I looked at my AC. Some of the repairs were still incomplete. Any
new parts were reattached, but some repairs still being done by the
engineers. A complication with the hydraulics of the left leg and internal
electronics malfunctions in the core were the problems.
"Will it run?" I asked the engineer.
"Yeah, but there will be some problems," she replied, "The hydraulic pump in the upper left leg is going into spasms, so it may twitch randomly, and it won't be able to jump correctly. The core's vmgs targeting system isn't working at all, so there better not be any missiles."
"I don't care, as long as I can move and shoot, I'm good," I replied. Do all engineers go into descriptions like that?
I got into my AC and strapped myself in. I turned on the main system.
""Hi" started the female computer voice, "Verifying pilot. Pilot is Myk Linear. Welcome, Myk. Checking for new weapons. No new weapons. All systems functioning within normal parameters. Go into combat mode?"
"Negative, we're going to the hangar to launch a sortie," I told the computer.
The AC walked down the hallway to get to the elevator to the rooftop. While turning a corner I nearly ran into another AC. This one was a lightweight AC with a sniper rifle and what looked like a customized single missile launcher. The AC was painted white and had black in some parts.
"Whoa, sorry about that," I said into the intercom.
"No problem, do you know which way to the rooftop elevator? I'm a transfer raven from the Neo Zion Global Cortex and I don't know my way around here," said the female voice behind the intercom. Whoa, another chick to show around. Well, I hope she's hot.
"Yeah, I'm going to it now. Are you by any chance Lynn Dawnings?" I asked.
"Yeah I am. Are you one of my squad members?" Lynn asked.
"Yeah, my name is Myk Linear," I said as I started walking to the elevator.
Lynn followed me as we went to the elevator. Once up there, there was another AC. A heavyweight humanoid with a shotgun, howitzer, and vertical missile launcher. I instantly recognized the AC. The rank A-9 raven, Scott Raymir.
"Hey Scott," Lynn said. She must have known him from before, "I didn't know you were on this mission too!"
"Yeah well, sorry about that," Scott replied.
"Where are the other two ravens?" I asked.
"We're meeting them later," said the drop ship pilot.
We got into 2 different drop ships. In the first was Lynn and I. Scott was in the second because his AC was heavy.
"Lynn, if he hurts you, I'll kill him," Scott said to Lynn. I guess Scott had feelings for her.
Once in the drop ship, we took off.
~
We met with the third drop ship in the air. Their passengers were Daniel Smith and Sandy Chu. Daniel was a fairly new raven, but constantly does missions. His AC is a four legger with dual machine gun arms and customized dual chain guns. Sandy had a lightweight AC with dual laser blade arms and a customized double slug guns.
"We're five minutes from the drop zone," said the DP pilot.
I could see Skyline City already. It was much bigger than Neo Isaac and was more advanced. There were monorails that would take people to each of the gigantic skyscrapers so they would never have to walk on the street. In between the skyscrapers, flashy billboard signs and lights sparkled. Skyline City looked similar to Old New York City. A big city that was destroyed during the Great Destruction.
"Starting landing procedures" said the DP pilot, "meet here at the LZ at 200 hours."
We unloaded. Daniel's AC was a combination of dark blue and light blue. Sandy's AC was a light yellow with dark blue in some areas.
We scanned the city for the location of the Nerves Concord Earth HQ. Scott explained the strategy while our sensors scanned the city.
"Sandy, you go in first. Silence any guard MTs you encounter. Lynn will cover the outside. Daniel, you follow Sandy and cover her if things get heated. I'll stay near the entrance."
"Dude, what about me?" I asked.
"Oh yeah, you can join Sandy and Daniel," replied Scott. I have a feeling he hates me.
The sensors beeped indicating they located the NC. We all boosted to the location. Once there, Lynn went on top of a nearby building for a sniping post. The rest of us went inside the building. Once inside, Scott stayed near the entrance as planned. Daniel, Sandy, and I went further into the building.
Daniel and I stayed behind as Sandy activated her radar disruptors and went into the first room. We heard a laser sword activate and then saw a green blip on our radar, indicating that Sandy cleared the room. We went in further. As we rounded the corner, a machine gun emplacement spotted Sandy and opened fire. Daniel immediately fired at it, destroying the machine gun with a few bullets.
As we went into the next room, we repeated the same procedure as the last room. The green blip on the radar came up, indicating that the room was clear. We went into the room, and four gun emplacements came from each of the ceiling corners. They began to fire their machine guns at us. Sandy took in most of the hits while Daniel and I shot at the gun emplacements. Once they were all destroyed, we did a scan of Sandy. We couldn't ask her ourselves because we needed to keep the communicators quiet. Sandy's radar disruptors were damaged and she was unable to cloak. Now we had no choice but to go in, guns blazing.
