Chapter 3: "Holy Crap A 'Mech!"
The cities had been very quiet. Very little seemed to be defending this empire's capital.
"This city's terrain is a nightmare," the new scorpian pilot grumbled. "I can't get anywhere."
"Yeah I know," Dee comm'd back to him. "I don't understand how someone could build a city like this. This is ridiculous."
"Well, I suppose it does have it's defensive advantages. After all my scorpian can get nowhere."
Dee considered for a moment. He tapped his sensor screen a few times.
"Damned sensor ghosts..." Dee mumbled almost inaudibly.
"Sir?"
"Oh nothing. This terrain would slow down friend tanks as well. I think that we may have been fooled into attacking a city of no importance."
Dee felt a tremor close by that rocked his hornet a bit. He saw a piece of earth fly up, torn from it's place by something massive. His sensors read the heat signitures and found that a battlemech had come over a hill to the east.
"Holy crap a 'mech!" Dee shouted in surprise. He then turned quickly and got behind a hill to obstuct the line of fire on himself.
"Hmm...Looks like it has an Autocannon. From the range and power I'd say it must be a 10. Do not want to get hit by that. I don't have that kind of firepower, how the hell do I deal with this without my fire support?"
Another loud thump accompanied this time by the whining of a laser.
"Getting closer...I guess I have no real choice!"
Dee hit the jets and flew over the hill, rushing straight at his foe. The enemy 'mech was slow to react and fired off a few shots that went far wide.
"Hah! We have ourselves a green pilot! Perfect!"
Dee landed expertly behind, fired his two laser systems and kicked the 'mech hard in the right leg. It buckled a little and the pilot couldn't balance himself quick enough so he went down hard.
Wasting no time, Dee alpha'd the prone mech and followed with a series of furious kicks. He didn't stop until the mech was unfunctioning. The enemy pilot ejected from the mech and disappeared into the miserable terrain.
"He left us a perfectly good mech," Dee laughed. "What a warrior he was."
Dee called in his landing craft. The city was his and this empire had nothing else to offer. Soon he would send in his crews to tear down and salvage the materials in this place, but for now Dee thought to leave the peasants with their hope of peace under his rule.
As the salvage was loaded onto the aircraft, Dee could hardly keep himself from getting giddy. He had doubled the mech force of the Dee Dee Combine today, and had proven himself in single combat with an enemy mechwarrior. Today had been a great day for him, and for the people of the combine.
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...my bed was on fire once. I blame the gnomes.
Edited by Dee (11/12/06 11:15 PM)
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