(Everyone's in Wing Shift and maintaining formation)
"Keep up, everyone!" Copperhead said over the mic. "I have no idea what we're about to face, but you guys have armor-piercing stuff, right?" The laser cannon on Queenie's back would be good for an extended blast, but it would take a full minute to recharge once it was out of Femto. "If push comes to shove, you guys will need to distract it while I line up a shot with my cannon."
(ahhh…. must have missed that.. My bad)
“Rodger,” Shadow replied, however he stuttered for a moment before continuing. “Will you allow permission to break away beforehand? I need a high point, and Sentry can’t tank for a beat. I’d be a terrible distraction.”
He stopped for a moment, turning on his headset so the eyepiece glowed a stark green.
“But armor-piercing is my specialty. ‘S long as I get a good shot lined up from afar.”
"Permission granted," Copperhead said as the city grew ever closer. He could see the flashes of tracer rounds and lasers from this distance, but there didn't seem to be any Colossal Immortals anywhere. Suddenly, Four beeped out another warning.
"Warning. I'm picking up a massive Femto response coming from the south-south-east. It's another Colossal Immortal. It seems that they are trying to pincer Grace City and Bullet Works."
"Has anybody else shown up yet?!" Copperhead grumbled. "What happened to all hands on deck?"
"Currently, Bullet Works is missing two of its members, but ID tags from the south indicate that some members of the Western VII are approaching," Four said.
"Can you patch me in to BG?"
"Affirmative. Please wait…"
The comms scratched as the Brigadier General's face appeared on Queenie's monitor. His old, scarred face softened when he realized that help was on the way.
"Hey ho, BG!" Copperhead greeted. "The Iron Dragons are almost there. Do you guys have the fodder handled? We can help take care of the colossals headed your way."
"That would be helpful, yes," BG said as his cockpit was rocked by a burst of heavy machinegun fire. "Crimson Lord and Diablo should be here soon. If we can hold out until then, we should be in the clear!"
Another colossal? Arlo thought to himself, inwardly cursing. He’d only ever dealt with one in a team of ten.
Shadow switched Sentry from autopilot, the mech breaking formation as Arlo had to manually hold the reigns. He flipped a few switches, not taking Sentry from his place but readying his weapons and ammunition.
“Thank you, sir,” Shadow said. “Ready to brake when you give the go-ahead.”
(It took me far too long to finally make this, but I unlocked the bronze color for this! Woot!)
"Alright, break off to that hill over there!" Copperhead pointed to a ridge a few miles away from the city. "Everyone else, on my lead! Let's kick some ass!"
(Sucks that the image quality got fucked over from the Switch to Twitter to here, but I think it looks cool, at least.)
(you making me wish I owned this game)
"Roger that sir" yelled Ash into his mike, he shut it off temporarily and muttered to himself as he activated several different things "Laser guidance systems check, chain cannon rotary engine check, Obliterator cannon is green light and loaded with AP ammo, and I just got my shield reinforced so it should hold up".
(I’m thinking Sentry kinda looks like a mix between Storm and Colossus from Anthem. And yo, Queenie looks rad)
“Rodger,” Shadow repeated. He veered Sentry off, soundlessly taking up his spot on the ridge. He flipped on the cloaking mechanism, Sentry disappearing from the outside. Shadow adjusted the headset, lying low with Sentry’s arm turned to what looked like a divvied up M40A5 sniper. From the headset he could see through the scope, not having to manually peer through the lenses.
“In position,” he reported back to Copperhead.
"Alright, Shadow. Lay down suppressing fire while the rest of us advance," Copperhead said. He pulled out his assault rifles and broke upwards over the approaching skyline. "Everybody engage!"
As Queenie soared over a skyscraper, he began shooting mounted turrets and drones left and right, the heavy-caliber rounds shredding through steel and rupturing Femto cells.
"Alright, BG! We're here!" Copperhead called over the comms.
"And not a moment too soon!" came a gruff voice than what Copperhead was expecting. Bone Box, one of Bullet Works' corporals, was close by with a shotgun in hand. "Duck!" Queenie bent down as Bone Box obliterated an armored Guard Scale drone.
