Asteroid Blues

Jim the Brawler leaned on his sniper rifle, looking out over the chilled and windswept streets as the rest of the group moved up and along. He muttered into the mic, "Boss, Why are we out here, we aren't even picking a fight with the yu jing are we?" he grumbled and looked around, cycling through the vision enhancements of his visor, tracking for... well anyone really.

The annoying voice of Senior Massacre came over the comms back, "Because the guy in charge wants us to scope out other areas in case we're called to hit them, duh!" The crazy merc strolled along the street while his companions actually moved like a tactical unit, covering each other, covering their corners. Not for the first time, Jim wondered how the giant woman Valkyrie could possibly move so quietly as the giantess followed close, with Hannibal and Laximee across the street... somewhere their bolt friend had wandered down an alley behind to check it, tossing down a cuddly... and explosive bear... just in case.

Hannibal conversationally added to the comm chatter, "We just need to get the heaters turned on... this sector goes killing cold fast." That's when they spotted each other. Across the road a few blocks down, Caladonians... and where you could see a few more were waiting. Hannibal was about to shout a warning when the first eclipse grenade went off between the groups and Senior Massacre ran straight towards one of the consoles, "BUTTONS!" was his battle cry as she started hitting things randomly on the console, to much cringing from Laxmee. Shockingly, after a few times, with a slam of his fist the first heater in the back where they came from could be heard thundering on before Massacre's shout of, 'Oh look more!" and he was off again, the rest of the team following in his smoked wake to the big building at the main intersection where they tried to take up a defensive position.

The bolt caught up with the rest, dragging along, 'We're exposed out here, we REALLY need to move." he put his back to one of the street light poles and thought thin, while the others took cover by signs and cars. As he said that smoke grenades began to go off, almost in a chain around the building down the alleyway the bolt had trapped. There was a soft thump, and for a moment, the second team that had been coming around the building with Wild Bill and his Kaplan friends came around the corner in time to see a wild eyed Caladonian haul ass through the smoke and unleash a hail of chain shot. A single shot was heard and he dropped, dead to the ground while Bill's Haris team looked stunned that somehow they had managed to avoid the death storm without a scratch. "Target down..." Jim started to say as the sound of heavy machine gun fire rattled on and rained against the side of the building Jim was hanging on, armor piercing rounds digging craters in the wall behind him as he returned fire. Jim hit the deck as more Caladonians poured up the street, the doctor in the back shouting, "They're flanking this way!" The streets turned to chaos as the heavy machine gunner took fire from Laxmee and the Bolt, a storm of rounds riddling his body, but he kept coming, several rounds punching Laxmee's lightly armored body and spinning her to the ground before the bolt finally put the dogged Highlander down and several shots from Bill's kaplans took other chain rifle wielding maniacs out of the equation.

Senior Deadpool looked around, "Oh I think someone's trying to be sneaky... though honestly gang, we're going to be running away from this one... none of us are painted, y'know that right?" He hopped up on a sign and looked over, taking a shot at Isobel... before her T2 rifle put one through his face and dropped him hard to the deck.

"How long have I wanted to do that?" Hannibal laughed, "We're holding them, I love it when a plan..." that was the last thing they heard as a missle slammed into the car Hannibal was hiding behind and the ensuing shockwave layed the intrepid leader out, catch phrase unsaid. Return sniper fire snapped out, relieving Jim, the Bolt, Bill, and the Kapsniper of their status as concious but not before Isobel took out the doctor, and the kaplan sniper put her down and the big highlander who was rounding the building who looked important.

Valkyrie and a lone Kaplan were all that was left. The Kaplan saw more billowing smoke, and moments later that highlander came out of the smoke, bandaged and hit the last console that was unspoken for, the heater firing up on the far side of the battlefield. The smoke cleared and that Kaplan again plugged the highlander... and Valkyrie charged out into the middle of the street, pitching grenades left and right at 45ths and volunteers as she cut a swathe into the enemy territory looking to get out of the cold as it roared towards them. The lone Kaplan saw far more figures still out there and still there were ones on this side too... the battle was a total loss. He hit his comms, "Boss... we're going to need medevac for wounded stat before the cold kicks out again and these guys can come finish the job... and maybe some prisonder retrieval or buy backs... yes I know it cuts into our pay but I don't think if Hannibal and his group survives they'll be happy leaving Valk in an Ariadna brigg."