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And the Giants shall return to the Earth, and they will Walk, and the ground shall Shake


As the two Wildcat helicopters banked, they steered over the chaos behind them, dumping chaff to avoid missiles from mainly the mech, and any other fire, moving fast and dumping a ton of speed on the far side of the launch pad, flying past the Adrianne on the pad itself and the half-bunker, half headquarters of Vulpine Space, as well as their operational center that had been co-opted by Artemis. The choppers were going straight for the rocket store, a gigantic, almost 20 story tall building where rockets were housed prior to launch and now something else entirely had been.

When the call came, there was hardly a surprise. Rushing to get here had been a problem, but for prize mercenaries, Artemis paid. And pay they did with something else Ingwe had gotten in the contract. A plus one for an off-planet escape, to return after the world ended…..

Inside one of the choppers, Laura looked back at the chaos they’d been dropped into, dressed in a tight black pilot’s suit that formed the inner layer of her traditional THICC suit, revealing her hefty breasts and her Athena-rivalling rump. Laura was fat, unashamedly so, maybe more so than ever before even outside of her THICC suit. She was not aiming to be a model, she was aiming to be effective given the muscle behind it that those pesky Kaantario siblings managed to manage better than her and well, schnitzel, wurst and strudel with a lot of money had an effect on her. Not that it turned Ingwe off her, her new partner doing things to her that weren’t even legal in most countries. From her laced up boots to her thighs wrapped tight in the glove-like embrace of the suit that looked like they could crush a VW Beetle, along her trunk-like arms all the way to her neck on which an almost comically small head sat, there was something of a dominatrix about her, given away by her hazel-coloured hair in a braid and her sharp pink acetylene burn on her face.

And well, rolling with Ingwe, it had been so easy to fall for him. She was addicted to him. Completely. When she laid eyes on him in that bar, hurt after Freya had pulled a number in him in Patagonia, Laura changed. Gone was any mission of her own. It was an instant connection, and well, he got lost in her too. Thoughts of Freya disappeared, because he was the only man in the world that made her feel like she was tiny. Of course, she was there to kill him at first, an easy job but…..of course, the B-Movie plot played itself when a pyromaniac German cast out from Raven’s main team started getting feelings for the African merc that treated her like the empress she thought she was.

Freya was the only other that did that to her, and while nearly getting killed by her had brought back memories, maybe even almost regret...but well, Ingwe...Ingwe did something else. It might have felt like nearly getting killed, given he was pretty badly hurt by almost all of the Kaantario siblings now, but he still had his charm. And he dealt with her unhinged nature. A toxic match for two very unstable, powerful people.

Stepping out off the side of the chopper, the Artemis mercs secured the area, and moved to open the doors of the gigantic warehouse, Laura positively dripping with a certain feel. This was not something typical- it was a final line of defense, something she hoped to play with at some point, but sooner had finally arrived.

Looking to Ingwe, Laura wrapped up close against him, tangling herself close to his chest, rubbing hers against his.
“This wasn’t how I expected to show you the treat that Rose promised. But it comes to this...the men have bought us time and Zhao trusts us to squish them. Glad that my ex didn’t go for the head on that geoengineering rig, so I could show you this myself, and her too. Maybe a treat before this little Garden of Eden we can come back to after we clear our path out, mein Schatz?” Laura pushed herself against him, rubbing his hand a little against her own rear.
“She promised us a little power before we left. But I feel we should go show some now. We are better than them. Are you ready?” Laura excitedly spoke, crazy with love, and generally, the feeling of burning shit down.

Ingwe played with the blade of his huge Iklwa spear, tucked to his chest. He had a limp, after that beating down in the South. His face was carved and cratered. It had been quite a beatdown. He should have died. If not for Artemis coming in, finding him on the brink and bringing him back. He’d been looking out into the field as they came in and had seen some of the enemy fighters. But it hadn’t been the time. They healed him, rebuilt his body where Raven had hit him hard.

Now here he is with Laura. Oh a lot of the Heavies in the world know of Laura. She’s almost as famous as Athena, Freya and their mother Natalie. Standing side by side with other infamous mercs like Antoine and Svetlana.

But Laura is something else. She had a way with words, and action. Even as she presses herself to his side. Ingwe responds, woodenly. He can sense that passion, but there is something else. He takes a breath and lets it hiss between his teeth. He turns to her, “Zhao and that Succubus and Artemis promised me a land of my own, to rebuild Africa after the world dies.” He hisses angrily, “But before then…I want them to burn. I want her to burn! Freya…Frigga.” He starts to shake with rage and anger, “I’ll watch her writhe in pain at my feet before the time to retreat and wait in safety comes.” He looks at her, “You were close with her weren’t you? Are you tainted by that snake woman’s charms too?” He grabs Laura by the cheek, and for a second he almost smacks her, but instead he steals a kiss, “Perhaps after all is done, we will have to see if we can’t wash that taint from you.” He lets her go then, “Yes we should go show them.” He steps forward, and the lights in the warehouse boomed on, revealing two large shapes within. He stretched his arms forth, “With these.”

