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Some time after the failed attempt to lend aid to Regina and Zeke Calori, the Silver Spear would regroup and depart from the moon under the guise of a civilian transport. Shortly after its departure, several readings were picked up by the crew showing six unidentified AMU signatures, one hanging back from the rest. Moments later three more AMU readings would be noticed, as well as a much larger signature that likely belonged to an AMU carrier. To avoid being caught off-guard, the Spear would keep its weapons ready for deployment, tagging most of the signatures as potentially hostile, save one from the second group which was definitively marked as hostile. Even with weapons prepared, the ship would go about trying to maintain its guise before activating them fully. “I hope you guys are ready for another battle, because we just might be getting one, battle stations! Pilots, stand by for launch!”
Mi had installed Amara's new gun, along with the new AMU for Ves. Mi felt the first attack threw her teeth. She was right near the first attack. She braced herself as the ship was struck, and the thruster was hit. "What... The.... [********]!!!" Mi cursed, and held onto the grip as the ship was struck. "Who the hell just shot My Ship!" She yelled, and started to bark commands, and was running a diagnostic on what was damaged. They were all on high alert, and ready to react to anything, but it still sucked that the Spear was damaged. And that never made for a happy Mi. "One of the thrusters is damaged, and..." Mi said, and the ship shook again, but this time it was artillery that was struck. The smaller guns had been damaged, but not broken. Things were in the yellow, but nothing was red... Yet. "And some damage to the small guns, but they are still tracking." She said, and moved on.
Jamie took the full time at port to pop out of her funk. That was nearly two days, where she only did emergencies, or major calls, but there was only one. But she was not very chipper, and did not have much to say. It was in, done, and out. She only spoke to the Captain once during this time as well, to up date him on what was going on in the medical world. She went to the ships shrink, and was cleared for work. She did not sleep much during this time, but she was use to the lack of sleep anyway, it reminded her of her years in her internship. At the time of the high alert, Jamie was getting ready for her first shift. She immediately called everyone in that was on call, and those who had slept at least six hours, she pulled her hair up, and looked into the merrier. "Get over it." Jamie said to herself in the eye as she did. She pushed the memories to the back of her mind, knowing that people were going to depend on her. Closing her eyes, she counted to ten, giving herself time to let that notion set in, Jamie opened her eyes and felt clear. She could still remember but it was not in the fore front of her mind.
Almara and Moka had been waiting around, Almara still in her room while Moka was in the ship’s lounge again. As the orders to go on standby were given, they both quickly got to the locker room and into their pilot suits. Almara then headed to the Arios, waiting in the cockpit just in case they got the order to launch, Moka doing the same with the Gross Beil. As this happened the five AMUs would continue to close in on the Spear’s location before bringing their weapons to standby as they began to enter range. Three of the five headed around to the front of the ship to try and find the hangar bay in case AMUs deployed, while the other two moved for the rear. Time was counting down until they entered firing range…
Therian's White Tiger and the two pursuing Valkyrie MK-II Recons were still a little too far out to determine if they were readying their weapons. There was no doubt about it though that on their current course they were going to directly intercept the Silver Spear, which had begun to take preparations by converting itself into combat mode. It was ready for a fight as each member of the crew moved to their combat positions.
Ves arrived at the hangar last. Reading over the schematics for his new AMU had been a sizeable distraction for the boy. The original frame they were given by Geist had been outfitted with equipment from the deceased Regina Calori’s Gespenst at her suggestion, making a sort of lightweight hybrid AMU. The Spear watched the enemies as they prepared their strategy, moving to find the hangar bay. Over the hangar intercom, Captain Aires began issuing orders. “Almara, I think this is a good time to try out your new gun.” Almara looked up when she heard the captain and nodded slightly, looking over her new weapon for a moment before replying “..Understood, Captain..let’s hope this thing works..” she said. As she specialized in range, Almara was given the Gespenst's hyper beam rifle with the intention of providing surprise covering fire as the other two AMUs launched. Moka whistled slightly to herself as she hit a few switches and heard the Gross Beil start to come online. “Well this shouldn’t be too bad, right? Just a few of them versus three of us and a warship, sounds like fun.” she said with a slight smirk.
Almara readied the gun and moved to a proper a firing position, aiming carefully so she didn't risk hitting her allies as they launched. Her aim was also so she could more clearly hit anything waiting outside the hatch. At the same time Moka started the Gross Beil up and was ready to launch, putting one hand on the hilt of its massive sword so she could draw it as soon as she was in range.
The enemy units would then take off the safety. Entering range at last, they opened fire on Silver Spear itself, striking several exposed weapon systems and sensor arrays with a stream of beam shots before locating the hangar. The accuracy was somewhat surprising as they made solid hits for the most part. Definitely a cut above the average soldier. Upon finding the hangar, they immediately took position around it, careful to not cross the entrance and enter the line of sight of any inside it, but planning to shoot anyone trying to leave it. The two in the rear opened fire on the thrusters in an attempt to immobilize the ship and take it down before it could fight back.
