<span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;">1st Squad</span><br/><br/>As the flames washed Yui's body the woman could easily hear a faint popping sound. This was not the soft crack of wood and leaves catching flame but rather the sound of metal giving way to a combination of strain and heat. After another second or so the woman was able, with the assistance of her ape suit, to break free of the netting which finally fell away from her body.<br/><br/>Despite the best efforts of many of the squad members, the creature seemed to always be at least one step ahead of them. Even as the blast from the energy weapon flew past Senjo it was already moving to avoid both her and Angelina's attacks. It wasn't so much that the creature was fast enough to dodge the bullets as it was that it simply seemed to anticipate where and how the marines would try to attack it. As if it were drawing upon vast amounts of combat experience and knowledge.<br/><br/>It ducked down and to its right as Senjo and Angelina opened fire, their shots going wide and now harmlessly missing the target. As it rose from it's impromptu crouch it brought it's back squarely into O'Shay's line of fire as the man let loose with all 6 rounds held in his magnum. All his shots, each one by itself enough to knock over a man and take almost anyone out of a fight, punched into the creature's back in a tightly formed shot group.<br/><br/>In response the monster let loose what could only be described as a grunt of pain.... It then rounded on the sergeant, pivoting on it's feet with a level of grace that nothing its size had any real right to possess. Following through with it's pivoting spin the creature's left hand reached to it's waist and grabbed what appeared to be a menacing looking disc (http://images.wikia.com/avp/images/e/e0/Predator_smart_disc.jpg) which it then flung out in a similar motion to a man throwing a discus .  The large staff it had used to attack both Rome and O'Shay was held firmly in its right hand as it used the pivoting motion to add extra force to it's attack.<br/><br/>The staff struck O'Shay hard on his hands and lower arms with enough force to knock the weapon from the man's hands and nearly break his arms. The disc flew out and towards Senjo, and two things became clear. The first was for what ever reason the creature had obviously decided she was an important target. The second was that the energy weapon had been meant to flush her out, to force her into moving as quickly as she could to avoid it in order to properly gauge her speed of movement for the creature's follow up strike.  Even as she rolled and moved the disc literally changed course in mid-air. Altering it's trajectory in order to insure that it would strike it's target. With a whine akin to a high-powered saw the disc struck Senjo right above the hip and cut through her as if she were simply butter.<br/><br/><br/><br/>