An explosion sent the macadam, dust and dirt to fly into the air. An machine gun kept shooting through the field, piercing through a smoke and fire. Storm of bullets kept raging somewhere in the middle of this fight. With a percice shot of a rifle, another robot was down. It's just so happened that there were a dozen more just like him running around.
Legion merc A - It's just three dolls! How hard can it be? | Legion merc B - Just keep shooting!
Despite everything, the battle continued. Another explosion and two more followed, sending robots and their body parts flying. A sly smile appeared on Blaze's face just for a moment, before being repaced by her usual focused expression.
Just after that, Blaze rushed away from her cover behind a wreaked car, to take another one behind a body of broken big robot. And that move was done just in time, as rocket hit the car, breaking it into many pieces and sending them flying. But before Blaze managed land herself behind a big robot body, she was hit in the arm with something big. Blaze's left arm was sent flying away from her frame, as she landed herself into a safety.
Blaze - Oh damn! *Ugh* I'm HIT! I'm HIT!
Somewhere nearby, Nomomo were throwing grenades. One grenade, two grenade, three grenade... Fourth grenade were sent flying. And then one after another started blowing up, creating dark clouds of dirt and dust. Using this cloud to cover her tracks, Nomomo hurried to Blaze. One stray bullet were about to hit Nomomo in the head, if only she didn't made a side-step.
Nomomo - Don't worry! I am here!
With a swift jump, Nomomo landed herself near Blaze. To a surprise, Blaze just shruged.
Blaze - Why the hell are you even here? I swear! You are the best fighter over here, but sometimes stupid as hell. You can't help me untill we are done with them!
Nomomo - What do you wan't me to do then? | Blaze - Nothing! Wait a minute here!
Both dolls were getting pinned behind a single cover. Nomomo noticed a grenade flying through the air. Without any thought, she pulled put a pistol from a holster and made just a single shot. Bullet went right through a grenade. A small puff and a bit of smoke spilled out through a hole of damaged grenade, and then it bursted into a sparks, as it hit the ground, just near Nomomo.
Blaze - No need to show off in front of me! Beda! What's the status?
Nomomo - That wasn't a show off.
On a diffrenst side to the battle. Beda kept walking, shooting and hitting targets. As the battle was going near ruins of some sort of a school house, Beda got herself a perfect spot on a roof of gymnasium. She stopped walking and hunkered down only after she heard her name.
Beda - Looks like our friends are stuck and under heavy fire over there! They are taking cover over a that burning truck. I saw that one of them was hit in the leg. As for the enemy, we got ourselves a thirty and plus signatures shooting at the same time! And I don't think this is even their main group!
Blaze - Yeah! I think so too! They are here just to win over some more time for a main group!
Nomomo - I don't think our forces would be enough to fend off the main group then!
Blaze - It looks like they think that we are just a scout group! If that were the case, their best strategy would be to get a few hits on us and back down! But by Murphy's law we are going to get double trapped with their main team if we won't get out of here fast enough.
Beda - There is some merrit to that! I can see some movement at south-west. Looks like few ATVs and a bunch of support. I'd say that we have roughly twenty minutes and then we are trapped!
Nomomo - Great, just awesome! Beda, can you get me some more fire cover?
Beda - I'm running out of ammo, but I'l do my best! | Nomomo - You are always out of ammo!
Beda - What can I say? There is so many targets and so little ammo I can carry!
Nomomo - Screw it, just take out most priority targest.Beda - That will do!
Finaly comming up with some sort of a plan. Beda stood up and started walking and aiming once again. Her scope briefly stopped at a perfect sighline. Through a window in a classroom, through a hole in a wall, through a gap between rusted cars. A bullet went flying almost perfectly, a slight miscalculation on behalf of a window glass, but bullet still managed to hit a gunman right in a arm.
For a moment, the sound of machine gun stopped. That was a cue to act. Blaze aimed with one hand and shot into the sky. Her shot was not far enough, but it did brought up the cloud of dark dust. Nomomo springed from the cover and rushed forward to a new cover.
Suddenly, someone started shooting from the left side. The last members of Urmat's mercenaries group started fight of their own. Some robots managed to get dangerously close to them. And the only uninjured mercenary were having a Close Quarter Combat with a two soldiers at the same time. It quickly got dirty, when one of 'Legion' soldiers managed to stab a knife into mercenary.
Seeing this, Nomomo took cover and made few shots at 'Legion' soldiers having a time of their life in CQC. That gave the mercenary needed advantage, but placed Nomomo in a middle of a gunfight with only simple cover made out of eroded concrete walls.
The machine gun once again started shooting. This time from a slightly different position, slightly closer to a rusted car. This time, Beda won't fine a perfect sightline. But she doesn't need to. Beda made one more step, and it lended on the edge of a roof. That's as far as she can get more ground. If she wanted a better point of view to shoot through, she had to get... Beda looked at a nearby roof. A roof of a three floor high school.
Beda - Nomomo! Hold on there a little. I have to get a better ground! | Nomomo - I count it on you!
In a next moment, an explosion set off out of rhythm of being damned to dead. This one came from the position where Blaze were taking cover. A sight of two soldiers rushing out of there, but suddenly disturbed her. She didn't even saw them flanking her. And in the next moment, another explosion sent both soldiers flying into the air in pieces.
Unfortunatly, three more soldiers were right behind. Blaze tried to shoot with her emergency pistol and even managed to land a few hits in the armor, forcing one of the soldiers to fall on a ground in pain. And in the next moment, Blaze was shot down with a round shots into her torso.
