The Mech Touch novel Chapter 5102

The Phobos had no choice but to retreat.

Ves was fairly satisfied by the fact that the expert stealth mech managed to cripple the warp drives of at least one puelmer heavy cruiser.

However, despite all of the alien crew members that fell at the hands of an increasingly more outrageous spiritual fiend, the overall fighting power of the alien homeship likely did not drop that much.

Nosferatu had become so addicted at harvesting the lives of his alien victims that he completely neglected to sabotage any critical ship systems such as power generators and transphasic shield generators!

The Phobos could have done a lot more damage if the aliens did not employ so many effective and targeted countermeasures.

It was a pity that the arrival of so many alien starfighters made it impossible for the Phobos to linger around any further.

No matter how effective he was at hiding his presence, stealth technology could not prevent a machine in hiding from getting struck by another solid object!

As the Phobos retreated from the rear section of the alien fleet, Venerable Zimro Belson briefly considered whether he and his battle partner should approach the other puelmer homeship in order to find a way to immobilize her as well.

However, the puelmer captain and officers in charge of the second puelmer heavy cruiser responded far too quickly to give the Phobos any openings.

The powerful alien homeship did not even wait for any human infiltration units to get close enough to reduce her capabilities.

She instead began to propel forward again while engaging one of her warp drives.

Soon enough, the undamaged puelmer vessel entered into warp travel again!

Once she continued to build up a respectable amount of speed in warp, the ship began to turn and circle around the surrounding areas.

The puelmers made sure to vary and randomize her trajectory extensively enough to prevent any humans to mine her route or allow any units in stealth to have any chance of getting close enough to perform their mischief.

Seeing that the alien raiding fleet had become extremely alert towards further intrusions, Venerable Zimro Belson briefly considered whether he should attempt to cripple the yurzen warships, but ultimately decided to back off and distance his expert mech from all of the commotion.

The difficulty of attacking a prepared and fully alert adversary was hundreds of times more difficult!

No matter how well the extensive stealth capabilities of the Phobos could elude the alien search efforts, the chance of accidents had become too great at this stage.

"Let's move towards the hidden archeship." The energy manifestation of Ves suggested. "Lucky is still stuck in captivity. The longer he remains at the mercy of the arche, the greater the chance we won't be able to get him back."

It had been a bit of a reckless decision on their part to dump Lucky into an alien warship that they knew little about. Ves was a bit surprised that the arche managed to do what so many other enemies had been unable to do over the years. They successfully managed to contain the gem cat!

"What is the status of your cat?" Venerable Zimro asked.

"I'm not sure. Only Goldie is able to maintain contact with him. Since Goldie hasn't given me any updates, we can presume that Lucky is not being acutely threatened by the arche. That can change at any moment, though, so it is better for all of us if we hurry up and get him out sooner rather than later."

"The arche should be taking countermeasures as well in order to prevent us from rescuing your cat." Zimro remarked.

Ves nodded. "That is true, but their means are a lot more limited. Lucky has not only managed to sabotage the warp drives of the archeship, but also damaged a lot of other archemetal systems. The alien vessel's overall effectiveness has dropped to an extent. Right now, our target ship is quietly trying to distance herself from the yurzen raiding fleet as well, but her acceleration and traversal speed are largely constrained by the need to keep her presence hidden from both us and the other aliens. The arche don't even have the option to throw all caution to the wind and warp away anymore."

Mobility was the key to many engagements. Controlling the movements of the enemy was key to setting them up for defeat.

The Phobos soon changed course and quietly tried to catch up to the fleeing archeship.

"It will take a while for my expert mech to reach the archeship." Venerable Zimro said with a frown. "According to the supplied data, my expert mech should be a little faster under full stealth, but the alien ship has a headstart on us. Lucky will have to wait longer for rescue."

"Understood. There is little we can do about that." Ves sighed. "Let us hope that the archeship won't be as difficult to infiltrate as the puelmer heavy cruisers. The arche rely a lot more on their famed archemetal to protect their ships. Much of the reason why that is the case is because energy-based defenses will practically give away the presence of a starship that is trying her best to remain hidden. So long as this is the case for our latest target, you should be able to deploy all of your fiends."

The biggest uncertainty was whether the Phobos would be able to catch up to the hidden alien vessel in time before the arche did anything serious to the captive gem cat!

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