More then you can handle
Glancing down at his sensors, Dent Ioss saw six more enemy blips coming from the edge of the city. "Great," he muttered "Just what we need."
After a failed assault on the Draconis planet of Scendahar he and his battalion had suffered heavy losses when they walked straight into an ambush when they were trying to get to their dropships. Now they were forced to go through the capital to get off the planet. The problem was that now they had entered the city they had to get through to the other side and their unit had been broken up. The Draconis mechs' were breaking up the annihilating the mechs one by one.
The screaming of alarms woke Dent from his trance a moment before a wall of LRMs hit him from the right. His AMS managed to cut down half of them before they rocked into his right torso, blowing armour into scrap the fell to litter the ground. Shaking the explosions off, Dent turned his 60 Tonne Argus round to face the threat. Standing about 6 blocks away, with missile racks still smoking, was a Mad Cat. The fearsome clan 'mech was well know on the battle field for holding its own against 'mechs many times its own weight. Packing LRM packs, large lasers, medium pulse lasers, medium lasers and machine gun arrays the Mad Cat was the workhorse of the clan armies, able to engage at any range. Dent started running down a side street to get closer to his enemy. His Argus, apart from having Inner Sphere technology was specifically configured by Dent for his fighting style. It packed the standard autocannons, a MRM pack instead of the LRMs and a large pulse laser instead of the mediums the standard config. had. This meant that he couldn't engage from the same distances the Mad Cat could.
Coming from round the side street Dent opened up the throttle to close the distance between them. Bringing his autocannons to bare, he fired, the recoil twisting his torso away from the enemy mech. The depleted uranium slugs smashed into the Mad Cat, hitting bellow the cockpit shaking it furiously. Dent smiled. That would let the Draconis pilot know that he was facing a pilot that was not daunted by the Mad Cat's fearsome figure. In return, the air between the two mechs became alive with machine gun bullets. Most of them missed due to the hammering it took and slammed into buildings all around, smashing glass and ferrocrete alike. The slugs that did hit Dent's Argus bounced harmlessly off. Machine guns were more suited to cutting down infantry or exploiting breaches in armour than destroying the actual 'mech. Dent let go with his MRMs and large pulse laser. The laser cut a deep scar along the right leg while the medium range missiles impacted all over the Draconis mech shaking it even more. The Mad Cat recovered from the damage and brought all his weapons to bare on Dent's Argus. The air between the two mechs was filled with charged energy as large lasers, medium lasers and medium pulse lasers cut into the Argus. The pulse lasers cut into its left torso, the mediums slagged some of the armour over the MRM launcher meaning Dent wouldn't be able to fire about a quarter of his missiles after a quick glance at his damage schematics. Reaching up, Dent flicked a switch above him to compensate for this. Then the large lasers hit. Both ripped deep into Dent's Argus' hip on the left side, causing melted armour to drip to the ground in puddles. An alarm started flashing straight away. Checking his schematics again, Dent realised that his left hip actuator was frozen, meaning that his Argus' movement was severely reduced. Dent also realised he had to finish it straight away or he would be destroyed because he could hardly move. Training his targeting reticule over the Mad Cat's cockpit, he linked all his weapons together for an alpha-strike. The MRM's impacted all over the Draconis' mech, vaporising armour. The large pulse tracked down from the left missile rack, to the 'head' of the mech. The autocannons, on the other hand, were directly on target. The slugs smashes straight through the cockpit, killing the pilot and totally destroying all the equipment used to control mechs. Without the 'brain' of the mech, the lifeless hull fell to the ground in a heap.
Dent gasped as a huge wave of heat rushed over him from firing all his weapons together. It would take a little while for his heat sinks to dissipate all the heat. Dent also wondered how he'd get to the dropships in time now that his leg was damaged but all these worries were forgotten and in place was a new one as he looked out his cockpit. Coming down the main street towards Dent was an Atlas.
