Day 2 in hell (The continuation)

A mech board screamed across the crystalline terrain of Sirius Beta, its repulsors carving trenches through alien stone as Kelvin pushed the machine beyond its design limits. Behind him, eight feet of pure nightmare thundered in pursuit, each footfall sending tremors through the ground that threatened to knock him off course.

'Well, this is just peachy,' Kelvin thought, banking hard around a spire of blue-white crystal that jutted from the planet's surface like a frozen scream. 'Three one-horns dead, my entire team slaughtered, and now I'm playing chase with their big brother. Today just keeps getting better.'