Asteroid Blues

Infinity

Arrivals At The Edge Part Three

300 POINTS
Yu Jing
JJ.konko
VS ALEPH
Tanath

Prologue

After the Speculo had been successfully been captured shit really hit the fan.

The fake breach was made real when the Aleph forces cracked open the habitat dome And were closing in for one last strike. Now the breach was real the alarms we’re sounding and the lights flashing, there was no way to raise the emergency there so there was no way for Myongsun's forces to evacuate until they could find a solution.

A heavy firefight erupted and the numerically superior Aleph forces hit hard and fast forcing the Yu-Jing forces back.

The only chance Myongsun had was to keep his forces moving. He split his forces into small teams, and did his best to cooperate their movements so the bands of Myrmidons would never be able to pin them all down in the close quarters they favoured.

When the Greeks got close to one group, another would move to fire on them and draw them away or put them down.
As this dangerous cat and mouse game went on the groups got smaller, fewer, slower. The Aleph forces did not take long to switch up.

Myongsun‘s head itched. Sweet had soaked his hair and whenever there was a moment of inertia the irrigation was waiting to fill the void. Huddled in a building with 6 others they were securing the hacker as she worked to free up the communication systems.

Myongsun got a ping of movement on his tactical visor, sent via a Kanren who was doing an unbelievable job of being an unseen pair of eyes in the shadows. A Myrmidon team was heading for them fast.

Myongsun called in a nearby team to catch them in cross fire. “Get your weapons ready to open up on my three”
Myongsun checked his clip. “one.” Shifted to a squat beneath a window. “Two.” Popped up.
TRRREEEEW, BOOOM!!
Before the three, a massive explosion caught the relief team in the open. One second five comrades were there, the next they were none.

“GET BACK FROM THE WALL”
The blast from a second missile thrust him back into the far wall and lapidated him with rubble.

His head moved first to the right and a second or two later his vision caught up. A hiss was the first sound that came through the ringing, then the sounds of panic.

One of his fellows, An-wen, had cracked her helmet in the blast and was losing pressure into the vacuum. Lee was quick. She was on him with cement-gel in seconds while Myongsun was still struggling to his feet. He waved the towards the back of the building and three of the Celestial Guard moved out. One was never getting up.

An-wen's panic subsided as lee forced her eyes to meet his. The warmth, the Calm smile was a hole to hide in, away from the burning of her lungs.
The hiss grew more high pitched or a second, before stopping.

The first breath was thin and unsatisfying, but the second was sweet release. Just as she returned the smile Lee's face distorted and burst in a flash as a Myrmidon thrust his blade through his head.

Myongsun saw An-wen's hands grasp the Myrmidon's hand that was holding his weapon in Lee’s skull and all three dropped.

Two more were in before he could see the rest of An-wen's struggle and crashed into him. The basic CC training came back to him but he was out matched. He managed to block the knifes, but the Myrmidon’s saw his flaws and struck his chest. He felt his ribs break. He doubled forward and dropped his pistol.

BANG! One of the Greeks took a wound to it’s abdomen and fell into the feet of the second. Now was the last change he would get, he lunged, toppling the post human to the ground with his hand under it’s chin forcing it’s head to be the first thing to hit the rubble covered floor.

He felt the vibration of the skull crack shoot up his arm and all was still.
He looked to the side to see An-Wen getting to her feet.

They had been fucking lucky. But there was no glory in this type of prestidigitation.

Myongsun had become predictable and the Aleph had used that to kill seven of his men. For him it was a lesson. But one that was not worth the price.

Emotional Fatigue was setting in when a ray of hope, some fucking good news for once, arrived in the form of a communication from ISS forces at the station. They were sending in a drop ship.

However, due to the heavy fire, the Myongsun’s troops would have to move to rendezvous with it. With their forces divided they would be an easy target for the lighting strike attacking style of the ASS.

Yu Jing group 1
Yu Jing group 2

Aleph Turn 1

As the drop ship descended the sound of a motorbike echoed around the Habitat.

Myongsun was on the East flank with a small contingent of fellow Central Guard. His visor showed the view from the Su-Jian to the west with a Kung-shi team

. He had offloaded the speculo into the care of the team leader as it prepared to hold the line while the fire team got to the evacuation site.