Mechs…

And with it, into light came two twenty-five foot tall silhouettes that dominated the room.

His and hers.

And made to the way that Laura demanded it, and Ingwe too. Laura had forgotten just how deep the pockets of some people were, and when you wanted to be the elite, the top dog in the mercenary world, you paid eye-watering sums. There weren’t others like Laura and Ingwe, after all, the number of giants over seven foot that weren’t crippled were probably under two dozen. With no squad, no elite unit, not much but sheer bombast and power. And more than anything, they didn’t want money from Artemis, they would provide security for free, so long as they got that world. Ingwe had invited Laura into that world, it was why she was on that rig as the final protection point, and if she’d have gotten through her ex, her team wouldn’t have stood a chance. And she could think of nothing more hot than that. Ripping and tearing away, Laura’s boots clattering on concrete as her thighs shook like pistons and the suit squeaking as she moved due to just how tight and likely, how much she’d been treating herself and Ingwe while he was recovering.

The lights flickered on across the side of the warehouse, no rocket here, but something with even more power as Laura looked to him, loving it when he got feisty with her.

“Oh, you’ll get all the taint out of me, and so much more….relax, big boy. I’ll squish her like she’s never been squished. And Skye Lyons….oh, I’ll save her for you. I like it when you get angry. You’re so hot when you are.” Laura stuck out her tongue, cackling with laughter, watching what emerged in front of them come into full view.

Laura craned her neck up at it, whistling at the sight of hers. Like someone had taken her THICC suit, and blown it up, to 25 feet. They had gotten all the proportions right, and walking around the back….Laura screamed like she had seen a ghost.
“Mein gott!” Laura giggled, cackling with laughter, hearty and deep, unhinged even, as she ran back around it, yelling.
“Ah, this will do, Ingwe! Zis will do!” She cackled, wooping, practically bouncing around, resting up against the gigantic mechanical leg.
“She looks beautiful? Das UberTHICC…..I saw this in my dreams, and so it was given the codename. And look at it. So beautiful. The essence of me in….this. And look at yours too. After everything, we deserve it.” Laura whipped her hair, at this point, frankly more absorbed than Athena at this point in time, whistling at the last before turning back to her own.

"It's...it's perfect, Ingwe," Laura breathed, turning to him with a wide grin. She walked over to Ingwe, her boots clattering on the concrete, and she laughed, a deep, throaty sound that echoed through the warehouse. Evil, pure, diabolical evil. She wrapped her arms around his neck, leaving a biting kiss, before she pressed her lips to his again, a quick, fierce kiss that left him breathless.

"We're going to be unstoppable," she whispered against his lips. "Just you and me, tearing through everything in our path. Fuck, this is the best day ever." She leaned out, with a wild, wild smile.

"You know me, Ingwe. I do love playing with my toys." Laura stared with a fire of a thousand suns, breathless, completely overwhelmingly in burn. But she had to go back. Addict herself to this.

In addition to its flamethrower nozzles, mounted on the arms, the mech was also armed with a pair of GAU-19 miniguns mounted on the sides of the mech onto tracked targets. The mech's right arm was equipped with a gigantic chainsaw poking beyond the hand, capable of ripping vehicles and other mechs with ease, the left with an electric smoke projector. And finally, the mech was equipped with its own mini missile system, on the right shoulder, built to eliminate aerial and counter rocket threats where the gigantic field generator didn’t.

Laura's eyes sparkled with excitement as she took in every detail of her new mech, the UberTHICC. She ran her gloved hands along the smooth, matte black metalicky rubber surface, feeling the power that hummed beneath her touch. She could already imagine the destruction it would wreak on the battlefield, and the thrill of piloting it sent a shiver down her spine.

The mech's design was an evolution of Laura's THICC suit, with exaggerated proportions that accentuated her massive….chunk. From her large breasts to round, firm rear, perhaps though it was a little wider in proportions than herself in reality, the stability was perhaps a considered factor, plus carrying her weaponry type demanded it. Yet it was a statement. Instead of being built from traditional titanium and rare earth all over, it seemed to have a rubberised, anti-shock outer mixed in with reactive plating, given it relied heavily on a massive field generator on the back and frankly hummed with the stuff on the surface and with a variable-rate field that could repel bullets to artillery shells, wedged atop the gigantic thermite tanks that Laura’s special brew flamethrower fuel sat in that literally were the size of a small bus, each- hot enough to melt most shields, tanks and armour. But beneath that lay armour that provided main battle tank levels of protection, creating a chassis that otherwise was covered. Thruster jets, built around the underside gave her an ability to hop, not jump per se, but clear obstacles.

