*off-topic: come on ppl, move this faster, running out of ideas!*
****... in the meantime on the BSA-Maul.****
"Captain, we are 10k off the jumphole." said the comm operator.
"All right, bring us to 3k and stop there, ensign!" the captain replied, "Comm, what are the SK saying?".
"The Suicide Kings report entering Tau-31, sir!"
"On screen! And sound battle stations we may need to jump in!" ordered the captain.
"Patchin' through!"
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The Tau-31 system... static ships, ice asteroids, the Akki, the Chimaera, fighters... outpost Hollman was visible in the distance... all lifeless except the engine jet of Alpha and Orion Raven Claws cutting the void between the ice asteroids. The view was from Red-13, in the middle and a little to the back, the Kings were flying in "V" formation...
"This is SKings Leader reporting: The Akki is with it's nose stuck inside an asteroid, the Chimaera half-disabled - all it's turrets facing the Akki - disabled, allied forces hide behind it, the Berreta is keeping distance and backing off, another ship appeared - the A-Mag Ind. BlackStar - seems to have similar problem as the others, random neutral fighters scattered and comming to life... We think the effects of the EMP blast are fading... Wait!... A communication, it says: 'Welcome to Hell!', and repeats, it's coming from the Akki. There are traces of tachyon flux generator radiations (author note: or whatever was that the Klingons use, I watch Star Trek too) from the Phantom cloaking devices all around the place."
"ALERT! Three phantom ships decloaking at 3'o clock, break and engage!"
One of the phantoms never had a chance to know what was that it hit him when the coordinated blasts from the guns of the three Asgard Warriors ripped through the hull of his fighter reaching the tachyon flux generator core causing a massive explosion that blew the other five remaining ships spinning out of control, loosing their shields and bouncing off the asteroids. "This was not 'surgical!'" thought Orion while giving the best he could to stop his raven from spinning and bouncing getting a grip on his bearings. "Incoming missile!" shouted the onboard computer. "Damn Phantom, you didn't shoot that at me!" he screamed while firing the special ECMS (Electronic CounterMeasure System) destroying the missile. At the same time gaining control of the raven and went for the Phantom all guns blazing... but just to shoot a few asteroids as the Phantom cloaked... Orion was looking for his wingmen... both gained control of the ships and entered formation. No sign of the Phantoms...
***
On the Maul...
"Incoming transmission, sir, it's from Keiran!"
"On screen!... What can I do for You, sir!"
"This is Keiran, I have orders from Lord Captain Dab for you to enter Tau-31 and prepare to destroy the Akki!"
"It will be done so, we will enter Tau-31 and wait for further orders. Inform the Lord Captain that there are Phantoms and a TC cruiser in the area and that it is possible for the conflict to escalate." the captain turned to the crew on the bridge: "Ensign, take us into Tau-31! Sound battle stations, code red!"
"All hands battle stations! All hands battle stations!" the intercom repeated "Code Red! This is not a drill! repeat, THIS IS NOT A DRILL!..." echoed through the Maul's cavernous hull as the cruise engines began to stir taking the ship to the Tau-31 jumphole and into the system to emerge into...
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(*Phantoms, to be fair u can kill one of the SKings, it's just a story, but I couldn't kill my own men*)
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off-topic:
enough from me today
special thanks for this part of the story go to the following: Angel - for the music (Keiki Kobayashi, ACE COMBAT 5 Chorus Theme and Mary Elizabeth McGlynn The Journey Home "ACE COMBAT 5 Ending Theme") I was listening to this fine pieces (the first one) while writing the part when the SKings engage the Phantoms and (the 2nd one) writing the ending part on the Maul The 282nd Suicide Kings Surgical Strike Squadron For just existing all the rest of you reading this
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If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God? - from 'Nightfall' by I. Asimov The Outcasts consider Siniestre Nube a sacred place for several reasons. Early explorers discovered a jumphole within the depths of the cloud that leads to a strange world of ringed stars and strange craft. All ships in the burrial ground are placed facing that hole to honor the Alien Spirits. - An Outcast rumor
"Jenson, any reply from [SF] or any other active units in the area."
"No sir nothing, despite repeated calls, now long range is back up and operating."
The Beretta fired up her cruise engines.
"No point in getting in the middle of this then. I suspect it will get really messy now.
Helm take us about and get us to Holman. Security drop a spy probe, I want to hear
and see everything that goes down here."
The ship moved away from the upcoming devastation......
Hoodlum :(
Some say he is a proud member of: "The most paranoid group of people in the Community."
Lieutenant Fleischer: Sir sensors show the Maul entering Tau-31.
