Home Plot: Day 2

[verynaughtymutant]

The Askani were a warrior people, their armed rebellion was in many ways the thing that defined them, that marked the clan from outsiders. And so when an Askani camp was attacked, all of its members joined in the defense because all of it's members knew how to fight.

In this case, nobody was quite sure who the attackers were, whether it was the Chaos Bringer or forces from the Cannanite government but they were warriors, they knew how to fight no matter the enemy.

There had been a bombardment, first, bombs and shells falling onto the camouflaged camp and then attack from several directions, by flying vehicles and soldiers suited up in combat exoskeletons. And nearly every man and woman in the Askani camp was trying to repel them.

The anti missile auto-systems were in full flow, shooting down the shells and everywhere there was hand to hand battle and gun fire. Here a robot man was dispatched with a psimeter, there a giant mutate who looked practically reptilian was shocked by an electrical bolt tearing through her skin. To the north a towering black man was commanding an artillery barrage that was driving off the attackers, while to the south two askani priestesses, Aliya and Hope, were leading another force in hand to hand.

But of the two leaders of the fight, Cable and Stryfe, the Askanisson and the Chaos Bringer, there was no sign at all.

Comments

[awomanscornd]

Madelyne isn't a fighter. She tries to make herself useful in other ways, but in a melee like this, soldiers and warriors and mutants on all sides, she's hopelessly out of her element. But things move fast in a siege, apparently, and she winds up with neither the time, opportunity, or even really the inclination to run off and find somewhere to cower for the duration. Instead, she somehow ends up in the thick of it before she's even entirely sure what's going on.

"Okay, can I at least get a gun or something?"

She's not a fighter. But she is a survivor.

[verynaughtymutant]

There were two women fighting side to side against a battalion of attackers near where Madelyne was. One was black with short hair, the other was pale with red shoulder length hair and black tribal makeup marking her cheeks and she stabbed her immediate opponent with a bolt of energy from her psimitar and telekenetically grabbed his gun and launched it towards Madeleyne.

"Just try not to shoot our side."