Tel´vani aimed the railgun squarely into the back of the banechoppa, as the powerfull gun charged up to fire another solid shot. A flicker of movement caught her well-trained eye, and she stopped the fire preparation... Frowning Tel´vani reached forward and pressed a few buttons as well as giving a voice command to the Hammherhead AI "Infra-red, enhance 125%..."
The image on her view screen zoomed in, and removed the black clouds of obscuring smoke. What remained, was the barrel of an enormous cannon, now swiveled to point directly at the hammerhead cockpit...
"Oh Frack"
As the cannon fired with an almight BOOM, Tel´vani performed the move that had won her second-grade pilot honours, and then almost lost her the first-grade honours. The Hammerhead swerved sharply, engines swivveling and blasting a stream of superheated ion particles...
The MegaKannon shell hit the skimmer just as it started to gain height, one engine shredded in an instant with an almoght explosion... The Hammerhead, like a strikken bird, started to spin down towards the ground... trailing smoke and flames behind it...
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Back on the Tau front lines, Gurt was driving along a trench, spiked Bike wheels churning up Tau firewarriors as they tried to flee... He laughed manically, oilz black smoke pouring out of the bike exhausts as he burst out of the trench, straight in front of the Boss... Giving a mock salute, Gurt revved the bike into a wheelie and gunned down another firewarrior... "Run little Blue ´hummies... RUN!.. GZAHHAHAHAAA!"
Inside the cockpit, Tel´vani swore again, as the ground rushed up to meet her view screen....