Star Force: Evacuation (SF50) by Aer-ki Jyr Page A

damage with her lachars…then
readjusted her aim to a giraffe with a hole blown in its side that was still
firing off plasma blasts at her team and pretty much being ignored in favor of
larger targets. Taking manual control she lined up the shot then peppered the
walker with lachar blasts rather than the continuous version she also had the
opportunity to use. This way she could keep firing in a chain gun-like manner
continuously rather than having to take a recharge break.
    A lot of her shots missed, but she kept it up from
range and even though her aim running was shaky she delivered enough hits to
the damaged section to see the walker collapse on its own legs and power down,
no longer throwing plasma at her friends.
    Just then a huge explosion ripped apart the Type-1,
with Kali not knowing where it came from. She hadn’t seen anything hit it, then
as it twisted and fell over she saw a big chrome suit of armor riding it
down…no, not one, but three of the things larger than her madcat with their
arms dug into the side as it crashed.
    But with all Type-1s that wasn’t the end of it, for it
simply jettisoned the damaged segment and kept on fighting, with the three Voku
mech/suits running away quickly as they got pummeled with plasma. Two of them
made it, but the third went down hard, its shields no longer protecting it and
the Skarrons exacting their revenge for the lost segment until a giant physical
shield dropped over top and blocked the incoming fire as one of the voltrons
moved forward to cover it.
    The other two kept running backwards until they were
out of the main firing lines, then Kali did a double take as the two came
together in what looked like a giant robot hug and melted into one another,
forming a stationary stature that the Archon couldn’t look at any longer as she
was now within mauler range of a group of spiders and giraffes that were just
now beginning to target her.
    She slowed to a walk and opened up with her mauler and
rail gun, taking a spider out within 20 seconds before turning slightly right
to attack another, with all those involved constantly on the move and
repositioning, though her mech was by far the most agile…up until a pair of
starscreams flew in and landed nearby, transforming into mech mode and giving
her some backup with their own smaller mauler cannons.
    A proximity alarm alerted her to a contact coming up
behind her, and she looked just in time to see another of the Voku mech/suits
run past and dive head first into three spiders. It landed on one, grabbing it
and rolling through a somersault with it locked in a death grip, then flipping
it through the air coming out of the roll before jutting to the side and
kicking another to the ground.
    Kali landed a mauler blast on that one before the Voku
reached its arms forward and pummeled the walker with energy blasts while
ignoring the plasma raining down on its back from the third spider and others
further away. She adjusted her aim to the other spider, then held up as the starscreams crossed her firing line. With a moment to glance at
what else was happening she saw the melting ‘statue’ finally take shape and
walk off, now half again as tall as it had been with a similar biped form.
    It ran up alongside the second voltron, now almost as
tall as it, and the pair ran forward together, with the second voltron joining
them in a shield wedge, with the Voku in the center and mostly protected from
the white plasma storm coming down on them, though the giant physical shields
were starting to show a few holes.
    That was all Kali could see, for she had to turn her
attention to the second super dragon as it adjusted its sights away from the
voltrons and towards her little section of battle. She was still outside of
mauler range, barely, so she ran forward and began firing it and her rail gun
off as quickly as she could, with the metallic bullets not needing to be well
aimed to hit the giant machine.
    It fired off one large plasma stream,