Drake was frenzied scrambling his men around to their respective positions and readying the guns. Whats their ETA? Drake inquired
Marcus studied his console, ETA five minutes sir.
The Ragnarok was in a deep ice field, running from several Liberty Battle groups. This field was supposedly the home of the infamous Lane Hackers. Take us about, head straight for the fleet, deploy all fighters.
Marcus didnt say a word he set the Ragnarok on a course the for the several Liberty battle groups. Their shields up and superior engines and weapons also readied. Drake took a deep breath watching the Liberty fleet headed towards his ship. He watched his fighters streak towards the fleet. Marcus, lob a pair of mortars at the lead dreadnought and throw turret fire at their support group.
Marcus again followed orders unloading everything on the Liberty group. The mortars tore into the hull of the Liberty command ship; the mortars tore a hole into the solid boron plating of the command ship several meters in front of the main engine core starting a nuclear reaction. The mortar made a direct hit into their reactor sir!
The computers on the Ragnarok began to scream, their shielding was going down it was at 50% of its normal strength and their power supply was depleting. Prep my fighter. Drake ordered, one of the crewmen hustled to the comm and relayed the order to the flight crew. Drake stepped into the elevator and headed down to the flight deck.
He had a new prototype fighter, it was LSF but hed managed to get his hands on it. It was a stealth fighter designed for intense combat situations. The Raven Claw. He climbed into the cockpit and powered up the fighter. The once full fighter bay was now empty, every last Guardian and Defender was in the air engaging the enemy fleet.
Drake took off into the melee, it was brutal the Ragnarok was slugging it out with an entire Liberty group and his fighters although superior were being slaughtered. He lined up a shot on a defender and pulled the trigger on his flight stick. Lasers and plasma burst out of his fighter, shredding his target. One down Drake locked onto the forward gun on a Liberty cruiser and loosed a Sunslayer torpedo. It hit home and a massive explosion followed.
Drakes comm screeched to life a transmission from the bridge of the Ragnarok, Colonel, our shields are down and the hull is buckling. We have to retreat!
Damnit, all fighters prepare to land on and get ready to jump! Drake sighed, he turned his fighter around and as he did his sensors lit up seventy plus fighters were headed towards the fleet.
This is Captain Scot Davis of the Lane Hackers, need some help here? A voice called over the comm.
Drake watched as nearly a hundred dagger light fighters slammed into the battle group swatting all the Liberty fighters down and blasting through several of the capital ships. Thanks for the help lets drive these b*sta*ds out of here! Drake cried triumphantly. He unloaded a dozen more torpedoes on the secondary command ship shredding the main structure.
The battle ended, all the fighters were landed back on the Ragnarokthe ones that made it anyways. Out of fifty fighters only ten made it back and they were severely damaged and the Ragnarok was missing most of his outer hull. The Lane Hackers brought the Ragnarok to their home systemVespucci, and to their shipyards for repairs.
Drake stood on what they called America Base, looking out at his ship undergoing repairs. Scot Davis walked up alongside him, So whats your story? I didnt get a chance to ask about it during the fight.
Drake looked Scot in the eye, I was an officer in the Liberty Navy for a long timeand they betrayed me.
Scot looked on solemnly, Sorry to hear itthose Liberty scum they are just self centered sycophantic materialists.
Thats one way to put it Why did you help me? Drake asked.
An enemy of liberty is a friend of the Lane Hackers. That and you have a lot of top secret Liberty techour techs can make more of it. We can make more of those super fighters youve got and put them to good use against the Liberty scum. Scot said
Sounds like a good ideafor now I wanna lay low and just relax for a while. Get my men together and repair my ship. Drake replied
