"Depending on how much firepower we can dish out, I think we should take the main road its the fastest and we can wipe out more of the pirates, however wed have to be able to take them down fast. otherwise I vote we take the second route the 4wd could be useful"

Jaxsom grabs a motorcycle, "I'm all for gunning it down the main path, the sooner we get there the better right?"

"I'm with Jaxsom, faster is better. There's only 6 of us we don't need the 4wds, and we definitely have lots of fire power."

Blaze pulls out one of his artillery shells and offers it Jaxsom

"Reckon you can, throw, this into them better than I can if the opportunity presents itself?"

"Bet I can." Jaxsom smiles with a grin.

Blaze chuckles and throws an artillery shell over to Jaxsom

Naru chooses a bike and starts it up, looking at the others "ready to go?"

The team decide that they all want to go along the main road to the village under attack by pirates.

Blaze is on the motorbike with mounted flamethrower.
Wolf, Jaxsom and Naru are on the other 3 motorbikes.

The two armed 4wd's are currently unmanned.

Cyan and Emilia need to get into a vehicle.

Cyan jumps into his 4wd and gets ready to head off, programming his minigun to not hit the others

Emilia jumps into the remaining 4WD, puts the gun to auto and winds down the window.

"It's much harder to shoot when you are trying to drive a bike. I suggest one of you put a bike back onto Cyan's Jeep and go passenger with someone else."

Pissed, Emilia revs the engine and takes off.

In her anger, Emilia takes off speeding through the streets of the city towards the main road that goes to the village under attack, just missing a villager as she was about to cross the road. A lot of the people of the city look at Emilia surprised as she drives through the city, but none of the locals take any real notice of it.

The rest of the team are left behind at the dock on their vehicles after Emilia's sudden reaction.

"Wonderful, I hate it when woman soldiers have PMS" cyan takes off after emilia

The rest of the team catch up to Emilia, driving through the city towards the main road.

The road is deserted, it is a wide dirt road for travelers to easily move from one village to another on the island. The land is covered by forest on either side of the road and the atmosphere seems strangely quiet.

After driving along the road for about 10 minutes the team can see smoke rising into the sky ahead and the distant sound of screams and gunshots, the village is still too far away for them to be able to see anything specific up ahead yet...

Cyan keeps driving, looking for cover somewhere before the entrance to the village

The team drive further down the road towards the village in distress, as they get closer they can feel the sense of something distant beginning to cloud their minds, some begin to feel a bit drowsy because of this effect.

Eventually the outline of the front of the village comes into view, the sounds of explosions, gunfire and screams is much louder now. The buildings can be seen on fire as the smoke all rise to the sky.

Up ahead where the main road goes into the village, the team can see a small wall of sandbags have been built to block the road and on the other side, a large artillery cannon. The cannon is about 20 meters away and 4 figures can be seen behind the sandbags by the cannon. 2 of them are loading the cannon and aiming on the team approaching on the main road...

There is no cover on the main road towards the cannon, the sides of the road are still covered by forest.

Cyan readies himself to shield if he needs to while he activates the minigun on the jeep

The team continue to drive down the road towards the artillery cannon, with Cyan leading the way in his 4wd. As they move forward the mounted turrets start firing at the 4 figures by the artillery cannon, killing 3 of them, the 4th one manages to duck in time and fire the cannon at the team.
Cyan generates a large force-field shield in front of the team to block the fired artillery shell, the artillery shell hits the force-field causing a huge blast in front of the team, shaking the ground around them.

The guy by the cannon is surprised by this and ducks down to not get hit by anymore turret fire...

The team is now about 10 meters from the cannon and sandbag wall.
Cyan has used 1 unit of energy and has 9 units of energy left.

The road continues on into the center of the village in between many buildings, most of which are on fire. Armed men in dark uniform can be seen in the distance herding villagers into large trucks on the main road in the center of the village. The AI systems of the automated turrets on the 4wds is unable to distinguish between what is friend or foe up ahead and decides not to fire at anybody in the town because of this.

Blaze draws his pistol and slows down enough to maneuver around the sandbag wall, ready to shoot the guy hiding behind it...

