Komorebi
Behind the Front
The Minkan,
tinged with a growing fear, held up his aether-sabre in anticipation, eyeing the sparks of lightning. He controlled his breathing, and summoned the courage that was always primed and ready within his beating heart.
"I don't have a lot of ideas, but the notion of something wicked definitely comes to mind..."
Walter spins around, trying but failing to keeping track of the movements of the anomalies. He had no idea what they are capable of, but he knew Chlorate is weaponless, and he has a scalpel for spaceships that he has trouble aiming. The Minkan's courage began to wither, his heartbeat increased within each passing second as he assessed the situation.
Doubts had arisen within the mind of Walter Hyde.
`This was all just a bad idea, this isn't even what I was trained for! Why am I even out here with the infantry, I'm a engineer!`
`Who the hell cares, I need to THINK OF SOMETHING! ANYTHING WOULD DO!'
The engineer tried to come up with a good plan, and... Well, he isn't a tactician, by his standards. But despite every primal instinct telling him to run, he knew he'd be doing everyone a service by being tougher than nails, braver than lions, if he stayed where he stood, and calmly assessed the situation.
"... It can be a few possibilities. It doesn't appear to be the mythical anti-aether anomaly that the crew mentioned, but one can't tell for certain." Walter began, explaining his thoughts, albeit his tone is a little shaky. His mentally commands the PA's AI to send a alert to Faye, whom has been watching his perspective for a while... At least the hopeful Hyde is hoping she still is, so she can see what he is seeing right now. "It may a bombardment weapon of some sort, or maybe a rudimentary teleport... For our sake, I hope it's a teleport."
"... I think it may also be in our best interests to get moving. Now.", Walter added.