Chapter 93 - Perfection (1/2)

For once, Gray was stumped... his plan of burying the enemy in snow was ruined by the fact that the grenade launcher sucks.

"Damn it, I was looking forward to burying them too!" Gray said suddenly.

They had been dancing in and out of the enemy's sensor range over and over again so the enemy was wising up to it and not firing at them until they went further in. Gray was lost in his own thoughts trying to come up with another idea when Jono called out to him.

"Hey..."

"..." Gray didn't respond.

"Hey, Gray..."

"..." Gray still didn't respond

"Gray!" Jono yelled then chucked his ice ball he had been carrying at Gray to get his attention.

The ball of ice smacked hard into Gray's mech and woke Gray up out of his own thoughts.

"What was that for?!?" Gray yelled

"You weren't paying attention when I was calling out for you!"

"Sorry Jono, was trying to figure out what to... do... I got it, thanks Jono!"

"No problem, just remember to give me credit!"

Gray rolled his eyes and the contacted Paul. "Paul, I have an idea that just hit me, literally!"

"Oh do share, they've spotted me so 2 of them are now angling themselves to face me."

"Can you launch grenades with a timer instead of the force of impact?"

"Of course, I just switch modes and can set it from 4 seconds up to 1 minute."

"How far do you think you can throw a grenade?" Gray asked as he remembered Paul was able to chuck the shield about 100 meters even though it weighed almost as much a mech.

"Now that you mention it, I can probably throw them a lot further than this crappy grenade launcher."

Paul looked around and found a small boulder that was probably even heavier than the grenade, picked it up, and chucked it as far as he could up the mountain. The boulder buried itself fairly high up there, only about 50 meters shy of where he was aiming for.

"Yeah, I can do it, just need to get a bit closer."

"We're counting on you then Paul!" Gray said.

"Ok, but how do I get the grenades timer to start without firing them from the grenade launcher?"

"I'd try to aim right in front of you on the lowest setting, then pick it up!" Gray suggested

Paul felt that made sense so he started to trudge forward again and up the slope, two enemies that had spotted him on sensors saw him moving closer so they climbed up the slope as well to get a shot at Paul.

"Geoff and Jono, you two and I will sell it harder, try to keep their focus off of Paul as much as possible!"

"Understood" Geoff said

"I guess that makes sense" Jono replied.

"Gray! I want to shoot stuff too!" Yurika complained.

"You will, we'll need your plasma throwers soon!"

Yurika gritted her teeth slightly, but she trusted Gray so she merely said "It's a promise then!"

Gray, Geoff, and Jono moved within sensor range of the enemy, no missiles came yet, they pushed forward through the snow even more to where they got in range of their battle rifles.

Gray and Geoff opened fire at maximum effective range while Jono still had to wait due to bringing a larger caliber battle rifle with slightly shorter range, but more stopping power.