The next room there were about 3 guard MTs. Daniel went in first and fired all four of his machine guns, putting holes through all the MTs before they could even understand what was happening. We went into the next hallway when a message from Lynn came. She wasn't supposed to break radio silence.
"You guys, an AC just went into the building! I couldn't shoot it because I couldn't get any locks! Scott went up against it and his AC is shot down! You guys should get out of there as soon as possible!"
This is bad, but we couldn't back down now, we were more than halfway there. We continued down the hallway. As we rounded the corner to the next room, a silver flash went in front of Daniel and I and grabbed Sandy. Sandy's AC was then brought into the room. We heard an explosion from inside the room. Sandy was dead.
"What the hell was that?" I said to myself.
Daniel went ahead and started firing his machineguns, but as I watched, machine gun fire came back and put a hell of a lot of holes into Daniel's AC. Daniel's AC caught on fire and shut down.
It was just me left, and I didn't even know what I was up against! I went into a room and saw the AC.
The silver AC looked like a normal lightweight AC, but had no weapons. The only noticeable difference was its arms. Both arms had what looked like a laser blade weapon underneath each arm. The hands were kind of small, but the forearm itself was slightly larger than normal.
But who really gives a damn about statistics? I raised my machine gun to fire at it, but there wasn't any lock! The thing must have an FCS disruptor. But, it doesn't matter. I fired my machine gun and got a few hits on it. The AC began to glow unusually red, like really hot metal. Then the right arm began to move oddly. The hand retracted and was placed snugly next to the forearm. Then a long barrel came out of the arm. It was a grenade launcher! I immediately boosted up while firing at the AC. The AC fired its grenade launcher, narrowly missing my right leg.
I flew over and behind the enemy AC so I could maybe get it with my laser blade. It was successful and I inflicted some major damage to the back of the AC. The pilot must have realized that just standing and shooting isn't going to work for me, so he immediately boosted forward. His left arm now began to act weird, and the hand retracted like the other arm. A smaller barrel emerged. The AC began firing this new weapon at me. The weapon was a machine gun. I dodged most of the spray, but a few still nicked my right arm.
I continued to fire my machine gun as I moved in to try to get it with my laser blade again. As I was moving closer, both of the AC's arms retracted to hands again, but this time both of his laser blades activated. These blades were longer than most of the ones I've seen, and were purplish-red in color. The AC boosted towards me and was about to do a cross slash, but I'm better than him, I stuck my laser blade straight out and got him right in the core. I could even see my laser blade tip on the other side!
I pulled it out after leaving it in the AC for a few moments. Surprisingly, the AC was still mobile, but was severely damaged. The AC limped its way back to the door and fleed.
"Will it run?" I asked the engineer.
"Yeah, but there will be some problems," she replied, "The hydraulic pump in the upper left leg is going into spasms, so it may twitch randomly, and it won't be able to jump correctly. The core's vmgs targeting system isn't working at all, so there better not be any missiles."
"I don't care, as long as I can move and shoot, I'm good," I replied. Do all engineers go into descriptions like that?
I got into my AC and strapped myself in. I turned on the main system.
""Hi" started the female computer voice, "Verifying pilot. Pilot is Myk Linear. Welcome, Myk. Checking for new weapons. No new weapons. All systems functioning within normal parameters. Go into combat mode?"
"Negative, we're going to the hangar to launch a sortie," I told the computer.
The AC walked down the hallway to get to the elevator to the rooftop. While turning a corner I nearly ran into another AC. This one was a lightweight AC with a sniper rifle and what looked like a customized single missile launcher. The AC was painted white and had black in some parts.
"Whoa, sorry about that," I said into the intercom.
"No problem, do you know which way to the rooftop elevator? I'm a transfer raven from the Neo Zion Global Cortex and I don't know my way around here," said the female voice behind the intercom. Whoa, another chick to show around. Well, I hope she's hot.
"Yeah, I'm going to it now. Are you by any chance Lynn Dawnings?" I asked.
"Yeah I am. Are you one of my squad members?" Lynn asked.
"Yeah, my name is Myk Linear," I said as I started walking to the elevator.
Lynn followed me as we went to the elevator. Once up there, there was another AC. A heavyweight humanoid with a shotgun, howitzer, and vertical missile launcher. I instantly recognized the AC. The rank A-9 raven, Scott Raymir.
"Hey Scott," Lynn said. She must have known him from before, "I didn't know you were on this mission too!"
"Yeah well, sorry about that," Scott replied.
"Where are the other two ravens?" I asked.
"We're meeting them later," said the drop ship pilot.
We got into 2 different drop ships. In the first was Lynn and I. Scott was in the second because his AC was heavy.
"Lynn, if he hurts you, I'll kill him," Scott said to Lynn. I guess Scott had feelings for her.
Once in the drop ship, we took off.
~
We met with the third drop ship in the air. Their passengers were Daniel Smith and Sandy Chu. Daniel was a fairly new raven, but constantly does missions. His AC is a four legger with dual machine gun arms and customized dual chain guns. Sandy had a lightweight AC with dual laser blade arms and a customized double slug guns.
