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[Strider03]

Well, that wasn't unexpected. Shef pushed the dealer behind him into a portal in the wall. Hopefully they weren't at the outer wall of the building. If the man screamed, that would be the sign that Shef took to remove his attention from the Storm Minds to keep the guy alive. However, for now he flipped the safety off his gun, and opened fire through the wall at the assailants. The caliber was large enough that as long as the walls weren't made of steel or something, they'd barely lose any energy going through the wall.

Shef uses Rapid Fire on the Storm Minds.
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[spümpkin]

Yoake smiles.

"Now the real fun starts!"

Stepping behind Shef and Kimura to face the constructs entering their current room. Unless Shef tells her to do otherwise, she launches into a Vacuum Butt Cannon, aiming to not only lash the constructs away with the wind, but also to fling the bullets away from them.

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[Empiricist]

Shef and Yoake

Spoiler: Rolls (click to show/hide)

Shef: 5, Hyper[4]
Yoake: 5, Hyper[6]

SMII-AEO 20: 3, Resolve
SMII-AEO 21: 1, Resolve
SMII-AEO 22: 4, Resolve
SMII-AEO 23: 5, Resolve
SMII-AEO 24: 1, Resolve

[Now Playing:

The Pretender

]

Shef spins around and begins unloading through the wall, his barrage soon answered by three streams of bullets spraying towards his general position, which in addition to not striking him also allows him to adjust his aim to hit them right at the source. With another crash, Units 22 and 23 crash straight through their wall, weapons readied. Well their weapons may be readied but they sure as hell weren't ready, not for the ass heading straight their way.

The vacuum butt cannon strikes 23 dead-on, catching them mid-dash, their gatling-turned-battering ram was in the way, enough to soak some of the impact, but considering what the impact was, it wasn't enough. Hurled backwards amidst a spray of ablative plating there's a crash and scream as it's hurled all the way through the wall and into someone's living room. 22 was luckier, they were only hit by the shockwave and slammed to the side, damaged and off-balance.

The 20 and 24 burst through what remains of the wall like a pair of murderous gun-toting kool-aid men. They're looking a bit worse for wear,  their frontal armor blasted and shattered, though still holding for now. They immediately open on fire on Yoake, seeking to keep a bit of distance while still remaining up close and using their dashes to dodge rather than close in in an uncharacteristic display of caution.

22 rolls away and dashes towards Shef aiming to do a similar routine, while 23 gets back up and starts dashing back towards the fray.

Unit 21 is nowhere in sight.

Spoiler: Worldlines (click to show/hide)

Shef
Status: Fine
World Line: 5 6 5 1 4 4 3 6 1 2
Alterations: 3
Resolve: 3

Yoake
Status: Fine, Briefly stunned
World Line: 1 2 6 5 6 6 5 6 1 5
Alterations: 3
Resolve: 3

Kimura
Status: Fine

SMII-AEO 20
Status: Frontal plating is shattered and fairly damaged, Power Supply Estimated at 80%

SMII-AEO 21
Status: Frontal plating is shattered and badly damaged, Power Supply Estimated at 80%

SMII-AEO 22
Status: Frontal-left plating is shattered and badly damage, off-balance, Power Supply Estimated at 80%

SMII-AEO 23
Status: Frontal plating has been blasted apart and is completely gone, some structural damage to internals, off-balance, Power Supply Estimated at 80%

SMII-AEO 24
Status: Frontal plating is shattered and badly damaged, Power Supply Estimated at 80%

Spoiler: Notes (click to show/hide)

Yoake got some bonus damage from her victims basically running straight into her attacks.

Shef dealt more damage to the Storm Minds that fired this turn as he could figure out where they were on the other side of the wall.

These CQB Storm Minds still have fuck-all Ranged, so they still aren't actually going to really hit anyone with their bullets until they get close enough.

[Strider03]

"What must parties be like for you," Shef wondered momentarily. It was only a fleeting thought though. "Come on!" he shouted, before stepping back into the portal through which he had shoved Hiroki. Noting that Yoake had a few of the Storm Minds focusing her, Shef popped another clip into his pistol, before spraying the area with lead to give Yoake a bit of cover for their retreat.

Shef does the same thing again! If you've got a 5 and a 4, why not?
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[Chevaleresse]

"I don't drink. Gotta be a good example for Kouta." She'd been tempted to drink before, but worrying about what would happen if she got caught drunk ate at her far too much for her actually do so. It's not as if she had parents to be brought home to, after all, and if they looked into that, they would find out that she'd been basically hiding Kouta away, and then they'd send both of them back to those terrible homes. . . That's not a problem any more. Stop worrying about it. "Can you give me cover as a janitor or something next time, though?"

