(http://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/9/9a/Tony_Leung.jpg)(http://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/5/5e/Sarna_reserves_kamakura_s_hussars_spider_by_viereth-d585zvf.jpg)<br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;">Hiro Kagekaze</span></span><br/><strong>Location:</strong>From barracks to airstrip to mountains<br/><strong>With:</strong>Maho, Graff, Yamina<br/><br/>The mission was going extraordinarily well, and I was starting to get bored.  I almost turned off the recorder of the action - I liked to save footage for analysis later on - but then...<br/><br/><em><strong>"FUCK! LANCE! On me, I'm goin'."</strong></em><br/><br/><em><strong>"Company lead is down. Assault Lead is taking command. All units, check in, and head to the South edge of the airstrip. We have... something hostile; hard to get a lock."</strong></em><br/><br/>Walter was down and Erich was taking over.  Now it was... getting<em>interesting</em>.<br/><br/>After I reported in, I saw a few of the attack lance mechs getting swarmed by these tiny mechs.  If they were powered armor, the pilots inside must be huge.<br/><br/>A couple of these mini-mechs came after me, firing their missiles that I managed to avoid with a quick side-step, but before I could take to the air, they were on me.<br/><br/>The<em>Spider</em>had humanoid limbs with fully functional hands, and I was pretty good at using them.  I used to impress my old Draconis comrades with the way I could pick up small objects attached to different parts of the<em>Spider's</em>armor.<br/><br/>I could "feel" these mini-Mechs.  Like an adult wrestling a child, I pulled one off of me and held it in front of me with two hands.  I turned it upside down and smashed it down into the ground head first, then hopped up and landed on it, crushing it under a foot backed by 30 tons of Battlemech.<br/><br/>The other mini-Mech got shaken loose during my hop.  While it was standing in front of me, looking up at me like an angry dwarf, I pointed my flamer at it and unleashed a blast of plasma fire.  It started running away, and my chest laser nailed its back, finishing it off.<br/><br/><em><strong>"Uh-o-OK Blue Lance, Brick is taking over Company command.  All units make for the southern road and regroup."</strong></em><br/><br/>I wasn't done, was just getting started.  I was looking forward to taking out another one of these, but I saw Yamina's<em>Locust</em>in the distance and remember her words from last night.<br/><br/><em><strong>"You must fight with purpose, not with abandon.  That way lies madness and ends in flame."</strong></em><br/><br/>Instead of taking on some more, I calmed my bloodlust and jumped toward Graff, intent on using him to cover our repositioning.  Then, all hell broke loose again, this time in our favor, with our dropship coming in to save our hoops.<br/><br/><em><strong>"O-ok guys, it looks like MacLeod is alive.  Let's set up a perimeter around the Bastion.  Ninja and Little Bit I want you paired up in a 10 km past the mountain.  Harlequin, you and I will in 5km out.  Stay in pairs and if you see anything radio it in and make for the dropship."</strong></em><br/><br/>I spoke on the lance channel, addressing Graff with Yamina, Ranna and now Maho listening.<br/><br/><strong>"Double G, Ninja.  Orders received.  Will comply.  Heading northwest with Little Bit, behind Snake.  Interrogative.  How many of those... things... retreated?  5?  10?  They could be waiting to ambush us.  Ninja, out."</strong><br/><br/>I hoped they were out there.  I hoped there was more.<br/><br/><br/><br/>