Helldivers:Reclamation (anthro, NSFW)

@Cerebrate19  
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@Cerebrate19  
Having driven closer, she whips out her special lighter, dragging the flame along the outside of the hive, then spurs her ant on- they probably shouldn’t stick around if the nest is on fire. Now to wait for the matriarch to come running out like Michelle Dobyne.

@HatOfDisguise  
the wait wouldn’t be long… what the eggheads apparently didn’t know, mama scorpion was easily as big as the commander’s supertank.

@Cerebrate19  
She clicks on her radio, “she’s provoked as it is, let’s not make this worse. Keep your distance- if we’ve any mages, I’d really dig it if you projected hard surfaces to keep her semi-contained. I’m going to need to attack from below.”

@HatOfDisguise  
a chorus of affirmatives as they place what they can in the way of the beast.

@Cerebrate19  
She urges her ant to get close, after which she dismounts and rushes in, deciding her ant would be poor for evasiveness from its legs, pincers, and tail. She is, of course, aiming to run underneath it.

@HatOfDisguise  
a few rockets impact the mother beast, making it turn its attention away.

@Cerebrate19  
She runs underneath and uses her robotic arms to cling on and give it the fun-juice needles.

@HatOfDisguise  
the large main injector deploys, pumping it all into the beast, which stops screeching and snapping shortly after, settling down.

@Cerebrate19  
She gets down onto the ground, cautiously walking out from under it to examine its behavior.

@HatOfDisguise  
it was in a drugged daze for now, a few pods with civilian animal handlers were deploying aided by ranger reinforcements they were tasked with fully subduing the creature.

@Cerebrate19  
She gets out from under the giant scorpion and mounts her ant once more. “Are we done here?”

@HatOfDisguise  
“you are, i imagine the commander is dying of boredom over at the city.”

@Cerebrate19  
“Then let’s get moving,” she radios to her group, giving her ant a nudge so they could get hurrying.

@HatOfDisguise  
a few squeaks and the whole cavalry team is off again.
 
Techie: “what exactly do they expect us to be able to do? i mean sure, our darling ants here spray a mean acid but that base is probably made of sterner stuff.”

@Cerebrate19  
“I have a big gun with me that isn’t anything to sneeze at,” she says in reference to that big rifle she had previously been given, “but the most we can do aside from that is be something to shoot at? I don’t understand, either.”

@HatOfDisguise  
Starsign: “i can tell you, the more units we have present the cleaner we get a targeting solution, you’ve also all been fitted with strong precision weaponry to detooth the base, one turret at a time.”

@Cerebrate19  
“Never pictured myself as a sniper but I reckon that sounds reasonable.” And off they ride to get to the location. Timeskip.

@HatOfDisguise  
Starsign: “don’t worry, it’s a mounted weapon and our rookies learn shooting straight with the help of the targeting computer for a reason.”

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as they arrive the massive walker is chilling, buried to the main body in the ground, a few rotating platforms with mounted turrets shining redsearchlights around.
 
“those are not red by the way, we just let your HUD know where it’s looking.”