The Spear had yet to fire when the thrusters began taking damage, unable to be defended at the moment. “I am launching now.” Ves announced as his new AMU, Haniel, shot straight out of the hangar door the moment it was open wide enough. Moving to the nearest enemy, he struck it with the buckler of the Gespenst, placed on Haniel's right shoulder and moved into the center of the enemy AMUs. His plan was to act as a vulnerable distraction and allow Almara to launch. Almara grimaced slightly when Ves launched and she realized what his plan was. “That’s really risky… even if his plan is to give us a clear launch window..” she said quietly. Finally, the Spear was in full combat mode. “Move them away from the Ship, we can’t hit them with missiles at this range.” Aires ordered calmly.
Walking into the Medical ward. Jamie issued orders, though the nurses knew their jobs, and they were ready. The doctors, and surgeons were gathering and she walked in and the room went quite. "I want everyone to hurry up and wait. You need to be ready for the normal, and the unexpected. You know the drill, we have done this a number of times, too many then I care to count. However. You need to be ready. We will take this in.." The ship was struck, and she luckily was balanced enough to not fall, or stumble. Two fell, and something fell. "Game time people. You know the drill get going. Looks like we are going to get wounded inbound." She said, and went to her station. Everyone scattered, and they did exactly that. Hurried up and waited.
Almara launched as soon as Ves' AMU was out of the way, not wasting any time and firing at the first enemy AMU that was in sight, trying to hit it in the cockpit to take it out quickly and trying to draw some fire away from Ves so he wouldn't take all of it himself. Shortly after Almara had launched, Moka launched as well, going straight to an enemy AMU and aiming a downward slash at it with her sword, trying to cut it in half and take it out in one move.
As the Spear’s AMUs launched, the first enemy AMU would take to immediately aiming for Ves, though it moved away from him as he tried to strike with the buckler, allowing him to end up exactly where he wanted. As if they already knew what they were doing, the AMU's changed targets, with Ves’ back exposed to it, the second one opened fire on him when Almara exited while the first to be attacked took aim at Almara, moving as if it could see Ves' action through the camera of the other two AMUs. The third AMU initially opened fire upon the weapon systems as they began to expose themselves. The first AMU, having trouble keeping up with dodging Almara and Ves' attacks, took minor damage to its left arm region as Moka launched, heading for the second AMU that was attacking Ves. The machine moved to closer to Moka as she attacked before strafing to the right and opening fire on her flank. The fourth AMU, one of the two in the rear, changed its target, moving up over the ship and beginning to open fire on the now exposed weapon systems while the fifth remained back, continuing to attack the thrusters.
Turning around, Ves used Haniel’s buckler to block the shots from the second AMU as it attacked Almara. Noticing something very odd, he commented. “I do not think these machines are manned...they move far too precisely.” Activating the thrusters in his AMU’s legs, Ves retreated from the first enemy AMU, positioning it between both he and Almara. From the buckler, the Alien boy drew one of his three beam sabers and closed in, attacking with close range slashes and trusting that Almara would definitely not to blow his head off. “Get some missiles on the enemies at range! Pilots, watch yourselves, I’m raising the antimatter drive!” The Captain warned. Noticing the White Tiger's attack on the fifth AMU that was attacking the Spear’s thrusters, he gave another order. “See that AMU that isn’t attacking us? Change its tag to neutral for now.” As the bunnies followed their orders, Aires created a comm line straight to the White Tiger, to Therian, and spoke. “Hey, you. Mind telling me exactly what you did to drag us into this battle? I’m not a huge fan of Earthlings causing trouble for us.”
Almara nodded in response to Ves as she launched several missiles and a beam shot at the first AMU “I’m not sure they’re manned either…. you’re right, their movements aren't right..” She said, being careful so as not to hit Ves as he started attacking it in close range. Moka quickly reversed thrust out of the way of the second AMU’s attack on her flank and took out a knife, making a quick stab with it at the AMU's rifle in order to disable it before bringing the sword around at the AMU's other arm.
The first AMU was able to more easily dodge Almara's attacks once Ves laid off on the assault to go for the second AMU. It was immediately informed by its comrades that the two were both returning to attack it. Dodging to the side of the beam shot and Ves' attack, the first AMU sped past Ves, just narrowly avoiding a slash from his AMU as it moved to put Ves between it and Almara, using him as a partial shield while it tried to shoot down the missiles. Detecting though that it wouldn't be able to defend against all of them as well as the continued attacks from both of the mechs, it activated its self-destruct and opened fire at Ves' cockpit. The second AMU, engaged by Moka would try to maintain the flank as she stabbed its gun. With this action, it had already determined that the weapon would be lost, allowing it to be stabbed as it then drew both of its beam sabers, using one to block the sword strike while the other slashed at the head of the Gross Beil. The third AMU turned from its attacks on the weapon systems and quickly took aim at Moka while she had her back turned to it. The fourth AMU, detecting it was locked onto by the Silver Spear, took evasive maneuvers and moved down closer to the ship, avoiding the majority of the missiles, but still taking some damage before turning back towards them as they turned around and quickly took them down with computer like precision before turning back to the weapon systems and returning to its attempts to disable them. The fifth AMU continued to work on targeting the Spear’s thrusters, though as it detected that they were heating up, it retreated to preserve itself. Because of the AMU’s focus on the thrusters it had a delayed reaction towards Therian's attack, losing a leg before turning to engage him.
