This could have gone better, Sally could have behaved and stayed out of her desire and prevented this whole thing.
“Sorry, Jay.” She sounded so soft but Jay could hear it over the com.
“Stop talking and focus on surviving,”
He couldn’t hope for much, he already got enough from building [Dual dangers]. After that, it was all a bonus but goddam he wanted this bonus.
“The smoke will level the playing ground since another operator can’t see you either.”
“Then we are completely zoarch, I can’t win a head-on fight. not now” The shot she got from her mistake took a tool on the mech. The front armor is completely removed, leaving only one layer of metal between her and the hard outside.
“Just stay alive or get out”
“It’s not that… he’s onto me”
A bullet cut through the black smoke and ricocheted off Sally's back. It fires from a longer distance than its effective range in addition to how [Dual dangers] is plated, making the shot ineffective. But the blue light that follows it could prove to be a problem. Sally weaves herself through another round of smoke to avoid that attack.
Sally has had enough of this, she turns around to find a blue glint hiding in the smoke. She dodges another time. Sally moved left and another shot followed her. Luckily it didn’t hit her again.
He must see me somehow
There was no way a mech could know her location in this smoke. Unless you could detect a slight movement of the smoke or a tiny light of her thruster. She’s willing to bet it’s the latter. She stops all her thruster and brings her mech into a freefall.
She observes the laser light that was about to shoot her but it never fires off. She was right, the mech has some sort of thruster or light detection to track her through the smoke. Now she needs to get out of his detection and leave.
Her free fall brought her mech dangerously close to the lava. Sally panicly activated her thruster before it was too late. The shot immediately came through when she started to fly. Still, the detection system seemed not to be very good when most of them didn’t hit her.
“The mech is struggling to keep up”
“We still haven’t lost, the mech chasing ours is using the thruster light to see, might get a drop on him.”
“Sure, but just escape if it looks bad OK? I’ll continue to monitor the area”
Sally cut the com and focused on evading the Laser. She could roughly guess the position they’re coming from and her solution is to charge at it with inconsistent thruster usage. It fires another shot, she updates its position, cuts the thruster then starts it up again. This cycle repeats for another 5 minutes before she feels like she gets close.
The shot hadn’t fired when she started up her engine, so she shut it again to be safe. The medium mech must have caught on to what she was doing and changed its position. But never the less she still proceeded to the last known position. Hoping to get her revenge on him.
Bam!
Sally is shocked, it’s not the sound of her engine breaking or anything from her mech. but it came from the last known location of the mech chasing her. Sally hurried over to see what happened.
When she arrived, she couldn’t pick out much detail but she knew one thing. The third mech that has come in here must have something to do with it. A little closer inspection led her to where they were fighting. Her curiosity gets the better of her and she checks it out.
A mech is being chased down by another one. more of a medium, but this time the mech chasing her was being chased.
Serve him right
She moves to the mech chasing him to see what’s really going on. The smoke parted when she flew right into the scene. [Copper poster] is being utterly suppressed by the new mech. A quick scan from the cam sent the info to Jay then it bounced back down to her.
[Jammer knight]
Pilot: Willaim Opener
“Zoarch“
“The mercs, he’s a winner candidate.”
The mech is a square box with two arms and two legs. The head is built into the chassis with limited turnaround. It exchange for these for more security and tankiness. It’ a necessity for this mecht since it mech's main weapon is a pulse sword and a pulse shield. A true melee mech that doesn’t rely on mid-range combat but a fast-approaching melee hit.
Sally doesn’t need more confirmation when the quickly [Jamer knight] pulses sword pierces through the [Copper poser] body. The latter combusts and brings its body into a lighting explosion. The [Jammer knight] blocks its point-blank with its pulse shield.
She shot at it with a charge rifle but it block her shot with a pulse shield.Then it looks at her. She knew that the guy crazy enough to pilot a close-range mech in a battle royal was not to be trifled with.
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However, it not going to be easy when you catch its attention. And right Sally is the onlyhting in it’s mind.
Let’s dip!
Sally uses the same strategy and turns her thruster off into the darkness of the smoke. However, the [Jammer knight] immediately follows her as he knows perfectly where she is.
She activates the thruster and evades the sword aiming at her cockpit. Sally kicked the mech away and disappeared into the smoke again. This time her thruster did not turn off, she used it to elevate herself to get out of that position.
Another pulse sword thrust at her from the back, she can’t seem to get him out of her back. Since the smoke wasn’t doing anything for her she decided to exit the pits. Her mech also loses so much energy from keeping up with the heat.
“I’m exiting the smoke, we won’t survive in there”
“The area is clear.”
Jay double-checks the area to make sure that no one is there to ambush her when she steps out. A second later pink metal coerce in black char exited the smoke lava pit with the [Jammer knight] right behind her. Sally is exhausted from all this chasing and chasing. She wants to fight so badly but right now her chance is slim, behind her is a winning candidate. he was sure to lose a head-on fight with him.
