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RP: YSS Kaiyō Mission 31: Wakusei

"Those two Mishhu mecha are certainly built sturdy if anything." Rio thought to herself as she saw the less than expected damage her shoulder cannon had done to the machine's leg. It was the only good shot she would get as the fight became a close quarters one in the red lit bay. From the front of the bay Rio quickly found she could not fire on the two mecha without risking striking her teammates. "Taisho, I no longer have a clear line of fire but the second machine has damage to the frontal armor on one of the legs. I'm repositioning." said Rio as her maneuvered her mecha through the crossfire farther into the bay.

Being mindful of William's own line of fire as she moved into the back of the bay, Rio also began to fire with her rifle from the side and slightly behind the two enemy mecha, targeting the armpit area in an attempt at scoring some critical damage.
 
Molli's streamlined form was a ghostly apparition that was at once at the enemy's feet like a fog, then to their sides before absconding above. The teleporting visage of the Yamataian powered mecha was difficult for her enemies to track and if she had been aiming to keep their attention on her, she had failed. Sif, on the other hand, was quite the opposite of the elusive Molli Byrne. The Nekovalkyrja with her garish shield projecting all kinds of falsities was like some vibrant deep sea fish with its light show and spear dance meant to lure in prey. With the enemy perfectly distracted by Sif, the cone of aether that erupted from Molli's hulking shotgun had no path of resistance. The aether buckshot made chunks out of the joints they targeted. With a heavy thud, one arm landed on the launch bay's port tracks, tearing into the metal as the heavy piece of mecha was felled.

The firing on enemies did not stop at Sif and Molli as from behind, Rio's own rifle and William's rotary cannons fired onto the same areas of the other mecha which had already suffered some kind of static malfunction. To add to the assault on all sides, Aiko's funnels targeted from all sides as well. With the continued fire, the whole chest area crackled with an electric pulse. The lightning-like discharge was short lived, though, as it gave way to a bubble of reddish orange heat as it burst into flames. The whole middle of the armor became subsumed in flames and it bent down, falling not out of the pain a humanoid would bend down in, but because its internal systems could no longer power it to even stand.

"We don't know the safety limitations of their aether generators," Hoshi thought to herself as her fingers dug into her own knees within the confines of her pod. She could imagine the explosion in her mind's eye that would emanate from that mecha and the casualties of her crewmen in this narrow, confined space that was dug in deep in the Urtullan ground. But as she had her mecha look towards the elevator, she saw relief. William's swords had rent open the metal of the cargo doors at the bottom of the launch bay.

"Everyone into the elevator at William's position!" Hoshi ordered, jetting herself forward as she said as much. Bringing up the tail of the group, she made sure everyone made it in. The cargo elevator was made only for a couple mecha to be moved down to the launch bay at one time, but it didn't have controls like a regular passenger elevator, nor a ceiling. The shaft above them was dark and unlit, but with sensors Hoshi could make out that there were other doors that the elevator could open into and she anticipated that is where the rest of the mecha the Urtullan had been building were stored in.

"In pairs or alone, take up positions at those doors above and open them up," Hoshi again ordered. "That's likely where they're storing the mecha they've built for the Mishhuvurthyar. Destroy them before they can be manned!"

Hoshi herself had thrusted a bit above the elevator itself and made sure the others did, unwilling to linger in the blast radius of the aether generator of the mecha on fire should it explode.
 
William roared in trimpuh as he pried the massive doors to the lift apart. Just in time too, as the initial NMX had been destroyed. But the the risk of a generator overload put some pep in their step.

"Aye aye, moving out!" William replied launching himself into the lift shaft with a wicked smile. "Time to do what a Berserker does best. Break things!" The ID-SOL's mech repeated the same process and pried the next door open to reveal 50 NMX mechs. "Now this is a target rich environment. Autonomous mode! Prioritize critical systems." William ordered his ACE.

With that, William's mech began to pump round after round from the heavy cannons into the surrounding NMX mechs. Both guns swiveling and targeting different suits. When a sufficient amount of damage was done, the gun would swivel to the next target. That wasn't to say William was idle while this took place. Using his swords, he began hacking away at the mechs. The first several took time to do sufficient damage, but after some time he worked out a system. Once a mech was softened up by cannon rounds, he would use his swords to punch through the weakened armor. With a good system worked out, the Nepleslian marine went to work.
 
Had there been an expressive face on the Shield Maiden, it'd have a wide grin as Sif was quite proud of herself with keeping the enemy distracted enough for the rest of the team to snuff them out. But there was little time to celebrate as the warnings of a generator meltdown may be imminent, and there were more mechas to destroy. With thrusters engaged, Sif cut open a hole with her plasma spear and bashed a door into one of the hangars. "I got this one, stay safe everyone," she said as she entered.

