Pancaek, Roger, Denzel and Miyamoto charge back up the road, over the crater of the artillery strike and towards 8 and B. They spread out across the intersection, ducking into doorways and hiding behind any sort of cover available. Rifles align, pointed toward the sky, and fingers tremble on triggers as their hearts pound in their chest. They'll only get one shot like this and they know it, only get one chance for a surprise. As they prepare Bishop punches his rockets and screams back into the open sky, cutting a long curve back towards 8 and B and the ambush waiting there. Behind him, the hunter follows, lightning arcing across the roofs of buildings as it rises above the skyline, a ball of homicidal luminescence slowly gaining on its prey.
Bishop finishes his turn and dives down onto B street, following the slow curve toward 8. He throws a hurried glance over his shoulder to make sure he's still being followed before gunning his rockets to the maximum safe speed and screaming over the intersection of 8 and B, trailed by a shockwave of force that shatters windows and whips the snow into a flurry, static discharge firing randomly. The men step out as he passes over head and take careful aim, waiting for the hunter to close range before firing.
[Pancaek Con:2]
[Roger Con:2]
[Denzel con:6]
[Miyamoto con:2]
Laser fire and Burning thermite gel cut through the air, But only Denzel's hand laser makes contact, scoring a dull red line across the chrome body of the machine. The hunter bot's movement changes suddenly: it pulls up hard, flying straight up in a tight loop and then, at the zenith of it's loop, dives straight down toward the Intersection and the men there.
Meanwhile, in coward town, Jack catches up with Karen and joins her in quiet contemplation of which route to take forward: continue down 8 toward E with it's flickering bipeds and wall of rubble, hang a right into smoke and fire or a left down what appears to be a fairly unassuming road. Karen, after yelling into the radio, decides on her course and charges ahead forward, toward the Wall of rubble and the shiftingly visible things climbing around it. As she runs forward the things turn towards her and leap off the rubble, smashing through windows or holes in the walls of nearby buildings and vanishing. she makes it to the base of the rubble barricade and looks up. Its not a very steep mound of debris, but it doesn't look terribly stable.