Fire starts coming in hard - still invisible to most ground troopers, the Skull Walker nonetheless provides a better than thirty foot high vantage point from which to direct a pair of one point two tonne railguns with pinpoint accuracy...
 Just how accurate its shooting is of course is going to determine whether or not 'Masque is even around to shoot back...

As Silvermasque makes for his maneuvering the Spider Skull walker concentrates its' fire; both heavy rail guns blast away trying to hit the Heavy Cyborg, these CS pilots aren't used to the borgs of Russia...

Trees are splintered, and the ground is chopped to shreds around Masque's feet. One shot can be heard and faintly felt as it skims off of whats' left of the borgs' synthetic hide. He realizes in that mooment that the next shot wont miss...

Masque is hit in the back once by the heavy cannon, but it is enough to knock him off his temporarily...

Arven takes this opportunity to lay some fire into the walker. Simultaneously firing on one of the Hellraisers and the CS Cyborg trooper.

The main body of the skull walker is completely devastated after only a few seconds of fire from the rahu man. The vehicle stalls, and as the smoke clears it is clear the crew inside were not spared...

The Hellfire on the other hand is still coming full force, heavily damaged but determined - along with the Cyborg.

The Dog boys are blasting away as they come closer and closer to Lotus and Arven. SHe mystically parries their rifle fire, back at them. By the time they are within range of her TW flame thrower, their armour is little match for its' flames. The hounds become ashes in front of them.

(more to this post to come...)
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The cyborg returns fire from a massive rail gun, along with a pair of mini-missiles from his forearm. The Hellfire returns fire with a volley of its' own. All directed at Arven and Lotus.

Note to Masque - in the last post I said the shot skimmed off what was left of your hide. I meant to say it tears off a chunk of whats' left of your hide.
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 ...or, perhaps fortunately, the heavy armoured plating that 'Masque has strapped on over his own frail, fragile, two-tonne ceramic and composite, shock-frame-centred body... Not that this makes things a great deal better as the massive 'Borg is struck by a screaming line of hypersonic slugs, thermal and kinetic energy dumping into the layered armour, thoroughly overloading its ability to resist.

 He's hurled from his feet and smashed through several shot-shredded trees - bur even as he hits the ground he's rolling to bring both gun barrels up for another volley of indirect shooting, intending to evade the majority of the Coalition's deadly firestorm and carpet the roadway once more with high explosive and shrapnel, first pounding the grounded heavy armour threatening the road, then splitting his fire to send a deadly rainstorm of golf-ball sized munitions scattering across the remains of the convoy.

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Arven and Lotus - update
The Hellfire launched a volley of missiles at the both of you, the borg is moving to take cover behind the broken Spider Skull Walker - blasting at Lotus with a heavy rail gun the whole time.

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Arven manages to blast the volley of missiles before it reaches the two mercs, and returns fire full force into the borg and Hellfire. Lotus parries every incoming shot back at the Cyborg as he races for cover.

Silvermasque lets' loose with another spray of grenades, landing several at the Borg and Hellfire. Both mechanized units of the CS were already showing signs of heavy damage before the grenades went off; they lye in the scorched dirt after the smoke begins to clear.

Other grenades land among the SAMAS and the near-by Terror Troopers, as well as across the road by 2nd and 4th platoons.

The SAMAS armours are tossed up into the air, ripped limb from limb they scatter the battlefield in shreds. The terror troopers regain their menacing stance and continue to march forward scanning the battle field for targets - launching more at Arven and Lotus...

The Mystic Knight holds her position in front of Arven. She continues to deflect incoming fire up until thi moment. After all there is a limit to how fast she can move and she is hit several times in the chest. The first few shots are absorbed into an invisible mystic armour or force field of some sort, but the last few put near-fatal cracks in her armour.

Lotus ducks and moves behind Arven quickly and begins to restore her mystic armour.

From behind the terror troopers - a stream of fire covers both of them from an invisible source - it lasts a few moments then stops. In the street to the north - Attila is seen headed to rejoin the group. The bridge and pillbox behind him is on fire. Arven returns fire with more Naruni fire power into the closest Terror Trooper.

Both Coalition power armours turned to look in the direction o fth efire, and were not firing when Arven let loose. The target of the Rahu Mans' fury was already heavily damaged from Silvermasques' grenades, and the burst of fire - it face planted into the loose mud that was recently a grassy field.

One Terror Trooper remains his attack on his side of the road. A massive tornado still containing several troops remians generally around the destroyed spider-scout walkers. Two huge explosions can be seen across the road at 2nd Platoons' battle. The 2 Hellraisers were tripped some how - then one of them had two fusion blocks explode on its back.
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 Flame and volatised alloy streaming from the ragged gash in his heavily armoured outer shell, 'Masque hurls himself into cover once more, both lower hands moving smoothly as they once more remove and stow the emptied drums of fragmentation ammunition and replace them as he hits the ground and rolls with his only pair of armour-piercing...

 Coming up on one knee he again gives a moment to scan the battlefield from his soft-cover vantage point, and as his guns come up level he sees an opportunity, a stentorian cry of 'Fire in the 'Hole!' ringing out with the power of cybernetic speakers as he punches a short-range laser signal to one of his detonators, trying to set off the first trapline of explosives under the feet of the advancing Terror Troopers.

