Star Force: Proving Ground (SF66) Read Online Free PDF Page A

was
now coming through the mechanically created gap.
    She waited amongst the buildings as the tanks rolled
in and crossed the plain that separated wall from city, letting them get just
onto the streets before she jumped out from the side and stuck herself to the
first tank where it couldn’t shoot her, nor could the ones behind it. She
summoned up a large energy orb and used it to melt through the armor with a
single hit, then sent a second one inside that detonated and shredded both the
crew and interior components while leaving the outer shell visibly intact.
    The hovering tank dropped to the ground, blocking a
third of the street, and Kara jumped to the next few repeating the process and
creating a blockade of junk as a mix of phaser bursts and large plasma orbs
rained down on her and the dead tanks simultaneously. She weathered a few
glancing hits to kill one more, then flew off down the street and turned a
corner, getting out of their firing lines.
    A huge pink beam passed over the city with a telltale
buzz, but from the angle she knew it had come from another colony. When it
abated she heard other faint buzzes, immediately flying up to building top
level and taking a look despite the trio of wisps that noticed her and fired
bad shots in her direction.
    Another huge beam passed over the city and she could
see many others crossing the landscape from other neighboring colonies and
converging on a point back inside what was now Star Force territory…where she
saw a distant, but huge mass coming across the ground. Kara did a double take
as her battlemap tagged it as the Ironstrike , one of the command ships in the orbiting fleet.
It had come down to ground level but was so massive that it couldn’t get below
the closest of the neighboring colonies’ firing lines and was taking heavy fire
head on.
    Kara finally paid attention to the wisps and flew up
to meet them, killing two before heading back down into the city and avoiding
the pursuit that inevitably followed from 50 more nearby. She cycled around
through a few blocks then came up on a more concealed perch so she could see
with her own eyes what was happening.
    The giant grey donut got larger and larger on the
horizon, but was still so far away that she could easily see around either
side. With her armor enhancing her sight she was able to zoom in and confirm
that its shields were still up, but those planetary defense beams had to have
been hitting it hard. Like a giant tsunami coming towards them the Ironstrike grew
larger and larger, eventually becoming its own mountain range before it even
got close to the boundary wall.
    But it didn’t have to get too close before its cleansing
beam leapt out and backtracked one of the pink beams to a neighboring colony,
returning the attack on the distant defense tower even as the mass of weaponry
coating its hull began firing at the wisp swarm whether they were designed for
it or not. Kara saw several bloons launched into the mass, followed by
Ta’lin’yi and maulers in addition to an insane number of anti-air batteries
mainly designed to shoot down missiles, but that proved to work equally well
against fighters.
    As awe inspiring as that was, it didn’t dawn on Kara
what they were doing until the ship reached the edge of the swarm near the wall
gash and a warning was sent out over the battlemap to get indoors and under any
available cover immediately.
    She held her position, eagerly awaiting what was
coming. As the swarm looked to hold its ground and continue firing on the Star
Force troops at the gash until the last moment, an IDF field expanded out from
the command ship and caught them all in its grasp. Suddenly the gravity of the
planet disappeared from their point of view and with it the ability for them to
maneuver with their anti- grav …leaving them floating
in midair on whatever trajectory they previously had.
    With them incapacitated most of the fire coming down
to the surface ended as they were no longer to aim