Pippin nodded and looked around at his comrades. "Well, lets get this over with."
Iska had been suddenly woken by the huge tremor that followed the detonation.
Looking around, she noticed the crew gathered further away. She picked up her rifle and jogged over.
Dwan continued to rest after Lion had left him. As he rested, he continued to inspect his right arm, fascinated by it. Over the years, Dwan had suffered many minor injuries, even having part of his leg cut off at one point, but he always regenerated them on the spot. This time, however, it was different; the injury was major and he was being watched, meaning he had to stay with a stump arm for a bit. He didn't know how to feel about the stump as he continued inspecting it. Then, he felt the shock from the explosion. He realized something was happening and felt like he had to get to the crew. He grabbed the armor pieces that broke during his grenade incident, put them into his backpack and rushed out of the room to find the others.
He then found the others and approached Lion. "What's going on?", he asked.
Lion looked at Dwan. "We're pushing out, Kira marked a high-value target and we're gonna clear the way to it so our demoteams can pop it."
Dwan nodded after hearing the news. He then motioned Lion to come in a bit closer, so that he could whisper to him. "I think it is time I bring in the big guns. I just need a place to bring them in through.", Dwan whispered to Lion.
"I could call in smoke barrages and use a projector to simulate pods landing in the smoke. Would that be sufficient?"
Lion asked discreetly.
By the time the explosion signaled the resumption of battle, Yanim and Virin had arranged for more medical treatment for Virin's shoulder and had scavenged a HarkArk-built armor piece which could be attached to the cheap set Virin was wearing, granting him greater protection. Yanim had also cracked the lockout circuitry on the rocket launcher using her portable kit and had discovered a cache of rockets out in the field. With the help of a Privateer who had a few minutes to kill, the rockets were moved back to the base for use against the enemy.
Viper's words weren't lost upon her. If she survived this battle, she reasoned, she would one day lay down her weapons and find a place to settle down. But how soon would that be? It was difficult to think in the constructive terms necessary to define success. Her only real motive at the moment was to take revenge on certain people and organizations, but that couldn't sustain a lifestyle forever, and even if it could, it wouldn't be one she would want to have. It could be years before she could find an inner peace which would allow her to begin again.
"If it makes you feel any better," Virin said, "I overheard part of that conversation you had with the sanghvi and I want to offer you my utmost assurances that there are no possible circumstances in which I'd sacrifice myself for you. I don't even like you," he joked.
"That makes two of us," Yanim joked back. "Neasha, what's the situation up there?"
"More hostiles inbound," she replied.
"Alright crew, let's defend this position," Yanim ordered.
"That sounds..... overly suspicious. Any alternatives?", Dwan asked silently.
"Teleport them right into the tunnels? You could do it right before we breach, I got some drone footage from Kira you could use." Replied Lion while waving for some SDF soldiers to get in position.
"We could do that. If you still have the coin on you, we could organize something via that. Unless you have anything else to say, I'll get myself ready.", Dwan replied.
"Do what you need to do, I'll stay in touch. Keep me posted." Lion then rose up and waved with his right hand.
"We're moving out!" Immeadiately the SDF forces sprung to life and began pushing out from the defensive line being guarded by privateers and mercs.
"Go! Go! Go!" Yelled one of the sergeants as he moved into cover behind the scorched remains of a smaller mech. Right behind him were line after line of marines backed up hundreds of guardian tanks.
Lion looked at the crew. "Dwan is on rear-echelon support, Pippin you're our field engineer; meaning that both of you will be helping out our forces for the battle. Iska and Varn, you're our shocktroopers. I want you to grab some marines and cover my flanks as I push on with Spectre. Viper you will assume the role of the active support unit, make sure that none of our frontline squad gets hammered down. Understood? Let's get to work."
