Chapter 8:
Sundered
(cont...)

A hope mercilessly shot down as his computer picked up new Smoke Jaguar comms traffic. "You will issue a challenge, quiaff Star Commander?"

"Neg, Stefen. No quarter offered. Full attack."

"Give ground! Give ground!" Connor ordered, knowing his people could not stand up to the kind of barrage the new unit could deliver. The armor protecting Epona’s Shadow Cat was now more memory than reality, and his own looked none too good as well. Thick gray smoke roiled out of a rent in the chest of Dominic’s Puma, its skyrocketing heat levels having caused one of his heat sinks to rupture. That the commando’s MechWarriors gave as good as they received didn’t help. Overwhelming force was simply that.

"No mercy!" the star commander ordered her people, stepping her Mad Cat to the fore and probing at the Thor with her lasers. Her flanking ’Mechs each picked one of the other commando warriors, the Vulture joining the Shadow Cat against Dominic’s Puma, striking out with full salvos. From behind the fortifications it had retreated behind earlier, the first Mad Cat stepped out to pin the Epona in a blistering crossfire.

Epona’s Shadow Cat weathered a flight of 12 missiles that pockmarked the remnants of her left side armor before a Thor’s gauss slug smashed into her torso. A laser flayed the last of the armor away from right leg. "Engine’s hot," she transmitted, warning that she’d lost shielding. "Lost the scout probe as well."

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