Chapter 93 - Perfection (2/2)

"Jono, you can advance as you see fit!"

"I was going to anyways!" Jono replied as he continued to trudge past Gray and Geoff.

When Jono moved past them, 4 of the enemy mechs were now in range of Jono so Jono received attacks from 4 different enemies while Gray and Geoff saw a cluster of 8 missiles come straight for them.

Gray and Geoff did not back down, instead they waited for something, and that something had been Yurika as she finally yelled out "Heck yeah! My time to shine!"

Yurika deployed her mech's exoskeleton support and the large Gatling cannon she carried on her back was deployed in front of her mech, and her whole mech squatted slightly as it supported the rear of the gun and connected the ammo feed to her backpack.

Unfortunately while the Gatling cannon was deployed, Yurika was unable to move unless she wanted to leave the Gatling cannon and its exoskeleton support behind.

Yurika was enjoying herself a little too much as she started to laugh maniacally when she pulled the trigger and a stream of bullets came pouring out of the Gatling cannon. She swept the stream in the direction of the missiles and was able to shoot down six of them.

"Watch your ammo Yurika!" Gray warned her.

"I know! Don't worry about me, worry about your friend!"

Gray looked up and saw that Jono had finally got in range of his own weapon and was returning fire to the enemy mechs. Jono was a surprisingly good shot, but under the concentrated fire of 4 enemies, Jono spent most of his time pinned behind whatever cover he could find until it was obliterated.

Stacia moved next to Yurika and would feed her sensor data when the enemy would fire missiles at them, Caleb and Xyra were feeling a bit left out at the moment as their sniper rifles were too difficult to use in their current position.

"I'm in position!" Paul finally announced.

"Good! We've moved up our line to within firing range so make it quick before they take us down!"

Paul slammed his shield down into the ground to make himself a temporary barrier then set the timer on his grenades to the full minute. Bullets collided with his shield and it started to tip slightly forcing Paul to use one hand to brace the shield.

"This is going to be tricky..." Paul thought to himself. He then aimed the grenade launcher straight down into the snow behind the shield and fired both grenades. The grenades disappeared into the snow forcing Paul to drop his spear with the grenade launcher attachment to fumble around in the snow to try and pick them up.

"Crap, I got like 50 seconds before I blow myself up."

Paul finally found the first grenade, picked it up and flung it with his mech as hard as he could. His throwing ranged definitely proved to be far superior to the grenade launchers range as he ended up over throwing his intended target by a few meters.

"Don't worry Paul, that should be close enough." Gray assured him.

Paul was counting in his head down from 60 after he launched the grenades, he had a mere 20 seconds to find the second grenade and throw it before it blew up in his face. Paul pushed deeper into the pile of snow and found that the grenade had actually buried itself into the mud under the snow so he pulled it out as best he could and chucked it while counting in his head.

"8... 7... 6... 5..." Paul watched the grenade land relatively close to where he was aiming it and felt that it should be enough.

"Hurry up! Yurika can only defend against one more volley of missiles!"

"3... 2... 1..." Paul finished counting then braced himself as the grenades were barely able to be seen exploding. Fortunately, a muffled cracking sound suddenly came from the top of the mountain and the peak looked as if I suddenly started sliding down the same side as the enemy.

The sliding snow picked up speed and eventually turned into a full blown avalanche as the enemy mechs turned as they heard the roar of the snow coming down the mountains towards them. The enemy mechs found themselves knocked down under the force of the avalance and quickly bury them. The avalanche eventually reached Gray and the others, but they had found cover facing the avalanche so instead of being knocked down and buried, everyone was merely buried up to about their waist in their mechs except for Stacia.

"Great job Paul!" Gray commended Paul amid the light cheering from everyone else.

"Thank you sir!"

Gray felt his own ego inflate after being called sir again, but didn't bring it up this time, instead he gave new orders.

"Yurika, care to melt some snow for us?"

"Yeah! You know how hot I am of course!" Yurika said proudly.

Gray shook his head while smiling and everyone else rolled their eyes, Yurika was able to free up Gray, Geoff and herself, but Stacia's lighter mech had been pushed backwards and fell down.

"Don't worry about me, just finish them off while they can't move!" Stacia said.

Gray, Geoff, and Yurika moved from place to place as they executed the buried enemy mechs one at a time until finally all 8 of them were destroyed.

Perfect victory!