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‘hold’ orders
telepathically, she had them wait with her while the building continued to
crumble, eventually losing the majority of the top 5 levels as the command ship
segment imbedded itself as the crowning ornament on the lizard structure.
    “I think we’re in the clear,” she said, mentally
telling them which way to head. “Let’s try and get out of these clouds…then we
have a ground war to fight.”
    “The lizard fighters are gone,” one of the Scionate
commented as he looked at the battlemap.
    “Most of them,” Larissa agreed. “We’ll have troop
transports on the way and mechs coming in through the gash shortly.”
    “Are we evacuating or fighting this out?”
    “The wounded will be pulled out, but we’re definitely killing
these bastards here and now.”
    The pair of Scionate growled appreciatively inside
their armor.
    “Thought you’d feel that way. Come on, let’s go find
that group we were just playing with and reintroduce ourselves.”

 
 
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    July 6, 2755
    Pagaliss System (lizard
territory)
    Varasiss

 
    Morgan ran ahead of the Ninja Monkey Regulars, leaping
up onto the side of one of the shorter buildings in the city and climbing the
rest of the way to the top. From there she sprinted across to the far side
while her troops circumvented it around the perimeter and began to engage the
lizard infantry on street level that had bunkered themselves behind a series of
what looked to be premade blockades and a courtyard with an overhang that
prevented attack from the air.
    Or mostly, for when Morgan reached the edge of the
building she jumped off shallowly and fell down between the wall and the edge
of the giant infrastructure umbrella that was concealing the courtyard,
slipping through the two meter gap and landing on top of a trio of standard
variant lizards that were seated in the shadows below eating some of their
battlefield rations.
    With a thought she knocked them and the dozen or so
nearest her to the ground with a Fornax field, then ignored them and ran
further under the canopy towards the back lines of the mass of troops heading
to engage her Clan infantry out and around the corner. She didn’t even bother
to pull out a weapon, merely throwing a few Fornax blasts to her left and right
to stop enemy phaser fire from coming her way as she barreled into the back of the
crowd and punched right into the midst of them, pulling a few aside with
telekinetic grips and tossing them through the air and out of the way, but
mostly she fought her way inside hand to hand until she was buried amongst the
horde.
    Suddenly a wave of bodies surged up over her head and
pushed outward, scattering like leaves as she started throwing concussive
energy around. Morgan moved through their ranks like a snow plow, knocking them
aside and unconscious in many situations from the blunt force until she worked
her way up to the front lines and attacked the barricades from behind. They
were several meters thick and seemed to have extruded from the street…and would
have been impossible to blow through with only infantry weapons in any
realistic amount of time, but she spotted a control station imbedded into the
wall on her left as a handful of lizards managed pointblank shots into her
shields.
    She tossed them aside casually with another Jumat
burst from her left arm and ran up to the terminal, physically pulling the two
lizards in front of it away and throwing them out behind her before bringing up
a bioshield covering her back as she quickly studied the controls…which weren’t
complicated. There were only two buttons, one that toggled a holographic interface
and another that operated the barricades.
    She didn’t have time to explore the hologram and
punched the other button. Agreeably the barricade plates began to retract into
the ground one by one and slowly, opening up first a door-like slit that allowed
the first of her Ninja Monkeys thorough behind the cover of a heavy Knight
shield.
    The