[Empiricist]

Noriko
"R-right, sorry. We thought more facility access would be better."

[spümpkin]

Yoake recovered briefly from her vacuum butt cannon, before rushing into the portal Shef had left her.

[Alteration used: 5 instead of 1]
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[Empiricist]

Shef and Yoake

Spoiler: Rolls (click to show/hide)

Shef: 5, Hyper[4]
Yoake: 5

SMII-AEO 20: 4, Resolve
SMII-AEO 21: 4, Resolve
SMII-AEO 22: 4, Resolve
SMII-AEO 23: 5, Resolve
SMII-AEO 24: 4, Resolve

[Now Playing:

The Pretender

]

Bullets tear through the air, the roar of gunfire echoing, reverberating. And their impacts hard.

Right so in the moment Yoake is unable to move you both take quite a bit of fire, say what you want about the Storm Minds' accuracy, but when they hit, they hit hard. Though to his credit, Shef hits even harder, rounds tearing into Unit 23, tearing through Unit 23, halting its charge and leaving it barely functioning. 20 and 24 fare better, their haphazard dashes making it hard to hit them consistently even with lock-on, and 22 is a whole other asshole entirely, their quick dashes letting them quickly get outside Shef's cone of fire and right up in his grill with a bit of close range suppressive fire.

Yoake after eating the opening portion of the deluge is able to get the hell outta dodge diving through the portal and finding a screaming Kimura getting assailed by Unit 21 which is currently crashing through the damn wall at him, its armor liquifying and gathering at its front, shuddering in preparation for some sort of directed blast. Which, wouldn't be too bad if it wasn't for the fact that an absurdly long blade of burning twilight is simultaneously half-burning half-exploding open the room from the outside. If you had to hazard a guess, it'd be that the other three Storm Minds are here and they're pissed.

Shef follows in after her also looking a bit worse for wear, unfortunately, 22 is hot on his heels, the barrels of its weapon wreathing themselves with dark energies and spinning faster, that screeching whir soon to be followed by a spray of fire, not so much aimed at anyone in particular, so much as just spraying at the three of you and everything you stand for. 20 and 24 follow on either side of it, continuing with the new "dash haphazardly and fire" tactic, 20 aiming at Shef, 24 at Yoake.

"Hang in there! We're getting you fire support right now."
"You're not going to like it, Shef."

Spoiler: Worldlines (click to show/hide)

Shef
Status: Somewhat Hurt, off-balance
World Line: 6 5 1 4 3 6 1 2 2 2
Alterations: 4
Resolve: 3

Yoake
Status: Somewhat Hurt, off-balance
World Line: 1 2 6 5 6 6 5 6 1 6
Alterations: 2
Resolve: 3

Kimura
Status: Fine

SMII-AEO 20
Status: Frontal plating is shattered and very damaged, scattered damage to the rest of its plating, Power Supply Estimated at 60%

SMII-AEO 21
Status: Frontal plating is shattered and badly damaged, Power Supply Estimated at 60%

SMII-AEO 22
Status: Frontal-left plating is shattered and badly damage, off-balance, Power Supply Estimated at 60%

SMII-AEO 23
Status: Frontal plating has been blasted apart and is completely gone, severe structural damage to internals, off-balance, severe damage to limbs, Power Supply Estimated at 60%, effectively immobilized

SMII-AEO 24
Status: Frontal plating is shattered and very damaged, scattered damage to the rest of its plating, Power Supply Estimated at 60%

SMII-DEO 25
Status: Fine, Power Supply Estimated at 60%

Spoiler: Notes (click to show/hide)

Yoake took less fire overall, but she took fire from two Storm Minds while her defenses were compromised by the brief stun. The stats this time around were so close the roll results everyone used was actually pretty damn important.

There's two other SMII-DEOs but they aren't in view just yet and have yet to engage.

Unless Shef backs up really quickly, 22 will remain in melee range versus him, which will be a bit of an issue.

[Chevaleresse]

"It's alright, it's not like you could have known something this ridiculous was going to happen." Or that I was going to do something so ridiculous to solve it. . .

[Strider03]

"What do you mean. I'm kind of in a situation here, as you well know, so now's not the time to be vague." Shef muttered.

Shef will cast a larger than usual portal (using resolve and Hey, Look over there!) to teleport both Yoake and Kumura away from harm preferably into the next room. Meanwhile, he'll simply stay back and brace for impact.
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[spümpkin]

Yoake felt utterly exhausted. She just wanted a fun day out. Why does she have to be so hard to please.

At any rate, she simply huddles on the ground, ready to be portalled away by Shef, and probably holding Kimura to keep him safe.

