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them.”
    “Scuttlebutt says she is,” Jyra disagreed.
    “No, she just has some experimental flying armor,”
Mace explained.
    “Have you found confirmation of that?” Brandon asked.
    “In reports, no. But I have pulled visuals from some
of the battles she’s been in. Those aren’t hard to find.”
    “Ok, lizard expert,” Brandon said. “Anything else we
should know before heading in there?”
    “They don’t like losing,” Leo said, watching his own
HUD with the realtime battlemap.
    “Well they’re going to lose a little to us. Let’s get
packed up,” he said, grabbing a water jug while the others picked up the spare
pieces of equipment that didn’t go in their packs and loaded them up while Leo
took down their tent and did likewise. When they were all set they mounted up
within the cave and eased their way out one by one, hugging low to the terrain
and following Brandon out as he navigated their way through the dark getting
them closer to the city.
    The cameras on the tips of the speeders picked up the
aerial traffic easily enough, with ships coming and going constantly from other
cities delivering troops and supplies that would then be sent on ahead to the
front. No infantry convoys were present, however, but there were a lot of
rapidly moving hovertrucks coming in, apparently
shuttling the hordes of lizards to this rendezvous point where they could
gather and then approach en mass under their own
power.
    That meant the four speeders had to be careful when
approaching to choose a vector that didn’t have traffic, but a couple of miles
shy of the outer buildings they stopped their approach and flew low in a wide
circle checking the terrain and keeping off the rocky mounts. Eventually they
found a bit of cover and set down, hiding two of the bikes there and doubling
up on the others. They planned to fly their way over the buildings and through
the streets rather than trying to huff it on foot, but if something went wrong
and they lost their rides they didn’t want to get caught out in the countryside
on foot, for their evac point was far from here.
    It didn’t hurt to have a backup plan, but it was a
very tight fit underneath the cloaking sheaths with Jyra having to almost lay down around Mace’s waist to fit. Her head wasn’t upright,
but then again she couldn’t see anything other than the camera transmitting to
her HUD, and that didn’t matter since she wasn’t driving.
    The Arc Commando did watch as Brandon and Mace flew up
to the outer ring of buildings, picking their spot carefully as they eased up
to one and all but landed on the roof of the 4 story tall structure. It didn’t
have windows, which was common for their low lying structures. They knew enough
about lizard infrastructure to know it was an industrial warehouse of some
sort, the contents of which they didn’t know, nor were they going to find out.
They had a variety of targets available to them to hit, but right now staying
hidden was all that mattered.
    Creeping from roof to roof and zipping across sections
of city where they found a hole in the traffic patterns, the two speeders
stayed together and traveled far inside the outer perimeter, avoiding the
heavily defended infrastructure and zigzagging across the mundane structures.
Most of those were residential or more warehouses, and they set down on the
roof of one residential complex when their primary target came within sight.
    Or rather the top of it, most of the hatchery was
situated below ground but the entrances were fairly well defended. They were
going to have to sneak their way in from here, and the best way they knew how
was to go underground themselves and travel over to the facility via the tunnel
network.
    Jyra slid out from under the
cloaking sheath along with Mace and jogged over to one of the roof entrances
that Leo was already working on cutting into, for it wasn’t a personnel
entrance, but rather an exhaust vent. The Archons might be able to walk down
through a