The enemy swarmed to attack Sarina, but I whipped out my rifle and began firing super-heated plasma at them. What rounds did hit did moderate to light damage, but not enough. I channeled my CE through the rifle and gave it another shot, this time shooting a super-cooled liquid that was below -25 degrees. I concentrated my fire on one enemy first, covering it with the gooey liquid and dropping him out of the sky.
But by the time I switched targets, but they too close for the plasma rifle to be effective. Tossing it aside, i unsheathed my sword and flew up to take the fight to them. The others used their CE to help take the remaining 3 down and to keep me covered, but it was slow going.
The hardest part was keeping the 3 of them off Sarina, who they shot at whenever they weren't defending themselves from my vibrating sword. I slashed at one, hoping to chop his arm off and preventing him from shooting at the others, but when i made contact a fog of cold mist emanated from his arm and my sword. My only assumption was that it was a bad mix of my ice CE and probably his fire. I jumped back away from the fog in case they tried to launch a counter attack while hidden. But when the mist cleared they were gone. I landed back on the ground with the others, who were as confused as me.
"Maybe they ran away?"
"Doubtful. Seriously doubtful. To be honest, they were winning that fight."
"Thanks for the words of encouragement."
I turned back around to look for signs of the enemy, scanning for any heat signals. There was nothing that i could see, but as I turned off my heat scanner a wave of bullets roared up behind us, striking Leon the worst while the rest of us managed to jump out of the way.