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RP: Reactivated Reactivated M4: Firebase Assault

Susan's first response to the fire order was to prepare to fire the plasma rifle in his hands. Fortunately for everyone in the Squad, his training kicked in and he immediately took his finger off from the trigger, making sure to slide the safety on for good measure. The yeoman felt a spike of frustration, knowing it would take too long to stow the plasma rifle and switch out for his battle rifle, so Susan went with the only other weapon he readily had access to.

With a primal cry the Valhallan charged forward and leapt, using a piece of debris to boost himself over the skitterbug. Then that heartless bitch gravity got involved, pulling Susan's full quarter tonne weight down onto the back of the beast, focused down into the monoplate-reinforced sabatons armouring his feet. The yeoman grinned as he felt something solid give way beneath him, as a portion of the carapace broke under the applied force. However, before he could really think about taking advantage of his new position as a quarter-tonne paperweight, Susan was forced instead to focus on maintaining his balancing atop this new, increasingly precarious perch.
 
As she followed Auli’I stayed vigilent, her eyes scanning the surroundings for any potential threats. But the shortest member of the team was pleased that Nara had joined them. She loved her sister very much and now to have two of her sisters with her and her dad, she felt almost invincible. At Morris’s command, she moved into position to the left.

As they stepped inside the storage area, the grim scene of shredded nekovalkyrja greeted them. Before they could process it fully, a Skitterbug charged at them, causing chaos in the already chaotic space. Reacting swiftly to Morris's command, Auli’I took aim with her her rifle, firing precise shots at the Skitterbug, aiming for its weak spots and joints. The sound of gunfire echoed in the area as she and her team fired, but unlike them, she was able to only do cosmetic damage that caused her to swear. Only to see Mike’s antics, as well as Susans.
 
Nara fell into the middle position, her eyes adjusted to the darkness as they entered. She smelled the blasted corpses right before Morris nearly lost his footing. Thank the builders she had nasal filters under her armor or the stench alone would have knocked her on her rear. With her rifle at the ready she took aim at the skitter bug and fired at the joints of its two forward manipulator legs, fates be damned she was jostled by items falling off the shelves.

She barely managed to dodge them herself when she saw Susan land on top of the beast. After a slur of mumbled curses in Nira'las she made her way over to the beast, one of her feather drones placing a small range plasma concussion grenade in her hands. Nara lept on top of the beast behind Susan, "Take cover!" she blasted over the comms as she shoved the grenade into whatever had given way under Susan's rump. With the most polite motions she could muster she wrapped one arm around Susan's waist to strongly suggest he get the hell off the beast. Not waiting to see whether or not he listened, she leapt off setting a five second timer. "Boom in five!" she blasted over comms before diving for cover herself.
 
"The one time we don't have any ancestor's damned spears!" Morris roared as Susan slammed into the top of it, the creature recovering enough to be dangerous despite the very real hammering the boy had just given it; as it made to snap at him with its pincers the big man bum-rushed-parrying the snapping claw that would've bisected the boy before driving the head of his hammer into whatever passed for its face-he'd planned to face it down and give the boy time to get clear even as Mike tried her suicidal attack. The buckshot did little real damage as it tore into the meaty flesh-no did Nara's or Auil'i's rifles do much of anything either.

He figured he could probably hold it for a minute so the junior could get clear...then it would be up to the Gods and fate to decide whether he lived or died.

Of course, whatever plan he had went right out the window when the woman gave her warning. With a stream of curses, he dropped his hammer and seized Mike by the back of her armor, pulling her away and doing his best to keep his shield between him and the 'Bug-and damn near tripped over the rubble, but he got them clear even as the creature moved to shake the boy off...
 
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