01-21-2018, 04:27 PM
Carmelita gave Erik a quick glance before activating her Communicator.
“Al3x, are you there?”
++You’re coming through loud and clear, boss,++ the AI’s voice replied. ++What do you need?++
“I’m activating my quantum beacon. Send me PCD Squad 001.”
With that, she flicked a switch on the small black box on her belt. There was a hum, a whir and the sound of materialising beings surrounded the two hunters.
Around them ten small, squat drones appeared, small jets of air suspending them centimetres above the ground and blowing the leaf litter away in all directions. She patted one of them on its conical top and grinned at the replying beeps and boops.
“PCD Squad 001, execute manoeuvre one alpha. Advance, spread out in pairs and provide cover until you can surround them. Head out.”
Erik looked at the cute black and gold drones with a questioning look, before each pair activated their SupraPol Cooperative Containment Shield and five orange-blue barriers sprang into existence. The drones advanced towards the edge of the forest, while Carmelita turned to Erik.
“They’ll be a good distraction while I sneak around behind them. Let’s go.”
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As Carmelita advanced under the invisibility granted by her cloak, the hunted’s attention was quickly drawn to the drones as they emerged from the treeline. One of them, upon spotting the pair of them, began flashing its blue and red police lights and a siren began playing as the group advanced. Any response that might have been made by the pair was quickly diverted as Erik joined the advancing line and summoned his bow.
As Amber and Undyne dived out of the way of an incoming arrow of psychic energy, responding with bullets and magic spears, Carmelita was steadily advancing over the rough ground. Maintaining her footing was easy when she was safely hidden beneath her cloak, and she swiftly found herself behind the pair. This proved to be an interesting place to position herself when a purple arrow of energy whizzed over her head, but she had time to approach.
“Where’s the fox gone?” Undyne asked as she launched a spear that shattered one of the five shields of energy in a single hit. The two drones behind it gave out distressed beeps as they toppled over backwards, prompting a different pair of drones to disengage their shield and head over to help the pair up.
“She’s got a stealth field,” Amber replied, an arrow glancing off her armour as she moved to a different burnt tree trunk, heading away from the relatively ineffective cordon the drones were attempting to close around them. “Keep an eye out for her electricity.”
Unbeknownst to either of them, Carmelita had just finished planting a STAPLER amongst the blackened forest floor, and took the opportunity to charge up a shot on her Shock Pistol. Under cover of her cloak, she aimed squarely at Undyne’s back and fired.
Unfortunately for Carmelita, while she remained hidden beneath her cloak, the ball of electricity fired by her pistol was less than subtle, and Undyne was fast enough to react as she turned her head to talk to Amber. Leaping twenty feet into the air, Undyne grinned and let out a laugh as the ball of electricity dissipated against the tree trunk.
“Hah! It’ll take more than that to catch ME off guard!” she cried, summoning another spear to her hands. At that point, an arrow from Erik struck her in the back of her shoulder, and she was spun around from the impact.
Carmelita took the opportunity to change her vantage point and began firing uncharged shots at Amber, who quickly began firing back. The two of them traded shots, Amber spraying a burst from Razorback at where she thought Carmelita might be before ducking behind cover to avoid a trio of uncharged shots coming from off to the right, two of them catching her in the arm.
Carmelita crawled along the floor as another burst from Razorback flew overhead before her former cover was demolished by Undyne. She rolled away from the splinters that flew everywhere, checking around as Eric’s arrows diverted Amber’s attention again. The PCD drones had been advancing steadily while she had distracted the pair, and now three pairs of drones with barriers advanced on the combat from three different directions. The pair of fugitives were being corralled, and she could only hope that they wouldn’t realise until it was too late.
“Al3x, are you there?”
++You’re coming through loud and clear, boss,++ the AI’s voice replied. ++What do you need?++
“I’m activating my quantum beacon. Send me PCD Squad 001.”
With that, she flicked a switch on the small black box on her belt. There was a hum, a whir and the sound of materialising beings surrounded the two hunters.
Around them ten small, squat drones appeared, small jets of air suspending them centimetres above the ground and blowing the leaf litter away in all directions. She patted one of them on its conical top and grinned at the replying beeps and boops.
“PCD Squad 001, execute manoeuvre one alpha. Advance, spread out in pairs and provide cover until you can surround them. Head out.”
Erik looked at the cute black and gold drones with a questioning look, before each pair activated their SupraPol Cooperative Containment Shield and five orange-blue barriers sprang into existence. The drones advanced towards the edge of the forest, while Carmelita turned to Erik.
“They’ll be a good distraction while I sneak around behind them. Let’s go.”
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As Carmelita advanced under the invisibility granted by her cloak, the hunted’s attention was quickly drawn to the drones as they emerged from the treeline. One of them, upon spotting the pair of them, began flashing its blue and red police lights and a siren began playing as the group advanced. Any response that might have been made by the pair was quickly diverted as Erik joined the advancing line and summoned his bow.
As Amber and Undyne dived out of the way of an incoming arrow of psychic energy, responding with bullets and magic spears, Carmelita was steadily advancing over the rough ground. Maintaining her footing was easy when she was safely hidden beneath her cloak, and she swiftly found herself behind the pair. This proved to be an interesting place to position herself when a purple arrow of energy whizzed over her head, but she had time to approach.
“Where’s the fox gone?” Undyne asked as she launched a spear that shattered one of the five shields of energy in a single hit. The two drones behind it gave out distressed beeps as they toppled over backwards, prompting a different pair of drones to disengage their shield and head over to help the pair up.
“She’s got a stealth field,” Amber replied, an arrow glancing off her armour as she moved to a different burnt tree trunk, heading away from the relatively ineffective cordon the drones were attempting to close around them. “Keep an eye out for her electricity.”
Unbeknownst to either of them, Carmelita had just finished planting a STAPLER amongst the blackened forest floor, and took the opportunity to charge up a shot on her Shock Pistol. Under cover of her cloak, she aimed squarely at Undyne’s back and fired.
Unfortunately for Carmelita, while she remained hidden beneath her cloak, the ball of electricity fired by her pistol was less than subtle, and Undyne was fast enough to react as she turned her head to talk to Amber. Leaping twenty feet into the air, Undyne grinned and let out a laugh as the ball of electricity dissipated against the tree trunk.
“Hah! It’ll take more than that to catch ME off guard!” she cried, summoning another spear to her hands. At that point, an arrow from Erik struck her in the back of her shoulder, and she was spun around from the impact.
Carmelita took the opportunity to change her vantage point and began firing uncharged shots at Amber, who quickly began firing back. The two of them traded shots, Amber spraying a burst from Razorback at where she thought Carmelita might be before ducking behind cover to avoid a trio of uncharged shots coming from off to the right, two of them catching her in the arm.
Carmelita crawled along the floor as another burst from Razorback flew overhead before her former cover was demolished by Undyne. She rolled away from the splinters that flew everywhere, checking around as Eric’s arrows diverted Amber’s attention again. The PCD drones had been advancing steadily while she had distracted the pair, and now three pairs of drones with barriers advanced on the combat from three different directions. The pair of fugitives were being corralled, and she could only hope that they wouldn’t realise until it was too late.