Re: Episode 3: The Terror Attacks at Dawn!
"It was inevitable that something bad would happen eventually." Kelly Williams thought as he saw things go from "not that bad" to "We're in a bit of a sticky situation" in the span of a few seconds. Everyone had been doing fine, sticking to the plan and not doing anything rash... until Yoshiko lost her temper at being unable to shoot through a building, and had decided to deal with her rage by jumping into the air and firing downward, making herself into one big target.
Before Kelly could've reacted, Yoshiko's folly took its tool. A tempest of plasma bolts, laser pulses, solid railgun rounds, full sized missiles, and mini-missiles had risen out of the surrounding area. While her mecha's shields absorbed most of the blast, there was still the manner of the Asura she was jumping at. That pilot had a stroke of competence, stepping to the side to avoid Yoshiko's legs, and uppercutting with the Nerimium blade to her frame's groin area. As Yoshiko's frame began to impale itself, the infected employee threw it to the ground, and began to fire on it sadistically with Graser Vulcans, slowly burning through her chest armor. Only to have it's head blown clean off by Meena's sniper shot. And then have both of its legs blown off by two more precision shots from the 'spacer.
Taela seemed to be having worse luck than Meena. Though her shots hit, she rapidly depleted the rifle's battery. Her hits had only managed to deplete some shields and scorch some paint, unfortunately. Lucien, on the other hand, was having a different problem, as his Asura's Pawn AI refused to fire any weapons at the downed Oban, although he was able to laser the legs off another Oban.
As if to only make matters worse, the stolen Garuda had finally arrived, announcing itself with a strafing Async and Meena, high powered laser pulses causing explosions to erupt around both Kirin's, their shields flickering from the raw force of twin guns designed to harm starships. Following it's strafing run, the stolen support frame hovered above the battlefield, as if searching for something.
That something was apparently Kelly's Asura, because when the Garuda looked at it, its visor glowed a bright red as it drew the Chain-Straight strapped to its waist, and charged at Kelly.
Kelly barely managed to deflect the Garuda's attack with his own sword, as it was just at that time that he had been given new orders. The squad-com clicked on, Kelly trying to focus on two things at once.
"Alright, new plan! We just need to disable this Garuda now. Some techs have come up with a virus to shut down the stolen frames, but the Garuda's EW is preventing them from uploading. Taela, go check on Yoshiko if you would, I'm a bit busy here!"
