They’d started out well, winning their first round and being put in the upper—winner’s—bracket. Their second battle, after the fifteen-minute break, had become a pure slugfest, broken up only by the last-minute suicidal use of a hyperbomb by one of the enemies. Unfortunately, they hadn’t expected Jenny to web their entire team with momentum arresters, resulting in the destruction of everyone but her ship. After that, in the individual matches, Zack’s team had managed to eke out a two-for-four win, leaving them the bare winner of that encounter.
Now it was their third battle, and the team was facing another all-Corsair team. The individual fights had gone their way, with only Zack losing in a bad matchup to a heavy missile boat that’d ripped his ship apart before he could close.
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