Exodus heard alright; it was almost enough to just charge in there again. But against Adiane, he had to be smart; he had to assume that she would be even tougher than Cytomander was. So he kept his cool and waited, not breathing so much as a word despite the urge to let fly a flurry of words that would have made the ears of children bleed. He just sat patiently, waiting for Adiane to make the first move. "Come on, you bitch." he growled; he then grinned fiendishly when her subordinates charged in from all directions. This was too perfect; even if Adiane didn't care about the lives of her subordinates, the mere fact that he would unknowingly destroy a large portion of the attack force would show his determination.
Exodus flipped a switch on the panel; he then lifted a red tab to show a blue button. When a large majority of the charging attackers were close enough, Exodus put one of his large hands over the button and said with a slight smile, "This one's for you, Sovereign. I know you'd want to be the one to push it." With that, he pressed it; the reaction was near instantaneous. Large fireballs erupted from the rocky ground to create mushroom-shaped plumes. The explosions destroyed over eighty percent of the enemies, causing massive pieces of smoking shrapnel to fly everywhere, and sent the rest tumbling over; the Gunmen of Adiane and her Lieutenant would be surely rocked by the blast winds. Exodus felt the huge winds buffet his Gunman; he had to struggle momentarily to keep his mech stable. When the winds died down and the dust cleared, it was pure carnage; pieces of Gunmen lay strewn everywhere, some of the outer perimeter homes in Bator itself were completely leveled, and other enemy Gunmen were struggling to stand back up. Not to mention the massively deep and wide crater ring that now surrounded the small town. "Yeah, Adiane, how do like that? Obviously weren't expecting that, were you, you ugly sack of shit!" Exodus bellowed; there was no gloating in his tone, just sheer rage.
The lieutenant himself was knocked down but rose back up quickly; his mouth dropped in horror at the sight before him. "Ge....General Adiane......what do we do now?" he said as he recovered; he was clearly ready to fight, but would wait until Adiane ordered him to do something. "Damn that Exodus, I'll kill him for this." That statement would likely earn him a verbal lashing or more from Adiane.
As the transport was fixed up enough to at least get moving, the sniper teams that worked with Harbinger were making quick work of the enemy. The problem was, they were getting closer simply because there were so many of them. "Kill them! Leave no one alive in the name of Divine General Adiane!" one of the Beastmen commanded. The transports themselves carried small auto-cannons; they could be used at fairly long ranges, but were really designed in case the sniper defense line was breached.
However, it was clear that despite the heavy fire from the sniper and medium-range assault teams, the Beastmen were slowly advancing on them. And while they were now considerably close to the shelters, they still had a ways to go. "Harbinger, we're almost there, but the Beastmen are advancing. Orders?" the leader asked her; it was clear that she was in charge now and everyone would look to her to bring the situation under control.
However, nearly everything came to a stand-still when a large explosion could be heard and seen on the horizon. It was near where Bator was, too. "What the hell.....What is Exodus doing over there?" the leader then asked, surprised. The Beastmen, however, too had stopped. "Di...did Exodus kill Adiane?" one of them then asked before being bopped on his Gunman's head by another Gunman. "No, you idiot! Adiane wouldn't die from something like that!"
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