The grenade flew into the chest of the heavy MT with a bazooka and blew a crater in it's stomach, causing it to fall to the ground. I was on a mission with two other Ravens. It was to investigate what happened in the arena. Apparently a hidden base had a terminal with information regarding the mysterious death of a Raven, Sharp-Shooter.
The Ravens were Pot Shot, from the arena match the other day, and Falling Storm. Falling Storm was a Reverse Joint pilot, with a OB core, a 20% ammo magazine, spread howitzer, MG-500, and orbit cannons. She preferred aerial combat. The base came into view. A metal square inside of a crater was the entrance. I shot down with my slug gun, destroying the metal square. I entered the hole, then Pot Shot, and finally Falling Storm.
I slowly slid on my treads across the long hallway. Nothing was on my radar. I had an FCS error. "Who else has an FCS error?" Both Pot Shot and Falling Storm answered at the same time. "Same here." Something wasn't right here. Are opponent didn't want us to find them. My map was down too. Most functions were not working. "The next room is full of pulse radiation." It was Falling Storm. "Your gonna have to go in and disable the pulse generator." "Why me?" "You have the most AP." I headed into the room.
My AP was being lowered at a slow rate. There was nothing in the room. I looked up to see a giant vent in the ceiling. I couldn't boost high enough. Falling Storm had the best boosters so she tried next. She couldn't make it more than half way up. She was losing AP much faster than me. I had a plan. She stood on top of me and I held her leg. Pot Shot was going to boost under and push me up. Falling storm boosted up high, Pot Shot pushing me, as she pulled. "Now RoadKill!" Falling storm moved out of the way and Pot Shot did the same. My boosters drained fast and I didn't go very high, then I started moving up. I was almost to the vent. I didn't know if I could make it. At this height, even though I'm in an AC, my AC would be crushed. I had no choice. I kept boosting and made it in the vent, but I ran out of energy. My AC grabbed on with one hand. I used all of my strength to pull the heavy AC up into the vent. I saw the pulse generator. I disarmed it. It would of been easier if Pot Shot and Falling Storm just stood on top of me, but their AP wouldn't hold up. Each of them were down to about 3,000 AP. I still had about 6,500 AP.
I hit a switch, "Gate lock on section B23, unlocked." Pot Shot and Falling Storm walked through the door and used an elevator to get up to the floor I was on. I blew up the grate of the vent with my slug gun, and exited. We were again together and were going to make up a plan. "Good work RoadKill!" "Thanks Pot Shot." "Even I wouldn't want to fall from that kinda distance." said Falling Storm in a worried tone. "It was weird hearing an aerial pilot admit to being afraid of a fall. Heck it was weird hearing a Raven even admit to being scared. I guess female Ravens are different then us male Ravens." The target was in view.
Pot Shot started to download the program. "Hey guys...it's gonna take two minutes to download this program." Falling Storm and I turned around to protect Pot Shot. Just then an alarm rang out. "Intruder alert. AC and all MTs head to the main computer terminal immediately! Don't let them get that program. If all else fails destroy the program so it does not fall into enemy hands. We can't let them get any info on that new Optional part.
Well now we know it was an Op. part that had killed Sharp-Shooter. There was still one and a half minutes until the download would be completed. They were sending in an AC. I did an enemy unit count. We were up against 5 heavy MTs with bazookas and shields,10 construction MTs, 6 MTs with a close-range shotgun, a weak blade, and small rockets, 7 small floating MTs with an energy beam weapon, and 30 mass produced, chicken-like MTs. We didn't stand a chance against those kind of numbers. I got info on the AC. It is a tank. It has a Linear Cannon, a howitzer, and a smaller parry blade with 30 ammo. We were in trouble.
The first wave of MTs stormed in. They placed their shields in front of them and next to each other, making a wall. Falling Angel launched an orbit cannon and started to spray each MT with machine gun fire. I switched to my grenade launcher. Those shields couldn't handle my grenades. I shot a grenade, breaking a shield and hurting the MT inside. "Hey RoadKill, this isn't looking good, the next wave of MTs are on their way. Pot Shot still has one minute until the download is completed. Switch to a spread weapon. We have to work quick!" I brought out my slug gun. One shot damaged three shields. Falling Storm was spraying spread howitzer and machine gun in every direction. All shield were broken. It only took one shot of slug gun, and one of Falling Storm's spread howitzer, to take out the MTs.