Varn nodded. He turned around to face the SDF marines. "Alright. We may not be the same marines, but I know that you're some of the most tough sons of bitches in the galaxy. Get ready to move on our mark and we'll be drinking coffee on broken tank husks real soon." he redyed the Boombox "The Sun has plenty of good men ready to face us. Lets go kill them."
Iska nodded and turned around to look for marines to recruit, but stopped when she noticed that a squad had already gathered behind her. One of the marines spoke up "You snow ice giants are supposed to be hardy fighter right? Well that robot guy apparently has the approval of the lieutenant so if he says we follow you then that's what we'll do". Iska stood still with a slightly confused expression, before replying, "Ok, you have anything heavy for human? Iska can carry it easy". The squad murmured between themselves for a brief moment and turned back to Iska. "We have an [url=http://i1297.photobucket.com/albums/ag38/EchoUnited/Sci%20Fi/Sci%20Fi%20Weapons/MG3-Sobaku_ChiuChiudeviantArt.jpg]MG3-S[/url] mounted to the back of our dropship. if we were to take it it'd require three of us but I think you can carry it" one of them said while sizing Iska up. Iska liked the sound of that. "Let's get it" Iska proclaimed while gesturing the squad to lead the way to the dropship.
Dwan snapped his fingers and then pointed finger guns at Lion. "Keep me posted as well!", he told Lion. He then started walking backwards, looking at the others for a moment, before fully turning around and leaving the area. As he walked, he activated a Hastened Universe Jump. He walked into a wall and appeared back at his pad.
He flew up and looked at the 150 mechs of varying sizes stand. He inspected them as he went through all of the designs individually; Cyntaf, the amalgamation of all the best designs from all the universes to create the greatest generic mech in existence, was a majority in numbers. The North Star, the rapid-punching mech with jackhammer-esque arms for heavy hitting usage, was made less of, while Desfason, the explosive-filled mech disguised to look like a manned mech, was made in the least quanitites.
Lion's designs were made in average quantities in comparison to the rest; due to being prototypes, they all had the same name, the HMCP (Heavy Mobile Combat Platform) with each having an individual mark. Dwan refined the prototype designs and gave them individual names. The armless designs, the HMCP [URL="http://i.ytimg.com/vi/4LKuVpdMgFM/maxresdefault.jpg"]Mk. 1[/URL] and [URL="http://mwo-builds.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/locustcomp.png"]Mk 2[/URL], or how he called them, Buzzard and Hickory, were also made in smaller quantities, while the armed designs, HMCP [URL="http://40.media.tumblr.com/f4bf7446c3df41260ebe7d9d85b8bb2c/tumblr_ndxgq4GY5a1u24xr8o1_1280.jpg"]Mk. 3[/URL], [URL="http://mwo-builds.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/cataphraken.png"]Mk. 4[/URL] and [URL="http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/8956/gdlinceptionatlas2.png"]Mk. 5[/URL], or how he called them, Lepidus, Antonius and Octavius, were made in average quantity.
As a last addition to the mechs, he inserted his coins into each and every one of them. This would allow him to send commands to the mechs, who would otherwise work autonomously. He also shoved one of his coins into his armor, to allow him to handle the mechs through its HUD. Having done this, he returned to the ground and went into his workshop. He took off his howitzer-backpack and placed it onto the table. He pulled out his blown off hand.
He used his powers to carefully remove the wrappings on both the blown off hand and the blown up part of his arm. He then carefully began mending the two, bringing them together. Because of how long he waited, the mending stinged his arm a little, but he powered through it. Soon enough, the hand and arm were one once more. He moved his hand slightly to confirm if everything was alright, which it was. He then used his powers to make the skin of where the cut off point between the hand and arm was slightly paler, to represent the injury that was there. He then grabbed the wrappings and rewrapped his arm, wrapping not only the former injury, but also his entire right forearm and most of his right hand. He then pulled out the armor pieces and began work on restoring his armor.
