Slanderous Libel

We really need to figure out if we have the 'real' Gigaton, or not.
 
He just broke into the regular broadcast with an emergency report of 'Electric Blue' and 'Yellow Crab' attacking and wiping out a town in the middle of America, a Madison Indiana. I'm pretty sure that they didn't do it. That just isn't our way.
 
While Sandcrab was going over the merits of his new invention. Placing a Nanite into our heads attached to our optic nerve to allow us all to communicate through his nanite swarm. Ah, but I digress.
 
We get a mayday call over our system. It was not a good connection. It appears that Destroyer is taking out the satellite system trying to disrupt our communications. Maybe Sandcrab has the right of it.
 
Again, I digress. My mind is all over the place right now. A rebel cell in American Flag, Arizona, called for help. I thought about running, but I would have gotten there before everyone else, and well, not knowing the full extent of what is going on, I actually thought, and felt it was prudent to arrive with everyone else.
 
I was silent on the flight, good thing the Xplore plane flies almost as fast as I can run, and Ghost only had to slow down a little bit.
 
Of course, as we arrive, the scene is chaos. It always is. Just once, it would be nice to get to a battle before the other side so that we could set up our own surprises for Destroyer and his minions. We are going to have to start working on thinking the way our enemy does to defeat him.
 
Again, that digression. My mind must really be someplace else.
 
Our first pass over the battleground showed a mostly deserted area. Four groups of resistance fighters, and only two groups of Destroyer agents. Yea, that's right, something the resistance fighters should have been able to handle themselves. Don't we know better those things are not as they first appear.
 
Just as we land, several Black Talon agents arrive on the scene. I knew it wasn't going to be that easy.
 
We all disembark from the Xplore plane, Max, Runeforce, Dragon Lady, Sandcrab and I, and land in various places. Ghost continues to fly around. As soon as the Talons arrive, we know that it is bad news for the resistance fighters. Max states that he can get them out, but only if they are all close together. Ok, close together, sounds like a job for me, the 'rocket' of the group. I run up the wall to the group that I see on the building nearest to me. "Hunker down here, we're here to evacuate you!" I look around quickly, and there are some other resistance fighters a couple of buildings over.
 
So, I start out for the next closest one. Well, appearently he didn't get the memo and he starts moving away. I bend over and worry more about picking him up than what is around me. Zoom. I accidentally knock the wind out of him as I pick him up on the fly. We move towards the other group. I can see that an energy field is forming around Max.
 
I'm sure that he is a bit confused as the quick change of scenery. "He'll get you out of here!" My next target is on the ground, so down the side of the building I go. Ok, this might be bad. There is a Black Talon and it looks like it is going to be firing at me. Ghost drops a car on some of the agents and at least a couple of the resistance fighters fire on the Talon that is about to shoot me. Nice timing guys! Thanks. By the time I get to the last guy on the ground, Max is gone. He fired at the Talon and hit it with some sort of wire wrap. I grab the shooter and up the building with the two shooting the big cannon at the Talon. Over the coms "Next pickup point at the big cannon!" To the fighters, "Someone will be here in a second to pick you up for extract."
 
Down the building and up a shipping container, I throw a lightning bolt at the Talon still standing there. Just out of the corner of my eye, I see another resistance fighter hiding behind a portable building. Just great, he looks unarmed. So down and around I go and get him.
 
Hum, we are starting to really work well together. By the time I've collected all the resistance fighters, and dropped them off at pickup points, we've taken out all of the Talons that were there, and there is only a couple of agents left to deal with. If Sandcrab hadn't buried several of them earlier, it might have gone a bit different.
 
Hopefully, we can get some footage of the incoming mechs destroying the town here that we can fight the next 'report' of our being terrorist.