Keeping pace behind Double G's<em>Marauder</em>had been frustrating.  Scout lances, like the cavalry of old, moved fast and had the reserve speed to exploit a sudden opening in an enemy's line of battle.  The<em>Marauder</em>was part of the line of battle, and Yamina had never been fully convinced such a large machine belonged in the Scout lance.  Still, it was comforting to know that she'd lie under the overwatching protection of the<em>Marauder's</em>twin PPCs for a bit as her Locust closed on the barracks.<br/><br/>Light as it was, the<em>Locust</em>accelerated quickly to its top speed, indicator hovering just shy of 130 kilometers per hour.  The ground fairly skimmed past beneath her.  There was no Mech in the unit that could beat her, and only the<em>Spider</em>could match her for speed.  As death was sown all about the base, Yamina held her fire and closed on the barracks.  The<em>Locust </em>angled so it could take the front of them under fire and sweep a kill zone leading towards the mech hangars should anyone be foolish enough to break for it.  Hiro could vault over the barracks with his<em>Spider's</em>jump jets and engage them from another angle to create a crossfire if he desired.  That extra bit of mobility was enviable.<br/><br/>"Engaging," she said calmly into the lance channel.  Before the comm cut off entirely, the rapid chattering of her Sperry-Brownings came through.<br/><br/>The machine guns traced crazy lines across the ground, first wandering towards then away from the barracks.  They made a tremendous sparking where heavy slugs hit concrete, but very few of them tore into the thin-skinned barracks buildings.  Yamina was moving too fast and her gunnery was too poor for any sort of accuracy.  She had to stop to use the laser, yet stopping made her vulnerable.<br/><br/>The<em>Locust</em>skidded on the 'crete as she used its broad, splayed birdlike feet to quickly dump velocity.  Yamina was thrown against her straps and the heavy neurohelmet pulled painfully at her shoulders and neck as the<em>Locust</em>slowed almost to a stop.  The snout of the Martell laser under her mech swung towards the closest barracks and Yamina lined it up on the spot where she suspected it might cause a fire.  Coherent light speared out and pierced the building's side, dumping megajoules of energy into the structure as heat.  It wasn't as good as a flamer, not by any means, but lasers sometimes started fires.  Wouldn't the be glorious?<br/><br/>Putting her<em>Locust</em>back into motion, Yamina began to work the barracks with her machine guns, offering to chop, slice and dice anyone foolish enough to try to exit them.