>Whelp time to get gone and hide. Also how tough is a wyvern and how would your group fair against one?
Well, working together, they can easily take down one. Five, on the other hand, depending on rank equivalent level, was going to be a tall order, especially outside. Worse still if they had some sort of commander unit leading them.
>Alright, does the villiage we just came from have defenses that can take 5 Tech Wyverns?
They do, in fact. Unfortunately, the town is a several day long journey away from their current location.
>If not, we run for the tome and hope those Tech Wyverns don't get told of our position via the scarf.
>That scarf seems like it warns of danger..Sounds like the cavalry for the machines is here, take cover in the tomb so they can't attack from the air (assuming Wyverns fly)
Tech Wyverns can indeed fly, and fairly quickly at that, meaning that the only real option here was to hide away in the tomb. Trying to hide in the forest would just have them burn it down to get at them. Sombra ordered Glimmer to mist up as much of the forest as she could to keep them hidden, but she was already on it, draining herself of her magic in the process.
"Everyone, tomb, now!" Sombra ordered. Without having to be told twice, the group made a break for it, making a beeline for the distant tomb. The four rookies were making good time there when a shadow came over the trees above them. One of the Wyverns was already there and it was circling around. Before they could so much as stop, it began to fire down at the forest. Purple-pink flames began to consume the forest, its wildlife beginning to panic and run away in response. It didn't stop at one burning portion of forest, as it continued to rain down blasts all over the place. Soon, the rest of its wing had gotten to where it was before spreading out and firing down below.
"They're really pissed off!" Tyco huffed, "And for what, a couple of tech troopers and some cannon fodder? It doesn't make sense!"
"I know, it really doesn't!" Glimmer agreed, "All behavior for Mechana forces for the destruction of small recon squads are to send more powerful units to find the Mons responsible or to ignore the problem, not a scorched earth policy!"
"More running now, talk later!" Cinder grunted. The blasts were increasing in frequency, detonating with the force to knock over trees from near misses and spreading the Mechana flames further.
"Almost there, guys!" Sombra uttered, "Just got to cross the open field between the forest and the tomb!"
"Oh, lovely!" Glimmer sarcastically stated as the group found themselves exposed upon exiting the misty forest. Now exposed, the Wyverns began to notice them and started flying after them. Blasts were starting to fly after them, blowing the ground that they hit apart.
"Ignore them and keep going!" Sombra uttered. Tyco had gone on ahead to begin opening the doors leading inside.
"Hurry!" He yelled to his friends as they closed the distance. Not long afterwards, they all practically jumped inside as the lead Wyvern started to approach them, its eyeless head opening its maw wide to fire a blast. Tyco got pulled inside before the door was shut. A locking mechanism whirred into place before the doors shook from the blast hitting them. They shook even more when the Wyvern impacted them head first, a mechanized roar of rage coming from it as it began to slam into the doors.
"Deeper, now!" Sombra urged. Without waiting to see if the ancient enchantments on the doors remained good enough to last long under the wrath of five Tech Wyverns, the team headed deeper, towards the central chamber. Once there, they closed the inner set of doors as fast as they could manage, leaving them in the soft bluish-green of the wall mounted lights surrounding the central chamber. The roof loomed 50 or so meters above them, the room itself having hundred meter wide diameter.
"That...Was too close." Cinder muttered.
"If they decide to keep coming after us, which seems likely given their unusually aggressive actions so far, I think we'll have to get ready for a fight in this chamber." Glimmer uttered as she looked around. "There's still space for those things to fly, but not nearly as much as outside, thus effectively removing their main advantage over us."
"I think I saw a Brawler riding one of them." Sombra stated. "Looks like he'd be the leader unit."
"Whoa." Glimmer uttered. "Uh, you guys seeing what I'm seeing?" Everyone looked to the Cast Dragoness, following her now pointing scarf as it pointed straight to the altar at the center of the room while glowing blue and purple. Or rather, the speared individual laying in a long-cooled molten crater where first few flights of front stairs used to be in the altar.
"Whoa indeed." Sombra uttered as she began to walk over to inspect the figure, the team's current situation momentarily forgotten. The others followed close behind until they got within a few meters of the corpse. They were like no Mon they had ever seen before, being armored from head to toe in a black and blue-highlighted armor. Their armored feet were broad and stump like, almost elephantine or sauropod-like, a set of large paws that were fitted to a plantigrade leg structure. Patches of armor were missing, revealing glimpses of surprisingly fresh flesh given how they could see dark fur still there rather than nothing but bones. Around the neck was some sort of collar of similar design to the armor, though with a slightly glowing purple script of unknown origin flowing across it.. The helmet had three glowing 'eyes' on it's otherwise featureless and segmented design.
One of the 'eyes' was missing, and as Sombra looked to inspect it, she saw an organic and blue eye staring out at here. And she saw it move ever so slightly.
"Oh Maker, guys! I think this guys's still alive!" Sombra called out. As if on cue, the inner set of doors were slammed into. The Wyverns had started to break in. "Someone help me get these spears out of him!"
"Are you sure that's a good idea?" Cinder asked, "I can't feel this guy's Standing."
"Worst case scenario, we've got a dying guy on our hands. Best case, we get someone to help us with the Wyverns!" Sombra pointed out. Cinder looked like she was going to argue, but a particularly violent slam into the door behind them changed her mind.
"To hell with it." She said as she took grip of one of the spears and yanked. The spear, which seemed to just sort of phase through the armor, slid out like it was nothing. Everyone else, lacking a lot of other options, began to pull out the spears.
"One left!" Sombra stated.
"They're breaking through!" Cinder called out, drawing everyone's attention to the increasingly dented door. As the others got into combat position, one of the four turned around and pulled the last spear out. They were-
[]Sombra.
[]Glimmer.
[]Tyco.
[]Cinder.
