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Chapter 13

*alarms*

"Not more MT's........Will they ever quite?" Randy said tired.

Then Dave rushed in the doorway.

"Umm....Sir? There is a really sweet looking AC headed this way! And he's commin at us fast!" Dave said in a panic.

Just then the ground shook violently and then stopped.

"Oh crap! It's landed!" Dominic yelled.
"We gotta get ready for it!" I exclaimed, "Are our AC's ready yet?"
"Yeah, they are fixed up." Randy replied.
"Good, we should all go out to face him. He won't win against the four of us!" I said confidently.

We all went to our AC's and boosted out to meet our foe.

"What the hell are those things on it's back?" Dave asked.
"The look like metal wings. The must be a new invention by Williams...." I started but was cut off by Randy.
"That's the AC from my dream!!!!!!" He yelled.
"That thing? Well, looks like your dream was wrong. He's not going to be on our side." I commented.

We all surrounded him. I was directly behind him. To my right was Dave, to my left was Randy, and directly in front of him was Ryan. We where all about middle range away from the enemy.
I prepared to fire my missiles, and Ryan was boosting toward the AC ready to slash him up.
But the AC saw this and turn boosted slightly to avoid the attack, then countered with his own laser blade, cutting straight through the core!

"RYAN!" Randy yelled, "I'll kill you, you bastard!"

Randy unfolded his grenade launcher and fired at the AC. It jumped high into the air and Randy followed firing all the way. Not one of his shots hit!
I proceeded to fire my missiles now that I had a lock on. Randy's distraction helped my missiles hit, but it didn't seem to do any damage at all!
Dave aimed and locked on with his pulse laser cannon and fire rapid shots toward the enemy. Some hit, others just flew off into the air.
The AC noticed it was being attacked from the ground and returned fired with it's rockets.

*Crash!*

"Oh God! I'm hit!" Dave yelled, "My AC is severely damage! But how?! He only hit me once!"
"Yeah, I'm damage but I can still fight!" I said.

And with that, I jumped into the air and withdrew my laser blades.

"He surely can't dodge both of mine!" I yelled.

Randy was still firing at the AC when I caught with it. He stopped when he saw me attacking him with both of my laser blades. I slashed with my right laser blade, and he dodged just like I thought he would.
I then attacked with my left laser blade and sliced off a piece of his right wing. He then dropped from the air and smashed into the ground. But he wasn't injured that bad, I had only clipped off a bit of his wing.

"What is he doing?!" I asked as I landed next to Dave.
"I don't know, but he's down on one knee." Randy said, "He MUST be injured."

Then the AC curled it's wings under it's arms and prepared to fire.

"Oh crap!" I yelled, "His wings are guns too?!!? EVERYBODY! GET DOWN!"

Everyone did so and it was just in time. The gun blasts had fired just above us. Ordered for everyone to keep moving around as fast as they could. This didn't keep them from getting hit, but it kept the hit count down.
I boosted behind Ryan's battered AC and unfolded my cannon. I locked on and fired repeatedly. Several discs clung to the AC and started the over heating process. The AC slashed wildly trying to get the discs off.

"Run while he's distracted!" I screamed.

We all boosted away going north. I was surprised we had our boosters functional. That was one of the worst fights I've ever survived in my live.

"We need to hide our AC's or find a mechanic or something." I said.
"I know a great mechanic in Michigan." Randy said, "He can fix us up and upgrade our parts for free!"
"What's his name?" Dave asked.
"His code name is Vortex." Randy replied.