Ves remained between the AMU and Almara, taking its attacks so that Almara wouldn't have to. Almara watched for a second before she noticed how the enemy AMU was acting and what it was doing and then quickly contacted Ves. “Ves, that AMU’s about to self destruct.. we need to stop it… otherwise it might kill us and damage the spear, if not destroy it..” she said to Ves over the line. Wordlessly, Ves activated the plasma thrusters in Haniel’s legs and charged forward shoulder-first as the enemy AMU’s core began glowing. Getting closer and closer to exploding, the AMU continued firing at Ves, several shots connecting at the legs, arms and torso of the boy’s light AMU. Quickly closing the distance between it and himself, though his light AMU would only be able to take so much damage from the beams, even with the buckler. Before the enemy could self destruct, Ves’ saber pierced the core, drawing a second slicer from the buckler, Ves removed the one already inside, then reinserted them both into the core, stabbing and stabbing until the core’s glow slowly dimmed. Falling back, Ves’ cameras flashed with static as some debris from the exploding AMU jolted his armor. “Target neutralized, continuing mission.” Once it was destroyed, he observed the battlefield carefully, seeing the other AMUs attacking the ship and Moka.
”Damage report.” Mi studied the damage to one of the main thruster, and now a few of the guns. Contacting the Good Captain again. "That thruster is not broken, but it is damaged. Still working I am helping direct power away from it, the others will be working overtime, but she can handle it." So to work she went. Barking off more orders, she rolled her sleeves up, and started to work on the internal workings. She did not want to go outside unless necessary but it might be something she would have to do. The very thought of having to go out.... Made her show a chill, her hair rose on the back of her neck, and she shivered.
Soon after, he was convinced that the machines were unmanned and relaying information to each other almost instantaneously, it seemed like they always knew where everything was. Without deploying some form of device to see it all for them, it was literally impossible. ”No person could have a field of vision covering this entire area in such proximity...and I have not seen any devices that would allow it. Nor could they react so quickly. These machines are definitely unmanned.” After watching how the mechs were acting Moka thought for a second. “Hm...attacking from the front won't do much good, try to get around them, hit them from where they can’t see.” She suggested.The second and third AMUs were focused on Moka, and the remaining two focused on the ship, Ves reactivated the thrusters in the legs of his AMU, dashing towards the back of the third AMU and slashing as soon as he was in range. He held the ignition as he quickly rolled to flank it, slashing two more times, then dashing around it again and slashing as he passed. After moving a short distance away, he dashed towards it again as the buckler released plasma vapor and he rammed towards it with the Gespenst Shoulder. Aires wasn’t too concerned with the weapons systems being attacked, as the Spear had a LOT of weapons in it, firing missiles again at the farther AMUs from both sides that were in range, including Therian, who had been tagged once more as hostile as he hadn't responded. The smaller machine guns of the spear fired on all of the hostile AMUs after a warning to the Mars pilots from the Captain. “We’re about to start shooting like madmen over here, be careful! And will someone please cover this goddamn thruster?!”
Almara narrowed her eyes slightly in annoyance when the AMU moved so it was using Ves as a shield and moved back to avoid the self destruct. After watching Ves’s action she sighed slightly, looking over his AMU from where she was for a second before talking “Ves, you holding up alright in there?...” She asked him, the slight sound of worry in her voice as she did so. Looking at the AMU that was trying to attack the ship’s weapons. “I am fine. Damage is an adequate sacrifice to protect my allies, is that correct, Moka?” He replied as Almara then fired off several shots at it with her rifle, aiming with surgical precision to avoid hitting the ship’s own weapons, moving away as the Spear's machine guns opened fire and changing her target to the AMU attacking the thruster. At the same time, Moka quickly brought her knife up to block the slash aimed at her head and activated her thrusters as she pushed with the sword and knife in an effort to overpower the other AMU before glancing at the one that had tried to shoot at her previously, only to get attacked by Ves. “C'mon you little pain.. let’s see if you’re dumb enough to try to overpower me!” Moka said.
The second AMU maintained the locked blades for a moment before using the momentum of Moka's attack as well as its greater speed to roll to the side of Moka and slash at the arms, attacking her flank. The third AMU moved backwards as Ves struck its back, narrowly dodging the second attack though still taking damage from the first. However, it continued to move away from Ves, aiming to remove itself from his attempts to flank it again, then turned to open fire on Almara while she focused on the fourth AMU. The fourth AMU in the meantime had switched targets after being notified of her incoming attack against it, dodging some of the initial fire before focusing on Ves. With Ves attacking the third AMU so viciously, he would be leaving his own flank open, which the fourth would try to take advantage of. It was a short-lived strategy as the Spear opened fire, forcing the fourth AMU to move away, though it was still closing the distance between itself and Almara as it noticed the Spear aimed to avoid hitting allies, effectively using her as a deterrent against the Spear’s attacks. Almara didn’t seem bothered by what it was trying, instead leveling her beam cannon at it as it approached and launched a powerful shot at it. Meanwhile, the fifth AMU detected the continued energy build up in the thruster and moved out of the way. The heat, which would have caused troubles for a pilot, didn't affect the systems of the autonomous AMU and it moved away enough to keep the actual frame from being damaged. Before its assault on the thrusters could continue though, it would be attacked once more by the White Tiger.
