[Ryn! What the fuck are you and Tobias doing?]
As Lock's irritated voice calls out over his comms device, Rynoske already is swooping up to his third turret emplacement through the barrage of bullets flying his way. Quickly diving down, he smashes the emplacement into shreds before taking cover behind the debris as bullets flew up towards his location. He curses a little under his breath before morphing his left dragon claw into a scaly human hand. Digging into a pouch that is on his waist, he pulls out a few throwing knives before speaking into his comms device.
"We created that distraction for you guys! Wasn't that part of that plan?!"
A bullet ricochets close to his head causing him to quickly peek out and throw his daggers just in time to intercept a man holding a pickaxe running up the natural ramp that leads to this emplacement.
[Ryn! That was a civilian!]
"What?" Rynoske ducks behind his cover again as he couldn't hear what Lock said the first time.
[You killed a civilian! Those guys are not doing this stuff out of their own will, they are essentially brainwashed]
This information struck Ryn in a way he couldn't describe. Sitting behind his cover, his face has a look of disbelief.
"I-"
Rynoske wanted to say something, but he couldn't figure out what to say when Tobias screeching could be heard, a screech that sounded like he was in pain.
[Just focus on the rest of this fight. If you engage any more of these guys, remove those tubes from their mouths, it might disable them! Now hurry, we are trying to make it to you two, but Tobias is looking like he is having issues!]
"R-right!"
Rynoske snaps out of his short daze and immediately takes flight again as both hands are now in human form with daggers ready to be thrown. Not wasting time, his eyes scan the field to look for Tobias. Spotting the large Extranicus quickly, he notices that he is struggling with a few of those slaves. However, as he is getting swarmed, the Extranicus morphs his shield into a massive warhammer. Realizing what Tobias was about to do, Rynoske calls out to him hoping to stop the man from doing something unforgivable.
"Tobias! Careful with that hammer, Didn't you hear Lock on comms?!"
Swooping down, he slams in a few of those slaves that were swarming Tobias. Turning his head, the Extranicus seems to give him a look of disbelief as he stops himself from swinging that hammer. Yet, he flings every single soldier
"Tsrk Sssk?!"
"Lock said these guys with the rags and tubes attached to their mouths and noses are actually civilians, we need to make sure we don't accidentally-kill them, think you can just knock them out?"
Barely understanding what Tobias said, Rynoske hopes his statement is a valid response to the big guy. Turning back to the fight in front of him, Rynoske barely managed to dodge a swipe from a pickaxe. Taking advantage of the situation, he swipes out and rips the tube into shreds that is feeding the supposed chemicals into the victim. Once he did, gas pours out into the air as the being slowly looks up at him with a blank look before they collapse to the ground.
"Guess Lock was telling the truth,"
Looking back up, Rynoske realizes that the gunfire seemingly diverted from their position and notices the firefight that is happening towards the opposite side of the quarry. It seems like the others managed to aid them just in time. On the other hand…
"Surround them!"
Rynoske turns his head to see a large group of slaves with mining equipment alongside some Ningen handlers that are wielding stun batons running over before forming a half circle around them. Walking up forward from the crowd, a heavily armored person with a snake bottom slithers to the front as they hold a staff with one end seemingly sparking with electricity.
"Fun…guess this is the big boss, Tobias?"
Rynoske glances over just as he watches a body drop to the floor as Tobias is heavily breathing with several tubes along with a broken pickaxe in his hands before looking his way.
"Srrk,"
Tobias says as he drops the items and pulls out two handles hanging from his waist before connecting them together, materializing his hammer once again as he grips it in all four hands.
"...Is that your answer? You realize you lost the element of surprise, your friends are going to follow suit here in a bit, and you are outnumbered,"
the armored handler says as they pick up their lance and grip it in both hands as they coil their tail up, ready to spring forward. As if reacting to that being's action, the others seem to ready themselves in charging forward towards the two. Yet, Rynoske just grins as he morphs his left claw into a human hand. Taking a few throwing knives into it, he turns towards their opposers with a confident look.
"You want the big guy?"
Rynoske gives a side glance to see Tobias nodding as the Extranicus eyes seemingly are narrowing towards the Snake-man. Looking back towards the main target, Rynoske gets into a stance ready to charge forward.
" He's all yours, I'll hold the rest off in the meantime,"
Without further speaking between the two, Rynoske takes the sky again as he swoops down upon their opposers. All the while as he hears screeching and a hiss echo throughout the quarry amongst the other sounds of battle. Not wasting time, he throws his daggers individually at three handlers. They barely could react as the knives impaled their vulnerable throats. The sudden charge from the two caught the others off guard before they quickly recovered from their shock and charge forward.
" Now for the other handlers…"
Rynoske says to himself before his instincts kick in and he twirls his body in the air. There, he felt his tail striking multiple bodies. From there he turns his body again to see several slaves attempting to lunge at him. With a single flap from his wings, he darts by them as his right claw slashes at the tubings with precision. He quickly lands and spins around before using his tail to slam a handler who stumbled back in panic into a large rock. The force from his tail striking the Ningen manages to crack the rock, which he assumes hopefully is enough to take out the person's internals. The body slumps to the ground as Rynoske takes a deep breath before looking back towards the seemingly still large number of aggressors.
He morphs his left hand back into his dragon claws as he watches several other handlers call out to the slaves to stop slacking and charge. His eyes catch one of the handlers holding a staff which upon slamming into the ground, the slaves seemingly cry out in pain as they writhed around as if they had been shocked. Suddenly their eyes flash an animalistic look before they make muffled roars under their masks as they charge towards Rynoske. However, Rynoske's eyes also seemingly became a bit feral from the action. He felt a small bit of rage he hadn't experienced in a long time just from that handler's action. The next thing he knew, everything around him seemingly became slightly muffled as he crouched for a lunge.
"You…bastards!"
Cracking the very stone under his feet, he roars out a battle cry as he dives towards the wave of enemies, his sights lying on the very people who are behind these brainwashed victims' fates.