[center][h3][color=lightsalmon]Riley[/color][/h3][/center]
Though Urkwia led the three of them through the Collision, Maverick walked slightly ahead and to the left of her, relying on his peripheral vision to keep the other two and by extension Urkwia's lead in sight. As the sturdy and close combat oriented wall of their little outfit, it only made sense that he stood in front to take any surprise hits. The walk was relatively quiet, the only real sounds Maverick heard was the crunch of gravel and the dulled padding of loam and grass as his armored boots stepped across the ground. Maverick was inclined to agree with Urkwia's sigh of disappointment. Hackers typically were quite talented computer programmers. Many of them could make plenty of money in the current work atmosphere, but alas decided to go the illegal route in making money. 

Maverick whistled as they reached the base of the tower. Slightly mossy but still sturdy, if not inclined to point to the right. It was impeccably detailed for what looked like just another building in the urban jungle. "You ever wonder how much time and effort goes into these Collisions? And for no audience either- unless you count us." he remarked offhandedly to the others. Sparky chirped cheerfully to puncuate his sentence. 

As the trio entered the building, Archimedes automatically peeled off to the right, which Maverick countered by automatically sweeping around the left, moving diagonally to the side wall. There was no point in him sticking to the wall while he swept, as he had no means of engaging anything out of arms reach, so the sweep was more for him to make visual recognition on anything and everything of note. It wasn't difficult to sweep the room. There was little- if anything blocking line of sight on this floor, almost completely empty except for a few small piles of rubble and scattered office supplies. 

"Clear." he heard Archimedes call out, signifying his neck of the woods were clear.

"Clear." Maverick responded, a bit lazily, as he returned his attention to Urkwia- just as a pile of bricks turned into a 3-foot tall cuboid enemy. Followed by a dozen more.

"Not clear, not clear." Maverick corrected himself as Archimedes immediately open fired on the first- Sparky squeaking out warning tones all the while. Their instructors often told them to identify targets before attacking, but Maverick had noted that often times, in a Collision, if it wasn't himself, Urkwia or Archimedes, it was an enemy. Also, Archimedes easily had the fastest reaction time of the three which led to Maverick's perception of him shooting at anything that moved.

As Sparky screamed warning tones and flew away to a safe distance, Maverick with little more than a slight nod of his head closed his helmet around his face. Something akin to a very angular ballistic face mask rapidly materialized over Maverick's face, a set of glowing vertical slits where his eyes would be, his entire body now encased within his armor like some sort of techno knight. His armor hud blinked into view over his eyes, the bottom left corner depicting a representation of his armor and its status. Holding his arm out to the side, he grasped at a white blade hilt as it appeared, a thin triangular blue blade springing from the hilt as his hand made contact.

"A rocky start, don't you think?" Urkwia joked as she prepped herself, punctuated by the sound of Archimedes' gunfire. 

"And here I thought [i]I[/i] was the funny one." Maverick remarked, with a slight tilt of his head and a wink- though the wink was invisible underneath his armored face mask.    

Maverick rushed forward, his blade behind him, focusing on the left side of the group, as he didn't like the idea of walking into Archimedes' gunfire. The majority of the little buggers turned to face him- the closest target, though a few of the others still kept on plodding towards Archimedes and Urkwia.

As Maverick closed in on the first golem, he brought his blade up and over for an overhead slice. His blade bit into the golem, the edges of its wound glowing a white orange as the blade sunk into it. The golems were denser than Maverick anticipated, his blade stopping halfway through the concrete monster's body. With more closing in around him, Maverick didn't have the time to force his way through. Drawing his blade back, he delivered an armored kick into its torso. 

Shifting his attention to the next foes, Maverick cut at one to his right, dealing superficial damage at best, as he lifted his free arm just in time to catch a two armed hammer blow from an oncoming golem. Maverick reeled back and stabbed at the offending golem as he backpedaled away from the pack. The left arm of his armor figure in his HUD flashed red for a moment, and a warning text appeared at the top of his vision 'Damage Sustained'. Damage was fairly normal for him, as he was often responsible for occupying larger groups of enemies so Archimedes and Urkwia picked them off. Sometimes Maverick wished he went for a sword and shield, but he preferred the more fluid and cutting power of his saber. 

Lunging forward again, he delivered a downward stab into the one that he had just poked, forcing it to the ground before he pulled back and adopted a more defensive stance. Archimedes recommended moving, which Maverick was quick to echo. "Making moves sounds like a good idea to me." 

"Unless you're set in stone about staying here." Maverick added, one of the golems responding the poor pun by windmilling its arms and attempting to bowl Maverick over. Maverick sidestepped the little bastard giving it a half-side-kick-half-donkey-kick sending it falling face first into the floor, its concrete arms digging gouges into the floor.