RP: YSS Kaiyō Mission 36: Mizu no Iro

[aitoseigi]

XSS Mordrakka
Exterior and Cargo Bay

Asuka wasted no time in racing back onboard. If she was honest with herself, she'd given herself less than an even chance of coming back at all, so in a way anything else was bonus points. Moreso, since she suspected the list of Rikugun who had taken down a gunship had to be rather short. She'd have to look it up when they got home. Once she'd deposited her presents, she redlined her suit to get back to the safety of the cargo bay, with a last cheeky retrofire burn to kill her momentum once she'd gotten back to the open bay doors.

Okay, that might have been a bit of showboating.

Hurriedly she set about reloading. "Aye, ma'am... we don't have much left either," she added. Maybe they'd keep pulling rabbits out of hats at this rate.

 

[Ametheliana]

Whether it was Asuka's hope willing it or something more concrete and certain, anti-starship turrets started buffeting from somewhere on the water. Having just come up from underwater, a civilian ship had taken stock of the situation and begun firing on the Yggfristall like its life depended on it. HEX Xaser and photon lances fired as they could on it as the surf curled around the Mersina-class' rounded hull while it made its way towards the outskirts of the fight

The firing from the Mordrakka earlier had blocked the Yggfristall's eyes. As she swung almost blind, she hit the Mordrakka with an aether shot, that dug into the starboard side and clipped the already compromised propulsion. Around Aiko and Erika, alerts sounded and exit paths lit, guiding them to the cargo and power armor bay rather than escape pods.

With the Fang and the Mersina firing on the Yggfristall, both of the two NMX gunships were out of the fight. But now the Mordrakka was making its way to that same fate. Now more than ever they needed the manually guided torpedoes to push through the fleet and give them and the Kaiyō a path towards one another.