Leon's Strider shook as he and Miranda started raising hell, they'd found one of the other strider team's mech's. The pilot's either dead or gone.
" At the command center; what am I looking for Leon?" Jodie asked and Leon turned his mech to shoot at a group of Union soldiers. "Pylon controls, or Nano controls!" he snapped back into the comms. They worked as long as they were inside the base, but outside communications were still down.
Miranda boosted her Strider over towards the gate and Leon followed watching her Six.
" Got it! Get the Holons. I also found the refugee's they haven't been processed yet. And GL is on their way. " Jodie told them, Leon and Miranda backed up till they were at the entrance they had taken into the building before Miranda pulled out a small trigger and pressed the button. Explosions tore into the side of the facility distracting the Union soldiers. He hopped out of the Strider to grab his Holon. They'd snuck up as close as they dared to the facility in their transport earlier.
Sliding into his Holon was second nature at this point, and he ran back in time to stomp on a tank trying to box Miranda in a corner. He spun his pistol's coming to play as he aimed and fired at several groups of people running out of the facility.
" There's a transmitter on the top of the facility!" Sinclair explained as Leon saw a blue bolt dash out of the facility. He skated over so Jodie had some cover as he ran for the spare Strider. They loaded up and Leon grabbed Jodie's strider. Jodie saw what Leon wanted and aimed his rockets at the transmitter, it groans and bends as Yasamin swoops in and blasts it with her wrist lasers; knocking it the rest of the way as Leon gently puts down Jodie,
" GL- Any squads- please respond." They all heard the moment the transmitter went down.
" There is a bogey headed your way north-by northeast. Vanguard Get those Refugee's loaded on the transports. Gen: Lock do what you can to keep that thing off the people." Col Marin snapped into the comms.
"Affirmative Command." Chase replied and they looked at the black blur heading their way. "Aw Fuck." Cammie swore.
Leon crashed into a wall, and stood slowly, he was getting to his limit. The others were fighting in sync as best they could. But a second Nemesis drone had shown up and they were all getting to their limits. And they were drones, the original mech had spoken during all their encounters and with some clever Hacking from Cammie they noticed that they were being rc'd by something.
"We need to do something different." Yasamin breathed hard getting up. She was down to one wing. But they almost had everyone from the facility on the transport; if they held out for a few more minutes they could get everyone out.
Leon saw a familiar face helping people board. He skated in front of the last group of people shooting at the Union forces trying to stop the now refugee's board. Reloading his pistols he saw a familiar woman stop and stare before she turned to help the last few people board.
"You're right." Sinclair nodded "Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" he turned to Leon. Leon turned back to the Nemesis fight torn for a moment. He narrowed his eyes and held out a hand for Sinclair "No, but I can be." Leon replied reaching out. Sinclair grabbed Leon's hands and pulled him close both of their hands connecting.
Outside the Holons sprung into action, Leon jumped up onto a crate and then launched down onto the drone. Sinclair came up and in with an uppercut, and they both shouted as lightning surrounded both their fists and slammed into the drone. The shock from both Holons sent the drone into the ground a melted husk.
Sinclair and Leon, while not looking at each other, fist bumped.
They skated towards the second drone, Leon already reaching out mentally to slow it down as Sinclair's Holon turned blue and bolted forward with a shout. They hadn't realized he could do that, still the two of them charged forward. The second Drone turned and went flying towards Leon it's thrusters at full power. It grabbed him dragging him away from the others all four arms holding him in place before nano turned into a fifth and sixth arm and began to tear at his Holon. Two of the arms wrenching at his head.
The last thing he saw was a fireball slamming into the drone's back as his vision was covered in thorns.