So Far
Come to Spider Battle Part 4
Daavi traded railgun blasts with one of the Spider Skull
Walkers. The Walker's blasts spanged harmlessly off of
his Elom's electro-magnetic forcefield. His shots finally
succeeded in slaging the Walker's left cannon. It was too
bad that he arrived so late. If only he could have known
the battle place was moved. Now it was time to move in
and cripple this mechanical monster. He took to flight
and landed on the machine with six swift pumps of his wings.
He extended the alien-metal claws from his human forearms and
bit into the edge of the top hatch with his pincers for
purchase as the machine charged aroun kicking up drifts of
snow. He punched right through the top hatch with his
claws and ripped the door free. He sliced around the
circumference of the inner hatch and it dropped down into the
cabin. Two of the men inside we waiting for him with
laser pistols at the ready. They fired immediately but
the Elom's field sucked up the energy instantaneously.
Daavi pulled back and readied his TW Shard pistol. Laser
fire streaked up out of the top of the Walker and when one of
the streams of shots stopped he made his move. He leaned
forward and fired off a burst with the pistol. The
magically hardened ice lanced through everything. The
Skull Walker skidded to a halt and then lurched violently
forward. A flap of his wings kept Daavi from pitching off
of the machine. He fired another burst emptying the clip.
Shisen could recharge it for him later.
ooo
Gerry flew into battle with light streaming from his vulpine
form and a psi-sword blazing from the top of his dragon's tail.
He pumped his leathery wings almost lazily. A foot
solider levelled his rifle and his hand froze on the trigger.
Gerry latched onto his natural fear and amplified it a
hundred fold. The soldier dropped his gun and putting his
hands to his helmet turned and ran screaming. Gerry
dropped on him like a stone. He slipped the psi-sword up
through a normally inaccessible place and pierced the chest of
the screaming man's to slience him.
Gerry stepped away from the corpse and realized that laser fire
was whittling away at his psychic body field. A few short
lunges and he was face to face with the nearest man.
Gerry told him, "Agonise." and he shrieked as every nerve
ending in his body was lit up making him a living tree of pain.
He would shriek until his lungs collapsed and his heart
burst all over inside on his chest.
The psychic body field collapsed and Gerry turned towards the
shattering bolt. The perpetrator was loading a new clip.
Gerry ripped it from his hand with his telekinesis and
then targetted the grenades on the bandolier strapped across
the soldiers chest. He set them all off at once and the
man exploded into a flurry of shrapnel and blood.
ooo
Granmarljin fly his War Board, the modified Wing Board that he
had made himself. The generator for the weapon systems
keened half in and half out of his hearing range setting his
teeth on edge. The heavy strain he was putting on it
might prove to be too much. Another Spider Skull Walker
exploded into a cloud of debris. He jetted away from it
and the battle to flip over to the secondary generator.
Rejoining the battle he fired the main cannon on one of the
Walkers. The gun sputtered its gobs of liquid fire almost
straight down. "Drek" he muttered as the Walker's railgun
rounds slammed into his craft's underside.
The Board tilted crazily and Gran dugs his claws into the
special holes made just for such a situation. The Board
spiralled towards the ground as he fought to gain control of it.
The ground rushed up to meet him at a dizzying rate so he
pushed off from the Board as the snow cirlced underneath him
and took wing. The Battle Board crashed to the ground and
exploded.
"No I wouldn't hit the Skull Walker and then explode either.
Shocking machine. Must build genny's myself next
time. Now what am I supposed to do. Must I crack
into it like a common monster and scramble the insides of the
crew? I guess so."
ooo
Yorghi and Shisen regrouped and moved towards the rest of the
battle. Their Spider Skull Walkers were out of commision,
fodder for the operators and techno-wizards. One would
make a good decoy or Trojan Walker. "I must say Shisen.
There is a certain speed to your style of dealing with
these things."
"Just be thankful that I did not fall off of either one.
This amulet is dead out of teleports. There is no
way I could have gotten back up and that fourth one that came
would have had you."
"Yeah thanks. ...Granmarljin radioed me. His
'Battle Board' blew up."
"Is Granmarljin all right?"
"Yes, he got off of it before the crash. He doesn't know
if the generators caused the crash or just the explosion when
it hit."
"Next time he will take his own advice then when he points out
a problem with a part from the market."
"Perhaps."
Thosl was on the radio. "I'm done with all of the ground
troops. I will join you within the minute. Please
do not fire upon the blood soaked eagle."
"This is Yorghi confirming your approach Eagle Niner."
Thosl had made short work of the ground troops with a little
help from Kleese who was busy eating his trophies. She
told him to save one to bring along on the trip back to base
camp. He often didn't listen to such personal suggestions.
He liked his meals as close to warm as was possible.
The animal guises she used on the soldiers were quite
successful. There wasn't time to watch out for small
animals for fear they might be turn you to stone. Also by
varying the animal from attack to attack even once it was
radioed she was out there they never new from waht direction
her attack would come. Kleese only added to the human's
confusion.
Daavi wished that these monstrous mechanical spiders were not
so nimble. You had to take out three legs to slow them
in the slightest. Meanwhile their lasers flashed again
and again. His Elom symbiote had nearly reached its limit
to protect him even though he avoided as many blasts as
possible. He coaxed it to lower its defenses and reserve
its strength.
There was a certain boring quality to ripping into the top of
the machines and filling the men and women inside full of holes.
Four or five chops each to all three legs on one side was
similarly unfulfilling. The last one he considered
assigned to him fell to the ground with a thud and a puff of
snow.
Gerry joined Granmarljin to phsyically pound on the final Skull
Walker. He sat on one of its cannons digging through the
eye of the skull to get at the Softies inside. Gran
opened the hatches on the top with his telemechanics and threw
a grenade inside. The small bomb went off in a fury of
light and sound. His purpose in this was to take a couple
of prisoners for questioning. Gerry would enjoy forcing
the answers out of them with pain, and fear, and severing of
small pieces.
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