As the team continue to drive down the road toward the sandbag wall and Blaze gets ready to maneuver his bike around it, 10 men in dark uniform all simultaneously appear to float out of the tree-line on either side of the road, 5 on each side surrounding the team. They all raise their arms together in a graceful motion in a chant of an unknown language and the team can feel their minds becoming very clouded as time suddenly slows down extremely and they all start to feel very tired.

As the moment seems to drag on forever the team notice that these men don't appear to be human, their faces are of a ghostly white skin and their eyes appear to glow dark red fire as they seem to stare down into their souls. They all wear the same dark chain-mail uniform and seem to have small floating shields of light levitating around them.

*From now on this new type of enemy that has suddenly appeared out of the trees will be known as "Skirmisher Pirates"*

As the Skirmisher Pirates begin to draw weapons and get ready to act within this slow motion, the team has a moment to react...

Jaxsom telekinetically throws 2 of his swords in each direction, towards four of the enemies. Getting ready to react when an attack comes.

Blaze slows down his bike to a complete halt while still going for the shot at the guy hiding behind the wall.
At the same time as going for the shot, he turns on his Thermal Vision for a better view at the new scene, while summoning a fireball with his other hand, getting ready to fight the newcomers if they attack...

Seeing Jaxsom launch blades towards the enemies Wolf launches a small barrage of senbon in each direction towards the last two while speeding up towards the sandbag wall aiming to get through it.

Cyan grabs two grenades and throws them at the two nearest groups of enemies

Naru steers her bike with one hand and puts her water gun into the other, shooting a large powerful spray at the enemies, hoping to knock them over by the water pressure.

Naru manages to shoot a large powerful spray of water at 2 of the skirmisher pirates, who just seem to drift through the water, drawing gunblades and both delivering a deadly blow, slicing into her chest.

Jaxsom telekenetically throws 2 of his swords in each direction, to the left and right. Seeing emily get stabbed, he throws 2 at those pirates, killing both of them after their savage attack on Naru, whilst throwing the other 2 swords at another 2 skirmisher pirates coming at him from the other side, they manage to dodge these swords, by striding past them causing the swords to fly into 2 trees of the forest.

Naru loses all control of her body after she is hit by the swords as she falls over her bike, which slides in front of Jaxsom's throwing him off his bike into the air over the sandbag wall.

Blaze manages to still slide around the sandbag wall through this slow motion and gives a well placed shot directly in between the eyes of the guy that was hiding behind the sandbag wall, he turns on his Thermal Vision for a better view at the new scene, while summoning a fireball with his other hand, getting ready to attack...

Seeing Jaxsom launch blades towards the enemies Wolf launches a small barrage of senbon in each direction towards the two that just dodged Jaxsom's swords, directly into their necks causing them to fall to die before they hit the ground. While he does this his bike swerves causing him to fly over the sandbag wall into the road ahead.

The remaining 6 Skirmisher Pirates draw their gunblades and fire projectiles of energy at the two 4wd's. Emilia's car instantly explodes and crashes into the sandbag wall, as a result of this Emilia flies through the windscreen of her car into the road up ahead and gets 2nd degree burns to half of her body. Cyan's car however swerves whilst under fire, his well thrown grenades kill 3 of the Skirmisher Pirates, before he bails out of the door as his 4wd runs off-road into a tree and exploding, killing another Skirmisher Pirate in the process.

With most of the Skirmisher Pirates now dead, the effects on the team wears off and time speeds up again as it returns to normal. The team can now feel the impact of what just happened within those few seconds and the sounds of screams and explosions throughout the village returns.

After time returns to normal, the team members can feel the clouding effects of their minds drifting away.

The 2 remaining Skirmisher Pirates raise their gunblades and begin approach Cyan kneeling on the road, getting ready to attack him. These Skirmisher Pirates appear to drift across the ground at a fast rate instead of running, Blaze throws his readied fireball at one of them, but the guy's small levitating shield of light absorbs it.

Jaxsom, Wolf and Emilia are laying in the dirt past the sandbag wall.

Naru lays on the ground in deep shock losing a lot of blood, she doesn't have long left...

Up ahead in the distance, more men in dark uniform by the trucks notice what just happened and begin to run towards the team, drawing their weapons for attack...