Lunar Assault Mechanized Warfare on a Galactic Scale by CH Gideon & Caleb Wachter & Craig Martelle

Author:CH Gideon & Caleb Wachter & Craig Martelle [Gideon, CH & Wachter, Caleb & Martelle, Craig]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: LMBPN Publishing
Published: 2019-01-26T22:00:00+00:00

14

The Uplink Underground

Blink Dog’s chain guns whirred, sending eighty-five rounds per second down-range into the hardened turrets, the final obstacle between the Nutcrackers and their objective: a direct uplink node.

Sergeant Major Trapper, obeying what seemed like a genetic predisposition, stood tall in the midst of the firestorm and sniped round after round at the turrets. Four of the armored coil guns had greeted them twenty seconds earlier, but only two remained after Blinky had expertly neutralized one with chain gun fire.

The second had been scrubbed by Trapper’s heavy weapons teams, one of which fell to counterfire before they could send another grenade into the third turret.

Snarling like a savage war god, Trapper dropped his rifle and stooped to collect the loaded tube from his fallen comrade’s lifeless grip. Kneeling and shouldering the weapon in one fluid motion, he fired an RPG into the concrete bunker that protected the coil gun that had killed his people.

The grenade struck just below the narrow portal, blowing a thirty-centimeter-wide chunk of concrete loose and exposing the coil gun.

That increased exposure proved vital as Blink Dog’s chain guns dug into the coil gun’s bunker with a half-second burst of fire that filled the fortified compartment with sparks and molten metal fragments.

Another of Trapper’s RPG teams launched a grenade into the fourth bunker, destroying the weapon within and causing a quad of infantry to sprint forward (as well as one could sprint in such low gravity) with frag grenades in hand.

Just before they tossed their grenades into the silent bunker, its embedded coil gun cut down one of the Pounders with a devastating center-mass burst. As the soldier was thrown back, she somehow tossed the grenade clear of her fellows before all four grenades went off in rapid succession.

Three of the frag grenades secured the enemy gun nest, while the fourth sent a shower of shrapnel into the lightly-armored troopers who had sprinted toward the turret’s placement.

“Medic!” Trapper barked as he collected his rifle and moved to assist one of the three soldiers who had fallen with shrapnel embedded in his hip. The other two of the team were already busily assisting their wounded squadmate while Blink Dog crawled through the fortified entryway to the information hub.

“We must initiate a hard link with the system,” Jem urged. “My previous override of the central processors in this facility will not obfuscate our presence indefinitely. If we do not establish a physical uplink to the system prior to our discovery, the system might be hardened against our attempts.”

Podsy and Styles had already checked each other’s envirosuits and were ready to disembark the mech’s pressurized cabin. Corporal Staubach brought Blink Dog to the door situated between two of the dead coil gun nests, and as he did so, Trapper’s people lined the tunnel they had just come through with high-explosives.

“I wrecked the outer airlock laying her down,” Blinky explained as he donned his pressurized helmet, which Styles had checked and found green. The mech’s Jock continued, “We have to use the explosive bolts to pop it loose.

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