The enemy adapted to Tobin's forward push, surrounding him from three directions at once. His Mecha lost an arm to a heavy blast, and from the observation gallery, Ning saw Tobin's whole body convulse inside the pod as the haptic systems delivered the impact. He fought on one-armed for a while before he was finally brought down.
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Tobin climbed out of the pod slowly, his face pale and his left arm held stiffly against his side, as though he could still feel the missing limb.
Elena went next.
She was more careful than Tobin had been, and for the opening minutes of her run, a battle among the docking structures of a massive orbital station, she made almost no mistakes. She moved methodically from cover to cover, verified every target before firing, and stayed close to her allied units.
