Alexei received his orders from Zahra to provide support to Pilot Amarati, who had engaged the enemy head on. Alexei sighed. 
[B][Color=ed1c24]"I wanted to be the suicidal idiot, but okay."[/COLOR][/B] He muttered offhandedly as he turned course on the move. He also felt better knowing that their squad lead was keeping monsieur LaBelle occupied, so he made the dash more out into the open, just as building behind him collapsed from a tank shell. Alexei grunted as he felt the force slightly, but was none the worse for wear as Vectis dashed in quadrupedal form. He assessed the combat map as he was in transit, and between him and Pilot Amarati were a few more hostiles; enemy transports and a tank. Alexei had confidence in his ability to engage just one tank, maybe even three tanks, but only so long as LaBelle wasn't so compromised to hinder his movement. 

Vectis dashed around the corner and with the front feet tossed aside one of the transports. Before the tank could make reactionary fire, Alexei kicked the thrusters up and surged forward in the blink of an eye, and the beam sabre slashed through the armour and crew inside. He kicked his vertical thrusters up afterward to leap up against a building and strafe the transports and ground troopers' retaliatory fire, using the CIWs to engage the troops. It was only suppressing fire, and as Vectis leapt across the street again, he shot apart the last two transports before dashing around the corner, leaving the troops without any armour, light or heavy.

He then heard on the radio a woman's voice. He did not recognise it, but saw it came from the machine marked as Pilot Cassius, the jolly drunk. He smirked at Trudeau's report.
[B][COLOR=ed1c24]"Oui madame, on the double!"[/COLOR][/B] Alexei reported as he took up bipedal position amidst high cover, and with Impetus on primary, waited for Pilot Trudeau's mark. After battle mom took fire at the lead fighter and erased it from existence, Alexei acquired his targets immediately. [B][COLOR=ed1c24]"Vectis, targeted and firing!"[/COLOR][/B] Vectis pulled the trigger each time it locked onto a fighter, Impetus' beams searing through light armour and destroying enemy craft. He engaged other air squadrons as Maman engaged the lead squadron with her air superiority missiles, shooting down the fighters he needed to cripple formations and provide Cassius with the cover he and his 'lady' needed.

Alexei then checked his map to see if there were hostiles in the vicinity, as he expected the enemy air to have called for help in engaging at least the ground forces shooting them down. He looked up and saw on his optical sensors that two 'jets' had descended and transformed into ground NCs. Adaptable NCs, much like Vectis. Alexei snorted. He then saw that one had engaged Cassius' machine, and the other came to engage him. Wasting no time at all, Alexei kicked the thrusters up immediately, once again engaging the dust shroud to keep the cloaker NC in mind, as Vectis dashed into quadrupedal form to evade the dual-minigun fire. For the most part, Vectis lived up to its specialty of using high mobility to avoid damage. But from the stinging pains Alexei could feel jabbing at his left arm and leg, it appeared a few rounds managed to clipp Vectis' armour.

Vectis transformed behind cover, but only momentarily to formulate a plan as the high velocity rounds reduced the viability of the building's protection quickly by the second. Alexei checked his combat map for a split second and memorised it as he got Vectis to ready Impetus on secondary and fire two quick bursts to supress the enemy NC. The aim of his shots were wilder than any other shots he took, the first volley just dissipating across the field. However, Alexei quickly recalibrated his aim from the first volley and at that moment the second volley did more than suppress the enemy NC. The explosive rounds found their mark on the NC's left minigun and took it out of commission.  Alexei saw this moment as opportunity. As the building fell apart, Alexei kicked the thrusters up to full throttle again, moving into quadrupedal form once more while the enemy recovered and reloaded.

[B][COLOR=ed1c24]"Va te faire foutre, bon monsieur!"[/COLOR][/B] Alexei cursed the degenerate hybrid NC, strafing it as it shot at him again. In turn he returned fire with Impetus' secondary bursts, before digging Vectis' paws into the dirt in a combat slide. His enemy focused fire on Vectis, as the minigun unleashed a barrage of bullets upon the wolf mid slide. Alexei seethed through gritted teeth as his blood boiled through his left side in tandem with projectiles shredding at Vectis' side armour. As soon as he saw his opposition finally reloading once more, Alexei then roared as he spurred Vectis forward. With assault cannons armed and firing alongside Impetus, the wolf dashed amidst the path of suppressing fire it had already laid down. The enemy's remaining minigun exploded under Impetus' firepower, and the assault cannon shots simultaneously took out his arms, then his legs with remarkable synchronicity. 

Alexei then ceased fire for the split second, and directed all energy to both rear thrusters and Vectis' beam wings, charging the output to the max as Vectis surged towards his crippled foe. In that instant of passing, Vectis delivered a final leaping blow-- The beam wing searing through the NC's head. Fully crippled, and probably put unconscious from the amount of pain inflicted, the NC-- reduced to pretty much just the cockpit, collapsed on its side.
[B][COLOR=ed1c24]"Au'revoir..."[/COLOR][/B] Alexei bid his fallen foe. He panted for a moment, happy that he managed to disable rather than kill and opponent. He then moved Vectis toward cover, checking up on himself and then checking his machine's vitals after. Energy reserves were at 78% still, but Alexei knew he used up at least 12% on that last fight. Reckless, especially if there were more NCs incoming. He then scanned the map for his next engagement, and also to locate Cassius. He then looked on his optical sensors to see how the machine was faring against its own opponent.