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Burning Skies Saloon

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Skyraider:
*A buzz can be heard from the radio, but there is only a handful of people who know what frequency Zill uses. Of course, a familiar voice is then heard over the radio, its Sky*

"Ho' boy, looks like you got yourself into some trouble there Zill! On your mark I can dive on these swabies and put them out of their misery!"

*The grunting of an engine is heard right when he finished*

"Ack, I hate sandstorms! This plane can barely keep aloft by itself with two engines!"

RearAdmiralZill:
-Then it was fixed again-

Zill swung his long side to the enemy and ordered the guns loaded, despite the sand. They were still a ways out and only managing close mercury shots. He heard Sky on the airwaves and responded.
"Damn if you don't have good timing. Let us open up and that can be your signal to start a run. Just don't get yourself killed. As for you Lauren, don't raise anchor and tell your boyfriend to get firing."

Zill helped load the mercury with charged rounds and fired the first round himself to start the battle off proper. Jun was keeping everything alive, and the rest fired a first volley, missing in the dense sand.

Skyraider:
*Sky sees where the shots lead, and spots a raider Junker out of formation, trying to get a broadside. Sky proceeds to fly straight over the top and begins to go into a deep dive. He taunts as the dive siren activates.*

"Death from above!"

*37mm bullets rain down on the raider ship, destroying the starboard engine and disabling the two weapons on that side. As Sky flies under the airship, its port side opens up with a Gatling and flak. Flak explodes all around Sky's plane but not close enough to even put a dent into the engine.*

"He's disabled, going around for another dive attack!"

Yiski:
--M'Naghten Returns--

Lauren ignored Zill's 'boyfriend' comment. Instead of keeping anchor, she quickly raised one of the two and let the strong winds turn the ship to where the right mercury was bearing. Lauren quickly drops the raised anchor again, giving the ship some stability.

Yiski watches Skyraider do dive runs as Lauren swings the ship around to bear the mercury rifles. Yiski was expecting the lumberjacks to be facing, but the winds had picked up to a point where bearing the forward to the raiders would cause his ship to drift into the sandstorm. Lauren calls over to Yiski.

"I can't bear the ship anymore than this! You'll have to make the most out of it!"

Yiski rushes to the side mercury and loads two tungsten rounds. Yiski calls over to all on-board before firing.

"I need four of you on the turnin' engines! Those engines need to be buffed five minutes ago! Everyone else, make sure we stay afloat!"

As soon as Yiski finished barking orders, he fired the first shot at the fast approaching squids. The wind causes the shot to veer hard left. Yiski quickly calibrates the mercury's scope and fires another shot. This time it hits, but only manages to graze the engine.

"It's a start at least."

Meanwhile, BrdLine, Roland, and two other crew engineers started buffing the engines in order to give Lauren more maneuvering to get the front guns bearing.

Yiski loads another two rounds into the rifle, adjusts a bit more, and fires. The first rounds managed to hit one of the approaching squid's main engine. The squid was only 500 meters away when the shot landed. The squid started veering and barely missed the ship. While it could have avoided the sandstorm it was now approaching by putting all power in reverse, the dead main made the difference and the squid was soon swallowed by the sandstorm.

"Not how I expected to kill the squid, but I'll take what I can get."

RearAdmiralZill:
-Then it was fixed again-

Lumberjack shots rained on the junkers, a few hits here and there kept them busy on damaged balloons. The remaining charging squid seemed to have too much speed, and was headed right into Zill's ship. He sprinted to the helm and cursed under his breath. He released his anchors and popped hydrogen. The squid ran straight under and into the storm. Zill quickly dropped the anchors again, only losing 300m between him and the storm.
"Get my engines up! Paradox, get the lead out of your ass!

PapaP yelled a curse as he ran to the back engines. Shink did what he could on the lumberjack keeping the junkers occupied. Zill let the boat in throttle and jumped on the gun again, loading tungsten rounds. He held his breath and fired. It grazed his target's hull. He let fly his second shot, piercing the hull and igniting the ammo reserves. That with a lumberjack shot sent it flaming to the ground. Jun'ko squealed with excitement.
"You got em!"

"Aint out of the sand yet."

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