Twitch grinned as the flashes of cannon fire ripped through a hasty roadblock the stormtroopers had thrown up, the armor of the troopers providing no protection from the heavier weapons of the Juggernaut as it rocketed full tilt through the city.
"Dyre," he heard One yell, "We've got incoming, Bombers from the look of the profile."
"Damn it Tank," came the response as the armored vehicle plowed through the side of a building, shuddering for a moment before powering its way clear.
"On it," Twitch yelled as he spun the turret and brought the selector up, "Knew I was saving the rockets for something."
"And we knew we were keeping you around for something more than your cheery disposition," Hammer cracked while strafing the street ahead to force the traitors back.
"Okay, inbound bomber at full attack speed," the demolitions expert whispered as the wheels in his mind began to turn, "Dumbfire only rockets, no proximity fuses."
He triggered the heavy laser cannon into one of the buildings with one hand while the other seemed to dance upon the console.
"The enemy is to low for standard targeting in this environment," he continued in a monotone letting the data fill his thoughts, "Timing the detonation should work correctly, especially if I can disable the..."
"Here they come!" Tank declared as the howl of the twin ion-engines reached their ears.
"Well, here goes nothing," Twitch stated as he fired the rockets.
Four contrails as the building he'd been coring with the cannons collapsed with the weapons passing through, the disabled impact detonators letting them pass through the weakened structure seconds before it collapsed to continue at an angle into the city where the building blocked the paths of the targeting computers.
The countdown reached zero and the horizon blossomed into a fireball as the rockets detonated along the TIE's flightpath.
They were anti-personnel and armor weapons, Twitch knew that, the particulars of their systems made that clear and they had been designed to basically clear the road on impact for allied forces to close in unhampered. However, the large blast radius', shrapnel, and an ion pulse core were just as dangerous in the sky if you could set them off on their target.
"Good shooting," Dyre commented as the blue flash of the ion burst faded at the rooftops that shielded the enemy from sight, "But one's still up there."
No time for another shot, the launchers were still in their reload cycle, not to mention the calculations and programming would take to long.
"Not good."
A flash above as the solar panels glinted in the sunlight, a moment of blue, the signal of the heavy bomb being launched as he closed his eyes in preparation for the end.
Then the entire world shook.