Frazz Examines the door.
It's made of stone, and it's got some crazy writings on it that you can't read.. there's some moss on it as well, and you think you see a small patch of tiny mushrooms growing on one of the rune bits. And that's about all you could tell about the thing from looking at it.
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While Zander's MAG Assault rifle may give a clue where you are to the National Guards, Jon's repulsor beam out right told them. It was a terrible weapon that cooked flesh and boiled blood with extreme heat not meant for this world. With an idea where you are, some Guards began to take proper cover and blindfire in your direction. Their MAG rounds ripping concrete and tearing at roads, but otherwise dealing minimal damage to your armor.
Presumably, Aria began laying suppressing fire with her LMG, the recoil barely felt through your Exosuit, giving you exceptional accuracy along with rapid powerful spray of bullets to keep their heads down.
Vigil charges, grabbing a metal wreckage and using it as shield, holding it an angle, it was able to deflect and absorb a good number of shots before he throws it over the barbed wire and uses it as a jumping board to hop over the wrecked concrete wall.
You are now inside along with a dozen or so panicking Guards, some are running away, some are spraying and praying at your direction.
One of the surviving field guns moved and took aim at Jon while he was melting the bigger pieces, the three-man crew may be panicking, but the gun's computer targeting system isn't. With a press of a button, the 80mm cannon fires it's large armor-piercing shot with a thunderous boom that could potentially rival Aria's Gauss rifle.
It's about this time that Jon might realize that having an augmented brain that could process with the speed of a computer might not always be such a good thing. As time seems to slow down, your eye having detected the firing and your brain begin to overclock to find a solution to this potentially lethal problem.
Gun already fired, melting it won't help currently. Shot diameter at 80mm, meant to shoot at tanks or heavily fortified position, which you could be classified as both. Body won't be able to move fast enough to get completely out of the way, shot spinning counter-clockwise relative to your position. Situational assessment result: You fucked.
Before your body could decide what to do, your enhanced brain already calculated the kinetic trajectory, it would be a lethal shot right under your ribs and through the spine. Not wanting it to end up like that, it sent signals to your body and integrated Exosuit's system, you began to move ever so slowly in bullet-time, turning yourself slightly to the right as you lean yourself to the left and slightly away from the center of the expected impact site.
The Shot came and connects under your rib just to the right of center mass, your educated and overclocked brain tells you that it'll hopefully miss the spine and that your enhanced cyborg spine will be able to withstand the abuse of kinetic force trying to rip it out, your synthetic heart should be safe in it's cage, might bounces around and rip some blood vessels but otherwise it should still be pumping.
Then the tip penetrates your outer armor, pushing and sliding in as it mushroom'd slightly. By the time it penetrates your actual armor, the thing was almost like a hollow point. This is not good news as the extra surface area allowed for more kinetic force pushing around inside you. The pain receptors have already turned off, so while you feel your lowest right rib snapping, it didn't hurt.
It also didn't hurt when the shot blasts out from your back, blowing armor pieces all over Zander and Jenny as well as ripping a good chunk of your spine with it. Normally you should be panicking right now, but thanks to some serious hardware in your brain siphoning away the panic, you're only somewhat worried. About as much as what to wear to your friend's wedding. But otherwise you can still think calmly and collectively.
Oh, hey. It seems like the rotating force were enough to rip your upper half off from your lower half, so you're kind of in the air right now sailing away, probably for only a few feet due to the weight of everything on you. Ah, fuck, that ruined your Vulcan and ammo backpack! Logistic's going to be pissed..
oh well, at least Akras's rounds were good and didn't explode when it was hit. That would've been bad. Not that you getting ripped in half by an anti-tank gun isn't bad, it could be a lot worse.
Then you see things get a lot worse, from upside-down while still in the air.
As it turns out, D001 plates doesn't only make good armor, but also decent projectile as well. Several jagged pieces found itself lodging in Zander's armor, though it's rather shallow and the suit's seal should keep him from bleeding out. But that's nothing compared to when one of the bigger chunk of Jon's armor smashes into Zander's left knee, his remaining good leg broke backwards immediately. Servos were ripped from it's positioning, bone bursts out from the new opening and Zander were knocked onto his back from the force of it all. Had he fell forward things would've been much more dire.
Jenny didn't get as much shrapnel, only one piece. But said piece found it's way to her neck, being a sniper, she required as much head movement as possible, that unfortunately meant she did not have a neck guard. The piece penetrates into her savagely, causing blood to bursts out as she was thrown onto the flood, her helmet saving her from cracking her skull open against the pavement. Your Sniper lets out a strange, bloody gurgle as she dropped her rifle and began grasping at her bleeding neck.
Zander, holy FUCK everything hurts. Your one remaining good leg is fucked, the exosuit won't be much help either with how fucked it is, there are jaggy metal pieces protruding from yourself which in itself hurts like all fuck. Even with all the morphine being pumped into you from the suit's autoinjector, the pain is still intense. Not unbearably so, but still intense.
Jon then flomps onto the floor, face up 4 feet away from his lower half.
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Meanwhile, reality is flickering as Tal does his Eldritch magic, things just.. doesn't seems right as he continues to chant his powerful spell, black ooze were dripping from the corners of the room in the corner of your eyes, but there was nothing there when you look at it.
The guard is very much creeped out, and did his hand just.. flickered? what the actual fuck is going on, man? There's Purple glow intensifying from the circle, the Intern began to struggle as he really, Really does not like this.
The cat stretches it's back before beginning to lick it's privates clean.
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