"Now!"
The Furia's shoulder-mounted missile launchers began to fire their full payloads at the same time!
The lack of warning completely caught the pilot of the Double Up off-guard.
Although the modular armored knight mech possessed a lot of different methods to defend against a variety of incoming attacks, the missiles launched by the Furia were all utility missiles that did not care about any fancy armor systems!
If Beatrice Hendrix had been able to spend more time on designing the Double Up, she would have been able to add a crucial missile interception system or even just a basic machine gun that could shoot down the relatively cheap and fragile missiles before they did their jobs.
Unfortunately, the Double Up was a pure melee mech that was already complex enough due to being a mech inside a mech.
The only other mech that could have intercepted all of the utility missiles was the Triple Spray. Its triple-barreled rapid-fire rifle was well-suited to taking down a lot of missiles in quick succession.
However, the Furia fired all of its missiles at a time where the Triple Up was running away while facing in the opposite direction of its companion mech!
The light harasser mech needed to turn almost 180 degrees in the other direction in order to start intercepting any of the missiles.
"Too late!"
The range between the Furia and the Double Up was not that great so the missiles instantly reached their preprogrammed positions.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
A flood of EMP waves struck the Double Up from multiple directions!
While the knight mech's adaptive modular armor systems were too well-designed and shielded to get affected by these EMP attacks, the relatively weak and basic communication and sensor systems of the Double Up couldn't withstand the excessive electromagnetic discharges and quickly became blinded for a time!
Only its basic optical and other short-ranged sensors managed to retain partial functionality. Communications were down as well, preventing the pilot of the Double Up from coording his actions with the pilot of the Triple Spray!
If this wasn't bad enough, the detonation of the smoke missiles threw the entire area surrounding the Double Up into an obscuring fog where visibility became reduced even further!
The pilot of the Double Up knew that it had fallen into an awful position all of a sudden. He made the one decision that made the most sense.
He turned the Double Up around and ran straight in the last-known direction of the Triple Spray!
The knight mech could not possibly afford to stay in the middle of this smoke area and continue to remain blind and cut off from help!
"Hah!"
It was at this time that the Sensia suddenly emerged in front of the Double Up's path. The light skirmisher had completely abandoned its pursuit of the Triple Spray and readily allowed its rear to get struck by a lot of bullets in order to enter the smoke cloud as quickly as possible..
This not only enabled Lizzy Cado's light mech to shake off the attacks of the Triple Spray, but also put it in a position to intercept the retreating Double Up!
The pilot of the knight mech was not stupid, though. He already predicted this to happen and easily folded both of the arms of the Double Up forward to form a thick anti-puncture shield out of lots of layered modular armor plating.
"Haha! Do you think I'm alone? Think again!"
The Sensia did not back off. Instead, it continued to run forward before unleashing a flurry of light knife attacks that forced the Double Up to maintain its modular shields in a forward-facing position.
This left the knight mech completely undefended from the attacks coming from the rear!
The Furia which had just recently entered the smoke cloud had become partially blinded by the smoke cloud as well. Its sensors may have been upgraded but the overlapping effects of several smoke missiles was too strong to overcome!
Nonetheless, it somehow knew exactly where the Sensia was positioned, and in turn also figured out the position and the orientation of the Double Up.
Bobby Orwell did not hesitate to fire a shotgun slug that struck the unreinforced rear armor of the enemy knight mech! A considerable amount of armor cracked from this hefty blow!
The integrated luminar crystal guns fired next, causing them to inflict light but still significant damage to the rear of the Double Up.
The Furia quickly grasped two of its throwing axes at once and threw them onto the still-exposed back of the enemy knight mech.
Since the Double Up was still pinned down by the Sensia, those spinning axes struck the rear of the enemy machine without any hindrance, causing their blades to dig deeper into the rear armor plating.
After doing all of this, the Furia finally lifted both of its arms and fired both of its wrist-mounted flamethrowers at full blast!
"Aaaahhh!"
While the Double Up was too well-armored to succumb to the flames in an instant, the concentrated fires directed towards its rear were wreaking havoc to its least-defended side!
The cracks in the armor created by the earlier attacks enabled the damaging flames to reach deeper and begin to melt the internal components that were situated close to these weak points!
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