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Alright, my body is ready. I know I said I'd edit in my CS to that previous post, but forget it.

Neo-Hominid Commonwealth, Info;




I hope that's fine, if you disagree with anything, just tell me fam. And yeah... it's a lot longer then I thought it was gonna be too, lmao.

Edit: Also, other non-GMy peeps, could I have your guys' opinions too? Might as well.
Well, some of em will, def.

u cheeki runt u tink ur clever, u trying to put me on a RUSE CRUISE?!
well what's so bad about post-singularity, may I ask? I'm fine with being cyborg dudes and all, but I really wanna try out the fully-robotic concept and see how they'd even work in a story like this. Is it because 'post-singularity' implies they're great at EVERYTHING?

I'm really meaning that the society itself has just invented A.I. and brain-uploading 'just a year or two ago', but they're not that technologically advanced yet in other areas compared to most of the other societies. I'm mostly using that as a backdrop so we can have some tech-oriented philosophy with our spookiness, since I really like that. It'd be really neat having spooky shit happening and the fleshy-captain of my squad having squabbles with the fully-robotic brain-uploaded second-in-command, and maybe it even going violent.

If you really don't want me to have fully-robotic brain-uploaded trooper dudes mixed in with my power-armored (maybe) fleshies, I guess that's fine. It is your RP after-all.
Hey, can I do slightly geth-y "just-post-singularity' humans who are figuring out the ins and outs of living with, creating, and becoming computerized sentiences?

Edit: Actual balance wise, I'm thinking now I'll have about 7-8~ dudes and they're all really durable, but their offense (while decent) is pretty shit. They'll also have tiny little jetpacks so they can maneuver a bit in zero-G without having to rely on the 'jump from point to point' method too often.
Yeah sorry for the wait, reserving a slot myself. I'll edit in a proper sheet(s) and shit too lmao
oh yeah he's just husbando material in looks. a qtp2t

edit: wait, you want him to actually have glowy eyes? how the hell would we explain that? Pic related?
The Scorpion-Beast was stabbed in the 'gut' from the underside, confusing it and making it move a bit backwards. It saw tiny flashes of light coming in through a hole, and then felt very, very hot. The foliage was ignited and Imgor had to get out ASAP, which he promptly did. Now ON FIRE, the creature tried to put itself out, waving around wildly. Arnold seemed to wake up as the beast went past him, and the fire got on him too, beginning to burn his clothes. "HOLY FUCK!" he screamed, ripping off the cloth from his arm and throwing it at the scorpion creature, which was also, still on fire. "Nothing sets me on fire and lives! DIE, CREATURE!".

Arnold then rushed the thing and began a close-range fight, using his shield to block attacks, and then bashing it in the face. Of course, as both were heavily defended (And in the scorpions' case, very offensive as well) combatants, they were essentially in a stale-mate. Either way, the scorpion was a dead beast walking; For some reason, Beasts were even more vulnerable to fire then regular creatures. "Am I going to have to wait as this thing burns to death or what? Someone stab it already!", he quickly requested.

The fire, in any case, began to spread, and the environmental situation of Coalstrike obviously worsened. In the night, this was obviously going to be noticed by somebody.
The dust settled after that event, and the man currently only known as 'Nine' got back into his NC. Sophia, seeing that the coast is as clear as it's going to get, rocketed out of the small hole she was sneakily peeking through, and climbed on Percy's NC, opening the hatch manually from the outside. "You okay in there? As far as I can tell he just... fried everything NC-grade. I have no idea who that... wizard-pilot is."

Percy had pulled himself together during that insanity Nine pulled. "Yeah. I'm.. ...Fine.. Nothing feels broken."

"Well, get out, let's get the others out of their NC's... We have to do something about the other hostiles. Fucking tanks..."

"...Think you can drive one?"

Percy just looked at her, shocked. "I, uh.. I don't.. I don't think I can, Captain."

Before Sophia could insist, her phone started to ring. When she answered it, Zach's voice was on the other end.

"Damn it, t-tell Percy I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. I couldn't do anything. I'm so sorry." His voice was weak and slightly shaky, sounding like he was struggling to hold it together. "...You did your best, we'll be there ASAP."

