Kate couldn't understand why Chi charged. Kate could see the heavy damage Chi's<em>Daimyo</em>had suffered, and while Kate's own mech had taken a couple nasty PPC hits, that damage was pretty localized and Chi's mech was beat up more or less all over. Not to mention, Kate wanted to get into melee, so Kate followed her instincts and charged right back, the difference being Kate made a bee line for Chi, clearly heading straight in to ram.<br/><br/>Kate knew she had the edge - mass, armour and triple strength myomer - but she also knew she needed to protect that damaged right torso. If the ammo blew she'd be sunk, her mech 'dead' without power, instant loss of the match with a whole chunk of that XL engine missing. So she turned her torso to the right as she charged in, prepared to sacrifice her left arm to smash into Chi with all the impressive speed and force of a fifty tons moving at over 100km/hr.<br/><br/>She snapped a quick blast of her forward facing laser off before it was an even more difficult shot, and on the same circuit the rear laser fired, but at nothing. As she closed, Kate brough the LBX autocannon and started aiming, taking as much care as she could to line up a nice shot while the toggled the ammo selector over to the magazine of cluster ammunition. She held her fire till the last second, wanting to make it count as she knew that with Chi's mech so damaged, Kate's cluster munitions could cripple it before they collided. Not that Kate would slow down...<br/><br/>((OOC: Looking fairly dramatic to me! Up to you how to resolve this moment, boss. Kate's skills should be: Piloting 4, Gunnery 3 (Gunnery is a bit of a fudge, but only because that editor would let me spend the skill remainders to her to +3s for her gunnery skills)