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Burning Skies Saloon

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BdrLineAzn:
--Eastern Wall--

As the doctors place BdrLine on a streacher and brought to the nearest medical tent, Niko stays behind as more doctors check over him and the rest of the crew. During the time he talks to Plasma.

Niko
"It just a miracle we got out of that alive. I mean were we so far and had so much guns pointed at us. Almost like we cheated death. "

He then sees Yiski and Althea coming over and a grim look come upon his face.

Niko
"Excuse me."

He stands up and walks towards them.

Yiski:
--Triage--

Yiski sees Niko approaching him as Althea rushes past them both to check on BdrLine. Yiski stops in front of Niko and spies over Niko's shoulder to see BdrLine in a bed. Yiski looks back to Niko.

Niko
"Thanks for the sa..."

*WHAM*

Althea turns to see Niko fall backwards to the ground and Yiski with his arm extended and his hand in a fist.

Niko
"The hell was..."

Yiski
"Do you have a death wish?"

Niko
"What? No!"

Yiski
"Then why the in the bloody skies were you so and your group so heavily overextended?! This isn't the bloody canyons of Yesha! We're on a wide open field last I checked."

Niko
"I'll admit we underestimated our engagement range and would have died without you and the squid giving cover."

Yiski
"Stray from the plan again and I'll let you die next time."

Althea was appalled at Yiski's declaration, but she knew from his expression that he was dead serious. Althea couldn't imagine letting airmen die intentionally. She really didn't want to imagine Yiski letting BdrLine die intentionally.

Althea
"Commander!"

Yiski
"Are we clear?"

Niko looked to BdrLine and looked back to Yiski and nodded.

Yiski
"Good. Once your ships are back in acceptable condition and find some replacement crew, you're on rear guard."

Yiski left quickly to head back to the Eastern Wall leaving Althea in the triage tent. Back at the wall...

Yiski
"Status."

Frank
"Doesn't seem like the Baronies are moving. We'll lose visual in about an hour though."

Yiski
"Just make sure the flares go off in regular intervals."

Yiski walks over to the radio and sets the frequency for But Then It Broke.

Yiski
"Zill how you holdin' up?"

N-Sunderland:
Meanwhile, N-Sunderland flew the quickly patched together HMCS Duck Pharaoh into the city walls, landing it and immediately getting to work on repairing it.

RearAdmiralZill:
-But then it broke-

The radio next to the helm cackled with Yiski's voice. Zill got up from inspecting the hull and went over to answer.
Zill
"Fleet is doing ok. I think they lost two or three for every one of ours. Still, we can't take that kinda loss. At least the council can't issue orders any more."

Yiski
"I saw. What do you need us doing?"

Zill
"Make sure you're ready for a breach. I'm expecting them to make at least two breaches, plus the gate. We have the better gunners."

Yiski
"Till then I'm sniping every last one of them I can."

The call ended and William came over.
William
"You sound like you want them to breach. Care to share your real agenda here?"

Zill
"You'll see. Have a little faith in me Will."

BdrLineAzn:
Before night has fallen, the twelve ship formation of Zankif and Melin lands at the docks of the battered city. The two exits their respective ships and roam around looking for signs of BdrLine or any of the Yeshan mercenaries. They spot Niko as he is back with Gang working on their galleon.

Melin
"Niko"

Niko looks up and sees the both of them and walks to them.

Niko
"Melin, Zankif, glad you guys made it out."

Zankif
"Yeah we were about to head in to assume the main body, but once we heard of Bdr's message we bugged out. Luckily a cloud bank was near us and were out of range of their guns."

Melin
"Speaking of Bdr, where is he?"

Niko looks away from them and towards the direction of where the triage tent was. Melin and Niko follow his gaze and was shocked to understand that their friend was inside it.

Melin
"So during the retreat, right?"

Niko
"Yeah. But we didn't noticed it until we landed. He looked fine when he was helping with the fixing."

Zankif
"Must be the adrenaline kicking, he must haves ignored the pain."

Niko
*sighing* "Yeah, but still, how did we not notice we drifted away so far from the city. We didn't know they were regrouping."

Zankif puts a hand on his chin and thinks for a second

Zankif
"Maybe it was the assumption during the initial attack, I meanthey were advancing in and we sort of disorganised them a bit from our sniper fire. That small time frame was maybe why you guys entered."

Niko
"Yeah maybe. But just, I almost had my men and my best friend killed."

Melin
"Well it's time for some rest then. I'll go and find the detectors, and see what they know."

The three then split off in their different directions to fill their own agendas.

--Triage Tent--

Inside the tent on one of the beds, doctors has placed a blood pouch and stuck an IV in BdrLine to replace he amount lost. Over on a table lay all of his equipment that they took off to bandage the wound. Besides the bed standing is Althea as she has one arm across her chest and a hand on one of his. She stares at his unconscious figure.

Is this what he ment about being scared? Afraid about losing someone close."

A single small tear form at the edge of one of her eyes as she grips his hand tighter.

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