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"Yeah yeah, we already see him," one of them preempted. "I doubt he'll be much of a problem for--"

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"Light blind me, where'd he go!" The other knight barked. "He was just there, and then--"

The Immortal had vanished in the flick of a whisker, leaving a dust cloud in his wake leading between the forelegs of the mech. Daybreak's nimble digits flew across his keyers with the grace of a musician playing an instrument. The mech's tail slammed into the ground, narrowly missing the Immortal as he slid just out from under the mech's chassis.

He grabbed the end of the mech's tail and dug his hind claws into the dirt, arresting the mech's forward stride.

Daybreak cringed at the metallic twang of tearing pseudosinew as the Immortal succeeded in amputating their mech's tail.

"What'd I tell you," said Daybreak.

"Not now, Light blind it!" Sunrise growled, his digits flying across his own keyers. The mech reared up on its hind feet and extended its plasma claws, then lunged forward. It slashed the air where the Immortal was a few milliseconds earlier.

The mini mech leapt in the path of the other knight, wielding the amputated tail like a club. He brought the hulk of dead metal down on the other mech's head with a crunch, shattering its optics and stripping off the antenna arrays on its muzzle.

The Immortal clambered onto the blinded mech's back, clawing at random spots along the spine. It straddled the mech's shoulders and punched a whole in the polymerite armor covering the umbilical sheath connecting the mech's head-mounted sensor suite to the cockpit and started tearing away cables like an animal rooting through an insect nest. The mech bent its legs and leaped into the air, twisting its spine so its back pointed earthward , then slammed down, all its weight concentrated between its shoulders.

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 "Yeah yeah, we already see him," one of them preempted. "I doubt he'll be much of a problem for--"
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+"Light blind me, where'd he go!" The other knight barked. "He was just there, and then--"
+The Immortal had vanished in the flick of a whisker, leaving a dust cloud in his wake leading between the forelegs of the mech. Daybreak's nimble digits flew across his keyers with the grace of a musician playing an instrument. The mech's tail slammed into the ground, narrowly missing the Immortal as he slid just out from under the mech's chassis.
+He grabbed the end of the mech's tail and dug his hind claws into the dirt, arresting the mech's forward stride.
+Daybreak cringed at the metallic twang of tearing pseudosinew as the Immortal succeeded in amputating their mech's tail.
+"What'd I tell you," said Daybreak.
+"Not now, Light blind it!" Sunrise growled, his digits flying across his own keyers. The mech reared up on its hind feet and extended its plasma claws, then lunged forward. It slashed the air where the Immortal was a few milliseconds earlier.
+The mini mech leapt in the path of the other knight, wielding the amputated tail like a club. He brought the hulk of dead metal down on the other mech's head with a crunch, shattering its optics and stripping off the antenna arrays on its muzzle.
 The Immortal clambered onto the blinded mech's back, clawing at random spots along the spine. It straddled the mech's shoulders and punched a whole in the polymerite armor covering the umbilical sheath connecting the mech's head-mounted sensor suite to the cockpit and started tearing away cables like an animal rooting through an insect nest. The mech bent its legs and leaped into the air, twisting its spine so its back pointed earthward , then slammed down, all its weight concentrated between its shoulders.