We lost or Scout two days ago. Tasha's Grasshopper is missing 75% of her armor from her left flank. Drago is making sure to keep pace in his Grasshopper to protect her mech's none armored side and I'm pulling up the rear in my Dragon. My left leg's knee actuator is looked so the rear of the pack is where I'll be staying. Our Lance was out on recon when they hit. We don't even know who or what they were. They came at us from everywhere.
Yoseful closed out his personal data pad, took a deep breath and opened a com-link to the Grasshopper mech that was now in front and slightly to his left.
“Drago, what do we got?” asked Yoseful.
“I’m not showing any sigs,” came back the voice of Drago on the other end of the com-link, “whatever those things were that took out Hitsoto and his mech are not following us any longer, at least not that my scanners can see.”
“I’m not picking up anything either Captain.” replied Tasha from the cockpit of her heavily damaged Grasshopper.
Yoseful could see the gaping wound in the side of Tasha’s mech’s left side. There was hardly any armor plating left and her internal structure sparked violently where there had once been two heavily armored humanoid looking power armored units grappled to the mech. They ripped and tore at her side till they could get to her internals. Drago was lucky enough to snap off a well placed large laser blast that took one off her side but the second was able to rip into and crawl into the torso of Tasha’s mech. With half its body inside her mech, it began to rip into her mech’s engine housing. Call it skill or just blind luck but Tasha was somehow able to rip the intruder from her mech’s torso, hold it out in front of her front mounted medium lasers in the torso and with a laser blast, ripped it in half. While her quick thinking took care of the invader, her haste to remove the vermin caused her to take her mech’s own left hand off.
TO BE CONTINUED…
Edited by Yoseful Mallad, 25 May 2012 - 07:40 PM.