While Lotus activates several protective spells and abilities, Arven continues to relentlessly fire upon the remaining terror trooper. The Trooper returns fire not nearly as relentlessly (only having two arms, and one gun...) - before Silvermasque detonates his explosives. The Power Armour is immediately sent flying towards the road; landing violently and rolling.

Lotus comes out from hiding to lay in several shots along with Arven - while Silvermasque takes note of what is happening across the road for any potential targets.


There are no visible moving targets remaining on the battle field. Attila is seen coming dwon the road - walking away from the flaming bridge. Explosions and gunfire can still be heard coming from 4th platoons' location. There is also the magically created tornado in the road...
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Still invisible Van heads towards Quinn and Ulik's last known position. "Sgt. Quinn! Talk to me!" he yells, trying to find him.

Mephisto is spotted jogging to the heavy hitters position. He is covered in mud, and minor burns. The shifter brushes the dirt and ash from himself and starts chuckling. He looks down the hill at the tornado, and the debris and bodies of the Coalition armed forces... He points down the hill as his chuckle turns into a full-out laugh.
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Firing the last couple of shots remaining in the clips in his gun the Rahu-Man slags what is left of a still twitching borg and then he laughs out loud along with Mephisto. "Buncha motherfuckin punkass bitches!" He yells at the corpses strewn all about as he begins collecting the small pile of spent magazines laying around his feet. Having a seat he will set about reloading the two missile rifles. "Nice job sweater-meat." He says to Lotus with a wink.

 Silvermasque is slower to break cover than the others - but after a few moments have passed he too rises and begins to move slowly down the shot-and-explosion torn slope, each of two heavy grenade launchers supported with two massive cybernetic arms, sweeping back and forth across the battlefield until he reaches the road itself, whereupon they're slung in favour of empty hands and onboard weapons as he begins to smoothly search for signs of life amongst the wrecked war machines and shattered armours.

Xion comes jogging from the woods, "3rd Platoon, on me...4th Platoon is still in it, let's get them some support, Arven, Masque I hope you guys have a few big booms left." Xion will then head towards the sounds of gunfire and 4th platoon.

Mephisto catches his breath for a few seconds then replies : "Those Alu demons I summoned... they were slaughtered before they even touched the Coalition... it is things like that that keep me going...."

After listening to Xion arrive and bring the group back to business Mephisto answers : "Sir - our team is not accounted for... I have not seen Van, Quinn or Ulik - they were in those trees when the SAMs lit them up... and Attila appears to be the last one from the bridge... should we still move to assist 4th Platoon?"
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The massive Iron Juggernaut walks powerfully towards Xion and the others. The bridge completely consumed in flames behind him. There is no sign of Jonas or Seifer anywhere. Attila stops about 20 feet from Arven - as the bridge turret explodes into a giant mushroom cloud.

Xion nods, "Van went to look for them I believe, or survivors rather, I found you first. We will check the trees then, eyes up and ready. Enough of us have been lost in this battle, no more today. We search, we find them, we join 4th ASAP. Understood? Spread out a bit and let's move."

 As the orders come in, 'Masque veers from his intended course, moving with empty, but undeniably lethal vibro-taloned hands to flank Xion and the others at a comfortable distance as they move to support the Fourth in their ongoing struggle.

 "Think is worth calling for surrender?" he asks, directing a tight-beam communication signal through the static towards his team leader.

"The fuck you think Boss im shooting blanks?" Arven rpelies to Xion rhetorically. Slapping the last of the AP mini-missiles home the Rahu-Man hefts the two CS missile rifles up into the ready position and starts to move out. With his pronounced limp he is easily he slowest of all the members of 3rd platoon. "Ya ain't got any run-fast spells up yer ass do you Miss Hot-Pants?" the callous giant asks Lotus as they follow after Xion.

Lotus doesn't stop to discuss, and let's Arven run at his own speed. Then she takes off at superhuman speed towards 4th platoons' location.

Third platoon spreads out through the trees in search of Ulik and Sgt. Quinn. Mephisto protects himelf with magic again before entering.

Van finds them first. A charred-black skeleton is all that is left of Quinn, and a shrapnel-ridden corpse of Ulik.

Xion and the others come upon Van and the bodies a few moments later. Silvermasque grabs Ulik and Mephisto lifts Quinns' body telekinetically (after casting a spell, as opposed to instantly doing it psionically...). 3rd platoon escapes the forest at the trees among the pieces of the SAMAS and their pilots...

Second platoon can be seen heading for 4th platoon across the road. Tyirrak is up front, followed by Anniyan. Behind them are Lord Osema of the Brodkil, along with Klowkuh and Gendun - and their Syvan companion : Reginald. Razgriz and Obidiah are in the rear. There is no sign of Maitlyn The Brave, Patulik (the fat brodkil...) or Jelme among them.

The platoon continues to 4th platoon - in the distance down the road, Dalamar and Caramon can be seen crossing over to 4th as well. Moments later third arrives to what now appears to be a meeting, and a scan of the faces to see... who's left...

Sgt. Braga the simvan Gunslinger stands to his feet as third arrives. He stands next to Lt. Drake in his Power Armour, and Magnet Man. Next to them on the ground is the body of White Moon - the psi stalker. And int he air on the other side of Magnet Man is a CS soldier suspended in mid-air... a cyborg of some sort...

Second platoon is here as well - they arrived just before third. Followed by Dalamar and Carmon - arriving last.
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