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Burning Skies Saloon
N-Sunderland:
Sunderland, lying unconscious near the helm of the heavily damaged Duck Pharaoh, awoke at the sound of his radio.
"Unnghhh... I'm still here, but my back is aching pretty bad, and my legs are barely in fit condition to make me walk. My crew's in a similar state. Medical help would be much appreciated."
Sunderland then looked around him, studying his landing area.
"Scratch that. Hold the meds. I just realized that I'm in the enemy's blind spot. Give me two hours to get this thing into working condition, and I can pick off some ships from behind."
Plasmarobo:
--The Pointy End--
Plasma stares at the downed Galleon. And then watches the Mortar rounds slam into the Pyramidion as the Pointy End pulls back further.
He pushes a gunner off one of the Mercuries.
We're close, this should be an easy shot!
He takes aim carefully at the retreating ship. Time seems to slow as the shot explodes from the barrel. The Burning Lochnagar powder tears the gun apart, throwing Plasma back. The burning shot blazes through the sky, consuming the air, and warping it. It slides easily through the deck and armor of a perusing Goldish, coming to rest in the fuel tank.
And explodes.
The tank ruptures from the bottom out, vomiting fire onto the balloon of the other Goldfish below it. The engines of the gutted ship struggle for a moment, then grind slowly to a halt as their life drains into the sky.
The deluge of fuel doesn't quite overwhelm the second Goldfish, but the crew struggles to put out the creeping flames.
Yiski:
--Eastern Wall--
Yiski
"Scratch that Sund. It's starting to get dark and I'm not going to waste ammunition firin' blindly into it. Also, we can't risk losin' any more ships than we have. Get fixed and get back."
When the transmission was over, a couple of Elites approached Yiski.
Yiski
"I'm gonna guess the Council's not happy with me."
Elite
"We have orders for your arrest."
Yiski
"Really? In the middle of a bloody invasion? If you want me, you better be ready to use force."
As the Elite reached for Yiski, Althea grabbed the Elite's arm and stared at him.
Elite
"Stand down Corporal. We would prefer not to have to arrest you as well for incompetence and insubordination. Now, Commander if you'd..."
The Elite stopped talking when he and his group found themselves surrounded by Defenders with their rifles and pistols trained on them. Frank and Yiski also had their weapons out.
Yiski
"Let's do this. You go back and tell the Council to fuck off. If and when we survive this, then you can come back and we can have this pleasant talk again. Until then, how about you let me try to keep us all alive?"
The Elite swung his arm to release Althea's grip and he and his group left. Althea and Frank then turned to Yiski.
Althea
"Commander. I hope you realize the implications of your actions."
Frank
"I'm with her. I hope you know what you're doing."
Yiski
"No worries. I do. Now let's turn our focus to what's important like stayin' alive for the night."
*Over the fleet radio*
Yiski
"Striker Commander. All ships need to fall back and regroup. Night is comin' fast and any forward assault will not have any fire support."
N-Sunderland:
"Got it Yiski. I'll get back as soon as I can get the Duck Pharaoh working again."
BdrLineAzn:
--Dawn Break--
All of the crew on the five ships are running about making repairs and dodging rounds that fly over their heads. On the Dawn Break, Gang hears Captain Verra.
Gang
"Well we had an opportunity to cause confusion as my group was coming in rfom the west and another from the east, but what we didn't see was their ships going out off the batteries ranges. But thanks for the assist... The Flak is that?"
From his helm, he notices a blue smoke coming off of his junker on the right side, the ship staggers for a bit until it regained control.
Gang
"Sparrow you guys alright, and where in the Gods names did that smoke come from?"
Sparrow Captain
"The men and I are fine, it startled us for a bit, but i think it came form one of the Anvalan batteries, it didn't came from the front."
Out on the Dawn's deck, BdrLine sees the smoke and calls up to Gang.
BdrLine
"Did you see that?"
Gang
"Yeah, apparently someone on the wall shot it over here."
BdrLine
"At least we got some cover."
Gang looks up and sees that the blue smoke cloud did help them as the shots from the enemy guns start to miss a little. He gives a small sigh of relief until bursting out of the cluds are three Baron pyramidions and a galleon. As the galleon turns its broadside, the three pyras continue to rush them. Over the radio, Gang hears a new voice telling for them to get out. From the corner of his eyes, he sees a pyramidion with a huge ram coming at the galleon taking it down with her.
Out on deck, the crew hears the crash and sees both ships fall to the ground below. BdrLine then sees the distinctive ram he saw earlier and notices that it was Sunderland's ship. While he did help save their asses, BdrLine wonders whether or not he and his crew survives.
Gang notices that they are almost back over the batteries, but still has three pyramidions on him and his other ships and are still far out. He calls down.
Gang
"This may be the end, load weapons and prepare, I'm turning to face."
As he was about to stop and turn the ship, lumberjack rounds fly overhead and exploding around their and the enemy's ships. A few times, their balloons almost pop due to friendly fire, eventually the gunner has found his mark and pop two of the three pyras balloons and are hurdling down to the ground. Gang then sees a squid rushing in the front of them as it pop tar and surround the retreating vessels. Another voice comes on the radio and is asking about BdrLine.
Gang
"Bdr come up here, a miss is asking about you."
He hears Gang calling, and after checking the hull goes up the stairs and to the radio.
BdrLine
"Lauren is that you? Nevermind, thanks for the help, we would have been goners if it wasn't for you guys. And I assume that was Yiski on the lumber? Give him our thanks."
The five ships then limp back over the city and lands behind the wall as the crew wanted to check the damage dealt to them.
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