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Burning Skies Saloon
Sgt. Spoon:
Spoon had taken shelter in a nearby building, treating himself for a rather serious leg injury when he was hastily rocked from his troubled slumber as the body of a heavy duty pyramideon came smashing down, wrecking the wall he'd been leaning against. With a scream he found himself falling out of the three storey building, landing straight on the balloon of the Duck Pharaoh.
Spoon *grabbing on for his life*
"Holy hell! Aaaaah
RearAdmiralZill:
-Eastern District-
Zill stood over a radio, swapping frequencies and barking orders. He had placed the mercenary fleet at the back wall yet close enough to provide long range support, and moved in every ship left in the fleet to the east walls. As the initial squid suicide plunged into the earthen walls of the city, the fleet was to envelope the baron fleet in order to trap them there, cutting off another retreat. While working, he needed more vessels to provide the kills, and he simply didn't have them. The Baron fleet turtled up, and sat right at Anvala's gates.
He cursed the skies and looked around. Some heavies, along with Jun'ko, William, and Nova, surrounded him.
Jun'ko
"What's wrong?"
Nova
"Well I think that's pretty obvious.."
Zill
"I was just hoping to use this later, but....flak."
William
"Use what?"
Zill fumbled with his left torso. A mechanical click could be heard, followed by ticking.
William
"Is that a bomb?!"
Zill gave him a glare and went to the radio to hail Yiski.
Zill
"Yiski, get any defenders behind the wall back at least five hundred meters."
Yiski
"Are you crazy?? You'll let them into the city unopposed."
Zill
"Do it! You have two minutes!"
Zill cut the radio and beckoned his group forward toward the breaches, the ticking still going. What William didn't know was that while not a bomb, Zill had rigged a remote detonator to his side. It used his body at the antenna to carry the signal to the surprises waiting below the invaders.
Gryphos:
--By the Duck Pharoah--
Tristan
"Err, I guess that constitutes as 'help'."
He gave a salute to Sunderland before ordering troops to other areas of the wall. The troops dissipated And Tristan took a break after the carnage and leant against the Duck Pharaoh, oblivious to one of the few survivors of the crash behind Tristan who had a gun pointed at him.
Nidhogg
"NOOO!"
In a daring move, Nidhogg leapt from the upper wall, drawing his sword during descent, and plunged it into the soldier's neck, before then withdrawing the blade and slashing another enemy across the face and smoothly turning it into a thrust move through the chest of a third. Tristan turned around in shock after hearing the sword strikes just in time to see all three of the soldiers hit the floor at almost exactly the same time.
Tristan
"Great Nimbus, Nid! Where'd you learn to do that?"
Nidhogg
"Adventuring. But never mind, We need to get away from the wall before it blows."
Tristan
"What?"
Nidhogg
"Just go."
He grabbed Tristan and pulled him back behind a building to wait for the explosion.
Captain Lockheart:
Lockheart had passed on the order to let the fleet no further. He had his galleons mercuries and hwacha take out the engines and let his flaks take the ships. He saw the troops were almost going to infiltrate the city, he ordered his 15 man boarding party on the Yeshan Dragon and the 10 man boarding party on the White Whaler gather.
Lockheart
"I want our pyramidion to level with our top deck A.S.A.P!"
The pyramidion levelled with the top deck, Lockheart and the men hop on and the pyramid sinks down again back into its firing position.
Lockheart
"Sunderland! I'm going to use your ship as a landing platform!"
The 25 men threw ropes over the side of the ship, they then lowered themselves on the ropes to the balloon of Sunderlands ship. From a distance it must if looked like a curtain of light blue cascading off of the White Whaler as the men in light Blue Chaladonian military uniforms, jumped onto then off if Sunderland's ship to the city floor, then finally Lockheart in his White uniform jumping off last. He gave a quick nod to Sunderland, Tristan and Nidhogg before drawing his sword .
RearAdmiralZill:
-1km from the east wall-
Zill stopped his group and found a rooftop to see. Most of the defenders were back, still firing on the heavy amount of troops pouring into the breaches. A heavy sigh escaped him, before motioning everyone around him to back away.
Moments later the ticking from earlier ceased, and a small electric shock passed through Zill. He cringed and gritted his teeth, still watching the wall. All at once, the road separating the first city buildings from the wall exploded. The roar shook the entire city, and earthen debris accompanied by the flash of fire engulfed the explosion area. Men flew in every direction, and fire engulfed what was left of the walls. A few buildings collapsed from the force, and the entire first line of troop transports, accompanied by their defenders, were caught in the blast.
They may of lost the wall, but they gained a breath before holding the next wave from penetrating into the city center.
William
"You just handed the wall to them on a silver platter."
Zill
"And took out a wave of their current forces in the process with minimal casualties for us, while also creating a dead-zone between us and the wall."
Nova
"Remind me to never let you play with my explosives..."
Jun'ko
"Lets go. This isn't over yet."
Zill nodded and grouped up on a team of defenders holding a main street to the city center. They prepared for anything trying to pass the now gaping space between the wall and their position. Trench warfare had just become the deciding factor.
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