Henry rushed forward his thruster assisted movement rocketing him at the three Mindies. Those three easily noticed him, two on the sides activating aether sabers on their right forearms, while activating the shields in the left as if the accepted his challenge. Before Henry got close, few shots flew at them from various marine, pestering the three neko. The one in the middle blocked most fire with shields, she curiously swiftly activated on her forearms.
Those two on the sides were not so lucky. They mostly caught the whole fire, shields on the right mindy held and took the fire. The one one the left got her shields brought down and incoming fire shot and destroyed gauss cannon on her shoulder. One shot also apparently grazed her helmet and put her off balance, slowing her little bit.
That gave Henry opportunity as the chainsword roared with his attack. The middle Mindy was not phased one bit at the swing coming at her as she jumped and somersaulted over Henry thrusting against her. Before Henry could react, her comrade on the run came and attacked him. Lucky for him, his shields were more then capable of blocking energy. The aether blade was indeed an energy weapon. His shields blocked most of the blade so it only grazed his chest plate, not doing any damage to the suit, apart for lowering its integrity. His blade did not rest either as he thrust again. The neko side stepped, but the blade still grazed her above hip, slicing the suit and obviously hurting her, though not fatally. Behind his adversary Henry could see that third neko was gaining up.
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Phaedra's shoulder hit the arm-less Mindy who thrown back and slid on the ground, before a foot of Phaedra's Hostile landed on her chest stopping her. Before the neko could do anything she was looking inside a tunnel presented to her as Wolf'S shotgun was aimed at her. BANG. A shot came out and the neko's head exploded. That one won't hurt anyone else.
Quick look-around the battlefield showed Phaedra that fighting still kept on. Henry just went at the three commander-Mindies. There were still several other enemies scattered behind what was left of the barricade. Her hostile started moving, each stomp of two ton suit sprint's quaking the ground around her as she charged out to help Henry. Suddenly the the taller Mindy in the middle jumped over Henry and could easily see sergeant Volkov heading her way.
The Mindy deactivated her forearms shields, swapping them for aether blades. Shorter then usual, but on each forearm. As Phaedra tried to shoulder charge the woman side-stepped avoiding and swinging at the woman. That slash not aimed Phaedra herself but at the shotgun in her hands. The weapon was easyil cut in half and both women stop in motion several meters from each other. The Mindy waiting for Phaedra to do the first move.
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Wulfe shots indeed hit the Mindy on the left, damaging her shields quite a lot. He was joined by the fire from Sawyer and Zyv. Combined fire brought the shields of the left neko down, shooting off her gauss cannon and slowing her down, as she had to take cover behind her forearm shields. It seemed they her hit her head too, though not disabling her. Then they had to stop shooting as Henry got too close the their targets.
Wulfe transferred his fire and started spraying the elevator, which was why he could easily see that Lisa in her charge practically flew into it. She fell on the ground as his shots pattered the elevators and before he could stop firing the elevator closed and rode off somewhere.
Sawyer had still plenty targets as among what was left of the barricade there were still neko's and Mindies scattered. A burst of his PLR rifle almost cut one neko in half and drained shields of another Mindy quite a lot. That drew attention to him, Wulfe and Zyv though as the remaining enemy started firing in their direction. His shields were luckily mostly recharged and shrugged of impaler power easily.
Then the world exploded.
Zvy's 30 ARROW missiled flew into right side of the room and obliterated several neko's and one Mindy that was there. It shattered the barricade there and pieces of metal and plastic whizzed around as shrapnells, hurting everything that was not in Power Armour. That made most of the lights on the ride side of the room go out.
The rest of enemy on the right side took notice of it of course and Zyv was suddenly under fire, impaler shots coming by. His shields took the gruff of it, but they could not take what came next. Two shots of aetheric energy came and hit him suddenly, first was stopped by the shields, but it drained them enough for the second to come in and devastate his left shoulder. He lost the mono-eye there and could feel his burning sensation. He was still alive and able to fight though.
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"Come on, Come on, Come on!" Laura shouted as she joined Bastilen grabbing chief by his upper arm and helped with the dragging. The chief's suit was in bad shape and no response could be heard. What Bastilen did hear was a faint grunting, that gave away that for now the chief is still alive.
They reached the doorway and Laura set the man on the ground. "Go help others! I got his!" Said the The Most Brilliant Medic in The Universe. Bastilen was indeed still needed in the fight.
