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Re: Episode 7: Mine!
The shriek of metal claws tearing into hull as Yoshiko's frame grappled with the Gallina grated over their ears despite the noise filters - it briefly stopped struggling as the pilot took his hands off to cover his ears as Mark's signal bled over his comm system. Just long enough for Taela to get a good shot. Heavy shoulder mounted cannons flash vaporized hull as they hammered away, pounding into the chicken-frame as it struggled to break free from the Ex-Neko's grasp.
It wasn't dead yet, but the coup-de-grace came in a flickering green and black blur from Mark; the dagger like object darted in, penetrating right where the oversized 'head' met the body before exploding, showering their frames with debris. Yoshiko was left holding the 'head' as the rest of the body fell to the ground. "Good timing Mark! You came in right where the shot trap was and - OHMYGOSHTAELADON'TPOINTTHATATME!" the girl screamed at the Neko, who now hefted a nuke at the end of her rifle.
As Yoshiko shouted in horror, Meena had leveled her weapon at the Kuritsa Kelly was swinging at, but didn't fire - they were too close! The pilot of the super-chicken was no fool either, and backed off enough to avoid the first swing from the Zesuaium blade. "Shit!" The dark skinned Nepleslian swore before activating his thrusters, dashing to the side and narrowly avoiding the worst of the volley. Fire hammered into his shields and bounced off the frame's armor as the Kuritsa turned to track Kelly.
Lucien quickly dispatched the nearly crippled Gallina with a burst of fire; armor piercing rounds a quarter of a foot wide punched into the walker's armor and riddled it with holes, the cheap mech shaking with each and everh blow before it finally fell with a resounding thud. Despite being a frame, Lucien took cover behind the fallen foe's corpse as hydraulic fluid wept out of the puckered holes like blood before catching afire from the flaming forest around them.
Meanwhile, Victoria's blitz on the foe caught it off guard and leveled the playing field in the Abwehran woman's favor - the leap up and over the forest canopy while firing obscured them from one another, preventing them from scoring hits. However the moment her frame re-entered the fray, dropping down through the leafy ceiling, the two raked each other with fire. The wielded frame of the chicken walker spalled and crumpled under her drop kick.
But not before fire traced up at her as a single round penetrated Victoria's frame from below.
Both Kelly and the remaining Kuritsa pilot moaned in pain as the cod piece on the frame was blown clean off.
Not noticing what happened, it was then that Lucien's blind fire over the fallen frame raked both friend and foe alike, a trio of rounds pelting Kelly and further damaging his frame. While the enemy Kuritsa was caught off guard by the sympathetic pain and the surprise attack, it snapped Kelly out of his stupor long enough for him to swing again with the Zesuaium blade - it tore into the cheap Durandium armor and stopped midway, slowed down by the sheer mass of material.
With a holler, the man's frame put its shoulder into the cut and swept the blade clean through while the autocannon built into the arm hammered into the ragged cuts. The Kuritsa fell with a final thud.
The fight was over.
"Ffffframe team," Kelly started, his voice a little dry and hoarse at first from the yelling, " - status report. Power Armor team, same thing."
*****
Tossed into command just as quickly as she got her job, Camellia found herself indecisive as the footfalls came closer - she was suddenly pulled aside and into one of the looted out shops as the team's scout grasped hard on her plated collar. "Down!" the other woman hissed in her leader's ear. The squad hunkered down behind the counter tops as the thudding footfalls came closer and closer.
Now that it was so near, it suddenly sounded familiar.
An Ashigaru, unpainted and of silvery brushed metal, strode by. HiGa had indeed gotten their hands on the stolen frames - there was no need for any more evidence than this. Now, it was just a matter of Camellia's infiltration team stealing them and the reverse engineered schematics back. Or just blowing it all to hell.
As the heavy footfalls grew more quiet, the scout spoke up again in her ear, "What was that? You never lead a squad before or something?" she asked, almost challenging Camellia's authority.
