M1T19

[Nick]

2179 AD 25th August
Location: CSC Sector, Crysalis, Main Colony

23.38 hours local time

The mortars didn't make a sound as they travelled through the air, suddenly they rained down all over the street between the Marines holed up in the Mayors house and advancing unidentified force. They exploded after each other in so short sequence the crescendo of explosions sounded like a huge tearing boom. Shrapnel and pieces of glowing metal rained over the house and the Marines hastily ducked down in the flickering light from the explosions. A gush of hot air punched it's way through the window moments later, like a breath of death. A large fireball rose towards the sky after one of the grenades struck some kind of utility vehicle and tore it in half, it's fuel cell rupturing with a roar. Just as the pinned Marines on the second floor regained their compulsure another blast struck them violently and pieces of the colony wall flew down the street with a violent roar. Moments later the APC forced it's way through the hole, metal bending and screeching and a cloud of concrete billowed down the street. The turbines screamed as the APC accelerated over the rubble heap.

The APC entered the firefight like a huge angry insect, firing off two smoke launchers completely enveloped the whole street in white smoke in seconds. The enemy troops kept firing blindly into the dark, but Morse skillfully maneuvered the APC in front of the main entry door of the house and put the APC at an angle towards it - Thus shielding the Marines from the incoming fire further down the street. All while Pvt Stormhurst did his best to deterr the enemy by firing the turret guns into the smoke further down the street. The very walls of the house shuddered each time he fired his guns with a thunderclap and the blanket of crushed concrete over the APC rose itself several inches each time from the concussion.

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OOC: This turn is combined and both 4th and 1,2,3rd Squads post in the same. //N

[Tyler Ishizawa]

Ishizawa's ears were ringing when he got up after going prone on the floor. Powdered concrete fell from the ceiling, covering his armor with a thin gray layer of the powder. The barrage was too close for comfort. It was strangely all quiet, but in a few seconds his hearing came back to him. Same old battlefield.

He scrambled over to the window and assessed the situation. The APC had shown up, and was beginning to extract the Marines. But 1st and 2nd would be going first, with 3rd covering all the while. Every so often an explosion would rock the building, and more powder fell. Ishizawa could barely see anything. The smoke screen had completely enveloped the street, but he could still see the muzzle flashes from the mercenary's weapons. Taking up position behind the window, he immediately grabbed his pulse rifle, setting the fire selector to burst. The enemy was close enough. Bringing the rifle up to his shoulder, he took aim and fired several bursts at the muzzle flashes in the smoke.

[Raider65]

Pvt Sturmhurst switched through the various sensors at his disposal to see through the screening smoke to find and fix targets. Using the forward turret to engage the foot soldiers as they tried to approach, sweeping left to right, firing short bursts from it to conserve ammo. He brought up the main turret's weapon selection and selected Antiarmor missiles to fire at the vehicles that were moving up. As "smart" weapons, the missiles were fire and forget types with multiple target tracking sensors built into them, virtially spoof proof. He fed target info from the APC's master fire control comp system into the missiles guidance and targetting comps, opened the launch doors on the main turret and pointed the missiles' video eyes so they could seek their designated targets and got ready to fire.
"Cpl Pitt, ready to engage heavy targets on your command"

[Morse]

Morse had slammed down on the breaks and was holding the position right where they were and didn't move at all. He was hoping that the people shootin at the APC didn't anything that might say rip through the armor.

He turned his head to say something.

As much fun as this is, gettin shot at and all, are we gonna finish them off or are we just gonna spin around and run?..... cus i'm set in favor of either one, so long as i don't have to get out of this roamin bad ass machine. Morse yelled back to the others in the APC

<tag 4th squad

[eyeball]

"well how about that, a taxi when you actually need one!!" patch said with a broad smile into his comms.
"up ya get darlin..nice and slow, your chariot has arrived" patch said to Amanda. As Amanda stood patch watched her closely, if she was gonna cause trouble now would be the time!!, " escorting prisoner to transport unless you want me to do something else with her?" patch said into his comms, not sure if they were gonna take her or kill her either way she had heard the marines planned destination so she couldn't be left alive to talk about it.

[pants]

The shockwave from the bursting mortars and the explosion of the utility vehicle forced Private Mongo to duck into cover.  He heard the revving of an engine and hoped that it wasn't more reinforcements for the enemy.  Peeking back out into the street he was just in time to see the entrance of the APC into the firefight.

"GET SOME!" yelled Octavius as the APC opened up on the approaching enemy troops.

