Kazuki heard the alarms. He looked upon the roof of his small holding chamber and waited for impact.
BOOM
"HHmp. The shields are still holding." He frowned. He really hoped that the Gallic bombarding would finally make the holding facility's shields surrender.
A while after the guards came to escort him to the dining room. He could easily gather that the were many less guards in the station, and he was sure he heard firing squads outside. "Evacuating and cleansing, heh" he thought to himself.
As he sat in the dining room, he saw the news flash. Jien Kogen, the emperor who's blood he swore to avenge was alive after all.
He dropped his plate on the floor.
Anger flushed his body. His face became red and his eyes burning
As he looked upon the little holo-comms device he screamed at it, much to the surprised of the diners.
"COWARD!"
Alain was walking up the stairs of the fort. The shields have finally surrendered and the ground invasion to the massive facility could finally be made
Theeeeck
Colonel Adam Rouchell collapsed. He was hit directly in the head by the defenders' snipers.
"Congratulations Alain, you are given a field promotion to Colonel" General LaCroius said in the communications from the tank's brigand. "Merde" Alain said "Fine, squadron Beta and Gamma, you are with me! Alpha and Epsilon, you provide covering fire!"
The squadrons stormed ahead, provided heavy fire from their backs in combination of direct fire from General LaCroius' tanks
The two squadrons managed to enter the entry chamber of the facility. After securing it squadrons Alpha, Epsilon and the newly deployed Theta squadron joined in.
"Secure the parameter soliders! This will be the base of our operations! Try to capture as many Breton cowards as possible, they may have useful intel for us!"
Commander Louis Capet hunkered down behind a broken wall as gunfire whizzed past. He was leading Theta squadron, and they had the toughest job. The Bretonians clearly valued this installation, and breaking through would be a tough call indeed. He threw a Grenade over the wall into the general direction of gunfire, and knew he'd landed it well when he heard screams.
"Advance!" He yelled. Theta wing advanced, taking advantage of the confusion and moving rapidly, gunning down the dazed Bretonians with ease. They were now inside the facility, and from here out Louis had very little idea of where to go. Intel had been scarce on the actual contents of this facility, just that it housed dangerous malcontents captured by the Bretonians.
He'd comment on the strangeness of liberating criminals, even with the Foreign Legion now in existence...but not now. For now, they had to advance.
"Men, we'll advance down the centre, right into the thick of it. Alpha and Bravo will clear the perimeter and provide flanking support. Let's get to it, shall we?"
He was answered positively, and Theta Squadron began to descend into the depths of the Prison.
Kazuki woke up, he got hit in the head by a blunder that detached in the bombing. He looked around and noticed that most of the prisoners that were present in the dining room were dead. Shoot down, presumably by the Bretonian officers.
"Cowards" he muttered as he stepped to the sole officer body in the room. The officer was clearly beaten to death by the missing prisoners and had nothing of worthy with him. "Well, at least he has the keys to these track-bands" Kazuki said as he relived himself from the bands.
He went to the kitchen, grabbed a handful of knives and a utility belt, buckled up, and moved on to the smokey corridor.
Kazuki heard whispering in the darkness and kept tight to the ground. He crawled slowly towards the voice's origin. It was two Bretonian officers taking an ambush down the corridor. He knew there were bound to be more of them around, so he flickered a rock to the middle of the room. One of the officers remained at the position as the other came to check.
Theeck. A clean cut
The officer fell dead with his head decapitated before he had any chance to react. Kazuki caught the body and put it gently on the ground without making much noise.
He quickly slayed the other guard too chocking him with a iron string. And then he waited patiently. He could hear the advancing Gallic troops on their way, they were his way out of this hell.
"Fire!" The ambushing Bretonians yelled. 3, 5, 8. 8 soldiers were firing quite a heavy fire on the small squadron that was forced to take shelter behind a few wrecks that fell from the roof.
Kazuki moved fast, he took the gun, and shot the surprised Bretonian soldiers. Quickly they were dwindled to 3 before they could react. He leaped over the obstacles and joined the surrounded squadron.
The men were looking pale white, and 6 of them were injured quite severely in the fighting.
"You! Are you in charge of these men?" "O..oui mosieur!" Louis has answered.
"Hai, good, we are going to get out of this hell-hole. Give me a grenade!"
Kazuki threw the plasma grenade at the ambushers' location. He could hear screaming in the midst of the explosion - which after there was silence.
He helped the commander to move the injured to a nearby hallway waiting for medics from up above to show up.
He searched for any survivors among the Bretonians, 2 of them were critically injured, one was lacking half a face from the plasma burn effect, Kazuki gave him the gift of mercy and ended his life. The other was taken to the hallway with the Gallic wounded.
Louis moved fast. Theta squadron was narrowed down to 5 people, and 2 prisoners that teamed up with them.
"Merde!" Louis spat as they ran into yet anther blocked corridor.
"Rolf, help me clear these rocks, we have to move on" the 2.1 meters tall Molly helped him clear the rocks as the rest of the man were giving them cover. The Kusarinese soldier was nowhere to be seen for the past 5 turns they've made. BOOM anther explosion trap exploded. The Bretonians were getting closer and closer.
"Joaquin, give me anther plasma grenade, we won't manage to dig this pile up in time"
Joaquin frowned. They used the last Grenade to force their way through the last corridor.
They could hear the footsteps of their enemies as they got closer and closer. TAK TAK TAK
And then, silence. Kazuki stepped in the corridor. He was obviously injured, and carried a huge rail-gun. Konnichiwa.
A threw a bunch of C-91 - Bretonian Standard Explosives Grenade to Joaquin. Lets get out of here
They managed to get outside.
Most of the facility has been over-taken, fresh soldiers were moving in to clean what's left of the Bretonian resistance.
Kazuki stepped up a hill to observe what has been his prison for the past 2 years.
Kazuki sat in his Chimaera. It was docked at Planet Leeds, where the Royal Navy already embarked its conquest of the surface, he read a book when the comms lit up and hailed.
>X: Kato, anything unusual to report?
>K: Hai Xavier-Dono... I made an attempt to convince a bomber pilot belonging to Jien's forces. I gave reason in him, made him realize that once a regnant is beat in combat, a new one takes his place.
>X: Good. More people see the light of the king and his wisdom. Continue, and remove any and all obstacles that you encounter on your way.