Kate had checked her heat gauge as soon as Chi had begun to charge, mentally calculating exactly what she needed to do and fire in order to get her mech right onto that sweet spot. Kate could already feel that it wouldn't be much, the heaters in the simpod were blasting away pretty good, and Kate was already sweating nicely. Kate figured she wouldn't need to step into fire, as the constant movement and firing of all her weapons had her heated pretty well; she'd already felt the sluggishness of overheating in her<em>Centurion's</em>movement, but walking backwards it wasn't very noticable. One more volley ought to do it nicely, she figured.<br/><br/>Once more Kate altered her movement, pushing her mech forwards, north along the eastern side of the lake, at a steady pace to bring her into closer to Chi, into optimal LRM range. The move placed Kate right into the path of Chi's ER-PPC blast, which might have missed if Kate hadn't stepped her<em>Centurion</em>into it. She took it on the right torso of her mech, the blue ball of charged particles scraping her armour off in wide chunks as it passed under the<em>Centurions</em>raised right arm.<br/><br/>As soon as she was a nice 200 meters away or so, Kate let loose with a full volley, LRM, autocannon and forward facing medium laser all at Chi's little<em>Daimyo</em>. Kate's rear mounted laser fired wildly again, just to generate the heat. Of course, Kate's mech had heated to the point is was beginning to play havoc with her sensors and targetting computer, so despite her steady walk and Chi's almost coming straight at her, Kate couldn't get a truly solid lock.<br/><br/>Kate grinned as she felt the surge of the mech through the simpod as the TSM came online, that sudden lurch as the high-tech myomer bundles began to expand and contract more quickly and even violently. The fight might be just one good kick from over.<br/><br/>((OOC: I haven't really been paying close attention to heat and stuff, but I think Kate is probably close to that magic '9', over at least, if not right on it. Unless there's any objection, I'll play it as though she's on it?))