One consequence of expanding the Combined Field had been to put the Mishhuvurthyar scouts inside the Miharu's protective shield bubble... which meant the experimental escort was naked before the attakcs of its opponents.
Several shots rained of the vessel, some severely crumpling through the armor while others dealt even more arm. One positron blast destroyed the Miharu's ventral port particle cannon turret; another smashed against the side of the Hoshi's nose and ruined the escape pod within; some savaged over the port side of the rollbar, crippling a good third of the variable weapon pod launchers as their scorched fabrication modules were exposed to space; yet another struck the Matter Collection System assembly in front of the Miharu's starboard wing egine section; and finally a tunneling bolt crashed through the crew cabin right next to Nyton's quarters, filling the room with flames before the internal forcefields went on, preventing the anything in the room from being sucked out (though most of the furnishings were charred by that point and of little value anyways).
Retribution came by the way of Yukari's prepared beam attacks. Almost a dozen white lances shot away from the combined field surrounding the Miharu's tail section, spearing each of the enemy vessels through at least once or twice.
For a moment, they were frozen within the grasp of the Nyton-controlled graviton beams... and the next they blossomed into explosions. A bare second later, the Miharu's main gun sliced through the suddenly unphased Gemini 5... promply turning that vessel too into so much wreckage.
"Nyton, grab some of the bigger pieces of debris from those ships and haul them in the port bay - I want to give Saito-Hei the chance to analyze them. Yukari, turn the Miharu toward Gemini 2 so we can finish him off with our main gun too."
Gemini 2, whom had contently been picking away at its Yui, suddenly found itself alone against three relatively pissed Star Army vessels. The scout did an about turn and its gravimetric engines flared as it accelerated away, not even taking the care of weaving around the asteroid and simply using its phasing ability to get through a cluster of them.
No sooner had it suddenly elude their grasp that Gemini 2 promptly had its label turn gray - one of the Kinkou Irim, done with destroying the Xianthrafruglu gunships, had used its transposition cannon over the vicinity of the fleeing scout, destroying it and many of the surrounding asteroids.
Kotori blinked at the display and leaned back againsrt her chair. "Nevermind, just get that wreckage."
There were no more enemy ships on sensors.
