Asteroid Blues

Rosa was in the shower when the call for deployment came. Despite her heightened stability she almost slipped as she scrambled out of it. Amikha threw her uniform at her and she quickly donned it while reading the first info on the mission. They where headed into the tunnels to secure several persons. Hostile reaction was expected. She swallowed hard at the thought of fighting again, especially humans. Together they left for the armoury.
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“Listen up. We are going in to secure these people, we have questions for them, especially about the state of our medkits.” Rosa could see Mercella looking grim at these words from the Lt. “So only shoot their bodyguards and only if needed. We don´t know what else is going on, but we have multiple signals in the area of unknown origin so be ready to react. We have three primary targets approach with caution. In addition the whole area experiences a power fluctuation and the grid is damaged in several places, so be careful not get electrocuted. We are in this with Sandstrom, they will deploy on the left flank we´ll take the right. Questions?” Farukh their smoke launcher carrier raised his hand. “Yes. Hamar.” “I lethal force authorized?” “Yes, if threatened reply with prejudice.”
No one said anything after that and soon later they were there. The Lt. ordered her to take position behind a large sign and the Ghilim scattered around her. Her display showed a lot of unidentified signals.

“Contact with heavy armed hostile, Gyah.” That was their Djanbazan Umran. “Shihab down, repairing.” Violet “Damned sparks, I am back.” The Umran. “Heavy resistance, possibly Yu Jing.” Mordai the Azra’il. Rosa could see the flashes of gunfire and booms of explosions through the flying sparks around her. “Engaging heavy. Down. Engaging light. Down” That was Aleyna, the Mukhtar were advancing. “Hostile spotted, appears to be of criminal background. Down. Possible contact. Indeterminable.” They were making good ground. “Path clear, destroying remote. Argh.” “Shila?” “Shila down.” “Engaging hostiles” “Salazar wait!” The Lt. warning came to late as the Khawarji was hit by a missile. Rosa could still feel the heat. She was shocked, afraid and angry at the same time.

(The Djanbazan tried to remove the Wu Ming but nothing happened, my TR Bot tried and was shot, I repaired it and the Wu Ming shot the Nasmat, it finally was put down by the Mukhtar later on. The Al Fasid, and Azra’il slugged it out with the Yu Jing TR Remote and the the Zhuyong ML, which both were dead at the end of the round. The Azra’il also discover shot the Dao Ying, but was wounded by the Druze in the process, as was the other one while shooting the ML and later the TR remote, he went unconscious. The Mukthar advanced got rid of the Wu Ming and Keisotsu and the Jaguar, but failed to discover the Intruder. My Khawarji died to the Mobile Brigada and Intruder, as I was out of 32…)

“Heavy return fire. Mordai down. Holding position” – Junis the Al Fasid. “Movement. Hostile down.” Ghezirah, the missiles darted past Rosas position. “Heavy argh.” Again Junis. “We are under fire, seeking cover. One down.” Amikha! Her heart stopped for a moment. “Renewed at” Ghezirah was cut short by the explosion. What was going on? “Cover compromised evad” Her heart stopped again as his transmission was cut off. The sound of more exploding missiles came from his position. She cried.

(The Zhuyong Link reformed with 5 and it gave an epic shootout between the HMG and the Azra’il and the Al Fasid. All Heavy Haqqislam soldiers were down at the end, but several soldiers were immobilized on both sides during it. Sadly the HMG had a bead on the Mukhtar and killed one and wounded the other two, which fell to the Mobile Brigada ML later. Before that happened the MB ML lost against the Ghulam ML and was unconschous. The Daktari revived her and this time the Ghulam died. A Keisotsu fell to them too. It looked really bad. All my midfield attackers were dead and all our heavy weapons as well.)