The arms were equally imposing, with massive, heavily armored shoulders and biceps that bulged with raw power. The mech's head was a stylized version of Laura's own outline, with a pair of glowing blue eyes that seemed to pierce through the darkness with a triangle-like glow. No reason, but just because it completed the look, given the rest of it felt like literally the suit Freya had smashed up replicated for many times XL. The legs were like Laura’s exactly the same but just to scale, the size of each “shoe” with a mechanical foot like the size of a car, with a sleek mechanism in each, the joints of the mech hidden sleekly, yet making the thing a hell of a bigger target than it needed to be, the stomach and chest the same, nothing spared. This wasn’t a mech, this was a statement, her own vanity, self obsession, and actually making it happen because she had the rights to it. It made her a bigger target, but she wanted to be. She wanted to be stupid. Dumb. And fuck whatever was said about practicality, she wanted it this way, and now she got it. The lady who was a middling engineer would work it out herself. She could already imagine the look on Freya's face when she saw it, when she realized that Laura was coming for her, and that this time, she was a hell of a lot bigger, looking back to Ingwe before finishing checks.

“So, shall we take them for a test drive?”

And with his response, Laura pulled away the large power cord attached to the gigantic hydrogen cells inside mounted where well, of course it was because she was as positively bonkers as she could be as she slid back down the rear of the leg a couple of feet after clambering to it, that motion boots lifting to reveal her rollerblades from earlier as the thing energised. Her realisation that a big lumbering pyro was an easy target, so of course, rollerblades it was.
“Oh, you shouldn’t have Rose, it has wheels!” She exclaimed in the most German accent Ingwe had likely heard her make, as she clapped her hands in excitement.

Laura heard another loud explosion from the other side, the Raven troops charging through the security checkpoint as she clambered up the ladder built into the mech's thigh. She hauled herself up, her muscles straining with the effort. She was barely fitting through the gap, straining and grunting, costing a valuable minute, but physically unable to move for a second until she used brute force to take her hips through with her massive arms. It was a tight gap, but she yanked herself in and pulled the entry shut, sitting inside a padded, luxurious chair with a camera setup. She slipped inside, the hatch sealing behind her with a hiss of pressurized air.Sliding her arms into the control mechanisms, her legs into the same as the sleek chair moulded into her and creaked in strain in the tight cockpit inside where her belly might be, she felt her legs tighten up into their clamped position, the mech following her movement, half standing but now interfaced..

Laura's fingers danced over the controls with her hands as the AR display popped out, her excitement palpable as she felt the mech's power course through her. The mech's systems came to life around her, the displays flickering to life, the hum of power filling her ears. She could feel the mech's movements, the way it shifted under her control, as if it was an extension of her own body.

She looked out through the mech's eyes, the world outside reduced to a grid of targeting reticles and sensor readouts. She could see Ingwe's mech standing nearby, its systems also coming online. She could see the other mercs, moving around the warehouse, securing the area, most in dumbfounded shock. This had not been shown to them. It had barely been shown to anyone outside of Rose and Zhao. She could feel the anticipation building inside her, the excitement, the adrenaline. She was ready. She was more than ready. She was born for this.

She turned to Ingwe, her voice filled with a fierce determination. "Not looking bad yourself, Ingwe. Let's go show them what we're made of. Let's go burn them to the ground." And with it, the suit stomped, then slid forward, as Laura cackled, her body shaking, trembling with power, and she felt like now, they could bring a hundred, a thousand, hundred thousand men, but she was going to rip through them like butter.

As Laura went to her mech, Ingwe watched, his eyes burning is almost religious levels of fervor and rage. This is it, this is when he can get his payback against Raven, and Freya. And he understands the other Siblings and a few tawdry others with them. He and Laura could surely take them out, and then he could spend time skinning Freya like a hog.

As Laura boarded up he walked over to his. It’s painted a brilliant crimson and yellow with streaks that make it look like black warpaint on its face plate and along its chest. Broad with several reactive plates all along it’s chest and cockpit, armored joints to make things a little harder on the enemy.

He crawled up and into the cockpit, letting it shut, in casing him in darkness before systems started to come online, the interior lit in amber and blue, the outside cameras spun up and turned, a main camera set looking like five eyes set in a pyramid design lit up gold. After abit his radio turns on and he hears Laura, “This will be our magnum opus Laura. To get back at those who have hurt us. The way Raven and Freya has humiliated me, and the way she nearly killed you.” He sighs and manipulates the mech, picking up the Iklwa styled pile driver gun on his left side, and a massive shotgun in the other. A zulu style shield slides over his left arm, “May we fight well, and put and end to Raven yes? Let’s get moving Big Bertha, we have work to do. Today Shaka and Big Bertha walk together.” He keys into the base comms, “Open the bay doors, we’re leaving!”

As the mech doors heave open again, Ingwe guides his mech out, onto the battlefield, “Come I’m called to slaughter.” His outside speaker switch on and he bellows, “Zulu! Zulu! Zulu!” as he walks forward in his mech.

Laura smirked, looking across, bringing his cockpit camera into view onto hers.
“I thought you would never ask.” Laura smirked, flicking the burners on, stomping out towards the doors, following behind Ingwe, the Zulu-incarnate that sat in his own mech. It was quite the spectacle, much like hers. But she would want it no other way.

