The transporter dropped the mechs and quickly left the area. As per Ray's message, in the next few minutes, 2 enemy mechs will be in their firing range.
"Kaylee take care of the doors for us. We will handle these…", Carl said and he deployed his guns. Ray was watching the action unfold from the command center in the ship that is orbiting the planet.
Without a word, Falcon took a defensive stance. He deployed his gun and also his plasma shield.
"Falcon, don't you think this is overkill? Save the shield for later", said Carl in a mocking tone. For which Falcon said, "You never know"
Near the wall, Kaylee saw a huge metallic door and she started hacking into it. The electronic blast door had some pretty heavy cryptic locking mechanism, even for their age.
Just then a grenade was launched from somewhere from the east of their location. The grenade fell a few yards away from Kaylee, bursting into a million pieces, sending her mech flying for a few meters.
Falcon quickly found the Mech responsible had started firing his heavy machine gun. Meanwhile, Carl was now fully aware of his surroundings and desperately tried locating the second mech. Taking cover, he kept scanning. Thankfully he found a minute signature.
Kaylee quickly recovered and headed to the door again, trying to crack the code for the door to respond. She connected her interface wire with the door's electronics and tried frantically to open it.
Carl's Mech had a specialized long-range sniper rifle. He locked the enemy position and began firing at interminate intervals. The thumping sound from his rifle could be heard quite far. The enemy tried to duck and hide. But soon that Enemy Mech was disabled and with a huge boom, it was destroyed. Kaylee finally was able to crack the code and the huge doors opened with a lot of noise. This made the enemy mech that was attacking to charge towards Falcon.
Just moments before the enemy neared Falcon, Carl's sniper found its mark, dealing a critical shot into the enemy mech. The battered mech fell backward slowly.
"Did you check for any other enemies?", Falcon asked, trying to recover the Plasma shield back.
"Nothing falcon, I didn't see any other units in the area. They must be some scouting party, we must hurry", said Carl and started walking towards the now half-open door. The metallic door seems to be stuck and it is clanking heavily trying to open.
Kaylee said, "No use, we have to step one by one before the door's mechanism fully fails". Carl nodded and stepped in. As the three entered, Kaylee closed the door so that the system did not fail completely. The mechs moved slowly and their metallic legs can be heard clanking as the hallway was relatively hollow.
Carl used his thermal imaging to see the surroundings, his mech stopped moving. "Lookout we are not alone"
The three heard sounds of clicking - like stones are clawing into the walls. It was Carl's sensor that picked up the first disturbance. They were lizard-like crawlers and they were heading straight for them. There were hundreds. Kaylee deployed her Psionic Pulse weapon to send bursts of energy. This led to some of these creatures getting zapped, falling to the ground. But there were others.
Falcon and Carl opened fire at them. It was making little change, they were almost on top of them. Kaylee fired up the Psionic Pulser but this time it didn't fire.
Back in the orbiting ship, Ray could hear Kaylee's body shuddering and trembling in her Mind melt system Interface. He immediately deployed a few immunity shots into her body. For some reason, the system is trying to reject her.
"Why? Why now?"Ray was questioning, when he saw General Mathias looking at the screens as he looked at the lizard-like creatures that were attacking the mechs.