Dalton<br/>Dalton Syste<br/>Duchy of Oriente<br/>5 February 3145<br/>Tagged: Long Tom, Shinigami, Sloane, Duck<br/><br/>The Arrow missiles corkscrewed in multiple directions as Allia's lance broke up.  Each missile turned to meet their designated mech only to overreach their aimpoints as all of the mechs scattered from their original position.  Two missiles impacted beside Gheistwulf, throwing up dirt and rocks, lightly damaging the armor on her legs as the mech turned away from the blasts.  The other three missiles turned towards  Shinigami and Sloane, all three seemed to loose track and guide towards the last known location of the mechs once they came within fifty meters.<br/><br/>A second salvo of artillery impacted long of where Long Tom's lance stood.  Sensors just barely picking up the thunder of the cannons firing coming from the short hill east of the Volcano.  Hector's Active probe just barely picked up three signatures about three quarters of the way up the small mountain.  It took the computer a minute to identify the units due to being on the extreme range of the probes range.  But the computer finally designated the targets.<br/><br/><div class="floatleft">(http://www.sarna.net/wiki/images/thumb/8/8e/PadillaAT.JPG/800px-PadillaAT.JPG.png)</div><br/>two Padilla Artillery Tanks sat on the south side of the mountain while (http://www.sarna.net/wiki/images/7/7b/Sokuryou.PNG) a Sokuryou Industrial Mech sat on a ridge on the western side of the mountain, just enough to have a clear view of the units approaching on the ground from the east.<br/><br/>A new volley of artillery that could only have come from the side of the volcano where the Arrow IV's launched from impacted the ground on the side of the Raven that ran onto the scene just as it ran past.  The explosions threw rock and metal at the skinny legs of the Raven.  It would only be a matter of time till the artillery ranged in on the running Raven.