Zach's voice was more firm this time. "Tell Percy I'm sorry." "I will."

Percy just ignored her, and decided the best thing to do was to get the heck out of there.. Make sure his daughter was ok. He scrambled out of the NC and before Sophia could call out to him, he was halting a vehicle that was going into Smith's Rest - probably what little militia they have. "Just let me hitch a ride, I have a kid, please-"

Sophia yelled, "Militia, don't let him. Percy, you get back here and assist us, or I'll kill you. I don't want you getting killed by anything else and getting your kid killed too."

"I have to protect my daughter. I have no idea if she's ok! Just please let me do this! Please!" "If you ditch us now, she'll absolutely die, alongside dozens of others. You want to be responsible for not just your kid probably dying, but everyone elses' too?"

Percy looked at her, very obviously torn.. But he makes his decision quickly. "You win.. but if me helping you people gets my daughter killed, you're going to regret ever letting me get familiar with those things." Percy then gestures to the fallen NC. "Fair trade, now grab some shovels."

There were no lights in Blur's cockpit, but inside Eli was very much alive, and after blinking out of the daze the fall had put her in, realized she was, for the most part, unharmed. Seatbelts save lives. Didn't do much for her temper, though. She didn't need to see outside to know Blur was in shambles: a missing arm, some busted engines, and whatever the hell the fall had done to it.

She released the straps keeping her to the seat, dropping a few feet to the opposite side of the cockpit. Blur had fallen onto its front, great, she wasn't going to be opening the hatch the normal way. Just another fucking bump.

Her fist cracked down against one of the screens, she muffled an angry shout, then searched under the seat for the crowbar Sophia had told them was there. Great, still didn't help her figuring out how to crawl her way out. No comms, no lights, no anything. Fuck. Thankfully, soon afterwards, Sophia could be heard climbing up the Blur and standing above the cockpit, opening it from the outside. "We still got a job to do, think you can man a tank-cannon?"

Eli's attention shot up to the captain, eyes angry and teeth grated together. She clambered up out of Blur and tossed the crowbar aside at the mention of the tank-cannon. She gave Sophie a nod, then made her way to the ground. "You get Joe out of his NC, I'm going to get some guns.", and with that, Sophia went to enter the building, apparently to retrieve a secret stash of firearms.

Swarm's cockpit was out of power, however, while the fight had raged outside, he was stuck inside it, as the hatch was jammed shut, so out of boredom, he bypassed the computer control for the cockpit's illumination, connecting it directly to some backup batteries, that were left in the NC and accessible from the cockpit. "Let there be light." Joe said before connecting the last wire.
His second repair attempt was to get the cockpit's hatch to somehow unlock. The electronically controlled lock got stuck while locked when the power went out as the NC's systems were fried. It would be harder, but should still be possible, to at least get the lock to switch to 'open', and then have it stuck there.
Overall, Swarm was one of the least damaged NCs, although the impact had quite malformed the armor.
Once he got to speak either the captain or the chief engineer, he would give them a lecture on how low-tech would have prevented the enemies' "plan B" from succeeding.

After some time, Joe managed to get the lock to remove stud, that held the hatch shut, from the hatch, causing it to fling open. Alas, he was free. Eli, returning from grabbing some person-sized dakka, noticed he was out and gave him his order.

"Joe, you're going to handle operating a tank's sensor systems. Yes, we have a tank I forgot to mention" "Where do I find the tank?" "We have to go to the outskirts of town, and dig it up. It's in a box."

Nine climbed back into his black NC. It's armor looked far worse than the actual damage it had taken, mainly to due close up explosion that partially incinerated the paint.

He merely stood there for a moment, possibly doing some system checks before turning towards the remaining five on the battlefield. Or rather what now looked like a graveyard more than anything.

Nine then enabled the external speakers his NC was equipped with.

"So. Are you people wish to join the already dead? Your fate is in your hands."

"Who the hell is this guy?" Eli growled, glancing to the captain in case she had the answer. Doubtful, if they had help they knew about, chances are it would have been brought up.

Joe, overhearing what Nine said through the external speakers, took the crowbar from Swarm's cockpit and hid behind what was left of Swarm. He was angry, both at his and the engineers failure to spot the intrusion in time. Out of frustration, he threw the crowbar like a javelin at where he thought Nine's NC was, on a parabolic path over his cover.

