Their dropships poured fire into the buildings where the Scourge infantry were firing down with their plasma guns on the trapped walkers.
Then the Desolator moved behind them and a pulse of arcing electricity engulfed the entire street. The electricity coursed through everything in its path. One of the Scourge skimmers' lights went out and it crashed to the street rolling twice before coming to a complete smoking halt.
The pilots of the PHR walkers wondered where those reinforcements were. The Phobos walkers lined up perfect shot after their systems recovered from the electrical storm and with their AA guns blazing they poured fire up into the Desolator. Explosions ripped along the vehicle as it limped momentarily out of sight behind a skyscraper.
Plasma blasts lit up the Phobos walkers from the two remaining Scourge skimmers and one went down, the other badly damaged.
The other Scourge battle group had its hands full too. The minders had engaged a drop ship carrying two heavy walkers and had nearly brought it down before they themselves were engaged by two Menchit anti-personel walkers and were almost wiped out themselves.
The respite allowed the Heavy walkers to land safely and start to engage the Scourge skimmers that were streaking towards the newly arrived PHR infantry that stood in the path of the crippled desolator.
They fired on the Phobos walkers that made up the rest of the Menchit's battle group, their dropships joining in with their plasma nozzles and the two AA walkers melted under the stream of superheated gas.
The Athena streaked in now for another go at the desolator. At this point the craft was having trouble even staying aloft, cords and hoses were visibly hanging out of it even to the troops on the ground.
As it streaked in the Scourge infantry interrupted their fire at the walkers on the ground pumping the air full of plasma bursts to little effect.
Just then, though, the air was rent apart around the Athena and system after system went off line and the plane caught fire and soon exploded, crashing into the street and leaving a massive crater where its speed and mass tore through the asphalt and vegetation that had grown there.
The PHR command group set down to block the path of the Scourge skimmers and between them and the heavy walkers the threat to the Scourge infantry and scout walkers was eliminated.
The crippled desolator continued to advance as the Scourge dropships desperately tried to eliminate the scout walkers and their AA capability.
The infantry concentrated their fire on the last damaged Phobos walker but all of them were unable to damage the walker and it moved to sight the Desolator now charging up for a destructive blast at the PHR infantry.
The burst of rapid rail rifle fire told and the Desolator exploded raining down metal and a salty fluid down on the infantry below.
Now it was time to mop up the infantry in the building and Nu'al Kor's column would be erased from the list of things the PHR had to worry about in Atros City.
"expands his knowledge" by venturing onto the high frontier.
