Post by Omegarex24 on Sept 15, 2009 11:07:04 GMT -5
"I don't have time for this," Ben shouted as he dodged another flyby from the the trailing Tormentor demon. The skeletal bird had popped out of nowhere while Riptide was en-route to base, and had been dogging him for miles. And in the machine's battered state, fighting this thing seemed out of the question.
"Riptide, this is HQ. We've deteccted a bogey trailing your six. Is everything ok up there?"
"Oh, just peachy. My mech's all banged up and this SOB keeps tailing me. If you've got birds in the air anywhere, now would be a good time to send them my way and keep this thing busy for a moment."
"Affirmative. We're diverting two XFU-24s to your location now. Standby."
"Roger that. Just buy me enough time to turn around. These things have to be decapitated, but I'm in a bad position."
Riptide continued to dodge the assaults from the Tormentor, occasionally absorbing blasts of flame on less damaged sections of armor. Suddenly, two new blips appeared on the radar. The XFU-24s rocketed past, going in the opposite direction, before looping back themselves and locking on to the Tormentor from behind.
"This is Lightning 1, I've got tone. Fox 2!"
The Mobius planes launched their missiles at the Tormentor, and the ensuing explosions engulfed the demon, sending it plummeting to the ground, a trail of smoke dragging behind it.
"He's all yours Riptide."
"Roger. Thanks for the assist."
Ben took the opportunity to turn Riptide around and made one quick pass at the recovering Tormentor, slicing its head clean off with one swipe from the Plasma Cutter, before resuming course, leaving the corpse behind to dissipate into nothingness.
"HQ, this is Riptide. Bogey has been terminated. Now resuming course for base."
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+35 MP
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"Riptide, this is HQ. We've deteccted a bogey trailing your six. Is everything ok up there?"
"Oh, just peachy. My mech's all banged up and this SOB keeps tailing me. If you've got birds in the air anywhere, now would be a good time to send them my way and keep this thing busy for a moment."
"Affirmative. We're diverting two XFU-24s to your location now. Standby."
"Roger that. Just buy me enough time to turn around. These things have to be decapitated, but I'm in a bad position."
Riptide continued to dodge the assaults from the Tormentor, occasionally absorbing blasts of flame on less damaged sections of armor. Suddenly, two new blips appeared on the radar. The XFU-24s rocketed past, going in the opposite direction, before looping back themselves and locking on to the Tormentor from behind.
"This is Lightning 1, I've got tone. Fox 2!"
The Mobius planes launched their missiles at the Tormentor, and the ensuing explosions engulfed the demon, sending it plummeting to the ground, a trail of smoke dragging behind it.
"He's all yours Riptide."
"Roger. Thanks for the assist."
Ben took the opportunity to turn Riptide around and made one quick pass at the recovering Tormentor, slicing its head clean off with one swipe from the Plasma Cutter, before resuming course, leaving the corpse behind to dissipate into nothingness.
"HQ, this is Riptide. Bogey has been terminated. Now resuming course for base."
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+35 MP
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