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Carn:
Hangar Bay
Upon hearing the sirens blare, Alister raises his voice to a level that can carry over thunder.
"ALL HANDS ON DECK! EVERYONE TO BATTLE STATIONS! DEPLOY THE SHIPS!"
And with that, he unhooks his ship, sending her into the fray.
"New guy, your front, spray them with the gat! Idiots, decide which of you is on banshee and the other on mines! First target will be that sorry excuse for a Squid!"
Suddenly the Squid in mention hurtling straight towards them.
"Lay some mines! Drogue shoot in 5 seconds! Light em up with the gat!"
Piemanlives:
--Eagle Squadron, Alpha Flight--
"SHITSHITSHITSHITSHITSHITSHITSHIT!"
Davis banked hard right as the shell exploded in front of him, he nearly shut his eyes as he heard the screeching and tearing of metal. As luck would have it, only his right wing was damaged. That was still bad, still, whoever was firing at that proceeded to ignore the two shadows dancing against the black of night, well, really it was one dancing and the other limping about as he tested the damage to his craft.
"You alright?" Kei's concerned voice came over the radio as he leveled his craft.
"Alive but my craft has taken one hell of a hit." He paused to look at his left wing, metal panels having been torn off when it passed through the flak cloud, allowing him to see the interior structure. Lucky that I'm still up really. "So what the hell is going on anyway?" The fleet had come under fire from ground based guns to to the south east, no one had noticed them earlier so they had to be a recent development. The freighter he had spotted had also disappeared and somehow he felt the two events were connected.
"Pirate raiders most likely, the Shadow is deploying additional vessels now but we need to buy time for them to deploy. Additional hostiles are approaching from the northwest."
"Right." The ground based guns weren't too effective against the massive transport but given enough time they'd be able to punch through, to the northwest he could see them coming over the horizon. He watched as one of the hanger doors disgorged the docked squid he had seen earlier.
"Farris, Antonio you guys there?"
"Right here boss man.
"We read you, where do you need us?"
"Head back and support the fleet against the oncoming vessels, me and Kei and will handle the ground based batteries."
"Will do, Come on Farris, let's go."
"Oh, and Antonio."
"Yeah?"
"Remember what I said about shooting up the countryside? You can ignore that now."
"Hehe, music to my ears."
--Eagle Squadron, Beta Flight--
"So I was thinking Farris, that we should try and disable that galleon."
"What seriously?" Farris was in slight disbelief at what he was suggesting, it was a galleon after all and as such they were tough targets.
"Come on, we come in high, circle around and take out their engines, they won't even have engines by the time we're done."
"Fine fine, I'll follow you in."
"Just watch how it's done."
--Bridge, Eagle's Shadow--
"Ah Frey," Reagan took a long swig of alcohol she found sitting in the navigation room. "Just in time, we're under attack by raiders." She then went on to ignore him as she began figuring things out.
"Right, we'll leave the ground batteries to our fighters, Banning if you would."
"Aye ma'am." The young man gave her a salute as he began contacting the various fleet elements they had available.
"Helm, pass over control to me."
"Aye ma'am." The helmsman stepped aside as she grasped the wheel in her hands, she quietly ran her fingers over the spokes as she picked up the command pipe that sat next to it. Though the crew was probably aware something was happening no one had given a formal declaration.
"This is the Bridge to all sections, all hands to battle stations, I repeat all hands to battle stations."
--Alison/Lorena's Room, Eagle's Shadow--
Lorena looked at the woman who had just entered and introduced herself.
"Ahh, name's Lorena, engineer." She leaned the chair back on it's hind legs and held out her hand just as the sirens began to blare about the ship, prompting her to kick back, time seemed to slow as both of them, Alison watching, and Lorena feeling as she feel towards the floor. The back of the chair hit the deck yet she remained as if sitting in it. She blinked and opened her mouth as if to speak before closing it again.