He started by fixing the undersuit, as he patched up the part that was ripped off during the grenade incident. He then fixed up the armor pieces that were broken in the incident as well. He then put the armor pieces on, followed by him reinforcing the metal of the armor slightly to not break as badly next time. He had managed to patch up everything. As one last addition, he upgraded his howitzer one last time, by adding a clamp that would hold the howitzer section to the armor without the need for him to hold his hand onto it and by adding rotation to the hinge, allowing him to point the artillery piece behind him, though he would have to move his head in order to not hit himself on the back of the piece while he moves it.
He put the howitzer-backpack back on his back and got out of the workshop. He floated up to the top of the highest mech and stood there, watching the emptiness of space. He began preparing the incantation to bring the mechs over. He placed his hand on his mouth to send Lion a message. "I'm ready when you are.", he said into his hand.
"Your window is in ten minutes." Said Lion as he navigated through some rubble. Using his rilfe, he fired a salvo at a nearby crimson squad desperatly trying to hold the line as the SDF forces engulfed the battlefield in a black and white mass.
"Come on! Show me what Terrans can do!" Varn yelled to encourage the troops. He aimed at a couple of Sun troops and fired off several salvos of hot plasma.
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"What are the news? What's the next move?" Noble asked as the Boome's were moving forward.
"The SDF are pushing forward and we're lending our numbers to support them. The Archius crew is leading the charge and our dept hasn't been paid." Seth answered as he put on his helmet.
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"Get those APCs rolling! I want every gearhead you see in the ground!" The Boomes let out a loud battle cry as they charged their opponents. The battlefield turned into utter chaos as the mercenaries and SDF engaged the Crimson Sun.
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[QUOTE=Viper123_SWE;48967596]"Your window is in ten minutes." Said Lion as he navigated through some rubble. Using his rilfe, he fired a salvo at a nearby crimson squad desperatly trying to hold the line as the SDF forces engulfed the battlefield in a black and white mass.[/QUOTE]
Mini Roll[2]: Lion saw at least three Crimson Son holding the line, he fired one salvo towards one of them and almost felt like he got one. He saw one deflect off his armor and saw the man's reaction, this wasn't a Brigade soldier, this was a goddamn Crimson Elite. The three Elite marched out of the line and carried heavy weapons ordinary human couldn't hold with two hands. They immediately blew Lion out of the area and saw incoming marine eager to split them in two, only to tear them apart by sheer firepower and strength.
[QUOTE=kilerabv;48967771]"Come on! Show me what Terrans can do!" Varn yelled to encourage the troops. He aimed at a couple of Sun troops and fired off several salvos of hot plasma.
[/QUOTE]
Mini Roll[5]: Varn fired off some plasma towards any troops he could spot while the enemies also fired, overall no one landed a hit on anyone.
...
Outside of the ground battle laid the husks and devastating space battle, the SACs around the planet were still operating just as planned along with the Grand Armadas dishing out damage as they settled their forces in Zeruel, just when things were starting to get good was a violet tear into the space fabric opened.
Harken Saw stood at this anomaly and stared at it before focusing gun fire. Suddenly, fleets of varying sizes came out of the tear like wild hunt, desperately searching for prey to hunt down as large ships of varying sizes were unleashed upon orbit.
Tears among Zeruel came as ships engulfed the skies, reinforcing the war effort to the Crimson Son. Syncs and Crimson Elite plummeted down the battle field from their dropships and began to put the entire HarkArk force into disarray.
Harken Saw immediately received a communication hi jack to the High Command, everyone, it was a message.
"I ask you one thing, why do you fight? Is it because of greed? Is it because to ensure you earn glory in the name of battle? To conquer without care? I ask these while hundreds of men die each minute. Your friends, your so called superiors. You blindly kill in the name of the "greater good" without learning any consequence, you fail to understand we outnumber you, we are everywhere, and we will not stop. Why can't you just learn your place?" A deep voice echoed throughout of all communications, implanting his rant to his enemies.
