"Sir I believe there is a column of Word Blake vehicles coming up the road," Shandra informed me, my fingers tensed around both joysticks and I eased off the pedals.
"Pa, First Star should circle around to the left, Second to the right," I suggested to my father in a private channel. He repeated it on our public channel, trusting me.
All of the mechs immediately split to the left and right making full speed to their maximum weapons range. The six tanks burst out of the trees, guns blazing, two of them APCs, a flashing gold reticule indicated a lock, a fired all four of my medium lasers, two going wide, two striking the cockpit of the vehicle, it swerved to the right and began to slide towards me, it slammed into my feet. The three clawed foot swung back and slammed into the side of the small thirty-ton vehicle, sending it flying back into the trees, I blasted both gauss rifles into a Po Heavy Tank that was blasting my armor. It flipped onto its back and skid, ripping the turret off.
My AMS alerted my to something flying towards me, I saw not missile, but jump infantry soaring at me. The AMS shot down all but one, which was also hit, but it had worse effects for me than if he strapped to my armor and began ripping it off. The man slammed into the cockpit glass and broke the front panel, his blood was pouring from his severed arm, running down my 'Mech and a little into my cockpit.
"Infidel!" he began screaming as he started punching me with his good arm. My vision began fading and blood was running in my eyes, but not before I drew my laser pistol and shot him in what was left of his chest.
I woke up standing in a large room with many people surrounding me, I began noticing their faces, and it looked like older versions of the teen MechWarriors I was fighting with, wait, it was them, except many years in the future.
A man at a pedestal began speaking, but I realized it was me, "In honor of my father's death," those words filled me with dread, "on July the eight, I have written a Remembrance verse."
In the most grand of voices I began reading,
"Rise brave warriors,
Be it old or new.
The time of our rising has come,
The time to strike back,
To restore our glory.
When we redeem our selves,
The Inner Sphere will truly feel pain.
When we rebuild,
We will strike down the traitors.
The ones who fall,
Shall be remembered.
Nova and Smoke will clash,
The Jaguar is mightier than a common cat,
We will prevail brave warrior,
Do not fear, honor and glory always win,
Over treachery and fear,
A new age begins." (A/N: I did write this, but feel free to use it or any part of it, I actually encourage it)
Everything was bright suddenly,"Sir, Sir, oh God, he's alive!" someone yelled.
I was sitting on my back on a log, I immediately sat up and saw my Timber Wolf MKII on its back with holes in the armor and blood smeared all over the front, "How is everyone?" I asked.
"Everyone except, well except...," Serra's voice trailed off, "We got the guy who killed him though."
"Who? Not my father?" I asked becoming well, at the very least, very worried.
Serra's head drooped, and I knew, and it felt like someone punched me in the gut until a hole was in its place the shoved hot coals into my chest. Ever get that feeling?
I saw a man strapped to a rock, he was muttering. I got up and drew my pistol, walked over and shot the man in the foot. He screamed and yelled, kicking his legs trying to get free, "Feel good?" I asked in an almost sinister voice. No answer except, " You will burn Infidel!"
I shot him the other foot, he began screaming no before I even asked the question, so I asked another, "Why?"
"Just kill me!" he yelled and spat in my face.
"You asked," I sneered and shot him in the chest, the man was silent and his eyes glazed over, "Pack
up, I am moving out, if I am not back by tomorrow night. I am either dead or captured, take my fathers 'Mech back and fix it up, now I need the fastest 'Mech with power to stand up to other 'Mechs.
"My Vixen fits that perfectly―" Joe was cut off.
"MechWarrior Sophie here in a Mist Lynx, your old Omni I believe."
"Sophie, your sick, quiaff." I asked.
"Aff, you can have this OmniMech."
It took an extra half hour to get the Mist Lynx uploaded with Shandra and ready to go,
Two Myrmidons stood guard at the gates of the Blakist base. An emerald beam sliced from the side and took out both tanks barrels. The Mist Lynx walked out of cover and stood on top of one of the Myrmidons, crushing the tank.
I fired my jump jets, four plasma jet soaring me over the wall and landing on top of a building dumb firing my missiles into the crowds of personnel scrambling for vehicles. I shot a man off his ladder climbing into his Centurion. There was a thud as my missile reloaded, I dumb fired again into the row of tanks, ripping hover skirts, blowing treads and turrets off, and hitting fuel tanks, columns of fire rose into the air. It felt like someone kicked me in the back. It hit my right torso and I was spinning in the air and flew off the building and landed face up. My entire damage monitor on my back was red.
"We have been hit in the back, sir," Shandra informed.
"Really?," I said sarcastically.
"Aff."
Its amazing how AI that can take control of an OmniMech and pilot it in combat can't comprehend sarcasm. An Inner Sphere Hunchback stood over me one foot on my chest and its huge gun pointed directly at my cockpit.
I know not of my fate.
