Board Thread:Role Plays/@comment-7489529-20140906215813/@comment-24901923-20141016222042

Despite admiring Halvard's CQB skills in his MS, Arcturus sighed at the news he overheard on the comm channels. Half an hour? Great. He dodged the gunships' fire nimbly as he moved among them, shooting whatever he could aim at. The faunus loaded his machinegun's last magazine, and blasted another volley of missiles with his beam spray guns to conserve ammunition for his chest vulcan. Another volley from another direction was too close to evade while the shoulder-mounted weapons recharged, so Arcturus took the hit with his shield. The shield was dead wieght now, but his Viking survived unscathed. "They're learning, are they? Wonder what they'll make of this?", Arcturus thought as he holstered his machine gun to move to the edge of the battle, attracting a string of enemy gunships that soon moved into an impromptu formation. He opened the shield's beam saber racks, turned around to face the enemy, and detached the ruined shield before grabbing both sabers and kicking it at the formation to break it up. He picked his targets and jetted forward, shooting down one with his vulcan while getting close enough to slash another. Arcturus managed to kill several more before his beam sabers began to run low. He threw them both when he judged them nearly spent, one of the spinning blades cutting through another volley of missile fire to neutralize it as the other dispelled seconds after cutting through a surprised gunship. Nearly out of weapons, Arcturus made a break for the shuttle to resupply, radioing in his intentions to the rest of his Team before switching channels to tell the shuttle's mechanics what he needed in advance. Sigma managed to keep most of the gunships off of him, though one small formation broke through. Arcturus turned around, flying in reverse to shoot them down. The threat neutralized, he dumped the empty magazine and landed in the hangar.

Arcturus quickly parked his Viking in the prepared refit bay, and got out to help the mechanics replenish his MS' arsenal. In less than three minutes, the Viking was ready to redeploy. Launching quickly, he discovered that the fight had moved much closer to the shuttle. The faunus announced his return by firing and jettisoning all three of his missile pods at once, ruining another formation as he followed up with fire from two beam rifles, his machinegun on his Viking's rear skirt and reloaded like it's hip-mounted ammunition racks. His left shoulder now held an e-pac rack for his beam rifles.

"I hope Command can hold the fort Earthside. Major shit must be going down for this many bogies to break atmosphere.", Arcturus said grimly over the team comms.