Mackay ghosts ahead of Smith and Two-Six, up to a window in the building, and tosses a lit flare in, before ducking sideways and crouching to give the heavies a clear shot through the windows.

Keeping an eye out for threats Thomas quickly ties a handkerchief into a mask. He then moves out twords the building keeping up with his team.

Two-Six keeps his fire team back to provide cover to Mac's.

When Naas vanishes into the smoke, he motions his team forward and moves to take cover at the nearest building.

Mac keeps his eyes peeled as he moves with his squad. Alert for movement, and sound, he tries to keep his own slow to match the speed of those with him. He is careful to move from cover to cover.

Mac's fire team quickly figures out the lay of the terrain. There is one building right next to the Skyranger, and as they work their way around the corner they can see several small fires and one large glowing through the smoke. Two other buildings are away to the south, and assuming the largest fire is the crashed saucer it is southeast of the Skyranger, farther away than the farthest building.

If there are XTs on the ground, they either cant see through smoke, or aren't looking.

Two-Six instructs the squad to move towards the building closest to the crash, using the smoke for cover.

His fire team will go around the nearest building one way (west), and Mac's the other (east).

As Mac's team heads around the north side of the building they run into a split rail fence running north from the side of the building. They can make out that the fence turns and heads east after not a long distance.

Two-Six and his team can make out a second building due south of the Skyranger, somewhat to the south west of the building they are currently taking cover beside.

Mac holds up his hand, then indicates for his squad to take a look around. The cover was getting sparse and that was always a bad time.

Once he'd checked out possible danger routes, he moves to rendezvous with Two-Six and his squad on the other side of the building.

Mac's team heads around the north side of the building and once over the fence can make out several fires glowing hotly through the thick smoke. TO the southeast there is a large fire in full view across an open area, though smoke obscures anything but the location of the fire (and the fact that there is nothing in the way at this angle).

The building the squad is flanking is a barn, or some animal housing under a different name, and the fence encloses a pasture. The fence runs back into the side of the barn at the south end.

Mac gestures for his squad to flank the entrance of the barn, before he peeks inside.

The thick, heavy smoke makes it nigh impossible to make out anything in the barn. Nothing fires at the squad, though, so that's good.