Astral waved to the crew inside. "Crash the ship directly into the center of this bitch! We need to take it down now and secure a landing zone!" Astral stood still watching the trajectory. Tapping his knuckles on the hull he links up with the battlemap and comms. "Everyone brace for a sudden impact."
The Sacramentum watched as one ship crashed into several buildings. The figure waved his hand around him to signal let it happen. He could have stopped it, but at that point would Astral have forced it into a stronger position.
The Everlast crashed into the buildings as Astral slid down the hull to one of the entry bay's. His rifle in hand he would start to open fire on the overwhelming Tizzle and Apparazza forces. "All forces let the Riot tanks take the lead, deploy the barriers and keep our troops safe to start." As the tanks rolled forward a third of the clone army filled in behind.
"Everlast, keep the flight patterns of the jets up and try to track any oddities. If cruisers try to glass you, press the reflective shielding." Astral stood on one of the riot tanks as it rolled forward. "Wave two, reaper tanks roll in and open fire on that front line of them!" Astral pulled his left arm down as the tanks rolled out of the bay supported by another ten thousand clones.
Staggering progress was made as the Sacramentum had no choice but to throw everything they had at this, hundreds of thousands Apparazza and Tizzles took all angles possible to attack the clones. "Wave three, fire support on the buildings and the heavy units, use the archer cannons and pick apart any high class targets!"
"Fireteam Angel, take the lead and push forward to checkpoint one! Fireteam Falcon left flank, Fireteam Wolf right flank. Dogpound and Jaimie with me." Astral flipped up and backwards firing into the masses, taking out several Sacramentum landing in the middle of the forces. Being met with a warm hug from Jaimie.
"We have the plan ready right?" Jaimie held up her shield as it deflected a bolt of energy back at the tizzle who fired it.
"Dogpound, you are in charge of getting to the core and destroying it. We will raise this piece of shit faction to the ground!" Astral motioned for Jaimie to take off with him.
"Where are you two going?" Nevada asked.
"Someone larger is at play here. We are going to stop them." Jaimie spoke as Astral rolled himself into a ball. Jaimie attached the rope to her wrist as she threw him. Getting pulled along with him with a boost of psychic energy.
"I think it's time for us to slip away while these guys have time for us to get around them." Minn tugged on Nevada's arms as he stood there questioning what was happening. Carolina and Hawaii pulled him along with the rest of them as they went to the core.
Fireteam Angel took the charge of responsibility as they were able to keep the pressure of the front line under control. Once they hit the first checkpoint they realized what was happening around them. They were being swarmed. "Fuck. All forces form a circle and hold out. Each fireteam holds a third. Can we get some close air support!" The leader of Fireteam Angel shouted out and communicated through the radio channel's.
The reaper tanks and the archer cannons moved inwards as the Sacramentum came in with their spider tanks.
"Archer cannons open fire on their tanks. Everlast, status on close air support?" Wolf asked as he hopped over the riot tank and started gunning down the Tizzle crawlers.
"Ready and willing when you mark the target with flares. We are also deploying the Flakbirds to help out in close support." One of the officers spoke aboard the Everlast.
"You heard the chatter, riot tanks shoot flares fifteen meters in front of you!" Fireteam Angel's leader spoke as the riot tanks obliged. Wolf saw a flare land a few feet away as he charged back to the defensive line.
"Smoke is seen, raptors let's give our boys some help down there!" A pilot spoke as five raptor jets swooped in and encircled the area for one pass around. Stopping the Sacramentum's push on them for a few minutes as the Archer Cannons ripped through their spider tanks. "Flare anytime boys, we will still be on standby." The pilot spoke to them as they flew over the holdout.
"You think this is a big enough distraction for him?" Wolf asked the leader of Fireteam Angel.
"It should be, but yet again, this is to keep the standard Sacramentum forces away from him and the Dogpound. As for how long we can hold out." He pointed up as the Flakbirds hovered above them. "We can buy them a few more hours." He turned to the rest of the forces. "Everyone reload and hydrate. The Sacramentum are preparing for another wave and we won't be caught off guard."
"Sir, a new type of tank coming from sector four!" One of the clones on the archer cannon shouted as a plasma mortar round struck a flakbird. Shattering it as it exploded, shrapnel raining down.
"Here we go again!Archer Cannons open fire on sector four! I want it to be leveled!" Wolf shouted as a chunk of shrapnel crushed a few clones next to him as he calls a squadmate to lift it off of the clones and get them in a safer position.
As the Archer cannons let loose another wave of Tizzle's and Apparazza charged through the rubble and charged at the riot tanks as they climbed through the riot tanks into the middle level. The clones kept firing at the lizards and apes point blank as they all had to push back.
Falcon was able to sweep through their third and helped the other two thirds out as they all were crushed at once. The Sacramentum got pushed back beyond the riot tanks. The clones just had to hold out a little longer for the success of the rest of them.