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"Go Go Go! All units converge on-"

*SHIIING!*

The Arasaka gunner falls to the side as his head flies from his neck, bouncing once before finally settling. His team members can't even react as they follow suit, their own Boosterware unable to keep up with the speeds the merc was moving.

David slides to a stop behind a concrete pillar, flicking the blood off of his blade as he tentatively peeks over into the courtyard where Arasaka forces were mounting. The Sekaiheiwa pilots had already been shot down, leaving them stranded as wave after wave of enemies approached.

Just getting out of the building and down to the first floor alone was difficult enough, fighting through the automated defences, mines, and other traps to keep them controlled or killed.

"Where the hell do we go now!?" Leo fearfully shouts while blindly firing his rifle over a short concrete plant holder.

"Where else!? We swipe some wheels and go for a joyride!" Rebecca snaps at him while klepping an SMG from a corpse and blasting two men's heads off.

"YOU SAY THAT LIKE IT'S EASY!?-... HEADS UP!" he shouts as a soldier sends a rather large-looking grenade hurtling towards them.

"I got it!" David exclaims, activating his sandy once more and batting the explosive away with the flat of his sword.

*BOOM!*

The resulting explosion kills six soldiers and destroys one APC, sending the large truck rolling through a barbed-wire fence and onto the nearby street.

"HOLY CRAP! THAT WAS AWESOME, DAVEY!" Rebecca cackles.

"Focus!" he growls as his sandy times out.

"G-guys!? W-we're in trouble!" Sasha speaks up and points at the three MaxTac AVs quickly approaching.

"O-Oh fuck! We're fucking done man! Ain't no way we can fight those crazy bastards off!"

"Yeah!? Just watch me!" Rebecca retorts as she drops her SMG and shoves a peculiar-looking shell into Guts. "TRY THIS!"

*BAANG!*

As if it was a tracer round, it shoots a line of red straight towards the leading AV... Unable to avoid it, the pilot tries to take the projectile on the more heavily armoured front but the explosion everyone's expecting doesn't occur as a miniature sun lights up.

"The hell is that!?"

"A kick-ass thermite shot!" Rebecca grins, watching as the thing quickly melts through the AV's hull and drops into the cockpit. Before it spins off course though, the bottom of it opens up and allows the MaxTac soldiers to jump out.

The AV crashes into a nearby building and turns to scrap the next moment when it lands on a family saloon that'd been in the wrong place at the wrong time. The soldiers themselves land hard in the courtyard, their suits flashing blue as they all engage their Boosterware simultaneously.

"Your 'Kick-Ass' thermite did fuck all!" Leo shouts as the blurs shoot towards them with Militech Crushers at the ready.

One immediately falls to the ground however as Sasha locks down his Cyberware, the sudden disruption in speed sends him rolling haphazardly across the ground.

The second AV drops more MaxTac men next to the already landed ones, allowing a small army of super-augmented soldiers sprinting at them...

Even David was feeling pretty hopeless, his sandevistan was definitely faster than theirs, but it didn't last as long and wouldn't even the odds... Sixteen MaxTac soldiers were simply too much...

*Whhiiiiirrrrr...*

Thankfully, it seemed luck was on the crew's side as a nearby wall explodes and two figures gripping each other, fighting midair shoot across the clearing and rolled to a stop in front of the approaching MaxTac units.

"GIIIVE UP, YOU'RE FINISHED!" Adam Smasher growls as he shifts his large body over Ori and drives a fierce punch down at him, wolver claws extended.

Ori shifts and barely avoids it before shifting his hips up and instinctively wrapping his legs around Smasher's neck to choke him out... Only afterwards realising that this wouldn't do anything against the borg, so, before Smasher could do anything he brings his feet back and grinds his heels against the borg's face, deploying his ankle propulsion system...

*CLANK!*

Smasher's multi-ton body flips backwards through the air from the sudden hit. He hits the ground heavily but immediately stands, brushing himself off while cracking his cybernetic knuckles as if nothing had happened.

"Adam Smasher-sir!" a MaxTac soldier slides to a stop a good distance from the cyborg, his colleagues following as they had no idea how the man would react.

Smasher glances from Ori and at the soldiers, "What!? I'm busy." he growls.

"B-busy getting your ass kicked." Ori retorts, chest heaving as he breathes heavily. He shoots a look at his crew, who were warily watching.

[I'll hold 'em off, get out of the jammer and leave with Falco!] - Ori

"What!? No fucking way-"

[Shut up and do it!] - Ori

With that, he takes a step forward to draw their attention from Rebecca's shout back to himself. "So, Smasher, scared enough that you brought in backup!?"

"Shut your fucking mouth, meat!" he points a hand which was missing some fingers at the remaining Arasaka soldiers and MaxTac, "Kill the ants!"

"Y-yes sir-"

*Bang!*

The MaxTac soldiers falls backwards with a hole in his head, courtesy of Six's revolver in Ori's hand. "Actually, fuck it, I'll take all you gonks on." he twirls the revolver back into its holster and activates his sandevistan before throwing himself at the group of soldiers, ignoring Smasher completely.

"That's our chance! Run!" David hurriedly says, breaking out from his cover and towards the collapsed fence. He's forced to shove Rebecca along due to her resistance to leaving Ori, but common sense eventually prevails once the chaos finally erupts...