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of the
skeet wreck.
    Her plasma rifle was in the cockpit, but she wasn’t
going back down to try and pull it out at the moment, needing to deal with
these infantry first. The striker took two short steps over the burnt hull and
jumped, coming down into the group below and firing at them from pointblank
range, taking hits to her shields as she did so.
    The exchange didn’t last long, with Riona mowing them
down with ease and them unable to get through her shields, though one did try
to grab her legs and knock her over. He got sent back the other way with a
stern kick before receiving the last plasma blast to his chest, melting through
most of his vest armor before she fired a second for good measure, punching
through the hole and killing him.
    Riona tossed the weapon aside, noting how it wasn’t as
strong as she was used to as she concentrated and searched inside her ship with
her Pefbar, eventually finding her rifle and guiding it up through the crevice telekinetically
and over into her waiting hand.
    “That’s better,” she said, turning the power on and
jumping over some of the low rubble before climbing over a broken wall and up
near to the roof. She didn’t have a jump pack on, or anything else for that
matter, so she tossed her rifle up first then jumped, getting a handhold on a
broke piece of ceiling and pulling herself up where she awkwardly pulled her
body over the ledge and into the clean air.
    Riona retrieved her rifle and looked around, seeing
that she was still well within the lizard base but not too far from a pair of
mechs blasting their way into the interior…with the enemy counterattacking with
overwhelming numbers of infantry and a good number of tanks in support.
    “When in Rome,” she muttered before running over to
the edge and sliding her legs over the side before dropping down to street
level some 13 meters below. She fell on impact, but partially rolled out of it
and came up into a run headed for the nearest lizard as they saw her and
responded accordingly.
    Riona dove into the melee and got to work, remaining
with the ground offensive until she ran out of ammo a few minutes later, then
began working her way back to the exterior of the base and fighting hand to
hand where necessary until she got to a group of Star Force commandos and
bummed a replacement clip from one of them, then took up command of their small
group along with grabbing a Calavari Knight from nearby. With the four-armed
mass of white armor leading the way she assisted them psionically in punching
deeper into the infantry as one of the nearby cruisers fell out of the sky and
shook the ground so hard two of her men tripped and fell.
    The battle from that point on was one-sided, with the
Star Force warship eventually killing the other cruiser and using what
operational weaponry it had for close-in fire support, but none the less the
combat was brutal up close with the lizards making them pay for every inch of
ground they took…and then once they had the surface secure they transitioned
into a subsurface theatre where the naval and aerial power couldn’t come into
play. The mechs did, to a certain extent, but some 36 hours later they were
still fighting it out hand to hand deep inside planet’s crust as an Axius team
came in to relieve the battle weary mainline troops.
    Riona stayed and helped them clean up most of the hot
spots, then with fatigue dragging her into a near coma she eventually relented
and turned over command to an Axius Protovic, letting him see to the rest of
the sweeps and allowing her to return to the surface where she called for a
dropship to pick her up and take her back to the TF.
    Riona dosed off enroute, having to be woken up by the
pilot when they’d returned. She thanked him then dragged herself out, turning
on the powered nature of her armor to help her walk back into the confines of
the huge dropship and find her temporary quarters where she began stripping off
her sweaty armor, feeling a huge sense