"We're five minutes from the drop zone," said the DP pilot.
I could see Skyline City already. It was much bigger than Neo Isaac and was more advanced. There were monorails that would take people to each of the gigantic skyscrapers so they would never have to walk on the street. In between the skyscrapers, flashy billboard signs and lights sparkled. Skyline City looked similar to Old New York City. A big city that was destroyed during the Great Destruction.
"Starting landing procedures" said the DP pilot, "meet here at the LZ at 200 hours."
We unloaded. Daniel's AC was a combination of dark blue and light blue. Sandy's AC was a light yellow with dark blue in some areas.
We scanned the city for the location of the Nerves Concord Earth HQ. Scott explained the strategy while our sensors scanned the city.
"Sandy, you go in first. Silence any guard MTs you encounter. Lynn will cover the outside. Daniel, you follow Sandy and cover her if things get heated. I'll stay near the entrance."
"Dude, what about me?" I asked.
"Oh yeah, you can join Sandy and Daniel," replied Scott. I have a feeling he hates me.
The sensors beeped indicating they located the NC. We all boosted to the location. Once there, Lynn went on top of a nearby building for a sniping post. The rest of us went inside the building. Once inside, Scott stayed near the entrance as planned. Daniel, Sandy, and I went further into the building.
Daniel and I stayed behind as Sandy activated her radar disruptors and went into the first room. We heard a laser sword activate and then saw a green blip on our radar, indicating that Sandy cleared the room. We went in further. As we rounded the corner, a machine gun emplacement spotted Sandy and opened fire. Daniel immediately fired at it, destroying the machine gun with a few bullets.
As we went into the next room, we repeated the same procedure as the last room. The green blip on the radar came up, indicating that the room was clear. We went into the room, and four gun emplacements came from each of the ceiling corners. They began to fire their machine guns at us. Sandy took in most of the hits while Daniel and I shot at the gun emplacements. Once they were all destroyed, we did a scan of Sandy. We couldn't ask her ourselves because we needed to keep the communicators quiet. Sandy's radar disruptors were damaged and she was unable to cloak. Now we had no choice but to go in, guns blazing.
The next room there were about 3 guard MTs. Daniel went in first and fired all four of his machine guns, putting holes through all the MTs before they could even understand what was happening. We went into the next hallway when a message from Lynn came. She wasn't supposed to break radio silence.
"You guys, an AC just went into the building! I couldn't shoot it because I couldn't get any locks! Scott went up against it and his AC is shot down! You guys should get out of there as soon as possible!"
This is bad, but we couldn't back down now, we were more than halfway there. We continued down the hallway. As we rounded the corner to the next room, a silver flash went in front of Daniel and I and grabbed Sandy. Sandy's AC was then brought into the room. We heard an explosion from inside the room. Sandy was dead.
"What the hell was that?" I said to myself.
Daniel went ahead and started firing his machineguns, but as I watched, machine gun fire came back and put a hell of a lot of holes into Daniel's AC. Daniel's AC caught on fire and shut down.
It was just me left, and I didn't even know what I was up against! I went into a room and saw the AC.
The silver AC looked like a normal lightweight AC, but had no weapons. The only noticeable difference was its arms. Both arms had what looked like a laser blade weapon underneath each arm. The hands were kind of small, but the forearm itself was slightly larger than normal.
But who really gives a damn about statistics? I raised my machine gun to fire at it, but there wasn't any lock! The thing must have an FCS disruptor. But, it doesn't matter. I fired my machine gun and got a few hits on it. The AC began to glow unusually red, like really hot metal. Then the right arm began to move oddly. The hand retracted and was placed snugly next to the forearm. Then a long barrel came out of the arm. It was a grenade launcher! I immediately boosted up while firing at the AC. The AC fired its grenade launcher, narrowly missing my right leg.
I flew over and behind the enemy AC so I could maybe get it with my laser blade. It was successful and I inflicted some major damage to the back of the AC. The pilot must have realized that just standing and shooting isn't going to work for me, so he immediately boosted forward. His left arm now began to act weird, and the hand retracted like the other arm. A smaller barrel emerged. The AC began firing this new weapon at me. The weapon was a machine gun. I dodged most of the spray, but a few still nicked my right arm.
I continued to fire my machine gun as I moved in to try to get it with my laser blade again. As I was moving closer, both of the AC's arms retracted to hands again, but this time both of his laser blades activated. These blades were longer than most of the ones I've seen, and were purplish-red in color. The AC boosted towards me and was about to do a cross slash, but I'm better than him, I stuck my laser blade straight out and got him right in the core. I could even see my laser blade tip on the other side!
I pulled it out after leaving it in the AC for a few moments. Surprisingly, the AC was still mobile, but was severely damaged. The AC limped its way back to the door and fleed.