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The soldiers of the roadblock watched the SUV closely after the armor shrike fired upon it. There was a deafening ping as the penetrating shell moved through the chassis, and the engine of the truck. Soldiers kept their steely eyed gaze on the SUV as it screeched to a stop on the asphalt road.

Thick black smoke plumed up from the road, accented by the lit, orange flames that erupted from the engine bay, and the passenger compartment.

Taiyou soldiers kept their position behind the pair of tanks, their weapons pointed, and readied.

They moved around the SUV, armed with ballistic shields with brilliant halogen lights mounted on the fronts. The shields read POLICE on them, but the men carrying them were anything but police officers.

They interlocked their large, rectangular shields and moved closer to the SUV. One of them pulled out a red fire extinguisher, and once he was close enough, the Soldier began to bathe the flames, and the SUV in a thick, cold white powder that began to quell the flames quickly.

The Fire extinguisher quelled much of the fire, and the soldiers quickly moved back into formation as a second combat engineer moved forward with what looked like large hydraulic operated jaws. He was going to pull the armored door from the SUV with a Jaws-of-life like device, where they could access the men trapped within.

Metal crunched as the soldier began to work on the door, and the flames began to die down as the strange powder spread everywhere.