The Battle of Cartagena, Columbia
Cartagena is a tight, closly packed city of alleyways, apartments, and narrow streets.. a mass of humanity that could be an absolute nightmare to fight in.
Fortunately, you got here in time, and the city's single-runway airport is capable of handling the offloading of the transports, one at a time. During this process the kaiju has fortunately not yet made landfall.
More fortunately, the slow self-propelled artillery has no particular problems finding spots to park themselves. The city being mostly built as low apartment buildings helps significantly, as does the general dearth of vehicles.. this might be a city of narrow streets, but motorcycles and buses mean less congestion despite that. Deployment goes well, and the jets try to take up positions.
Eventually, the kaiju makes landfall, a giant monkey-like creatre with sword-arms and bony armour plate, as expected.
There are two things that weren't expected. First, the creature has a sheathe around it.. that looks like living air? Something like that? which reaches out and shreds buildings, plants, and construction that are only a few meters away from it, like a mobile tornado. Occasionally it reaches out further to strike a more distant target, but short-ranged on the kaiju scale, only a few dozen meters away.
The second unexpected thing is obviously a mad scientist creation, as a bus-sized housecat flying on insect wings and strapped with some kind of odd, whitish harness flies out of nowhere. It yowls, trying to attack the kaiju.
It obviously has brutally sharp claws, as they rip through the armoured side of the kaiju like it was paper, drawing a gout of blue blood. Not that much blue blood, but enough that an obvious blow has been struck.
The air, lashing out around the monkey, strikes back, lashing out at the huge cat, striking with flesh-tearing gusts of wind and tornado debris. For the moment, the cat shrugs off the assault.
Next up is the first of the Coke Knights artillery, one piece that was lucky enough to get a clear shot, hitting for inconsequential damage, round exploding only for a near miss.
..but then the battered combat jets of the USSCCI go into action, each firing in turn at the kaiju. Several missiles are off-target and miss, but several more strike home hard, wreathing the creature's head in explosions. Some damage is dealt, but perhaps not as much as could be hoped.. more blood leaks out from the head and face.
The remaining shots of the artillery are largely ineffectual.. creating smoke and explosions, but dealing no noticeable damage.
The infantry is still getting into position.. their limited movement capabilities and short range has left them slightly out of position, but free from the kaiju's wind area. They should be ready soon.
Now, though it's time for the monkey. It screeches, and leaps through the air, towards the jets which are flying quite a distance away. It's fast, impressivly so even for a kaiju, but so are the USSCCI jets. It wails as it charges through the city, jumping around, but it is not able to close the range sufficiently to get on target with the sword arms.. or the energy blades that erupt from them pointlessly, falling short of reaching their targets.
Still, though, the thrashing air has done more damage to the apartments and the businesses that fill the city to the brim.. even when missing, this kaiju causes damage.
The flying cat is in hot pursuit, and strikes again. Unfortunately, it fails to break through this time. Perhaps it didn't get a solid enough grip, or perhaps those sharp claws were not sharp enough. In any case, no damage is dealt and the cat must deal with the thrashing wind.
This time it appears to be slightly hurt, as a brick cornice bounces off its midsection, causing a nasty yowl, and the cat falls back and gets ready for the next strike..
Next up is the first artillery piece, which makes up for the earlier misses, smashing a solid blow at part of the creatures armoured side.. and apparently getting a shell in just the right place, as huge slabs of blue armoured bone crash to the ground, apparently unmoored from whatever bit was holding it to the creature's skeleton, rendering it much more vulnerable.
This is followed up by the USSCCI Jets, trying to take advantage of the vulnerability. Unfortunately, despite several direct hits, the large explosions only char the surface, failing to penetrate the hide below the armoured bone.
The infantry has also joined the fight, but their small weapons are similarly ineffectual. The Kaiju simply is not yet weakened enough for their limited weapons to have much chance of hurting it at this time.
But the three other artillery pieces take their chances next. The kaiju demonstrates more of the unnatural resiliance that let it survive so far, and weathers most of the barrage. Still, most is not all, and some more blood is drawn from another fresh wound.
This time, the monkey is not distracted by the jets, and aims for a target that really can't escape the blade arms.. one of the CK artillery pieces. For some reason, it targets the one that hit it the most recently, and not the one that shattered its armour.. one of the ones protected by the force-field system... which is all but depleted by the impact, but the artillery is not killed.
Yowling, the creature follows up, attempting to kill the insolent artillery piece by main force, aiming to slice it up physically rather than attack from a distance.
This is not resisted, and the artillery piece finds itself neatly sliced into halves, despite the protection from the fog. At least, however, the city is not subject to more deliberate tornado damage, as the swirling winds only strike the debris left from the slicing attack.
Next up, the bug/spotted cat, which flies from behind and tosses itself upon the kaiju, this time aiming for the exposed back of the creature. It suceeds once more in drawing blood, although the needle-like claws are still incapable of dealing more than scratch wounds.. and once more, it braves the wind surrounding it, and one more surviving it, this time more or less intact.
Most of the counterattack is again ineffective, as shells continue to do mostly cosmetic damage, or miss, or strike squarely but are seemingly soaked up by the creatures bulk. Still, some damage is again dealt by one of the final artillery pieces, this time seemingly reducing some of the wind effect around the creature, and drawing yet more blood.
..however, the nature of the new valencite explosives is that they are not available in unlimited quantities. At this time, the second jet from the USSCCI runs out of missiles, and leaves the battlefield. The other units are still supplied, but supplies are dwindling.
Also perhaps fortunately, the kaiju again goes for one of the artillery pieces first instead of the annoying giant cat which is doing more reliable damage.
..and misses, as the blade beams do not strike the offending artillery piece, but blow up a nearby intersection, decoyed by the rainbow fog. Screaming, the creature leaps to attack again, smashing the unprotected artillery piece easily, for this one did not have one of the force-fields.
This time the flying cat does more serious damage, making a longer stroke down one of the monkey's legs, ripping out more blood than before, and hopefully weakening it yet more to make it vulnerable for the other units. Still, though, the creature remains strong and powerful, and the protective wind aura strikes at the cat.
This time the feline is defeated. It was bleeding, and a solid impact by a tree stops it, damaging a wing and bringing it to the ground, injured. It slowly slinks away, and leaves the battlefield area.
Everyone attacks furiously again. The remaining USSCCI jet scores a minor hit, and the one remaining shielded artillery piece finally scores a brutal hit, getting a penetration and internal explosion, and severely wounding the weakened kaiju with a blast to the shoulder. It screams again, but is clearly barely able to continue fighting.
Still, the power blades are no weaker than they were at the start of the fight, and they are turned on the USSCCI artillery piece, smashing it with the beam blades. The force field significantly protects the vehicle, but it is incapable of fully protecting it, and the vehicle is knocked out.
It then turns to the jet, attempting to hit in in melee, but it's obviously too badly wounded to close the range. It's not even capable of properly smashing the city with the wind aura.. that must have been knocked out by one of the preceding hits.
For the first time, the infantry have managed to deal meaningful damage, with their enhanced rockets managing to weaken the kaiju yet further.. this blow even knocking out the remaining protective wind storm, bringing relative quiet to the battlefield.
The final blow is dealt by the one remaining USCCI Jet, with its last missiles. The city, though damaged, is saved.
Victory!
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