Chapter 117 - Out with a Bang (1/2)

Gray and Kelly finished reviewing each other's team and doing their best to pick out flaws. Gray was happy that he was able to get a second opinion as he was too nice to actually find the negatives in his own team. Instead of working on it right away, they instead decided it would be more fun to just join in on the fun instead of spoiling it.

"I got the flag! I'll cover you guys!" Gray yelled during on match.

"Damn it Gray! Stop using the flag as a weapon!" Yurika yelled out back.

From the other teams perspective it was hilarious seeing Gray try and stab them with a flag pole during a Capture the Flag game, but his own team was in tears as he was wasting time doing something silly.

When Paul saw Xyra lining up a sniper rifle round on Stacia, he ran his mech in between her and the shot with his arms straight up and yelled "Save the President!"

Even Xyra laughed slightly at this and her shot ended up missing anyways causing Paul to just stand there with his mech between Stacia and Xyra.

Stacia politely said, "Get out of my shot ass hole!"

For the last fun match, everyone eventually agreed upon grenades and grenade launchers for everyone and a simple death match, the map was randomly selected and it ended up being a small urban map with a junkyard in one corner.

As everyone started tossing grenades at each other, they found it was quite hard to damage themselves as the mechs had enough armor to resist most of the blasts unless the grenade was right next to the mech when it went off.

Caleb inspected one of the grenades after seeing a crane with a large electromagnet on one end for lifting scrap metal. He took a grenade and held it up to the electromagnetic crane and saw it grab the grenade. When he moved his mech near the electromagnet, it tried to grab some of his larger armor plates, but the smaller ones were not attracted. A big smile crossed Caleb's face.

"Yurika, can you protect me for a few minutes?" Caleb asked

"Uhhh, sure, this isn't as fun as I thought it would be so if you have some idea of sorts that would help!"

"Oh I do!" Caleb said with a grin.

"Okay! I'll keep them off of you!"

Caleb then dug through the scrap metal with his mech and found some old copper piping. Using the strength of his mech, he was able to coil it around the grenade like it was string almost. Caleb then pulled the cover off of the fuse.

Modern grenades for mechs and foot soldiers have multiple options for delivery. Time, Impact, and even distance can be used. Caleb wanted to use time and impact so he set the grenade to explode a few seconds after impact. The grenade has a decent power supply since it had an electronic ignition system.

Twisting each end of the copper pipe, he managed to twist each end around the power supply for the grenade then force the cover back on the fuse. The grenade looked the same as before, except for the copper coils around the entire thing making it look like a strange futuristic grenade.

"Ready!" Caleb shouted to Yurika.

"Ok! What now?"

"Get Gray over here by himself, I can't wait to try this out!" Caleb said excitedly.

Yurika grinned and then said in an open channel, "Gray! Caleb says he will duel you for my affection! I'm considering it! We're by the junkyard!"

Everyone watched as one mech split apart from the others and headed towards the junkyard.

"So Caleb, you want Celes and Yurika! Have you no shame!" Gray wasn't serious as he knew Yurika wasn't serious, but he didn't mind playing the fall guy to whatever they had planned.

"Yep! Have a grenade!" Caleb yelled.

Gray watched Caleb lob a grenade at him and thought it looked a bit strange, still, the throw was going to be a bit short so Gray started to approach Caleb and keep a short distance from the grenade.

As soon as the impact sensor triggered, current went through the copper pipe now turned wire around the metal grenade creating an electromagnet.

Gray expected the grenade to explode on impact, but instead it bounced and rolled towards Gray. Gray watched in fascination as the grenade rolled towards his mech, then it started to accelerate once it got closer.

"What the heck!" Gray said in surprise as the grenade started picking up speed, hit some rubble, and bounced up towards his mech. Gray tried to sidestep the grenade but it followed his mech and then stuck to the lowest piece of thick armor, which happened to be Gray's upper thigh.

The grenade stuck to Gray's leg, then detonated, his leg ended up being blown off and his mech fell over with a scorch mark on his mech's pelvis and opposite leg.

Gray's mech fall over on its back after losing a leg and Gray yelled, "What was that thing!?"

"Electromagnetic sticky grenade!" Caleb said proudly.