A crowbar hardly does something against armor if thrown, but if it hits a weak-spot, and punctures a hydraulics-pipe, the damage by the leak would be crippling to whatever the pipe went to, but that was VERY unlikely.

Nine merely rose his arm and struck the crowbar sending it flying back exactly where it came from. Once again, Nine's inhuman precision and reaction time were displayed, How did he constantly do that? Joe would be lucky to not get outright hit by the crowbar he threw.

"Wow, I mean, atleast procure an NC. Killing you like this won't be any fun."

The crowbar struck the ground behind Joe, as he had walked away from both Nine and Swarm's wreckage while the crowbar was in the air.

"Joe, you suicidal idio-... What do you want, unknown NC?"

Nine pointed at the graveyard behind him, mainly at one of the shredded NC's.

"I want everyone related to them . . . dead." His voice no longer had that amused tone. He was dead serious.

"That makes two of us." "...Three, to be honest. At minimum."

"Now I know this isn't all they came with. Where . . . are the rest?"

"Also, captain, if you have a moment, I think I know what would have prevented their plan B from working." "Shut the fuck up Joe, I'll have your lecture about vacuum tubes later." "Nah, no need to go that far back, relays will suffice."

"Do we have time to chat with this pilot, Captain? Smith's Rest is still under attack," Eli said, looking back to Nine. "It's clear he's not hostile, at least to us."

"Not yet." He said and then promptly laughed out loud. "Especially after that crowbar assault. You nearly scratched off the burn marks. I've already grown fond of them."

"I think we'll get along well then, at least us two." Joe responded.
"Uhh.. Unknown, we'd be in your debt for a while if you'd continue helping us out. About six main-battle tanks, six non-NC quadrupeds, and maybe a full battalion of paratroopers are still capturing, and killing, our people."

"Can you.. do your thing and kill them? It'd help in the quad's case if you aimed for anything but that container on their back. They're full of civvies."

"Same people I assume?" He asked, gesturing once again towards the pile of NC wreckages.

"Same group, yes. I'd send out our NC's to help but...", she pointed at Blur, the Papa-Mike, and the Swarm. "They're sort of fried."

"Just point me in the right direction." Nine said gleefully."No promises on the civilians." He then let out another chuckle.

"...Go on, then. We have to acquire a tank, we'll try to help you out."

Nine boosted away towards Smith's Rest, railgun at the ready.
Looking out the portholes of their NC's, everyone could see a light in the distance, a fire. It looked like it could be a rocket, or something similar.

"Hmm... that one looks different. I'll cash in reinforcements, just in case..." and with that, some of the heli's that sticked around revealed additional troops... specifically, additional NC's, walking out of their cargo holds. At least these ones seemed to be mass-produced types, unlike the fully customs that the three leading ones were "You know what to do.". The appropiately camouflaged MP-NC's started to maneuver, setting up a perimeter against this new enemy. Ten of them total, they prepped their weapons: A laser and kinetic rifle each.

The light grew in size more and more, lighting up the droplets of water falling from the sky. Before it became clear what it was, an object detached from the light. The light revealed itself to be some kind of detacheable NC rocket pack. The rocket pack smashed into the first 5 and tore them apart, outright exploding into a giant fireball as it hit a sixth one.

The other’s turned around and face the direction from which the rocket pack came from. Nothing. Behind the last out thin air, a black NC revealed itself.
“You’re looking in the wrong direction.” A figure grinned inside the mech. “I’ll have your guts incinerated!” The individual yelled through the comms.

The NC grabbed something from it’s back and threw it at the closest one. It turned out to be a three bladed shuriken. It struck the other NC causing it to panic for a moment. A moment later it exploded into pieces.

As the other's turned around to face the assailant it vanished in thin air. A cloak of some sort. The black 'friendly' NC reappeared in front of a central MP-NC and kicked its' assault rifle with a leg to the side while grabbing the laser rifle under his NC's arm. With his other free hand he reached towards a lower part of the laser rifle. Whatever he did it caused it to fire, hitting one of the hostiles that was positioned right behind him, disabling it. after a few hits to it's chest. The remaining three NC's turned and fired on the black NC.