Everything were quickly crumbling down, Blaze was out of the equation and the next target would be Nomomo. It had to come to the end at some point, just not now. This thought was the only thing stuck inside Nomomo's neural cloud, as she rushed out of the cover. She was like a mole out of the hole. Everyone could see and shoot at her, and they did. As Nomomo were getting to the other cover, she almost danced her way through, making short dashes, side steps and sudden turns. This 'dance on the battlefied' were taking huge load of energy from her frame, but she managed to get to the other cover behind a transformer of long riddled with bullets substation.
Despite her best effort, she found herself surrounded even more, as she found out that she entered the enemy line that were trying to flank her. Fortunatly, they were even more surprised to see her, then she was surprised to see them. Using sudden opportunity, Nomomo shot soldier in front of her, pulled out his handgun and tried to jumped over a table. Suddenly table started rolling with Nomomo still laying on a table. Every soldier started shooting at Nomomo, while Nomomo started shooting back at each and every soldier if front of her.
While Nomomo were riding the rides, Beda managed to run through a set of staircases and burst through a door on a roof. The sight out there were good, but not perfect for tourism. In a matter of seconds, Beda readied her rifle to take a an aim.
Meanwhile mercenaries managed to hold off one side of a fight, but still pinned to burning truck. One were injured to the leg, the other to the arm. One were defending, the other holding.
Newbie Merc - *A-A-Ah* It hurts!Veteran Merc - Shut up! Just hold tight here!
The mercenary that kept crying in pain, but kept shooting, was also slowly bleeding from his leg. His rifle placed firmly around bent metal of trucks broken engine. It served as a perfect cover, if only for a single side, but if counting his injured leg, that was more than enough. He kept pulling the trigger whenever something would move in font of him. And usualy it worked, robots would either back out or get hit few times and back out anyway.
Meanwhile, experienced mercenary took out his medkit and was trying to both look out for anyone comming close, as well as applying bandage on his arm, where a whet blade were still stuck inside his flesh wound. Blood were spilling everywhere.
After few robots once again tried to push and were forced back, Newbie took out a magazine and fumbled with new one, dropping it at acident. For some reason, two robots started comming at him right at this moment. He didn't had enough time to reload, but thankfully, grenade landed right in a middle of grouped robots. Newbie turned around and saw his partner with a safety pin on a finger.
Veteran Merc - Keep it cool for once. We still have a dozen more bastards to kill!
Despite a blade in his arm, mercenary were still holding tough. Took one more grenade from a belt of dead soldier under his feet and held it in his still healthy arm. The newbie finaly managed to reload his rifle.
Somewhere at this moment. A table on a wheels tilted sideways on a cracked concrete, and sent Nomomo on a ground. By that moment, everyone else in front of her was had heads full of bullets, so she stood up withthout a care about her safety, even fixed her necktie.
The action were slowly dying down, but the fun part were just getting started. Beda made few more shots, each of them managed to disable or kill an robot or soldier. Through her scope, she saw that soldiers were falling back. At first one by one getting to a armored truck, and then a whole group rushed inside. Within a second, the truck were already on a move and heading away from the fight.
Beda - Nomomo! The enemy forces are falling back!
Looking around, Nomomo leaned around corner to check on a fleeing enemy. And yes, they were walking away one by one. Nomomo had no will to chase after them, or rather, she understood that she were way too low on battery to keep on fighting for more then a minute, or even...
Nomomo - Great! About a bloody damn time! I am running low on battery here! What about ATV that were approaching us? Are they still going after us?
Beda - Yeah... It's a... It's a Mangi?Nomomo - Mangi? Oh well, let's pull out our cards.
Beda - Do we have any cards against them?
Nomomo - We do. If we are lucky, we will have a someone were were dealing with before. That way it would be easier... Oh, and Beda. You'l have to do the talking!
Beda - Why me?
Nomomo - Blaze sustained critical damage... And I am on one point seven percent of a battery.
Beda - Oh... Guess I'l see you latter!
But reply didn't followed. Beda looked around and sighed... Took out her terminal, pressed a few buttons. And somewhere, an audio call were pending on an terminal, waiting to be answered.
Newbie Merc - *Hah* Are they gone? That's why you calling me?
Beda - No... Listen to me and listen carefully. Because if you don't, we all will die here!
==== Few km west ====
Three trucks stood on a stand by amont the fallen trees and long forgoten houses. Group of soldiers were walking around, another were patroling. And a handfull of soldiers were inside one of the houses, looming over a holograph of a map. Among them were middle-aged man, with a big scar through his left side of head, just above the skull. A scar that were almost hiddel by his brown hair strands. And his uniform had a name "Darryl"
Legion Officer Arnold - ... With that in mind... I'm afraid we would have to go through a red zone if we want to keep up the pace and avoid any fight with any mercenary that are after us.
Darryl - If they keep coming like that, we will be out of supply very soon. Is there any broker nearby?
Legion Officer Niko - We have a contact with a two brokers. One is somewhat cheap and nearby, but his stock is limited, so limited in fact, that it would save us a week at most. The other is few days of ride way from us, and his stock is not as cheap.
Darryl - Not good indeed. Contact the first broker and buy whatever we need. Then tell engineers to make a list of most important things that we need to restock, give to our small scout team and send them out to buy everything from a second broker. We would move out and take a scenic detour through a red zone... If everything goes right, we should endup somewhere... Here!
At a swing of a finger, mountains, hills and Warsaw city appeared on holo-projection.
Legion Officer Arnold - We are going way too far into the west.
Darryl - That's the best shot we have I recon... If you have any plan in mind, speak up. Because we are running low on good ideas and soon we are going to use the bad ones.
Legion Officer Arnold - Not at the moment... But was it really worth it?
Darryl - You saw them Arnold... It's not just something... It's a Paradeus!
Legion Officer Arnold - I mean... Nevermind.
Darryl - Let's just focus at what we have at hand. We will take care of problems one by one. Maybe we will see the end of it by the end of a week.