Mech Corps by Bible Jake

Author:Bible, Jake [Bible, Jake]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Severed Press
Published: 2017-04-30T04:00:00+00:00

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“Twenty meters!” Giga yelled. “We’re almost to you, Roar!”

There was no answer from the comms.

“Roar!”

“Not getting a signal,” Wall said. “Her comms went dead.”

“Shit,” Giga replied as she pushed her mech to the limits of its agility.

She dodged trees, leapt over bushes, shoved away vines, all in a mad dash to get to the ping in her display that showed her where Roar was.

Wall was less subtle. He didn’t so much dodge trees as barrel through them. Bushes weren’t leapt over, they were trampled. Vines were torn apart and obliterated in his wake. A rather large tree that put the oaks of ancient Earth to shame was sent falling to the wayside as he lowered his shoulder and took out most of its trunk.

“Leave some planet for the colonizers!” Giga yelled.

“They can grow more,” Wall replied. “Shit grows on this planet.”

A screeching noise could be heard ahead and Giga pumped her legs, doubling her speed despite the system protests she received from her mech’s display.

“Giga, careful,” Chomps warned over the comms. “Your mech is sending me distress calls.”

“I’m good, Chomps,” Giga said. “I’ll back off as soon as I get to Roar.”

“She’s lying,” Wall said. “She won’t back off until she finds Shock.”

“Snitch,” Giga said as she cleared the last clump of trees then threw her mech into the air, tackling a xeno about its midsection, or what she assumed was its midsection, as it fell through the air at an already engaged Roar.

“Nice!” Wall yelled, following right behind.

He used his momentum to send a haymaker of a right punch into another xeno. His was missing most of its tentacles, their smoking nubs wriggling impotently at his mech’s armor.

Giga came down hard on top her xeno at the same time Wall came down hard on top of his.

Both xenos screeched so loud it almost shorted the external mics then burst open like water balloons filled with black bile.

Giga and Wall were up on their feet and yanking the xeno off of Roar at the same time, neither bothering to even check to see if their own mechs had been damaged in the ultrafast scuffle.

“I’ll hold!” Giga shouted.

“Good,” Wall replied as he let go of the xeno, Giga held it up as high as she could, and Wall hauled off and punched it dead center on the things’ body mass with everything his mech had.

It exploded all over Giga’s mech and she whooped and laughed as she activated a wave of static electricity to clear the gunk from her cockpit.

“I love this job so much,” Giga said.

“Sitrep!” Chomps called.

“Roar?” Giga asked.

Roar stood and picked up her KYAG. It was a bent and warped mess.

Giga waved her huge arms back and forth and Roar turned to her.

“Can you hear me?” Giga asked, her mech tapping at where an ear would be if the mech had ears.

Roar copied the movement and waved her hand at Giga to indicate she couldn’t hear a damn thing.

It was obvious why. Wrapped about Roar’s sensor array on top of her mech was a tangle of severed tentacles that were slowly turning into dripping sludge.

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