Robot Wars: Thrown Into the Fray by Nicholas Haring

Author:Nicholas Haring [Haring, Nicholas]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781329289529
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2014-01-29T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 25

“Cap, what are you doin’?” Martin asked as he walked over to Fischer, who was standing just outside of the trench on a small berm. He was looking through his binoculars, surveying the effect of the mortar fire.

“Just watching the proceedings, First Sergeant,” Fischer said as he began scanning left to right.

“Okay, but I think we would all feel a lot better if you came back into the trench and did that,” Martin said as he motioned to Fischer to come back in.

Fischer didn’t respond; he was still gazing through his binoculars.

“What’s he doing?” Riley asked as Fischer began walking up to the magnetic snag wire.

“He’s being Captain Fischer!” said the star-struck Ellerby.

“He’s being Captain Fischer…” Martin said with an irritated sigh.

Fischer was scanning the robot line. It looks like the first half of the first wave is about played out, Fischer thought. The explosions from the mortar rounds were kicking up huge quantities of dust; added on to the haze was now making visibility of anything beyond three-thousand meters virtually impossible.

“Cap!”

Fischer couldn’t see the Mark Twos yet, they were hidden by the clouds of dust being thrown up into the air. The Mark Ones were getting closer, almost in range of the laser turrets. The nice uniform ranks of the first few rows from earlier were now just patchy clusters of twenty or more, here and there.

“God dammit, Cap!”

Fischer couldn’t help but think that there was a certain beauty to all of this. The HRUOs could afford to keep doing this, simply to run them out of ammo. The Mark Ones were often overlooked, but it was possible they were the most dangerous of all. You could never ignore them; you could never let them get too close…

“Cap!” Martin yelled as he hit Fischer on the back of his helmet.

“What?” Fischer said as he quickly turned his head.

“Remember when you told me to tell you when you were doing this again?” Martin asked.

“Yeah, but it’s a magnificent sight, isn’t?” Fischer said as he spread out his arms.

“I’d rather see a nice tropical beach than this shit. Come on, Cap, let’s get back to the trench,” Martin said as he motioned his head.

“Just a moment, the laser turrets should be opening up any second now,” Fischer said, and sure enough, almost on cue they did all along the line.

Red pulses of laser beams from the turrets cut through the Mark Ones, like scythes reaping wheat. The wheat, however, seemed to be growing faster than it could be cut.

Fischer and Martin dropped down back into the trench.

“Damn it, we need more artillery out here,” Fischer said.

“Ammo too; I’m sure the Lieutenant will need more rounds soon,” Martin said.

“Jones, come in; Jones, come in, over,” Fischer said over his radio headset.

“Yes, sir?” Jones replied.

“I need you to get ahold of HQ, let them know we’re going to need an ammo drop for mortar rounds soon, out.”

“Yes, sir.”

“Okay, everyone, gather around, you too, reservists,” Fischer said as they huddled around him. “All right, they’re going to be coming into laser rifle range here in about twenty minutes.

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