Chapter 10:
Cityscape Challenge
(cont...)

"Things are heating up back here," he transmitted. The literal truth, actually, as his fusion reactor spiked from the power demands of his weapons and the waste heat bled into his cockpit. He gasped for breath in the suddenly heavy atmosphere. "Tell me you’re to the gates."

Allen Mattila answered him. "We’re workin’ on it."

Working on it? A probing attack by the Annihilator walked autocannon fire across the canyon wall on Sinclair’s right. Stone chips and ricochets pinged off his Omni’s chest. He throttled into a backward walk, moving his Mad Cat further into the canyon’s protection. "Work a little faster, will you?"

"We’re trying," Sorenson cut in. "The wall has PPC turrets arranged for a savage crossfire, and they’re backing up an Annihilator."

Another Annihilator, this one playing Horatio at the bridge. Time was slipping out from beneath the Damocles Commando like quicksand. "Allen, can you handle it with Dominic?"

The frustration was evident in the MechWarrior’s voice. "If it has to be now, yes. But it will hurt. The Annihilator ripped a large hole into the leg of my Sunder that Sorenson wants to patch up before it costs me an actuator."

"We’ve pulled back and the Annihilator isn’t pursuing," the corporal added.

Of course not. Its job was to hold the pass until the city defenders could rally to the canyon. Connor selected for his large lasers only, chanced a long-range shot at the Puma which had run out to fire its PPCs. Both beams flew wide of their mark and low, scoring instead a parked groundcoach that exploded into an orange fireball. If nothing else, it hurried the Puma’s pilot, his own shots also missing though coming closer than Sinclair had. The manmade lightning scarred the ground 10 meters in front of the Mad Cat.

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