Re: [Mission 3.2] When a Plan Makes First Contact With the E
Jan Kancre, P3C, NSMC, often wondered if his luck was something he made for himself, or if strange beings beyond his comprehension were amused by his life.
Five seconds ago was one of those times. His entire airborne infantry squad, operating a few kilometers away from Kazumori Spaceport on interdiction missions, attempting to delay advancing squiddies while the evacuation continued. All had been going well, at least until a Ravager surprised the squad, managing to take out Jan's wingmates in a few minutes. Leaving Jan, once again, the lone survivor. Which is when Drei jumped onto his comlink, ordering him to assist a squad of marines holding the terminal of Kazumori Spaceport. After checking over maps and recon data, he realized that they were south west of him, and the attacking squids were between him and them.
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And this is where we find Jan Kancre, his high-speed AIR 2 Lancer cruising at around half its maximum speed.
Drei fed more detailed information to Jan, especially the locations of both attacking groups. She suggested it wise to hail the squad sergeant before making a strafing run. Several of the squad's members were antsy about incoming aircraft. Drei also informed Jan of the presence of several FA4 combat craft from Green Squadron in the area. According to her information, their primary duties was air superiority with only limited ground attack capability.
Jan took the time to pull up information on the squad, and was surprised to see that it was led by someone he had served with on the Acadia. Odd. Nonetheless, Jan pulled in closer to the ground, now flying just above the roofs of buildings. He opened the comlink, having Drei relay a message to the marines on the ground and Green Squadron, while also requesting information on any high-value targets that would be on the ground. He wanted time to prepare before swooping in.
"Be advised Marines at the Terminal, incoming airborne infantry from the northwest. I'll be coming in hard and fast at their rear, so be ready to take advantage of it. And please don't shoot me."
"Green Squadron, this is P3C Kancre, I need you to do a co-ordinated low-level super-sonic flyby of a group of NMX forces South-Southwest of me, coming in from the south. We have Lancers and are preparing to attack their rear, and would like to be able to get as close as possible before they hear or see us." Jan didn't think it prudent to let it be known he was just one man.
"Green Six here, vectoring two unmanned FA4s for low-level flyby over northwestern assault group. Let me know when your unit is in position," one of the FA4 pilots replied. High above, two unammned FA4s dove downwards, getting ready to buzz the NMX at Mach 3.
Drei highlighted the remaining Ripper power armours as last reported by the 4th Fleet Marines. These had stopped and were placing streams of anti-armour rounds at the locations they believed housed the defending Marines. Because of the explosions erupting around her from NMX 50mm rounds, Sgt. Phaedra Volkov did not hear the message about incoming reinforcements and, thus, could not inform the squad. Regardless, at this point, the Marines' attention was hardly focused on any airborne threats.
Drei also highlighted Sergeant Volkov's location for Jan to report to.
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Which was when Jan made his move. Accelerating to top speed, he locked his armor's right arm down to keep it from breaking from recoil, the massive KPL-01a lance, now in Heavy-Fusion-Cutter mode, pointed forward and blazing. Two GREEN rounds, his only two rounds of the precious buckshot, were in the barrel of the bulwark, ready to be followed up by two additional BLACKs, and with the ammo feed set to continuously load reds. Clicking the c-link, he sent a simple message to Green Squadron: "Green Squadron, Lancers are a-go. Start your run."
"Roger that, Lancer squad. Fast flyers are a go. Happy hunting," Green Six replied, as the drone controller behind sent the FA4s into a straight run, just five meters above the top of the buildings. Having come in so fast, the NMX were unable to change their targeting systems to the FA4s. The sonic-boom from the jets stunned the Neko infantry and dispersed the smokescreen they had laid.
On the rooftop across the spaceport, Laura Romero wondered what had brought in the FA4s so low. But the smoke was gone, the squids were off balance and she still had lots of ammo
"Oh lord, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil for I am going Mach 7.9!" Jan said as he came in from around a small building. Swooping in low at a speed of around Mach 7.9, he fired his first green shell into the back of a Ripper shortly before his lance impacted just above the same spot, the heavy fusion cutter easily dooing its job. Not anywhere near done, Jan unlocked the armor's arm and did a pirouette, firing the second green round into another Ripper while bringing the fusion blade of the lance around at it, the rotational momentum of the manuever adding energy to the blow. Finishing his spin so he was facing the terminal, he tossed the KPL-01a at it's back and fired the two BLACK shells at a third ripper before boosting again, up and over the squids, the chord linking the lance to his armor retracting and pulling it back into his hand, the airborne marine coming to a halt behind the line of marines, right next to Phaedra's position.
"Private Third Class, Jan Kancre, reporting to your command, Ma'am!"
