Sergeant Decurion raised his eyebrow as he watched Duncan daisy chain the grenades together, and then he offered a shrug. Right they had to advance, so he turned back to the wounded specialist, watching as the Senior Corporal helped the young Aventus move towards them. He still struggled to breathe for a moment, but was otherwise alright, his combat nanites working overtime to repair the cracked bone.
Aventus held up his hand, giving the signal that he was alright, and rejoined the formation of Aschen Marines, while Decurion turned his disruptor rifle over, and ejected the fusion cell held in the stock, the fusion cell arcing wide, and hitting the ground as he slid a fresh one into the reciever, the door snapped shut, and the rifle whined with a fresh charge.
The squad of Aschen Marines formed up, even with being hit, Aventus was still in the fight. After they checked their weapons over, all of them gave a nod to Duncan that they were ready, and moved quickly, coordinated through the trench, gunning down the remaining insurgents that moved from cover.
"Ad Victoriam!" Decurion called out, but stopped short as an insurgent moved from some crates to make a grab at Kalfkos, bringin g them both into the mud as they tussled against each other for a good moment. Kalfkos struck the insurgent on the forehead with the butt of his disruptor, causing a sickening crack to echo through the trench before the Aschen corporal grabbed the Insurgent in some kind of headlock, a Pankration move, and with both of them screaming, Kalfkos screamed as well, and there was a crack before the insurgent went limp. Kalfkos threw the now limp body off of him, before he rejoined his comrades, moving under cover around towards the side of the mansion, as instructed they moved two at a time, as the ones who remained behind laid down cover fire, alternating their disruptor fire to provide a steady stream of energy weapons fire.
It was only interrupted by a pop as one of the Aschen Marine's disruptor rifles overheated, and he had to exchange a red hot fusion cell for a fresh one, after a brief lull, he was back into the fight.
"Stack up, put strobes on when they blow the door!" Decurion called out, before calling over to Duncan. "We're going to use strobes, try not to look directly at the light!" He shouted, as the Marines set up their disorienting pulse laser strobers, which were affixed to the underside of their disruptor rifles, which were a fast strobing blinding high power laser light. Those unfortunate to look at them would risk severe retinal burns.
With the strobes affixed, the Aschen waited for Duncan to give the insurgents their welcoming gift.