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The disabled drone have been loaded up to the Technical support vehicle and it's weapon swapped.
So far, the feed from the scout drone is showing that the castle's superficials are more or less in wreck. With destroyed rubble walls damaged by heavy gunfire and burning flamables from the incendiary bullets. Most of the small bunkers still seems to be structually sound, however. And the main building itself is still standing. Damaged, but still standing. No movement or signs of life is detected so far across all scanners.


"If we got a strong enough chain, one of these babies could probably tow a tank." The Techies said confidentally. And you're more or less certain that the Subdenizen 001 is much lighter than a main battle tank.

"Think it's over?" Jenny asked as she looked over through her scope, helping Arthur on the overwatch. Neither of them is seeing anything worthy of shooting yet.

The spikes feel slightly warm to the touch, but that could easily be because of the friction or whatever happened to it that launched it. And while the spikers were generally resistant to low-cal bullets, a Denizen-01 blade have absolutely no problem cutting through them. But that is to be expected of something that could slice through steel armor plates, after all.

Much like their Rusher cousins, the Spikers are beginning to decompose rapidly. You're all going to want to have a deep scrubbing bath after you get back..

Such are the advantage of modern tools. It is incredibly easy to find out which one is just playing dead or not quite dead yet, and those are dealt with swiftly.

The Techies have assessed the damaged drone and agreed that they could probably remove the top half and turn it into a stationary turret for the mission with a little bit of fixing, the legs are only salvage at this point, however.

Medics who were on stand-by work fast, they tended to Maximus first before anyone. Since he's down for the mission they decided to keep the spike in him for now after a scan shows that his durable bones refused to shatter and only did some disinfection and bandaging.

Everyone else got checked up and seems to be on the green! Doctors says that the mission still isn't compromised yet.

"Sorry for getting hit, guys." Maximus apologized.

"You tell him sister." Jenny said encouragingly to Tal.

The Drone isn't pulling back fast enough, and it seems like if you pull the car back then the horde will catch up to it. The drone isn't likely to survive the encounter if that happens.

The horde have been sliced down to somewhere at half a hundred, the combined shootings of everyone staggering and slowing them, rapidly decreasing their numbers from the original.

They approaches the range of 200 yards, and just as your vehicles begin to pull away, fired.

Thunderous crackles and sickening fleshy pops filled the air as the charging horde fired from their spiky arm. The mystery of why nothing seems to have happened earlier are quickly solved when your vehicle was hit by a shower of small spikes the size of a pen, while it only shallowly penetrates the car's armored side, it can easily penetrates half-way in through the bullet-resistant windows. You have a feeling that some of them may have gotten the tires as well...

"Woah! Shit.." A. Carmine, your driver, cursed as he saw a spike that had hit the window on the driver's side and had almost got him, even if he is wearing a helmet.

Some of the others who had their windows rolled down weren't so fortunate, however..

Maximus was hit by one of the spikes right in his shoulder blade. The Kevlar pauldron help keeping the wound plugged and stopped some of the force, but at a glance from anyone with medical knowledge or high enough intelligence could tell that either his bone stopped the spike, or he now have some very worrisome shattered pieces of bones stuck in him. "Fuck!.. fucking.. FUCK!" the Pseudo-roman cursed as he pulled himself back inside the car and rolled the window up with his uninjured arm.


Aria also was hit, right in the chest also! But fortunately the spikes were unable to penetrate the Denizen-001 Trauma plate and bounces off of her harmlessly without even making a dent on the plate itself. Although she could feel the force of it. It's not going to leave a bruise, but she definitely felt that. Close call! A couple centimeters higher and it would've been her throat!


Jenny wasn't about to wait being hit as well so she pulled herself back into the car and rolls the window up.

"Don't know about you but I'm going to start shooting too." Maximus answered as he rolled down the window on his side and stick his auto-shotgun out to start shooting as wel. The enviroment is so target-rich that he doesn't even need to change to slugshots to get some effects.

Unfortunately, the spread and small pellets from his buckshots doesn't seems to be doing very well against the spikers. So they're definitely more bullet-resistant than their rusher cousins. Or perhaps shotguns just aren't supposed to be shooting at things at such range.

The pesudo-horde is coming, only some 300 yards away. Within effective range of every weapon including your pistols!

You didn't have to wait long before the incoming pesudo-horde is well within the range of your Vehecular-mounted .50 cals.

Once someone starts shooting the gun into their general direction, the support vehicle opens up as well, seeing what's going on.

The Drone that you sent have seems to have ran out of ammo, having been holding down the trigger for several good seconds and spitting out high velocity lead in a wonderfully rapid fashion. Several cracks from the spikers could actually be felt now the closer they are, some that hits a good spot on the drone is actually nudging it a little, throwing the aim a little off.

Jenny couldn't wait any longer and rolled down the window to start shooting her rifle at the incoming group's general direction, not really aiming for anything specific. It is about now at this range that you've noticed that even the high caliber bullets you're shooting at them aren't tearing through as many bodies as they did to the rushers, and that really made cutting down the horde with ranged capabilities that much harder. Although their shooting still doesn't seems to be threatening anyone but your drone just yet.