[IC] Blood and Metal (Enki,) (Enki vs. Chico)

[Athinar]

The black, sleek stealth helicopter, a "Puma," flew high above the burning forest, scanning for the target, trying to find the ShinRa APC by sending out regular pulses of the advanced radar systems. So far, they had been flying for about an hour, and they had found nothing. Chico and the other commandos if the Bastões Pretos, a super-elite Black Ops battalion, joked around, while they all kept out a watchful eye for the armored vehicle.

Their reverie was broken by a gout of flame, and after what seemed to be an eternity, to Chico, a missile exploded in the cockpit, killing both pilots instantly. The other soldiers panicked, and tried to jump out of the helicopter, forgetting that they were all wearing the suits that they captured from the New Caliphate, the "Ashur" armor platform.

Instead of trying to escape the helicopter, which was now in a death spiral, Chico braced himself, and grabbing a Tactical Missile Launcher from the weapons rack, he fired in the general direction of where he saw the missile come from. He didn't know if it hit or not, but he heard an explosion, so the missile definitely hit something.

Then, all the Sargent saw was asphalt, coming to greet him, quite rapidly.

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Sgt. Chico Roserro of the Brasil Republique Black Ops Division, leader of the "Bastões Pretos," crawled out of the crashed helicopter, wreckage forced out of the way of the armored "Ashur" suit. With a screech of metal, the soldier tore away a wing of the helicopter, and shoved it out of his way, and stood up, looking around. It seemed that there were no survivors from his helicopter. Clenching his fists, he pulled his M256 SAW from its holster in the small of his back, and pulled back the safety bolt with a loud clack.

Whomever did this was gonna pay. Walking down the road to where he saw the APC fire from, he kept his suit scanning for anything, trying to see if there were any ShinRa agents coming to investigate the crash. At the first sign of human movement, he would open fire with his M256 SAW, bullets flying through the air, blasting through the burning trees.

[Enki]

Another day, another realm made contact with. The SRI Investigative team first sent through the portal seemed to find another hospital planet but its inhabitants seemed to be the type to fight back before they would ever make a deal with them. The expeditionary forces were there to test the defenses of this new world and one of the targets was an unfortunate aircraft going nearby. The SOLDIER units sent out a missile attack that seemed to hit its mark but something was off, an expertly timed launch coming from the aircraft was sent off towards them. It wasn't perfect but it was close as the Units had to scramble for cover.

Off to the side keeping track of things was Enki, a man who was part of the Knights Division, he was there to supervise and be ready if anything the other units couldn't handle was to arise. A smile went over his face as he watched the counter attack, sure it might have been luck but he didn't want to take any second chances. He waved off the other troops letting them know he was exercising his authority in taking over the mission. The SOLDIERs seemed to not be to happy at all, but he figured they would get over it.

Dressed in his standard green combat uniform he came with all his default equipment as was the standard with any mission. Flexing his left arm some making sure it was ready to go, his internal UI flashes across his vision. Inside the Gilgamesh system the Aegis materia is selected and its summoned projection forms in front of Enkis left arm. Functioning just like the mythical shield would, its size would be enough to cover enki from his knees to his neck and when directed in front of him wide enough to cover his body. Enki then reaches up to grab his preferred weapon, the Aire Tam Storm, which currently has no materia activated inside of it.

Enki begins to rush through the area running up towards the location of this would be Hero from this world with the Aegis on his left arm ready to protect him and the Aire Tam Storm in his right hand. He doesn't know exactly what he will find once he gets there, but his eyes keep looking around as he feels for any presence around him. Now closer to the battlefield his Aire Tam Storm begins to access the HowlingSteel Materia held inside of the blades technological inner workings, preparing it for use with his strikes.

[Athinar]

Chico's sensors began blaring less than two minutes after he began walking towards the bogeys, electric ambiance, thermal, and sonar all began pinging off the charts. Tracking the unidentified movement, he fired, the spread ahead of the bogey. Bullets tearing through the smoke and blazing underbrush towards the enemy, the gunfire acted as a marker towards Chico's position. Good. Let the bastards come.

[Enki]

He was getting closer as the gunfire began coming in on his location. It was targeted but not exactly precise as he raises up the Aegis Shield to protect from any stray shots that might actually be on target. Luckily doing so as rounds do end up striking their mark impacting into the shield creating dent after dent as Enki keeps pushing forward. The shield can repair itself from the damage but only if the strikes against it would stop and that seems to not be happening any time soon.

Having already focused the Howlingsteel materia in his blade he has to strike back but with expert timing. A bullet smacks into his shield again and with the fraction of an opening his shield moves to the side to let him swing the blade forward sending out a small horizontal slash that produces an arc of magical origins. Taking on the properties of the materia, the arc is more like a steel blade than a condensed form of energy. What sets it apart is the loud humming coming from it as it vibrates through the air. As it heads towards where the gunfire is coming from the closer it gets the louder the person firing their weapon on the other end will hear it. The vibrations of the sound waves will effect the surroundings of the traveling blade pushing the burning leaves back and forth at first where it was launched, but the closer it gets to the gunman they will notice the wood from the trees splintering near it splintering and if any branches would get in the blades the path they would be moved or shattered in similar ways allowing the arc to travel unhindered.

If for some reason the arc would hit him, whatever armor he would be wearing would be at first hit with the sonic vibrations the blade would put off and then be struck with the cleaving edge of it. The sound of the howling slash would leave anyone deaf blowing out ear drums if there was no ear protection being worn at the time. The speed of the arc the gunman would find to be comparable to his own bullets, but the size of it would give them some advanced notice to try to do something about it, even though dodging the blade would be easy the deafening sound and its sonic pressure would likely still effect them.

Quickly and still moving forward Enki moves the shield back to his front after the slash was unleashed, the Aire Tam Storm in its basic sword state and not the great sword form meaning the strength of the attack could have been much worse. Knowing not to play all his cards out right away but also knowing he must prepare something else to help close the distance between him and the gunman he has the Gilgamesh arm prepare the Odin materia inside of it for use as he leaps through the last shrubbery and onto the street where the real battle will commence.