Dusts of Avalon - Beastwithin.org

X. DIn middle of the tower's laser fire, Palomides stomped on the de. He ran tothe bots that were hauling materials from the small doors on the de, cleavedone in half and smashing one with his arm. He took his sword and cleaved someof the truss structures. e tower creaked, but didn't fall.“Have at you, metallic menacers!” Palomides roared. “My strength is thestrength of a hundred of your kind, for I have the heart whi you la! Britainshall prevail! For valour!”“Daleworth to Sir Palomides”, Daleworth said over command link. She wasn'tsure what sort of orders Palomides had goen, but things seemed to be going welleven without instructions. It was just that she needed some order. “Don't worryabout the tower, just destroy the construction bots first and anti-air weapons next.”“By your word, dame Daleworth”, Sir Palomides replied. With a few leapsover twisted, bla metal, Palomides cleaved his way through some of the remainingconstruction bots. “Your destruction is the will of God! And I am Hishumble servant, instrument of your demolition!”“What the hell is that guy babbling about?” Daleworth muered to herself.is was turning almost amusing.“Semisentient cylinders of mostly copper! Face the wrath of my trusty broadsword!Aaa! A-hah! I shall cleave you in twain, villain!”Daleworth started to wonder if there was some sort of an amusing undercurrentin all these legends—“Yaah! Hyaah! Hoo! —Aah!!!”—And then Daleworth noticed that there was nothing amusing going on. Shelooked at the video feed and didn't see movement. What was going on out there?“Daleworth to Sir Palomides.”“T…the vile v-v-v-v-villains caught me o-o-off guard, dame. Constructionmainery is… d-d-d-destroyed. I've s-s-suffered a hit. My b-b-body doesn't seemto f-f-f-function properly, dame.”“Fu. Um… Will you hold up if we blow up the tower?”“I-i-i shall r-retreat to m-my Steed. I-i-i can barely move.”“ʰ Company Command to ˢ Platoon”, Plaerman imed in through thecommand network. “Bomb the tower. I repeat, bomb the tower.”“Say again, Major?” Daleworth asked. “Want us to drop the Sassy Lass?”“We don't know if the Planner cra has shielding, but it seems the towerthey're building doesn't have shielding. If we can take out the tower, the missionis as good as done. Just stop the bastards from broadcasting the signals.”“What the fu is a Sassy… holy fuing shit, you can't really mean…” Batesprotested.“Sir, will you take responsibility if the Roughs Platform is damaged in thebombing run, sir?” Daleworth just couldn't contain the slight amusement in hertone.