"We should probably get going." As if to exacerbate the situation the deep thundering of gun fire could be both heard and felt from the above decks. She rolled off and grabbed the kit that was sitting atop her foot locker before sprinting all the way down to engineering.
Carn:
Kibeth
One of the twins managed to lay two mines out before the Alister activated the drogue chute, one of the engineers quickly repairing the damage.
"FULL REVERSE, AND HARD TO STARBOARD! FIRE WHEN TARGET IS IN SIGHTS!"
A millisecond after Alister's most recent bellow, two explosions can be heard as the enemy Squid plows into the mines. With ten more seconds the Kibeth rose, turned, and began to fire upon it with gatling and banshee.
Alison and Lorena's Bunk
"And I just got off shift too!"
Quickly, Alison straps an emergency med kit to her back and preps the medbay. Grabbing a comm she calls the bridge,
"Bridge, this is medbay. Any reported injuries?"
Piemanlives:
Real post incoming later, for now? Well...
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ANDROMEDA INTERLUDE
Deep within the heart of the ship a translucent bulb clung to a bulkhead, amidst the gunfire and explosions it slumbered, the deafening explosions becoming lulling thumps in the distant, the sounds of automatic weaponry fading into what one might equate to droplets of rain. Of course Andromeda was an intelligent creature, and was fully capable of recognizing the panic of the beings very similar to master as they scurried about their flying nest. Of course this mattered not as bead like eyes scanned for rodents, a meal was perhaps in order yet these thoughts were interrupted as Andy felt a tapping the currently appropriated perch.
"Andromeda," beady eyes turned to stare at Master's friend standing in the middle of the nest tunnel, "Well, aren't you a sight for sore eyes." She patted her left shoulder, "Come on, can't just leave you here all day."
Andromeda detached from the bulkhead and came to rest on Master's Friend.
Sit, sit, sit? Sit, sit, sit.
"Well, aren't you a... good... squid thing." Master's Friend looked thoughtful before jostling both shoulders. "Well, no time to think about it now. Lets go."
I am a squid? I am a squid.
BdrLineAzn:
Eagle's Shadow, Renard/Courage Room
With a yawn, Courage enters the dark space he shared. Still in his rack Renard shifts his body towards the wall to block out the light coming from the door. Rolling his eyes, Courage proceeds to remove his weapons and sand clothing and place them in his locker. As soon as the first few shells hit the belly of the transport, it caught him off guard which prompts him to fall onto the floor.
Quickly coming too, Renard sits up on his rack just as the room starts to flash red and sirens blazing. Swinging his feet over the side, he steady himself as another shell hits.
"The hell is going on?" he yells over the siren.
I just got off.... Courage inwardly sighs. Grabbing his pistol and carbine out of the locker, he turns to Renard, "Looks like a surprise attack. How did we not see this ealier?" he says the last to himself while hurrying to the door.
"You should get your ship ready," Courage then braces himself on the frame as the shell fire intensify, "We gonna need it."
As Courage runs off, Renard quickly grabs his coat and runs out behind him.
Gunnery Deck, Starboard
Minutes after leaving his room, Courage finds himself at the Starboard Battery. Around him the gun crews are scrambling to open the gun ports to bear the four main guns. Hurrying towards the forward end, he helps them open the gun bay doors and place the Heavy Flak on service.
"Load me up and get the rest of the guns online!" he yells to the crew, "Tell top side to mount Gatlings and Mercurys, need some small gun fire as well."
"Right away." Ame a quick response as a crew member goes to a near by radio to call the Weather Deck of the orders. From the seat of his Heavy Flak, Courage soon hears the familiar sounds of multiple chain and field guns going off. Soon he sees the tracers from overhead flying out in the distance.
Cracking a smile, he then trains his sight on to the Galleon before firing a salvo.
Raider Caravan
"Nice one. We got the surprise on them!" exclaims one.
"Don't let up," the leader snaps, "It only just begun."
He looks through his binoculars and notices two explosion near his Squids. Damaged, the two are still airborne but now a third Squid appeared out of nowhere.
