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Burning Skies Saloon
Thraxius Meridius:
---Aboard the Commodore Beckett--
-Cargo Hold-
Thrax sleeps on the cheese-grater like metallic floor on the small cargo hold of the Commodore Beckett. As he snored, the Boom from one of the Lockheart Pyramidions falling in flames awoke him from his slumber. Thrax wakes up from a sleep induced by ale and liquor. His head pounding like an anvil being struck by a large metal hammer. He slowly opens his eyes and tried to sit up despite the pain.
Thrax
"How the hellfire did I end up here?"
He slowly gets up on his feet, and then stumbles from the turbulence. He slowly walks out of the cargo hold and stands in awe of what is happening around him.
Thrax
"...This isn't where I parked my airship!"
Captain Lockheart:
Lockheart sees this figure stumble out of his cargo hold
Lockheart
"WHO THE HELL ARE YOU, AND THIS ISNT EXACTLY A GOOD TIME!"
*He scratches his head in confusion, and then replaces his Bi-Corn hat on his head*
Lockheart
"Just get a rifle and start shooting those abominations down there, we'll discuss this later"
Yiski:
--M'Naghten Returns--
Yiski and the other on board watched Zill's ram into the galleon lines.
Lauren
"And I thought I was reckless."
Yiski
"You are, but he's better at gettin' away with it. Enough chatter. Keep your voice for targets and commands."
Lauren
"Front arc on eastern pyramidions."
Yiski looked down the lumberjack's sights.
Yiski
"Two kilos. Moderate north-south winds. Ship steady. Target steady."
Yiski unleashes the full five shot volley at the nearest pyramidion sniping the eastern flank. All five shots landed and watched as the pyramidion's balloon became non-existent. It dropped so quickly, it's pilot didn't have enough time to deploy drogue chute. Once the pyramidion hit the ground, it ignited and exploded.
The other pyramidion, noticing the lumberjack shots, spotted M'Naghten Returns and opened mercury fire on them.
Lauren
"Yiski! Right merc!"
Yiski hopped off the lumberjack and got positioned on the mercury rifle already loaded with the tungsten rounds.
Yiski
"Wanna play 'Who can snipe?' Sure."
While Yiski got the proper shot lined up, the ship's broadside was hit a few times by the pyramidion's mercury fire. When the engineers rushed below deck for damage control, they hardly noticed any damage. Lauren chuckled.
Two shots rang out from Yiski's mercury rifle and both shots landed at the pyramidion's helm. The subsequent explosions made the pyramidion's helm (and it's pilot) disappear. With the loss of control, the pyramidion turned giving it's right side to the eastern flank which dispatched it once the opening was made.
Yiski turns and calls up to Lauren.
Yiski
"Get us near those transport ships! Not goin' let a single on of those land inside the city!"
Lauren pulled hard to starboard and headed further south on an intercept course.
Yiski
"I need the gatling up and ready with heatsink!"
Meanwhile the defenders were having some success using heatsink rounds against the abominations. While heatsink rounds have the highest concentration of brass, the increased spread and reduced piercing power meant a lot of accurate hits were needed to take down a single abomination. At one kilometer, the first wave of abominations were closing in on the base of the mountain and had caused heavy casualties to the defenders.
Frank
"Status on those monsters!"
Defender
"We have heavy casualties, but there are only eight left."
Frank
"I want all gatlings in arc to equip heatsink and take out those pains in our asses. Mercury riflemen should re-equip tungsten rounds and start aiming for those galleons. Light flaks. Take down those transports!"
Skyraider:
--High above the skies close to Anvala--
Sky and the Flying Panthers had been up in the sky for some time now, nothing had happened yet. Then the drone of engines were heard, getting louder and louder. When sky looked to see what it was, it was a group of Junkers being escorted by multiple bi-planes, and they were headed straight to Anvala. Sky spoke over the radio to the rest of the planes assisting him.
Sky
"Hostiles below us, get ready to dive on the airships first and destroy their balloons with the bombs we have! On the count of three we dive! 1...2....3!
In unison, all the planes dived down upon the Junkers. They certainly lost the element of surprise since the dive sirens kicked in, telling the pilots they were in a steep enough dive. However, the guns on the Junkers didn't have the arc and the enemy pilots were frantic trying to figure out where they were. Sky drops his bombs on the lead Junker, the bombs go straight through the balloon and into the hull, which explode on impact. His fellow pilots did the same, and when they were done, the 4 Junkers were reduced to ash and falling debris. Sky's wing-man responds.
Ivan
"We did it, now all we have to do is...."
Ivan's plane is suddenly shredded and he pulls away as a fighter dives on him. Sky's tail gunner opens up on the one of many planes on his tail.
Sky
"Hostiles on our six! Iris bring them down!"
Iris
"Sure thing, I don't feel like dying today!
Sky
"Ivan, how are you holding up?"
Ivan
"I've got a fuselage fire! A hundred bullets in my left wing and my elevators are barely working!"
Sky
"Hold on! Everyone! We'll bring them into friendly flak, form up on me!"
As Sky says that, bullets shred his plane as well, but the plane behind him isn't so lucky. Iris (Being the tail gunner) shoots the pursuer's wing off and the plane barrels into the ground. Ivan and the rest of the Flying Panthers go into formation, while still dodging as many bullets and giving their gunners a clear shot at the enemies behind them. One of the pilots in formation is rammed by a diving plane and explodes. No one was to survive that, and it was clear either they would die or everyone would.
BdrLineAzn:
--M'Naghten--
As the battle ensues and Yiski firing away on the mercery. BdrLine and the rest of the crew onboard are running around handling repairs.
BdrLine hears the order from one of the turning engines, he turns to a crewman.
"You heard the man, quick go and load the heatsinks."
"Roger, on it."
The man leaves the port engine and goes past BdrLine to the side gatiling gun. As he moves towards the engine the man left, a shot from one of the Guild pyramidions hit the starboard engine knocking BdrLine on his back. He slowly gets up as a pounding and ringing goes around his head as blood goes down from a minor cut when he hit his head.
BdrLine slowly gets up as he turns to see the damage.
"Flak, Lauren compensate a little in your steering. The starboard engine is out. Fixing it right now."
He goes over to the damage engine only to full unconscious from a second blast.
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