The attack would get blocked, but this time Alterion learned how to dodge the hammer hits.
Song would evade the attacks, as she shot back at them with her pistols.
“So I ask you all again! WHO IS WITH ME?”
“And where can we take that from?” she asked as she and Blackbeak approached Salvo.
She turned to the remaining turned to face the other Mercenaries.
“Who’s next?!” she asked.
GC didn’t see the grenade, and continued talking.
“It’s better than one of us isn’t it?”
“Bigmouth…” He mentioned. “For a big guy.” He smirked as he ran towards him, simply ran towards him. Pretty bold eh? Well yeah, as he ran past him and behind as he placed a grenade underneath him, slowly ticking off as Scorchlock transformed and drove away…
…if it wasn’t for her scream of pain he wouldn’t have been able to hear her. He remembered he had to help her out as Gronius said.
Scorchlock transformed into his robot mode and fired a few shots at the back of the Ground Troopers.
Thrust fires at them, leading his shots to hit. [quote=“Chromeharpoon, post:3982, topic:49995”]
Three Troopers are slain, but two more dodge the fire and keep up their attack.
Banzaitron falls back, letting his troops distract his foes while he regained his bearings.
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Vigor fires at Banzaitron, while Lightshift covers him and fires at the two Troopers.
Pixel flew to it with all his might.
“Yeah, sure,” he gasped.
Unfortunately, Juliana had gotten somewhat distracted fighting mercenary Bob, and was unable to give him the word.
Blight drew his rifle, swiftly loading a yellow vial into it. He pulled the trigger with the mercenary in his sights, aiming to knock him out.
OOC: The bob the Mercenary is already dead.
IC: Instead, as the body dropped, the vial would whizz by juliana’s ear, and she turned to look at him, with a death stare in her eye’s, which softened when she saw him.
As Pixel flew, he would be able to see Nova Prime making his way toward the tower as well. From another direction, a Heretic dropship and an Air Trooper escort were making their way toward the same location. On the ground, Alterion, Wildsong, and Scorchlock were fighting against a squad of Heretics.
The Heavy Trooper swings the hammer again.
Two of the Ground Troopers are slain, and the remaining three regroup by the Chem-trooper
The other Heavy Trooper gives chase, lumbering after Scorchlock.
Several prisoners step forward, in defiance of the hisses and threats from their fellows.
The two remaining mercenaries deploy assault rifles from their forearms. Each one targets a different bot- a blue-armored hunter fires at Blight, while their bronze-clad compatriot targets Juliana.
Salvo looked inland, at the many cannons the Omega Key had deployed that were firing up at the Twenty-sixth Fleet. Another peal of thunder booms as the partially-rebuilt Salvation plays her part in the counterattack.
“I wonder if one of those has manual controls…” the minicon muses.
“Yeah, maybe a li- whoa!” Sprocket suddenly shouts as the grenade bounces on the ground near him and Gatecrasher. The scientist transforms into a terran car and quickly begins to drive to safety.
One Air Trooper is shot down, flames spewing from their corpse as they tumble toward the ground. The other banks hard to evade the shots, before returning fire with their plasma blasters.
Banzaitron deflects the shots and fires back with the blasters over his shoulders.
One of the Air Troopers is slain. The other takes cover behind a crate, before returning fire.
Juliana dives to her right, and rolled under cover. She drew her cross bow, and peeked over her cover to fire a quarrel at the blue-mercenary.
GC Rolled as fast as his treads would let him, even though a grenade was not as big a concern for a tank.
The bomb behind the Heavy Trooper would explode with a significant explosion with a decent blast range.
Scorchlock aimed his blaster at then and began firing, aiming at their chest and head to get a few clean shots.
He taking his hammer out of the block might give Alterion enough time to slide behind him and slash at his shoulder joints.
She keeps shooting at the chem trooper.
Redstocker shoke their hands.
“Welcome to the team.”
“Aren’t they activated by the Omega Key? The one I tried to take? Maybe if we go there we can control it to shoot at what we want!”
Gronius kept shooting at the Decepticon fleet with his new toys.
“I wonder…” he said, trying to see if he can take over the giant robot statues."
The shot hits the the blue mercenary in the chest, and the bot staggers back from the blow.
