I aimed both my Desert Rangers at him, but he made another charge at me.
“Tch…”
He swung his katana multiple times at me as I dodged each of his strikes.
I tried to counter with my Saber’s chainsaw bayonet but he’s too quick for me to pull it out.
As he made an overhead swing, I dodged right and pulled out my Saber and fired multiple shots at him.
He immediately turned towards me, seeing the Saber shots coming right at him, he put his katana up in defense.
I continued to fire my Saber at him, but moved around serpentine style to avoid some of the shots and blocking the others as he came closer to me.
I lowered my stance as he got closer and when he’s about to swing his katana sideways, I launched myself up in the air over Ichika.
He looked up and watched as I jumped over him.
*Vr-r-r-r-rm!*
Before he turned completely around to face me I made another lunge towards him with my chainsaw bayonet revved.
*Ki-ck!*
Ichika knocked me back, but I fired my Saber at him.
Instead of dodging them, he brought up his katana to block them again.
*Bheew!*
“!”
As I was about to land, a laser missed my left shoulder by mere milimeters.
I looked to see that it came from the IS that was engaging on Ratchet, sporting the color blue and she’s wielding a sniper rifle.
As if dealing with Ichika’s bad enough…
*Bheew!* *Bheew!* *Bheew!*
She’s raining shots down as I tried to dodge not only her shots, but also Ichika’s strikes as well.
To make a counter effort against the blue IS, I pulled out my Shockburst to get the proper accuracy on her, seeing that the Saber’s not going to do much against her when she’s in the air.
*Pephee-ew!* *Pephee-ew!*
She dodged both shots as I have to stop firing at he to fend Ichika off.
Instinctively, I pulled out one of my Desert Rangers with my left and fired it as Ichika was about to attack with his katana.
*PA!* *PA!* *PA!*
This time Ichika was knocked off balance and he missed my left arm.
As I was about to re-engage the blue IS, I noticed that Sideswipe was engaging on the IS with the railgun at ground level.
Just like me with Ichika earlier, he’s avoiding her attacks as she swung both of her energy blades that looked to be mounted on her forearms, like my combat blades.
Only that hers are longer than mine.
As she swung her right blade at him, he sidestepped a bit to his right to avoid the energy blade and caught hold of her hand, and pulled her towards him and landed a punch into her mid-section.
As she bent a bit forward, he climbed onto her and he started to attack he railgun.
He got a few hits on but she plucked him off of her back and threw him in front of her.
Rolling out of that throw, Sideswipe switched to his Saber before the black IS charged at him, beam spears still deployed.
*Perh Perh Perh Perh Perh Perh Perh!*
Dodging each shot, she closed on Sideswipe.
As she’s about to thrust one of her beam spears at him, Sideswipe dove between her legs.
Before she turned around, Sideswipe made a lung at her, clenched his right fist and was about to puncher in mid air.
“Hmph!”
As he’s about to land his punch the black IS’s pilot made a smirk, like she’s expecting him to come up close to her.
Oh shit…
“Sideswipe, back off! Back off!”
She then raised her right hand up towards Sideswipe, shooting an energy net at him. Although it didn’t hurt him, but Sideswipe looks as though he’s stuck in mid-air; he’s not even moving an inch.
“Gr-r-rgh! Damn it! I can’t! It feels like my whole body’s frozen!”
Now that she got him in her grasp, she then deployed her railgun and aimed it right at him.
I took aim towards the black IS.
“Over here!”
“!”
Ichika came suddenly at me from my left side and I narrowly avoided his katana.
*Bz-t!*
My vision blurred for a bit and had a bit of static on it just as the katana missed me, but then restored itself.
Turning towards Ichika, I switched to my Saber and dove back as I fired it towards him.
*Bhew—!*
Again, that blue IS was shooting at me as I’m re-engaging Ichika.
I was about to shoot at her to shake her off a bit.
*BOOM!*
“Gu-u-agh!! Ugh… Ugh…”
An explosion boomed throughout the campus, catching Scourge and Ratchet’s attention, as well as mine.
I looked to find where the source of the noise came from, I see a suit of armor smoking as it fell down if front of the black IS.
“Sideswipe!”
Noticing this, Scourge tried to break off from the magenta and red ISes, but they prevented him from doing so.
Ratchet also tried to get to Sideswipe, but then the orange IS landed in front of him at a short distance stretched out both of her hands and each had what looks like shotguns.
Ratchet would fire at her, but before he could react, she already has her weapons at his level.
Just as she pulled the triggers, Ratchet made an attempt to dive back, but each shot came at him faster than he can dodge.
