Clouds of tear gas were released into the adjacent streets surrounding the square. "Please move calmly and orderly. You are to disperse immediately or suffer coercive methods." The speakers on the mechs rang out in a looped audio track. Hachiman fired yet another plastic suppression round onto the ground before the crowd, causing the shell to shatter upon impact and send thousands of plastic disks flying towards the crowd. He imagined that they would scream, panic slightly over the pain which zipped up their feet and hopefully disperse. But then they kept turning around, shouting at him as though he could even hear what they said through the soundproof engineering.<br/><br/>The mechs waded forward awkwardly, crouching to prevent the likelihood of a confused person running past the defense lines. He knew that there was probably some sort of commotion going on behind them, but his orders were to hold the line and disperse all civilians. Some idiot in the crowd launched a missile, which turned out to be a water bottle powered by pressure, at him. The plastic container bounced off harmlessly, as Hachiman and several other Mechs loosed water cannons on the crowd. "Disperse. Disperse. Disperse." The same command was repeated as the city's Defense Grid AI opted to change the wording of its commands. He avoided using the pepper rounds as they tended to cause extreme confusion and almost always, a stampede to escape the cloud.