Sniper fire broke the silence of the Yu-Jing team as it ripped through the left side of a Kuang-shi’s chest in a shower of red. His controller acted quickly and calmly however and fired back through an opening he thought he saw movement in and the shooting stopped.

The sound of the bike then got louder . Myongsun was currently safe in a supermarket but at serious risk of being trapped there.

All he could do was watch his visor’s map as the madtraps they had been depending on blinked out one by one. This was disappointing, it had a silver lining however. He now had a good idea where the aleph biker was headed.

The Agema sniper fires on the Kuang-shi team.
Who lose an member but fire back, taking her out of action.
Pentheislea rides through the battle field dodging Madtraps as she goes.
Myongsun can only wait and watch for another ambush.

Yu-Jing turn one

Myongsun sent the location to the Kuang-shi team and the Su Jian with instructions for them to split up with the fire team heading across the open ground to the drop ship while the Su Jian went on the hunt.

Just as the fire team was about to leave cover an alert popped up. The Ruishi had detected movement. A second Agema marksman had taken position with a clear view of the approach to the drop ship, but appeared unaware of the Ruishi.

Myongsun knew this situation needed some exact timing.

The biker was first. The Su-Juan burst into view and put Penthesilea down in a single burst, the Ruishi detected the Agema shuffle and shifting reaction, and opened up on the aleph sharpshooter.

That was the signalled to the Kuang-shi team to dash across the fire line.

Elation and relief filled Myongsun ‘thats what fucking leaders do' he shouted in his head.

Myongsun signaled to his own team to move through the supermarket towards the back exit that was closest to the Drop ship.

Yu Jing forces start moving

Aleph Turn Two

As the Yu Jing teams converged on the evacuation site, the soft sound of footsteps rose and before he could react, another shot rang out and a Kuang-shi dropped.

The Yu Jing forces dove for cover as a Eudoros charged forward with a team of Myrmidons into the middle of the two Yu-Jing teams.

Eudoros took position to cover any approach to the Drop ship and started to lay down cover fire.

The Myrmidons set out for a charge.

Yu-Jing turn Two

The Aleph had his team pinned down.

For a while Myongsun waited, expecting a flanking manoeuvre and prayed he would be as lucky as the last close quarters fight with the Greeks that left him with 2 broken ribs.

He looked around at the others hunkered down in the food isles. An-Wen had lost her field pack and he could see the panic and PTSD in her eyes.

When you shoot someone you can detach yourself from what your doing. Turn off the humanity, but up close. Well, that shit was personal.

You came as close as lovers and you never forget the moment their life stops. When the depth drains from their eyes. Even these fake humans. they were getting to bloody real for comfort.

Time passed and the attack did not come,
‘This is all they have right now!’ the realization that they were being stalled was liberating and Myongsun once again with clarity and purpose, called on the Ruishi and Su-Jian to clear the path.

The REM and the Robot moved forward and went to work. Taking the last aleph from two sides freeing up the approach.

Myongsun waited for the asset to be safely aboard before moving the last of his own team out.

Aleph Turn Three

The Aleph forces pulled back. It had been a hard fight and luck as much as skill had gotten the Yu-Jing out of the fire.

Epilogue

Myongsun strapped in with what was left of his team. They sat in silence.

Evac was always tense. After being in heavy action, alert, scared, and knowing your survival relied on your actions and your skill, the sudden switch to passivity and helplessness, was jarring. All you could do was pray you were not shoot down.

When the view screens showed other dropships full of fresh troops entering the zone they relaxed.

It would take a little while to get to debrief. Everyone’s tension was subsiding when one of the pilots spoke over the intercom.

“I guess you haven’t heard the news? Well in a bar on Novy Bangkok's main strip a bar fight accidentally lead to the discovery of a massive CA smuggling ring.”

“O'12 has called for immediate action. This place is about to become the focus of the sphere”

“Well fuck,” Myongsun said, “that must have been the Speculo’s exit plan. Get your rest while you can. Shits going to get hot real soon”

On the bright side, if he made it through the coming storm, he might finally get the notice he was hoping for.

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