The next wave arrived. 10 construction MTs. One shot of slug gun took care of one MT. They did relatively no damage, but falling angel was low on AP. I traded shots of slug gun for their weak lasers. They were destroyed quickly. "Thirty seconds until download is complete, third and fourth wave will be arriving shortly. AC on his way here. Those 30 chicken-like MTs have stationed themselves around the elevator, in case we destroy the next few waves."
Falling Storm was out off ammo with her machine gun and spread howitzer. I handed over my R-arm missile launcher for her to use. I could see the MTs at the end of the hallway. Falling Storm had launched a volley of missiles and destroyed a hover MT, and a close-range MT. "Download Complete guys, there's a transport waiting outside." We couldn't escape, we were pinned in this room. I again brought down my grenade launcher. Pot Shot was using his NIGHT. We were destroying the MTs before they could get in the room. Pot Shot had shot a MT in the leg, bringing it down and causing a sort of domino effect on the other close-range MTs. I used my grenade launcher to finish the fallen MTs. All that left were two hover MTs when we received a message. "Incoming Message from unidentified AC: Ravens. You will not escape with that information."
He flew into the room. He was not a Raven, just some illegal AC pilot. I guess this base didn't care who they hired. He Over Boosted into the room. Falling Storm was out of my missile launcher and gave it back. She had no way to fight. The AC had used his parry blade and stabbed her in the leg. Her AC fell. It was sparking and in a critical condition. I stepped in front of her and turned on my shield, my AC blocking hers. "I want every AC alive. Except for this guy." I said with rage in my deep voice. He brought down his Linear Cannon. I was hitting him hard with my grenade launcher. Pot Shot was low on ammo. He was trying to line up a shot to kill the AC pilot. The green bolt of the Linear Cannon charged and was fired. There was no possible way that Pot Shot could survive the blast. I Over Boosted in front of him. The blast destroyed my shield generator and ripped of my treads. "Now Pot Shot!" Pot Shot recovered from his near death experience, and took the shot. It went through the tanks thick armor and successfully killed the pilot inside.
We were low on ammo. All I had was 10 slug gun ammo, and 2 grenades. Pot Shot had put on a SOL wave blade after the arena battle, just barely making weight. He handed this to Falling Storm. Falling Storm was going to walk behind me using me for a shield, since I still had 3,763 AP left. She would use the blade when she had a chance. Pot Shot went ahead. He used is last 4 shots and killed 3 out of 30 MTs. They now knew we were here. I jettisoned my grenade launcher. "Here buddy, use this. You might go overweight, but we can kill these guys faster." Pot Shot picked up and started to use the grenade launcher. 1 shot killed two MTs. He was going to wait for me to lure more MTs towards him to save ammo. I boosted into the room, since I could no longer walk with ripped treads, I used my slug gun to kill two MTs standing next to each other, each one was full of holes. I used my slug gun as Falling Storm used her blade wave. I was out of ammo, but the MTs didn't know that. I Over Boosted, dragging my treads as I went, and lured the last four MTs into the room. Pot Shot launched the last grenade at the MTs, killing three. I chose to destroy the last one by crushing it's head in my AC's hands.
"Mission Complete, return to transport. We were all low on AP. I had 503 AP left, Pot shot had 217 AP left, and Falling Storm was left with 18 AP. Luckily this mission had paid 10,000 credits in advance, and 75,000 on completion of the mission. We slowly made are way out of the vent, then down the elevator, and out of the front door. We gave each other the weapons that we started the mission with. Then we boosted up and attached ourselves to the transport.
It was late when I got back to my apartment. Almost 11:00p.m. The information that we found was to be kept secret between Pot Shot, Falling Angel, and me. The information was the plans for an Optional part. This must of been equipped to 8ball. It made an ultrasonic blade wave that didn't affect the AC, but would slice up the pilot in it. This is how Sharp-Shooter had been killed. I watched the video of the arena one last time. It was clear to me now. When 8ball just vanished, he really just vanished. Someone had made given him stealth that he could turn on the moment that Sharp-Shooter was defeated. He must of just flew out of the dome when it opened for the transport to escort the fallen AC. We had to find 8ball. We had to defeat him...
