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Burning Skies Saloon

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Sgt. Spoon:
After almost getting squashed by Lockheart's ship, Spoon threw himself off the balloon. Sadly his left leg got entangled in the rigging and he ended up hanging upside down, struggling to get loose as the Caladonian soldiers jumped down.

Suddenly the world stopped as the air around them lit to flames. The sudden blast jerked him around and lunged him off the ship. He flew across the sky, flailing his arms around and screaming, just to crash right on Lockheart himself.

*Uffgh*

N-Sunderland:
Sunderland lifted his ship out of the explosion as it happened. The Duck Pharaoh could take such a blast, and it only left him with a few burns. Years of injuries from engineering had essentially destroyed his nervous system, so they were far from painful. He retreated further into the city.

Surette:
Surette froze in place momentarily as the ground next to the wall literally tore apart, before realizing Serenity would be lost in the blast if he didn't act quickly. Running back to his ship, he hopped aboard and pushed the engines to their limit, narrowly avoiding explosions as well as The Duck Pharaoh. He found a suitable clearing a few blocks farther back from the wall to land Serenity, and hopped out to group up with some other defenders. Looking ahead to the newly created crevice, Surette exhaled deeply.

Surette
"Things are starting to get serious..."

Gryphos:
--The Wyvern--

While other ships were preoccupied at the walls and soldiers were being stalled by the road collapse, The Wyrm took the helm of his ship and burned kerosene, charging straight through the fight and taking several hits but staying very much intact. He rammed a defending Goldfish out of the sky on the way, before making his way further into the city.

Gallafell
"The battle continues at the wall, yet you fly into the city! This is yet more direct disobeying of orders!"

The Wyrm paused and for a few seconds there was silence. Then he drew a pistol and shot Lord Gallafell between the eyes.

Wyrm
"I've really had enough of your whining. And I don't need it now, I've got business to attend to."

He looked ahead of the ship and saw the Armoury.

I never did blow that thing up.

"Get some charges and be ready to disembark!"

--Eastern district--

Nidhogg looked up with Tristan and saw a Galleon pass overhead. Nidhogg noticed it had a strange sigil on the balloon, a rearing drake, being strangled by a serpent.

Tristan
"The Wyrm. Where is he headed?"

Nidhogg
"Oh no. He's headed to the Armoury for unfinished business. We have to stop him or half the city will go up in flames!"

And so Nidhogg charged off in the direction of the Armoury, while Tristan called over a squad of defenders and followed.

Yiski:
--Eastern Wall--

Defender
*over the radio* "We have multiple contacts coming through the southeast gate! We're taking them down, but we're getting pushed back!"

Lauren
*another radio* "Kyllo here and we're taking heavy fire from the galleons! They're too close for comfort!"

Hearing the numerous transmissions, Frank turns to Yiski.

Frank
"What's the plan? Those bombers did a number to a good number of batteries."

Yiski had been firing the lumberjack still and managed to take down a few goldfishes, pyramidions, and transports, but it didn't seem to make a difference. Yiski hops off the lumberjack and picks up Blood Bolt assault mode.

Yiski
"Well, they didn't take out any of the front batteries. Keep fire on the ships, but start diverting more men toward the gates. I'm not about to lose a district to them!"

As Yiski starts down, he and Frank hear yelling and screaming. They look down to see a few Baron troops had managed to reach the Eastern Wall batteries. Yiski aimed and fired a few quick burst at the Barons and they took cover and returned fire. Eventually, other wall Defenders opened fired and took out the few Barons which had made it to them.

Down from the wall, Yiski and a group of thirty Defenders made it to the southeastern gate. It was a absolute hell. Despite losing ground earlier, the Defenders managed to keep their positions and create a no-man's land around the breached gate. Consequently, the new defensive positions stretched the defense line thin and the Barons knew it.

Yiski
"Status!"

Heavy
"Commander. The Barons are holding position on the opposite side of the gate. We think they're going to rush at a single point to overwhelm our thin position."

Yiski quickly alternated to Blood Bolt rifle mode and loaded in a clip of sunburst rounds. He took aim at the gate opening and fired two rounds at each wall corner. The rounds hit and soon the signature red smoke started filling the gateway. The now visibly obstructed breached gate made the Barons hesitant to rush in blindly.

The Defenders took this opportunity to regain some lost ground. Yiski provided additional support fire by switching to sniper mode loaded with tungsten rounds and downing any unfortunate Baron who stuck his head a bit too high.

"DIE ANVALAN SCUM!"

Yiski quickly turned to see a single Baron about to impale him a rifle bayonet. Yiski couldn't turn Blood Bolt fast enough to shoot or defend. Yiski raised his arms in what seemed a futile attempt in defense.

Suddenly, the Baron fell over to Yiski's side. Yiski noticed a large fist shaped hole in the Baron's back. Yiski looked up to see Althea holding a smoking pistol. Yiski shook his head, but he was smiling.

Yiski
"I was wondering when you'd actually save me?"

Althea
"Well, it is a good thing I was assigned to you then."

Althea took another shot which whizzed by Yiski and hit another Baron who had gotten too close to Yiski. Yiski quickly looked at the Baron and back at Althea who was wearing a smirk. Yiski turned back and resumed sniper fire.

Yiski
"Smirk later, kill now."

Althea and Yiski then saw a rouge galleon pass overhead.

Yiski
"That can't be good."

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