And so they marched the pair of them, a pair of titans to face titans. There would have to be a reckoning after this. Someone would die. Or not at all. Something would be decided when they met on the field though. Only a matter of time now.
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Port Ibex, Île de la Tempête, Reunion


Fireteam Shadow


Crowd Reprise


0630 Hours


Purna broke into a roll as soon as the arrow hit, keeping head down as Bakker caught a series of knives, and Eloise, well, Eloise royally saved his ass. Eloise had the firepower but was hopelessly outnumbered, a couple of Artemis mercs shielding Bakker as they fired on Purna's and Eloise's last known position, Sam unwilling to use his quiet voice for this reaction while Eloise heroically battled the heavy, and left a tracking arrow on him. One that got a witting reply.
"Hunt them down!" His Dutch bark roared, as unarmed, Purna was back to feet, and running, at sprint. No weapons, but then again, he had the knowledge that Bakker was trying to pull a fast one, breaking from Eloise, knowing they'd make a bigger target.
"Hawk, hellfire direct onto that marker!" Purna yelled, and with it, threw himself over a crate, out of bullets, out of range.

He moved up into the next container, a group of guards coming over, Purna returning the favour for Eloise and tripping one, yanking his F2000 back into his head and clattering the trigger, before dumping the mag and finishing up, pushing away to create a buffer. The sound of the Heavy roaring out was emptied by what was many people running from him, and then an enormous bang that was the heavy literally getting face to face contact time with a AGM-114 Hellfire missile, enough to burst open a tank, and in this case, fittingly opening a person.

Bakker did not sit tight though, and had put distance between them. FiveSeven in spare hand, he burst through the area, and before he knew it, found Eloise in position covering Purna, and was there to make his revenge.

With a push, he easily threw her into the container as he decloaked, pistol aimed to head, ahead of his men that were still in shock and horror.
"Some adventures end before they begin, new girl. They didn't teach you this in Raven." And Bakker went to pull trigger, keeping her weakened state pinned, and wanting to enjoy this.

But Purna wasn't quite out. He pushed back against Bakker's grasp on Eloise by peeling on his leg, kicking hard and dodging a knife, before pivoting with a swinging kick into his crotch even in spite of his short stature, reverse tackling onto him into the floor, before in a brutal fashion, stabbing him in his gut with his own stolen Kukuri from Bakker's side, peeling the Kukri upwards, and severing his spine in the same motion, before sliting his throat clean and simple. Bakker was a fighter, and would have known how to counter, throwing a fist, but it landed and connected to a shadow.

Purna was so full of rage, so full of whatever was inside of him in that moment, a certain kind of adrenaline that even Eloise wouldn't have expected the typically cold, calm, quiet Gurkha to have. It was a moment of pure anger, to a point where it almost looked like Purna was about to feast on the blood of him, rip out teeth and an ear while he was it. Gurkhas were known to do the latter. He had no time for sentimentality, not with this turncoat.

Exhaling hard, Purna wiped the knife on Bakker's side, the warm breath leaving his lungs.
"He knew a lot of tricks. Just forgot infiltrators work best when they're in the shadow, that one he forgot." Purna coldly remarked, as he peeled his USPs off Bakker, stolen pistols taken bacl, hearing the comms of Skye on the other end.

"“Hammer’s on course too, not a bad view this! Happy hunting Anvil, see you down there.” The voice was distinctly Skye's, and meant they were in sync with the assault. Fireteam Shadow had done their job. Succeeded, given the sheer amount of explosions in the far end of the port that had sent containers raining into the sky, and put a corvette, and any serious firepower the PLA's Naval remit here had, thus making the path significantly easier for the other teams. But an infiltration didn't end till they left the place, after all.

"We need to make a move. Best we don't hang around here." Purna commented as he dusted himself down, the rest of the explosives occupying the other soldiers, outside of the enormous explosions from both Purna's and Eloise's charges, as he took a hold of Bakker's modified MP7A2, and the mags off his dead body, reasoning it was good as a tool improvised after everything. Cleaning up, he exhaled hard, the bloodied Gurkha still trying to get thoughts into his head.

"Any ideas how we get to the launch site? Cloaking kit should work still, but they're about to have a big fight over there. We're out of explosives, so the only other place I can think of is getting to the launch site's command bunker, and seeing if we can sneak in. Soften up things when Skye and the team plan to hit it, then regroup with them. Bikes, quads, jeeps. But we have a window." Purna noted, as another explosion casually rocked the port, another fuel tanker going up in the extreme heat at the far end, and punctuating the morning's chaos that had kickstarted Raven Squad's full blown assault on Tempest Island.




Near Camp Bravo, Île de la Tempête, Reunion


Warm Healer


0645 Hours


As the lone man made the walk through the forested track, a group of PLA soldiers stepped out into his way, Shimura hurt, but not outclassed by them.

The crack of a silenced shot slapped through two of them, and before the third could turn, was filled with an accurate burst of semi-automatic fire, which quickly rippled through the last man standing's helmet, turning the group into a collection of lifeless corpses and one Shimura still standing.

