"On it! Do you know how difficult it is to avoid all of the attacks launched in my mech's direction?!"
Further away, Franklin's rifleman mech evaded another barrage of energy beams before aiming its weapon directly at Josh's target.
Bright and hot positron beams struck the weakened transphasic energy shield, causing it to deteriorate at an even faster pace!
If the rifleman mech attacked the heavy phasefighter by itself, it wouldn't be able to inflict nearly as much damage.
Only when a melee mech like Josh's Fey Fianna brought its short-ranged space suppressors to the enemy was it possible for a non-transphasic ranged mech to strike so hard!
The two mechs were pretty decent if they fought by themselves, but the two became much deadlier if they fought together!
As the compromised energy shield finally collapsed, the heavy phasefighter tried its best to distance itself from the Fey Fianna, but it was too late!
The thicker frame and outer plating did little to stop the Fey Fianna's spear from punching through and destroying the powerful engines that kept the craft mobile.
The penetrating spear strike must have hit something important, because secondary explosions soon blew the heavy phasefighter apart!
"ANOTHER ONE DOWN. WE ARE STARTING TO EARN A PROFIT."
"It's not enough." Josh scowled. "You missed Franklin's share. We still need to eliminate more!"
He checked the condition of the hyper energy shields. Despite rotating them to give the other shields time to recover, their overall conditions had deteriorated to a dangerous extent.
The constant attacks hitting his Fey Fianna's hyper energy shields worsened his mood and made him feel as if he was getting short on time.
There was no reprieve on this battlefield.
"More!"
His Fey Fianna flew towards another heavy phasefighter that was putting a lot of pressure on a friendly swordsman mech.
The pilots of the two mechs did not even need to communicate in order to work in conjunction with each other.
The swordsman mech altered its trajectory and curved around to make it more difficult for the heavy phasefighter to avoid the incoming Fey Fianna.
The orven pilot did not even realize that his craft was getting led into a trap.
This was because his phasefighter already managed to inflict serious damage onto the swordsman mech. The fighter craft only needed to put a bit more effort to finish off the machine entirely.
When the phasefighter finally alerted the orven pilot to the danger, the alien knew he would get in trouble unless he decided to disengage as well.
The orven grew furious. He wanted to add another kill to his name. Instead of turning around to avoid getting within spear-striking distance of the incoming machine, the alien pilot instead made use of the missile lock onto the swordsman mech and launched the remaining transphasic missile that he had left.
"NO!"
The transphasic missile flew out at rapid speed and only had to traverse a relatively short distance before blasting apart the damaged and vulnerable swordsman mech!
A hefty explosion spread lots of debris in each direction!
Even if the mech pilot of the swordsman mech activated the eject command, the cockpit would not have survived!
"Franklin!"
"On it, Josh!"
If the distance between the phasefighter and its target was a lot larger, then Franklin might have been able to shoot the warhead down.
Alas, the interval was too short for the rifleman mech to intervene.
Josh and Franklin could only take revenge by ganging up on the offending heavy phasefighter with the same measures they utilized before.
Though the phasefighter went down easily, its destruction hardly gave any consolation to the two mech pilots.
Similar tragedies were happening everywhere around them. So many mechs and mech pilots perished with each passing minute that there was little that the two could do to turn the tide.
Just as the duo sought to eliminate another heavy phasefighter, they suddenly received priority orders from a mech colonel.
[RA FIRST-CLASS MULTIPURPOSE MECHS ARE UNABLE TO COMPLETE THEIR SOLE OBJECTIVE. EVERY ELITE MECH UNIT MUST CEASE TO FIGHT AGAINST THE LESSER PHASEFIGHTERS AND FOCUS ON HELPING THE RA MECHS ELIMINATE THE ELITE PHASEFIGHTERS.]
Josh's expression became grim.
If the elite mech units were not able to suppress the alien heavy phasefighters, then a lot more second-class mechs would get eliminated as a consequence!
However, Josh did not question his orders. He knew that the purpose of the RA mechs was far more important than any other consideration.
The mechs piloted by Josh, Franklin and other elite mech pilots all tried to disengage from the big fight, with varying degrees of success.
The elite mechs that were able to get away with assistance of other mech units soon proceeded to fly towards the center where a much more intensive fight took place!
"These phasefighters are too strong!"