Erich stifled a cough, the pain in his side turning into a sickly burning sensation. The damaged cooling vest, and the shrapnel wound underneath had been infiltrated by the highly-toxic coolant used in inner sphere standard cooling vests, poisoning him as he kept his 'mech upright by leaning against the warehouse wall. Walt's shout of concern barely registered as he leveled his working weapons at the immobilized Pillager, aiming for the deep gash in the 100-ton lostech's right side.<br/><br/>Thumbing his own ECM to the highest power, he toggled comms over to Walt's tank, broadcasting to the company as a whole. "Right leg's nearly gone, Walt; won't be able to do much more than thirty K, and these Atlases can match that as a slow walk. You want me to live? Come and get me before I get dogpiled."<br/><br/>Coughing again, he glared at the Pillager, weapons unwavering as he pushed the Awesome forwards, responding to the mad pilot in the Capellan machine by opening fire at nearly point-blank range once more, all three cerulean whips of raw, ravening electromagnetic power saving deep into the Pillager's right flank, coring deep through the armour and tearing into the heavier 'mech's Internal structure, the unleashed fury of the cannons eating through internal structure, causing massive titanium ribs to warp and snap, and chewing at the shielding surrounding the massive heart of the Pillager's XL engine.<br/><br/>The Pillager, seeing Erich's intent to rip the 100-ton 'mech's heart out and spit on the cooling corpse, opened fire with everything it had. The gauss rifle just below the man-height wound in the pillager's chest fired first, catching the Awesome's armour-stripped right arm at the elbow, severing the joint entirely and leaving the 80-ton 'mechs' arm dangling by only a few dozen thick myomer strands, the joint having been blown out through the back of the elbow as the nickel-titanium slug slapped into the ruined warehouse wall behind the Awesome.<br/><br/>The Pillager's lasers fired at the same time the second gauss rifle did, scoring deep gouges into the Awesome's right breast, as if in direct response to the punishment levied by the lighter war machine to the ancient 'mech. Several heat Sinks exploded at the hellish caress of the lasers, a few of the Awesome's ribs melting under the hellish glare of the directed energy weapons, causing a deep, pained moan of tortured metal to fill the interior of the war machine's cockpit, just as the Pillager's last gauss slug thumped directly into the centre of the Awesome's chest, cracking into, and through, massive armour plates, before a dozen alarms began screaming for attention, a wave of nausea and heat following as the Diagnostic computer declared damage to both the Reactor shielding and the Gyroscope housing; the Slug, after breaching the Awesome's armour, had skipped off of the reactor's casing and smacked almost-directly into the reinforced casement containing the Awesome's gyroscope, the only thing keeping the machine from collapsing under its own movement.<br/><br/>Erich pulled his machine's limping charge to a stop, the Awesome looking more like a flayed corpse, steam, waves of heat, and shredded armour and myomer covering practically every inch of the crippled war machine. "Vice, if you'd be so kind as to inform our 'friend' that his continued presence in the universe isn't wanted, I'll be heading home now."<br/><br/>Turning slowly, the Battered 'mech slowly slipped out from in between the warehouses where the three 'mechs had fought, fragments of armour plate and thick wormlike chunks of destroyed myomer cables shedding themselves with every slow, lurching, nausea-filled step, even as his external microphones picked up the characteristic roar of the Deathgiver Autocannons, silently hoping that Alroy was blasting the Pillager into unsalvageable scrap, and its pilot with it. "Brick to company; If you can hear this, tell me you're alive. I'm extracting eastward, with heavy damage; make sure the doc is ready when I get there."