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Fri 31st Dec 2021 07:11

More Cells Call Out

by Jerry J. Vahn

Lilianna and I were sitting in the situation room watching some Lord of the Rings movies when we get a call over the DarkR web.
 
Another resistance cell was being attacked by Destroyer's minions. Runeforce said that the girl that we saved during the first round was at this one again.
 
Maybe, she's not a good luck charm.
 
Anyway, they were on the west coast of Oregon and the Space Plane was there. Runforce portalled us all there.
 
The resistance cell was getting its backside handed to it. Just as we set foot on the ground, three of them went down in one volley of fire. I zipped over there and picked up the two that were still mostly standing and put them behind the building.
 
Lillianna said something about this being a movie set just as I took off running, so, I don't think the walls will protect against anything really high powered.
 
I saw a big walking 'mech', is the best way I can describe it, take out another of the resistance fighters as I got there. There were also five agents with glowing weapons.
 
They moved up and lined up nicely for me to fire my lightning bolt at them. I tried to 'swing' it a bit, like the movie with those crazy curving bullets. I'm sure Lillianna would know the name, but I've forgotten it.
I got a lucky shot in and took out all three of them with a single shot. Neat. I'm gonna have to remember that. I think I need to start working on other ways to use the static electricity that I build up for other things.
 
As I step out, what I missed was that there was another agent right there, and behind them a blue wall. Guess Max was busy trying to slow them down.
 
The 'mech', that apparently the others had fought before, landed as I was punching the last glow agent, so I ran over and punched him too. The slight upgrade that I did to the gloves seems to have made my punches better. Both of them went flying back and out for the count.
 
As I turned back towards the plane, there were MORE of the mechs landing. Runeforce and Lillianna were hit, so I took off down the street. My lightning didn't seem to affect this mech as much as it did the glow agents, but it did move back a small bit.
 
I looked up quickly to be sure that there weren't any other surprises coming in from the skies. Max wasn't saying anything about the Destroid electric teleport fields, so that was good.
 
The last standing mech was taken out between Ghost and I. She distracted it as I ran over and punched it.
 
We quickly gathered up the agents and the mechs, who had agents inside of them, and removed all of their equipment.
 
At least this one went better than the last, in some ways. At least four of the resistance fighters were killed. Not good, but we did get the majority of them out of there and removed several destroyer agents from the field.
 
Rescue missions are all well and good, but I think it is time that we start taking the fight to them...