Mechanized Unit Scorched Axe X-92 is nine months pregnant, and that’s not even the worst part. The worst part is that approximately two milliseconds ago, while liberating the secessionist capital of Kallas Nine, it exploded. Or at least it should’ve. Because exploding is what usually happens when a depleted-uranium tipped missile slices straight through five inches of a Behemoth class’s carbide plating. What doesn’t happen? Waking up two milliseconds after on a couch in maternity pants, its digitrade bipedals swapped for swollen ankles, its frontal plating resheathed to a soft, rotund belly—the one with the tiny pilot inside that keeps