Captain Soren: Damnit I thought I told him not to enter the Jensei might fire off another EMP. Get me a comm with them.
Captain Soren: I thought I told you to stsay out Captain Nightfall.
Captain Nightfall: Lord Captain Dab gave us orders to enter and be prepared to destroy the Jensei if ordered.
Captain Soren: Well its too late to do anything about it now, at least get a tractor on us to get us out of range of the Jensei's guns. It keeps shooting our guns as they become operational.
The ship shuddered as a tractor beam locked onto the ship and slowly began pulling them away.
Captain Soren: We might need some repair ships out here to fix these hull breaches.
(OOC: Kane you might wanna say something about the inside of the ship as I can't say anything about my cammandos on-board until you do...)
Dab and his bodyguard launched to find an entire armada arrayed outside the Kirshiro station. 4 battleships, 6 destroyers, about 12 gunships, and dozzens of fighter wings. Most of them had Kusari Navy IFF codes, but two of the Destroyers and 4 gunships read as Kirshiro.
"Stand down Navel Forces! We have come to an agreement." The director's voice cut through in space. "Very well, 'Lord Commander.' Our vessels are ready." The two destroyers and the gunships with them entered formation with Dab.
"This is Captian Kougi and Captian Gungaku. We are here to assist in the recovery of the Science Vessel Jinsei-Akki. Our marines will land on the Jinsei-Akki once we get a clear path for them."
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The Phantom Marines finaly made it to the bridge. Thick doors normally protected this section from the rest of the ship, but they were open now. "Virus, this is Sargent Hicks again. This whole ship has been like one of those old horror games, from Earth-That-Was? Zombies, blood, gore, unfeeling machines, cryptic comments from a denranged AI... The works! We're at the bridge now. We're gonna pull the AI and then we're bugging out! Be ready for us, Oh kay?"
"Hmm... I don't think so!" The sing-song voice echoed from the PA system on the ship. A power surge ran through the ship, and the Phantom Marines found themselfs, quite suddenly, in different places. Sargent Hicks was the only one still on the Jinsei-Akki. All the others found themselfs in space. It was a simple matter to turn on the Term-Optic Camo on the suits to become invisible and then identify a ship for pickup.
Sargent Hicks would come to regret not going with the others once this was all over...
***
Another transmission came from the Jinsei-Akki. "I see your trying to bring freinds along! Well, good luck with that!" A second power surge rippled across the ship. The entire engenering section gave some kind of pulse before disintigating into a bright orange fireball. The pulse was strange, and it did... something. Nobody was quite sure untill they tried to contact another.
10K around the Jinsei-Akki had become a communications Dead Zone. No transmissions could go in, out, or through the field.
This is the real true story of rock and roll; it was not about anything more then, how to live your life, as a gangster, in sartorial splendor, and turning the world into a place where normality would never return again...- Malcolm McLaren
Soon after leaving Kishiro Xizer sent a tight-beam transmission to the three backup battleships waiting in Chugoku. (btw Kane wasn't thinking you were gonna bring that many ships, but I'll still just stick with what i was going to say anyway instead of highering it..)
Stand down, proceed onto Tau-37. the transmission read.
Dab leaned down and whispered to the sensors officer.
Dab:Keep an eye on those ships, I don't trust these people.
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(italizised words are whispers)
Commander Diszek:What happened? Where did the marines go?
Lieutenant Lieger wearing infrered gogles:[i] Put your gogles on. They seem to be... Get back! They are coming back this way.
The 5 remaining commandos pressed against the wall and it's partial shadows. The Phantoms didn't see them.
Lieutenant Lieger crept up behind one of them and covered his mouth and throat as he hauled him back to the captain's office just outside the bridge. One of the commandos shut the door behind them.
[b]Commander Diszek: Remove his mask. Then find wherever their cloaking device is and take it. We will make our own version of this when we get back to Coanrie base.
Commander Diszek: Alright you Phantom scum you tell us where your fleet is preparing to haul away this ship and where the rest of your team has gone. Then tell us whats on this ship that is so important.
(Kane or Virus, one of you be the commando. I suggest Kane since he knows everything about this event...)
The commando snarled. "You fools. You think I will tell you anything? Fools! ALL OF YOU!" A nasty smile split his features. "But your still welcome to join me in death..."
A small chime sounded from the commando's HUD. "Fusion pack self-destruct override. Meltdown in 15 seconds. 14... 13..." He gripped the two marines closest to him with gauntleted fists, locking the power gloves so they could not escape.
"Oohhhhh, death! Death is all that awaits, thee..." He began to sing as the timer counted down. It would be impossible to remove the entire powered suit from him before it went off, much less find out how to disable the thing.