“Fu-ugh! Oh-h-h…”
Smoke soon engulfed Ratchet, as the orange IS continued her barrage.
Then he emerged from the smoke could, having the same cracked-glass pattern all over his armor like with Scourge earlier. But this time it’s worse; it looks as though it’s about to shatter.
Like a predator stalking her prey, she immediately charged at Ratchet and her left arm opened up, revealing some sort of pilebunker.
“!!”
Before he can move, the orange IS clenched her left hand thrust her arm forward.
*BAM!*
"Ugh-oh! Oh… Oh…”
The pilebunker struck Ratchet in the abdomen. At the moment of impact, the cracked-glass pattern on his armor shattered.
The orange IS held Ratchet up, who looks ‘impaled’ by the pilebunker on her arm, and showed an angelic smile with a killing intent behind it. But strangely, it has a bit of guilt in it at the same time.
As she threw Ratchet on the ground, some of his weapons fell off of him.
“That’s it! You’re next!”
Ratchet getting downed didn’t go unnoticed by Scourge. As he’s broke off from the magenta and red ISes, he pulled out his Saber and revved the chainsaw bayonet.
As he lunged at her, the magenta IS charged her orb-shaped shoulders and unleashed massive shots at him from the left side.
**BOOM!**
“D’oh-h-h-h!”
Scourge was knocked to the ground and the red IS charged towards him as he’s getting up, about to overhead swing her katanas.
As he’s about to take her on, the orange IS was coming up at him from behind, and the magenta IS then began to charge up her shots again.
Right before the red IS swung her katanas, he jumped back to avoid the swings.
Seeing an opening, he dove right at her, tackling her to the ground.
Standing over her, he grabbed the IS’s pilot by the collar and clenched his right fist.
*BANG!*
“Oh-agh!”
As he’s about to land the first hit on her, he was knocked off of her. Seeing the orange IS with a shotgun aimed at him. As he’s about to recover from the hit he took.
**BOOM!**
“Ba-agh!”
The magenta IS struck Scourge with her charged shots, causing the armor to have the same shatter like what happened to Ratchet.
The shots sent him flying and he crashed close by to Ratchet.
“Scourge!”
Scourge laid there, completely motionless and he wasn’t responding to my radio calls.
Those 3 ISes were checking on each other after downing Ratchet and Scourge.
“UO-O-O-O-O-O-OH-H-H!”
While doing so, Ichika came at me as I pulled out a concussion grenade.
I backed of so I can throw the grenade at those 3 ISes as they slowly approached Ratchet and Scourge.
But with his persistence, all I can do is avoid his attacks.
Can’t keep this us forever…
All this has been is a stalemate.
I tried what I can to get on the offensive.
Saber, Desert Rangers and Shockburst…
All none of those helped.
Except…
I looked at both of my forearms as I continued to avoid Ichika’s attacks.
[Forearm Blades: Moderately Damaged]
I know it’s a risk, but it’s something they don’t know…
Ichika swung his katana sideways as I jumped back a bit.
Now that I’m at a safe distance from him, I charged straight at him, but he sidestepped at the last minute.
But that doesn’t mean that I completely missed him.
As I passed him, I swung a backhand with my right fist and deployed its combat blade.
*KLASH!*
“U-ugh!”
The blade struck Ichika’s backside, knocking him off balance.
Before he recovered from the hit, I deployed my left combat blade.
As I’m charging back at him, Ichika performed a back swing with his katana, swinging it upwards.
*KLANG!*
Both of our blades crossed, with him knocking me back. And he charged towards me as I was landing.
*KLANG!*
I crossed my blades and raised them to block Ichika’s katana, putting us in a deadlock.
“Gr-r-r-r-r-rgh!”
One of the things I don’t need.
“Gr-r. Er-r-r-r-r-rgh!”
Ichika’s applying more downward force on me.
I better get out of this…
“Ger-r-r-r-r-r…”
I slacked my right blade a bit and Ichika’s katana slide along my leftt blade.
“Shr-rgh!”
Using Ichika’s momentum, I swung my left blade downwards to the left, diverting the direction of Ichika’s swing.
With him down, I swung my both my blade twice in a scissors fashion at his legs, bringing his upper body down to my level.
“Hyagh!”
*BAM!*
I swung my right fist downward like a hammer at his head and followed up with an upward swing.
*KLING!*
The blade made contact and sent metal shards flying.
“!”
I saw the blade as I brought my right arm up.
"!..."
Or what’s left of it on my arm…