It looked like the unmanned AMUs had caught on to the Spear's firing patterns as one of them moved closer to Almara, where the missiles wouldn't go. The Captain scoffed at this. “They’re moving closer to you guys so we can’t fire out missiles at them. Not bad...prepare for close range combat!” The machine guns still continued firing on the other AMUs and the White Tiger however, and Ves continued his relentless assault on the third AMU, knocking its rifle away as it tried to fire on Almara instead of focusing on him. Wielding two of his sabers and continuing his rushdown-and-flank strategy with even more slashes, making sure to have his allies in view every few seconds in case they needed support like he did. “Requesting support. We can finish this one.”
Moka managed to raise the knife in time to block the slash at her side from the second AMU before quickly firing her thrusters to turn and face it, quickly feigning a jab with her knife before firing with the SPAZER in her mechs chest, trying to catch her opponents off guard and blow it to pieces. After doing that she quickly glanced at Ves to see how he was holding up and then headed over to assist him. “Heading over to give you a hand Ves,” she said.
Almara nodded when she was notified by the Captain about what the AMU was doing, moving to avoid the shots from the third AMU but taking a hit on one of her mech's legs before Ves was able to stop it from firing, not that it slowed her down as she saw the fourth AMU move to attack Ves while getting closer to her. Quickly firing a burst at it from the Arios' wrist-mounted beam gun, then drawing a beam saber and slashing at its arm while it was focused on Ves.
The second AMU moved to block the feint, though because of the time it had taken to defend, it was ill prepared for the SPAZER attack and as a result lost a leg and took some severe damage to the lower half of the mech. Immediately, the unit switched to the defensive, moving away from the Spear and Moka, though initially moving so that Moka would be between itself and the machine guns till it was out of range. Having been waiting for that exact moment, Aires gave the command to launch more missiles while the third and fourth AMUs used their visuals on each other to avoid their nearby pursuers while attacking their targets, the third not so much dodging as just running from Ves to prevent him from even getting a chance to use melee weapons while the fourth stayed close to Almara to prevent her from making full use of her range, taking damage as a result of her switching to melee. The third AMU was too slow to escape Ves’ high-speed AMU as he increased the output of his thrusters, impaling its shoulders from behind with his sabers and crossing them, holding it in place as Moka smirked. She charged at it with her knife, stabbing several times right at its core and being careful so as not to hit Ves on accident. “It’s gonna feel that in the morning, if it ever gets up.” she said with a smirk. Ves and Moka moved away as the AMU drifted off, deactivated. “It will not be able to ‘get up’, it is an A.I.” Ves responded, confused. “It’s an expression Ves, don’t worry about it,” Moka said with a slight laugh.
The fifth AMU had managed to avoid destruction up to this point. As it turned back to reassess the situation, the White Tiger could be seen rushing towards it, appearing from a dust cloud of debris from the missile remnants. Disarming the pilotless mech's beam saber, he would then go and grab its rifle arm, forcing it to face one of the pursuing Recons before any opened fire on him. The gunfire would damage and destroy one of the arms of the targeted Recon unit, though before letting go of the fifth AMU, he made sure to use it as a meat shield against the Spear's assault with the machine guns before it started to move out of range.
Quite simply, the AMU was lit up by the machine gun fire, exploding as it floated away from the man who used it as an improvised shield. With the destruction of the fifth AMU, the remaining two AMUs quickly fled at high speed, the fourth focusing on slowing down any pursuers with their rifles before reaching the AMU that hadn't engaged in combat. Almara quickly took aim at the other AMU, smirking slightly as she fired at it. “Not doing too bad so far..” she said quietly. The hyper beam shot and in an instant, tore through the second AMU, which was already very damaged. It made a slight dodge to the side, only losing an arm in the process as it continued to flee. The moment the fourth AMU made it to the last one that had never engaged, it was time to retreat. The last AMU had been standing by with two large rocket packs. Taking the chance, said AMU launched them for a quick escape. For any AMUs that tried to pursue them or even get in range to shoot the packs, they would fall under a barrage of high tracking missiles that would likely heavily damage any one of the AMUs present at the least. Once the two frames were ready, they took off into space, leaving the area.
Moka sighed in annoyance as she saw the missiles and backed off slightly “Too many missiles...yeah, not going to try to get past that.” she said. As the AMUs fled, Ves stopped his assault, being unable to pass the wall of missiles being launched according to Moka. The Spear stopped firing as well. Unsure what to do, Ves spoke. “What do we do now?” Immediately, Aires responded. “Hold your fire, whatever those were, let them go. We still have to deal with these Earth suits.” Once more, he tried to communicate with Therian on the off chance that the previous AMUs were jamming the link. “Last chance before we shoot you.” Knowing that she would have to deal with the guns in port, or after the battle, having the thruster working at One hundred percent was more important. So that is where Mi’s focus was.
Moka and Almara watched the AMUs leave as well, simply watching and not wanting to risk trying to get past the missiles before Almara glanced at the ship as she heard the Captain’s orders. “Roger that…hanging back Captain,” Almara said. Hanging near the ship, Moka watched Therian's AMU from where hers was floating, waiting just in case anything happened that she needed to deal with.
