Chapter 112 - Suppressing the Enemy (2/2)

"You know Geoff, just run in, attack, and see what happens."

"Gray! That's not a plan! That's just stupid!"

"Well, I did say we were going to be stupid together."

"Whatever, your fault if we get blasted!"

Gray and Geoff ran towards Kelly's team as best they could with the wet ground and the trees. The only saving grace they had was that the storm covered their sound pretty well. They started to get glimpses of Kelly's team and knew that the next tree they passed could expose them.

"Don't think, just bust out and open fire. Caleb, Xyra, I bet those fancy guns are fragile!"

Xyra and Caleb didn't reply, but they knew what Gray was getting at.

Gray and Geoff both pushed past one last tree and found themselves a mere 100 meters from Kelly's team.

"Open fire!" Gray yelled.

Gray and Geoff didn't waste any time, took quick aim, and started firing at Kelly's team. Like a well-oiled machine, Kelly's team rotated and brought two of the railguns to aim at Gray and Geoff.

On a whim Gray dodged to his right and saw his left arm lose it's lower arm after hearing the now familiar sound of the railgun firing.

Geoff seemed to be luckier as he had stepped in a deep puddle causing his mech to drop down slightly and the shot grazing his shoulder armor.

"Wow, these things are scary!" Gray thought to himself.

As Gray and Geoff were attacking from the rear, Xyra had crept slowly forward to peek through the trees. Caleb had also dragged himself forward into range as well, but he was unable to aim his current weapon while blind and instead had to rely on sensors only.

"...taking the shot..." Xyra whispered.

Xyra wasn't aiming for the mechs, but she was aiming for that glowing blue spot on the railguns. She released one shot from her battle rifle and managed to hit the glowing blue spot, causing electricity to arc from the gun to the mech being used as a mount. The lights on the mech being used as a mount went dark and the mech using the railgun was unable to dismount the railgun from the mech.

Seeing one of the railguns get disabled, the third railgun was quickly adjusted for where the shot that disabled the first came from.

"...I'm spotted..." Xyra said with a slight hint of worry.

Caleb started to fire wildly at Kelly's team, not really aiming, but it did draw the attention of the third railgun, which with the wail of a shot managed to hit Caleb's mech on the torso leaving it dead.

"...Thank you Caleb..." Xyra whispered

Xyra then took careful aim again and was able to hit the glowing blue spot again on the first railgun that was still taking shots at Geoff and Gray. The electricity didn't arc this time, but it stopped glowing effectively preventing the railgun from building up the charge to fire.

"Geoff, aim for the last railgun when it opens fire on Xyra!"

The remaining railgun adjusted its aim for Xyra after destroying Caleb and Geoff started trying to hit the railgun as well.

The remaining 4 mechs of Kelly's team without railguns stood up and pulled out their heavy battle rifles, one of the railgun mechs pulled the heavy battle rifle off of the disabled mech and took aim and Geoff and Gray also.

Gray and Geoff may have had lighter battle rifles that did less damage, but they could aim them better and at longer ranges. Most of the mechs shooting at Gray and Geoff were only able to chip away at their armor, but Gray wasn't able to aim as well without one of his arms.

"I did it!" Geoff shouted excitedly as he watched electricity arc from the final railgun, shorting out the mech being used as a mount.

"Great! Paul, Jono, collapse!"

"Way ahead of you!" Jono said as both him and Paul broke through the trees and started raining fire down on Kelly's 6 remaining mechs.

"Xyra, collapse as well!"

"..."

"Xyra?" Gray checked his team list and saw a red X on Xyra's picture. "Damn, they got her first."

Gray was now worried that they might push to where Caleb and Xyra were last at since it was slightly elevated ground. "Geoff, starting moving towards Xyra and Caleb's last location, everyone maintain enough distance to limit the effectiveness of their battle rifles now."

"Sounds good! We trying to push them towards Yurika and Stacia, right?" Paul asked.

"Yes! Begin suppressing them!"

Geoff, Paul, Jono, and Gray used their lighter weapon's range advantage and would advance or retreat to keep Kelly's team to an ideal range for them. They finally managed to take down one of Kelly's mechs and it fell in front of the others making it harder for them to advance.

"Ok! Keep this up! They're going to have to push forward soon!"

Gray was getting excited, but he did his best to maintain his excitement as the battle was now just entering the peak.

"A cornered animal is the most dangerous kind." Gray thought to himself expectant of how Kelly would respond now that her plan appeared to be messed up.