Charging forward, Stenos could hear the faint thumps of his heavy footfalls as the powered greatsword in his hands came to life.
And the enemy Daisy raised its arms like a zombie, firing - the swordsman was invisible, but the blade was not! Bearing down on the closest one, he swung as both of its submachine guns chewed apart his energy barrier, sparks and lightning arcing across his suit just as the blade bit. Red hemosynthetic gore spurted out of the bio-organic suit as the sword cleaved into his opponent, slicing into the chest and breaching its reactor. A small, silent burst of plasma mushroomed out of its back as they hydrogen sprayed out, but Stenos soon found himself with the enemy on his blade being the only thing between between him and the finishing blow. The second one behind the first was already firing on him, stray bolts burning into any exposed portions of his suit; the marine could literally hear the faint roiling of his own armor boiling off his thighs and arms as it sought him out.
The entire squad didn't just sit by however; Tatiana brought her shoulder mounted cannon to bear and fired!
Even as the second one advanced with both arms raised and firing, the cannon recoiled on her shoulder, the massive slug punching through the barrier with brute force before bouncing off its armored chest. Takahiro finished it off as quickly as possible with his own 50mm - the first round of his completely floored the energy barrier, popping it like a bubble before the second round came hurtling in, caving in its entire chest plate as a wrist-thick hole suddenly appeared. Stumbling, the third round hit it under the collar and to the right, its entire arm flying off as the pack was finally breached. Even though crimson gore spurted across the back wall as it fell, the fight wasn't over yet. The other two that had kept on walking were coming back, rounding the corner at the left, and right from the direction the squad needed to go as well!
"Someone cover him or he's DEAD!" Ylfa yelled over the comms, the brutal fight surreal in its silence. Before Stenos knew it, a hammer smashed into his back, as someone landed on his back with both feet, knocking him forward and face flat on top of the Daisy he had killed. Looking up, he could see the periwinkle calves of a Mindy that stepped over him, a bright, shimmering shield in the air appearing in front of her wrist.
"You'R3 n0 mea7He@D - y0u'r3 @ f@7 H3@d!" Kelly's crackling voice yelled at Stenos. At the same time, the two enemies fired on her, their bolts suddenly elongating as they literally curved away and burned the walls, floor and ceiling instead, the spatial distortion outright rejecting their fire. A bright, burning white beam suddenly lanced past the two enemy armors as Quentin fired his Aether Cannon for the first time. It was a clean miss, the shot passing clean through the wall behind the two enemies without effort, killing it with extreme prejudice and the ten walls beyond the wall he did kill as well. The rabid ranting that flowed over the comms threatened to kill their eardrums next.
"Damnit marine! Shut the fuck up and hit them!" Ylfa yelled at him next. "And Mark, pull your damned weight you dickless prick!" Though Quentin was already firing his service rifle, it took Richard and the sergeant adding in their own sheer volume to take down the first of them. Literally hosing the first armor down, the shields crackled and held, but only briefly before they gave way, sparks spraying off of its hull. Riddled with bullets, the first of the two reinforcements up front fell when Ylfa started shouting at the whole squad, this time, a sharp edge in her voice they had never heard before. "Rush the bitch now! Rush her and go down the hallway! We can't stand and fight- the suits are too soft!" she yelled.
Further on behind them, several more were stumbling in at the end of their starting hall.
