DEV's Revenge


Clan/Is Boarder
Near New CapeTown
In Forest Just Beyond The LZ Crater
June 22nd 3060

Thrusting his leg down firm on the left pedal wolf
pivoted his Strider to the left just in time to avoid
a barrage of er small lasers.  "What the..!?!" Cwolf
yelled out of surprise.  "How many damn Toads are
there?" he yelled again.  "Unsure" Eld replied "My
scanners are going nuts with the storm over us.  It
reads that there are over thirty of 'em but that can't
be right".  Thoughts rushed through his mind, "What if
there are that many? I don't like this one bit" wolf
said with a taint of fear in his voice.  Wolf was
never known to be a coward or even to be afraid but at
this point Eld could pick out that taint in his voice.
Eld himself was getting a very bad feeling about this
fight.  Looking onto the rocky plains Wolf spotted one
of the tiny armoured devils that had been attacking
him relentlessly.  Bringing his er small lasers to
bear he unleashed the superheated heated.  Being
equipped with 11 er small lasers Cwolf had more than
enough firepower to take an elemental out in one
direct hit.  However luck wasn't on his side. The
lasers warped through the air and into the rocks next
to the 'toad'.  "I can't even hit them!" wolf shouted
in great frustration.  Eld, on the other hand, was
having better luck.  He had already ripped 2 'toads'
to pieces with his attacks and had also crushed one
under his Scat's large feet. Firing another barrage of
lasers he ordered with a breathless voice  "Just keep
at it, it's no time to quit wolf". As the heat levels
increased for him the sweat started to collect on
Wolf's face. For a moment he raised his hand up and
wiped his face but the sweat reappeared again within
minutes.  "Ahhh, Die!" he yelled as he put his mech
into a wild ziz-zap run towards the collection of
elementals. Looking at his scanners he read the
distance between him and the 'toads'.  300m... a
violent explosion on the right side of his already
damaged and blackened mech indicated his arm had been
lost.  "Wolf... Come back!" ordered Eld but wolf was
concentrating too much to reply, 200m... melting away
at some of his precious left torso armour the 'toads'
fired more lasers starting to take away the armoured
plates, 150m... a fire trail was seen streaking in the
dark sky as SRM's were used against him yet he kept
his collision course 100m... the 'toads firing
becoming more iratic, he aimed at them, 50m...
Acquiring his aim he slowly gave a cryptic smile to
himself.  Slowly, he started to press his finger down
on the firing control.  His lasers swiftly went into
the collection of 'toads' killing four instantly and
removing an arm off another, 10m... "Too late to stop
damn it!" he realised. Suddenly a huge explosion set
off under wolf's Strider.  Trying with desperation to
keep upright he compensated for the explosion of the
land mine but to no avail.  His Strider staggered
forward for a few more steps rapidly losing speed,
hitting a fallen tree with it's large legs it then
crumpled down upon the elementals killing five more. 
      Eld couldn't believe it.  "What is wolf doing?" he
wondered in amazement.  Taking another hit to his
battle scared cockpit he realised he wouldn't able to
stay much longer if the elementals continued to target
him there.  "Wolf... Come back!" he ordered but
still.... No reply.  Then there was a thud like sound
on Eld's back.  Feeling like his soul had just drained
from him like heat is drained by heat sinks Eld knew
he was now in grave danger.  The 'thud' had been, in
fact, an elemental attaching himself to the Scat's
rear and, at this moment was cutting away at its
shocking weak rear armour.  "Wolf let's get the hell
outta here.  We can't do any more, I'll meet you back
at the LZ!" and with that message Eld went into full
reverse.  Knowing that death by elemental was
extremely undesirable... death at all was extremely
undesirable.  Ramming his mech into a tree the 'stow
away' started to be crushed.  First it moved violently
trying to escape it's bloody fate then a sudden burst
of scarlet filled it's visor from the inside as it was
crushed, then it's arms went limp and it stopped
moving.  "That'll teach ya" he thought to himself.  He
couldn't stay longer even if he wanted to with his
critical damage to legs and torso if he received a
direct hit that would be the end for him.  Then
turning a full 180 degrees he went into his max speed
and sprinted his mech back towards the LZ.  If someone
had been watching Eld leave the battle they would have
noticed the rear armour on his 'mech gone, and also
his communication systems destroyed... leaving Wolf
unknowing of Eld's departure.   
      After Wolf's momentary blackout he noticed himself
lying flat on his back looking up at the dark blue sky
from within his mech.  Somehow his Strider had fallen
on it's back and the mech was gently sloping up at an
angle.  There were a sudden cracking sound as he saw
two huge elementals trying to enter the sealed but all
ready damaged cockpit.  "They just don't give up do
they" he thought as he started to accept his fate.
Looking at the metal claws on the arms of the
elementals he tried to imagine himself getting cut
apart... it didn't appeal to him.  "I'm no quitter,
and I don't get beaten by you 'toads' or any clanner
by that matter!" he shouted, more to himself than to
the elementals.  Reaching for his belt he wrapped his
hand around his small laser pistol.  This model was a
custom made pistol which had a few settings, two of
which were 'Kill' and 'Laser Drain'.  The 'Kill' mode
could be used five times but the 'Laser Drain' could
only be used once due to the fact it drained all the
energy in one shot.  This was the only mode that was
unproven to him and that could possible kill an
elemental... but not two.  Just as he raised the
pistol the weakened cockpit armour decided to give up
protecting him and shattered, with one arm covering
his face he used the other to fire at one of the
elementals.  The entire cockpit filled with a bright,
almost blinding emerald light.  When the light subdued
one of the elementals was dead, the shot had entered
through it's visor and straight into his skull but
that still left the other elemental.  A mad rush of
pain ran through him... the elemental had dug it's
claw in Wolf's arm.  "Bastard!" he screamed as he
slammed his fist on the ejection controls.  With a
deafening roar and tremendous heat Wolf, still seated
in the command chair of his Strider, rose into the
sky.  The elemental didn't follow him however and was
hit by the ejection seat's thrusters burning him
alive.  Wolf didn't manage to see the demise of the
elemental as he continued to rise into the cold
morning sky.  He sluggishly thought to himself as the
cold air hit him "Anywhere has to be better than
death"... then he blacked out from exhaustion. 



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

                                                                                                ~author Cwolf