The battle of Tampa, United States.
Arrival at Tampa is confused and slightly delayed by the host of evacuees leaving the city. Once again, the warplanes and the transports are forced to take confusing delays en-route to the destination. The USSCCI, having a base in the area, would have been better off, except for an unexpected conflict between the civilian ATC, the ATC at the nearby airbase, and the ATC for their own airfield.
The result is the planes are landed and the troops deployed, but the transports are still lined up to flee when the Kaiju arrives. They're not in a firing line, so the Kaiju is able to get first-strike.
..although, more currently worrying is the Kaiju itself.. and where it emerges. It's a huge, blue sphere with a surface covered in brain-like grooves and ridges, and it's right in the middle of the forest of oil tanks south of downtown. As it barrels through the tank farm, many are burst open and spill out their contets, and a storm of frost whips up around the kaiju. Phew. Similar auras, but of firey destruction have been seen in the past, but this one is fortunately cold, which prevents any fires and explosions from the tank farm.
Ending its rampage, the Kaiju then changes direction, beginning to head towards the scrambling troops near the airfield. A missile is launched from one of the grooves, this one seemingly even bigger than the ones in the last battle, more comparable to the missiles used by the lobster-kaiju at Austrailia. The only unit hit is the container full of gun-bugs from Happytime Atrocities, which are wiped out before they can take a single shot from their doom guns.
In addition to the K-Com forces, there are four experimental tanks from the US Army. These are stationed a ways away from the landed forces, further south at the military airfield. At the time of landing, they were being swarmed by workers, who are now clearing out to make way for their crews. The tank engines are started, but they're not ready to move yet.
They look like ordinary tanks, except two of them have what is recognized as large laser cannon mounted on them, and the other two have much larger caliber cannon with relatively short barrels mounted in place of the usual weapons. Performance capabilities remain to be seen.
The experienced K-Com forces are, however, ready to move now. Most of the infantry units scramble for cover, being there to help with the cleanup rather than to fight the kaiju directly with their relatively small arms. The Infantry from Ares is deployed differently, however, moving into battle.
Due to the relatively close range between the kaiju's landfall and the deployment zone, nearly every unit is already in range, if not ideally dispersed yet. A huge quantity of fire rings out from two AC-130s, three combat jets, a T-55, three artillery pieces, and a lone man with a big energy rifle that fires blue lines. The force-field shrouded CK Modern Tank activates some smoke generators instead of firing.
Review of the footage will show that most shots were inaccurate, with few units managing solid hits, except for the Emerald Robin Jet which hits the ball squarely, unluckily leaving only a huge char mark on a ridge, and the Emerald Robin artillery unit, which manages the first puncture, drawing blood from the Kaiju. Perhaps the aura of frost hindered aiming?
..which doesn't begin rippling and healing like the last few. This one apparently does not regenerate.
The kaiju spins oddly, seemingly without proper respect for momentum, and launches a second missile. This one flies high into the air and hangs there for a moment before returning to earth. Before it lands, however, there is a more urgent threat. The kaiju launches itself, as if out of a giant cannon, towards the pack of attackers, who try to scramble away from it. It doesn't manage to collide with any of them, but it does manage to bring many units into range of the frost aura.
Four units are unable to escape from it. The three artillery pieces, and more surprisingly, the ADD AC-130. It may be slow for an aircraft, but evasion should still have been possible.
All three artillery are destroyed by the crippling cold and the shard-carrying high winds, and suffer heavy degrees of damage. The AC-130 is buffetted and hurt, but is able to weather the attack with significant damage.
The missile then returns to earth, and apparently was targetting the now-destroyed Emerald Robin artillery piece. It smashes into the debris, wasted.
The battle continues. Newly entering the fray this turn is Gerald, the lightly-armoured technical with the Automatic grenade launcher. Unfortunately, in order to attack it needs to enter the effective area of the frost nova, which swiftly disables the vehicle before it can shoot. This time the volley of fire is significantly more effective. The Emerald Robin jet scores a successful hit, as does the smoked-up CK Modern Tank. The bearded mercenary also, surprisingly creates another wound with his blue line of death. Ineffective fire is made from the two AC-130s, both of the USSCCI Jets, and the T-55.
The US Tanks are beginning to move and arrange themselves for combat. They'll be entering the battle soon. The transport planes have left the area and are safe. The non-fighting infantry is also hiding and is generally safe.
The giant ball Kaiju fires another missile and then launches itself again mightily. This time it manages to not only move swiftly, it manages to shoot itself up in the air. It makes direct contact with the flying CK AC-130, the one with another force-field similar to their tank on the ground.
The force-field is not sufficient to protect the fragile aircraft from such a violent collision, and it is destroyed. The missile then arcs further through the air, and chases down the Emerald Robin Jet. Evasive attempts are made, but these special missiles are not to be evaded, and the plane is reduced to shattered fragments of debris.
After landing, the kaiju attempts to close range with the T-55, but it can only seem to be able to roll at this moment and fails. The frost aura isn't the threat it was previously. The slow units have been destroyed, and the other units have scattered significantly, preventing any further damage. Still, if it had more range, the only units that could shoot at it safely would be the jets and the artillery.
With the next round of combat, the USSCCI jets finally manage to score hits, with both of them doing visible damage to the weakening and bleeding Kaiju. In addition, the merc does another damaging blue line.. it's been surprisingly effective. Serious damage is done this round, with one shot landing in the vicinity of the missile launcher, and one shot that seemed to explode inside the kaiju for serious damage.
More sadly, the ADD infantry brave the chill zone to try and close to a range where they can possibly deal damage. They're hit heavily by the frost, and unable to make progress. The unit is scattered and rendered ineffective, but there are some survivors who retreat
The US tanks have now enterd the battle. It doesn't quite go that well for them, one seems unable to fire its weapon, the second laser only leaves scorch marks, and one cannon shell just bounces off without properly exploding. The second cannon shell draws more blood, although the weakened kaiju is still standing.
Unfortunately, despite the damage another missile is launched anyway from the Kaiju. It then launches itself quickly at the line of US tanks.. seemingly not affected significantly by the accumulating wounds.
The laser tank attacked directly manages to barely avoid being crushed, but it has no chance to avoid the Chill Zone. Two of the other three tanks are also unable to flee, but one of them manages to get far enough away to avoid the stream of ice, concrete, and intense low temperatures.
The first tank, the one with the malfunctioning laser, is able to weather the storm easily, only getting heavily covered in frost but still able to move, if not to shoot. The second laser tank and the first cannon tank are much more hurt, both taking serious hits from debris and obviously hampered by failing components and freezing lubricants, although they survive too.
The missile is more effective. It streaks down from above, and hits one of the two USSCCI Jets.. the one that launched the missile that hit the kaiju for internal damage. It's wiped from existance.
More fire is rained upon the now-wounded kaiju from the surviving K-com vehicles. The surviving jet fails to do damage, followed by the blue line of doom, but then the CK Tank manages a good hit, and that seems to have been critical to the bleeding sphere. The artillery rounds from the AC-130 pile on for more damage, and the surviving USA tanks finish off the almost-dead monster.
Victory!
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