306 Convergence 3 (1/2)

”Roger!”

Although it was hard to miss the skywards pointing planetary defence railgun they were nearing, Lux still made it clear to Lia that those were what they were after, and that she shouldn't accidentally damage it. With the area clearing of large buildings, Mare also returned to street level and the 3 Hellwalkers were quickly able to clear the area with the help of the supporting Hornet's.

”So what do you even plan on doing with that gun?”

”This.”

Turning to the railgun, Lux placed a hand on its fire control system at its base as blackmatter nanomachines started pouring out from her hand.

”IMI master, initiate domination.”

[IMI MASTER, DOMINATION ACTIVE… TAKEOVER SUCCESSFUL, UNIT SLAVED. FIRE CONTROL SYSTEM TAKEOVER COMPLETE, AWAITING TASKING.]

Using IMI and a heavy dose of blackmatter which quickly reprogrammed the railgun turret, Lux bloomed a full on shit eating grin as she raised a finger into the air, then slowly lowered it down until it pointed at the mysterious wormhole in the distance which was still pouring out Emergence forces, with the railgun following her movements.

”Ain't this kind of weapon made to shoot targets in high orbit?”

Seeing what Lux was planning on doing, Lia started getting nervous. Sure, the cloud rippers were railguns, but with their truly massive capacitors and 60 metre long barrels, using them to shoot at a target which was practically at point blank range was inadvisable, bordering on straight up insane, and that was not even considering their ammunition which contained antimatter charges.

”They are yeah, but these kinds of rules are meant to be broken~ IMI, target.”

[TARGET ACQUIRED.]

”Use zero point delay armour piercing antimatter ballistic capped ammunition, set the fuse to minimal separation... Fire at will.”

[FIRING.]

”Again, saturation fire.”

[DIRECTIVE CONFIRMED, DEPLETING STORED MONITION, NOW FIRING.]

No sooner than the cloud ripper had reloaded and recharged its capacitors did Lux give a new order to fire, and continue firing until the gun had used all its stored ammunition.

While Lux had absolutely decimated the majority of the Emergence forces on the other side of the portal, the core problem still remained, the portal itself still remained, but Mu and Ra had had a few hours to look at it now and that was more than enough time to come up with a countermeasure.

[I've sent the data package over, please confirm it.]

”Yeah, I see it alright, loading it into the strike package right now.”