Crawling out of the ditch, a rather sodden, shrub-looking Kiwi looked across at Ban's wound, shaking her head as she drew the moss and lichen off her boonie, so she didn't entirely look like a mobile tree to himi.
"You need to tell me when you've got a hole the size of a cricket ball in you, mate. Come off the road, let's get a look at ya. None of this stoic ronin shit on me anymore." She commented with a certain motherly charm, not all too dissimilar to Skye's, yet perhaps even more disappointed. As if she wasn't concerned with the fact he had been pouring blood, but rather, wanted to just get straight into fixing this.

With it, Tahlia, took a look, and started to pack the wound, whether he would like it or not. He wasn't dying today, not on her watch. Overlooking was one thing, getting up close and personal was another.
"You did a pretty decent job. So, I reckon we're a bit far back. But we might be able to at least hold up anyone else that tries to interfere. Once you're fixed, that sound good to you?" Tahlia asked, the Kiwi blunt, if not a little bit too direct, but in a situation like this, honour and nice words weren't much use, but honesty and keeping the enemy at bay were another. She couldn't do that if he was dead, after all....




Vulpine Space Checkpoint / Command Centre, Île de la Tempête, Reunion


Fireteam Hammer/Anvil


Counter Strike


0645 Hours


The counter attack was fierce. But with Adam charging in on the CAV and then mounting up on the GMG that was attached to it when he skidded to a halt, and then Sam bringing the mech, the firepower in response was significant, and allowed them to turn the tide. The PLA forces that had charged in, supported by Artemis were now being turned back, as Skye flicked a new box into the Mk46 and sprayed rounds down range, Athena single-handedly holding a flank and raining electricity that turned PLA soldiers even in exoskeletons into an acrid ozone smell.

So it meant one last assault. One last run. The far away hangar doors opening, however, were omminous. A feeling that Skye all too well knew, as she finished up, Athena dominating the battlefield and chasing after those trying to peel back and lay down more fire, Athena having none of it as she boosted onto enemies and either blew them apart with the coil, or used the sword to literally hack them up, moving far, far too fast for a heavy of her size and wasting the enemy's ammunition on her carbon-reinforced titanium armour.

"Wilk, Boaro, with me...rest of you, whatever the fuck that is over there, kill them and hold our flank!" Skye retorted, Adam bringing the CAV into the checkpoint and making it a good point for Ebrima and her to board. With a quick ride past all the smouldering IFVs and infantry that stank of burns and gunpowder, it was a rolling affair as they fired from the vehicles, mopping up enemies posing resistance on the last stint to the command centre past a destroyed set of warehouses, radar domes and R&D facilities that were in ruin. All irrelevant, to the main target itself.

They had a clean run, at least, as clean as they could on approach to the command centre. The half-buried, bunker-like complex was modern, with an enormous blown-up entry point marking where Artemis had clearly brute forced their own way in via a tunnel. It made sense to follow that route inside, as Adam peeled the CAV to a stop, and immediately raised the field generator, blasting rounds down range with the MSBS as Skye picked out a couple more troops rushing out to meet them, the combined firepower from the three and the GMG on the CAV making mincemeat of them before they disembarked and moved in.

Skye moved fluid, graceful across terrain, the red-haired, grey-exo and MTP wearing operative moving on the door, using the last of the Mk46 to spray rounds into a group of PLA mercs, running hard with an exo-based leap to almost pirouette onto the wall and back into cover, clearing the way forward for Adam to charge through and lay down a wall of shrapnel with his USAS, pasting another fireteam and letting Boaro keep his own flank going.

As Skye charged around the corner, the exo-equipped Artemis merc kicked her hard into the chest, sending her into the wall, as the other operative lept on her, knife forwards for Skye's neck, the Scotswoman instead dodging and feeling significantly weaker, using the M31 to puncture a hole into their stomach that dropped them immediately, before backing away.

Getting clattered hard, Skye was lucky to not break her ribs right there and then, feeling the carrying servo of the exo give way. She swore a very Scots swear, and shook her head, the quiet as they were about to approach the lab-like precision of the command centre, from the central offices to the command room itself, where it was suspected Zhao and Rose were hiding, was ahead.

Looking to Ebrima, she unholstered the M31, and the heavy coil pack off her back, leaving the tactical pack in place. It was an instant look of disappointment on her face, a feeling that the exo had gone this far, kicked this much ass, was no use now.
"Fuck....exo's fucked. You're gonna have to carry this, I'm afraid Boaro. Don't go too wild with giantslaying. Pull for normal fire, hold the clamp for the coil to charge then pull and it'll send a tungsten piece through anything it hits." Skye offered across the rifle, the railgun and the energy pack, as well as flicking out her mags for it- diminished, but plenty enough to do what they had to in here. Picking up the dead mercenary's VHS-02 Rifle, she knew the armour was still good for something, but like this, she was moving a hell of a lot slower, the explosion from outside rocking the structure from the pure anarchy that the heavies were causing.