“Attacking Yu Jing position.” The transmission of the Nahab broke her torpor for a second. “One hit, one down, engaging.” “Enemy engaged, attacking bodyguards, What?” “Djanbazan down”
“I have a target, he knows nothing.” The cold voice of the Tuareg came over the comms, proceeding to next target.”

(The Nahab came in shot the Zhuyong HMG in the back and got immobilized by the environment, but so did the Zu Yong. Still the Engineer died to the Shotgun. The Nahab climbed the wall and crit the Zuyong in CC, but it saved the second save, which was good for me. The Djanbazan got crit by the Druze while trying to take out the Druze and the Keisotsu, at least the Keisotsu went down. The Tuareg interrogated the HVT, but it was not the one we were looking for.)

“Enemy on the move they are Brigadas.” Mercella reported in as she ducked away. “The Iblis?” came the question from Sandstorm. “Who?” asked the Lt. “Give me a visual.” That was Sal. “Iblis confirmed. High attack priority. Saidsuni is neutralized.” “Alright. Let´s get some payback.”

(The Zhuyong left behind their peer in CC and moved to kill the Druze and the Tuareg, which hid in a neraby building, Then they tried to interrogate the HVT and were immobilized, and could not reset. The Brigada killed the Brawler and needed three orders to interrogate the HVT, before uploading their trojan at a nearby console.)

“Hostile neutralized. Target freed, Nahab down as is his opponent. Yu Jing neutralized their own.” Sal. Suddenly a hand landed on Rosas shoulder it was Farukh, he looked grim. She became grim too. “Hamar cover Shaharazar, attack on Iblis on the right flank. Namurr solo. Go!” She did not have time to think about her fear. Farukh smoked the way and she ran, something saw her, she felt it, instinctively she ducked, something flew by. She was at the large building. Violet was hiding behind a car nearby. She ran. Readying her weapons. She was to shoat a man. She missed a step. A man who had hurt men, a man who had killed Amikha! Rosa growled as she reached the corner. Slowing without a thought or problem she just peeked around to see the Iblis. He was a tall man in red armour, as he saw her he fired, she discharged the Marat. Rosa felt the impacts and staggered back behind the wall. Checking her breast, she was not wounded. She peeked again. He did not move. “Iblis immobilized.” “Take him dow – argh.” Sal was hit in mid-sentence. Her hesitation evaporated and she raised her rifle, aiming for his legs in the last moment, lightning raced over her from the building, she felt it cramp her muscles, she kept firing. He collapsed in his armour. Her display went dark, fried by the lightning. No one could hear her now. Another armoured figure came to save his comrade, she hid. She saw Violet retreat, she should have seen her taking him down. Rosa climbed the wall and crouched beneath a balcony. She could not leave. Amikha was still out there. She needed to get him back.

(The Nahab was impetious and the Combi Zu Yong as well as the Hai Dao shot into the melee, killing the Zhuyong and wounding the Nahab, who lost the CC to the Zhuyong) and died to his knife… He could have done both our classifieds, if had lived. The Zhayedan shot down the Shotgun Zhuyonng and wounded the Hai Dao. Smoke covered the Namurr from everyone, but the Intruder and she ran, dodging a bullet on the way. She used her E-Marat to isolate the Brigada with Multi Rifle and saved both hits. Then she needed three orders to shot him unconscious, burning the last Command tokens and needing to reset in between from her Imm-1)
(The Daktari interrogated and brought home the right HVT for the Nomads, while a Brigada evacuated the unconscious Multi Rife (Classified Rescue) the Zhuyong shot down the Zhayedan and failed once more at interrogating the HVT.)

(It ended 10 – 1 for the Nomads / Yu Jing. Not killing the Intruder made me so worried about him that I left the flank of my Mukhtar open, that and risking my Khawarji against the Intruder and the Brigada at the same time, were grave mistakes, from which I could not claw back initiative. I need more practice with Ramah, it plays very different from my normal Haqq. The scenario worked well, even though the bodyguards almost did as much damage to us than our opponents…)