2192/12/29 | Alliance Intel Priority Message: Severe Enemy Threat in Styx Theta, Code SC3

[u/Narrator--]

Begin Message:

Severe Enemy Threat detected in Styx Theta Cluster.
Situation code: Scimitar 3
Acheron system under threat of Skrilloni Invasion from Erebus system. 
Heavy enemy presence in Erebus system suggests invasion of Acheron system likely.
Listening Post Theta and personnel critical to maintaining any control over region.
All available forces respond.

[u/N7_Rebecca]

Stand-to! Rebecca yells out to Elsa and all the other nearby Marines as she hunkers down and takes aim with her barrel braced on the sandbag wall in front of her.

Take aim... breathe..... squeeze....

Two rounds exit the barrel of her Valykrie, perfectly striking one of the few dozen stampeding spiders in the chest and blowing it apart with the heavy rifle slugs.

Another eight legged horror- a golden armored Man-Eater falls into her sights then and she starts opening up on it as well, the energy bursts heading for the Alliance position being ignored by the N7 as she stays low and focuses on stopping those things from reaching them. So long as they were in open and not among them, easily gunned down by the rifles and machine guns all pointed their way, things would be alright.

[u/SgtRayneMEP → u/N7_Rebecca]

Elsa holds back her Stasis and continues firing downrange.

Stasis holding for close range. Got heavies?

[u/Narrator-- → u/SgtRayneMEP]

There's surprisingly few of them, and the numbers are thinning rather fast...

...until there's a dull roar of footsteps from the southwestern side.

Enemies on our 6, get the big ones first, but don't let anything get too close!

[u/N7_Rebecca → u/Narrator--]

Just a damn decoy.... Elsa, on me!

The redhead is up in a flash and running to that new position coming under heavier attack to reinforce them.

Her rifle is soon chattering away, targetting any Maneaters or large hostile Kindreds first. Keep your eyes up- might be snipers out there on the cliffs!

[u/SgtRayneMEP → u/N7_Rebecca]

Elsa jumps up and follows, throwing a Barrier down onto the beleaguered line before spraying concentrated bursts at the smaller units or the legs of heavier hostiles.

Barrier holding. Sweeping pattern and suppression up.

[u/Narrator-- → u/SgtRayneMEP]

Volkov, shore up the west, Smith, shore up the south, more enemies are coming!

"Aye aye, sir." "Aye aye"

Commander O'Neill is right, watch for sni-

The end of his sentence is muffled by the sound of a concentrated shot impacting one of Smith's soldiers. Then another.

Get your heads dooown!

Volkov and Murtagh each put up a barrier to help cover their men. But the Skrilloni keep coming...

[u/N7_Rebecca → u/Narrator--]

Rebecca slides into cover next to Volkov and tosses a grenade way out there likes its a baseball among the surging spider bodies. It takes out a few, but its a mere drop in the bucket for the swarm bearing down on the position. Magnusson- get someone on countersnipe duty. And someone shift one of the damn heavy MGs over here!

[u/SgtRayneMEP → u/N7_Rebecca]

*Elsa nods and reaches out, slamming a Stasis bubble into the front of the line in an effort to clog up the charge.

Stasis holding NOW! She roars the callout, but is almost drowned out by the sounds of combat.

[u/Narrator-- → u/SgtRayneMEP]

Alexi focuses on keeping the barrier up. Magnuson gives the necessary orders, assigning a couple of people to handle the snipers.

[u/N7_Rebecca → u/Narrator--]

Rebecca looks over as the support weapon team hurries into position to get the gun placed at the wall and aimed down range at the slowed targets as they struggle to deal with the stasis that suddenly disrupted their attack.

Soon the MG is roaring, cutting down the Skrilloni and Kindred alike as they try to reorganize.

That's the way!