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Thrusters burned as a single mech bulled its way through the dark skies.
Low-altitude flight through the pea-soup of the cloudbanks set a harsh limit on flight time, but the position of their target was close. It had to be.
Some combination of stealth components or luck had prevented any unfortunate ‘blue-on-blue’ incidents from friendly or not-so-friendly air defense during the prior sections of the trip, so in theory the only trouble that remained was actually locating their target and ensuring it could finish the trek back to the Patriot lines. Whatever that looked like.
Then, it would be a matter of recharging their energy reserves on the ground for the flight back, and slipping back south along the ‘safe’ route given, with as little contact as possible.
After Cobalt Zero Four was secure, of course.
Abnormal thermal activity on the ground, consistent with readings from mech-scale reactor breach.
Moving to investigate.
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