Chapter 01: No Zealot Like A Convert! Scene 01

Feeling Ylza's attempts to tie into any nearby radio traffic Glyfix opens an encrypted channel and adds her as a system user on his drones network, with wireless transceiver access. I realy should let others drive he thinks to himself as the tasks only multiply.

"We can always just... have a look."

Adatahl shuffled along the bench seat until he could open one of the doors. Before anyone could stop him, he pulled himself up to stand on the roof, and leapt into the air above the treeline, scanning their surroundings for signs of battle.

"And there he goes." Ylza said as the door to the Mountaineer opened up, breaking the cabin seal and leaving the interior of the vehicle open to a well-aimed explosive, "Creatures of Magic, every time."

Glyfix steers the car for some cover while deploying several drones to mask them from the skelebot targeting with a sensor distortion field, a mix of visual and radio detraction chaff dispersed as a mist between the bots and the team. The remaining bots reaming on task to collect information to help assess the complete situation as tasked previously.

Ancients, alive! Cal explained, reaching out a hand to the space between the mountaineer and the skelebots. On reflex he tried to reach for that power he used to defend others.

"Hrrmgh--" Ylza grabbed hold of an overhead rung with her bionic arm as the Mountaineer turned, the big wheels throwing dirt and debris as they fought to find purchase on the loose ground of the dirt trail. The safety sound of a FASSAR-20, maybe a 30, chirped from the treeline in a familiar pattern.

"Hot smoke is good visual cover, spread it around and isolate 'em!" she shouted over the din, pointing at Cal as his will churned molecular activity to his will, "Glyfix, if you've got a Globe of Silence in any of that stealth gear, these guys have lousy object permanence. They'll forget about the truck when the fighting starts." she unbuckled her harness, pointing her bionic arm at Fort.

"Alright newbie, decapitating strikes are fastest, but they only work most of the time so don't linger. Keep your head on a swivel for a human overseer. On this broken terrain, outrunning them isn't really an option, so it's time to strut your stuff!" without confirming if anyone was actually listening to her, Ylza threw herself out of the open door, tumbling through the air as the air sizzled and snapped around her, rolling into the underbrush.

As the others dove for cover, Adatahl reflexively lunged forwards towards the skelebots. He flared his wings as he sprinted ahead of the Mountaineer, all four hands spread wide as he hurled himself into the midst of the formation.

The inanimate creatures warranted no hesitation or mercy, and he had no qualm about bringing his full power to bear against a killer robot. He struck with the speed and power of a thunderbolt, grabbing one by he head and hurling it to the ground, lightning striking down from the sky, channeled through him to disintegrate it.

With the flash and the roar of Adatahl's lightning, Ylza hit the ground from her dive, the armor cushioning her fall as she impacted the underbrush that had already been crushed flat by the mountaineer. Her forward momentum brought her into a roll as she slid over the crushed wood and pulped leaves, sliding into the underbrush along the side of the road as she slid into a ditch for cover.

She placed a grenade from her belt atop a root and kept moving, keeping her body low and pulling her hood up and over her helmet as she moved. A little guerilla trick, something to make their numbers seem greater than they were, though normally she'd have set it up in advance. Blue and white armor flashed irregularly between the trees, her shape obscured by the drabber robes as laser scorches filling the air with the smell of burning sap. Here and there, missed shots cooked off the moisture in the tree and cause it to explode into a shower of jagged wooded debris before the tree itself began to teeter.

With a flick of her finger, the grenade she'd left behind suddenly jumped into the air, silently firing itself between the trees and banking itself towards the two human Coalition Soldiers. It landed with a thud amongst them, just as Ylza popped up to suppress them with the pulse laser in her hand. When the grenade did go off, rather than a storm of shrapnel or the blinding flash of a plasma grenade, rime ice scattered out from the center of the effect as the region was super-cooled.

Cal watched the unfolding battle with a rising panic. He knew these rhythms, the blasts the fire the warped air of the laser blasts.

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A red ribbon floating through the air, untethered from what held it. It’s floating, flitting pattern a thing of chaos and beauty. Despite its attempts to hold itself up it fell to the ash and blood. Innevitable…

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No. Shut it down. Focus on what you can control. Cal swallowed, his face turning to a cold mask.

With a growl that sounded more feral than man, Cal moved from the mountaineer. Running through the underbrush to the controllers. The heads of the snakes. A heat began to build around the man, distorting the air and shimmering.

Cal reached out his hand letting out a primal scream and channeling all his rage and panic into a blast centered on one of the handlers.

Watching Adatahl dive straight into combat with the death machines Glyfix wonders at the near suicidal tendencies of the more aggressive spients but nods approvingly at the use of the ranged attacks by the avian and then Ylza'Vokats. Using his systems that Ylza already tied into both forces Glyfix began orchestrating the battles.

"Onyx base, be advised the Tomorrow Legion is on site of the conflict and moving to engage Coalition forces of Skelebots and foot soldiers. Please validate our identities and get your people to not fire on us" then bursts a IFF code to the base and local forces.

While calming down the friendlies a more malicious approach is taken with the Coalition forces. The first thing he does interfere with the coalition comms by pushing recordings of coalition engagements he has tapped into previously. Invoking aspect : lone and Outnumbered A simple enough feat. His true focus is on scrambling any outbound communications while allowing his swarm to assist his teammates with taking down the skelebots by homing in on any injured or out of formation units to quickly take down.