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[H2][color=#008b45]ARMS SLAVE[/color][/H2][/center]

Arms Slave didn't exactly wait for everyone to rally around him, knowing that time was of the essence. If the White and Green Guild were truly on the attack, then they'd strike hard and fast. He had no doubts that the defenses of the Black City could fend for itself, along with the rest of it's defenders. After taking so many attacks in short succession, much resources went into giving the Ebony Strykers the best defenses they could get, with the help of the Cobalt Bruisers of course. But you don't win wars sitting at home. Arms Slave poured most of his funds into his War Machine so that his guild had something to use when it's time for them to attack someone. Though he was a bit surprised about how soon he'd have to put it to work.

The first thing Arms Slave heard was the roar of Fanged Ranger war machines. Aircraft that moved swiftly and carried payloads you'd expect on tanks. Whether or not it was actually from those machines Arms Slave didn't know, but he did know that buildings were collapsing around him. He could guess their intentions: Not wanting to test the War Machine's durability they intended to crush him with buildings, or at least block their path. But Arms Slave was actually happy; of all the ways they could have stopped him they wanted to drop buildings onto him. Just goes to show that it was an Ivory Masks leading them; they couldn't do things by half. Arms Slave anticipated this course of action and went to work.

He increased the speed of the War Machine to blaze ahead towards the ruins. However he wasn't trying to outrun the falling buildings, quite the opposite. He was trying to get there just in time to catch each piece of rubble as it would have fallen on his War Machine. Thanks to his Readied Mind feat, Arms Slave was able to process different bits of information at once as time seemed to slow in his perspective. Very necessary since he had a lot he needed to do very quickly. First he needed to assess the location of his enemies. The War Machine was equipped with a powerful radar that could stretch to see the entire city. A city map on it's own may not be impressive, but when Arms Slave zooms into specific sectors he is in, he has much clearer view. He'd essentially get a live bird's eye view of whatever is happening in the sector he's in, allowing Arms Slave to find the Fanged Ranger aircraft and the howitzer firing on his position. But there was one slight issue; though he had a bird's eye view, he had no idea what the altitude of most of these aircraft were. he'd guess somewhere within the ballpark of 3000 feet. He was likely wrong, but he'd test it by the thousands.

Next was the special part. Pulling on various levers, buttons, and switches Arms Slave began to calibrate the War Machine's teleporter. In relatively "short ranges" Arms Slave didn't need to be too precise about where things are teleported. "3000 feet over here" he'd point out to the machine, and it would do the complicated equations to teleport whatever lands on the War Machine to where he wanted it to go. Hence why Arms Slave was trying to catch the rubble as it passed; every building that would land on top of him would suddenly find itself thousands of feet in the air, far away from Arms Slave and his War Machine, and dangerously close to the Fanged Ranger's air craft. Their clear faded skies suddenly started raining ruins. And Arms Slave wasn't trying to be precise either; he knew that even with Readied Mind he couldn't coordinate a drop directly onto the aircraft. So instead he had everything dropped in a massive around almost like an actual rain storm. Only instead of raindrops falling from the skies, it was bits of cement, rebar, glass, and whatever else was falling on him. Which at the speeds most of these aircraft were going, may as well be bullets. Arms Slave did much the same for the howitzer aimed in his direction, raining buildings upon the location as it made them fall on Arms Slave and his vehicle.

Grabbed the communicator in his cockpit Arms Slave shouted out to anyone in a Ebony Stryker vehicle, since he knew he couldn't yell over the sound of the chaos around him. [color=#008b45]"I'll clear us a way, keep an eye on those aircraft and follow close. We'll get out of the city soon enough and I'm providing covering fire. Anyone who wants to take on these things without armor support is on their own!"[/color]

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[H2][color=#cd2626]DARK WRAITH[/color][/H2][/center]

[color=#cd2626]"Halt. This is good enough."[/color] Dark Wraith and her two tanks came to a stop outside of the Cobalt Bruiser territory. They were still a long ways away from the city itself, and the fighting. A good place to observe, but not a place for tanks to be duking it out. Normally. Dark Wraith needed to gather whatever information she could as quickly as possible and figure out what needed to take priority. Broker may take offense once she finds out, but Dark Wraith took it upon herself to peek into the Cobalt Bruiser's surveillance and see what was happening in their city. A small drone came to live somewhere within the Cobalt Bruisers, and took to the skies to see what was going on.

Obviously the first thing it saw was Eclipse Princess making an entrance. Dark Wraith was assigned to deal with her, but that could really go both ways. Fighting her in DGO wouldn't be a good idea, and the easiest thing would be to just cut off Eris's connecting to DGO entirely. That's not even something unique to Retsu and she could contract a different Cleaner to do something as simple as that. Certainly, it would fit the Sweeper's underhanded tactics and be it's own way to match Eclipse Princess's overwhelming power. And Retsu did intend to do that sometime later today, but for now she had to pretend that this battle in DGO is more important. The drone moved on and spotted in the distance Broker of Fortune, oddly enough speaking to some players that Dark Wraith was able to identify as Ivory Masks. She couldn't hear what they were speaking about, but the Masks didn't seem to be prisoners. Were they negotiating? Betrayal? And if so, who was betraying whom? Dark Wraith was going to have to investigate this as well.

Keeping the drone high in the sky, as well as a few others in standby in case someone wises up, it was time for Dark Wraith to fight. She hasn't yet seen any of the Ivory Mask or Fanged Range war machines, but she has no doubts that they will be making an appearance soon. They'd coverage onto the Blue City of course, and Dark Wraith made sure to keep her distance. Not like she needs to be any closer for what she was about to do right now. [color=#cd2626]"All tanks, be ready to fire at my coordinates and get ready to move."[/color] Dark Wraith cheated in additional upgrades for the tanks, increasing the range, precision, and power of their cannons. While she was at it she also added some new armor which was somewhat more protective, but more importantly stealthy. Sure it'd be hard to miss a tank normally, but most people couldn't see things 4000+ meters away, and this way they should be undetectable by radar as well. Afterwards Dark Wraith opened up a screen in front of her eyes that only she was able to perceive. This was her debugging menu, and she selected the tab called "Aimbot". She'd try to make the calculations herself in her head, but for Dark Wraith it was much simpler to just let the machines do the thinking for her. All she needed to do was give it a target.

So while nearly a mile away, Dark Wraith had the tanks-turned-artillery aimed close to Broker's position. She'd need the drone to get a bit closer if she wanted to catch a snippet of the conversation, but in the event that it gets shot down Dark Wraith would be able to commandeer a few other drones still in the city. If Broker was speaking to the Ivory Masks to negotiate some sort of cease fire then Dark Wraith wished to be privvy of it. But she didn't simply ask because there was also the chance that Broker could be betraying the Cobalt Bruisers, just as Bel had, and potentially many other of Dark Wraith's "allies". Or it could all be a  trap, Dark Wraith doesn't know, but she'll figure it out soon enough.


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