"I got her good this time," Roul almost purred. The Interventor was sweating from the exertion even in the relatively cool morning, his work had been worth it, the small group could see the engines both cut out and the plane was coming in for a crash landing.
As it came towards the village, falling in a predictable arc, the Nomad soldiers could see the movement of flaps as the pilot struggled to regain control of the now brick-like aircraft. It just wasn't going to happen.
It was close enough now that they could make out the armament on the three figures that came out of the side of the vehicle, the moment of their fall almost totally overpowering their propulsion packs. The craft crashes and bounces leaving chunks behind, the few people in the village that had ventured out this early in the morning now ran for cover.
The Tiger soldiers landed roughly, they had had worse though. They quickly regained their feet and made for cover. If someone had brought their plane down, it was a sure bet they would be coming for them next.
The Nomads advanced as a group, they saw their own plane over head.
The crash had happened almost precisely where they had wanted it to happen. Roul looked over at Cher and grinned. She tried her best to grimace but the hint of a smile was there. They were already receiving reports that two aircars were heading towards their location.
The plan was working to perfection.
The Tiger soldiers sheltered behind a wall as they saw the Nomad craft circling overhead. Certainly this was an ambush, but it was difficult for them to understand what it was the Nomads might want.
Voices crackled over their intercoms telling them that a force was being sent to pull them out. They hunkered down covering different fields of fire when they caught the first glimpse of an aircar, then another came into view. The second one dropped suddenly, then sprang up again, then accelerated overhead while the first dropped down behind the buildling they were in.
A voice came over their coms, Bai Liu's raspy voice was a welcome noise, the Guija pilot would certainly have their backs.
They started to withdraw from the building towards the waiting aircar and the cover the TAG would provide.
Then that Nomad plane came screaming overhead and two forms fell from it dropping behind the buildings across the street.
Suddenly firing burst from that direction and KIang Lee went down, the other Tiger soldiers moved to cover the direction the fire came from but there was no one there now.
The second aircar came back overhead and landed one street back from the first.
The Guija moved up to cover the continued retreat of the Tiger soldiers, who now ducked behind the building. The Guija had cover from the aircar towards any advancing Nomads from the main group. The pilot had sent word to the second craft that there was some thing to his flank and requested the Hac Tao move up to flank the flankers.
A shimmer caught his sensors and focusing on it he made out a shimmering body move between the two bulidings, and then everything went dark, sensors went out, proprioceptors went off and even the little lighting inside the TAG went black, it certainly wouldn't respond to the pilots commands.
If he could have seen what was in front of him Bai Liu would not have liked it. The Salamander moved up to behind the crashed Yu Jing Pheasant Hawk and the spinning of the barrel heralded a tornado of destruction from the Hyper-rapid Magnetic cannon. The shots ripped through the armor of the immobilized Yu Jing TAG, its now flacid limbs jerked this way and that under the impacts.
The Spektr glanced around the corner to see what effect his hacking was having on the enemy when the slight smile that crept across his lips under his mask was wiped away by firing coming from behind him.
His heads up display let him know that the Hellcat that was covering his rear was now dead. He flattened against the wall when the blip indicating the one covering his left went out. She was now dead too. He thought briefly that this was a shame, he had glanced her way as he ran past, she had a great body.
That was his last thought as .50 calibre rounds ripped through his suit and his, now visible, body smashed against the corner of the wall before sliding down it leaving a streak of blood for the owner to paint over when the shooting stopped.
There would be some repairs to be made to it first though.
The Salamander's fire had not slackened in the mean time and shots ripped the Guija apart, one round smashing through the armour and tearing through the Bai Liu's knee, his mind barely registering the pain from that before another one tore the back of his head off, his blood and brains shooting out the back of the TAG like a small, red volcanic eruption.
The Hac Tao watched grimly as the TAG went down. His mind worked mechanically, he noted that they were now even. The pilot of the plane was dead, so were a TAG pilot and a Tiger soldier, but he had killed the hacker and two drop troopers.
He recamouflaged himself and sought out a target with his HMG. The TAG that had blasted the Guija apart could either come across the courtyard or go around the building.
It went around and the Hac Tao heard the deadly whine of that cannon. The mission was over, there were now no Tiger soldiers left to rescue. He retreated around the wall to make it back to his aircar before even retreat was denied to their forces.
He ran now. The TAG would be faster and after wasting a shot at the other aircar that was now departing he knew it would be trying to get to the group of soldiers he had left covering the LZ.
It did beat him there, he had advised that they reboard as the Tiger soldiers were dead and the Zhanshi and Kempetai were moving back aboard the vehicle as he came level with it.
Then the whine started up again and the hail of fire shredded one of the Zhanshi as she was working her hacking device to try to stop the TAG in its tracks.
Her body was thrown about five feet from the force of the bullet storm.
The Kempetai attempted a similar moved as the Hac Tao moved around the air car to get in the access hatch, she was moving up the ramp looking at where was sh was going interspersed with trying to access the TAG, the burst of fire moved up towards her now and a shot smashed through her hand removing three fingers before slamming into, and through, her shoulder.
She collapsed and the Hac Tao grabbed her by the belt as he moved up the ramp and into the aircar, it had started moving skyward before the hatch was shut.
does a mash-up and gets a sci-fi command vehicle.
