[center][h1][color=fff200]Fireteam Anvil[/color][/h1][/center] [center][h2][color=8dc73f]Chuck "Boomer" Simmons[/color][/h2] [/center] [center][h2][color=ec008c]Samantha "Chaos" Dalton[/color][/h2] [/center] [center][h2] Battle of the Giants [/h2][/center] The battle against the two mechs had begun. The Kanatariio siblings were tag teaming Laura while Chaos and Boomer took on Zulu. Samantha was recovering her balance as Chuck had entered the fray to take Ingwe’s attention. Samantha was analyzing the mech’s weaknesses and trying to decide how they could exploit them. That damn trophy system took their hardest hitting weapons out of play. Samantha thought about how trophy systems worked. They were power hogs. Maybe she could overload it and disable it that way. Samantha was quick to note that Chuck had used the information she had given him as he targeted the mech’s joints. Samantha grinned as Chuck’s second hit locked up the mech’s leg. Samantha’s grin become feral as her eyes narrowed on her target. She quickly explained the plan to Chuck. She didn’t want to catch him in the crossfire. [color=ec008c]Samantha: “Boomer I am going to begin aiming for his shield. I am going to try and overload his trophy system to take it down. Keep up the pressure on the joints.” [/color] [color=8dc73f]Chuck grinned and swung Lucile like a baseball bat. “Happy to oblige Chaos. Batter up!”[/color] Chuck swung at the damaged leg joint again. If he could immobilize the mech that would also get them an advantage. Chaos checked what kind of ammunition she had. She smiled as she remembered the grenade launcher. There had been some electric antipersonal shock rounds. She let Chuck take Ingwe’s attention as he could move faster than she could in the mech. She moved to the other side to give Chuck more room to fight. Chuck managed to get one more hit on the damaged mech joint. Ingwe used his shield to block Samantha who was on the other side of the mech as he stabbed at Chuck with the spear. Chuck ducked and dodged however he was not fast enough to get away completely clean. The spear scraped across the surface of his armor scratching it. It would have opened him up if he had not been in armor. His heavy plate was holding up. He felt the kinetic energy of that hit though. Chuck managed to stay on his feet but only with the structural and synthetic tension support of his armor. Chuck gritted his teeth baiting Ingwe to come after him. He tried to keep his attention on him and away from Samantha. Chuck grinned as he used his loud speakers so that Ingwe and Laura could hear him. [color=8dc73f]Chuck: “Frigga is too much woman for you to handle. Not to mention she has impeccable taste. You would have never been enough man to satisfy her Ingwe. Besides, Frigga doesn’t need my protection from you. She has already defeated you once.”[/color] Chuck blocked an angry swipe of the spear with Lucille. The reverberation from the impact was felt through his entire body. Samantha managed to work her way to Ingwe’s other side, splitting his attention between her and Boomer. She began to fire the antipersonnel shock grenades at Ingwe. They were being pulled off course attracted to the trophy system in his shield. She fired them as fast as she could until she ran out of them. She only had 5 of them. Hopefully that was enough. The grenades landed close enough to the shield that the energy discharge was collected by the shield; the metal of the grenades attracted and influenced by the trophy system. The grenades exploding were bright and made her see spots even as her helmet’s HUD darkened the display to protect her eyes. She was blinking to see around the spots. Chuck’s helmet display automatically darkened to protect his vision as Samantha struck. Chuck dodged the incoming attack ducking below the Zulu’s swing as the grenade struck. He managed to dance out of the way as the electricity danced over the Zulu mech’s shield. Samantha grinned as she saw electric sparks and smoke come from the circuitry in Zulu’s shield. Samantha backed away and began to give her space to fire some of her heavier long range weapons. [color=ec008c]Samantha: “Boomer I believe his trophy system was damaged at least by that last attack. I am moving to ranged to see if I can hammer him with more damage.” [/color] Chuck’s gritted his teeth as he blocked Ingwe’s strikes. His feet sinking in the ground at the strength of the blow. Chuck yelled, managing to push the spear back a little. The sound of servos whining could be heard. The beauty of Chuck’s armor was that it was assisted by his own strength and not reliant on its own mechanical strength. It was a synergy of both. If his armor broke he still had his personal strength to rely on. Samantha began targeting the mech’s weakest points which were it’s joints the cockpit. She backed away and began releasing missiles on the Zulu mech. She used her guns to target the joints as she began to move her mech from side to side running and keeping a distance from the Zulu mech. She was trying to hit him from the rear while Chuck was fighting the Zulu mech head on. Chuck put his whole body into a twist as he aimed at the bottom of the mech’s leg. Maybe he could knock it down or make Ingwe stumble. There was another horrendous sound of metal tearing as armor plating dented and broke. The Zulu Mech didn’t go down but it wobbled. Samantha began targeting the mech’s weakest points which were its joints and the cockpit. The heaviest armored part of the mech protected its power core. She backed away and began releasing missiles on the Zulu mech. She used her guns to target the joints as she began to move her mech from side to side running and keeping a distance from the Zulu mech. She was trying to hit him from the rear while Chuck was fighting the Zulu mech head on. Ingwe seemed to come alive and begin to fight harder and Chuck was hard pressed to dodge and block. The fight began to speed up as Samantha’s guns began to tear into the mech’s rear armor. Chuck was beginning to tire; they had been fighting and running for a while now. Ingwe was fresh to the fight. Chuck was barely able to match him in the mech. Only his training, size, strength, and armor had allowed him to go toe to toe with the mech. The mech didn’t get tired though. Ingwe let out a triumphant yell as he managed to stab his spear into Chuck’s side. The spear was caught on Chuck’s armor. The spear punctured through his armor due to the force being exerted. The spear going through Chuck’s armor and was lodged into his side. The spear pierced his side and moved downwards past his lower ribs. Chuck stumbled back taking the spear with him. He fell down a few steps later. His HUD ringing and flashing with alarms and his armor's medical suite began shooting him full of drugs and running diagnostics. Chuck's side was on fire and he was having trouble breathing. The force of the blow coupled with the penetration of the spear doing massive damage to him. His armor mitigating some of that damage. Samantha screamed out in fury seeing Chuck go down. The Zulu mech had smoke pouring out of it as it turned towards her now firing everything it had at her. She began firing everything she had with tears in her eyes. She aimed for the cockpit. She wanted Ingwe dead this time. She didn't want to lose anyone else. She recognized just how broken she was after everything she had come through. She had come to be close to those who fought next to her. Those who fought next to her where brothers and sisters. It was almost unbearable to think she would lose more of them.