What Do You Mean I'm The Captain Of A Yandere Mercenary Company?-Chapter 546: Power Armour VS Spider Tank

I gasped, the darkness around me suddenly receding without warning.

It felt like I was going to pass out but something had jolted me back awake forcefully, my vision first blurring before snapping back into focus.

"Emergency stimulants administered. Pilot vitals stable," A mechanical voice spoke through the helmet.

Ok, so the power armour also comes with stuff like that... Good to know.

I should thank Ries later for putting that in later. freewebnøvel.coɱ

I quickly climbed up to my feet and leapt away from where I had fallen, moments before another shot was fired from the tank that landed near where I had been moments ago.

I ducked my head as the resulting explosion sent a shockwave that knocked me stumbling forward before I managed to get my balance back.

Looking up, there were just a few hundred metres left between the tank and myself, if I could just clear this last stretch...

I shot another smoke mortar in the space between us to hide me from view before dashing into the cloud.

I felt an explosion go off somewhere in front of me as I fired another smoke mortar round just in front of the smoke cloud I had just created.

Another smoke cloud formed, hiding me as I ran from the current cloud to the next one.

Ok... Last smoke mortar... This should cover the last hundred metres that I need to get right under the tank.

I fired my last remaining smoke bomb in front of me again, covering the last open ground with smoke.

Alright! Once I get out of this smoke, I should be right under it and out of its firing arc!

I dashed out from the final smoke and...

The tank was several metres away, its turret lowered with its barrel pointed directly at me.

Shit... I totally did not account for the fact that the tank could move away...

I found myself frozen to the spot, despite the fact that my mind was telling me to move.

All I could do was stare at the tank as I waited for it to shoot directly at me.

Something flew from the edge of my vision and struck the tank at the side, causing it to stumble back and firing its shot off to the side, completely missing me.

The thing turned out to be a broken part of the wall of the pirate’s base and I instantly knew that either Amber or Mara had thrown it.

I made a mental note to give both of them a kiss later as I charged the last hundred metres towards the tank, thrusting out my hands to activate the Wave Blades.

I leapt the last few metres towards the tank, slashing my hands out at the front two legs before I rolled under it.

The tank tipped forward but the two legs in the middle quickly shifted forward to stabilise it, preventing the tank from falling.

I moved towards the right leg first, slashing it at the second joint to cut it off before I leapt back just in time to avoid it crashing down on top of me.

Obviously, the tank was still functional but the good thing was that I was under it which meant that I was out of reach of its turret so--

There was a hissing noise and a smaller turret suddenly popped out from under the tank and spun around to search for me.

Are you kidding me?!

I lunged for the last leg on its right first, aiming to cut it off to fully collapse the tank. But after I cut it off, the last two legs on the other side extended, propping the tank up on its side to allow the turret to get a bead on me.

The machine gun barrels started firing and my shield materialised in front of me, doing its best to protect me from the onslaught of kinetic rounds.

I decided to take the risk and run towards the turret instead, trusting my shield to hold out long enough for me to reach it.

A pod popped out from the side of the turret and I reacted on instinct by leaping to the side, right before a rocket was fired from the pod and flew through the space that I had been occupying just a moment ago.

Ignoring the explosion behind me, I kicked off the ground and covered the remaining distance with that leap, my Wave Blade slashing out and cutting the turret into two halves.

Sparks flew from the cut and the turret sputtered and died, leaving me the chance to deal with the final two legs.

But right as I was moving towards it, I heard a groaning sound coming from above and I looked up to see the body of the tank coming down on top of me.

Shit! Now it wants to crush me?!

I raised both my arms, deactivating my Wave Blades and catching the tank, feeling its weight push down on me.

I could hear whirring noises coming from my power armour as it strained against the tank’s body to stop it from crashing down on me.

Even though the armour was handling most of the weight, I could still feel the strain as I felt my knees buckle and I found myself being forced into a squat.

"Abnormal weight detected, increasing strength output," The AI reported through the helmet speakers.

Ries, I’m gonna kiss you lots once we’re done with this.

I felt the weight pressing down on me decrease and I quickly pushed the tank back up, holding the entire thing with one hand while I reactivated the Wave Blade on my other hand.

I stabbed the blade upwards and started cutting a hole under the tank, large enough for me to fit through it.

The moment the lines met up, I let go of the tank and sidestepped to where the hole was, allowing the tank to crash down and let me slip inside that hole.

The external lights on my power armour lit up and I found myself looking at what looks like a control room of sorts with some cylinder that looked like the core of the tank.

Since I’m here, there’s only one thing for me to do...

I activated the Wave Blade in my other hand and started slicing through the core and anything else that even looked remotely important.

Whoever was controlling the tank must have realised what I was doing as white foam suddenly started spraying out from hidden nozzles around the interior. The foam quickly hardened up and I realised its aim was to trap and suffocate anyone that tried to enter it.

Shit, it even has internal defenses? And how is it still not dead after all the things I’ve been doing?! I even sliced through that important looking thing in the centre!

Fuck this!

I levelled my mortar and fired a high explosive shell into the opposite wall.

My shield materialised again right as the explosion went off, consuming everything inside the tank’s interior in a fireball.

The shockwave blew off the top of the tank and I also ended up flying out through the new hole, the world spinning around me as I flipped through the air before falling on top of the tank and rolling off the side.

I scrambled to try to get a grip on the tank but the entire tank was smooth so I ended up sliding off the side and rolling off to fall towards the ground.

Thankfully, the fall wasn’t that far but I did fall on my side which knocked the wind out of me even though the power armour cushioned my fall.

Ow, ow, ow... I am so not doing that again...

I clambered back up on my feet right as another explosion tore through the wreckage of the tank.

Ah, that must be its ammo storage blowing up.

I looked at the burning wreckage of the tank, admiring my handiwork for a moment before I spoke through the comms.

"One dead tank is served, girls. How are things on your end?"

"I got what we came here for, Captain," Mara answered immediately, holding up something that looked like a memory stick to the video feed. "I made sure to double check by interrogating the leader as well and this was it."

I nodded at her before focusing on Amber’s call, "What about you, Amber?"

She gave me a thumbs up through her video, "Looted everything clean, Tera! Ries’s drones carried off all the stuff worth looting! Shall I start burning the entire place down now?"

"Do it, make sure nothing remains of that place. Once you’re done, I’ll also need you to do the same thing to the tank too."

"Ehehehe~ You can leave it to me, Tera!"

Good, at least we’re done here... With that stick, we can finally find out what was it that the pirates were after all this time.

Although... I still don’t know who sent this Spider Tank... Was this tank aiming for the pirates or was it aiming for us?

Guess we’ll never know...

Unless Ries can salvage its logs or something?

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