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Capturing the armored soldier alive, just like Ilshar said, would be a challenge. Not only due to his equipment, but mainly due to the fact that it was highly improbable he wouldn't have some type of fail-safe implant in order he was captured, to prevent him from being interrogated or something. If that was the case, they would have risked themselves for nothing. Still, however small the possibility for a successful capture was, Alice still didn't want to throw it away.

With the first signal being given by Salvator's shots, a hail of bullets followed, focused on the armored soldier. Alice's tungsten needles successfully pierced the armored soldier's knees, but due to their low impact, didn't have enough damage to fully immobilize him. The pain did seem to be enough to affect his mobility, causing him to almost fall and take cover behind a tree, which, when coupled with Salvator's EMP rounds disabling it's helmet, were undoubtedly advantages their group could use.

The CivSec soldiers didn't stay surprised for too long though and after the armored soldier barked orders, they immediately began organizing themselves. As the suppressive LMG fire started, Alice hid herself behind the tree, taking cover. While they didn't seem to know exactly her position, the wide sweeps made by the LMGs forced her to hide, the audible noises of the stray bullets hitting the trunk of the tree she was hiding behind reminding her that it would be a terrible idea to move now. 

The enemies' formation and defenses were tightening fast, as they retreated and took cover. Even though the Envenomed had the advantage of surprise, not even hers and Salvator's stealth field would be able to hide them forever, especially thanks to the automata' detection systems. Fortunately, not only Echo was starting to use it's heavy firepower to further disorientate the enemy and reduce their numbers, but a well placed EMP grenade had shut down the entire left side of their formation, which would buy enough time for her to reposition herself.

It was just at that moment that the beam cannon that Echo was charging finally fired, lighting up the battlefield as it went directly towards the place where the power-armored soldier was hiding. Unfortunately, a moment before if hit, Alice was clearly able to see the power-armored soldier sprinting away from the cover, before Echo's beam pierced it, hitting the cargo container behind, which caused a massive explosion, it's shock wave being enough to make Alice hide behind another tree.

[color=8882be]"The armored trooper seems to have recovered from the EMP rounds! He sprinted away a second before Echo's shot!"[/color] Alice said, using the comms as she reloaded her rifle with a new magazine.

Following the explosion and making use of the chaos that it created, Echo rushed forward, making use of it's heavy armor and extensive weaponry to draw fire towards itself. Using the distraction that Echo was causing, Alice immediately followed with two more shots towards the automata that were disabled, just after they woke up and began firing at Echo. A single, precise shot to their processing unit should prevent them to get up and fighting again.

[color=8882be]"Four operational automata left before enemy reinforcements arrive."[/color] Alice said through the comms. Having re-positioned herself earlier, she had perfect vision of exposed side of the power-armored soldier, which seemingly had recovered from the explosion and EMP rounds and was now firing at Echo.

[color=8882be]"Acknowledged! Focusing fire at the power-armored soldier!"[/color] Alice said, replying to Salvator's orders as she crouched down, holding her breath and aiming at the power-armored soldier again.

[color=8882be]"Please be ready for follow-up shots."[/color] Alice said, holding her breath for a moment before firing two more times at the power-armored soldier, once again aiming at the joints of his armor, but this time aiming at his left arm. With one needle aimed at his left wrist and the other at his left elbow. Her aim was to either force the power-armor soldier to change to his backup weapon after disabling one of his arms or forcing him to fire his rifle with one arm, which would undoubtedly affect his accuracy.

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