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[cityship]

||Attention, Attention,|| Stacy's voice rang out suddenly throughout the ship. ||Will the following personnel please report to the Obs Deck:||

||Michael Blanc,||
||Kazami Shiro,|
||Andrew Davis,||
||Aibghalien Marsai,||
||Spiderman--616 universe,||
||Julian Keller,||
||Nanashi,||
||Katara,||
||Lash,||
||Wags-Tail-Alot,||
||Phillip,||
||and Vita.||

||Attention,

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Mission Start

[cityship]

||Preparations complete,|| Stacy says eventually. ||Entering planet's orbit. Beginning deployment.||

The doors to the Obs Deck close, and the whole room lurches slightly as the deck detaches from Stacy's main body, and after a moment, they're all weightless. They can see the planet through the window now, the brown landscape and orange clouds drawing ever closer.

It takes only a matter of minutes to reach the surface, and there's a slightly stronger lurch as the Obs Deck touches down, gravity returning to the room.

One of the massive walls opens up to form a ramp to the planet's surface, the rocky, windswept landscape and red-hued sky laid out before them.

||Ohm artillery appears to be most heavily concentrated about 1 klick northwest of your current position. I've marked it on your maps in your Omnicomms.||

||Good luck.||

[memory_hax]

Dropping quickly out of a look up, he'd have time for that later, Phillip dodged the first attack and rolled to his feet.

Ducking around a pillar, he pulled a blue memory out of his pocket as a belt materialized around his waist. TRIGGER! cried the Memory as he dodged another, spinning around.

Fang was nowhere in sight. Well obviously it felt like he didn't need him YET. That was a small comfort for now at least.

"Henshin!" proclaimed Phillip, slamming the memory in with a cry of TRIGGER! from the belt as music played, encasing him in dark blue armor as he pulled a gun from his chest.

[andyallgrownup]

Andy continued attacking the grunts, having his staff appear so that he could do so.

[kaya_waterwave]

Katara would have been more than happy to tell Aibghalien how grateful she was for his power boost, or Lash how great her time stop was at least slowing down the tank, but there was no time. Once she saw that the tank was at least going to go head to head with whatever magic a power ranger could manage, the window with which people would act would rapidly close. Julian had flown her near enough to the oasis that she could feel the water stirring all around her, waiting to be used. Who was she to put off something that could at least break through their defenses

[for_magic]

If you could open a hole about an inch wide in that dome, I'd be appreciative, Aibghalien sent to Katara. Just for a second.

[kaya_waterwave]

Katara heard the prompt and had just enough time to open the dome for just an inch. She could hardly look at the others: she was concentrating all of her efforts on the firebugs. She was sweating now, but that was for the effort and the speed at which she was doing this.

Please hurry!

[for_magic]

"Disintegrate." The wizard reappeared as he spoke the word aloud, a line of green light flashing from his extended finger, through the hole in the water, at one of the firebugs. A crystal hung in the air next to him as he tapped the energy contained within to fuel a spellcasting bereft of gestures and words. "Ice Storm."

Done, close it. Let's see how they liked THAT.

[asingleshot]

The group's sniper, meanwhile, had taken up residence on another hilltop - and the Tank hadn't seemed to notice him yet. In the chaos of the combat, it was easy to take out one or two of the little Grunts, but Michael wanted a shot at one of the bigger prizes.

The firebugs are in too much cover. Draw them out; we'll see how they handle depleted uranium at supersonic speeds.

[ohm_nom_nom]

More and more Ohm Grunts fall to the crew's attacks, but by this point, it was obvious they were merely distractions themselves, keeping the majority of the crew busy while the Firebugs moved to a better position.

Not to run.

To fire.

They began to glow heavily as all three charged up to fire at the main group. You'd better hurry up, guys, unless you want to end up charred spots on the ground.

The Tank, on the other hand, had been successfully trapped by Lash's attack, but eventually it managed to break free somehow. With a bright flash of energy and a powerful roar, it tore free of it's temporal prison, and began bolting straight for the Firebugs, even faster than it would seem possible for such a massive frame.

[asingleshot]

He was the one with the vantage point, which meant he noticed the Firebugs moving as he dropped the crosshairs over them. That wasn't good.

Firebugs moving into bombardment position! Find cover or finish this quickly - I'm taking a shot in ten seconds; someone better join me!

The target sights settled right over one of the Firebugs' exposed cores.

[metalwebhead]

As Spidey continued fighting the Ohm, there was something that could be heard as he did...

"Web Ball!" One Ohm was covered in a net of webbing. "Spider...Sting!" Another was uppercut away. "Web Throw!" A third was snagged with a web line and tossed into another. He wasn't letting the Riders take all the attack name-calling fun!

Watching the Tank charge towards the Firebugs and the line of Ohm in his way, an idea came to his mind.

"Let's see how you bugs handle this!" Spidey said, charging at them... and using them as spring boards, crushing them into the ground and knocking them airborne before slamming into one last one feet first, sending it spiraling into the Tank. "That... is Maximum Spider!" A moment later, he fired a web-line, intending on stopping the Tank himself... and got yanked along for the ride. "WOAAAAAAAAH! STOP! HEEL! STAY! SIT!"

[twin_fans]

V3 doesn't even know he's being mocked. He puts a fist through the thorax of one of the grunts, then snaps off one of the claws and pins a neighbor to the ground. The Tank is already moving to protect the firebugs! With the obvious stated, V3 takes the two corpses in each hand and hurls them to clear a bit of a path.

With that done, he leaps into the air. It's an impressive jump, he nearly clears two hundred feet from a standing position. He lands, then leaps again. I'll take the firebug on the far right. I might not be able to kill it in one shot, but... His twin fans start to swirl, and he circles in the air two, three, four times to build up centrifugal force, using his scarves and the spinning of his fans to keep him aloft before angling down at one of the Firebugs. "V3 Centrifugal Kick

[kaya_waterwave]

She took a breath. The firebugs were at least a little slowed down, but they weren't down yet, and they would still be able to attack the others if they weren't somehow slowed down. It didn't look like the dome of water was going to keep them down either: she was going to have to stop them and give them time, just as Lash had.

She only had seconds to do this too, so she wasted no time: now she went straight for the joints of the Firebugs, icing them good and tight, so that the others had the chance to take them out before the tank got to protect them. With any luck, they'd be sitting ducks for the next attack, and once they were out of the way, all of them could converge on the tank.

She hoped.

[lil_hellion]

Julian followed up on Katara's attack, but rather than going for the Firebugs themselves, he fired a massive tk blast at the ground beneath them. If he could destabilize it enough, he could knock them off balance to throw off their aim.

[for_magic]

Time for the old wizarding standby.

Aibghalien quickly cast a Grease spell beneath the charging tank's descending legs.

[memory_fang]

Having picked his shot carefully, Phillip slotted the Trigger memory into the gun and aimed at one of the tanks's legs, one of the others that Aibghalien wasn't aiming at.

TRIGGER! MAXIMUM DRIVE!" announced the gun as Phillip fired a great beam of blue energy at the attacker.