Glancing down at his sensors, Dent Ioss saw six more enemy blips coming from the edge of the city. "Great," he muttered "Just what we need."
After a failed assault on the Draconis planet of Scendahar he and his battalion had suffered heavy losses when they walked straight into an ambush when they were trying to get to their dropships. Now they were forced to go through the capital to get off the planet. The problem was that now they had entered the city they had to get through to the other side and their unit had been broken up. The Draconis mechs' were breaking up the annihilating the mechs one by one.
The screaming of alarms woke Dent from his trance a moment before a wall of LRMs hit him from the right. His AMS managed to cut down half of them before they rocked into his right torso, blowing armour into scrap the fell to litter the ground. Shaking the explosions off, Dent turned his 60 Tonne Argus round to face the threat. Standing about 6 blocks away, with missile racks still smoking, was a Mad Cat. The fearsome clan 'mech was well know on the battle field for holding its own against 'mechs many times its own weight. Packing LRM packs, large lasers, medium pulse lasers, medium lasers and machine gun arrays the Mad Cat was the workhorse of the clan armies, able to engage at any range. Dent started running down a side street to get closer to his enemy. His Argus, apart from having Inner Sphere technology was specifically configured by Dent for his fighting style. It packed the standard autocannons, a MRM pack instead of the LRMs and a large pulse laser instead of the mediums the standard config. had. This meant that he couldn't engage from the same distances the Mad Cat could.
Coming from round the side street Dent opened up the throttle to close the distance between them. Bringing his autocannons to bare, he fired, the recoil twisting his torso away from the enemy mech. The depleted uranium slugs smashed into the Mad Cat, hitting bellow the cockpit shaking it furiously. Dent smiled. That would let the Draconis pilot know that he was facing a pilot that was not daunted by the Mad Cat's fearsome figure. In return, the air between the two mechs became alive with machine gun bullets. Most of them missed due to the hammering it took and slammed into buildings all around, smashing glass and ferrocrete alike. The slugs that did hit Dent's Argus bounced harmlessly off. Machine guns were more suited to cutting down infantry or exploiting breaches in armour than destroying the actual 'mech. Dent let go with his MRMs and large pulse laser. The laser cut a deep scar along the right leg while the medium range missiles impacted all over the Draconis mech shaking it even more. The Mad Cat recovered from the damage and brought all his weapons to bare on Dent's Argus. The air between the two mechs was filled with charged energy as large lasers, medium lasers and medium pulse lasers cut into the Argus. The pulse lasers cut into its left torso, the mediums slagged some of the armour over the MRM launcher meaning Dent wouldn't be able to fire about a quarter of his missiles after a quick glance at his damage schematics. Reaching up, Dent flicked a switch above him to compensate for this. Then the large lasers hit. Both ripped deep into Dent's Argus' hip on the left side, causing melted armour to drip to the ground in puddles. An alarm started flashing straight away. Checking his schematics again, Dent realised that his left hip actuator was frozen, meaning that his Argus' movement was severely reduced. Dent also realised he had to finish it straight away or he would be destroyed because he could hardly move. Training his targeting reticule over the Mad Cat's cockpit, he linked all his weapons together for an alpha-strike. The MRM's impacted all over the Draconis' mech, vaporising armour. The large pulse tracked down from the left missile rack, to the 'head' of the mech. The autocannons, on the other hand, were directly on target. The slugs smashes straight through the cockpit, killing the pilot and totally destroying all the equipment used to control mechs. Without the 'brain' of the mech, the lifeless hull fell to the ground in a heap.
Dent gasped as a huge wave of heat rushed over him from firing all his weapons together. It would take a little while for his heat sinks to dissipate all the heat. Dent also wondered how he'd get to the dropships in time now that his leg was damaged but all these worries were forgotten and in place was a new one as he looked out his cockpit. Coming down the main street towards Dent was an Atlas.
