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originally posted in:The New Dojo
8/7/2017 12:22:39 AM
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Cannon's eyes widened beneath the helmet.
"GET TO COVER!"
He shouted as the Mandos dove for cover, hiding wherever they could.
Cannon himself dove behind a damaged wall from the building they had crashed into.
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Bullets turned the wall to powder as they shot through the wood and stone home. Ulfric leapt over the cover Cannon hid behind as the other mando soldiers started to be pegged by the massive machine gunners.
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Cannon sent a wrist rocket at one of the mechs, his men hunkering down to allow their armor to take the hits once they were slowed by the meager cover.
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The rocket blasted against one of the soldiers, knocking them back. But their heavy armour still kept them alive. "We need to figure out an escape!" Ulfric told Cannon. "At this rate, we're screwed!"
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"We have a few more tricks up our sleeve." Cannon replied, stepping out from cover. He knelt, and sent the jetpack mounted massive anti-tank cluster missile into the mechs.
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The uh...ya...the missile thing...bombed a small section of the power armoured men. This broke their ranks and sent some of them flying around. But there were still enough to pin the group down.
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This was the reason Cannon wasn't the only one with a heavy rocket. His was followed by easily a dozen more as the Mandos unleashed hell. Meanwhile, Cannon popped a smoke grenade and tossed it out. "Fall back!"
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The Coldbourne military was disoriented as the missiles came down and the smoke was ejected. That being said, missile fire still rang out, and as Cannon called the retreat Halt landed beside him and looked back. "Jesus Christ this is a mess." Halt said as he ran through the destroyed home and out into the street behind it.
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"That about sums this up." Cannon agreed, leading them away from the disoriented Coulborns. "Once we deal with thos dragons, we can call in air support."
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"How do you propose we deal with the dragons?" Ulfric asked. "They look...well they look like they were summoned, not made. If that makes sense." "It doesn't." "Well look at them! They're translucent! A powerful spell caster would have had to conjure those up!"
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Cannon thought on his words for a moment, then gained an idea. Magic was, essentially, the manipulation of energy fields... So if he could scan a dragon then, theoretically, he could trace it's energy source back to whomever was conjuring it. He attempted to test his idea, scanning the nearest dragon.
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As he did, he soon realized his hypotheses was correct and his theory proven. He was able to trace the powerful magic back to....the Coldbourne castle.... But. He saw that it was not in the throne room. Rather it came from the back right tower of the massive palace.
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"Energy signature matching the dragons in the far tower. Let's move!" He ordered.
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"How do you propose we get up there?" Halt asked Cannon. "The dragons, remember?" "...we use tethers and rope." Ulfric seemed to spit ball.
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"We have something a bit more advanced than that." Commented a trooper as they approached the tower. "Grapple guns."
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"Grapple-!" Suddenly more fire power lit up the street the group walked down. The Coldbourne soldiers were in pursuit now. "Can. We gotta get to the cliffside now!" Halt told him.
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Cannon nodded. "Let's go!" He started moving towards the side of the cliff, prepping his cable gun.
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The group sprinted towards the cliffside, as they had to take down the source of the dragons. But as they ran, one of the beasts in question began to circle around them...
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Cannon switched on comms, calling in a fight squadron for air support. A squad of Mando-piloted X-wings broke off to engage the Deagons.
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The dragon let out a roar as it flew away from the ships, having them follow it away. "Well that could have been a lot worse!" Ulfric exclaimed as they reached the cliff face. "Now what?"
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"We climb." Cannon aimed his cable launcher and fired, sending a half inch thick durafiber cable upwards. The point imbedded iteslf in the rocks.
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"You brought some for us, right?" Ulfric asked Can.
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"You'll each ride with one of us." Cannon informed them as he hooked up to the cable.
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"We aren't some -blam!-ing stuffed animal you can tie to your back." Halt told Cannon. "Swallow your pride, Halt. We need to do this."
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"Tie to back? No. Here." Cannon pulled one of the clips off his utility belt. "You'll be providing covering fire in case we get attacked going up."
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"So...we'll be dangling in the air while you climb...." Ulfric said slowly as he tried to comprehend it.