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[Empiricist]

Shef and Yoake

Spoiler: Rolls (click to show/hide)

Shef: 6, Hyper[3], Resolve
Yoake: 1

SMII-AEO 20: 6, Hyper[6], Resolve
SMII-AEO 21: 4, Resolve
SMII-AEO 22: 5, Hyper[4], Resolve
SMII-AEO 24: 5, Resolve
SMII-DEO 25: 3, Resolve

[Now Playing:

The Pretender

]

A new voice enters the comms.

"T-This is Hanako Yamasaki r-reporting for duty! J-just gimme some time to set up!"

Well, hey at least you know she's trustworthy now. Well, for some measure of trustworthy, seeing as she's left her comms on and you can now hear her panickedly fumbling with, something or other.

So Shef opens up the portal and drops Yoake and Kimura into the next room, good thing too 'cause 21's armor basically just explodes outwards like a roided up claymore mine, crystalline shards of its armor tearing right through where the guy was a split second ago. Some of it even goes through the portal, though failing to harm their target. Physically at least, the guy might not be sleeping for a while though.

And then Shef gets shot. At lot. Like, there's three Storm Minds shooting at him, one of them with a greatly increased rate of fire. Holding his exoskeleton in front of him, digging his heels in, he does manage to hold for a while, but in the end, the sheer rate of fire sweeps him off his feet and hurls him through the wall right next to Yoake.

Another blade of energy begins tearing through the outward wall while the melee units... do nothing? Okay yeah, 20 and 24 are firing, but it's more a suppressive fire sorta deal, and the other two are kinda just, standing there behind them, readying to dodge.

"D-done! What do I do?"

Spoiler: Worldlines (click to show/hide)

Shef
Status: Very Hurt, on the ground
World Line: 5 1 4 6 1 2 2 2 3 4
Alterations: 5
Resolve: 2

Yoake
Status: Somewhat Hurt
World Line: 2 6 5 6 6 5 6 1 6 6
Alterations: 2
Resolve: 3

Hanako
Status: Fine

Kimura
Status: Fine

SMII-AEO 20
Status: Frontal plating is shattered and very damaged, scattered damage to the rest of its plating, Power Supply Estimated at 40%

SMII-AEO 21
Status: Missing all of its plating, Power Supply Estimated at 40%

SMII-AEO 22
Status: Frontal-left plating is shattered and badly damaged, off-balance, Power Supply Estimated at 40%

SMII-AEO 24
Status: Frontal plating is shattered and very damaged, scattered damage to the rest of its plating, Power Supply Estimated at 40%

SMII-DEO 25
Status: Fine, Power Supply Estimated at 40%

Spoiler: Support Skills (click to show/hide)

Assist [Hanako, -]
Call upon Hanako to assist in performing an action. Hanako is a mobile sniper with incredible precision who can "lock down", trading her ability to move for increased firepower. Not the most reliable ally right now.

Phase Breaker [Hanako, 5]
Hanako briefly extends her phantasmal state to her bullet, timing it to only return to existence inside her target. A powerful but unreliable attack that requires a lot of concentration to use.

Spoiler: Notes (click to show/hide)

For those of you who haven't been following the Yuki battle, which by the looks of it is literally everyone other than Twin, allies are basically represented as special Hypers you can use while they're in combat with you and are denoted by their user and cost.

An ally can only use one support skill per turn, with the cost being paid by the character who invokes it. Skills with a cost of '-' do not cost any results to use. Using an ally's support skill does not count towards your own Hyper limit.

I, honestly wasn't expecting this kinda fighting retreat, I kinda figured you guys would just use Yoake's Requiem to do a dive off and start off a high speed chase or something. Though this works too, it's a little bit sharper, but y'know, with 5 Resolve between you and no other encounters this chapter, I can't imagine it being too much trouble in the long run.

[Strider03]

Shef groaned as he slammed into the wall, vision swimming, glasses cracked. He slowly pulled himself up, coughing into the comms, in what would have been incredibly scathing had Shef been in a better state."So you took the supposedly dead woman whose head I punched through, and who doesn't really seem to know she's doing, and made her our back up. Gee, you two really do care about me!"

"Just take some shots. The melee units. They're planning something."

Shef will use Rapid Fire on the Storm Minds, though a bit focused on 20 and 24.
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[Empiricist]

Shef
"Wonderful isn't it? No, she got caught up in something this morning, had to run an emergency supply op for her oh five minutes ago. What are the odds? Wouldn't be buying any lottery tickets if I were you."

[spümpkin]

Yoake grunts. Things... weren't looking great, and now Shef was talking to some other person? Who knew what was going on.

At any rate, Yoake hops up, and dashes over towards the Storm Minds, sliding underneath them and moving into an upward butt strike on Storm Mind 21.

[Alteration Used: 5 instead of 2]
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