While the spear was not meant for as much destruction as a blade or an array of explosives, it allowed her to pierce straight through the mecha cores and other important and sensitive systems while leaving minimal outer damage to give their enemies false hope. With the shield, Sif would also bash the mechs over once she was done just for good measure.
 
Sharing the same small and confined space with a potentially overloading aether generator was not Rio's definition of fun. She didn't need to be told twice to get into the elevator shaft, rushing into and up the elevator shaft along with everyone else. "That wasn't our only exit point was it?" Rio softly asked over comms, the question an escaped intrusive thought.

Taking to one of the various doors as ordered, Rio stowed her rifle on the rear waist armor of her mecha before she deployed the wristblade on the right arm. Once the door was pried open, Rio would begin her own work of destruction. Her mecha lacked the close combat power of her squamates, so instead Rio focused on efficiency. She moved from one enemy mecha to the next, her wristblade being used to pry at the bottom of the chest armor before effectively gutting each enemy machine. Cockpits and cores were her primary targets for destruction, but she also gave whatever wires, hoses and other components she could reach a quick yank before moving on.
 
Once her part in dispatching their initial targets had been played, Molli stowed her blade and shotgun away with a showy flourish and a cocky grin that more for her own ego than anything else. It was a dance with danger, given her close proximity to a smoldering bomb in the making, but Molli's frame was swift enough to barrel into the elevator shaft in the blink of an eye, where it clung to the wall and scanned its surroundings with a glowing red visor on its "head." Panning up to the door, the mecha's wings folded down as Molli made it leap from wall to wall, both to conserve power, and to stagger her approach so that the entire squad didn't burst out at once.

Once she dove through the opening William and the others made, the Nepleslian's metal eyes widened with glee at the rows of targets before her. Though late to the party, Molli deployed pods from her mecha, set to autonomous fire, and was soon speeding through the area in a whir of green that sliced, stabbed, and blasted anything in her path. "If it were, weh kin makanother!" Molli's coarse, excitable voice responded to Rio, more to keep her focused than to offer an actual answer.
 
Aiko's weapon bits zipped back toward her towering mecha and docked in their hangar on the suit's backpack once the pair of Mishhuvurthyar machines fighting them had been felled. The particle gun pods would only get a few moments to recharge, though, after the princess strode her machine into the elevator shaft and peered up into its murky darkness. Her mech's visual sensors zoomed in and darted between the blast doors her comrades had opened, filtering out the black and enhancing a clear picture of the gallery of enemy robots that lay dormant beyond.

Swiftly, the towering red Yamataian mecha began levitating up through the vertical passageway. Its aether shock cannon followed beside her, the weapon itself an oversized gun drone, still holding its unspeakable power in reserve for some target that wouldn't present itself here. And as Aiko's mecha rose up through the dark tunnel, she released the oversized aether katana held in its right hand. Rather than crashing to the floor, the sword joined her ascent, motivated aloft by the same anti-gravity fields that kept her mech airborne.

With a wordless command through her robot's Immersion System, Aiko sent her blade tearing into another one of the shutters that shielded a set of sleeping Mishhu mechs. The weapon rent a gnarly gash easily into the armored doors and then disappeared within, followed by a stream of gun pods that re-launched from the princess' backpack to flow directly into the abyss on the other side.

Aiko continued to rise upward toward the highest level while her weapons did their work behind the door she'd chosen, the aether powered zesuaium katana slicing through rows and rows of inert enemy mobile suits while her gun pods fired on others. Pink and orange fire flashed behind the little opening she'd created in the blast shutter, sending out irregular strobes into the elevator shaft as her particle guns fired and destroyed the enemy tech they'd been sent to stop. Once Aiko was confident she'd cleared that first chamber, she ordered her sword to slice through and move on to search for a similar chamber above—watching and perceiving the scene through the Immersion System simultaneously with the view from her mecha's body far-off with the squad—and then continued destroying whatever Mishhu robots she found there.

"Finding and eliminating all of them may take some time," Aiko admitted, scanning the area ahead of her as she proceeded upward to the elevator shaft's terminus. Everything here sort of reminded her of the millions of Mishhu-enthralled Neko they'd found in stasis on Nebel; at least these Urtullan mechs were easier to take care of than a horde of slumbering Neko. "Do not let your guard down. The enemy may interrupt our work yet."
 
Ketsurui Aiko was right—destroying the six hundred odd mecha would take time spread between the small infiltrating group of Yamataian and Nepleslian fighters.

