Momentarily cursing his luck at his miss, Hercules had little time to contemplate the enormous explosion that erupted from Jerry's boobytrapped pack. The Adamantium member in question's ballistic flight on the tails of the explosion shockwave had sent Beema into a frenzy of activity and he was...
Well, Hercules is the closest to Jerry so my priority is snatching him up. I would take a shot, but I worry that it might impede my primary objective.
Captain Hesperus
Hercules feels Mack over the nexus and responds, Delivering the hurt, ma'am. I'm revising my prior request to fall back. Beema wants me to go find Scary Jerry and I think now's the best time to do it. I'm going to initiate a gridsearch based on Adamantium's exfil route, perhaps he's bunkered...
Hercules' smirk was immediately replaced with an expression of abject shock and horror. Beema! Here? This was bad, seriously bad. The Brooling was in harm's way in a CVR-3 that was manifestly too damn big for her to use effectively and he'd been blasé about her safety. He dropped his weapon...
With a smirk, he popped the release on the hatch and let its hydraulics slide it up and out of the access port.
"If you're the baklava delivery man, you're welcome. Otherwise, take a hike."
Hercules was pulled out of his reverie by the incessant tapping on the top hatch. What was that? It could be anything, a stray Wargoth or some other of the Zeki's monstrous bio-constructs. He reached down to his belt and unhitched his sidearm, calmly powering it up.
Wasn't there someone we were...
Hercules' body is shaken by the recoil of the sudden and violent alpha strike, but his grim visage is split by a feral grin as he sees, through the enhanced sensors of Toothgnasher, the subject of his awesome wrath dissolve into so much scrap metal.
"Toothgnasher, my friend, I asked you...
...Pod that had done the deed.
"Gigantiaío kátharma!", he bellowed through the external speakers of his Mjolnir, "O Iraklís tha eínai to télos sou*!"
So saying he threw his hover tank forward at full speed, pointing it directly at the towering alien machine, even as he urged the conjoined mind...
"You know I'm there right beside you, Mario. Besides, we owe Adamantium for those delectable baklava.", Hercules chipped in, "Captain, the more we talk about this, the greater the risk of Adamantium getting picked off by the Zeki. We've bloodied their noses, let us go finish the fight off!"
Hercules was enthused by the second perfectly placed cannon round and the wave of secondaries it sparked off.
"Looks like these Zeki have a taste for MPAT. Don't worry, my big blue friends, Chef Hercules has plenty more of them in the oven, so the buffet tables are open!", he chuckled before...
Hercules was poised for when the Captain put his round downrange so that when the red cloud seperated to reveal the hulking figures within he was already tracking one of the massive forms.
"MPAT out!", he called across the comms, even as his finger twitched the trigger on his control joystick...
“All due respect, ma’am,” Hercules spoke up as he considered the options, “dropping smoke down there would only worsen the obscuring of the target, and we have no assurance that the bugs will be affected. Incendiaries, however…”
Hercules figured that even if the insects Bong claimed were...
Hercules glanced over at the veteran tanker's machine through his mecha's sensors then linked into the physical comms net.
"Can't really give ideas about that cloud until we have an idea how it's generated and how it functions, sir. I dropped MPAT within the cloud and tagged some targets, but...