It's working. That one arm Rich and Grif had drawn away with their harassment was successfully peeling away from the education creches being evacuated, and now they were all pouring in. Roboticans with energy shields and turrents were protecting the drop at their backs, knocking any strays down before they could sneak up the wall behind them.

Which meant the main force on the wall could deal with the seething crowd in front of them, that was trying to scale the wall at the dead end of the bottleneck. They had a perfect little killzone down there, with a safe perch above.

"Alright, people, we can't keep them down for good, but lucky for us, we don't have to! We just need to keep knocking them down long enough to keep them distracted until the evac teams get those kids out of there."

He starts blasting down at the surging mob below, reducing them to tiny pockets of nanites that have to regenerate all over again into full robozombies.

"Light 'em up!"