Speaking of pilots...
There was a bit of movement from the inflames wreckage of that lone Viper... Through the crushed cockpit a man in the usual pilot's outfit dragged himself out of the wreckage, his legs not moving, gripping clumps of grass (That wasn't on fire, of course.) and propelling himself along. The flak jacket infantry, who was in front of him, didn't notice... They had their backs to him, of course.
Speaking of the flak jackets, one of their number roared in a booming voice, "THEY'RE HITTING THE GEN'! MOVE! IN!" Apparently the subject of the shield generator was very, very dear to those infantry, as they broke from their minimal cover and charged/sprinted across the field toward the marines. The men that could die quite easily, having almost no protection from the marine's weapons, and their own weapons could do little hard to the marines, charged at them.
Into the face of death, if you will. The pilot wouldn't be harmed from them, apparently. Although... Wasn't there two pilots to a Viper?
The closer of the two BoTs began to walk backwards, not firing the other chaingun it had at all. In reality, the ripped arm had damaged the ammo belt, too, causing a jam. Although, the marines wouldn't exactly know this. In anycase, the mecha spun on one leg and turned around completely, moving in a full run (Measured at about one hundred miles per hour) toward the other BoT, which rained the bullet-y rain down on the Marines still.
Two Vipers, though, would come into audio range, staying behind the marines. They didn't want to get hit by the Hoplites, of course. But wasn't there... Four, including the crashed one? Bah!
In anycase, ARROWs shot from the two Vipers. One of which angled upwards, sending the missiles toward the aircraft in the skies, while the other decided to gain vengeance by launching ordnance at the BoT a mile away, the undamaged one. Meanwhile, the assault ordnance cannon on both fired their loads toward the somewhat intact bunker as the Demons inside attempted to crawl out, being a bit stuck. And then dead, too. Ho hum.
Anyway, from Ran's position, the ground near him (Or infront of him, if he was in decent cover) exploded into the air, sending dirt flying every where and a good deal of a shock wave to send him back.
Reinforcements had come in. On the western wall of the outpost,
was several men, to a total of eight, decked out in power armor. The weapon that did the deed against Ran was a man, lying prone, wielding the above armor and
this weapon. He didn't stay on Ran, though, instead moving his sites up onto one of the Vipers and taking another shot. The top of the cockpit took the hit, sending the Viper backwards in a half backflip from the force of the shot. The other troops, spread out about five meters apart, began to fire their
own weapons at the marines, too.
In addition to the new infantry problem, two Crooked Demons burst out in a bit of speed over the Cyclone infantry, charging across the field with thrusters on full. The unseen shuttle DID drop troops! Same set up as the other two, vibro claws and aether, which they shot in the general direction.
Adrian would have a small issue, though, as the one that charged at him was now in range, beginning to attack the Marine with its claws.
Above, with the threat of the ARROWs and Amelia/Alice's fire, they once again disengaged for the moment, their engines bursting with a flare as they sped away, probably to come back again of course. One had a very light smoke trail, too, indicating there was a decent amount of damage on one.
The
NSS Nerkat, or anyone else out of the battle area, didn't respond to Henry...
