Re: The Adbot's Revenge!
The convulsions seemed to abate for the most part, but unknown to him, the damage had already begun. He continued to exert his control over Daedalus, firing as many drones as he could control, trying to at least disable to hive ship. In the mean time though, unseen to him, but perhaps to Shrike, his nose had begun to drip with blood, most likely from the strain. Yet still, despite this, he refused to break the link, obviously figuring that if they were screwed, it was better to go out fighting.
The hive itself took a number of hits, gigantic chunks of the hull ripping apart, exposing a gaping hole in the bottom part of the forward sections. As the drones impacted a second salvo, more tears formed along the underbelly of the ship and at the front of it. This was when the hive changed tactics.
There was a sudden charge of energy in the air as suddenly one of the AA turret positions was simply blasted off the face of the planet, gone in an enormous blast of blue energy. It was unlikely anyone had time to escape the area, and the hive continued firing in seemingly random directions, though that was the only place inside of the city it struck. It seemed that the damage they had caused might have taken out their weapons guiding systems, meaning it was manual fire only, and that was tricky with a large ship moving like that.
Grave had been right about land troops, as suddenly a mountain of them appeared just outside the gates of the city, beginning to charge. As more shots ripped larger chunks of the hive apart, it suddenly turned, in an almost limping style, angling away from the city, seemingly trying to escape intact.
Siphon had seen this, and for the moment allowed the thing to move away, fearing he couldn't vaporize enough of it to protect the city if it came crashing down. Yet Shrike could tell, despite the danger to his own well being, he was only biding his time for another attack, and not stopping.
