Chapter 8:
Sundered
(cont...)

Epona Rhi beat out her lance commander and Sorenson both. "Hey… HEY! Isn’t that Sunder one of ours?!"

The Sunder’s particle projection cannon arced out an azure whip of man-made lightning, slicing it horizontally across the bulbous torso of the Mad Cat. A gauss slug blurred between the two war machines, punching in right behind the molten scar to smash the supports for one of the star commander’s shoulder-mounted missile launchers. The box-like structure wrenched away from the Omni, protesting with a shriek of stressed metal, and crashed to the ground. Its load of missiles detonated on impact, throwing the mangled weapon back into the air and spinning off to one side. Unbalanced by the impact of the Sunder’s heavy weaponry and the loss of better than nine tons of armor and armament, the heavy-class ’Mech stumbled and fell, landing hard against it right side but immediately working to right itself.

"You readin’ me?" The transmission sounded distant, broken and cloaked by more static than the intercepted Smoke Jaguar comms, but there. "Hello, Damocles Commando! Looks like you could use some help." The damaged comm system notwithstanding, Connor thought he could almost recognize that voice.

Again, Epona had no difficulty. "Allen Mattila! Master of understatement."

A warrior from her original commando, Team Three. Sinclair remembered meeting him once aboard the Black Hammer -- a large, dark-skinned man from New Syrtis, with that confident attitude common to so many assault ’Mech pilots. Deservedly common, he decided now as the trio of Clan Omnis pulled up short on their advance, suddenly defensive. The Sunder’s arrival obviously had them worried, and rightly so. Owning the only assault ’Mech on the field tipped the scales back toward even, and the lieutenant was not about to pass up an advantage when it quite literally walked up and presented itself. Sinclair opened a channel. "Hit them hard, Damocles Commando!

"Here’s our chance."

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