Serena chuckled at Haze's reply, eyeing her omni-tool readouts. The three Dels were all spread out back behind the four remaining Chosen, waiting for an opportunity to come back up and fire into them again. Unfortunately, the aliens had learned from the death of their comrades, and were keeping an eye behind them. They seemed to be familiar with the subtle movements Milky Way cloaks used to cover their wearer's movements, firing the second they saw or though they saw a Del getting too close. [color=hotpink][i]That's going to be annoying. We'll have to give them something to move about or pay attention too then.[/i][/color] 

Dex ran into the building with Ryria, to get the scientists ready to move the second they could. Serena concurred. She didn't want to be out here in this base any longer than she had to be, and she certainly didn't want any more Kett to show up and pin them down. [color=hotpink]"Hurry fast Dex, this commotion is doubtlessly going to bring more Kett sooner or later."[/color] She muttered, readying up a machine swarm in her omni-tool. [color=hotpink]"Come on my pretties, lets see if you can't get those nasty Kett out from behind cover and ready to be shot at."[/color] She cooed, moving to stand up.

What she heard next over the main channel made her immediately sit back down behind cover, her blood going cold. Clyff was hit. She dispelled the machine swarm, bringing up her omni-tool and having Sarah zoom in on the breacher. He was hit [i]bad[/i], and right out in the open to make things even worse. Serena's first reaction was to immediately shoot to her feet and take a step towards his position. A teammate was hurt and she was going to be damned if she would just sit by and let him bleed out all over the sands of this godforsaken place. Bullets peppered her shields, the Chosen taking the opportunity given by her stupidity to get some shots off on her, and she crashed back behind her cover, cursing. [color=hotpink][i]Too close[/i][/color]. At around the same time, Dex's affirmation that the civilians were getting ready to move out came over the comms.

[color=hotpink]"Fuck. Fuck. Fuck."[/color] She couldn't leave, both because she'd get shot to pieces by the Chosen in front of them, and if she did she be dooming even more civilians to death. Serena paused, taking a deep breath and steadying herself. She couldn't go save Clyff, or even put most of her resources to saving him. The civilians hadn't asked for this, or even come looking for it. Clyff had, and was prepared for the risks. It hurt, but if she had to, she'd leave him to his fate to save them. 

But she didn't have too. [i][color=hotpink]Think think think.[/color][/i] She had to do something, anything. Clyff was [i]dying[/i] out there. She looked down at her omni-tool as it beeped at her, the Dels awaiting instructions. [color=hotpink]"Perfect! Overwatch positions, Clyff Ward. Keep Kett suppressed."[/color] The drones beeped an affirmative, flying high over the Chosen and heading towards Clyff's position. Forming a triangle above him, they watched for any Kett looking in his direction, opening fire to keep them suppressed. Serena spoke over the whole team's comms. [color=hotpink]"I got the Dels covering any approach to Clyff, you're good to go get him."[/color]

That done, she turned back to her original plan, her omni-tool thrumming with a machine swarm once more. [color=hotpink]"Go get them."[/color] She popped over her cover again, firing the pods of her swarm at the Chosen. They burst on the Kett's armor, thousands of small drones controlled by one VI swarming him with an angry buzz and burrowing through his shields and beginning to work on his armor. The Kett panicked, his shields shattering like glass under the combined assault, and stood arms flailing as he tried to knock the machine swarm off. 

Serena's first two-shot burst hit him in the chest, sparking off the armor. She swore quietly, and aimed where her robotic eye indicated. The next two slammed through the Kett's head, and he collapsed on the ground as her swarm moved from his corpse too its next victim. As an additional incentive to get the remaining Chosen to move, Serena focused her biotic power. A small ball of blue swirling energy formed in her hand, and she threw it like a baseball at the Chosen's position. It soared across the battlefield, seeming to move slowly and quickly at the same time, before bursting into a gravity well around the three remaining Chosen. It didn't do anything, of course, but as soon as one of the Chosen lost their shields or the machine swarm got over to them, it would be quite lethal.

[color=hotpink]"Got a machine swarm and a Singularity on the remaining Kett. They'll either move or be floating targets. And by the by Haze, that's 2-to-1."[/color]