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The explosives were only a distraction, Sya knew that. The heat was enough to hide the Black Titan from the radars while he shot precisely aimed laser bursts at the mechs' boosters, he only managed to hit seven, the rest were able to dodge. Without the boosters the downed mechs lost control and entered the planet's gravitational pull instead, and could not right themselves for optimal atmospheric entry angle formation and they burned up. There were 46 of those things left and they fired at the Titan. Sya did not need to dodge, these were only meant as a diversion, it was common knowledge among the forces of the planet that energy weapons were useless on the mechs,and he braced for close quarters combat. The mechs were trying to flank him, but stopped and instead turned and began to enter the atmosphere risking their backs to him.

Temperatures were increasing drastically, but the Black Titan did not need to enter formation. Sya proceeded to destroy the boosters that were stabilizing their descent and the mechs burned up in the atmosphere of the moon.

As he had feared, the engines exploded and Sya was forced to move away from his position on the ship and begin his own descent. A few mechs manage to survive, he will have to deal with them later.

He noticed a few pods also performing atmospheric entry. Something was wrong, they were entering at dangerous angles. He quickly flew towards them and grabbed to correct one of them. The sensors identified the occupants to be Forevermore Maria and Ace Grant. The names did not strike him to be important an he moved on to save as many pods as he could.

The Black Titan could fly only so fast and the remainder of the pods were lost. He maneuvered to the landing site of the leftover mechs to initiate the final battle.