With incredible reaction time he turned to face them while using the hostile NC in front of him as a shield. The laser fire and kinetic rounds shredded it. The black NC then kicked it away towards the other three. And just like that he was gone again. A mere few seconds reappearing behind another, this time he had deployed some sort of weapon. Before anyone knew what happened the hostile NC's middle section was gone.

"Just not satisfying enough. I want to see you burn." The person inside the black NC commented.

The kinetic force of the rifle he used was enough to tear the whole lower torso away with two shots. He then grabbed the MP-NC by it's head. The two shots hit just below the cockpit causing the pilot to literally hang off his MP-NC as the upper part was lifted up. The black NC merely chucked the remaining part of the MP-NC away, causing the pilot to loose grip. He didn't even have the chance to hit the ground as the NC revealed another weapon in his arsenal. A blade deployed from his left arm.

The hostile pilot was shrouded in a mist of his own blood as he was cleanly cut in half. The remaining two MP-NC's opened fire. This time he was heading straight for them, no cover, no cloak, yet he somehow elegantly managed to dodge all the shots, somehow predicting their trajectories impeccably.

Moments later he was stood in front of the nearest MP-NC. He used his blade to cleanly cut through the lower torso of the MP-NC. He then simply kicked the upper part off it's legs and proceeded to throw one of his explosive shuriken right in the now cut area that lead to the cockpit.

"I promised I'll burn your guts." And with that the remaining part of the MP-NC exploded in a sizeable fireball.

Obscured by the fireball the last hostile began blindly firing in all directions. All except the one from which the black NC emerged. His main weapon now holstered again on it's back, it deployed a second blade from it's right arm and stabbed the MP-NC in it's right shoulder while with the other arm he simply grabbed for it's left arm, ripping it off.

With it's own arm, the black NC struck the other one a few times with enough force to flip around so that it would face it with it's back. A kick to the back later and the MP-NC was lying face first in the dirt. The black NC approached the other and stepped on it's back. The metal underneath it's leg slowly creaked and bent as it was being pushed down.

"Slowly now. We wouldn't you to die too quickly." He broadcasted.

"Or maybe not!" He yelled and suddenly the slow squeeze turned into a brutal crush.

"How interesting...", the ring-leader of the attacking forces commented to this new arrival, over the comms. "Are you the ace-in-the-hole of Smith's Rest? It appears so... Your abilities eclipse the other's by a very large margin."

Sophia, inside the hangar and watching through a hole in one of the walls, could only stare wide-eyed at what she was seeing. Another NC entered the combat zone, and just annihilated eight or ten Mass-Produced NC's. MP-NC's were shit in comparison to the real deal, but that was insane... so quickly.. "Out of the pan.. into the fire..?"

The three NC's rocketed towards the new arrival, they were damaged, but they had the advantage. The three NC's still had their weapons; The first had its' gatling and laser equivelant alongside its' missiles, the second still had a rifle and its' massive laser-cannon, and the last still had its' pistol, scatter-laser and greatsword.

The leader rocketed in front of the others, firing a small horde of missiles, a constant laser beam sweeped over the new ones' position, and NC-grade gatling rounds were fired. The other two weren't far behind; the melee-oriented one had its' blade in one hand ready to swing and firing its' pistol with the other, and the one with the giant laser on its' back began charging, firing a few rounds with its' assault rifle as well.

They began to spread out while moving towards the new one as well, trying to make it as difficult for him to dodge as possible.

The black NC took out another one of his explosive shuriken and threw it towards the NC that fired the rockets. It barely covered any distance before detonating most of the missiles approaching him, while obscuring himself from the three. From his perspective he had plenty of time to dodge the rounds and beam too, and so he did, while also removing his railgun from his back once more. It didn't leave him unscathed though. Even with his inhuman reaction time, a burning red streak was left on his NC's chest after a short exposure to the laser beam. The smoke from his shuriken was starting to clear up so he took aim and fired the front most NC.

"This one's good, Boss!" the melee-oriented attacker-NC laughed, "Real good! Don't shoot, I want to see what he can do." With that, he set his thrusters to max power and soon found himself right next to the new-arrival. "What's your name, pal?", he asked while swinging for the NC's cockpit.

