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Carn:
Kibeth
Soon, the crippled Squid is torn asunder.
"Take that you shites!"
Evidently they couldn't, but another Squid appears and sprays the deck of Kibeth with gatling fire.
"James! Lay some mines then get to the hull!"
"Aye!"
Maneuvering down and out, Alister blasts tar into the engines, followed by the "THWUMP!" of the mine launcher. Seeing the enemy briefly fall back, Alister notices the planes taking fire.
"LADS I HAVE AN IDEA!"
"Oh no..."
"I hate it,"
"When he gets ideas!"
With the manic grin he's known for, Alister guns the ship into a rapid dive, left hand hovering over the additional lever on his helm.
"SPRAY THE CARAVAN, AND PREPARE. FOR HYDROGEN IN TEN SECONDS!"
BdrLineAzn:
Raider Caravan
Quickly recovering from the bombing run, the Raider Leader looks at the three burning trucks.
"Gonna take more than that!" he yells out towards the sky.
"Boss." one of his men nudges him as he points to the Squid duel. Looking up he sees that his first Squid has been torn apart, but he sees the crew bail out over the transport as the wreckage impacts the top deck. Then a cloud of smoke appears as the enemy dumps tar and damages his second Squid.
"Hmm, tell the second one to bug off and land on the transport, we need to help our guys."
"And the other one?"
"Get the rest of the trucks moving and in a honeycomb formation. Load burst rounds in all of the 88s. We'll have a surprise for that Squid."
"Run and gun?"
"Excatly."
Gunnery Deck, Starboard
After seeing Ulric's charge, Courage can't help as it reminds him of several captains he know that does crazy stunts like that. But his focus is back at the current battle as a Hawacha barrage impact the hull between his gun and the next.
"Flak, someone load me some Charge Rounds! We need to take this sucker out!"
With two of the crew members complying, they both start to lift the round, but they and the round drop onto the floor as a massive crash is heard above. Holding on tight to the controls, Courage rattles in his seat as the transport tilts over the side.
"The hell."
Over the sirens, a panicked voice is heard, "Fire on the Weather Deck, several injured and we are b....."
The message is cut short as a rifle report is heard followed by a thud.
Grinding his teeth, Courage jumps out of the turrent and unslings his carbine.
"Someone keep firing that thing. Five of you come with me, we got to get ride of some pests."
Tranquility
Steadying the helm, Renard bits his lips as to fight his wounds ealier from the explosion. Heading towards the port side of the transport, he notices that none of the main guns are firing and that the caravan group is in a wide spread formation heading Southeast while still firing.
With a hand on the radio he calls in the Bridge, "This is the Tranquility I see the group heading SE, I suggest turning 15 degrees starboard to fire some of the guns."
Bridge
Calming himself, Frey silently takes all the incoming reports in. Trying to decide a course of action with Reagan, one of the reports made him look up.
"Sir, Ma'am, the fire from the Hanger Bay has spread and has now entered into the Engineering spaces. Damage control teams needed." reports Banning.
"I'll go organise a team." says Frey.
"Sir?" Banning gives a questioning look knowing the Commander's current physical demeanour.
"Once the fire has been contained, I have knowledge of this ship's propulsion machinery that I can help expedite the repairs. Now assemble a team to meet me by the Galley."
Carn:
Kibeth
One hundred feet above, and in front of the caravan, a scream rips from Alister's throat as he looses all four bombs, each weighing in at 250 pounds. Half a heartbeat later he sends hydrogen to his balloon, avoiding crashing into the earth below. Cutting of the screaming, Alister circles around, looking at the carnage wrought below and determining his next course of action.
"Sir!"
It was the engineer on the front gatling, he was pointing at the transport where the second enemy Squid is in the process of disgorging boarders.
"JAMES, JOHN! ONE ON THE HULL, THE OTHER ON THE ENGINES! FRONT, STAY ON GAT! PREPARE FOR RAMMING!"
Medbay
After having been thrown around, Alison has decided that she quite dislikes waiting for injured crewmen to make there way to her, and the bridge hasn't responded. So she grabs her wakizashis, and heads up to the weather deck, where she can begin to hear sounds of combat.
BdrLineAzn:
Raider Caravan
"Gotcha", smirks the Raider Leader as he views the Kibeth in his binoculars. Spread out in a wide hexagon formation, with nine of the trucks forming the tips and the remaining three in a triangle at the center, the formation has already moved from its position driving ahead of the transport and Squid. Giving the order, all twelve batteries focus at the diving Squid as shrapnel rips off several layers of it's armor, smoke becoming visible indicating damage.
From his position in the lead truck, the Raider sees the Squid pull up as it drops four bombs. With the amount of shells fired in the air, two were detonated before hitting the ground, while one hits a truck in the center triangle directly and the other in the ground leaving a sizeable crater. As the Squid circles back towards the transport, the Caravan turns as well continuing to fire t the retreating ship.
Weather Deck
Landing on the deck, the last remaining Squid forms a barrier between the crashed airship and the access to the Weather Deck. With the Squid's starboard gun facing the compartment, they ships crew leaves one to main the Gatling gun while they mop up the rest of the ship's crew members.
Finally reaching the compartment, Courage is about to open the door with his squad, but notices the makeshift bunker and closes the hatch as bullets hit the metal.
Tranquility
Seeing the Squid land and the Caravan moving back to the transport, Renard has a very heav decision on his hand. Before he has anytime, a call on the radio comes through.
"Clear topside, we are coming in with rockets.", cries out Antonio.
Straight off his port, Renard sees the two plane formation unleash a barrage on the parked Squid. Soon an explosion follows as the small craft's balloon explodes and falls onto the deck.
With that problem situated, he then puts his Goldfish to its maximum speed towards the caravan with Hawacha loaded and ready.
Koali:
Gunnery Deck
"Someone keep firing that thing!"
That was all Koali could make out among the explosions. He quickly jumped to his feet and puffed over to the Typhoon, the claws on his mechanical legs digging into the deck with each step. As he hopped into the turret seat, he remembered one of his earlier voyages.
*Fancy flashback effect*
Though Koali had crewed under several other captains in the past, none were as crazy as this one. This captain insisted on flying an old Goldfish of a design that was several generations out of date. Even worse, he refused to associate with "hip" or "modern" pilots who mounted a Manticore on the front of the ship, and wanted nothing to do with the actual smart, competent crowd that had the sense to mount a Hellhound in that spot. No, this captain thought he looked sharp flying what everyone called a Flakfish.
That captain apparently had some unfinished business with some no-name thugs that decided to chase after him on what looked like two halves of a Squid, crudely split down the middle to create two independent (and highly unstable) fighter ships. Well, though they weren't expert pilots, they knew how to use flamethrowers.
Everything was aflame, and the engines were disabled. The thugs were cocky enough to make a final attack run from straight ahead.
The captain tossed Koali a leather bag stuffed full of paper cartridges. "Gunner! Give'em a taste of this!"
Koali loaded a shell into the cannon, then crammed in about ten of the cartridges behind the shell before closing the breech. He lined up the split Squid in his sights, and as he pulled the trigger, he glanced down at the single word written on the outside of the bag:
Lochnagar.
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