It felt like as the fight drew on, everyone was fatigued, everyone was running out of the absurd amount of ammunition they had brought, and they were scavenging, foraging, and finding a way to get through.

"More hostiles, incoming!" Adam yelled, keeping the suppressing fire down, as Skye now shuffled significantly slower than before, grateful for the protection of the exo, but now not able to leap and sprint like she had before. The redhead, reluctantly, was holding back more now, like the power had been ripped from the team leader and instead, she was a little more cautious.
"On it! Wilk, you have point, Boaro, clap anything that stops us, we're getting to this bloody control!"




As the sight of the hangar doors opened in the far horizon, the figures that emerged were not exactly Athena or Freya sized, they were a hell of a lot bigger. As Athena had learned recently, getting blasted in the face by one of those was not exactly that fun, but this looked like just another level compared to Marrakesh.

"Chaos, might need a bit of help over here....." Athena's voice cracked a little, unexpected even, because even with Sam's towering bipedal mech, holding the line was not going to be fun.

"Where's your power now!" The booming call across the empty launchpad, that of Laura's mic was clear. This was not a mech made entirely for....tactical purposes? It felt more like a clarion call of someone who had bought a car, done it up and decided in a moment of insanity, to palm off the fuzzy dice and instead make it as garish as possible.

If there was ever a time for a showdown, it would be right about now. Finding a weakness would be difficult, but while two mechs versus one seemed a sure fight, with Athena, Freya, Jamie and Chuck in the play, it was at least somewhat made more even.

"Your ex-girlfriend has a hell of a fucking thing for fire, Frigga! You didn't tell me she was this fucking unhinged!" She replied, using her jump jet to leap out of the way of a massive belch of flames that roared across the massive concrete launch pad where another Arianne rocket would normally be parked, sitting in the shadow of the enormous one that still sat on its pad, payload and contents unknown. Athena blasted a bolt at the legs, watching it harmlessly clatter, cursing. Well, this was going to be plenty more difficult....
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Fireteam Anvil


Samantha "Chaos" Dalton


Battle of the Giants


Samantha was worried about the Shadow team as she pushed the mech to its limits to move faster. As she was making tracks towards their location, she was diverted to handle two new threats to the field. Skye ordered her to take out a new threat. Athena also requested help as two huge mechs had joined the fight and it looked like Laura and Ignwe were back. Samantha would have to trust the Archer and Viper would be alright. She knew they each had their jobs to do. She knew that they were both very capable operatives or they would not be a member of Raven Squad. Samantha gritted her teeth. After working as a lone operative she had learned what it meant to be part of a team. She had gotten closer to Purna after working alongside him at Marrakesh. He was a quiet but strong presence in their team. Raven Squad had come to replace the family she had lost and she was protective about losing them. If she had anything to say about it, no one would be dying on her watch today. Even if they were here saving the world, again. Samantha knew that she had to do her part. She had her own role to play in today’s battle. She wished the Shadow team luck before acknowledging her orders. She was already on her way.

Samantha: “Chaos acknowledges orders. I am on my way, Athena. ETA is two minutes.”

As Samantha cleared the edge of the hanger and made her way towards where Athena was marked on the area map, she saw two huge mechs walking side by side towards her. Her eyes widened in surprise as Laura’s mech looked like some kind of home 3d printed action figure. Ingwe’s mech held a massive Zulu shield. She wondered if the shield was a trophy system. That would make them much harder to take out.

Samantha: “Bob, begin analyzing those mechs for weaknesses.”

Samantha sighed as she ran towards Athena. “Well Athena, there is no accounting for taste. I am happy to say that Frigga’s taste in partners has improved.”

Samantha came to a stop next to Athena as she was noting the lay of the land and cataloging what weapons and defenses she could discern on the two mechs. This was going to be a tough fight.

Laura’s voice came booming across the empty launchpad from her mech. "Where's your power now!"

Samantha spoke into Raven comms. “These are obviously custom mechs. I would suspect they have a trophy system so be careful what you fire at. I would recommend aiming for joints to disable its mobility. If we can pierce the tank for her flamethrower, we might be able to disable that weapon or cause the material to explode. Speed and strength will play a factor in dealing with Ingwe’s mech. We need to be tactical about this or we will find ourselves in over our head.”

Samantha chuckled as she heard Athena tell Frigga. "Your ex-girlfriend has a hell of a fucking thing for fire, Frigga! You didn't tell me she was this fucking unhinged!"

Athena jumped out of the way of a spray of fire from Laura’s mech.

Samantha dodged out of the way and moved her mech to the side trying to come up behind Laura and Ingwe. Ingwe saw her though and turned to face her. She tried to hit Laura’s tank with her minigun. Ingwe used the trophy system on his shield to block the shot. He laughed at her calling her a piss ant and weakling. She had been at those fights against Ingwe but she had been in a support role as Freya was the one fighting him. Samantha used her martial arts skills as best she could with the mech. The movements were not as natural and her mech was not set up for fighting like this. She only had ranged weaponry. She needed a melee weapon of some kind. Samantha looked at the area and smiled as she pulled off a long piece of metal railing on the walkway. She would just have to make do. She swung the pipe at Ingwe aiming for the elbow joint on his mech. He once again blocked with his shield laughing at her. The pipe bent around the edge of the shield. Ingwe used his shield to bash Samantha’s mech aside. The strength from the hit was enough to push her back several feet and stumble. She barely regained her footing in time as he pushed the advantage. Ingwe brought up his other arm and fired at Samantha at point blank range with his mini guns. She managed to spin away from the gun as the shots grazed her armor instead of piercing through it.

