((I find it funny how they're just like 'eh, can't harm that guy anyway, let's shoot those other dudes'.
Oh wait, did I say funny? I meant distressing. They are clearly smarter than we were led to believe, or they have a competent but ruthless commander guiding them.
I find it weird they're trying to use civvies as a shield. One wouldn't expect a bunch of hardened convicts to give a rats ass about civilians or collateral damage. The fact that we very much do care shouldn't be something they can know. Unless those people from before on the gangway, when we first engaged the sods, told them, which i find unlikely.
This situation requires tact. Miyamoto is in a giant robotic killing machine bred for war, aided by a veteran battle mechanic and an electricity shooting looter. This can not go wrong in any way.))
(What ever happened to the two other people on your team anyways? I forget who they are.)
((There are no other people. Assault team was 8 men, Miya's squad is him, Bishop and Auron, other team is Jim, Flint, Mesk, Lukas and Lars. That's eight people.
We split them unevenly because it seemed like the most even distribution of 'power'.))
"Oh crap, this is just so wrong. A squad of sods I can handle, but this?
Auron, you ok back there?
Bishop, quickly check him over. And keep an eye on him in case he starts acting weird, that nosebleed might indicate his brain's been tampered with, don't get caught off-guard. They might have a specialist or something with them, this reeks of amp tampering."He looked at his downed teammate, then at the helpless civilians on the shields. This wasn't going good. Not at all.
Ok then, Miyamoto, think. Options.
Shooting won't work, no way we can hit them without hitting those people. Unless they're testing us with this, in which case we're giving them invaluable info they'll use against us later. No, can't risk it, we're no monsters just yet. Let's hope those civs aren't already dead yet, or worse, some kind of trap...He started to imagine the civs were filled with explosives somehow and would blast his teammates to bits once close. Or that they would break free with immense power and start attacking too. No, that would be ridiculous. Certainly it would be possible, he knew the doc could easily do it, but it didn't seem plausible. He hoped.
We could engage in close quarters. Hmm, small chance we won't just smash the civvies in the ensuing melee. And they'll shoot right past me once they have the chance.
We don't have smoke nades or other special equipment either. So all that's left is amps or manips then.
Hmm. Could force the shields out of their hands, then shoot. Or just shove them all over. Could increase gravity to push them all to the floor and incapacitate them. No, damn it, I'm not experienced enough with it for such complex maneuvers. And without a decomp I'll probably just overdo it and kill them all anyways.
Hey, wait a minute. They're all going in a neat line. I might be able to heatblade them all at once like that. Auron is ok with manips, he could help. Yeah, this might work.After relaying his plan to his teammates, he gets into position, ready to use his weapon of potential mass destruction.
((@ pariah: does auron have a microwave manip? If not he can borrow Miya's for a moment.))
Use manip to make a single heatblade, in the shape of a box, make it about 20 cm wide, a centimeter high and as long as needed to be to take out the line of sods. Position it at about the base of the neck, increase temperature as high as needed for substantial tissue damage (something like 100-150 °C increase). Use universal manip and give microwave manip to Auron if he asks to. If he doesn't use microwave manip myself (since that one is more specialized and stuff).
If the sods aren't taken out by this, charge forward and go into hand-to-hand with them.