Oliver's heart was beating heavily from the adrenaline rush he got out of dodging fake shells. His eyes double checked his radar and other sensors to make sure no other shells where incoming before he started to move his GEAR into formation again. Only a few moments after the tiger's machine had start moving again he heard Shona's voice over the radio "Oliver, you OK?". The bat must have noticed that he took some damage and was showing her concern, something that the young tiger appreciated. "I'm pretty much fine. Nothing too serious. Apparently the computer decided that my hydraulics are slightly damaged. Now I'm even slower then Kradis and his old bulky machine" Joked Oliver joyously as he linked up with his team. So far the exercise went pretty smoothly, the tiger had survived the first encounter without getting knocked out but the next part was sure to get more difficult.
Oliver follow his team into the foothills as the recon unit pressed to advance. The target was the main enemy base, which was not much more than an occupied farm. As the colonels orders came in the young tiger uploaded a new course to his drone and let it scout the coordinates Keningston had radioed to the team. Oliver watched the foothills slide by on the monitor until the farm compound came into sight. The whole compound was rather large with multiple buildings, some paved roads and open space where a mixture of vehicles were parked. The whole compound is surrounded by a low fence, re-enforced with barbed wire. On the 4 corners makeshift guard towers where erected. Down below on the ground there was a lot of activity as the bandits where busy reading their defenses. The soldiers where in a hurry to take up positions while others where receiving briefings from their commanders.
Based upon the data that colonel Blade shared with the entire unit Oliver quickly identified the main treats. On the south and east sides of the compound two trucks where positioned carrying multiple surface to air missiles. A 3th truck for fire control and radar tracking was positioned in the centre of the compound. Also near the 4 corners of the compound quadruple AA auto-cannons where located. They where outdated model with barrel sizes that where probably somewhere around 30mm max but would still pose a threat to Ken in his helicopter. Next target Oliver identified where the enemy GEARs. Eight modified civilian GEARs where lined up with 10 pilots in front of them receiving briefing from their CO. As the tiger zoomed in on the group of pilots a female fox and snow leopard stood out from the rest. Where the majority of pilots where dressed up and equipped like bandits both girls where wearing full combat suits, indicating that they would be piloting high tech military GEARs.
As the drone circled over the enemy base at high altitude Oliver made its camera zoom in on the group of pilots, making sure both the fox and snow leopard where in the center of the image. Even though the fox girl had a dead serious face, she was pretty good looking and the Leopard wasn't bad either. For a moment Oliver over thought the situation. It was odd that there were more pilots then GEARs. Not the mention that two of them where equipped with full military gear where the rest was wearing scruffy bandit outfits. Oliver quickly opened up his comlink to the entire unit and spoke "Blade, Myria. take a look at the drone feed". The tiger surely hoped that the fact that he had his drone zoomed in on two females would not be interpreted the wrong way.