Von Straumm shook his head. Mandrake had take Manticore, Nazuchi and Sango the juve to do a quick shock-and-awe run though where they thought the gang of almost identical men were hanging out. A fools errand that he had wanted nothing to to with - and quite rightly so it seemed, as both the gang leader Mandrake and Manticore the heavy lay dead in some emperor-forsaken tunnel, Sango and Nozuchi unable to get a precise fix or collect any of their kit before having to flee back.
To make matters worse, the crazed Ovinnik had taken over leadership of the gang and would not heed Von Straumm's advice. Titan the juve had reported that the two enemy gangs that had been dogging them for days were now closing in... Von Straumm did not fancy their chances at the moment after such key losses, and was unwilling to allow Ovinnik to test his shaky leadership so soon after taking command.
With some trepidation, he had typed in an emergency code on his transponder, selected the coordinates on a tiny and shaky holographic projection, and called in a huge family favour. With a small sigh of relief he got the notification ping that the support request had been granted.
It didn't take long. The entire tunnel section rumbled, shook and then a deafening boom echoed through the complex as the dropship hammered through the compacted ash above. He made it absolutely clear to the gang that it would be... unwise... to venture back the way the noise had come from, as the sounds of ponderous heavy footsteps and rapid lasfire punctuated by thudding explosions and occasional screams began to be carried back to them from the breach.
It didn't take long. The indicator on his wrist com blinked yellow, then steady red as the combat servitor was overwhelmed somehow. But, although it had cost the family dear, the enemy gangs had stopped approaching. He punched in the coordinates of the fallen mechanical monstrosity for later salvage.
The Doxxers Midnight Wreckers manage to overwhelm 'Lil Reavie in close combat, but not before it had seen off Captain No. 9's gang and stomped the hired gun Biggle into a fine pink paste