Looks like this ship has a few tricks up its sleeve, hmmm
Moving the lenses, he see the two small ports where Kei and Davis should have hooked onto.
"I want a gun to fire into that breach, the rest handle that other Squid."
A chorus of acknowledgements, the leader goes to a radio and contact the the ships in the air.
"Alright, I want the Junker and our Galleon to set up a firing line on the starboard side of the vessel. Squids, try to get that guy off of y'all, if not bail onto their topside and board them."
Turning off the radio, the leader's ears perk up as two silent engines approach his position. Eyeing the Northwest, he squints but spots the two planes flying fast and low.
"SCATTER."
Eagle Squadron Alpha
Escaping the initial barrage unscatheted, Kei leads Davis as them fly all the way down the length of the Shadow towards the stern. Dropping altitude, she banks left into a wide turn to minimise the stress on Davis's plane. Making a 180 degree turn, the two are just above the sand dunes as they approach the artillery battery.
"Ok Davis, I'm going to fire both racks of rockets, you'll follow in with guns."
"Copy"
Flicking a switch up on her panel, several lights turn on indicating all eight Artemis rockets are armed. Going over one more mound, she sets here sights over the middle of the group hoping to inflict as much damage. Pulling the tigger, the plane shutters as the rockets detach and fly towards its target. Pulling up, Kei turns her head and sees Davis strafing with his guns.
Levelling out at a higher altitude, Kei notices three burning vehicles. Before she can make a report in, her and Davis's plane are surrounded by multiple flak clouds.
"Dammit," she swore, "Shadow we manage to take out a quarter of the ground guns, but are under fire."
Just then she sees a small explosion coming from the bottom of the transport.
Hanger Bay
Finally making it to the massive room, Renard sees the open launch ports for the planes. Time then began to slow for him as he sees three shells enter from underneath.
This is some start Renard thinks before being blown back from the impact.
As the shells impact the Hanger Bay's ceiling, several scaffoldings and metal bars fall as fires start to spread from the high explosive shells.
Ringing in his ears, he sees several crewmen run toward fire hoses trying to fight the fire while Alexi runs towards him.
"You alright?" he asks as he lifts Renard.
"I'm fine, but we are not unless we get into the fight." shrugging off the man's grip, Renard runs toward his Goldfish which has managed to escape damage.
Calling for several others, three sees Renard and hop onto his ship as he opens the hatch and detach the ship.
Eagle Squadron Bravo
Going in a line formation, Antonio pulls his plane up into a 90 degree incline.
"Whoooooo!" he yells as the gees start to take hold.
"You know your are crazy right?" Farris says with a grunt.
"I know. Whoo" Antonio finishes as he levels out. Looking over his right wing, he sees both the Radier Galleon and Junker in a fire line going against the starboard side guns of the Shadow.
"Looks like she need help, ready?"
"As I ever be."
"That's the spirit." he laughs as he manuvers his plane over the Galloen before rolling his plane over and pulling down on the yoke. In the dive, he flicks open the trigger safety as he line up for the shot on the engines.
"Guns, guns guns," he calls out.
Sending out a three second burst, Antonio eyes widens as a flames thrower opens up on it's aft gun. Breaking off the attack and making a hard right, he and Farris barely avoids the flames.
"Looks like they got smart." comments Farris.
"Yeah, Shadow, we need support on this Galleon." calls Antonio.
Instead of Banning, Ulric's voice comes in, Don't worry! We are on our way!
Fifth Season
Coming over the Weather Deck of the Shadow, Ulric manuvers his Junker towards the Raider equivalent. Going at full speed, both ships salvos fly behind the charging Junker.
"Hehe, Brace for impact, and fire starboard guns," Ulric yells to his crew.
A large crunch is heard as both ship collided. With Ulric's Junker hitting the forward end of the ship, it causes the Raider to spin right to block the Galleon's guns and allowing his crew to fire his.
A Gatling and Mortar opens up on its deck doing massive damage to the ship.
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