"Damn it!"
Rynoske grits his teeth as he holds his right abdomen to prevent any more blood from seeping out from the wound that has been inflicted on him. One of those workers unfortunately managed to get a decent swing in on him. Which if it weren't for his scaly skin, he was sure the wound would've been fatal. Sweeping his eyes from left to right, Rynoske glares towards the remaining forces of the Ningens. Besides the corpses of the handlers and also the downed slaves, there is seemingly still plenty standing. In fact, after a quick count, he can see that there are still two handlers standing while the approximately twenty other oppositions.
" Shit…"
Hoping that this fight would've finished in their favor after only a few minutes, Rynoske is starting to doubt it. He glances over to look at Tobias. The extranicus is on one knee as steamy heavy breaths escape his mandibles. Standing in front of the exhausted tank, that snake-man is looking down at Tobias with a look of contempt. The man turns his head over towards Rynoske as his reptilian eyes stare into his.
"A foolisssh endeavor, in the end, you are all merely just ratss being an inconvenience…I'll humor you two, however, given you manage to last this long on top of also disposing a massive chunk of our work force here, do you have any useless speech you'd like to make?"
Tobias seems to try and stand up, but he is suddenly pulled back down to his knees as the tip of a tail can be seen pressed against his back.
"Now, now, don't even try, I rather not mutilate a functional body that I'll need to replace the ones which might be inoperable,"
Rynoske grits his teeth as his rage seemingly begins to overtake his mind again. However, fatigue is taking a toll as he could only slowly turn towards the two with fists clenched.
"Hey fork-tongue!"
Stopping his toying with Tobias, the snake-man turns around to face back towards Rynoske. As the being was turning, Rynoske's comms device begins to energize. Which he hopes is a good sign.
" Fancy words for a man losing blood, what do you want?"
Pressing down onto his wound a bit harder, Rynoske tries to maintain his gaze upon their opposition. At this point, he could maybe buy a bit more time…
" You really couldn't have beaten us without this little army of yours, Let's be fair here, if it were a one on one, you'd have lost to him,"
Ryn grins hoping to get something out of the snake-man, but the being half-closes an eyelid as they give him a weird look.
"You…realizze, what you are participating in, right? This is war, not sssome arena,"
"Yeah, but my point still stands, your cold-blooded ass wouldn't be standing up right now if you actually faced off against my buddy there without the assistance of your pawns,"
"...what?"
The snake-man's tail coils back, letting go of Tobias as the Extranicus also looks Rynoske's way as both are now confused.
"Uh…yeah, you know, you cheated? Like, ganging up on my buddy there?"
"I…faced him, alone…"
What was supposed to be a distraction seems to have turned into confusion. Both sides are not sure what to say to each other as Rynoske felt like he just confused himself.
"Riight…"
He could only muster out as he lost track of what he was going to say, much less planning for this idea to go sideways so fast. Rynoske ponders a bit on what he was going to say next when a voice calls out from the sidelines filled with mockery.
" Well then, I'd say you guys did well for a bunch of misfits causing mayhem,"
The three look over and witness a sight to behold. Standing over the bodies and corpses where that large group of Ningen and slaves were, Alex is twirling their knife in hand. They then grip it into a reverse hold as they nodded to both Tobias and Rynoske. Rynoske could only give a look of relief as he turned his head and noticed a small white hair female coming out from some nearby cover near Tobias and the snake-man. She points her pistol up towards the enemy just as the snake-man seems to notice her presence as well.
"Heh, took you guys a bit,"
"No thanks to you guys, our cover got blown just trying to make it over to you two,"
Alex says as they walk towards the snake-man with caution. Rynoske, though, notices one person missing. Just as he was about to ask, his eyes immediately noticed something swoosh near the snake-man.
"Jump back!"
Rynoske yells out towards Mye as he realizes what was about to happen.. She lowers her pistol slightly as she looks confused. Unbeknownst to her, a tail was slowly slithering its way to her left where it then lashes out at her. In a quick reaction, Rynoske takes out a small dagger with his free hand and is about to throw the dagger when suppressed shots rang out.