The communications line went offline for a short sec before returning back to its normal state. Harken Saw ignored this and continued to focus on destroy the incoming ships from the tear.
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"This is High Command, we have got to double time it on that breach! I repeat we have got to pierce through that wave!" The battle continued shortly after that unknown message ended.
Iska and her squad had acquired the heavy machinegun which Iska now carried. Coming up on a rise overlooking the left flank, Iska ordered the squad to lay down covering fire on the Sons positions.
Varn ordered the marines following him to aim at the crimson elite. He aimed at one of them and fired.
"Take cover!" Lion, Spectre unit and some of the marines managed to dive into cover as the Elite opened fire. One shot hit Lion's left pauldron, melting away half of it.
One of the marine squads weren't as lucky and got near-instantly mowed down, alongside a Guardian too slow to evade.
Lion then received a message requesting for the breach to be sped up. "Damnit, let's hope this works."
He then produced a grenade from his vest, as he twisted the top a red light came on.
"Grenade!" He used all his force to toss the high-explosive plasma charge, hoping to crack open one of the tunnels while taking out the Elite.
Pippin layed down covering fire for Lion and the soldiers near him.
[QUOTE=Radley;48971420]Iska and her squad had acquired the heavy machinegun which Iska now carried. Coming up on a rise overlooking the left flank, Iska ordered the squad to lay down covering fire on the Sons positions.[/QUOTE]
Mini Roll[7]: Iska's squad located a few Brigade defending their position, she ordered her men around as several fired, shooting one of them before two decided to grenade it. The grenade blew in front as dirt and pieces of scrap spread, hitting nothing.
[QUOTE=kilerabv;48971440]Varn ordered the marines following him to aim at the crimson elite. He aimed at one of them and fired.[/QUOTE]
Mini Roll[8]: The Crimson Elite were fierce and weren't the average threat, they were bigger and tough. Varn's men blindfired while he aimed for the head at one of them. The Elite soldier saw the shot shock his head, almost grasping for space. He kneeled down as he saw the marines, he continued to fire, landing several hits at several marines. It was going to take more to strike this man down.
"I welcome the challenge." The Elite said to him.
[QUOTE=Viper123_SWE;48971492]"Take cover!" Lion, Spectre unit and some of the marines managed to dive into cover as the Elite opened fire. One shot hit Lion's left pauldron, melting away half of it.
One of the marine squads weren't as lucky and got near-instantly mowed down, alongside a Guardian too slow to evade.
Lion then received a message requesting for the breach to be sped up. "Damnit, let's hope this works."
He then produced a grenade from his vest, as he twisted the top a red light came on.
"Grenade!" He used all his force to toss the high-explosive plasma charge, hoping to crack open one of the tunnels while taking out the Elite.[/QUOTE]
Mini Roll Critical Success[highlight][10][/highlight] Lion threw the grenade with enough strength near the tunnel, pulling the highest explosion one could see from here. After he was done he saw a slight crack at the tunnel, while also seeing the Elite without an arm on the ground. The Elite however, wasn't dead as he should be. He did his best to stand up while arming(no pun intended) himself with his high caliber weapon while holding on to his stump, blood spewing out He immediately fired across the field.
[QUOTE=liberalllama;48971807]Pippin layed down covering fire for Lion and the soldiers near him.[/QUOTE]
Mini Roll[3]: He saw the Elite and tried his best to protect Lion from the threat. He was awe struck to find out that back up arrived in the form of falling soldiers. A Sync appeared right in front of him and tilted her head. "You seem lost, here let me help you with that." She utilized her gift and began to dissemble Pippin's weapon, spreading it all around the field before restraining him. She walked out of the field and pushed him far away.
Dwan sat on his top of the highest mech with crossed legs, as he prepared the teleportation incantation. He breathed slowly, knowing the task at hand. But he was ready now. He could bring them all over. Dwan recalled the footage Lion showed him in a hurry. He mapped out the best location to teleport in from. Soon, the incantation was ready.