Some time after the failed attempt to lend aid to Regina and Zeke Calori, the Silver Spear would regroup and depart from the moon under the guise of a civilian transport. Shortly after its departure, several readings were picked up by the crew showing six unidentified AMU signatures, one hanging back from the rest. Moments later three more AMU readings would be noticed, as well as a much larger signature that likely belonged to an AMU carrier. To avoid being caught off-guard, the Spear would keep its weapons ready for deployment, tagging most of the signatures as potentially hostile, save one from the second group which was definitively marked as hostile. Even with weapons prepared, the ship would go about trying to maintain its guise before activating them fully. “I hope you guys are ready for another battle, because we just might be getting one, battle stations! Pilots, stand by for launch!”
Mi had installed Amara's new gun, along with the new AMU for Ves. Mi felt the first attack threw her teeth. She was right near the first attack. She braced herself as the ship was struck, and the thruster was hit. "What... The.... [********]!!!" Mi cursed, and held onto the grip as the ship was struck. "Who the hell just shot My Ship!" She yelled, and started to bark commands, and was running a diagnostic on what was damaged. They were all on high alert, and ready to react to anything, but it still sucked that the Spear was damaged. And that never made for a happy Mi. "One of the thrusters is damaged, and..." Mi said, and the ship shook again, but this time it was artillery that was struck. The smaller guns had been damaged, but not broken. Things were in the yellow, but nothing was red... Yet. "And some damage to the small guns, but they are still tracking." She said, and moved on.
Jamie took the full time at port to pop out of her funk. That was nearly two days, where she only did emergencies, or major calls, but there was only one. But she was not very chipper, and did not have much to say. It was in, done, and out. She only spoke to the Captain once during this time as well, to up date him on what was going on in the medical world. She went to the ships shrink, and was cleared for work. She did not sleep much during this time, but she was use to the lack of sleep anyway, it reminded her of her years in her internship. At the time of the high alert, Jamie was getting ready for her first shift. She immediately called everyone in that was on call, and those who had slept at least six hours, she pulled her hair up, and looked into the merrier. "Get over it." Jamie said to herself in the eye as she did. She pushed the memories to the back of her mind, knowing that people were going to depend on her. Closing her eyes, she counted to ten, giving herself time to let that notion set in, Jamie opened her eyes and felt clear. She could still remember but it was not in the fore front of her mind.
Almara and Moka had been waiting around, Almara still in her room while Moka was in the ship’s lounge again. As the orders to go on standby were given, they both quickly got to the locker room and into their pilot suits. Almara then headed to the Arios, waiting in the cockpit just in case they got the order to launch, Moka doing the same with the Gross Beil. As this happened the five AMUs would continue to close in on the Spear’s location before bringing their weapons to standby as they began to enter range. Three of the five headed around to the front of the ship to try and find the hangar bay in case AMUs deployed, while the other two moved for the rear. Time was counting down until they entered firing range…
Therian's White Tiger and the two pursuing Valkyrie MK-II Recons were still a little too far out to determine if they were readying their weapons. There was no doubt about it though that on their current course they were going to directly intercept the Silver Spear, which had begun to take preparations by converting itself into combat mode. It was ready for a fight as each member of the crew moved to their combat positions.
Ves arrived at the hangar last. Reading over the schematics for his new AMU had been a sizeable distraction for the boy. The original frame they were given by Geist had been outfitted with equipment from the deceased Regina Calori’s Gespenst at her suggestion, making a sort of lightweight hybrid AMU. The Spear watched the enemies as they prepared their strategy, moving to find the hangar bay. Over the hangar intercom, Captain Aires began issuing orders. “Almara, I think this is a good time to try out your new gun.” Almara looked up when she heard the captain and nodded slightly, looking over her new weapon for a moment before replying “..Understood, Captain..let’s hope this thing works..” she said. As she specialized in range, Almara was given the Gespenst's hyper beam rifle with the intention of providing surprise covering fire as the other two AMUs launched. Moka whistled slightly to herself as she hit a few switches and heard the Gross Beil start to come online. “Well this shouldn’t be too bad, right? Just a few of them versus three of us and a warship, sounds like fun.” she said with a slight smirk.
Almara readied the gun and moved to a proper a firing position, aiming carefully so she didn't risk hitting her allies as they launched. Her aim was also so she could more clearly hit anything waiting outside the hatch. At the same time Moka started the Gross Beil up and was ready to launch, putting one hand on the hilt of its massive sword so she could draw it as soon as she was in range.
The enemy units would then take off the safety. Entering range at last, they opened fire on Silver Spear itself, striking several exposed weapon systems and sensor arrays with a stream of beam shots before locating the hangar. The accuracy was somewhat surprising as they made solid hits for the most part. Definitely a cut above the average soldier. Upon finding the hangar, they immediately took position around it, careful to not cross the entrance and enter the line of sight of any inside it, but planning to shoot anyone trying to leave it. The two in the rear opened fire on the thrusters in an attempt to immobilize the ship and take it down before it could fight back.
