[Evelyn Cire, expin yourself right now.] I’m not sure how I missed Celestia joining our call, it probably had something to do with the gun firing.

  [Well… I was looking for a way to attract the attention of the Antithesis, and I was inally going to buy something from one of my catalogs, but then I remembered Bckdog’s mech had a few heavy ons so I borrowed one.]

  Celestia’s voice raised a couple octaves, [You fired something like that at the tral support pilr? You could have brought down part of the upper city! What the fuck were you thinking?]

  [First of all, I’m pretty sure the gun isn’t THAT strong, and sed Nyx got some timed thermal shells to fsh fry the Antithesis. You may have noticed a certain high pitched whistling hat’s a hive boiling in its own juices.]

  There was a moment of silence, [You know what Celestia, I’m on Teddy’s side on this one.]

  It was the first time I’d heard Atnti awhile, she seemed to be in a good mood, unlike her sister. [You always worry about every little detail, but in this case Teddy just pulled the majority of that horde off our asses so we could do our job. It wasn't the smoothest operation, but it worked. Give her a break.]

  [You think this is funny? She could have brought dowire upper city. HOW IS THAT FUNNY YOU FUCK?] I had to lower the volume of my Augs wheia started yelling, I was really gd I was a few blocks from the rest of the party right now. Celestia wasn’t in a good mood and Atntica ushing her buttons.

  Thankfully Humboldt broke into the versation before the fight could get any worse. [Now isn’t the time for a fight. Teddy bought us some time, but the Antithesis will be back.] She paused, [You going to be alright out there Teddy?]

  I gnced dowreet at the Antithesis which were starting to gather around the base of the farms. Most were milling around, trying to figure out how to climb up and reach the source of the pheromohe steam reading around. A couple of the more mobile models were w their and trying to force their way through the steam. I shook my head as a few buro death and fell from the tank.

  [The Antithesis are occupied with the hive right now, doubt they’ll stay that way for long. I’ll figure out a way to keep them occupied and give you guys some more breathing room.]

  [Without colpsing the city right?] Celestia hissed.

  [’ll do what I have to in order to get the job done, but I promise to avoid using heavy ordnance against the main support,] I promised.

  Celestia started to reply but romptly cut off by her sister, [That’ll be fine. Just make sure you stay alive, we’ve already had one casualty on this operation we don’t need another.]

  I caught some movement out of the er of my eye, a n of Antithesis had broken away from the main mob and was rushing dowreet towards me. [I hate to cut this short, but it looks like I’m about to have pany. Take care of those hives, and I’ll figure out how to keep the heat off you.]

  [Right, we’ll talk to you ter.] Atntica replied right before the li dead.

  I jumped up onto the top of my truck to get a better view of the area, the a quiand to my bears in order to intercept the oning Antithesis. “Nyx, please tell me I earned some points from that hive.”

  Around two and a half grand. You’ll also be receiving the rewards for saving all those people in a few mihe voy is finally approag the camp now.

  “Ahhhhh…. Right.”

  You fot that you get rewarded for saving people didn’t you.

  “In my defense I had a lot of things on my mind when it happehe st time,” I said defensively. “Why didn’t I just get those points at the sites?”

  The city isn’t safe, so the civiliao reach the evacuation camp before you could earn those points

  “Fuck, well… I’d love to get Bob ba his feet, but I think I o prioritise defences first. Does my Area Denial catalog have any actual fortifications, like walls I have the bears man?

  Unfortunately no, it has a lot of light fences and blockades. You find more serious fortifications in the Css II catalog.

  “If I unlock Css II Area Denial I also get some of those APS systems that shoot down Model Ones, and the Model Fifteen’s projectiles, right?”

  You , several different types.

  “Then buy it, and put up a fortified wall to cover the side of the interse closest to the farms. Make sure they be removed afterwards, and add a gate just in case I o fire the UHR again.” I paused, “And please share the ability to buy B3-AR ammo with the rest of the team.”

  Done.

  Purchased

  Css II Area Denial Catalog - 400 points, 1 token

  12m Bear-acade wall (4 x 3m Se)- 36 points

  8m Bear-acade wall with gate - 32 points

  Points remaining - 1977 points

  The wall that appeared was a massive structure made of interlog metal walls. Each panel had several heavy angled metal supports that had loal spikes which drove themselves into the ground a few seds after materialisation, and a dder which ected to a catwalk mounted about 1.5 meters from the top. The ructure blocked off the ereet, even I wouldn’t be able to squeeze through the gaps on the side.

  As soon as the structure had settled my bears cmbered up the dder and started firing at the street below.

  “Now, a feS systems. Preferably something I don’t have to monitor.”

  How about an energy on then, something you could ect to the UHR or your truck to power. The Particle-beam Anti-Air on System shoot down five projectiles a sed, and has an effective range of about 20 meters. 50 points per system.

  My eyes narrowed, “PAWS?”

  Don’t bme me, that’s actually what it’s called.

  “And I’m sure you had plenty of other choices.” I sighed, “Fine, you mount one on my truck?”

  Sure.

  “Then put ohere so I don’t have to deal with the Model Ones iure, and two on the walls so the boys trate oreet.”

  Purchased

  PAS system x3 - 150 points

  Points Remaining - 1827 points

  The system that appeared on my truck was a box about 6 inches square. The front had dozens of different lenses all packed together in a tight cluster, eae angled in a slightly different dire.

  “It doesn’t look like much,” I grumbled as I ied the device.

  It doesn’t matter what it looks like, it’ll be effective.

  “Fine.” I gnced over at the wall where my bears were busy firing into the street below. Now that there was a giant wall I couldn’t tell how bad things were, so I quickly pulled up Spooky’s optics. There were quite a few Antithesis making their way dowreet now, but the majority were still over at the farms. The steam had already settled down, so it was only a matter of time until the mob dispersed again.

  I was going to have to do something before that happened.