He got up and stood upright. He rose his left hand, twitching his pinky to activate the portal underneath the mechs. The mechs began to sink slowly into the portal. Dwan realized waiting would be a waste of time, and so used a gravity manipulation incantation to push the mechs downwards, moving him and the mechs quickly through. As he went through the portal, he began to feel tired and sweaty. He activated the mechs as they reached the end of the portal. Soon, in this universe, a giant portal opened up underground.
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Mechs rose from the portal, looking mighty and powerful. Soon, they were all there. Using the suit's HUD, he told the mechs who was friend and who was foe. He told them that they were to attack the foes. The mechs started to move slightly as they got ready. Dwan knew he had one more thing to do before getting back into the battle. He applied the Hasten incantation to the teleport spell. He jumped off the highest mech, cannonballing into the ground as he returned to his pad. Back at his pad, he stopped himself from crashing to the ground at high speeds. He then returned back to the ship to grab himself the LWA Endgame. He placed it into his backpack and returned to his pad, from where he returned back to the battlefield.
As he returned and deactivated the incantation, he dropped to his knees for a second. He had used plenty of caldiur in a short amount of time. He felt tired and weak. He looked around as he saw the chaos that had arrived. As he rushed to the group, the mechs finally got ready and got to work. The big guns were here.
A new wave was assaulting the allied stronghold. Yanim and Virin were in a decent position to call attacks to the Belladonna. "[Rask, Gataska, both of you get to the gun controls,]" Yanim instructed in kanad. "Neasha, I'm sending you vector information now. You three are going to sweep the Crimson line using flak and machine guns in a straight dive, so get your speed up to supersonic- I'm sure they have countermeasures."
"Will do," Neasha replied over the comm. The ship climbed several kilometers vertically over the base before rocking forward and diving, the crew briefly experiencing free-fall as if going over the crest of a rollercoaster. The ground approached rapidly and quickly the targets came into view, and all the guns mounted on the vessel's belly were put into use at once.
Pippin turned himself over a few moments after he landed, and drew his pistol. With both hands, he aimed for the back of the Sync and fired twice.
"I welcome the challenge." The Elite said to him.
"Oh, shut up." Varn aimed at the elite's knees. Let's see if he could stand tall with no feet.
Iska overlooked the battlefield and then went behind cover to reload. A female private looked over the rocks and turned to Iska "Mam, we got eyes on a CS specialist at 3 o'clock" she said in a jittery voice as all hell was breaking loose on the other side of their cover.
Iska cocked the heavy machine gun and waddled over to the private "human and stupid word" she scoffed in an annoyed tone with a similarly annoyed expression. She tugged the privates arm "use arm to show direction like normal soldier".
The private pointed her outstretched arm in the specialists direction, and Iska stuck her head out slightly to confirm.
She saw her toy with Pippin and the walk around casually, what an upstuck cunt. Iska turned to the squad "Iska want that shtuka too look like mijak soup" she said with a sly grin.
As Iska rose up and began firing with the MG3-S resting on the rock, the rest of the squad got up too to unleash a bulletstorm on the sync.
The grenade cracked opened the ground just as intended. However one of the Elited was still standing.
"I hope Dwan is here by now." Muttered Lion to himself as he fired two salvos at the elite.
Dwan reached the group out of breath. In order to catch his breath, he turned on his howitzer's machine gun mode and fired at the Crimson soldiers, suppressing fire to let the group know he was with them.
Viper leaped towards Pippin position in an frantic speed, rushing as it watched his vitals fluctuated and his gear readings becoming unresponsive. Jumping right beside the downed soft-carbon, putting itself in the line of sight of the Sync if it was to turn to finish him.
Hopefully for Viper and Pippin, it wasn't going to. Viper unleashed an volley of slugs at Mach 7 speeds into the Sync backside to confirm this.
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