Re: Team Two: Starport defenses
Elsbeth's eyes narrowed when her opponent started to withdraw - her parting swipe doing minimal damage, but at least it connected. From what she could tell, Q'sa were fearless and thus would only retreat under exceptional circumstances. And now, those circumstances appeared to be when defeated - but, it was more than that. In Elsbeth's experience, a withdrawing enemy was only clearing the area for... She gritted her teeth. It was the only thing that made sense. Even though her grasp of tactics was not stellar, it was what she would do in their shoes - it was what she figured that her Marine commanders would do.
She thought hard and loud, Marshal. The enemy is beat feet, which I can only presume to mean Scorched Earth. She could only hope that the others could hear her thoughts. Elsbeth was unsure of Poppy, but perhaps the Marshal was in contact with her as well.
Then she remembered her comm and that Poppy had been previously monitoring it. Elsbeth noted on the Marine Channel, "Poppy, evacuate the area. Now. Incoming."
And then Elsbeth had to think about herself. With her enemy disengaging, Elsbeth lept as well, but only to the top of the bunker nearest her, an easy leap for her augmented, jump jet assisted legs. She crouched low and forced armored form skyward, leaving the plasma repeater behind. She tucked for a moment, before stretching out as Elsbeth tumbled skyward for a flashing moment - seemingly easily defying the pull of gravity as she rocket upwards. Her right hand moved to stow her concussion rod while in the tuck and as her armored form opened up, and prepared for landing, her hands then moved to pull her stowed M-37 Standard Marine Issue Assault Rifle.
She landed with a thick thud, sending up a little bit of dust. If there had been anyone in the bunker, they likely would have noticed the landing of the quarter ton of mad marine and gear. But Elsbeth and Poppy had already attempted to ensure that no one was left inside. She rolled with the momentum, coming up in a crouch and she raised her M-37 to her shoulder, bracing it. Elsbeth was not planning to spit hot lead at the retreating form of her Q'sa opponent. Instead, she lined the weapon up with the intent of using the standard issue underslung grenade launcher instead. Elsbeth kept an armor piercing tank buster round in the breach of the grenade launcher for just such an occasion. Her vision narrowed and focused, as Elsbeth concentrated on her breath and the form in her crosshairs. The HUD in Elsbeth's helmet tracked the moving form as it leapt - projecting a path; a path which also seemed to coincide with the Marshal's forward sense - which again began to collapse into a single thread of probability. For her part, it was a sort of attempt to will the grenade to seek out the retreating form of the withdrawing Q'sa warrior. See the grenade, be the grenade. And her fingers depressed the trigger on the launcher.