OOC: JP Between @Commissar Farzi and @Charaa
Steiner looked on at the smashed targets. None of the drones had been able to react fast enough-but that may have been a mistake on his part with their programming-or poor design both were likely the culprit. "Well done." Steiner congratulated; before a whirring sound could be heard, "Though it seems the enemy has arrived with reinforcements, re-arm and prepare for the onslaught." And unbeknownst to her he would be taking control personally this time; mostly just to test the bots they were using-and give her a proper fight.
Auli'i felt pleased to hear praise from the Grandmaster, her ears picked up on the whirring sounds easily enough. "copy that" Auli'i said as she rearmmed the Power Armor's weapons, and prepared herself for another wave.
The drones themselves were little more than remote-controlled endoskeletons of varying sizes with metal welded to them for armor that had been shaped to resemble a generic humanoid unit driving a truck approaching from the eastern part of the town. Consisting of 14 drones; splitting up into 3 groups of four with two remaining with the truck-one manning a practice weapon meant to resemble some kind of heavy machinegun, they immediately dispersed, two moving to either side of the street in abid to keep some kind of cover with one advancing on point and the truck providing overwatch.
Auli'i moved to some walls, hoping it provided some block from their view as she checked to see what other weapons she had to use other than the Autocannons. Her eyes scanned the environment and the vehicles, perhaps she could make it explode to cause damage to them.
The current direction the drones were approaching, and where Auil'il had taken cover consisted of a quartet of buildings-three one story to the upperleft, the upper right, and lower left-and the two-story to the lower right assembled into an intersection of sorts; seperating the fox morph from where the drones had arrived was a crudely built cinderblock fence; the lead drones were currently in the open-their weapons resembling some kind of stripped down rifles, with the secound squad entering the building on the left, and the third moving right, hunkering down behind some metal barrels watching the street. The truck provided overwatch. Steiner was monitoring each the unit's feed; no eyes on the girl yet, but she would inevitably have to show herself.
Auli'i calmed her breaths, remembering the training Morris had given her the marksman training, and the CQB training as well. Then using the speed, only a fox anthro was capable of, she darted out, and as she did, she attempted to fire her Lightbringer Variable Laser Cannon at a robot. Then in an attempt aat crowd control, was a Mauler auto cannon. The burst of autocannon barely missed; cluster shot sparked off the ground even as the laser pulse turned the air sapphire as the beam tore a ragged hole through the side of the upperright building; the laser turning it into plasma and sending spots across Auli's vison; the squad immediately sought out defensive positions per the Grandmaster's command, breaking left and right and rasing their rifles-one of them seemed to have a larger than normal model-the smaller ones shots were off slightly-almost but not quite touching the machine. The heavier model fared worse as it was too slow on the pull and sent the beam wide.
Auli'i silently cursed a curse that would make even the mouthiest man or woman gasp. She knew that while she had some training, she hadnt had as muuch practice in using the guns. Immediately she hurried, to choose a higher and or better spot, to potentially improve her aiming. Once she had, she shot off a cluster from the autocannons. The burst of canister shot ripped through the bots before they could react-the tungsten coated round punching through the steel plating and shattering the electronics insde-power cells simply vaporized as several collapsed, sputtering sparks. Steiner sighed, cut the veiw feed and immediately focused his attention to the remaining units-the girl's luck was holding-now could she capitalize on it-though he did admit that sending that single unit ahead was a foolish mistake-a single unit would have been sufficent. Lesson learned.
The flanking unit was procceding down an alleyway, spreading out in such a manner that even automatic weapons fire was not a guarantee for a complete elimination-the squad in the building was preparing a second heavy weapon even as the truck reversed, attempting to find some cover from the T-1's offending autocannons.
Auli'i peeked from behind the wall she was hiding from, using the Power Armor's sensors she picked out her enemies, and taking note of their spread out formation. She remembered something Morris once told her durring training about formations like that. The fox took in a breath to relax her nerves, and body, then she made her move.