"If you survive, I'll tell you. Promise."

Mid swing the black NC grabbed his sword with his left hand and twisted it out of his grasp. He then threw it to the ground and pulled out another shuriken and shoved it into the shoulder of the arm that was holding the sword. He allowed it to explode in his face leaving burn marks all over the black armor. The explosion spun the, now, 'weaponless' NC falling to it's knees. The black NC approached and aimed it's railgun at it's back, pausing for an execution style kill..

"No name for you." The executioned pitifully tried to unholster its' laser pistol to fire back and shot off a few rounds with its' 'revolver', but to no avail.
Two shots were fired, and the NC dropped to the ground and remained motionless.

Right after the act, the Artillery NC's primary weapon finished charging and fired, a relatively thin, but severely focused and energetic beam made itself known with a mighty *KRAK*, and hit the 'saviour' of an NC in the head, blowing off a sensor, and blinding the rest for a few seconds.

The black NC ducked and covered it's head with an arm.

"That's what I get for trying to add some flavor to my kills." He commented angrily.

"You...You fight familiarly...", the captain of the enemy forces stated, inquisitvely. "You can't be...?". The captain seemed to postpone his next attack for a second to think. "....Nine... You're the one that got away, aren't you?"

"I'm so glad you actually remember. This will make killing you oh-so-more sweet. Don't worry. I'll make it slow . . . " He then vanished, activating his cloak. ". . . just . . . for . . ."
He then suddenly reappeared, right in front of the leader NC. "You!" He yelled as he stabbed his left arm-blade in the NC's head while simultanously firing his railgun at one of his legs, ripping it off from the knee.

The artillery NC then gave his commander some mercy, prematurely firing his energy-cannon directly at the cockpit of his leader. "Too bad, nine.", he said as the NC exploded, but not hitting 'Nine's' at all, having boosted away in time. "At least fight someone your own size... oh. wait. There isn't.. how sad."

As he landed from his quick dodge he spun on seeming his heel, turning to face the last remaining NC with incredible speed.

[color=00FF00]"You! No one denies me my kills! Mine! I'll tear you apart, motherfucker! Come here!"

Finally showcasing what seemed like a custom built propulsion system, he boosted towards the artilery NC. He had him in his sights and closely observed where his laser cannon was pointing. The few shots he managed to fire at the black NC were easily dodged. In less than a second they were face to face. The black NC literally used its railgun to smack the other one in the face and then followed it by a tackle to the ground. As the black one lay on top of him, he began stabbing violently at the other one while still somehow taking great care not to hit the cockpit itself. Soon enough the artilery NC was disabled and the cockpit nearly cut open.
The black NC looked like it was about to finish the other off when it merely stood up and backed off. A front hatch opened as a figure jumped out of the black NC and headed over to the other lying on it's back. He climbed on top of it and pulled the pilot out, throwing him off his NC and into the dirt below before jumping down himself.

"Big mistake, stealing my kill." He said in a low fierce tone. As he walked towards the pilot he grabbed a piece of shrapnel from the ground.

The pilot of the artillery NC in full garb, face hidden, taunted the other. "I don't fear death... You really should've killed yourself a long time ago.". He obviously wanted to spit, but decided not to. "Doesn't matter either way. Give me your best shot."

"You don't fear death? I'll teach you!" He told him with maniacal grin on his face. He then flipped the pilot over and stabbed him his spine just high enough to paralyze him but not high enough of to kill of his vital bodily functions. He had obviously done this before. A few glances around, he quickly spotted a large body of water that formed from the heavy downpour. He grabbed the pilot by one of his arms and began dragging towards said body of water.

"Now, I know I told you I'll burn you all alive . . . and your guts. But all things considered . . ." He reached the pool of water, dragging the other pilot face first through the mud. ". . . this is the best I can do for you. I'll see you in hell. Cause let's be honest. We both know we're going there. Consider this a favor, I'm sending you there early . . . so you can avoid the rush." With that final sentence he chucked the pilot face first in the pool of water.

