Capítulo 91: NOVA SUPREME VS APOLLO COSMOS part 2
Sean selected the infrared guided missiles. The revolving missile pods on the back of Nova Supreme revved, selecting the right missiles, firing.
Apollo Cosmos blocked the attack with its shield, deploying a drone, which fired its plasma cannon at Nova Supreme.
Nova Supreme then raised its left arm. The twin 125mm railguns in the wrist extended out, firing 2 shots, destroying the drone.
More drones appeared, firing its munitions.
Nova Supreme's point defense batteries kicked into action, opening fire and destroying the incoming munitions.
Sean then directed his plasma cannon, firing quick, successive shots.
Apollo Cosmos sped up, dodging the blows which exploded around it upon hitting the debris. "Spectre" then dropped a canister from the bomb rack of his Mecha.
The canister hit the plasma bolt, blowing up in a bright fireball.
"A decoy," recognised Sean, immediately keeping his eyes on the radar and the observation windows, readying himself for the incoming roundabout attack.
Just as he predicted, Apollo Cosmos appeared on his right side, having used its own heat signature to hide the activation of its plasma melee weapons, since the radars will not detect its activation, wielding its giant plasma whip, a modified version of the standard plasma blades seen on UNSSD Mechas, which protrudes out from the right arm of Apollo Cosmos. It is segregated into segments which can fold and attack like a whip.
The whip's unpredictable strokes easily went around Nova Supreme's shield, hitting the Mecha.
"Damn it..." muttered Sean, seeing the damage notification.
Sean then raised Nova Supreme's shield, pulling it sharply, which then caused the whip to be snagged, the impact pulling Apollo Cosmos towards Nova Supreme, throwing it off balance.
Sean then sped up, charging at Apollo Cosmos at full speed. He activated his plasma cannon firing a shot straight at the head of Apollo Cosmos.
Apollo Cosmos fired its point-defense batteries, intercepting the plasma bolt, creating a trail of smoke.
Little did "Spectre" know it was Sean's trap, as in the moment the smoke cleared, Sean slashed Nova Supreme's plasma staff across, using his Mecha's own heat signature to mask the plasma staff, catching "Spectre" by surprise.
"Spectre" quickly converted the whip back to plasma blade form, parrying Sean's attack. The 2 blades caught each other.
Both grunted, pushing their machines to the max to one up the other. The Mecha arms rattled, and the repulsion jets in the foot and back of the 2 glowed brighter and brighter, signifying the gradually increasing output of their fusion reactors.
The superior power output of Sean's Mark 6 Nova Supreme soon proved to be superior, breaking Apollo Cosmos' defense.
"Spectre" converted the plasma blade back to whip in a split movement, letting it sting forward like a compressed spring, and the 2 Mechas flew past each other.
A portion of Apollo Cosmos' "face" fell off.
A puff of smoke appeared in Nova Supreme's "shoulder".
"He's good," thought Sean. "I have to rely on my superior hardware to match him."
A thought went through his mind.
"Could this Inari be Martin Jacques this whole time? The pilot was piloting Apollo Cosmos like an extension of his own body, only Martin could do that with Apollo."
Sean then dismissed it, as it will not help his mission at all, calmly analysing the situation to try to find the right strategy to defeat Apollo Cosmos.
He turned to his comrades desparately fighting off the Deep Dwellers to buy time for the Einstein to finish its repairs to re-activate the fusion cannons.
"Inflict as much damage as you can!" ordered Xiao Tian. "We need to stop them from teleporting at all costs!"
"AHH!" the screams of a MS-9853 Mecha pilot of Diamond Detachment are heard in their radios and is then abruptly silenced as his Mecha is enveloped by a huge explosion after a Deep Dweller cracked open the cockpit, creating a catastrophic loss of pressure as the pressurised cockpit is exposed to the vacuum of space, instantly crushing the Mecha and pilot.
"SH*T!" cursed Phineas, dodging the debris of the Mecha, the MS-1870C's point defense batteries firing, preventing the debris from hitting him.
"How much more time till we can finish repairs?" yelled Nanami.
"Buy us 5 more minutes!' replied the Captain of the Einstein-class.
"Assuming that Vanguard did not change Apollo Cosmos' original power train drastically," thought Sean. "I can use Nova Supreme's superior power output to drain him, and then afterwards..."
He radioed Frederica and Xu Qing, then attacking Apollo Cosmos with all out speed and rigour, the 2 slashed wildly in space, their plasma blades hitting, throwing off sparks as they touched.
Apollo Cosmos wielded its plasma whip again, having had experience, Sean is able to block the attack with Nova Supreme's shield.
The 2 Mechas flew at full speed across the battlefield, dodging and parrying the debris and other attacks around them, with Sean deliberately keeping it away from the Deep Dwellers and the rest of his comrades, isolating it among the debris field to enact his plan.
Apollo Cosmos and Nova Supreme have turned into a blur of gold, white, red and blue by the sheer speeds the 2 Mechas are being pushed to.
Sean kept doing his facial movements and the other tricks he was taught to prevent him from blacking out in such high G force environments, while still keeping a clear head to attack and defend using melee weapons, select and fire missiles and fire the plasma cannons and railguns. This complicated control pushed Sean's mental and physical capabilities to his limit, trying to milk out every little bit of Nova Supreme's potential.
"And, now!" thought Sean, breaking contact and doing a sharp turn in a near impossible angle and speed that would have smudged him into the walls of the cockpit like a splatter of meat sauce had he not worn a drive suit and the presence of inertia dampeners in the steady Mecha structure.
Nova Supreme turned full speed at Lunar Alpha, baiting Apollo Cosmos after.
Apollo Cosmos soon caught up to Nova Supreme, not realising that Sean sprang a trap.
"Spectre" revved the controls, and Apollo Cosmos went in for the kill, only to lock up from the overheating of the fusion reactors and the electrical systems.
On cue, a railgun blast came from Lunar Alpha, hitting it in the "torso".
"Boom!" exclaimed Ariel.
And before Apollo Cosmos can react, a radar alert blared in front of "Spectre".
"Sacrebleu," he cursed, realising that another Mecha is charging at him from behind, yet he is powerless as Apollo Cosmos had locked up from overheating.
Frederica swooped in in AC-2, wielding the combined plasma blade heavy plasma cannon combo the MS-1870AC variants used.
A loud "clang" later, Apollo Cosmos' arms are sliced and blasted off.
"Spectre" turned around, shocked to see the Einstein is revving up its heavy fusion cannon at the boxed in swarm of Deep Dwellers, and they have reverted to acting like rogues, no longer displaying the intelligence and precision they once had.
"Spectre" realised that this means that the operation has failed.
"Time to scoot," he thought.
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