"Alright whats the game plan Fuchsia?" I asked as we ran towards outpost. 'There's seriously a lot of grimm, if we just go in guns blazing we're going to get surrounded' I think to myself as we get closer and closer.
"We're going to use the element of surprise! I want you to get to the tree we can find and start laying down fire. Once the grimm catch on to us I'll jump and engage them and draw more out for you snipe. From there you just keep me covered until we can push 'em back!" Explained Fuchsia as she then pointed towards a tree "There that one should be ideal."
"Well it's a lot better then what I was thinking, just... just be careful ok?" I say to her. 'I have to be on my A-game, if one my shots go wide she could get hurt or a lot worse.' "Fuchsia if this gets to out of hand you get out of there okay? I know you want to help this people but it's not worth getting killed over understand?"
"Okay.." she says to me with frown on her face. 'Damn, I know exactly what she's thinking but this wasn't the first time she's let here emotions take control of her. It looks like it's up to me to make sure she's gets back safe.'
"Alright go get in position near those bushes Fuchsia, give me a signal and once I have the grimm's attention I'll leave it up to you when you want to draw more of them out." she nods then takes off towards said bushes. I finally get to the top of the tree and unsling Snapshot. 'Alright let's see what were working with here' I say to myself as I insert my scroll into its slot and begin to scan over the scene playing out. 'Okay standard walls made out of tree logs' I see that there's about a dozen of white fang members with pretty low grade assault rifles and swords at the top of the wall trying to keep the grimm at bay. Inside of the walls I can see some of what I assume to be the villagers treating the injured, 'Damn there's at least several dozen,' looks like the townspeople were just trying to seek shelter and protection from the grimm. 'I don't understand why was the bounty just for light grimm activity? Something had to happen to rile them all up. Shut up. Focus on the mission Dez I can worry about that after we save their asses."
"...and all I need to is reconnect the ground cable... and boom" I can hear the electrical box begin to whir to life.
"We all done here Robbie?" Yoshimitsu asks.
"Yeah I'm going to try and signal our ride out of here" I pull out my scroll and with much relief i can see signal bars. I immediately call our instructor.
"This is instructor Green-Smith"
"Instructor this Moss of team SLYR, WE NEED IMMEDIATE EVAC!"
"What's going on cadet Moss, I was informed you were on a menial mission, is your team not up to par?"
"With all do respect instructor but the intel you received for the mission was bad, the mission is FUBAR! We have heavy grimm activity and the villagers have fled to a nearby White Fang established outpost. Currently Slate and Li have gone rogue and disobeyed orders, they ran off towards the village."
"I don't think I have to remind about Atlas's Academy's stance on the white fang Moss, you did the right thing in going to inform us first but any part of your team getting themselves involved is unacceptable. Your team's exfil time was set for 1800 which is not for another 3 hours, given the circumstances the best we can do is 1630, map intel is lacking for that location so we will land were we dropped you off so you can guide us in."
'Damn it's going to take at least 45 minutes to get back to our drop off location' I think to myself 'damn it Li i hoped you know what you're dragging Dez into.' "We'll be there sir." Yoshimitsu looks over to me and lets out a sigh.
"Hopefully there's less grimm on the way back" Yosh groans out.
"See you at 1630 Moss, best of luck, Green-Smith out," and with that the line goes silent.
"Well we don't time to waste Yosh, let's get a move on." I say as I break off into a run.
"Got it boss."
I'm scanning the skirmish with my scope as I see a glint of light hit my eyes. I look towards Fuchsia's position and I confirm that the glint of light is coming from her.
"Alright lets get to work" I say to myself as I zoom in on a beowolf clawing its way up one of the walls. 'Well better start by thinning out the heard.' I brace my back against the tree and steady my breathing. I take a quick glance at my scroll. '10mph wind moving southeast, target distance 1,420 meters. I hit a prompt on my scroll and second red dot appears on my down 3 mils and 4 mils left. I realign my aim and fire two quick shots. I watch as both of my rounds pierce the beowolves neck and it falls to ground clawing at its throat for a few moments and then goes still and begins to desinagrate. 'Damn I love technology.'
I slowly start to pick of beowolves one by one, each one taking two to three rounds before dropping. 'Thank Oum most of these beowolves are minors, the plating on the elders make it much harder to drop them so quickly.' After taking out another two beowolves I drop my empty mag and slam in a fresh one. 'Shit only four mags left after this one.' If this goes too much longer I'll have to go down there and handle this with Ripper. As i think this i notice the ursa start to look around in confusion as they see there comrades start mysteriously falling. 'Well no more element of surprise. I see one particular wise start to run in my general location near the bush were Fuchsia is lying in wait. It attempts to hurdle the bush instead of just plowing through it, as it is doing so it caught in the gut by Fuchsia's shotgun Ashbringer. The ursa tumbles through the air until it ungracefully hits the ground and continues to roll. The moment it stops Fuchsia leaps towards it shifting her shotgun into her hatchet and sticks it right in it's skull. 'Ouch' I think to myself but I have no time as another two ursa rush her. She shifts back into her shotgun and begins to fire.
'Well that's only going to piss 'em off, eh... I guess that's kind of the plan' I argue to myself. I aim for its lower left calf and fire off four shots. Each one hits the mark and slows it down so she can focus on the one behind her trying to take her head off. I switch targets quickly and fire three rounds into its rib. Before my rounds hit it the ursa throws a hay-maker towards Fuchsia, she quickly ducks below its massive strike as my rounds take effect causing it to over-extend. Fuchsia takes advantage of this and puts a round in face causing it to stumble backwards, 'checkmate' I say to myself as she shifts back into her hatchet and returns the favor by releasing it head from its torso. She quickly makes an about face and charges the remaining wounded ursa, she makes quick work of it with her hatchet and runs towards the outpost walls only to see it abandoned.
"The fuck?" I blurt out confused as I start scanning the area. 'I don't see anything? Where'd they all go!?' Wait a second we've learned about this kind of behavior.
"Now cadets if you ever find yourself in a situation where grimm have seemed to suddenly go AWOL this may be a trap. You see if grimm detect the presence of elder grimm nearby they will retreat in order to stay out of it's way to avoid it's anger being misplaced on them." Instructed Green-Smith. "Whatever you do never let your guard down when in comes to grim, they are merciless and waht nothing more to end your huntsmen and huntress careers early."
As these thoughts leave my head I began to see nearby tree shake and fall to the ground as something is plowing through them. The very next moment a grouping of large trees are reduced to splinters as a duo of Deathstalker Majors appear with several ursas and beowolf majors in tow.
"Ah for fuc..."