"1852. Maybe I should start keeping track of the time my enemies spent drowing too, not just the number of kills." He let out an amused huff at his coment. "That'd be fun."
He then headed back to his black NC.
The noises of the fight in Smith's Rest awoke Joe, they were so unusual, too many to just be an escalated dispute between some armed drunks. The almost instantly released adrenaline eradicated whatever tiredness was left in him, and his brain analyzed the sounds and flashes of gunshots. West, they were attacking the west side and proceeding to the east, getting closer to the base.

Whatever the conflict was, at this point it couldn't be resolved without force, so Joe got up and sprinted towards the hangar, if he found a fuse-box on the way, he would remove all fuses to use the darkness to hide, as a side effect most electronically locked doors would unlock automatically.

As he arrived at the hangar he was lucky, the hangar's fusebox was right next to the doorway he was in right now. Joe removed the fuses for the hangar's illumination, and it got dark within the hangar in the snip of a finger. He knew exactly where his NC was, so he could get to it from his current location while blind, and so he ran. Even if the enemy had flashlights pointed inside the hangar, it was unlikely he was caught by one randomly and recognized as a target.

After his NC had booted, Joe pointed the aiming-laser of his missiles at a random enemy he could see through the hangar door, and fired the missiles. Their exhaust should be foggy enough to allow him to exit unnoticed, which he did.

The three NC's outside continued their barrage of attacks, another wave of bullets and energy beams impacting the hangar and making new holes in the bloody walls. Elizabeth and Percy could get a good look at them though, it appears they're all very streamlined units and built with the same basic design, aside from the legs. Two are simple bipeds, and the 'leader' in the middle is a quad instead. Although what they're doing is honorless, he seems to at least chat, as is simply customary. He opens a comms, "Don't fret. We're not going to kill everyone, we just need more data. Don't fret."

Percy was already on high alert, but this just made it even worse. He pushed the button that allowed him to speak, "What are you talking about, more data? For what?"

"Perhaps I already said too much. Surrender and you might see another day."

"Not a chance," Percy held his ground. "You'll tell me what you're referring to or you'll be-" "You really think you're in the position to make demands? That's cute. Men, fire at him, in particular." The leader of the enemy laughed, "Maybe you'll learn humility in the next life."

Each NC revealed their particular weapons. The leader had some sort of 'gatling-laser' on its' left arm, a machine-cannon on its' right, and missiles on the back. The one to his right had two rifles and a back-mounted laser, and the third one to his left had what appears to be a 'sheathed' sword on its back, a pistol, and a scatter-laser.

Percy regretted thinking that he might be able to scare them into submission. It worked before, he thought maybe it'd work again. Percy cleared his throat, cutting comms with the enemy, and he manages to choke out to the captain, "Do you have any information on these guys?"

"Yes. They're charging weapons! DODGE, DAMN IT!"

Percy cursed out loud, dodging out of the way when he realized that they were about ready to fire and blow him into a red mist.

Eli was all but bolting down the halls when the attacks began. She wasn't heading for the hangar, but the Hospital Ward, and upon finding Vera absent, went to the next-best place, and found the girl hiding beneath one of the long tables.

"Come on!" Eli grabbed Vera's arm, and though the girl mumbled something under her breath, she followed, latched onto the elder girl's side.

The choice was tough to make, if she left Vera in her room, there was a chance ground units would push in and find her. But then, what other option was there? She wasn't taking the girl with her in Blur, and they were too far away from Smith's Rest to try and get there under the assault.

Eli pulled a small case from under her bed, flinging it open and rifling through the few spare clothes and odds-n-ends within until she found what she was looking for: an old handgun, belonging to her mother. She checked it over, made sure it was loaded, then went back to Vera. The girl looked on the verge of tears, but damned was she holding it together.

"Vi--hey, Vi, listen to me. You're gonna stay here, right here, you got it? If anyone comes through that door that isn't me, you take this--" she put the gun in Vera's hands. "You point it at them, okay? I know mom's shown you how to use these, just a bit. Just do what she told you. You got it?"

Vera nodded, rapid but sure, and clutched the shoddy old gun in her hands. Eli cupped the girl's face and gave her a light peck on the forehead, though it couldn't assuage all of the worry.

"You're gonna be fine, you're my assistant. I'll be back, hold down the fort."

And with that, Eli locked and sealed the door behind her, then bolted once again, this time to the hangar. The barrage made it tough to get to Blur, and she found she had to climb that last few feet on the elevator, but at length she was settled into the cockpit, and the snowy NC was firing up.

