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Chapter 217: Drones
🕑 Added 2025-08-27 08:10:04 +0000 UTC“RRROOOOOAAAAARRRRR.” Tephe roared before she unleashed a torrent of flame from her maw that mixed with the flames the Phoenix squad unleashed.
With the addition of Tephe’s presence and her being immune to the Hepolisks' acidic poison thanks to her armour, the Phoenix squad was sweeping aside any Hepolisk forces they came into contact with as they proceeded towards Pyro City.
“Your presence really is making all the difference, white dragon, thank you,” Revi said after they defeated another Hepolisk squad they came across.
“Just call me Tephe,” Tephe said happily.
“Ok Tephe, so Adam told me that you insisted on helping us?”
“That’s true, I didn’t want to watch the Phoenix race be wiped, especially by those damn snakes.”
“I see, thank you for insisting on helping us.”
“Don’t judge Adam harshly for not initially wanting to help. He knows very little about the known universe, and he promised my mother that he would protect me. He only wanted to keep me safe.”
“I don’t, though I’m surprised your mother let you travel with him, considering your prophecy relates to time travel, something that the races are still researching with great interest.”
“She didn’t, I ran away from home,” Tephe said in a slightly embarrassed tone as she scratched her maw with a large claw.
“You ran away from home?” Revi asked in surprise.
“Yes, I was fed up with being cooped up on Devatov Seven for hundreds of years. When I found out that Diva Lorelie was performing a concert, I decided to attend it.”
“Diva?”
“Oh, Diva is the title given to those who are recognised as the greatest in their area of the entertainment industry. Diva Lorelie is the greatest singer in the universe.”
“I see, it seems lots of things have changed and progressed over two thousand years.”
“After we save this planet from those damn snakes and return to our own time, I will ask Diva Lorelie to come perform here as part of her tour.”
“Then I look forward to it. I hope the performance is worth a two-thousand-year wait.”
“Oh, it is trust me, Diva Lorelie was already amazing, and she has become even better since Adam saved her.”
“He saved her?”
“Yes, from a pirate attack, oh, then he also saved me from an assassination attempt.”
“It seems I should learn more about this Adam. Will you tell me more about him?”
“Sure,” Tephe replied happily before telling Revi all about Adam.
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Spector Unit 6 shot through the battlefield heading in the direction of the Hepokisk communication jamming ship.
Whenever he passed a Hepolisk ship or mech that was within firing range, Adam had one of the four shoulder cannons lock on before firing on them.
Soon, he managed to breach far enough into the Hepolisk lines that larger class ships became more regular, and they started to take notice of him and use more than just laser and ballistic weapons to attack him.
At one point, several small and medium-class ships targeted him at the same time, and along with firing lasers at him, they also shot missiles and rockets.
The rockets were easy to avoid because he just had to move out of their path while he absorbed any laser blasts that might hit him, increasing his NDS even more.
[[NDS Level: 27%]]
The missiles, however, caused a slight issue since they followed Spector Unit 6 wherever it went, and he could not absorb them.
In the end, a mini triple blaster repeater came out of a hidden compartment on each of Spector Unit 6’s wrists as the targeting system locked onto the incoming missiles before they sprayed out blaster bolts, destroying the incoming missiles.
[Animefangirl (Earth): The way he shot down those missiles was so Anime.]
[Gunlovergirl (Earth): Heck yeah, that’s the sort of firepower I wanna see.]
[Beinglittleisnotadisadvantage (Strathorp 7): Wrist-mounted mini blaster repeaters concealed within the mech? It seems his ship isn’t the only one that hides its weapons in compartments.]
[MercheadAnderson (Palaxia): I thought it was strange that he only had the four shoulder cannons.]
[DeverinianLordMalacoss (Deverinian 9): I wonder what other surprises his mech is hiding.]
[Handsome3horns (Vinox 2): I’m most interested in finding out what this Nds that keeps increasing is.]
Spector Unit 6 kept flying through the Hepolisk lines, attacking any vessels that were within range.
At one point, a Hepolisk mech managed to get close enough to him to swing its melee weapon at Adam, which was some sort of giant axe that had a red glow along the blade.
[AlamoMatador4thewin (Earth): What’s that?]
[Beinglittleisnotadisadvantage (Strathorp 7): It’s an energy axe. Back then, beam sabers had not yet been developed, and instead, they used general melee weapons that were enhanced with energy running along the blade. This energy allowed the weapons to cut through armour more easily.]
