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We’re mobile, so fight mobile. That order goes to everyone.”
    “Keep clear of the hoth feet and let them clean up the
infantry that gets to them. We break up the chunks ahead and they sweep, got
it? If we go down, stay down and inside your mech. Don’t try to evacuate or you’ll be target practice. Anybody with missiles left unload
them now…all of them, hit the isolated tanks. I’m going for the groups,” she said,
running in a long circle to turn around, then accelerating to breakneck speed
and trampling a few Scionate that got in her way, trying to trip her up.
    Morgan shot several with her maulers enroute, but as she zigzagged heading towards one of the tank groups a white
cleansing beam passed through it and cut two of the five tanks in half, greatly
increasing her odds. She wanted to say thank you but knew there was no time,
firing four shots against one of the intact tanks as a second group not far
away also targeted her.
    Knowing she had to get some cover she dipped her arms
as she ran and popped out the underside sword blades, jumping into the air using
her anti- grav and landing on top of one of the
bisected tanks. She slid off it and skewered one of the intact ones, punching
through its shields and then its armor with the corovon alloy blades. She
wasn’t able to cut sideways, so she pulled them back out, one at a time, and
jabbed them back down in, going for both the cockpit and power core, eventually
hitting which one she wasn’t sure, but the tank suddenly stopped shooting her
with its anti-personnel turrets, signaling to the trailblazer that it was dead.
    A plasma shot hit them both, washing against her shields
and taking them down a chunk as the other Scionate tank group fired on its own
in order to hit her, committed to defeating their enemies no matter what the
cost or sacrifice. She knelt the neo down then jumped again, this one mostly
going sideways and got to another of the closest tanks and began hacking it
apart, knowing that properly used the sword blades would kill faster than her
maulers.
    Doing her best Optimus Prime impression, she finished
off that tank and ran across the burning ground to the third as another hoth
cleansing beam hit the other group, taking one of their tanks out of the
fight…with hundreds more approaching on the cluttered horizon.
    “Not going to make this easy, are you,” she whispered,
running three steps before soccer-style kicking a Scionate that didn’t move
fast enough. It bowled over three others, which she proceeded to try and step
on as she ran past, managing to put foot to only one and bury it into the
ground on impact heading towards another tank, this one smoking from previous
missile damage but still firing its main weapon.
    She took it out with her maulers from range, then
knelt down with its hulk to her back, gaining some cover as she targeted the
nearby infantry behind her with her maulers, resetting them for quicker,
smaller bursts…with the energy expanding rapidly enough to turn the weapon
blasts into mini shotguns at range. Normally that wouldn’t have been effective
against a tank or other heavily armored target, but the infantry was another
matter, with her lining up shots with many targets down the line and hitting
them with ease given the dispersion.
    As she fired she also got a visual look at the rest of
her mechs…which were not in good condition. Some still had shields up, but most
were taking some level of armor damage. In the corner of her eye she saw a
madcat with multiple Scionate hanging on it, then under their combined
firepower the left leg broke off, sending the mech to the ground as it was no
longer able to stand. To the pilot’s credit it moved itself around enough with
its stubby arms and remaining leg to get its weapons pointed towards the enemy
so it could still fire in a straight line whenever an enemy crossed it.
    Her battlemap tagged the mech as down a moment later,
with the infantry around the area all turning and