"10... 9... 8..."
"Come with me, into, the great, Beyooooond!"
*Fwhump!* The fusion pack went up in flames, consuming the Phantom commando, the room, and two of the AW's marines. Obviously, the others had noticed, for as soon as the pack went off, from a close-by corridor a hail of energy and razor shards screamed down it towards what was left of the AW marines.
***
Hicks was making his way back to the bridge. Now and then, a zombie would test his systems' tolerence for adrenelin, and he would turn the thing into paste. Some of the lighting had failed, so he used a flashlight in addition to his SMG side-arm. He only had a respirator over his mouth and nose, actually built into his skin. He never had a helm. He rather liked his field of view as it was, thank you very much.
It was a long treck, and nothing really interesting happened, untill he found a lap-top. There was a file open on it, a report some scientist was making. He grabbed the thing and hid in an alcove. Then he began to read.
-*-Dr.Mako of the Kirshiro Research Ship 'Jinsei-Akki.' We've managed a sucessful examination of the alien ruins in Newcastle. The SF didn't notice us, and we managed to get by the Grimsby with falsified access codes. The scientists at Sunderland were quite welcoming, and even lent us a few samples. We wrangled permission to get into one of the surrounding satalites of the ruins. What we found was amazing. Bones, artifacts, texts... Everything we could have hoped for and more! We wern't allowed to take any physical things, so we took pictures and scans and loaded them up into Crystal Oni. We'll be examining them on the way back, or at least start to. Crystal Oni was very happy, to say the least. He said that it was all very exciting. -*-
So, it was even more important for them to get Crystal Oni. Oh yes, the Phantoms were going to be very happy with this! He hurried on, very close to the bridge now. He was careful to turn on his Term-Optics. If he was stealthy, nobody would see a thing. Even thermal immaging wouldn't pick him up.
***
Soon the Kirshiro and AW ships were in Tau 31. Captian Gunagku opened a system wide transmission. "All ships! This situation is now under the command of Kirshiro Technologies! Stand down and retreat at once, or you will be destroyed!"
It was Captian Kougi who first noticed the comm dead zone. "Lord Captain Dab, there's a field around the Jinsei-Akki. It looks like whoever made it had to sacrifice the Jinsei-Akki's engenering section to make it, but that field is preventing all communications from getting anywhere. Our's can't get in, their's can't get out, and nothing is going in-between. No radio, no lazer bursts, nothing."
This is the real true story of rock and roll; it was not about anything more then, how to live your life, as a gangster, in sartorial splendor, and turning the world into a place where normality would never return again...- Malcolm McLaren
Lord Captain Dab: Then improvise. Captain send us towards the Maul battlegroup. We will dock with them and have one of the newly volenteered scientists here take a shuttle to dock every other ship in the area and get them out of here. And make no mistake Captains, this system is under our control not yours.
Then weapons you shall start the demolishing of the junk out there to clear our comms up. Its obvious they were magnetized or something but destroying them seems the quickest way to fix the problem.
20 minutes later the the ship was docked with the Maul. Dab and the two Kishiro captains walked aboard the bridge to find Captain Soren of the Chimeara, Captain Nightfall of the Maul, and the captain of whatever ship came along with the Maul. Dab didn't recognise him.
Dab: Captains.
The three men saluted then Captain Soren sat back down, obviously exhausted from the battle he and his ship had gone through.
Dab: We have some scientists from Kishiro here to disable this vessal. Any word from the commandos you sent on-board? We could use their help protecting the scientists.
Captain Soren: The commandos were reporting the capture of a Phantom marine, but then we heard gun fire shortly before the Jensei let out that, thing, that did all this to our comm gear.
Dab: We have to expect the worse happened and prepare a team of our own. We have a large force of cammandos aboard the Laviathen, they will be ready shortly.
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The AW commandos ducked back behind the safety of the wall as the gun blasts came roaring through the doorway.
Commander Diszek: 3 and 4 cover the door. 2 come with me we are going to get those charges ready and blow the bridge, whether it takes our lives or not. Whatever is in this ship must be very special to the Phantoms. And anything special to the Phantoms is a hazard to us.
Two of the 4 remaining commandos guarded the door while the leader and his Lietenant got the charges ready.
After 3 minutes the charges were set.
Commander Diszek: Alright 3, 4, cover us. 2 we are going to dash to the bridge. Take out anyone you see. We are going to set these bombs for 30 seconds. Then we run as fast as we can back to the shuttle. On my mark. Ready.... GO!
The two guarding commandos jumped out the door, one prone one crouching, while the commander and his Lietenant ran towards the bridge...
(Too be continued.... whenever Kane says what he needs to say.)