Yotsubashi Rikiya, Grand Commander of the Meta Liberation Army, Re-Destro, was in the middle of a meeting with the other commanders of the Meta Liberation Army when the attack started. Sharp, brick-like shuttles began to descend from the sky, one stopping even with their floor and opening to reveal a man in a blue armored suit. He threw a discus shaped object onto the window and began to count down with his fingers.
"Down!" Rikiya threw himself over Skeptic and Curious, just before the glass exploded inwards and shredded his back. Skeptic's puppets drew pistols only to be torn to pieces by one of the man's assault rifles.
Rikiya stood up, undoing his tie and shrugging off the mangled suit and undershirt. Black spots began to spread across his body as he said, "Well, this is quite stressful. 80% Liberation."
Re-Destro began to grow, pieces of glass pushed from their back and rifle fire bouncing off his brown-black skin. He spoke, quite calmly, "Tomoyasu, my friend? Put me through to every speaker in Deika City."
"Done."
"My loyal soldiers, my loyal friends. These invaders just attempted a decapitation strike on the Meta Liberation Army. As you can hear me, they failed. They want war, my friends?"
Re-Destro used Stress Output Burden on the shuttle, blowing it clear from the sky in a burst of purple energy.
"Let's give them war. Make them pay for every inch they take into Deika. Use your Meta Powers to send these fools fleeing back to where they came from."
A cry came up, hundreds of voices calling at once.
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Izuku tightened his lips as he shot down a charging Krogan with a Snowblind round, the warrior shattering to pieces as he smashed it with his omnishield. One handedly racking the slide of the Crusader, Izuku braced it against the shield. Cobb was next to him with a Claymore programmed with Sledgehammer rounds, each shot blowing a vorcha to pieces.
"Zoe!" Izuku called into the comms, "You see that dropship? I don't want to!"
The plasma gun on the Tiger Shark went off, burning into the barrier around the ship. Still, it was ultimately of Krogan design, so the dropship had far more armor than shielding. Another shot and it went down in flames, crashing into a building.
Izuku focused on a shuttle packed full of civilians, looks of terror on their faces. Izuku gritted his teeth, reminded of some of the Combat Zones in the Reaper War, where people had the same look on their face.
Had they really learned nothing for that war?
"Cobb!" Izuku barked, storing away his Crusader and retracting the omnishield, "Suppressing fire! I'm about to do something
real dumb."
"When don't you?" Cobb joked, switching over to the Revenant and beginning to fire from indiscriminately down the street. Izuku charged, dodging Krogan and Vorcha as the shuttle began to lift off. Throwing himself into the air with biotics, he landed on the front, deployed an omniblade and drove it in, shattering the glass and exposing the Krogan pilot, whipping out the Crusader, he blew the Krogan straight to hell with two point blank shots to the skull.
Sliding into the ship, Izuku followed his N7 training, flying it towards the security cordon that had been set up behind them by men wielding primitive propellent based guns, admittedly
big propellent based guns, and landed it. He gestured for the people to get out, before doing so himself. Looking at one of the men, who was curled up on the ground, he pulled out a vial of medigel and injected it into him, the bloody gut wound closing as the gel rapidly accelerated the body's natural healing.
He then redeployed his omnishield and drew the Crusader again.
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Chisaki Kai was was leading the Shie Hassaikai in the defense of their base, having sent Chrono out the back way with Eri. All the while, his brain ran as he saw the next wave of ugly, chitinous aliens approach with rifles and shotguns.
Aliens. Did that mean they were carrying alien viruses? Was he close to some infection vector for a disease there was no cure from?
The Hassaikai members using guns were utterly worthless, their rounds hitting blue flashes of light and dropping, flattened like they had hit a wall.
Not like those who entered physical combat were doing much better, as they had to cross the hall with bullets flying. Each one seemed to sheer through flesh, causing sprays of blood and bone, every bullet, without fail, over penetrating.
Rappa had been eviscerated by a shotgun blast in one of the earlier waves, his body laying slumped against the ground. Rikiya wasn't doing much better, even on Trigger. His right arm was dangling by threads of flesh, and both his knees had been broken. A simple adjustment of one of the alien's guns, and his head was blown clean off, the spray of blood hitting Kai.
"Filthy," Kai growled, deconstructing his glove to slam a hand against the ground. Spikes of stone rose, punching through the aliens through the chest, "you're all filth-!"
Kai caught a glint of light from something seconds before a shot from a pistol ripped through his right eye and out the side. Kai howled in agony, staggering back as blood leaked down his face.
Two humans in the same blue armor as the aliens approached. Kai managed to reduce one to a smear of blood before the other tore him in half with a shot from his shotgun.
"Young master!" Nemento called, just before an assault rifle tore through him as he was distracted. Kai clawed his way towards him, only to hear a racking from behind him.
The last thing Kai thought about was the Boss, then his head was obliterated in a explosion of blood, bone and gray matter.
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