Operation "Dust Bowl"  part 7

Part VII
Sector C, somewhere close Nav Iota, 30 minutes before,
He awoke on a stretcher with terrible headache next to his reserve mech,
another madcat d. In the background, BuffoutBoy heard a frenetic mixture
of voices over a stationary radio. Some sounded deathcool, some excited,
some panicking. All this was interrupted from time to time by yelling
deathscreams  - "NOOOO" "TAKE CARE O......" "I WILL.GE.." SEE YOU ON THE
OTHER SIDEEEEE" "TELL MY WIFE I...."
"That must be the tank crews, BuffoutBoy guessed slowly. He realized
that one of those, now dying, crews, had freed him out of the cockpit
and brought him back to the base through enemy fire. Next to him stood a
medtech who injected him something. "What is this?" he asked dizzy. He
heard the deathserious voice of the major behind him "We are pumping you
full with a cocktail of adrenaline and painkillers. Chk has been badly
hit by our assault but they have figured out our positon. The dust will
settle in half an hour and then we will be prey to their fighters. We
must destroy them here and now, or they have a bridgehead on the planet.
Otherwise, all is lost and our tank pilots die for nothing".
Five minutes later, BuffoutBoy felt so active and ready as he hasnt been
for long long time.
Major Mainman, BuffoutBoy and the few Dev pilots who made it back to the
cave base in time, hurried in their mech to the battle field to help the
few suriving tank crews on their retreat. They came across the outburned
wrecks of many tanks showing the terrible death of flames of many good
Dev warriors. Each tank was the grave of five Dev who sacrificed
themselves for their brothers. Not only fellow warriors, but friends
died here. ....Many friends.
No words was spoken, all pilots felt the same shock. But then cold rage
took over the entire thinking of the Dev. ", I will make the clanners
pay for this and if its the last thing I do", BuffoutBoy thought.
Then he heard the evil voice of the anonymous clanner again. "Hey,
stravags. I had fun to stamp on these little freebirthes who call
themselves warriors. HA! Is that all the Innner Sphere has to offer?"
And BuffoutBoy replied in a deathcold voice "I want you and your wing in
the Circle of Equals"
"Who are you to ask me? Proof that you are a warrior worth to be granted
the right of a batchall. Unless you are equal, you cant ask for
batchall".
Major Mainman answered "We are Dev_Mainman and DEV_BuffoutBoy. We
conquered this planet against all odds. You dare to stand on the soil on
what is rightfully ours. You are the one who has to declare himself,
young chick".
"Ahh, I have heard of you..... I grant you the right of batchall and
accept your bid. Me, Chk_Tekken3King and Chk_Abyss will await you in the
river valley. The price will be the base in the caves."
 "Good bid and accepted" BuffoutBoy replied while he ignored the excited
voices on the Dev frequence ("Dont do that Major"; No Captain, we will
beat them together" etc).
Mainman and BuffoutBoy ran full speed and saw the two undamaged madcat d
waiting for them. Immediately, Mainman in his thor narced both and let a
fury of 40 lrm rain on Chk_Abyss and downed his mech. What a shot!
BuffoutBoy stormed towards the downed mech like a berserk ignoring all
incoming fire from Chk_Tekken3King. He saw only one picture in his mind:
the cruel death of the tank pilots in the flames. As Abyss mech tried to
come up, he alpha striked him, melting down the full front armor of the
mech without stopping his movement. He released the coolant, keepting
running and pushed with the whole speed of 81 km/h his right arm into
the internals of Chk_Abyss mech and fired the ppc. The internals
immediatly melted together, transfomating the mech into a huge piece of
useless metal.
In the meantime Mainman took one hit after another from Chk_Tekken3King,
unable to defend on close distance with a weapon stronger than his srm.
BuffoutBoy turned around and penetrated the weak back armor of the
madcat with another alpha strike, compensating the heat by a last flush
of his coolant. Chk_Tekken3King countered by releasing his own coolant
and a torso twist, ending in an alpha strike and another coolant usage.
No coolant left, BuffoutBoy's madcat immediately shut down by Tekken's
ppc fire. In the meantime, Mainman jumped with a burst of his jump jets
on a 10 m high, quadratic  stone 10 m behind Chk_Tekken3King. The Major
knew that lrm cannot explode at this range but he had something
different in mind.Chk_Tekken3King turned around and aimed with his ppc
at the easy target of the shutdown madcat. BuffoutBoy already saw the
light of the building up ppc flash, facing the death with a stupid
expression on his face....
But Mainman sent a flood of lrm in the open back of Chk_Tekken3King's
Madcat....and the mech sacked together just by the kinetic energy of 40
lrm. When BuffoutBoy's mech got reactivated, he moved forward and
brought the huge foot of his mech on the back of the Guard mech,
preventing him from getting up.
The Dream Team had won once again.



..............to be continued

                                                                                                ~author Buffoutboy

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