The bronze mercenary shoots at Juliana again.
The explosion cause the Heavy Trooper to fall over. Quickly, they transform to vehicle mode.
The shots inflict little damage upon the Chem-trooper as the Heretic launches another blast of corrosive slime at Wildsong and Scorchlock (@MichaelBT-7474).
The Heavy Trooper pivots around, and Alterion’s blade makes a shallow cut along their chest. The Trooper snarls and backs away, deploying a minigun from their right forearm and firing it at Alterion.
The converts quickly run to the weapons on the wall.
“Maybe!” Salvo shouts in reply.
On the contrary, control of the defenses was quite out of Gronius’ hands- the Omega Key, surprisingly enough, seemed to be directing the ancient weapons’ fire. Clearly, this thing was much more than some ancient bauble.
On the bridges, sentinels were deploying from their posts, shifting their forearms into cylindrical cannons and taking off into the air.
The plasma grenade explodes, doing a fair number on the shuttle’s side and causing Sprocket to fly back some, scorching the scientists’ armor.
Wildsong was still in the sky.
Alterion hides behind a rock.
There he draws his gift sword from Corona.
“Come on. Show me what you can do.”
“Anybody else?”
“Then let’s go!”
He tried to see if he can get at least some of the weapons on manual control.
“Not again…” He muttered as he dodged the corrosive smile and charged towards the Chem Trooper taking his katana out and slicing with it at the Chem Trooper’s neck, in attempt to slice an opening.
Juliana ducks down as the blast whizzes past her head.
She reloaded her bow, and tried to take a shot and the bronze mercenary.
The grenade’s blast would hit GC, but do no more than scorch the armor, doing little structural damage.
Thrust barrel rolls out of the way, firing his guns about halfway through the roll. [quote=“Chromeharpoon, post:3994, topic:49995”]
Banzaitron deflects the shots and fires back with the blasters over his shoulders.
One of the Air Troopers is slain. The other takes cover behind a crate, before returning fire.
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Vigor and Lightshift duck down behind their crate. Vigor pokes his gun out and fires a few shots.
The two of the remaining three Ground Troopers fire up at her.
The Sword of Judgement hums as a coat of yellow energy covers the blade.
The Chem-trooper evades the attack. The third Ground Trooper gets in close and tries to stab Scorchlock with their rifle’s energy bayonet.
The bronze mercenary evades the shot and transforms into an attack helicopter, rising into the air and firing a chin-mounted machine gun at Juliana.
No more prisoners step forward.
Salvo and her mech begin to retreat, as do many of the allied Decepticons. With the Death’s Head raining down fire above the shore, holding the beach would be impossible.
Unfortunately, he would be unable to do so.
Sprocket re-assumes robot mode, backing away as the Ground Troopers press forward, firing their hard light rifles.
The Air Trooper shot in a wing and careens into a nearby cliff, perishing in an explosion.
The Air Trooper is slain, but more Heretics were beginning to enter the hangar.
Motherboard, Broadband, and Breakswitch hide within a ruined warehouse as a large force of Heavy Ground Troopers rolls along the ruined streets in their vehicle modes, taking aim at what was left of the building.
“Uh… any ideas, fellas?” Broadband nervously asks her comrades.
“Avert your optic sensors so as to avoid sustaining temporary blindness,” Motherboard drones.
“What?” Broadband asks, confused. “How’s that got-”
A beam turret on one of Salvation’s fins suddenly pivots down to point its barrel at the street. The weapon screams as it sends forth a bright sapphire beam that carves up the ground and incinerates the troopers almost instantly.
Broadband and Breakswitch emerge from cover, staring at the burning crevasse in the ground left by the weapon. Broadband’s mouth opens and closes for a moment, as she blinks her eyes to dispel the white spots that the brightness of the beam had left upon her field of vision. She was now beginning to reconsider her habit of referring to the First Officer by various nicknames.
“…You couldn’t have done that earlier?” Breakswitch quips.
Scorchlock blocks the attempt with his katana before swinging his katana towards the third Ground Trooper’s head.
Juliana, her cover lost, sprints out, and tries to get behind a nearby wall.
GC begins to roll, at full speed, (probably about 35-40 MPH) towards the troopers.