Opening fire Mongo added to the noise and the fury of the battle as he kept firing short bursts at any enemy troops that he could spot moving.

[Apachetear]

Sighing with relief, jacob looked at the smoke filled street.

"Aint much cover we can provide with all that smoke down there"

"Squad, wait for visibility to return before you start taking shots! Mongo - if you're smart gun is picking things up, by all means keep shooting!"

Lighting a cigarette jacob hugged the cover further, hoping no part of him was visible to the enemy. he slowly peeked out every now and then to assess visibility and how things were progressing...

[Dugan]

After the mortar explosions had finished pounding the area Simovic peered out of his window in time to see the APC screeching up outside. He selected the platoon channel "OK our ride has arrived, 1st Squad your up first make your way into the APC ASAP, 2nd follow in when their done. Lets do this smooth and by the numbers. Pitt get those doors open i'm sending some men over to you".



Simovic stayed at his window pouring out cover fire as 1st started making their way into the vehicle.

[Roll 3 burst shots].

"Honeysett can you and third cover the other squads until their in? We're then keep the enemy at bay until you are safely inside".

[Quinn]

When the combined mortar assault fragged the convoy, Quinn ducked down instinctively behind and below his window. He felt the blast of hot air woosh over his exposed neck and heard the rattle of debris hitting the pavement. Then the gunfire started up.

Kurosaki hadn't issued any orders thus yet since the firefight started, and quite frankly this was starting to worry him.

"Sarge, Quinn of second. We copy. Providing cover fire for first." Sixtus snapped into his mic, looked out the window and took careful aim, squeezing off single shots at any target that presented itself.

[Dirk Pitt]

"Cpl Pitt, ready to engage heavy targets on your command"

Dirk stopped at the door and looked back. "Engage heavy targets. Anything you can find." HE said

Then opening the door he moved out of the APC ready to cover the marines that were comming.

"Ready for pickup." He said over the comm as the APC fired its guns.

[Raider65]

"Engaging heavies as ordered, Cpl Pitt" replied Erik.

As he typed the firing sequence into the command terminal that he was at. The rockets left their tubes with a woosh and a slight rocking of the APC. He then checked his automated firing orders for the front turret. It seemed to be suppressing the infantry well enough but he'd add a few well placed shots from the main guns to keep them from finding any good cover.
"That should hold them back, unless they have a death wish. Which I'm happy to oblige them with."


"Good parking Morse, seems like you have some experience in doing it, was you a parking attendent in another life".

[Morse]

Morse was now just sitting back hoping that no stray bullet would bounce around in the APC and hit him, and the bad guys didn't have anything that could tear through the APC. Hearing Erics comment he remained facing forward out the wind shield.

Nope, but i did used to watch alotta racin, so maybe that had somethin to do with it. Morse replied

< tag eric


I thought we we're an extraction, not to act as a wall on wheels, where the hell are those guys?! Morse yelled back to 4th squad

< Tag 4th Squad

[Apachetear]

"Honeysett can you and third cover the other squads until their in? We're then keep the enemy at bay until you are safely inside".

"We can cover as long as we got ammo Dugan!" Jacob snarled into the com.

He could stay here until his bullet-riddled corpse was looted by the mercs as well...but he didn't voice that opinion...

[Raider65]

Erik kept an eye on the perimeter sensors just incase the Mercs were trying to flank them. He thought about firing a few more mortar rounds to pin and keep the Mercs heads down with some indirect fire but the front turret's seek and destroy routine seemed to be working at the moment and with the main turret's heavy guns now free to add to that destruction, it should be easy to hold back the Merc infantry units. Erik decided to make sure the Merc's vehicles were out of commission and targeted them with the main guns for a few more blasts each (3 shots each vehicle). Just to make sure and also so the Mercs couldn't/wouldn't use them for cover. He also kept a sweeping eye to the sky incase the Mercs had any backup of the flying kind. He brought up the ordinance screen and selected one of each type of missile to reload the launchers in the main turret so he could engage either a heavy or an ariel type of vehicles, anything else he'd deal with by using the main guns.




"Hey Cpl Pitt, maybe we should call down a flight of gunships to overfly the city and get a SitRep or at least have them on stand by?" said Erik "Are we retreating back to our old base for pick up?"

[eyeball]

"OK our ride has arrived, 1st Squad your up first make your way into the APC ASAP

"roger that" patch answered over the comms.

"move to the APC NOW! or you can stay here...staying here however will require that i give you a dose of I.C.L (inter cranial lead)" patch snapped at AManda.