A Modest Punishment part 1
――Time began to move again.
Achilles slammed against a step of the Polar Control Facility. Even as an Another-Level Silhouette, it couldn’t soften the impact.
Hurled by a force Alexandros III couldn’t understand in the slightest, he tried to kick in reverse thrust and stabilize—useless. Achilles kept tumbling until it rolled all the way down to ground level.
「Ghh—」
Alexandros III stifled a groan. He had no idea what had happened. The red dwarf Nemesis in the sky had flashed for a heartbeat—and the next moment he’d been blown away.
The shock of the fall was being absorbed by the MCS, and still the vibration was savage. It meant he had taken a strike with impossible force.
After rolling for several minutes, he finally stopped. Achilles was on all fours. It couldn’t stand. Everything from the ankles down had been shorn away.
Thrusters could keep it flying indefinitely, sure, but this was exactly what it meant
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