Giving the Mec version of a nod, Marius brought his weapon to bear on the area where Stanley had engaged the mutons, waiting for a target to present itself. As he was waiting the call came in from the various points, sounded like the squad was handling itself pretty well. That was until Hoshi's call came over that floaters were pushing towards the Skyranger. Gritting his teeth he staied where he was, the transport could handle itself, and right now there were bigger fish to fry. He could see the Mutons shuffling the back. As Stanley came running back Marius activated the defensive protocols, extending his shield to give him someplace to catch his breath. 
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 Outside the Skyranger's hover engines roared to a deafening volume, an effort to put distance between itself and the two contacts. As the ship climbed the Floaters began opening fire. For the most part they were scoring only superficial hits on the armor, until a stray shot from one of their rifles hit the intake fan of one of the hover engines. A dull groan began to be audible, slowly building in volume and intensity until with the screeching sound of distressed metal ripping itself apart. Within an instant the right side takeoff engine flared to a halt, before fire began to pour out of it. [i]"Just lost one of out vertical engines, we cant hold here.There is a clearing in the street around a klick from your current location, we'll set down their and try and get this thing working again. Big-Sky out."[/i] With that the Skyranger pulled away, limping to the designated location, it's wounded engine threatening to cut out completely the entire time. The Floaters turned their attentions away from the Ranger as it peeled off, instead they turned their murderous rage on the creature that try to kill them as they attacked the VTOL, letting loose the choked cry of theirs they accelerated twoards the sniper.