To put into perspective Risa is one of the winning candidates and Sally lose 9 times out of 10 when fighting her. She didn’t expect Willaim to be any less skilled and she could say that with certainty because of how easily he suppressed her chaser.
“Hello, everyone!” Raran announces over the broadcast “We have reached a halfway point of the competition with 1000 people remaining! And things are getting stale with people hiding, so we ought to spice things up! In the next 4 hours, the planet will be infested with Lamites eating away your mech! better hurry up to the only safe palace, the crater zone! additionally, we have also dropped Nanofix and some juggernaut class Mechup for more spice! Good luck everyone.”
On one hand, Raran's massage is a godsend, on the other hand, things are about to get messy. The good part is a Nanofix that will drop out of the sky. Sally could see one near her already, the bad part is a juggernaut class Mechup. A mechup is a module extension that most mech with a regular hand could use, this could be something from an extra hand to a planetary annihilation cannon.
A juggernaut class mechup usually comes in the form of a vehicle, transforming a mech into a tank or a plane. Discarding the flexibility and going all in on raw damage and mobility. This made the mech harder to pilot but the raw power it gave covered that fact.
“Sally, a nano fix is right there”
Jay pinged it on the mech camera so Sally could see the outline. She Changed direction and dash for the Nanofix. The nanofix as the name implies fixes the mech up into its original form. It would read the mech data and go to fix the mech according to the Data. Despite it not being a 100% fix, it is still a popular item on the battlefield. Who wouldn’t want a heal when fighting? That makes the Nanofix very expensive, especially high-grade ones that could fix niche material requirements. Luckily an AP-tier mech only needs one Nanofix to patch up all the damage and refill the battery.
William knows exactly what Sally is aiming for and wouldn’t let her do that. He ramps up his thruster to almost overheat closing a big gap between them. Sally doesn’t have enough fuel for a big burst, it has been too long in the Lava zone and she wouldn’t have enough fuel to reach the Nanafix.
10 minutes, she only needed that much time to reach the nano fix but that time felt like an hour when she was being chased by another mech. They flew past many Lavarock with every passing one getting her closer to the Nanofix but so does the [Jammer knight] that is closer to her.
She has to admit that the [Jammer knight] pilot has such balls that he could pilot his mech that teter on overheating its thruster in the hot Lavaland and not going on overheat. She couldn’t do that.
“5 minutes till you reach the target.”
Jay said, secretly cheering on Sally to make it there. The only reason Sally is still alive when the [Jammer knight] is so close is because it doesn’t have any medium or long-range weapon at all. A purely melee mech that pushes to its limit by its pilot. Even a melee mech that Jay built like [weird arm] has a pistol for medium-range weaponry.
A pilot needs serious skill and specialization to pilot a pure melee build effectively and look like he’s one of them.
“1 minute till you reach the target”
Sally's fuel is running dangerously low, The chase after chase is grinding her mech down. The sizzling of lava by the side starts to sound the same as her mech. And Willaim is right behind her like a wolf that would never let go of the rabbits.
She is exhausted from this chase and what to end it right here. Plus Willaim would never let her recover when she picked up that nanofix, she needed to do something. Her charge Yarman rifle glows blue, the barrel opening up into a 4-way barrel, she turnaround pointing her gun at Willaim's mech, and she quickly learns that it was a mistake.
“Sally!”
She never realized that [Jammer knight] was right behind her a lot closer than she thought it was. She miscalculated the risk and the price is a pulse blade jamming right into the pilot's seat.
The pulse blade is made out of vibration energy, designed to cut through and mitigate most physical material, it easily cuts into [Dual dangers] like butter.
“AHHHGHGHGHG”
Sally screamed in agony, inside the pilot seat, a pulse blade narrowly missed her body. but it saw off her arm with its green hue. Up close, a horrifying green light colors her face. while her body squirms around. Even though the pain has been reduced by 50% in the simulation, getting her entire arm cut by a big piece of vibrating energy couldn’t be less painful than being stabbed in real life.
The constant vibration always reminds her of how massive this blunder is.
“Sally are you alright!?”
Jay could help but ask, he could see her cock pit cam but he still need confirmation. Pain in the simulation is no joke, that’s why they had to sign an agreement.
“Warning user has been hit with a pulse energy, due to regulation 59C. We advise you to pull out….”
“Fuck that!”
She is not giving up, not here, not now!
She bit her lips until the small pain could distract her from the bigger pain. Blood seeped out of her lower lips but she couldn’t care less. Her right arm could still move and she didn’t want to waste this opportunity. Her chainsaw ramps up and she shoves it in [Jammer Knight] chassis.
The piece of running metal jammed through the jammer knight pilot seat before Willaim could realize what happened.
“Crazy slicking guy,” Wallim said smiling, and shock all meld into one.
BANG!
William now also has a blade stuck inside his pilot seat but before it can run wild, he activates the pulse shield in his left arm and cuts off the chainsaw. Now his mech has been decorated with a chainsaw blade running through his pilot seat.
Sally kicks the mech off to distance herself, sending her closer to the nanofix and the mech away from Jamming her a second time.