Battle at Frostbite Base: Chapter 2

Zzzaaap. The Dual's rear torso was almost cut in half by the approaching enemy's ER laser. Knowing his cover was blown, Ryan began piloting towards a nearby mech hangar. A bright blue light emitted from one of the cannons on the enemy's left torso. The light shot out like a falling star at the Dual's legs. It was a charged PPC shot! The shock ruptured all of the Dual's equipment and HUD for a little bit. The bright blue light allowed the smaller mech to find out where Ryan was heading, and using it's unmatched speed, it zipped across the dark field and waited near the mech hangar as the Dual approached. The radio com crackled.

"Alpha 0, do you read me? Alpha 0, what's your current situation? Report status immediately!"

"This is Alpha 0. I've been ambushed at Frostbite Base. I'm limited on weaponry but I might be able to get rid of them another way. I'm going on radio silence. Out."

"Alpha 0! Alpha 0! What do you think you're doing? Alpha 0 respond now! Damn it."

As the radio died, the Dual neared the hangar. Seems like that last PPC shot may have caused that mech circuit problems. This was Ryan's chance to destroy the little mech. It was waiting near the open hangar doors. It fired off two direct X-Pulse hits on the center torso before the Dual went it. As it went in, a great idea came to place. Ryan twisted the torse and blasted both LBX 20's at the small mech. The force knocked it down between the hangar doors. As Ryan reached the other side, he jammed the hangar door operation device which caused the doors to close in on the small mech and trap it in place temporarily. Ryan aimed a couple of his lasers at the girders and blew off a few of them, making the structure weak. The small mech finally freed itself after blasting off a chunk of the door away. But as soon as it reached somewhere near the center, Ryan backed the Dual up away from the hanger, blasted one LBX at the mech's leg to cause it to lose balance and slow down, then group-fired all of the ER large lasers at the weakened structure, causing it to explode into a huge fireball. The huge ceiling collapsed right on top of the small mech, and it's core exploded, sending shrapnel everywhere.

"That took care of the runt. One more to go." Ryan hastily looked around to find somewhere to salvage more ammo for the LBX cannons. Surely the explosion would hold off the PCP slinging mech until something suitable was found. Ryan managed to get the Dual to another side of the Base without the other mech following. This was the opportunity to salvage something, anything, because ammo was running low, armor was destroyed in critical areas, and any more shots to the body would disable the ER beams.

[Next time on Chapter 3: The Ultimate Salvage]