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As more shots rained down around them, and their own return fire came back, they caught a glimpse of something slightly leather looking and silvery toned in the deep shadows of the embattled woods up the hill. For Lina who had served near the tail end of the war, she would recognize the seemingly familiar sight of perhaps one of the Romulan ground troops. She would recall those troops seemed uncomfortable at the least in bright lighting, maybe if she had something to make a sudden flash of light it might run them off or least give them pause enough to bring them down?

Hunter’s own shots meanwhile had struck some trees, and made tiny little embers but so far at least he hadnt seemed to hit anyone of their attackers

Hunter was not sure of what to expect by this firefight but he kept his head down and fired only when he had a clear shot to do so. As he tried to figure out what to do next since he was pinned down his options were limited at present.”What do you think about this Lina?”

Marinna approached the hill and, once she heard the weapons fire ducked behind a tree to get a view of the firefight. She noticed the slivery toned leather. She pulled out her phaser and looked around for a good vantage point to set up a cross fire.

Lina looked over at the rock face near the device “Hostiles are dressed as Rommie soldiers. They don’t like light. Cover me” She turned around, aimed and fired at the rocks. This time on a much higher setting. hoping for the same reaction as before.

Hunter did his best to lay down cover fire for the officer. He will need to spend more time in Training sessions to get up to par with the rest of them but he was game. “Go!” Hunter said quickly as he started firing his weapon .

More of their fire went out and one of their attackers it seems got struck by a stray shot, the figure it seems male, looked a bit taller in the deep shadow of the hillside then Lina might recall from the war, also more broad shouldered, the combat armor seemed about right though, though she also could not make out the skin tone. No sooner had the figure briefly been seen then a swirl of green encompassed him and then several more among the brush. Silence soon fell across the area in its wake, seems the enemy had for some reason beamed out!

A check on their comm units also found those working again, no sooner had this been taken in and the group regrouped now with Hunter, Lina, and Marinna now together when the Unity’s CO contacted them, =/\= This is the Unity, to all away team personnel come in!=/\= he said.

“Unity this is Ensign Hunter Snow.” Hunter said calmly to the bridge. “We are here sir! Lina, Marinna, and myself. So far safe and unharmed at the moment.”

=/\= Good to hear then all of you..=/\= The CO said.

The teams then got into a group comm call with the XO and the rest in the city, catching the tail end of the Captain’s reply to the XO.

=/\= This is the Captain, Commander. We have established contact with the hillside teams, seems they were attacked by what seems to be Romulan ground force before beaming out. I have already alerted Command but they say the closest allied ships are nearly 6 hours away. We’ve also picked up what seems 6 unknown ships inbound to the system at warp 6, with shields and weapons armed. No reply to our hails, and they’re using some kind of sensor masking to hide their signature read outs. They could be Romulan but we’re not sure yet…=/\= He said. This was then followed by a more general call to the landing party, =/\= …all landing party members stand by for beam out.=/\=

Once the signal was given the groups were whisked back to the ship.

GM CockRoach