"He's gone."

[color=lightblue]"He's using the ice to hide from the thermal. Smart guy."[/color]

Their enemy had gone to ground. Shortly after killing Earle, he'd leapt back into the foliage and vanished, the ice and snow that fell from the sky masking his temperature signature. That left the team stumped as to his location.

Cho shifted slightly on his perch overlooking most of the battlefield. His sights were not trained anywhere in particular, but he kept his eyes open.

Suddenly Powers' turret whirred into life and roared, spitting hot lead towards the skeleton of a cottage, where their mysterious assailant had hid himself behind a bank of conjured snow. The warrior was now making a run for it, his shield somehow protecting him from the heavyweight rounds the turret was throwing at him. The warrior disappeared again into a field with an array of stone pillars. Another disadvantage for them.

Cho trained his sniper rifle at the field of pillars.

"Yemen, move up. Powers, keep to her six, provide suppressing fire. McKinzie, move up with Yemen, cover her six too."

[color=red]"S-sir?"[/color]

"You heard me, Kinzie. Now move."

With a suppressed grumble the comms man moved forward and supplanted Earle's place just behind Yemen, and together the two advanced slowly forward towards the pillars. Powers kept behind them, getting a good position on a small mound of rocks nearby. Cho kept himself on his own perch, rifle trained at the gaps between the pillars, patiently waiting for his target to show himself.