The Ravens were Pot Shot, from the arena match the other day, and Falling Storm. Falling Storm was a Reverse Joint pilot, with a OB core, a 20% ammo magazine, spread howitzer, MG-500, and orbit cannons. She preferred aerial combat. The base came into view. A metal square inside of a crater was the entrance. I shot down with my slug gun, destroying the metal square. I entered the hole, then Pot Shot, and finally Falling Storm.
I slowly slid on my treads across the long hallway. Nothing was on my radar. I had an FCS error. "Who else has an FCS error?" Both Pot Shot and Falling Storm answered at the same time. "Same here." Something wasn't right here. Are opponent didn't want us to find them. My map was down too. Most functions were not working. "The next room is full of pulse radiation." It was Falling Storm. "Your gonna have to go in and disable the pulse generator." "Why me?" "You have the most AP." I headed into the room.
My AP was being lowered at a slow rate. There was nothing in the room. I looked up to see a giant vent in the ceiling. I couldn't boost high enough. Falling Storm had the best boosters so she tried next. She couldn't make it more than half way up. She was losing AP much faster than me. I had a plan. She stood on top of me and I held her leg. Pot Shot was going to boost under and push me up. Falling storm boosted up high, Pot Shot pushing me, as she pulled. "Now RoadKill!" Falling storm moved out of the way and Pot Shot did the same. My boosters drained fast and I didn't go very high, then I started moving up. I was almost to the vent. I didn't know if I could make it. At this height, even though I'm in an AC, my AC would be crushed. I had no choice. I kept boosting and made it in the vent, but I ran out of energy. My AC grabbed on with one hand. I used all of my strength to pull the heavy AC up into the vent. I saw the pulse generator. I disarmed it. It would of been easier if Pot Shot and Falling Storm just stood on top of me, but their AP wouldn't hold up. Each of them were down to about 3,000 AP. I still had about 6,500 AP.
I hit a switch, "Gate lock on section B23, unlocked." Pot Shot and Falling Storm walked through the door and used an elevator to get up to the floor I was on. I blew up the grate of the vent with my slug gun, and exited. We were again together and were going to make up a plan. "Good work RoadKill!" "Thanks Pot Shot." "Even I wouldn't want to fall from that kinda distance." said Falling Storm in a worried tone. "It was weird hearing an aerial pilot admit to being afraid of a fall. Heck it was weird hearing a Raven even admit to being scared. I guess female Ravens are different then us male Ravens." The target was in view.
Pot Shot started to download the program. "Hey guys...it's gonna take two minutes to download this program." Falling Storm and I turned around to protect Pot Shot. Just then an alarm rang out. "Intruder alert. AC and all MTs head to the main computer terminal immediately! Don't let them get that program. If all else fails destroy the program so it does not fall into enemy hands. We can't let them get any info on that new Optional part.
Well now we know it was an Op. part that had killed Sharp-Shooter. There was still one and a half minutes until the download would be completed. They were sending in an AC. I did an enemy unit count. We were up against 5 heavy MTs with bazookas and shields,10 construction MTs, 6 MTs with a close-range shotgun, a weak blade, and small rockets, 7 small floating MTs with an energy beam weapon, and 30 mass produced, chicken-like MTs. We didn't stand a chance against those kind of numbers. I got info on the AC. It is a tank. It has a Linear Cannon, a howitzer, and a smaller parry blade with 30 ammo. We were in trouble.
The first wave of MTs stormed in. They placed their shields in front of them and next to each other, making a wall. Falling Angel launched an orbit cannon and started to spray each MT with machine gun fire. I switched to my grenade launcher. Those shields couldn't handle my grenades. I shot a grenade, breaking a shield and hurting the MT inside. "Hey RoadKill, this isn't looking good, the next wave of MTs are on their way. Pot Shot still has one minute until the download is completed. Switch to a spread weapon. We have to work quick!" I brought out my slug gun. One shot damaged three shields. Falling Storm was spraying spread howitzer and machine gun in every direction. All shield were broken. It only took one shot of slug gun, and one of Falling Storm's spread howitzer, to take out the MTs.
