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She’d be damned if she
left an Archon hanging, and was going to risk some hull damage to give him some
help…then she’d bug out.
With a plasma hit to her tail that flashed a 7%
warning for that section of shield Krissy got mad and flicked her skeet up
through as tight of a backwards loop as she could, with the wisp following her
through it given the craft’s nimble nature. What it couldn’t cover was the
hover twist she put her skeet through, spinning it around and flying backwards
long enough to fire two small mauler blasts, one of which hit the wisp and blew
apart half its hull.
That enemy fighter dropped to the forest as Krissy
accelerated forward and nulled out her backwards momentum, redirecting in a way
that caused the other wisps to loop around to pursue her…and that gave her a
moment’s reprieve from their hounding fire.
A slight turn to the right brought her into line with
the waypoint marker indicating where the Archon wanted the incoming air
support. She asked for a confirmation with a simple button press rather than
the tedious nature of comming that particular Archon.
In the seconds that had elapsed something on the ground might have changed, but
she got the confirmation almost immediately and set herself, for it was a
single point in the forest and a flyby wasn’t going to be good enough. If the
Archon wanted it pounded, then she was going to level it.
Krissy flew across the treetops, now seeing flashes of
light from down inside the forest but unable to make out who was who for more
than a fleeting moment here and there. Trusting in the waypoint she hit the
brakes hard and flipped up on her nose as she gained a little bit of altitude,
pointing the long tail of the T-shaped craft towards the sky as she came into a
hover over the location and fired every weapon that she had down into the
forest.
Both mauler cannons obliterated the trees below when
they hit, throwing out wooden shrapnel like bombs as her scattergun shredded
the leaves and branches. Her long range sammie she
fired off as well, hoping for a little more damage. Each weapon had its own
cycle time, so she just held in the triggers for all of them and cringed
against the plasma damage she was taking from the wisps, for as long as she
held still those dumbass pilots didn’t have any trouble hitting her.
Her shield indicator flashed red, then several spots
on her hull armor lit up with damage warnings. Biting her lip again she waved
her firing line back and forth a bit, then stopped firing and punched the
acceleration of her gravity drive as fast as she dared, shooting her fighter
straight up tail-first. As she gained altitude she spun it around her center
axis so she faced forward, just in time to see a flash of hull as she clipped
one of the wisps.
A huge gash formed in the schematic representing her
fighter that ran nearly half the length of her port side, having punched
through the armor and hit numerous internal systems…but all three engines were
still there and had partial power, though her sammy and scattergun were completely dead.
That didn’t matter now, for she was just clawing for
distance skyward as several wisps followed her up and more at altitude angled
down towards her. Getting her skeet reset from the deviation that the collision
had caused, Krissy continued to accelerate, but without her shields super
pursuit mode wasn’t possible anyway, let alone with the power drain for at
least one of her six redundant generators had to have been disabled in the
collision.
All showed operational on her display, which meant
that a connecting line must have been severed. Either way that generator or two
was out of order and she didn’t have time to do a diagnostic to see what was
out. All she had time to do was climb and glance at the displays before angling
30 degrees to the east and continuing to accelerate slowly, trying to put some
distance between her and the thickest regions of wisps.
Some continued to follow her, at a
left an Archon hanging, and was going to risk some hull damage to give him some
help…then she’d bug out.
With a plasma hit to her tail that flashed a 7%
warning for that section of shield Krissy got mad and flicked her skeet up
through as tight of a backwards loop as she could, with the wisp following her
through it given the craft’s nimble nature. What it couldn’t cover was the
hover twist she put her skeet through, spinning it around and flying backwards
long enough to fire two small mauler blasts, one of which hit the wisp and blew
apart half its hull.
That enemy fighter dropped to the forest as Krissy
accelerated forward and nulled out her backwards momentum, redirecting in a way
that caused the other wisps to loop around to pursue her…and that gave her a
moment’s reprieve from their hounding fire.
A slight turn to the right brought her into line with
the waypoint marker indicating where the Archon wanted the incoming air
support. She asked for a confirmation with a simple button press rather than
the tedious nature of comming that particular Archon.
In the seconds that had elapsed something on the ground might have changed, but
she got the confirmation almost immediately and set herself, for it was a
single point in the forest and a flyby wasn’t going to be good enough. If the
Archon wanted it pounded, then she was going to level it.
Krissy flew across the treetops, now seeing flashes of
light from down inside the forest but unable to make out who was who for more
than a fleeting moment here and there. Trusting in the waypoint she hit the
brakes hard and flipped up on her nose as she gained a little bit of altitude,
pointing the long tail of the T-shaped craft towards the sky as she came into a
hover over the location and fired every weapon that she had down into the
forest.
Both mauler cannons obliterated the trees below when
they hit, throwing out wooden shrapnel like bombs as her scattergun shredded
the leaves and branches. Her long range sammie she
fired off as well, hoping for a little more damage. Each weapon had its own
cycle time, so she just held in the triggers for all of them and cringed
against the plasma damage she was taking from the wisps, for as long as she
held still those dumbass pilots didn’t have any trouble hitting her.
Her shield indicator flashed red, then several spots
on her hull armor lit up with damage warnings. Biting her lip again she waved
her firing line back and forth a bit, then stopped firing and punched the
acceleration of her gravity drive as fast as she dared, shooting her fighter
straight up tail-first. As she gained altitude she spun it around her center
axis so she faced forward, just in time to see a flash of hull as she clipped
one of the wisps.
A huge gash formed in the schematic representing her
fighter that ran nearly half the length of her port side, having punched
through the armor and hit numerous internal systems…but all three engines were
still there and had partial power, though her sammy and scattergun were completely dead.
That didn’t matter now, for she was just clawing for
distance skyward as several wisps followed her up and more at altitude angled
down towards her. Getting her skeet reset from the deviation that the collision
had caused, Krissy continued to accelerate, but without her shields super
pursuit mode wasn’t possible anyway, let alone with the power drain for at
least one of her six redundant generators had to have been disabled in the
collision.
All showed operational on her display, which meant
that a connecting line must have been severed. Either way that generator or two
was out of order and she didn’t have time to do a diagnostic to see what was
out. All she had time to do was climb and glance at the displays before angling
30 degrees to the east and continuing to accelerate slowly, trying to put some
distance between her and the thickest regions of wisps.
Some continued to follow her, at a
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