The battle of titans had begun. Samantha’s mech was smaller than theirs. She tried to fire her minigun into their mech’s joints to disable them. They had a trophy system going that kept knocking her shots off target. She seemed to be able to move faster than them. She kept working to damage areas that would limit their mobility or take their weapons offline.

Samantha: "This ain't going to be easy."
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Chuck "Boomer" Simmons


Battle of the Giants


Chuck was breathing heavily as he finished taking out his anger on the fire wielding heavy that had been trying to roast Freya. Chuck smiled at Freya, happy to see her uninjured as finished making a pancake of the man who had been attacking her. Before he could do more than ask if she was okay, he heard Wilk giving them new orders to cover the team moving towards the command compound.

The team began moving towards the command compound. Wilk had jumped in the CAV and was using the heavy caliber machine gun in the back to support Skye’s position. He had no trouble covering their advance. Most of the PLA had been routed and was running away from them. The ones still brave enough to try were easy pickings for Chuck with his rifle and marksman skill. He didn’t waste time and aimed for their heads. Kill shots dropped them every time. He didn’t stop running to keep up with the others as he switched out his empty magazine for a full one. Lucille was once again hanging in her sheath on the back of his armor out of the way as she ran and gunned along with the team. They had joined up with Skye and were making their way towards the command bunker when the two huge mechs came out of a hanger towards them. Skye ordered them to take care of whatever was coming towards them, obviously focused on the objective in front of her and refused to be distracted or deterred.

Chuck spoke into his comms. “Boomer acknowledges moving to intercept the unknown targets.”

Chuck followed Samantha as part of the team broke off to engage with the large targets. As they got closer, Chuck’s HUD display began to show the silhouette of the mechs and were analyzing the targets. Samantha warned them that she thought they had a trophy system. Trophy systems would intercept bullets and missiles pulling them off course or cause them to ricochet. Samantha’s warning would help them avoid being hit by their own weapons. As he looked over the battle ground, he noticed that Athena had engaged Laura who had been using a flamethrower to try and hit her. Ingwe was protecting her and they were working as a team as Samantha tried to sneak behind Laura and hit her from behind. Ingwe used his shield to bash into Samantha’s mech pushing it back. Chuck could tell that Samantha’s mech could not go toe to toe with Ingwe on strength. Her mech was designed for ranged combat support. The armor and defenses on Ingwe and Laura’s mechs were strong against ranged attacks. He could see her logic in going for close quarters fighting.

Chuck let his rifle drop to hang on its tactical sling as he pulled Lucille from her sheath. Chuck let out a rough battle cry as he leaped into the fray. He swung Lucille towards the knee joint on Ingwe’s mech. The heavy reinforced mech withstood the blow even as a horrific metallic clang and crunch sounded out as the two impacted. The joint was dented but still functional. He looked up at the mech that was over twice as tall as him. Chuck was 7 feet and ten inches tall. He was tall even for a giant. He was the perfect height to put all his strength behind the blow on the knee joint. The blow did force Ingwe’s mech back a bit. Chuck’s own mighty strength was reinforced by his armor. Chuck had more speed and maneuverability than Ingwe had in the mech. Ingwe had more strength in the mech and height. Ingwe certainly had bigger weapons to call on than Chuck.

Chuck growled up at Ingwe “Haven’t you heard that no means no! Why don’t you pick on someone your size.”

Leave it to Chuck to pick a fight with the giant in the big ass mech. Chuck followed up his swing on the knee joint with a backswing the other way. The knee joint gave a satisfying crunching noise causing it to lock up in a standing position. Ingwe responded by trying to shield bash Chuck like he did Samantha. Chuck laughed and ducked out of the way. He jumped up grabbing the edge of the shield with one hand. You could hear the servos whine in his armor as he pulled himself up using the edge of the shield. He swung Lucille one handed hitting the faceplate on the Ingwe’s mech. There was no damage as Ingwe responded by tilting his shield and pushed Chuck off of it. Chuck laughed as he landed on his feet, bending his knees to absorb the shock.

Chuck: “Getting slow in your old age.”

Chuck targeted the mech’s head as he fired one of his missiles at Ingwe’s mech. The missile was pushed off target by the trophy system and exploded next to the mech’s head. He ducked, catching the edge of the missile’s fireball being so close. His armor’s plating and climate control system brushing off the fire.