The next wave arrived. 10 construction MTs. One shot of slug gun took care of one MT. They did relatively no damage, but falling angel was low on AP. I traded shots of slug gun for their weak lasers. They were destroyed quickly. "Thirty seconds until download is complete, third and fourth wave will be arriving shortly. AC on his way here. Those 30 chicken-like MTs have stationed themselves around the elevator, in case we destroy the next few waves."
Falling Storm was out off ammo with her machine gun and spread howitzer. I handed over my R-arm missile launcher for her to use. I could see the MTs at the end of the hallway. Falling Storm had launched a volley of missiles and destroyed a hover MT, and a close-range MT. "Download Complete guys, there's a transport waiting outside." We couldn't escape, we were pinned in this room. I again brought down my grenade launcher. Pot Shot was using his NIGHT. We were destroying the MTs before they could get in the room. Pot Shot had shot a MT in the leg, bringing it down and causing a sort of domino effect on the other close-range MTs. I used my grenade launcher to finish the fallen MTs. All that left were two hover MTs when we received a message. "Incoming Message from unidentified AC: Ravens. You will not escape with that information."
He flew into the room. He was not a Raven, just some illegal AC pilot. I guess this base didn't care who they hired. He Over Boosted into the room. Falling Storm was out of my missile launcher and gave it back. She had no way to fight. The AC had used his parry blade and stabbed her in the leg. Her AC fell. It was sparking and in a critical condition. I stepped in front of her and turned on my shield, my AC blocking hers. "I want every AC alive. Except for this guy." I said with rage in my deep voice. He brought down his Linear Cannon. I was hitting him hard with my grenade launcher. Pot Shot was low on ammo. He was trying to line up a shot to kill the AC pilot. The green bolt of the Linear Cannon charged and was fired. There was no possible way that Pot Shot could survive the blast. I Over Boosted in front of him. The blast destroyed my shield generator and ripped of my treads. "Now Pot Shot!" Pot Shot recovered from his near death experience, and took the shot. It went through the tanks thick armor and successfully killed the pilot inside.
We were low on ammo. All I had was 10 slug gun ammo, and 2 grenades. Pot Shot had put on a SOL wave blade after the arena battle, just barely making weight. He handed this to Falling Storm. Falling Storm was going to walk behind me using me for a shield, since I still had 3,763 AP left. She would use the blade when she had a chance. Pot Shot went ahead. He used is last 4 shots and killed 3 out of 30 MTs. They now knew we were here. I jettisoned my grenade launcher. "Here buddy, use this. You might go overweight, but we can kill these guys faster." Pot Shot picked up and started to use the grenade launcher. 1 shot killed two MTs. He was going to wait for me to lure more MTs towards him to save ammo. I boosted into the room, since I could no longer walk with ripped treads, I used my slug gun to kill two MTs standing next to each other, each one was full of holes. I used my slug gun as Falling Storm used her blade wave. I was out of ammo, but the MTs didn't know that. I Over Boosted, dragging my treads as I went, and lured the last four MTs into the room. Pot Shot launched the last grenade at the MTs, killing three. I chose to destroy the last one by crushing it's head in my AC's hands.
"Mission Complete, return to transport. We were all low on AP. I had 503 AP left, Pot shot had 217 AP left, and Falling Storm was left with 18 AP. Luckily this mission had paid 10,000 credits in advance, and 75,000 on completion of the mission. We slowly made are way out of the vent, then down the elevator, and out of the front door. We gave each other the weapons that we started the mission with. Then we boosted up and attached ourselves to the transport.
It was late when I got back to my apartment. Almost 11:00p.m. The information that we found was to be kept secret between Pot Shot, Falling Angel, and me. The information was the plans for an Optional part. This must of been equipped to 8ball. It made an ultrasonic blade wave that didn't affect the AC, but would slice up the pilot in it. This is how Sharp-Shooter had been killed. I watched the video of the arena one last time. It was clear to me now. When 8ball just vanished, he really just vanished. Someone had made given him stealth that he could turn on the moment that Sharp-Shooter was defeated. He must of just flew out of the dome when it opened for the transport to escort the fallen AC. We had to find 8ball. We had to defeat him...