Battle at Frostbite Base

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Author's Note: Black Knight was great. ;]

It was a dark and dangerous night on the edge of the forest near Frostbite Base. Lance Commander Ryan was on his own that cold night. He was piloting his custom Madcat MKII Dual. It was an all around mech, armed with a group of ER Large Lasers and a couple of LBX 20's, toned with good speed, and coated with reinforced Ferro Fibrous armor. Ryan had been patrolling the area for the last few hours because reports indicated that there may be enemy activity. Frostbite base was to be used by Ryan's lance for ammunition salvaging. Trees were knocked down and giant footprints were stamped onto the frozen ground as the Madcat MKII advanced towards the center of the base, where a large communications center stood, surrounded by massive mech hangars, mobile field bases, and other various structures.

The radar caught something. That new BPS system came in handy. That recently installed ECM device will give Ryan an advantage. Or will it? Multiple beeps on the radar. That meant.. multiple targets! A rocket whizzed past Ryans cockpit. Ryan twisted the torso, shifted to the highest speed, locked on to a dark object moving in the distance, and began blasting the ER Lasers like there's no tomorrow. A few hit, a few missed. The heat was building up slow due to the snow, so there wasn't any immediate danger of a shut down. But he was being hit from various sides. The radar showed two targets, so one of them, Ryan though, must have been one of the smaller, scout mechs equipped with an ECM and from the looks of it, a single Large X-Pulse Laser. There was no point in chasing a small machine around, so he went towards what looked like a Thor. He couldn't see the other two due to the extreme darkness. He neglected to install Light Amplification because he used it for a little extra speed. But it didn't matter. The target reticle showed, so basically, who needs light?

The enemies shots were mostly hitting the Dual's left arm, which housed two of the large lasers. Before it could get blasted off, Ryan floored it to the Thor and jammed the left arm right into the cockpit. The ER's charged, and a beam of bright green energy was blown into and through the cockpit of the Thor, taking care of that. The Dual's left arm was blown off by the other mech's PCP (not the small one). The arm fell right on the Thor's right leg and damaged it, which luckily would prevent it's use again. Ryan fortunately made it behind one of the mech hangars and shut off his radar. The small mech, having a smaller point of view, instantly lost sight, but the other mech was searching the area that Ryan hid by.

[Next time on Chapter 2: Crashdown]