Chapter 10:
Cityscape Challenge
(cont...)

With Dominic in his line of fire and Epona crowding his right as she turned her lasers against the PPC turrets crowning the wall, there was little Sinclair could do but watch the Annihilator’s four autocannon tear into the Thor. The depleted uranium rounds hammered into an already savaged right side, smashing his large laser and leaving the right arm hanging from the shoulder by a ruined tangle of myomer musculature. Fragmenting rounds sanded armor away, scouring deep into the Thor’s torso. Thick, dark smoke roiled out of the ruined right side chest as the reactor’s physical shielding was breached, the excess heat dumping into the Thor’s vitals to scorch coolant and burn the myomer lubricant.

And Connor Sinclair winced, anticipating the explosion that would render the 70-ton Thor down into scrap metal and ruined equipment.

The explosion threw a cloud of gray dust over all four BattleMechs. Not from the destruction of Dominic’s Thor, however. The huge gates barring the pass fell under a gout of fire which ate into the ferrocrete walls, raining out shards of poured stone and then a blanket of debris which blinded natural vision. The thunderclap explosion almost drowned out Epona’s "First missiles down." The Arrow IV assault-scale missile which Keith Andrew launched had demolished the gate and part of the wall with it.

The heavy particles in the cloud fell to earth quickly, leaving only a light haze to cover the area. By some miracle, Dominic’s Thor was still standing. The right side was cored, showing several holes penetrating front to back when the smoke cleared enough. The reactor shielding had obviously been damaged, but not to the point where the power plant was in danger of immediate explosion. And though his right arm was all but severed, Dominic still retained possession of his most lethal weapon, the same heavy ultra autocannon Connor had put to such good use before.

The rapid-fire weapon spat out a blizzard of hard-hitting slugs, raking intense fire over the Annihilator’s chest and left leg. To add insult to such grievous injury, the Thor’s SRM system hammered in with five of six missiles, scattering more damage over chest and arms and even slamming one into the head near the cockpit.

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