Blur rocketed out of the hangar, blade drawn and ignited. She didn't want to risk drawing her shotgun so close to the base, the risk of the large, spread-shells hitting something they weren't supposed to was too great. Her attention turned to Percy, the only other teammate she could see out in the field at the moment, and a moment later she was rushing in to aid him.

A huge barrage of shells, energy beams, and missiles rocketed out, aiming for Percy's NC, with munitions coming from the left, right, and dead ahead. He managed to dodge the worst of it by boosting up into the air and going above the NC's heads; primarily the laser weaponry, but he definitely didn't come out narry a scratch. The three enemy NC's divided and began operating (and firing) independent of eachother. They didn't notice Blur coming in, ready to rip at least one to shreds more then likely.

Percy quickly picked out one to focus fire on - the one with the pistol. That one ought to be easiest to deal with.. surely. He glanced to the radar to figure out which dot that one was, then quickly marked it with an X so he doesn't lose track of it.

Blur came from aside, scanning over the three NC's as they honed in on Percy. He had his focus set on the side-arm-weilding enemy, so she looked to the one with the heaviest looking equipment. Backmounted laser and two rifles? The guy was going to cause damage if he stayed in the fight for too long.

Either she'd missed the opening communications, or there had been none. Regardless, she wasn't about to wait to chat with the fuckers bombarding her home. Locked on to the laser-wielding NC, she closed the distance and prepared a wide swing for their middle. The black-knight of an NC side-stepped the attack, but it still cut off its left arm, getting at least one of its rifles out of the fight. However, he took an equal toll; his back-mounted laser fired a massive particle beam, the blue light igniting the air around it into plasma, and impacting at the speed of light at the Blur's right shoulder, blowing it and the arm off.

However, it didn't hurt. She could still feel... hope. But why? Percy could too. Maybe they weren't alone?

Percy went in to stab the NC with his blade - he was doing circles with the pistol-wielding NC, dodging the bullets he attempted to fire at him. The pilot he was attacking cackled. "So, you wanna fight? Blade against blade? Very well.", and grabbed his NC's own greatsword from his NC's back, holstering its' kinetic and laser pistol to two-hand the monstrosity. He twirled it around his right hand and boosted towards PM, ready to slice him in half.

Percy quickly glanced down at his own blade - it was not nearly big enough to do much - if anything - to this guy. Before he could really let that sink in, he was forced to dash to the right to dodge the NC, then he takes the blade with his NC's bare metallic hands and shoves him to the side so Percy can go in to stab him in the back of the head. Thank God he's not being forced to do this in an actual swordfight.. or grabbing a real sword with his real bare hands. He'd be dead by now.

"Hahahahahah!" the sword-wielding pilot laughed, "Good one!"

"Damn straight," Percy quickly retorted, a shit-eating grin on his face.

He then did a backflip so instead HE was now behind Percy, assisted by his NC's thruster jets.

"BUT NOT GOOD ENOUGH!"

Percy's grin is wiped off his face when he realizes he was just a little too slow. He soon felt as if he was being stabbed straight through the gut... as that's what just happened to his NC. It felt way too real. He actually coughed a little bit and was surprised he didn't cough up blood. "Aaauugh, what the fuck.." Percy muttered shakily.

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"Damn it."

The enemy NC then kicked him while pulling his sword out. "Normals.. Heh."

Percy checked to make sure he wasn't actually fucking stabbed in the stomach briefly before he made an attempt to get up and keep fighting.. but the fact the pain lingered made it worse.

The captain of the enemy scoffed over the comm's and told them the reaity of the situation; "You people don't have a snowballs' chance in hell to drive us back, just accept your fate."

Percy didn't even attempt to come up with a comeback. He just went right back to fighting, no more mercy.. or rules. He brought up his rifle and blasted the sword-wielding NC with as many bullets as he could get to hit. It took all the shots, a few making noticeable holes but most simply bouncing off, his armor was well-made, and well-angled... Maybe they're correct. But just because they're 'correct' doesn't mean they're right morally, does it?

