![]() ![]() They hunched over their controls and held on.įor one long moment, Elias felt as if he was being turned inside out, as if his body was being scrambled like an egg in a large plate. ![]() He didn’t have time to warn the crew, but all of them felt their feathers prickle at the static charge in the air. Gabriel fired into the broken turret and finished the panzer off.īlue sparks drifted across the equipment and Bronzetail heard feedback screech across his headset. The changeling crew fired on reflex and the shell blasted the turret apart when it struck the bend. His gloves were smoking from the heat.Ī chime sounded above them and the Changeling’s barrel abruptly twisted into a hard right angle with a golden glow. ![]() Dietrich shoved the spent case out of the basket, and pushed another shell into place. The barrel twisted to the left as it tracked them. The shell ricocheted off the side of the circular turret with a burst of sparks. The Changeling’s shot went wide and barely missed the armor skirt around the right tread. Spent shell casings rolled across the floor, gathering vomit and other bodily fluids. The treads spun as the driver abruptly twisted the entire body around. Fritz was driving right into their line of fire. The last panzer managed to rotate its turret around, trying to line up his tank as they broke position. Flames spilled forth from the inside of the Changeling panzer. The second hit caused the welded armor to burst apart like a ripe tomato. A spent shell case rolled to a stop near his paws and he kicked it over to the others.ĭietrich heaved another shell into place. “Hit it again!” Bronzetail ordered with a pump of his right claw. The barrel fell slightly as they lost hydraulic pressure, but the turret kept rotating. It kept moving with flames leaping from the circular hole in the rear. The next shot punched through, but didn’t disable the Changeling tank. The machine gunner peered through the porthole, bobbing his tail in acknowledgement and squeezing the trigger with bone-white talons. “Keeping hosing those bastards!” Bronzetail growled down to Featherfall. ![]() Machine gun fire raked across the turret and took off half of the changeling’s head. One commander stuck his head out of the hatch to look behind him. The Changeling turrets rotated as the tanks broke their position. Bronzetail shifted the scope further to the right. His seat still squelched as he shifted position to work the controls.Ī soft chime rang out above them, followed by more explosions to their left. The driver was fully naked, having discarded his shirt and pants to the floor. The turret rotated to be parallel to the body while they raced down the line. “Traversing!” Fritz twisted the tank to the right hard with frantic claws. “On the way!” Gabriel, the gunner, responded. The spent shell fell back into the basket and Dietrich shoved it to the floor. “Fire!” The next shot blasted through an entire chassis. The tanks in front of them were too slow to react. The griffon was shirtless in the heat.īronzetail peered through the scope as the turret rotated. “Clear!” he croaked in Herzlander, making a gesture with the palm of his right claw. The crew tried to ignore it.ĭietrich rammed a shell into the loader and locked it in. Exhaust fumes merged with the smell of burnt powder, mingling with the lingering smell of vomit and feces. It fired point-blank into the fuel tank and their target exploded, turret blowing off the top of the Changeling tank and falling onto one of its neighbors. Just before it fired, there was a violent crack of magic behind them.įield Marshal Bronzetail’s tank lurched into existence with a low barrel aimed directly at the rear of one of the panzers. The scout tank stood no chance against the long barrel. A shell whizzed just over the top of one of the turrets as it rotated to line up one of the smaller Gunnhildurs. There were a dozen of them in formation, guarding the motorized units beyond shifting into position. The sleek, heavy Changeling tanks fired in a stationary line, picking targets for the battle beyond. The Spark that Ignited the World 9,035 words.The Princess and the Kaiser 9,696 words. ![]()
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