INSIDE
"Take heading 180," Uso said, pointing south as she headed towards the wall north of her. She only needed to peak for a fraction of a second, her eyes scanning over the surroundings, her digital mind recording everything, and her link to her datapad streaming that information back up to the ship. Uso was going to work, her usually loudness being replaced by speed, grace, and silence, picking up one of the VIPs along the way and shoving him towards the man in the black coat.
"IF THIS IS SOME KIND OF TRAP," The black coated man shouted, "SOLDIERS, COME TO THEFNNngmm..."
Even as he drew his revolver, Uso was already snatching it with one hand and covering his mouth with the other. She'd use the appropriate hand signals to indicate
'SHUT UP'
'YOU'
'FOLLOW ME'
Uso's cat-like ears would raise up, sweeping around as she moved towards the door to the room, quickly checking it before passing through into the hallway. She wasted no time trying to deal with the soldiers rushing towards the oncoming tanks, instead merely confirming that they weren't going to try and shoot at her before moving on.
She trusted that her hangers-on could handle the rest.
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OUTSIDE
Local soldiers were getting ready to repell the attack. They lacked heay anti-tank weaponry... having only a few cannons in a nearby tower which had already its upper floors reduced to rubble. Soldiers would take place in windows or along the parts of the wall that remained, trying to shoot out the optics on the tanks to slow them down as they waited for someone to show up with anti-tank grenades.
Of course, Ty and Frank would have a much easier time. Their space-age weapons were more than enough to cut through the simple steel of these tracked tanks. Ty's darts detracking the first tank, causing it to come to a halt in the courtyard after it had already passed through the main wall. The machine guns on the top and side turrets continuing to rake over the government building's windows.
Frank's machine gun fire would start chewing into the metal on the front of that tank. Each shot chipping away until the front started to crumple inwards. Crew were already starting to bail out of the rear hatch by the time the bullets pierced through.
*THUNK*
The top of the tank would suddenly crumple like an invisible giant had just stepped on it. There would be a slight delay between this sight reaching frank, and the sound of the round's arrival filling the air.
The following blast sent metal shards flying out in all directions, cutting down soldiers on both sides who happened to be standing in the open.
Then the sound of the U1 making a rapid pass overhead could be heard. Uso had already queue'd up the next few airstrikes. Two more tanks inside of the courtyard would explode, followed by a fourth that was trying to crawl through the hole in the walls surrounding the government building. The shrill shreak of mini-missiles arriving would be followed by a smoke-screen being deployed between the tanks and the building itself.
But there were still plenty more tanks.
More cannon shots would open further holes in the wall, allowing the first of the remaining tanks to start pushing through.
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SPACE (sorta)
"DATAJACK! GET OVER HERE! WE'RE HEADING DOWN TO THE PLANET EARLY!"
The Nepleslian man shouting at him was Green Bean, a former Nepleslian Marine turned member of the Ragnarok PMC. The backstory behind his callsign was less important than the fact that he was there to make sure Datajack didn't die. After all, Datajack had been brought on-board to help document information about this newly discovered planet and their antique technology.
They had been waiting onboard the 'Pumpkin Eater, a large freighter that Uso used for her operations, for the go ahead to come down. However due to events unfolding on the surface they would need to head down sooner rather than later.
"The Cat is in trouble. Looks like the locals took to her charming personality and decided to start shooting. I suspect you'll see plenty of interesting things down there. She was supposed to be headed to their government building... kinda hoping they got some kinda big library there."
Green Bean was wearing
power armor, though he had taken the time to put a utility harness on over the armor as well as dull the exterior surfaces. There were only a handful of other soldiers loading in through the side door of the
shuttle, though it seemed like most of the firepower would be coming from the
mini-tanks rolling up beside them.