'What the hell?!'
It was not just Ethan's teeth that ached, the Crawler's plates quivered, and that… bought an opening where the Carapace Crawler was vulnerable.
The resonance chant didn't just make the Crawler's plates quiver, for a moment, the Carapace Crawler seemed to lose control over its own body!
And as the squad hit the deck, the chant pulled the Crawler's head up, plates flaring open involuntarily. In the gap, a turret lowered from a raised observation post like a guillotine finding a neck.
Then…
BOOM!
The shot wasn't a bullet, it was a rod, a thick spear of alloy screaming on a tether of light through the night.
It punched through the crawler's mouth and out the back of its head!
It jerked once and then sagged, plates collapsing like roof tiles. It was dead.
The advance squad finally rolled to their feet and hauled the wounded back by their harnesses. The gate yawned open, and they vanished through it.
It quickly shut itself back, and locked.
