Chapter 9:
Deadly Embrace
(cont...)

At the second intersection, Connor’s HUD painted a Puma off to his right. It was quickly lost as he passed by and was again shielded by buildings, but the 300 meter range was too close. At the next intersection he turned left, and the following one back to the right. Two more intersections straight through, and the Mad Cat’s computer identified a building at the end of this block as his target. The Puma might have paced them to the north, but it wasn’t about to catch the two MechWarriors before they hammered Corbett’s command facility to rubble. Connor nodded his satisfaction.

It was a sense of contentment that quickly fled as an Annihilator stepped into the next intersection, its torso already twisted about to give it a line of sight down the street on which Sinclair approached. Behind it, just out of the intersection, his computers tagged an Avatar waiting to follow in the larger ’Mech’s shadow. It would have to wait its turn.

Four autocannons suddenly filled the street with fragmenting, mid-caliber rounds. The deadly storm sanded armor away from the Mad Cat’s every surface. Several rounds rang off the cockpit, throwing a violent shake to the entire ’Mech and threatening to unbalance it. Past the intersection and too late to dodge away himself, Connor quickly thought to his lancemate’s survival. "Break right, Epona!" Still fighting for control, Connor noted with an instant’s relief the Shadow Cat’s icon splitting away from his own on the HUD. It headed north, toward the rendezvous with Allen and Dominic, out of immediate danger.

The Mad Cat ran forward, directly into the Annihilator’s embrace.

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