The Grey Bears were vastly outnumbered as more and more enemy Mechanoids poured into the woods. The odds of survival were slim, but the Grey Bears remained collected and focused, determined to take down the mechanical foes. Despite the seemingly impossible situation, the Grey Bears refused to back down, their steady aim fixed on the approaching Mechanoids.
What they were more surprised about was how this Jin was able to work under pressure or he was basically too ignorant of the situation he had made the Grey Bears be in. “Ahhh, here goes another debt to pay.” Yinn and the others thought simultaneously as they knew that their presence would be discovered within a few seconds once the enemies were able to pick them up with their physical sensors. The only things that were aiding them right now were the impromptu covers and the sheets of camouflage that were used to cover their heat signatures.
Even as Jin was hiding under a large camouflaged cloth, he persisted in his aura sensing, managing to capture where most of the Mechanoids were moving. The Tactical Holographic Console was able to predict with Jin’s input of information their path of movements and this new information was being sent to the rest of the Grey Bears.
Yinn and the others had no idea what was happening but based on sight perception, the movements and numbers seem to tally well with what Jin had sensed them. Was it possible that a miracle emerged from nowhere and allowed the Tactical Holographic Console to work properly for once?
Still, they were not very optimistic even with the revealed positions of their enemies. Sure, Jin was able to pinpoint all of them but what good would it do? They would still be stuck with a shit ton of enemies to deal with.
“Pass me two flashbangs,” Jin asked through the Tactical System but the Mechanoids were hesitant to move since movement and sound would attract attention. This caused Jin to be slightly annoyed as he already had a plan up in his head.
“Nevermind.” Jin looked around the cabin and found a window which he could pass through easily if he jumped from his spot. “Do not fire until I give the command… unless I am dead,” Jin added the last part reluctantly and made sure he had his loaded pistol with him. “Let the show begin then.”
Jin quickly stopped his Maqi sensing and focused some of it into his legs, allowing him to jump out of the cabin window. The sound of shattering glass alerted the rest of the enemies, causing them to move and even shoot suppressive fire towards the cabin. They moved towards the cabin even faster, despite the Grey Bear Squad still being inside. The orders were absolute and they had no choice but to obey, so the tension was high.
Suddenly, a loud bang echoed through the dark woods, effectively killing one of the Mechanoid rebels. More shots were fired, dead accurate and killing another three Mechanoids with headshots. Their physical sensors immediately switched to night vision, adding thermal to their perception. But Jin was clever enough to hold onto the camo cloth, using it as a cloak to hide.
As the Mechanoids thought they had located Jin, he suddenly lobbed a few grenades towards them with force. The explosions shook the ground and sent debris flying, taking out several more Mechanoids. Jin used this opportunity to sprint away, staying low to avoid detection. He could hear the enemies behind him, shouting and firing their weapons, but he was fast and agile with the aid of his Maqi. He knew the woods well through his Maqi sensing and used this to his advantage, weaving in and out of trees and underbrush.
“Tellie, Yinn get out of the cabin from where I move out and prepare for sneak attacks. Use the trees as vantage points.” Jin said as he continue to fire his pistol. Those grenades which he managed to pinch from the first dead Mechanoid’s battle vest proved useful and he still had a grenade right with him.
“Diaz, Click! Fire now!” Jin said as he used one of the trees to block the suppressive fire they were sending in his direction and threw that final grenade at them. The moment they heard their names, their faces turned elated as they used the distraction created by Jin to kill off those who had their focus on him and used the grenade explosion to hide their gunfire.<.com>
This gave the Mechanoids an illusion that there were being ambushed rather than being the ambushers, denting their morale bit by bit. Jin quickly pulled out the Holographic Tactical Console and used his mind to see the coordinates where Yinn and Tellie were hiding for the ambush.
But then he noticed that his passive Maqi sensing had shown that more Mechanoid Rebels were moving onto their location. They were all fanned out to search for stragglers and the firefight here had notified them that they were here.
“Permission to engage,” Tellie asked but Jin continued to belay that order. Instead, he asked Tellie to climb up the trees as well and get a better sight of the battleground below.
With the battlefield being split into two sides, the pressure for Diaz and Click to perform had reduced significantly. To boot, Jin had also used Accuracy Rate Up codes to overclock their precision sensors. That and the constantly updated battlefield information from the Tactical Holographic Console had enabled Diaz and Click to fire their weapons while conserving their ammunition.
However, Jin’s pistol was running low and there were still Mechanoids firing at his position, some even began to advance towards him knowing that he was just one man. But they had no idea that they were fighting with a veteran that went near Death’s gate several times.
The freshly minted commander of the Grey Bears sent another shot that grazed one of the advancing Mechanoids and took the opportunity to run up the tree like an agile monkey escaping from its predators. The only difference was he did not do that runaway but gained some height so that he could dropkick them with sufficient distance.
“Hahahaha! Did you see that!” Diaz said as she sniped down another Mechanoid with a headshot.
“I did.” Click replied with excessive approval. “I never expect to see melee combat being brought onto the table at this time and age. LT, sending suppressive fire. Danger close.” She said through the Tactical System as she had decided to assist Jin once after he dropkicked one of the Mechanoids by shooting her backup support.
This allowed Jin to not just pick up the rifle from the Mechanoid that he dropkicked but also used the fallen War Maiden as a (human? or Mecha?) shield. Yet the other Mechanoids had their orders and did not care if one of their teammates had to be sacrificed.
“We are not going down without a fight either,” Jin thought to himself as he held on to the unwieldy rifle shot randomly to protect himself as he pulled the now dead Mechanoid back to behind the tree for cover. Afterwhich, he put a bullet into the Mechanoid’s head just to be sure and started to pillage whatever he could find on her battle vest while under fire.
If this would be a protracted battle, he had to grab whatever he could and improvise on the battlefield just like how he did when he was on the endless battlefield with Suzaku.