She shot out from cover as fast as she was able to first, using her autocannons to fire on the truck, to make it explode if possible. Then use the force from the blast, to allow for the moment distraction, to take on her next opponents, namely the ones in the building preparing the second heavy weapon. She thought if she could secure it, it would benefit her. The mauler's rounds impacted the truck's fuel tank-igniting it's contents; contratry to popular beilef fuel explosions rarely ended in the almost cataclismic detonations that one would see in a holovid; however it was no less deadly; the sudden rapid iginition of the fuel in such a confined space caused it to turn into a breif, yellow fireball before leaving a charred, semi-slagged buring husk. The weapon's team immdeiately turned their gun on the armor-unfortunately it did little good as the beam simply swept wide. She was doing well, though the grand master had an ace up his sleeve; the secound squad appeared from around a corner, firing small arms at the mini-mecha; for all the good it did them-the machines' realtively sluggish movements didn't track well; the shots wide.
Steiner really needed to update the their systems; then again these were something he'd thrown together in short order to give live targets. Oh well..
The bots immediately dispersed; finding what cover they could while the ones in the building began to further fortify their position with whatever was on hand...
Auli'i pushed her wondering thoughts of whether she was impressing Steiner with her actions at the moment. She knew she needed to focus, calculate her thoughts and her plan of attack. She immediately, moved to infiltrate the building, and take out the bots inside, and steal their fortifications, using her lightbringer, and her autocannon. Auil'il's angle was bad as she attempted to assualt the fortified building, closing the distance rapidly-unfortuantely as she fired the building's contstruction, while perfectly suited for day to day living was not meant to withstand the sudden, violent entry of a 10ft tall mini-mech; the result was the foxmorph half-burying herself-though it did have the unintended benifit of dislodging her intended target; causing the floor of the room they were set up in to suddenly give out and send them sprawling; leaving them in a similar predicament as the fox morph-though the grandmaster had lost connection to them; likely the result of the sudden impact. It would be a moment before he could restablish it.
The remaining squad was ordered forward; sticking to cover as best able as he was unable to assess the the status of his target. He could see the damage to the building but no sign of the fox morph's suit. Auli'il if she was there would be able to see the squad...and wouldn't that be just the piss in the ale?
Auli'i had to admit she was a little crazy to just barge into the building like that, but atleast it dislogged her targets. She also saw they were down, which allowed her to turn her focus on her new targets. namely the other squad. Auli'i crouched low, and positioned herself so that she could get a nice unobstructed view. Then she sent her cluster from her autocannon, which would surely turn the squad into scrap metal, as she lifted her light bringer, and fired on what the autocannons missed. The rounds and sapphire beams tore into the squad; turning them into so much scrap and liquid metal; the connection lost Steiner conceeded defeat as he'd been unable to restablish the connection in time for the other unit. Approaching the ruined building; he began carefully digging the fox morph out. "Well done Auli'il," He said, his monotone voice containg what one might be able to say was something resembling pride, "Though in the future it would be best refrain from committing to rash such rash actions; your foes will not be so kind as to not captialize on you being in such a disadvantageous position." Hopefully she would take his advice.
Auli's ears twitched, as her fox hearing picked up on his monotone voice, and specifically what it felt to her to contain, pride. Auli'i smiled as he helped her out of the collapsed building. She nodded her head in agreement. "i admit, i have to agree, i feel me just ramming in there, was rash. it caused the building to fall, trapping me in there. If this hadnt been a test, i'd be trapped, and likely dead." Auli'i said. "perhapes.. it might be just as effective, if i threw something explosive?" Auli'i asked him, wanting to show him that she was thinking, and wanting to learn better.
"Indeed; you had a good deal of High-Explosive rounds available; I am surprised you did not utilize them," He explained, looking back to the practice ground before continuing, "Canister and armor-piercing are quite effective, but one of the best options you have against a fortified opponent is a good deal of high explosive-or incendiary weaponry." Hmm, perhaps such an addition would be a future addition. "Nevertheless you did better than I expected; now-let us return to the central gantry-you have another suit awaiting testing."