Chuck spoke into his comms. “Trophy system confirmed Chaos.”
Ingwe yelled out something in a language Chuck didn’t know. He swung his mech’s foot to kick Chuck. Chuck laughed as he rolled out of the way. “Still too slow!”
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Crowd Reprise


0630 Hours


"Any ideas how we get to the launch site? Cloaking kit should work still, but they're about to have a big fight over there. We're out of explosives, so the only other place I can think of is getting to the launch site's command bunker, and seeing if we can sneak in. Soften up things when Skye and the team plan to hit it, then regroup with them. Bikes, quads, jeeps. But we have a window." Purna noted, as another explosion casually rocked the port, another fuel tanker going up in the extreme heat at the far end, and punctuating the morning's chaos that had kickstarted Raven Squad's full blown assault on Tempest Island.


Eloise hadn't been able to say or do much; Bakker's assault had left her winded, and she'd fought back as best she could, but his hands had pinned her in place and she hadn't been able to reach her knives. She gasped and rubbed her throat, taking sips of water as she croaked on her first attempt to speak, the second coming out with a slight rasp as she managed to get her words out.
"Ugh. Thank you for the save. But yes; the bunker sounds like a good idea if the site is out of the question. Might give us a chance to resupply from these idiots' stuff as well," she said, idly kicking Bakkers corpse for emphasis, before drawing and checking her own SMG and nodding satisfactorily. "I've still got a decent amount of ammo. Out of arrows and throwing knives, and explosives too... though, worth it to save your hide, and for getting that big arsehole too". She said with a slight smirk beneath her mask.
She cracked her neck slightly and rolled her shoulders, cradling the gun in both hands. "Right, let's get moving then?"
Getting her bearings, she swiftly moved off, sticking to the shadows and back-alley routes toward the command bunker, the destination highlighted by a waypoint on her HUD as she darted through shadows, tight spaces, and moved like flowing water and with the quiet of a breeze.
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When the Cameroonian emerged from the armory, his armor was sporting a fresh red tone to his camouflage. He dried off the kukri’s blade with the sleeve of one of the Artemis mercs before sheathing it, after shaking the wearer’s arm out of it, and turned his attention to his new Benelli M1014, an old but proven semi-auto workhorse known to perform the Disappearing Head magic trick just as well as the Origin and somehow do it with only about five and a half moving parts. This one came with a holographic sight as well, how nice of them.

And while he was shopping, he also grabbed a few incendiary grenades. Wouldn’t want the world-ending freaks to be cold in their last moments, after all. But a shadow was descending over them. Quite literally as the bimbo momentarily blocked out the Sun during her arrival. Who let a child run a PMC? Later, perhaps, he might consider his words out of line, but in the moment he couldn’t have less patience for Athena’s antics if one paid him, simply walking past her before she had a chance to regroup. Still a job to do. He followed Skye out of the ruin of the R&D building, checking the charge of his two remaining Tricksters and seeing two full bars with quiet satisfaction. He deployed the second Scout drone, setting it to follow 50 meters directly above Athena and tag hostels on her HUD while the one he set up before followed after him.

Oh yes. As if they weren’t cheating enough before, Skye, Athena and Ebrima now had wallhack. And it was just as much a bloodbath as it sounded like to the point of Ebrima almost feeling bad for them had he not known their end goal.

It had been a real weird few months. How little stood between him being killed by a world-ending neurotoxin and being none the wiser. How little stood between him being unaware of all of this or even being approached by Artemis and dying here, on the geoengineering rig or anywhere else Raven left smoldering ruins in their wake. That poor bastard, right there? The one that just got crushed underfoot by Athena? That could have been him.

Better be lucky than good, right?

The CAV skidded to a halt by the hole leading into the command center, breaching the bunker requiring his full focus once more. The trio leapfrogged through the bunker in a hail of lead, tungsten and white phosphorus thanks to his raid of the armory in the R&D building, cutting down PLA troops like a weedwhacker until a pair of exo operators timed it well, the one disadvantage of the tube-fed 1014 being the reload time, especially when coupled with having loose shotgun shells dumped into the drum magazine pouches.

Ebrima ducked the first burst with no small amount of help from the Tricksters, both of the drones alternating between between recharge and being active to make sure he was never without coverage, though steadily depleting both in the all-or-nothing fight. The closer one got clubbed in the face with the stock and swiftly kicked away, a problem to be dealt with later while the other soldier sent a three-round burst into his abdomen, the rounds striking like hammer blows but ultimately not enough to stop the Cameroonian’s momentum, the PLA soldier getting shoulder checked and carried along with the charging albino while he jammed the barrel of his sidearm into a gap between thigh plates and emptied the magazine, either the bullets or bone fragments turning the Chinaman’s femoral artery into shreds judging by the amount of blood coming out. But turning to address the delayed problem, Ebrima was faced with the sight of the soldier falling and Skye swearing.

It would seem the trend of other people’s misfortune being his good luck was continuing as the last dying action of some PLA troops was to disable Skye’s exo, which meant Ebrima now had a railgun, trading it for his MDRx and magazines. He may have lost wallhack indoors, but now he could ignore most cover.

This really wasn’t Rose’s day.
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