The Spear had yet to fire when the thrusters began taking damage, unable to be defended at the moment. “I am launching now.” Ves announced as his new AMU, Haniel, shot straight out of the hangar door the moment it was open wide enough. Moving to the nearest enemy, he struck it with the buckler of the Gespenst, placed on Haniel's right shoulder and moved into the center of the enemy AMUs. His plan was to act as a vulnerable distraction and allow Almara to launch. Almara grimaced slightly when Ves launched and she realized what his plan was. “That’s really risky… even if his plan is to give us a clear launch window..” she said quietly. Finally, the Spear was in full combat mode. “Move them away from the Ship, we can’t hit them with missiles at this range.” Aires ordered calmly.
Walking into the Medical ward. Jamie issued orders, though the nurses knew their jobs, and they were ready. The doctors, and surgeons were gathering and she walked in and the room went quite. "I want everyone to hurry up and wait. You need to be ready for the normal, and the unexpected. You know the drill, we have done this a number of times, too many then I care to count. However. You need to be ready. We will take this in.." The ship was struck, and she luckily was balanced enough to not fall, or stumble. Two fell, and something fell. "Game time people. You know the drill get going. Looks like we are going to get wounded inbound." She said, and went to her station. Everyone scattered, and they did exactly that. Hurried up and waited.
Almara launched as soon as Ves' AMU was out of the way, not wasting any time and firing at the first enemy AMU that was in sight, trying to hit it in the cockpit to take it out quickly and trying to draw some fire away from Ves so he wouldn't take all of it himself. Shortly after Almara had launched, Moka launched as well, going straight to an enemy AMU and aiming a downward slash at it with her sword, trying to cut it in half and take it out in one move.
As the Spear’s AMUs launched, the first enemy AMU would take to immediately aiming for Ves, though it moved away from him as he tried to strike with the buckler, allowing him to end up exactly where he wanted. As if they already knew what they were doing, the AMU's changed targets, with Ves’ back exposed to it, the second one opened fire on him when Almara exited while the first to be attacked took aim at Almara, moving as if it could see Ves' action through the camera of the other two AMUs. The third AMU initially opened fire upon the weapon systems as they began to expose themselves. The first AMU, having trouble keeping up with dodging Almara and Ves' attacks, took minor damage to its left arm region as Moka launched, heading for the second AMU that was attacking Ves. The machine moved to closer to Moka as she attacked before strafing to the right and opening fire on her flank. The fourth AMU, one of the two in the rear, changed its target, moving up over the ship and beginning to open fire on the now exposed weapon systems while the fifth remained back, continuing to attack the thrusters.
Turning around, Ves used Haniel’s buckler to block the shots from the second AMU as it attacked Almara. Noticing something very odd, he commented. “I do not think these machines are manned...they move far too precisely.” Activating the thrusters in his AMU’s legs, Ves retreated from the first enemy AMU, positioning it between both he and Almara. From the buckler, the Alien boy drew one of his three beam sabers and closed in, attacking with close range slashes and trusting that Almara would definitely not to blow his head off. “Get some missiles on the enemies at range! Pilots, watch yourselves, I’m raising the antimatter drive!” The Captain warned. Noticing the White Tiger's attack on the fifth AMU that was attacking the Spear’s thrusters, he gave another order. “See that AMU that isn’t attacking us? Change its tag to neutral for now.” As the bunnies followed their orders, Aires created a comm line straight to the White Tiger, to Therian, and spoke. “Hey, you. Mind telling me exactly what you did to drag us into this battle? I’m not a huge fan of Earthlings causing trouble for us.”
Almara nodded in response to Ves as she launched several missiles and a beam shot at the first AMU “I’m not sure they’re manned either…. you’re right, their movements aren't right..” She said, being careful so as not to hit Ves as he started attacking it in close range. Moka quickly reversed thrust out of the way of the second AMU’s attack on her flank and took out a knife, making a quick stab with it at the AMU's rifle in order to disable it before bringing the sword around at the AMU's other arm.
The first AMU was able to more easily dodge Almara's attacks once Ves laid off on the assault to go for the second AMU. It was immediately informed by its comrades that the two were both returning to attack it. Dodging to the side of the beam shot and Ves' attack, the first AMU sped past Ves, just narrowly avoiding a slash from his AMU as it moved to put Ves between it and Almara, using him as a partial shield while it tried to shoot down the missiles. Detecting though that it wouldn't be able to defend against all of them as well as the continued attacks from both of the mechs, it activated its self-destruct and opened fire at Ves' cockpit. The second AMU, engaged by Moka would try to maintain the flank as she stabbed its gun. With this action, it had already determined that the weapon would be lost, allowing it to be stabbed as it then drew both of its beam sabers, using one to block the sword strike while the other slashed at the head of the Gross Beil. The third AMU turned from its attacks on the weapon systems and quickly took aim at Moka while she had her back turned to it. The fourth AMU, detecting it was locked onto by the Silver Spear, took evasive maneuvers and moved down closer to the ship, avoiding the majority of the missiles, but still taking some damage before turning back towards them as they turned around and quickly took them down with computer like precision before turning back to the weapon systems and returning to its attempts to disable them. The fifth AMU continued to work on targeting the Spear’s thrusters, though as it detected that they were heating up, it retreated to preserve itself. Because of the AMU’s focus on the thrusters it had a delayed reaction towards Therian's attack, losing a leg before turning to engage him.
