User blog:WatermelonTrooper/Island of Death

We all felt a jerk as we hit the ground. The pilot of the Shiun began dropping the rear ramp. With us all hopped up on adrenaline - and in Kimura's case something else - the door couldn't drop fast enough. Our guns were raised, we were all jumpy as the alien sunlight filtered into the cabin. Charge out and join the battle. That's all we needed to do. The door wasn't opening fast enough... Not just for us.

Suddenly, a mechanical hand as big as a man was wide burst through the door. Wakayama screamed, then we all began screaming as well as the thing grabbed the door and ripped it off, revealing what looked like a walker, but was much more organic. A second hand burst through the ceiling and tore through the space-rated bulkhead like it was paper. Our first, up-close and personal look at a Nekari Tiakyinn'wiyeh involved it tearing the shit out of our dropship. It reached an arm in and grabbed Kohaku, throwing him out of the dropship and somewhere behind. The machine pulled back and revealed a gun of some kind on its right arm, which it was just about to fire when a rocket suddenly smacked the whole thing on the side.

Lieutenant Muramasa yelled at us to open fire. Nobody second-guessed him. Everyone was pouring our rifles into the thing or trying to get free of the shuttle. I fired round after round, but the bullets just pinged harmlessly off the machine's armour. Muramasa grabbed my arms and pointed at the thing's eyes, on a small head at its front. I tried my best to hit those little red photoreceptors, but then the machine got filled with six 66 millimetre high velocity explosive cartridges from a Ka-3 recoilless and toppled over. We spilled out of the gutted shuttle, followed by two very shaken pilots, and right into a battlefield. The Ka-3 gunner moved up followed by two exo men firing their chainguns at yet another Nekari machine coming up from the ridge.

Our squad only had to stumble forward a few metres before finding something we could fight. Nekari drones were swarming all over the trenchline, looking like giant sea insects with laser guns. We began systematically clearing them out. It was all a great confusion.