The shriek of metal claws tearing into hull as Yoshiko's frame grappled with the Gallina grated over their ears despite the noise filters - it briefly stopped struggling as the pilot took his hands off to cover his ears as Mark's signal bled over his comm system. Just long enough for Taela to get a good shot. Heavy shoulder mounted cannons flash vaporized hull as they hammered away, pounding into the chicken-frame as it struggled to break free from the Ex-Neko's grasp.
It wasn't dead yet, but the coup-de-grace came in a flickering green and black blur from Mark; the dagger like object darted in, penetrating right where the oversized 'head' met the body before exploding, showering their frames with debris. Yoshiko was left holding the 'head' as the rest of the body fell to the ground. "Good timing Mark! You came in right where the shot trap was and - OHMYGOSHTAELADON'TPOINTTHATATME!" the girl screamed at the Neko, who now hefted a nuke at the end of her rifle.
As Yoshiko shouted in horror, Meena had leveled her weapon at the Kuritsa Kelly was swinging at, but didn't fire - they were too close! The pilot of the super-chicken was no fool either, and backed off enough to avoid the first swing from the Zesuaium blade. "Shit!" The dark skinned Nepleslian swore before activating his thrusters, dashing to the side and narrowly avoiding the worst of the volley. Fire hammered into his shields and bounced off the frame's armor as the Kuritsa turned to track Kelly.
Lucien quickly dispatched the nearly crippled Gallina with a burst of fire; armor piercing rounds a quarter of a foot wide punched into the walker's armor and riddled it with holes, the cheap mech shaking with each and everh blow before it finally fell with a resounding thud. Despite being a frame, Lucien took cover behind the fallen foe's corpse as hydraulic fluid wept out of the puckered holes like blood before catching afire from the flaming forest around them.
Meanwhile, Victoria's blitz on the foe caught it off guard and leveled the playing field in the Abwehran woman's favor - the leap up and over the forest canopy while firing obscured them from one another, preventing them from scoring hits. However the moment her frame re-entered the fray, dropping down through the leafy ceiling, the two raked each other with fire. The wielded frame of the chicken walker spalled and crumpled under her drop kick.
But not before fire traced up at her as a single round penetrated Victoria's frame from below.
Both Kelly and the remaining Kuritsa pilot moaned in pain as the cod piece on the frame was blown clean off.
Not noticing what happened, it was then that Lucien's blind fire over the fallen frame raked both friend and foe alike, a trio of rounds pelting Kelly and further damaging his frame. While the enemy Kuritsa was caught off guard by the sympathetic pain and the surprise attack, it snapped Kelly out of his stupor long enough for him to swing again with the Zesuaium blade - it tore into the cheap Durandium armor and stopped midway, slowed down by the sheer mass of material.
With a holler, the man's frame put its shoulder into the cut and swept the blade clean through while the autocannon built into the arm hammered into the ragged cuts. The Kuritsa fell with a final thud.
The fight was over.
"Ffffframe team," Kelly started, his voice a little dry and hoarse at first from the yelling, " - status report. Power Armor team, same thing."
*****
Tossed into command just as quickly as she got her job, Camellia found herself indecisive as the footfalls came closer - she was suddenly pulled aside and into one of the looted out shops as the team's scout grasped hard on her plated collar. "Down!" the other woman hissed in her leader's ear. The squad hunkered down behind the counter tops as the thudding footfalls came closer and closer.
Now that it was so near, it suddenly sounded familiar.
An Ashigaru, unpainted and of silvery brushed metal, strode by. HiGa had indeed gotten their hands on the stolen frames - there was no need for any more evidence than this. Now, it was just a matter of Camellia's infiltration team stealing them and the reverse engineered schematics back. Or just blowing it all to hell.
As the heavy footfalls grew more quiet, the scout spoke up again in her ear, "What was that? You never lead a squad before or something?" she asked, almost challenging Camellia's authority.