Ves remained between the AMU and Almara, taking its attacks so that Almara wouldn't have to. Almara watched for a second before she noticed how the enemy AMU was acting and what it was doing and then quickly contacted Ves. “Ves, that AMU’s about to self destruct.. we need to stop it… otherwise it might kill us and damage the spear, if not destroy it..” she said to Ves over the line. Wordlessly, Ves activated the plasma thrusters in Haniel’s legs and charged forward shoulder-first as the enemy AMU’s core began glowing. Getting closer and closer to exploding, the AMU continued firing at Ves, several shots connecting at the legs, arms and torso of the boy’s light AMU. Quickly closing the distance between it and himself, though his light AMU would only be able to take so much damage from the beams, even with the buckler. Before the enemy could self destruct, Ves’ saber pierced the core, drawing a second slicer from the buckler, Ves removed the one already inside, then reinserted them both into the core, stabbing and stabbing until the core’s glow slowly dimmed. Falling back, Ves’ cameras flashed with static as some debris from the exploding AMU jolted his armor. “Target neutralized, continuing mission.” Once it was destroyed, he observed the battlefield carefully, seeing the other AMUs attacking the ship and Moka.
”Damage report.” Mi studied the damage to one of the main thruster, and now a few of the guns. Contacting the Good Captain again. "That thruster is not broken, but it is damaged. Still working I am helping direct power away from it, the others will be working overtime, but she can handle it." So to work she went. Barking off more orders, she rolled her sleeves up, and started to work on the internal workings. She did not want to go outside unless necessary but it might be something she would have to do. The very thought of having to go out.... Made her show a chill, her hair rose on the back of her neck, and she shivered.
Soon after, he was convinced that the machines were unmanned and relaying information to each other almost instantaneously, it seemed like they always knew where everything was. Without deploying some form of device to see it all for them, it was literally impossible. ”No person could have a field of vision covering this entire area in such proximity...and I have not seen any devices that would allow it. Nor could they react so quickly. These machines are definitely unmanned.” After watching how the mechs were acting Moka thought for a second. “Hm...attacking from the front won't do much good, try to get around them, hit them from where they can’t see.” She suggested.The second and third AMUs were focused on Moka, and the remaining two focused on the ship, Ves reactivated the thrusters in the legs of his AMU, dashing towards the back of the third AMU and slashing as soon as he was in range. He held the ignition as he quickly rolled to flank it, slashing two more times, then dashing around it again and slashing as he passed. After moving a short distance away, he dashed towards it again as the buckler released plasma vapor and he rammed towards it with the Gespenst Shoulder. Aires wasn’t too concerned with the weapons systems being attacked, as the Spear had a LOT of weapons in it, firing missiles again at the farther AMUs from both sides that were in range, including Therian, who had been tagged once more as hostile as he hadn't responded. The smaller machine guns of the spear fired on all of the hostile AMUs after a warning to the Mars pilots from the Captain. “We’re about to start shooting like madmen over here, be careful! And will someone please cover this goddamn thruster?!”
Almara narrowed her eyes slightly in annoyance when the AMU moved so it was using Ves as a shield and moved back to avoid the self destruct. After watching Ves’s action she sighed slightly, looking over his AMU from where she was for a second before talking “Ves, you holding up alright in there?...” She asked him, the slight sound of worry in her voice as she did so. Looking at the AMU that was trying to attack the ship’s weapons. “I am fine. Damage is an adequate sacrifice to protect my allies, is that correct, Moka?” He replied as Almara then fired off several shots at it with her rifle, aiming with surgical precision to avoid hitting the ship’s own weapons, moving away as the Spear's machine guns opened fire and changing her target to the AMU attacking the thruster. At the same time, Moka quickly brought her knife up to block the slash aimed at her head and activated her thrusters as she pushed with the sword and knife in an effort to overpower the other AMU before glancing at the one that had tried to shoot at her previously, only to get attacked by Ves. “C'mon you little pain.. let’s see if you’re dumb enough to try to overpower me!” Moka said.
The second AMU maintained the locked blades for a moment before using the momentum of Moka's attack as well as its greater speed to roll to the side of Moka and slash at the arms, attacking her flank. The third AMU moved backwards as Ves struck its back, narrowly dodging the second attack though still taking damage from the first. However, it continued to move away from Ves, aiming to remove itself from his attempts to flank it again, then turned to open fire on Almara while she focused on the fourth AMU. The fourth AMU in the meantime had switched targets after being notified of her incoming attack against it, dodging some of the initial fire before focusing on Ves. With Ves attacking the third AMU so viciously, he would be leaving his own flank open, which the fourth would try to take advantage of. It was a short-lived strategy as the Spear opened fire, forcing the fourth AMU to move away, though it was still closing the distance between itself and Almara as it noticed the Spear aimed to avoid hitting allies, effectively using her as a deterrent against the Spear’s attacks. Almara didn’t seem bothered by what it was trying, instead leveling her beam cannon at it as it approached and launched a powerful shot at it. Meanwhile, the fifth AMU detected the continued energy build up in the thruster and moved out of the way. The heat, which would have caused troubles for a pilot, didn't affect the systems of the autonomous AMU and it moved away enough to keep the actual frame from being damaged. Before its assault on the thrusters could continue though, it would be attacked once more by the White Tiger.