Adam had Spector Unit 6 intercept the energy axe with his beam saber before he raised the other hand up to the Hepolisk mech's chest and fired the mini triple blaster repeater.
The blaster bolts tore through the Hepolisk mech's armour and pilot, killing him before he could even understand how he died.
After turning the Hepolisk mech into a pincushion, Adam had Spector Unit 6 push it away before he continued heading in the direction of the Hepolisk communication jamming ship.
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“Admiral, an unknown mech has breached enemy lines and is on a direct course for the communication jamming ship.” The Phoenix sensor operator reported on the bridge of the Phoenix capital ship.
“What do we know about the mech?” The Admiral asked.
“Not much, sir. Reports indicate that it is only targeting the Hepolisk forces and that he is easily tearing through them; he even took down the Hepolisk command ship in sector seventeen.”
“Do we know where it came from?”
“Not exactly, though, judging by its first reported sighting in sector seventeen, and how it appears to be heading towards the communication jamming ship, we can ascertain that it came from the direction of the home world.
“Is there some secret new type of mech I wasn’t informed about?” The Admiral asked in an annoyed tone.
“Doubtful, sir, the mech doesn’t conform to our standard mech construction.”
“Have one of our units approach and attempt to make contact.”
“Yes, sir.”
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[[Multiple enemy craft on approach vectors, recommend ativating drones.]]
“Do it,” Adam instructed as he cleaved another Hepolisk mech in half with his beam saber.
[Noobkiller9000 (Earth): Drones?]
[Animefangirl (Earth): Oh, please let it be that, please let it be that.]
[Handsome3horns (Vinox 2): Be what?]
As Adam turned Spector Unit 6 to face the direction that the majority of Hepolisk craft were approaching from, the orange triangular spiked sections attached to the shoulders and those that looked like a type of butt-cape, detached before ten orange and black drones started to orbit around him.
On the viewscreen, sixteen different targeting reticles appeared, and each one locked onto a different approaching ship or mech.
As all sixteen acquired target locks, Adam pulled the trigger on one of the joysticks, causing energy beams to fire from his four shoulder cannons, ten drones, as well as blaster bolts from his two mini triple blaster repeaters.
The chat watched in awe as Specture Unit 6 put on a light show as energy beams and bolts of varying sizes flashed across space before tearing open the sixteen different Hepolisk craft that had been targeted.
[Animefangirl (Earth): I knew it, oh fuck yeah, that’s so Anime.]
[Prestigious3horns (Vinox 2): Oh my god, that was awesome.]
[Emojisonly (Earth): 🥳]
[StealthAssassin9 (Earth): Did you see that light show? It’s just a shame that they were all red and not in different colours.]
[Gunlovergirl (Earth): Fuck this guy really knows how to push my buttons.]
[Justiceistruth (Earth): Can’t you learn to control yourself?]
[Beinglittleisnotadisadvantage (Strathorp 7): How the hell does a mech have a weapons system like that?]
[Whostolemyduck (Earth): I take it you have never seen anything like that before?]
[Beinglittleisnotadisadvantage (Strathorp 7): Not exactly, ships of large class and up can carry weapon drones that work similarly. After an individual selects a target, the ship's AI controls them to seek and destroy automatically. I have just never heard of a mech having such weapons since they tend to be too large for a mech to equip.]
[Beinglittleisnotadisadvantage (Strathorp 7): Also, how much power does that thing's miniaturised neutron reactor generate to be able to fire so many energy weapons at once?]
[OrangeeyedStace (Oceana 7): Oh fuck yeah baby that’s what I’m talking about.]
[OfficialRowena (Oceana 7): He certainly knows how to entertain.]
[DeverinianLordMalacoss (Deverinian 9): Most impressive.]
After destroying the sixteen Hepolisk craft, Adam had Spector Unit 6 continue to charge forward while the drones orbited around it, automatically intercepting any incoming rockets or missiles or firing on targets that Adam assigned to them.
With the ten additional drones now attacking, Adam was making even quicker work of the Hepolisk enemy ships and mechs, so much so that after a while, Adam noticed that few Hepolisk craft were trying to attack him.
Comments
Sweeps83
I indeed got the drones idea from Gundam. They call them funnels I think and they appear in several of the series
Sheppard3rd
I knew i seen it before but that are those weapons of the latest Gundam anime right?
