Blood on the Asphalt biker
The heavy, pressurized doors of the pods blew outward with a deafening hiss.
Pouring out of the smoke were the Founders' elite Vanguard. They weren't the standard Shock-Troopers we had fought before. These were Sun-Guard hulking, eight-foot-tall cybernetic brutes clad in heavy, impenetrable gold-plated armor, wielding massive thermal-hammers.
"Light 'em up!" Dax commanded.
The courtyard erupted into absolute chaos.
Reaper opened the engagement, his sniper rifle barking from a second-story window. An explosive round hit a Sun-Guard dead in the chest plate. The explosion knocked the brute back a step, but the golden armor barely scratched.