It looked like the unmanned AMUs had caught on to the Spear's firing patterns as one of them moved closer to Almara, where the missiles wouldn't go. The Captain scoffed at this. “They’re moving closer to you guys so we can’t fire out missiles at them. Not bad...prepare for close range combat!” The machine guns still continued firing on the other AMUs and the White Tiger however, and Ves continued his relentless assault on the third AMU, knocking its rifle away as it tried to fire on Almara instead of focusing on him. Wielding two of his sabers and continuing his rushdown-and-flank strategy with even more slashes, making sure to have his allies in view every few seconds in case they needed support like he did. “Requesting support. We can finish this one.”
Moka managed to raise the knife in time to block the slash at her side from the second AMU before quickly firing her thrusters to turn and face it, quickly feigning a jab with her knife before firing with the SPAZER in her mechs chest, trying to catch her opponents off guard and blow it to pieces. After doing that she quickly glanced at Ves to see how he was holding up and then headed over to assist him. “Heading over to give you a hand Ves,” she said.
Almara nodded when she was notified by the Captain about what the AMU was doing, moving to avoid the shots from the third AMU but taking a hit on one of her mech's legs before Ves was able to stop it from firing, not that it slowed her down as she saw the fourth AMU move to attack Ves while getting closer to her. Quickly firing a burst at it from the Arios' wrist-mounted beam gun, then drawing a beam saber and slashing at its arm while it was focused on Ves.
The second AMU moved to block the feint, though because of the time it had taken to defend, it was ill prepared for the SPAZER attack and as a result lost a leg and took some severe damage to the lower half of the mech. Immediately, the unit switched to the defensive, moving away from the Spear and Moka, though initially moving so that Moka would be between itself and the machine guns till it was out of range. Having been waiting for that exact moment, Aires gave the command to launch more missiles while the third and fourth AMUs used their visuals on each other to avoid their nearby pursuers while attacking their targets, the third not so much dodging as just running from Ves to prevent him from even getting a chance to use melee weapons while the fourth stayed close to Almara to prevent her from making full use of her range, taking damage as a result of her switching to melee. The third AMU was too slow to escape Ves’ high-speed AMU as he increased the output of his thrusters, impaling its shoulders from behind with his sabers and crossing them, holding it in place as Moka smirked. She charged at it with her knife, stabbing several times right at its core and being careful so as not to hit Ves on accident. “It’s gonna feel that in the morning, if it ever gets up.” she said with a smirk. Ves and Moka moved away as the AMU drifted off, deactivated. “It will not be able to ‘get up’, it is an A.I.” Ves responded, confused. “It’s an expression Ves, don’t worry about it,” Moka said with a slight laugh.
The fifth AMU had managed to avoid destruction up to this point. As it turned back to reassess the situation, the White Tiger could be seen rushing towards it, appearing from a dust cloud of debris from the missile remnants. Disarming the pilotless mech's beam saber, he would then go and grab its rifle arm, forcing it to face one of the pursuing Recons before any opened fire on him. The gunfire would damage and destroy one of the arms of the targeted Recon unit, though before letting go of the fifth AMU, he made sure to use it as a meat shield against the Spear's assault with the machine guns before it started to move out of range.
Quite simply, the AMU was lit up by the machine gun fire, exploding as it floated away from the man who used it as an improvised shield. With the destruction of the fifth AMU, the remaining two AMUs quickly fled at high speed, the fourth focusing on slowing down any pursuers with their rifles before reaching the AMU that hadn't engaged in combat. Almara quickly took aim at the other AMU, smirking slightly as she fired at it. “Not doing too bad so far..” she said quietly. The hyper beam shot and in an instant, tore through the second AMU, which was already very damaged. It made a slight dodge to the side, only losing an arm in the process as it continued to flee. The moment the fourth AMU made it to the last one that had never engaged, it was time to retreat. The last AMU had been standing by with two large rocket packs. Taking the chance, said AMU launched them for a quick escape. For any AMUs that tried to pursue them or even get in range to shoot the packs, they would fall under a barrage of high tracking missiles that would likely heavily damage any one of the AMUs present at the least. Once the two frames were ready, they took off into space, leaving the area.
Moka sighed in annoyance as she saw the missiles and backed off slightly “Too many missiles...yeah, not going to try to get past that.” she said. As the AMUs fled, Ves stopped his assault, being unable to pass the wall of missiles being launched according to Moka. The Spear stopped firing as well. Unsure what to do, Ves spoke. “What do we do now?” Immediately, Aires responded. “Hold your fire, whatever those were, let them go. We still have to deal with these Earth suits.” Once more, he tried to communicate with Therian on the off chance that the previous AMUs were jamming the link. “Last chance before we shoot you.” Knowing that she would have to deal with the guns in port, or after the battle, having the thruster working at One hundred percent was more important. So that is where Mi’s focus was.
Moka and Almara watched the AMUs leave as well, simply watching and not wanting to risk trying to get past the missiles before Almara glanced at the ship as she heard the Captain’s orders. “Roger that…hanging back Captain,” Almara said. Hanging near the ship, Moka watched Therian's AMU from where hers was floating, waiting just in case anything happened that she needed to deal with.
