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Burning Skies Saloon
BdrLineAzn:
--Starlight--
*As the battle in the east continues, BdrLine and his crew try knock the transports quickly out of the sky*
*Allen from the hawacha*
"There are too many ships out here, oh shoot, some are already landed and are unloading their troops. ...What the Flak?!? Are they shooting at us?"
*As the goldfish flies around the combat area, the soldiers already on the ground faces up and fires their rifles at the ship.*
*All around the ship, bullet shells are ricocheting off the armor making a ping noise."
*At the helm, BdrLine turns his ship at another transport to give Allen a shot*
"Don't mind them, rifle rounds won't damage us that easily, just focus on destroying the ones in the air. The less of them on the ground, the better for our guys."
*BdrLine call to the other two*
"One of you guys get on the mortar, see if you can lessen their ranks."
*John being the closest, hops on the gun and start firing towards the earth*
*Small explosions can be heard as the shells hit the ground*
"Nice nice, keep it up John"
*After a few volleys of shooting and reloading, John loads in another round and starts firing. This time the explosions were much bigger and more devastating*
"Don't know how you did that with the mortar, but keep it up"
"Umm Bdr... that wasn't me."
*Tommy quickly see the cause of the bigger explosions calls up*
"It was those mines, the guys from the wall are shooting out the balloons so that it can detonate on top of them"
"Well one less chore for us. Allen keep shooting, Tommy get on the carro and see if we can help out."
*As the front hawacha keeps on spiting rounds out towards the floating troop transports, Tommy would get on the carronade and pop the mines balloon whenever they were close enough*
"keep this up, we may have this ended soon"
Skyraider:
*A long and uneventful flight happened. Finally Sky reached his target, a group of infantry moving towards the north like Zill said. He began his climb, then speaks.*
"Alright, approaching the targets, they were expecting an airship attack, not a single plane in range, we caught them off guard!"
*Once he hit a good altitude he began his dive, Iris comments*
"I hope you hit those targets! We'll have a lot of fighters on our tail in a minute"
*Like Iris had said, there were multiple dots were in the sky. They were enemy planes dispatched to handle an airship, but Sky's plane was much quicker than anything they had. Once the dive began, the troops attempted to spread apart in different directions, but it was to late. Once Sky was low enough, he dropped his one bomb and launched eight Hwcha rockets before he had to pull up, out of his dive. The force had been caught off guard and paid a huge price, there were only about one third of the force left by the time he circled around. However those dots in the sky became larger and larger as the retreated, Iris became concerned*
"They are getting close? Are you sure your going full speed?"
"No, I want them to catch up, I still have plenty of bullets left."
"Is that very wise?"
"We have a speed advantage, we can out run them in a fight. Also if they get on our tail your here."
Yiski:
--NARRATOR--
Yiski made it back to the saloon and saw everyone, minus Jun'ko. The other rushed to Yiski and inspected him. To their relief, Yiski was untouched.
"Where's Jun?"
"She's with Paradox on Jericho."
Yiski doesn't wait for more questions and heads for the bar wall and grabs his rifle off the wall. He walks back over and hands the standard rifle to Roland. Yiski starts out the door again. Roland speaks up.
"Yiski are you heading out again?"
"Yeah, we got reports of a few infantry units near the eastern wall."
Without more questions, Yiski rushed out the door and jogged to the eastern wall. It took a good few minutes to get near the area and already Yiski could hear small arms fire.
"Looks like a few breached."
Yiski double timed to the front line and saw the eastern defenders holding against the breaching troops. Yiski met up with a random defender.
"I can't believe you haven't gotten rid of them yet. Doesn't the academy teach you to shoot better?"
"Sorry, but they've managed to get entrenched cover."
The defender was going to ask who Yiski was, but one look at Yiski's Blood Bolt caused him to keep it shut. Other defenders were calling out the invasion forces' position. After a deep breath, Yiski popped from cover and started taking out the enemy's positions. The defenders would have eventually taken the positions, but Yiski's assistance made it quicker and with fewer casualties. Yiski walked over to a defender and asked for a radio.
"Zill, Paradox, BdrLine, Sky, the ground here is clean and the defenders have position over the breached wall and opening fire on the remaining ground forces. How are things in the sky?"
Zill responds first.
"Well, the city's batteries have basically torn the fleet the shreds. They've got three fully operational goldfishes and one beat up pyra."
Paradox is then heard.
"This piss poor excuse of an invasion is almost done. How about we rush them?"
BdrLine comes on.
"Well, last I see Lockheart and a few others are already doing that." Moments later. "And Lockheart's group is finished with them."
"Sky here. If things are over then I'm heading back to port. Gotta say my planes worked like a charm."
"Yiski, I'm guessing we'll all meet at the saloon."
"Damn right, I'll have cold one waiting for you all."
The battle was over and, once again, Anvala proves it cannot be taken. All ships return to port with the exception of the few fallen. Luckily, this invasion was relatively light compared to past attempts and the casualties were low.
Soon the moon was rising when everyone got to the saloon. As promised, Yiski already had cold drinks ready for everyone to take. The rest of the night involved the group acting out how scared shitless the enemy had to be.
--NARRATOR END--
--END OF DAY 71--
Yiski:
--START OF DAY 72--
--NARRATOR--
By the next sunrise, nobody had slept an ounce. The adrenaline from yesterday's attack still ran through everyone's body. The saloon was packed with everybody still drinking and celebrating. Roland and Ny-Lee did their best to assist Yiski who was also drinking. The saloon was open, but the correct statement would be the saloon never closed last night.
By the next day though, there were going to be a few hungover.
--NARRATOR END--
RearAdmiralZill:
After the battle was over and the smoke cleared, Zill called up the reserves to clean up the aftermath while anyone directly involved with the battle was given the next day off. He was at the Burning Skies getting pats on the back and congratulations. It wasn't his first invasion defense and it was all pretty normal at this point. Jun'ko came over and sat next to him. He didn't know how to feel about her blindly going onto Papa's boat despite his suggestion not to. She glanced over awkwardly.
"So, good defense out there. You coordinated things very well."
"Thanks."
"You mad?"
"Mad isn't the right word. I realize you're a grow person and going to make your own decisions. It's more of me thinking if you plan to pull stunts like that every time I ask otherwise."
"I just wanted to help ok? I figured despite Papa's childish ways, his vessel was one of the safest to be on to help out. I was worried..."
"Yea and I was too. Point is, when I ask you to stay, its not because I don't trust you. It's because I don't know what's going to happen."
Zill ordered a WSW. Jun'ko just wanted a water.
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