WCGW Chpt 135

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==Chapter 135 - What Could Go Wrong==
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2nd July 3043
Thazi (Former Outworlds System)
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The Arcadians pushed their way into the former SLDF base with two ancient BNC-3Q model Banshee Assault 'Mechs storming down the tunnel entrance. They emerged into the grand hall, as Colonel Mitchell and his people had called it and came under massed fire from the assembled pirates, but they brought down 3 pirate Battlemechs with their AC/20 before falling. They had also bought time for the follow-on forces to make their entrance into the grand hall. Within an hour of hard fighting, they had forced the pirates to break apart and flee deeper into the complex leaving 8 more of their number in the grand hall but at the cost of 4 more Arcadians and more damaged.
As the Manticores slowly pushed into the main corridor, they came under heavy fire, but their numbers and heavy armor forced the pirates to fall back. Colonel Mitchell signaled to Lieutenant Colonel James Woodall to bring some Battlemechs forward. Captain Felicia "Calf" Cafferty volunteered her company of Phoenix Hawks for the task. While they could not jump, their weapons were tailor made for this kind of knife fighting. She adjusted her neurohelmet slightly as she led her company into the hangar. It could have been her imagination, but she would swear that all her screens flickered ever so slightly as she neared the fighting in the corridor.
Treading carefully among the gathered SaRI tanks and infantry, she pushed into the corridor quickly, located her enemy and took off down the corridor at 64kph. She closed on the pirates in a zig zag pattern that kept her from getting hit with most of the incoming fire while returning deadly accurate fire from her Large Pulse Laser. She stitched a pirate Wasp until it fell, she then, in what would later be called the Cafferty Clutch, managed to bow slightly, get under the right arm of a pirate Clint, brought her Large Pulse Laser up and fired off two pulses at point blank range into the Clint's head. She then pushed the dead Clint away.
She spun slightly and a AC/10 shot missed by inches and she let the Po have a burst of Large Pulse Laser in return. She shifted back in search of more dangerous foes, dodge a few more shots, stitched another Wasp until it also fell to the floor. She triggered off long bursts of her machine guns causing the pirate infantry to either scatter or fall from the main corridor. As she searched for a new target, she realized that she was actually behind the pirate lines. She shot a pirate Shadow Hawk in the left rear armor and the resulting explosion broke the pirate line and they scattered with SaRI Phoenix Hawks and a WLF-2 Wolfhounds in pursuit.
Fighting inside the complex would last another two hours before it was down to the dangerous task of clearing all the rooms by SaRI Infantry, which would take another four dangerous hours.
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