AVP Hunters Planet 21

She was just in the act of turning when she heard an explosion. Her instinct slammed her down onto the ground immediately, but her peripheral vision caught the action. The top of the Hunter's body simply blew apart in a gale of fire and blood. Shards of armor and limbs and skull and bone went every which way, as if a ripe metal pumpkin had just exploded.

The remainder of the body teetered, fell.
Machiko hit the dirt, rolled. The taste of rich loam and blood was in her mouth, but she hardly noticed. A familiar whooshing... A dark form swooped down toward her... She raised her pistol but then lowered it. The grav copter lowered itself, drew even with her. The door flapped open. She didn't need an invitation. She jumped, catching hold of the ladder and quickly pulling herself up and over the lip of the door. In a flash she was into the passenger seat, the door closed behind her. Attila pulled the vehicle up and over the tops of the trees, heading back for Evanstonville.

"Are you all right?" he asked, hands steady on the controls.

"Yes... yes." She shook her head and shot a look back at the biological wreckage. "How-?"

"I hadn't realized it before, Machiko, but this copter seems to be very well armed. That little exhibition, for example, was the result of a first-rate rocket launcher."

She took a deep breath. They'd already jumped a goodly distance. Some of the adrenaline was seeping out of her, replaced by surprise."-Chpt.11 pg.427-428