"W-what…"
The snake-man's eyes widen as he looks down at his body where multiple gunshot wounds could be seen penetrated in areas that are unarmored.
"Not used to getting caught off yourself?"
Coming out from behind an unmanned bulldozer, Lock is staring coldly towards the snake-man. In his hand a pistol with a suppressor that is smoking from the barrel. Rynoske's eyes slide back to their opponent where he notices another gunshot wound. This one was just noticed as he barely noticed the glint of the bullet's tip sticking out a bit from the back of the snake-man's head. However, just as he notices this little detail, that is when the snake-man hissed. Despite the seemingly fatal shots, the Cryptid impales his own side at the shock of everyone else with his tail. There, they find out that a very small syringe is attached to the armored end.
"Lock! Mye! Get away from him!"
Rynoske tries to yell out, though it was too late. Everyone could only watch as Lock barely managed to grab and pull Mye to his chest before turning with his backside exposed. Within an instant, the two are sent flying and crash through the bulldozer leaving a large hole through the operator compartment.
" Mye!"
Alex's voice distorts a bit as their voice modifier broke momentarily from their outburst. They dash towards where the two possibly crashed. As they pass close in the vicinity of the snake-man, Rynoske realizes that he is about to strike again. Gripping his fists, Rynoske's eyes begin to flare up as he morphs his hands into claws and wings expanding out to lift off.
"HEY!"
His roar echoes out as he lunges towards the snake-man. In haste, Rynoske's mind doesn't process what he is risking here. In a lightning speed strike, he strikes the snake-man right before he has a chance to make any sort of counter to his attack. Slashing in a diagonal arc, Rynoske could feel the tearing of scales and flesh as he followed the attack up with a kick. The body of the snake-man flies off and slams into the walls of the quarry, causing an echo of screeching and cracking rocks throughout the area. Breathing a bit heavily, Rynoske winces as he instinctively clutches his wounded side, the smell and sticky touch of his own blood makes him realize that he may have expended a bit too much there.
However, he didn't really get much of a chance to recover. Not a second later, he is met with a large figure who got in front of him just as a blast of what sounds like acid splashes onto the shield in front of him. Shakingly, he backs up a bit and attempted to smile seeing his savior in front of him.
"Finally back up, eh?"
A series clicks and chitter responds to his little statement. There, despite being pretty beat up from his first engagement with that snake-man, Tobias stood firm and gave a wink to Rynoske before facing back towards their opponent.
" That'ssss it! Forget about any mercy, you are all dead! Ssstarting with you, overgrown pest!"
Talk about persistence as well as being a nuisance. Even before all of this, that Cryptid was way too elusive. Now, with whatever drug coursing through his body, the aggression and durability of this man just seemingly skyrocketed. In his past mercenary work, there were similar bounties on people like this that Rynoske had to deal with. Though this…this is not just some drug addicts that he thought initially they were going to deal with. Taking a deep breath, Rynoske nods to Tobias as he morphs his free claw into human hands and draws a few throwing knives.
" You take the front and I'll support you from the rear, sounds like a plan?"
Tobias chirps in response, which Rynoske hopes is a sign of agreement. The extranicus then followed up his verbal answer with a nod reassuring that he agrees with Rynoske. Moving his eyes over towards the hole in the machinery, he noticed the top of Alex's helmet. From the looks of it, he could only hope this is confirmation that the other two are fine as well. But enough of that…
"Right, let's take down this fucker,"
Within the time frame given, it seems like the snake-man was injecting more drugs into his system. Though with his guard down, this is a perfect opening.
"Now!"
Rynoske yells as he dashes to Tobias' left and throws the dagger from his hand. With speed that could rival a bullet, the sounds of flesh alongside a flying syringe tip tail thrown into the air. In response, the snake-man shrieks in pain before he glares at the two. He proceeds to pull out two handles and with a flick, extends into two batons. One baton sparks with electricity while the other looks like it has a bit of embers coming off from its sleek surface. As if both sides are locked in, Tobias dematerializes his shield and slams the two handles together materializing his hammer. Once again, except this time with Rynoske covering Tobias' back, both giants collide with one another.