"Good to see you still kicking, Corporal!" Copperhead said, breathing a sigh of relief.
"Uh, guys?" came a smaller voice, belonging to Bullet Works' rookie. "A little help on the ground here?" The rookie, Johnny G –new enough to not have a callsign other than his name– was pinned down at a street corner with AI-controlled tanks trying to flank him.
(Support opportunity!)
Arlo clocked the rookie, adjusting Sentry to face toward the tanks. He was far enough away and there were enough shots to mask the direction in which his bullet flew.
Shadow lined up his shot, letting a bullet soar into the exposed wiring of one of the AI tanks. He had tried to angle it under a panel, digging into a vulnerable area. He watched as the bullet was met with sparks, and the AI malfunctioned.
He let another shot ring out, piercing the same one until it was downed. His sights then set on the rest, and he dealt with them in the same manner.
(hmmmmmmmmmmmmm… what am I going to do here)
(shoot things?)
Ash slammed into pavement in front of a group of AI, his chain gun whirring as the barrels twirled in a deadly dance "See you on the other side bastards" he grunted as he pulled the trigger, also shielding himself while unleashing a deadly storm of lead into the group of AI. "Copperhead, I'm starting to pick up that femto reading you were talking about on Linemans sensors" reported Ash.
Copperhead checked his sensors, a hard thing to do when you are being shot at, but Four sounded another alarm.
"Colossal Immortals incoming from above. They will be impacting the edges of the city in 10… 9… 8… 7…"
"Shit, fuck!" Copperhead spat. "EVERYONE BRACE FOR IT!" he roared over the comms.
There was a massive ka–BOOM! like a bomb went off, and then another soon after. At the city wall, two skyscraper-sized hunks of metal had crashed down and wrecked four blocks each with the impact alone. Everyone still had smaller Immortals that were harassing them, but those who saw the Colossal Immortals noticed how they began to change and unfold. Two massive legs sprouted from the thick body and arms with large shoulder pads like knights popped out from the sides. It looked like they didn't have heads, but as the Colossal Immortals stood, bright lights where a visor would be showed that the heads were instead very flat. They couldn't have been outfitted with much targeting equipment.
The one to the north-north-east, Coperhead's left, brought its hand behind its back and pulled out what looked like a repurposed radio tower or one of those tall structures that held up high-tension wires. With a flick of its wrist, the Immortal's weapon ignited with two bright blue lasers on either side. That thing didn't need advanced targeting systems because it didn't have to rely on guns, apparently. The Immortal on Copperhead's right did the same thing, and they held their swords in a battle-ready pose. The light from their blades revealed large letters on their chests that were previously obscured by dust and grime.
They were called Rebellion
(EDIT: Andrew helped me figure out how to make the pictures bigger! Woohoo!)
(Bump?)
"HOLY SHT" Yelled Ash "HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE? HOW?" He calmed himself and said "Switching to howitzer, It might be enough to stagger them… maybe" the minion stopped churning out rounds and he switched it out, the large chain canon taking the place that the howitzer previously occupied. The large cannon roared as a massive armor piercing round tore across the landscape, colliding with an immortals chest and doing practically nothing "I am very screwed" he whispered as the immortal turned its head towards him.
(You THINK it did nothing.)
As Copperhead turned to hear Ash's howitzer cannon rumbling, he squinted to see if any damage had been done. There were a few bullet marks on the chest, and pinpoints of green light seeped through. However, the left Rebellion wasn't really phased by those mosquito bites, and so it hefted its blade into the air in an arc that cleaved a building in half. As the two sides fell away, a large pink canister seemed to unscrew itself from the sword arm, hiss out some steam, and then screw itself back in.
"Four!" Copperhead yelled. "What was that pink thing I just saw?"
"Scanning… Scans indicate a Femto cell. There are four cells in total. One in the sword arm, one below each knee, and one in the chest. I suggest attacking those cells to disable the Rebellion Immortals," she explained.
"You heard her, everyone!" Coppherhead said on the open channel. "When you see those pink cells, light'em up!"
bump
Bump (don’t think it’s worth anything though. I get a feeling this thread has just… died)
(yeah, kinda)