The buggy swerved as the lance of laser cut a burning swath through the building, the dak-dak-dak of its pulse laser cutting into the right knee joint of the Shadow Hawk with terrifying precision. While not enough to break the joint, the following two buggies that sped past the street followed it up with two more precise volleys, strafing the right leg. It was hard enough to hit a target in full speed, let alone put each blast in the area on and around the knee. But the Davids were crack hunters. The buggy that had initiated the attack leaped forward with surprising speed and weaved in between the legs of the Hawk only to disappear around the corner.<br/><br/>"Good work Alpha, the Hawk is panicking!" Lieutenant Feng watched the action unfold from his command cockpit and grinned viciously. MechWarriors feared urban environments for this very reason. The buggies were too fast to target properly and the streets were cramped in true Capellan architectural fashions. The moment the monstrous 'Mechs had entered the city the buggies were swarming around them, firing precise shots at any weak spots they could find. His own buggy cut a corner and fired a volley into the back of a Locust before making a perfect U-turn and disappearing back the same way he had come.<br/><br/>"Unleash hell, soldiers! Show them where all our 'Mech-marks come from!"<br/><br/><hr/><br/>"We are being attacked!"<br/><br/>The trembling ground made the glass windows of Hangar 12 clatter like teeth. The younger man had leaped to his feet and turned towards the Cataphract, but the engineer was quicker. He managed a perfect rising round-house to the man's neck before putting the woman in a sleeping hold. Her struggles laxed after a few seconds and the two older men stood up and strode towards the back of the hangar. The engineer sighed and followed after them, showing the way towards a large domed object covered in a large cloth sheet.<br/><br/>"I hope they don't hold it against me... poor Tina hates to be put to sleep like that." He grabbed the sheet and pulled it of the object, revealing a Beagle underneath it.<br/><br/>"A BAP?" the old technician exclaimed "What good will it be right now?"<br/><br/>The young engineer smiled his crooked smile and flicked a makeshift switch attached to the 'Mech equipment. The lights in the hangar flickered as the Beagle powered up to a soft humming.<br/><br/>"Ye of little faith, Chow-Yun! It's not a BAP, it's a PAB. I reverse-engineered it to send out a signature rather than look for one. Every MechWarrior in a 'Mech within a kilometer will notice the signature of a giant panda just about now, emitting from this very hangar."<br/><br/>He looked down at his wrist watch as his father patted the device and smiled.<br/><br/>"So that is how you intended them to find you. A rather simple solution with a big personal touch."<br/><br/>The engineered smiled back, the father and son sharing a sort of secret moment before his flipped the switch again. He had spent the last couple of months studying the response time of the MechWarriors. He had even recommended the base commander to sharpen the crews with response exercises so that he would know approximately how fast the teams would respond to an intrusion into the compound. He had also started up a secret project in one of the hangars at the other side of the base, ensuring everyone that it was crucial to defend that position first and foremost in case of attack. If all had gone as planned, the Cataphracts were heading there now while his would-be rescuers had been the only ones to see the giant panda-face flashing on their sensors just now. Hopefully their LL wasn't a complete idiot and could identify a flare if he saw one.<br/><br/><hr/><br/>V<span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 8pt;">OICE IDENTIFICATION RECUIRED</span>.<br/><br/>"<strong>Godot is not coming.</strong>"<br/><br/>V<span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 8pt;">OICE IDENTIFICATION VERIFIED</span>. S<span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 8pt;">TAR</span>L<span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 8pt;">EAGUE</span>L<span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 8pt;">EGACY</span>01<span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 8pt;">POWERING UP</span>.