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RP: YSS Kaiyō Mission 31: Wakusei

As soon as the battlepods made their appearance, William's mech began to belt out explosive rounds into the sky. "Way ahead of you." He replied to Hoshi and Aiko. Tracers lit up the sky as the captain performed a repeat of his earlier fireworks show. "I'll try and swat them down. Hopefully the stragglers will fly low to avoid my fire. That will make it easier for you all to take them down." He informed the rest of the mech team.
 
While she was approaching the battlepod formation, Sif had to seriously consider how she could reliably fight them as she currently was unarmed. Was her mech even fast enough to catch the smaller crafts? With the massive shift of perspective between her normal body and this gigantic behemoth, it was difficult to contrast speed, despite how long she had been using the machine. As such, she paid very close attention to the tiny targets which looked just about the size of a small cat compared to the Shieldless Maiden.

No, perhaps she was overthinking this. Crashing into the crafts would do significantly more damage to them than the armored frontline mech, and even then, she could stand to lose very limb so long as the core and her thrusters remained intact. Not like she needed to hold onto things anymore. However, impacts from aether weaponry were still a danger to her if left unopposed. One such opposition came from a battlepod that dived to avoid the flak from William's fire. "I got this one splitting off."

Sif shielded herself as if she was trying to block out the sun, peering through her mecha's fingers to track the craft before her other hand swung out to backhand the battlepod as if she was attempting to swat away a balloon.
 
"Ryokai. To think they would destroy the colony out of spite." replied Rio sourly over the comms as she watched Hoshi pass by in their respective swapped mecha. It was then that Rio realized that she had not seen Hoshi retrieve her mecha's dropped ballistic rifle. Rio quickly descended to where it had been dropped and retrieved it. Swapping the long rifle of Hoshi's machine to the shoulder that still retained it's armored wing and mount, she gave her own rifle a quick check over before syncing it to the borrowed mecha's fire control system.

With the stock of her rifle wedged into the armpit of the machine to brace it, Rio took back off towards the fight in the sky. Placing herself where she could support both William and Sif, Rio set the FCS back to it's automatic setting, allowing the rather aggressive computer to take control of both rifles while she focused on avoiding incoming fire. Now with two weapons the computer began to engage multiple targets, firing the aether long rifle at battlepods farther out and higher up while the ballistic rifle engaged battlepods evading William's flak barrages.
 
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