From her vantage point in the elevator shaft, Hoshi could see the cannon fire from William began lighting up the row he had entered, interspersed with the stillness from his blade work. After Sif bashed open a hole she had cut, the captain didn't see the same bright flashes coming from the cubby, nor did she with Rio who had stowed her rifle. She did see the flashes of intensive weapon fire coming from Molli's. Seeing all the crew taking to the task, Hoshi jetted upwards and passed Aiko with her bits and blades. The captain wrenched open a door then, from the shaft, set her own rifle onto her shoulder wing slot. She was shooting into the row of mecha with precision strikes, targeting the same cockpits and core centers that Rio below her was, unbeknownst to both.

From her position, suddenly, Hoshi again could see something happening in the shaft above. Streams of orange aether plumed out of one of the last rows. She swiveled her rifle upwards, shooting into the enemy formation. One was hit, then another. But with shields activated, the mecha were no longer as susceptible as the powered down ones in their inert rows. They had risen from their sleep and were fleeing the death trap that her team had worked so hard to create.

"We have movement!" Hoshi called. "They're going where we want them, so continue shooting on designated targets until there are no more inactive enemy units."

The captain was closer to the enemy than the rest of her team. It was a position she rarely put herself in, but she kept shooting the mecha meters above her as they fled their stasis chamber. The pilots of the mecha seemed to be ignoring her, though, set on some other course away from the destruction of the Kaiyo's small force. They were flying to the city center still under construction above them. The singular door that had opened at the top of the shaft was heavier duty, meant to create a seal between this undeveloped dome and Urtullan's enterprising creation below. Now opened, the soon-to-be NMX mecha flew into it, seeking refuge behind the mid-rise buildings and the airspace above. This section of Urtullan lacked all of the mystique and ethereal beauty of that which the crew had traipsed about undercover in months before. It was a small city's worth of residential and industrial buildings, all uninhabited and in some state close to completion. Overhead and past the blue static of Urtullan's quintessential domed force fields was the twinkling sky of a new twilight.

Hoshi knew her team would likely be finished taking out their much easier targets below and ready to move up top.

"We'll follow them with frontliners going in first. Ketsurui-chusa will command from there and I'll provide tactical support from behind," Hoshi said, despite being from the behind of the group.
 
As entertaining as it was to see rows and rows of enemy equipment go up in a hail of fire and explosions, Molli's heart began to beat fast from the excitement of their response. Months of training and anticipation gave the young soldier an appetite for battle that their surprise attack hadn't yet sated. Though ordered to dispatch the remaining inactive units, Molli's mecha flew toward a row, pivoted in the air, and kicked the nearest one hard enough to topple into the rest like falling holonimos. That was good enough, in her eyes, and so she swiftly turned her attention elsewhere, soaring onwards and upwards like a neon star, toward the next battle.

As part of the frontline, Molli occupied a role unique among William's overwhelming power and Sif's stalwart defense. The litheness and relatively smaller frame of Molli's mech was well well-suited for the urban landscape, and she firmly established herself as a terror by weaving into tight alleyways and dilapidated buildings that the bulkier NMX mecha couldn't hope to fit through, all while harassing them with high-powered aether-fire from her pods and shotgun. It was incredibly taxing to switch between the standard bipedal and more lithe starship-esque forms as the situation demanded, but Molli was mentally and physically prepared, even as beads of sweat dripped from her forehead.
 
The destruction Sif had caused was not impressive in magnitude, as compared to what she had imagined the others were capable of, but with the most important pieces of equipment melted into slag, this batch was as good as trashed. Thinking on it now, she wished she knew how to activate the dormant cores of these machines so she could use them as bombs. They could sink this whole facility and leave a nice crater in its place. Though perhaps that was more dangerous for the civilians who knew nothing about what was under them.

Perhaps that'll have to be an upgrade for next time. Right now, a new order was issued, and just as the last unit was shoved to the ground and gutted by the tip of her spear. "On my way!" she'd respond to Hoshi, her boosters taking her to the hole she made and straight up in pursuit of the enemy mecha. As she left the shaft, Sif did a full rotation to orient herself and tag the enemy mechs that she'd see, as well as to make sure they saw her. Facing the majority, she presented her shield, and held the spear pointing to her side, its plasma tip glowing brightly. And with one swift motion, she'd strike the flat part of the tip against the shield, creating a bright spark and a loud explosion noise like a firework to pull attention towards her as the shield projected the same faux energy barrier layer.

With a burst of speed she charged towards a mech positioned at the center, keeping above the skyline as she charged for a joust, and firing off a burst of lasers at her target as she did so.
 
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