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Uncharted Skies
BdrLineAzn:
Weather Deck
"Well what are you waiting for?" orders Courage as he feels the transport starting to turn to bear its port battery, "Unlock and setup the Mercuries and Artemis."
Scrambling, those still on deck rush to the aft compartment where it leads back down inside and stores the assortment of light weaponry. Four of either weapon are hauled out and locked into their mounts. Grabbing a field gun, he notices Antonio and Farris carrying ammo boxes for the fire team.
"Well, looks like you get to practice, you two load me up and man one of the other guns."
Dropping the supplies, pair race towards an empty Artemis. Looking at the weaponry, they scratch their heads at the weapon.
"Do you know how to use this?" asks Farris.
"Don't look at me, i only know how to fire these off our planes."
"All hands, aim to disable,"orders Courage across the deck, "Fire at will."
A chorus of rockets and explosions fill the air as multiple tracers and rockets fly towards the fleeing Goldfish. It soon escalate as the main battery starts to open fire.
Tranquility
All around the raiders and Jasper explosion and flak rock the small ship. A loud explosion is heard as their port turning engine gets hit.
"Someone get that, we are dead if we continue in this barrage." snarls Jasper.
Looking at the assortment of levers around him, he notices one with a cloud symbol on it. Pulling it, s large tar cloud starts to form from the engines and cover behind them.
Hmm. "All hands on repairs, time to disappear."
With several pulls, Jasper places the ship on full power and continues with the tarring. Quickly rising and descending, he makes a largetar cloud hiding the rear end of the ship. Leveling out, he sees the rockets and rounds fly all around the ship trying to find him.
"Well that worked," comments a raider.
"Of course it did, now continue with the repairs.
Bridge
"Blast, where did they go!" says Frey as he notices the tar cloud forms.
"Eagle's Shadow, this is Eagle 1. I see the cloud and is close enough to engage." says Davis over the intercom.
"Eagle 1, careful when you do. They are heavily armed." Allen replies.
"Don't worry, i have your back", another voice comes in.
"Ms. Naga? Well good thing you are up, help coordinate with Mr. Hargrove."
Carn:
Kibeth
Through the radio, Alister hears the order, "aim to disable ".
Well, good thing I have a banshee....
" Lads, strap in those harnesses! I want a man on the banshee at all times. Orders are to disable, so blow out their engines. The others are on repair. "
Quickly strapping into his harness, Alister spares a moment to make sure the rookies do so. Satisfied, he kicks the engines into full throttle.
"Kibeth to bridge, we will pursue at high altitude. If the opportunity arises to board, what are my orders?"
Every airman knows the risks of boarding a vessel in combat, but Marauders train for it to the point of second nature.
Before the order comes through, the Goldfish belches a large tar cloud from her damaged engines, and visual is lost. Then, Alister sees a sliver of the balloon.
"They are rising 20 degrees West of their original trajectory, I'm going in!"
Alister cuts the engines speed drastically, and deploys chute vents, angling the banshee right behind the Goldfish.
"FIRE!"
Medbay
After hearing the order to general quarters, and securing her samples, Alison rushes to the Medbay and quickly washes and throws on a fresh medical apron. Then she methodically lays out her equipment.
Engineering
"Why,"
"Are we,"
"Here?"
The twins were mystified, as they had been swept in a rush to engineering after the alarm.
Piemanlives:
--Gunnery Deck, Port Side, Eagle's Shadow--
"Right, weapons check!"
"Number 1 flak ready."
"Flak 2 is ready to rumble."
"Hwacha loaded for full rocket fire."
Theodore Cutler turned to his own weapon, the Lumberjack, calibrated for whatever distance he was going to need it for.
"Lumberjack ready." He stood behind and readied himself. "Right, roll out the weapons! Orders are to disable the Tranquility, so try to restrain yourselves."
On his mark the gun ports opened and folded inward and the guns rolled out on their tracks as the top deck began firing. The Goldfish was still making a run for it with their escorts tailing behind. A single solitary aircraft was closing the gap, for the moment the perfect shooting conditions.
"Aim for the engines!"
Flak shells went out and for a moment things were going alright. That was until the tar went out, obscuring their vision of the target. Unsure of where the ship was within the cloud and afraid to hit anything of importance fire was sporadic, with the few shots fired plummeting out the other end of the cloud.
"Can't see shit Theo, now what?"
Theodore took a moment to think as the sound of another engine, an additional aircraft, joined the fray.
"Hold on, got an idea." He searched through a nearby storage closet and was rewarded with an old radio which he immediately fiddled with.
"Testing, testing, scout craft are you receiving?"
"Uhh, yes?"
"Oh, hey it works. But listen, the lads on the gun deck can't see shit, we need you to spot for us."
"Well, it would probably be easier IF WE COULD ACTUALLY SEE THE DAMN THING!"
"Could you?"
There was a pause on the other end. "Yeah yeah, oh shit!"
"What? What's going on!?"
"Check, they're rising and making a break 20 degrees west of their original position."
"Thank you scout wing! Gunners take em down!"
--Scout Wing--
"Kei, on my wing we're going in!"
"On it!"
Got ya now bastards, if I could actually hit something.
He fired a few more shots into their engines, a majority missed but a few found their mark. The Shadow's gunners opened fire moments later, shells barely missing their target.
"Well this is going nowhere fast, hold on our squid is up to something."
"I see it, breaking off the attack."
Both Kei and Davis dove away from the target, curious as to what they had planned.
Carn:
Kibeth
The side engineer fires, the banshee screaming, demolishing the engines on the Goldfish.
"Captain I think we, HURCK!"
Alister whirls around, seeing a knife suddenly protruding from the man's back. Glancing around, he sees Otto throw a second knife at the front engineer, taking him in the right shoulder.
"MY MASTERS SHALL FLY AGAIN!"
Drawing a short sword, he hurls himself at Alister. Managing to dodge the swing, Alister pulls out a combat knife and thrusts it under the man's ribcage. Looking back at the helm, he sees it is wrecked. Then back to the Goldfish where all but one of the captured raiders are busy repairing the engines. The last is lifting a rifle and aiming for Alister.
Time seems to slow, as what feels like fire courses through his blood. A loud noise and a hard impact to his chest make him stumble. The engines on the Goldfish sputter to life, and Alister looks up to see Jasper waving goodbye.
Unhooking his axe from his belt, Alister runs across the deck of his Squid, harness still attached, and leaps for the Goldfish.
SNAP!
Just as his axe was about to bite into the hull, the cord on his harness draws tight and Alister is left dangling almost ten feet over the side of his ship.
A mad cackle is heard and Otto shouts out, "He will aid my masters! They shall spread their wings once more!"
Then, his body plunges over the edge of the Squid, falling to the ground below.
BdrLineAzn:
Bridge
"Send a message to Carn to disengage and scratch the boarding plan," Frey orders to Allen.
From their position in the Bridge, he watches as the Squid flys towards the tar cloud with banshee firing. Soon it takes an unexpected turn into the cloud.
"Commander, we lost communications with Kibeth" informs Allen.
"What?"
"All communications is lost. Nothing in or out."
"To our scout wing. Enter and figure out what is going on. We can't lose that ship!"
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