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Burning Skies Saloon
Yiski:
--M'Naghten Returns--
The second blast rocks the ship and causes Yiski to grab onto the railings to keep upright. Lauren struggled keeping the ship steady with a dead starboard engine.
Lauren
"Status!"
Crewmen
"Starboard's out and BdrLine's hurt!"
Lauren
"Get him below deck!" Yiski we're going to have to make this a ground battle."
Yiski
"Sure. Think you can manage dockin' in this condition?"
Lauren
"Who said anything about docking?"
Yiski
"Skies... not again."
Lauren swung the ship around using the port engine and made for Anvala. Yiski knew all too well what she was planning: Landing the ship somewhere in the city. She pulled the same stunt almost a decade ago when Lauren crash landed in Lord's Leap during a training accident.
Lauren
"M'Naghten to Captain. Clear the city center! I'm making an emergency landing! Repeat. Making an emergency landing in city center."
Units at the city center didn't have time to wait for orders from either Yiski or Frank to clear out. They scattered immediately when they saw a goldfish land on top of the city center's fountain, crushing it and causing water to spout from either side of the ship. Yiski immediately grab Blood Bolt and jumped of the ship and headed for the southern wall. Lauren helped some crewmen get BdrLine off.
Lauren
"They say any landing you walk way from is a good landing."
Meanwhile in the skies, the eastern flank had split into two groups: One to help Zill take out the galleons and another to deal with the transports. Since the last transport wasn't guarded by covering fire anymore and being beaten in by the batteries, the pursuit fleet took it out. It crashed against the mountain and was immediately concentrated fired on by the gatling pillboxes.
Consequently, the defenders (and Yiski) had to now deal with 40 abominations roaming the city.
RearAdmiralZill:
-Then it was fixed again-
At this point, only half the galleons remained. Zill could barely see through the smoke bellowing from his galleon's damage. He left the boat headed toward the last enemy formation and assessed the damage.
The hull was gone. No one really knew what was keeping it alive. Jun'ko shook her head and looked at him.
Jun'ko
"You can't ram again or it'll split the ship."
Zill
"Understood. Get the injured in the hold. We're almost through."
She hugged him and ran below deck. He tightened his hat on his head and swung the helm around, giving Shink and Papa clear shots. 3 Goldfish flew past to harass the galleons. They let fly with tungsten, shredding two galleons in one volley. The remaining boats turned to face Zill. They unloaded flak into the ship. 3 rounds exploded on the top deck. Shink fired a volley of greased to keep them occupied. Zill could feel the warm draw of blood along his face.
Zill
"Keep us up! I want any fire possible on those galleons!"
The engineers kept only the guns and hull alive. Zill could barely keep steady as the goldfish swooped onto the galleon formation, breaking it up.
Thraxius Meridius:
--Commodore Beckett--
As Thrax fumbled to the floor like so many times before (with or without the help of ale). He got up as he saw Lockheart crash down onto the main deck. As he heard lockheart's shout in pain, he ran to lockheart.
Thrax
"Don't worry!"
Thrax helps Lockheart up and takes out a flask of liquor from his pocket.
Thrax
"Here take this! Always works for me!"
Lockheart
"Now's not the time!"
Lockheart smacks the flask out of Thrax's hand and it slides off the deck and falls through the skies.
Thrax
"Well for me, NOW is always the time! Suit yourself"
Thrax whips out another back-up flask from his inside jacket. He takes a swig and picks up his rifle and starts shooting.
Karl
"What the hell is that?"
Thrax
"Whiskey!"
Karl
"No, I meant that hulking mass that just came out of nowhere!"
Thrax
"Well if I knew anything about hulking masses charging towards things, I'd probably guess its my wife. But in this case, I don't know.
If it breathes and if it bleeds, shoot it!"
Lockheart
"Damn it! How in the hell are we going to stop that?!"
BdrLineAzn:
--City Center--
Lauren and the other crew men drag BdrLine into a building.
Lauren
"Anyone of you guys know how to treat him?"
Crewman
"I do hold on."
The man goes over to the unconscious BdrLine and kicks his side. The shock instantly wakes him.
BdrLine
"WHAT THE FLAK"
He sits up straight and puts a hand to his side.
Lauren
"That's one way to wake someone. Come on we need to go and help out with the defense. About 40 of those things are lose in the city."
The group then gets up and out of the building to look for weapons, and hope that they find the monsters before they find them.
Skyraider:
Sky noticed how the M'Naghten didn't shoot at any of the falling planes. So Sky and the Flying Panthers finished some of them, however most recovered and a huge dogfight began. After awhile they were close enough to Anvala that flak opened up on the remaining planes. One plane missed Sky and overshot.
Sky
"Today ain't your day huh?"
Sky fired a short burst at the plane, and the thing evaporated. Sky hit the engine which ripped everything apart. Eventually no one was left on the retreating pilots, they all took a long time too remember the two crew on the plane who was rammed. Then they made it back to an airport and landed.
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