Perhaps it was the fact that she watched her NC's arm hit the ground that made the lack of sensation so unsettling. It felt like her entire being rippled, but at the same time the numbness that accompanied the neural link left her unsure of exactly what she felt.

So in the absence of any known feeling, she decided to substitute anger. The blade on her wrist ignited, and she whirled around, not to slash, but to stab, and not even with the aim of destroying the NC. Instead, she aimed for the enemy's remaining shoulder, hoping to drive the blade far enough to lock its arm from moving. If that succeeded, she'd follow through and plant her own shoulder into the NC's middle, and then, firing all engines, attempt to take off into the air with it, hopefully angled in such a way as to avoid the cannon on its back.

Sadly, she couldn't do much. The blade impacted into the NC's last shoulder, but he simply boosted up first! She couldn't hold on too long, as he started evasive maneuvers almost immediately, kicking her off too. The leader of the enemy fired his gatling laser as Blur fell down, blowing off one of her thruster 'wings'. "And so the angel fell."

In the meantime, Joe had already taken off, and was amidst the clouds looking down at what was going on on the ground, flying in circles. He attempted to use what he did in his last battle accidentally, surround one enemy singlehandedly. He fired off a volley of missiles while rotating around his own axis. The missiles were in dumb-launch mode again, so he could surprise the enemy again, hopefully. He aimed for the enemy NC with the lasers, and right before he switched the missiles back to aimed mode, he sent that specific enemy a voice message: "Give up, you're surrounded!". But it was no use, he laughed in return, "Surrounded by one? perhaps you should be paying attention.", and the leader began shooting down each missile one by one before they could impact, managing to do so very efficiently. Fuck.. Who were these people? "You have a great snapshot." Joe complimented the enemy.

Blur hit the ground hard, another wave of numbness, another wave of anger to fill the void. She pulled back to her feet, engines flared, and began her own maneuvers in turn. She took to the skies, having to pay far closer attention to what she was doing now that there were fewer thrusters to support her.

She scanned around, trying to find the one-armed NC now that Swarm had the quad-NC preoccupied.

Percy could see behind his opponent that Blur hit the ground. He winced sympathetically, giving his opponent an opprotuinity to smack him around.. But he didn't let them. He dodged out of the way, semi-circling around to shoot a single volley of missles into his back - ba-ba-bam. Miraculously, the sword-NC did something that honestly should be impossible: he simply started to cut the missiles in half. In-the-air, before they even impacted.

"How in the fuck are you doing that?!" Percy shouted. "YOU SHOULDN'T EVEN BE ABLE TO DO THAT!" Just goes to show how uneducated Percy is about NCs.

"Captain, I believe we've had enough fun." "Agreed, I've had my jollies too." "Very well, initiating plan B."

And before they knew it, the fight was over. Percy's, Joe's, and Elizabeth's NC's all locked up. The Swarm, The Blur, and the Papa-Mike fell to earth, or simply stopped functioning. It was over.

Blur's engines died, and Eli felt the breath rush from her lungs. "No--no! No!" The denial did nothing, she stopped ascending, stopped moving of her own accord, and all of the sudden her anger was replaced by something even worse: terror.

She looked down, saw har far up she was, and then fell. There was nothing over comms, even in the pilot's seat Eli didn't scream, she couldn't. Blur hit the ground in a veritable explosion of dirt and dust.

Inside, from a window in Eli's room, Vera watched and did the screaming for her.

Percy gasped as well - not because it felt breathless, but because, again, he didn't even know this shit was possible. He tried to get his communications on, but they wouldn't work, or were static. His thoughts went back to Ana. She's going to be fatherless. The stress of this whole situation finally hit him like a hovertrain. He felt his chest tighten up and he started crying.

"Well, that was cute." the leader of the enemy forces mocked.

Joe wasn't done yet, and killed the comms by ripping out the wires connecting the computer with the comm-transmitter, and forcing the computer to reboot by killing its power. But, it was too late anyway. He could smell a burning smell, and he could see his systems were literally fried. "Huh, darn these military-developers. That's why I prefer lowtech!" he shouted in rage.

The captain laughed at them a final time, using instead his NC's 'speakers'. "It was nice fighting you people. I'm feeling charitable, so I'll allow some final-"

He stopped.

"...What, there's six of you?"
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