but keeping them in its own.

The Flayer Tank horde was moving fast, hovering over the snow with ease. They would be at the river in moments.

" Gaah !!"

A loud cry of pain erupted from the back as Armundo was flung against the wall, jostling his unset broken bones. He looked around the inside of the tank, trying to remember what had happened. He had lost consciousness a few seconds after he had hit the snow and now it seemed he was inside the tank. His blown out shoulder was patched up, but that was about it.

He noticed other wounded and he felt a lump form in his throat. Some were injured as badly or worse then he was. He scooted closer to the nearest injured to see if there was anything that he could do. However, his usefulness was next to zero, seeing as both his shoulders were either broken or blown out altogether. He still had his powerful cybernetic eyes that could probably pick targets out from a great distance in detail or at the very least provide thermal imaging to see where the targets were in all this snow. Sadly, he was not a Neko, nor did he have a cybernetic brain with which he could project images onto the screen.

He had wanted to preserve his human body as much as he could...but the cold truth was that, as he was, he was just a liability to the others. Here he was, wounded and useless, a dead weight while everyone else was fighting for their lives. It was a bitter pill to swallow, but he did not have time to brood on his own failures, he had to find a way to help somehow or at the very least stay out of the way so others could do what they needed to do.

Sune was in the middle of carefully putting Armundo into the tank when it suddenly decided to shift position thanks to Newton's laws.

Sune's only option was to unceremoniously dump Armundo into the tank and drop flat. While he succeeded in putting Armundo into the back it was not as careful as he would have preferred as the door of the tank clipped Sune causing him to face plant into the snow.

Other than scraping his PA Sune was unharmed. He stood back up and trudged over to the tanks new position to check on Armundo. Seeing that the soldier was awake he said, "I've done what I can for the moment, we have two other casualties. I could give you an injection of Hemosynth Fluid, but that would cause problems with your cybernetics. Once I'm sure the others are stable, I'll come back and see what I can do to further assist you."

Looking around and not seeing anybody nearby to help, Ramiro looked down at Mango. "Do I look like I can move you right now? I'm not in armor, I'm supposed to be inside the tank that just rolled down the hill." He pulled out his comm and linked in with Sune. "Chui, I'm in no position to move Mango while she's in the armor, and she's demanding to be dropped somewhere she can still shoot. The best I can do is hold people off until you get here. Ramiro out."

Ramiro looked down at Mango and said, "That's all I can do, you're just going to have to wait." He pulled out his NSP and switched to stun mode, firing at any of the enemy NMX that he could see. He didn't think it would do very much where he was currently located, but it was better than nothing.

Upon hearing Ramiro's "Chui, I'm in no position to move Mango while she's in the armor" Sune made his way over to where she was. "Okay Ramiro, I have it from here. Did you give her a Hemosynth fluid injection into the injury?" he inquired as he got into position to assist her.

"Mango, it is into the tank with you. You can man one of the stations while your body recovers. Meanwhile if you would please assist with your anti-grav I would appreciate it." Sune then hefted the armor clad crewmember into a vertical position, Mango's antigrav making the task easier. Sune was reluctant to try using the armor's propulsion because he had no idea how bad the Mindy's systems were damaged.

"I can try floating," Mango said. With a grunt, she rose to a hovering position, grabbed, her rifle, and crossed over the river to a position near the tank. She set herself down on the crest of the riverbank and began firing on the enemy tanks.

Just when they were about to reach the river, a dozen Hayabusa starfighters came screaming by overhead, laying down an advancing curtain of fire on the tank rush. The fighters then broke formation and began pursuing targets in pairs. The Hayabusa had turret coverage in most directions, so the stream of golden bolts coming from each was nearly constant. Missiles and anti-starship forward cannons hit the tanks even harder. The field in front of the river was quickly filling with burning, wrecked hulks and muddy craters...and running out of hostiles.

Takeyu was stunned for a moment when the tank was hit; he waited until the sound of metal grinding against the ground had stopped before he looked down at the tank.

"Taisa are you alright?!" he asked nervously before he saw the fighters fly in and start their runs on the NMX Tanks and infantry. He then started moving downward toward the tank, providing some fire whenver needed.