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2004-06-15, 01:16 AM
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Chapter 28: Great Balls of Fire (Part One)
Jack glanced at his altitude meter. He was 8 miles up. Infront of him was Lunar and behind him was the custom built CDL galaxy's along with Heavy and Strygun in their own reavers flying tail cover. Quickly scrolling up with his thumb dial he selected a private coms channel with Manitou. "Hows Jouster flying that thing Mani?" He asked. "Like a fool.... lots of turbulance." Mani replyed. Jack's reaver bucked in the air as they passed through another temprature variation in Auraxis' upper atmosphere. "So remind me again, why does this guy think hes so good?" Jack proded his commander. "Because he is Peace. Lunar is the best weve got." "Well I hope he knows what he is doing. This could get rough." "Dont worry Peace he does." Mani's mike Icon went red x on his HUD, as did everyone elses. "Hamma here, listen up guys. We have to go in low... lots of cloud cover over the peninsula. Air cover you guys better be ready for hell." "Keep the tubes warm Hamma... we will need them." Chimed in Lunar. Jack became confused at this statement. What did he mean by tubes? Regen tubes? How would they help for a pilot who had died? "Roger that." "TR high command here. Dragon 1 does the drops, Dragon 2 Stays on station at angels 30. Dragon flys 1 and 2 are to escort dragon 1. Dragon flys 3 and 4 do the same for Dragon 2." A monotone voice crackled over Jack's headset. "Roger that command. Dragon flight is approaching target." Hamma keyed back. "Listen up guys we have two cloud layers to cross. After the second we are on radar. Their missles WILL be tracking." The first galaxy started to decend down through the cloud cover. Jack pitched his reaver down hard and pirced the first layer. He looked up through his canopy to see the clouds seperate under the massive bulk of the airship. The second galaxy's targeting icon blinked on the canopy indicating its location on the other side. Two smaller blips followed close behind. He looked off to his left and saw his wingman, lunar. Lunar was looking back at him grimly. As the first galaxy began to penetrate the clouds Lunar waved, banked hard to his left and punched through the cloud layer. Jack followed right behind him. As soon as he was through his Radar Warning Indicator started flashing as missle sites for miles around started to paint his ship. "Dragon 2 commence jamming." Sentrosi's voice came in. Suddenly all of the icon's on the RWR were gone. Jack looked ahead and saw the Iva base dead ahead. Lunar was about 1000 feet infront of him. Suddenly the base blacked out as all the lights turned off. He could hear the air raid sirens going off from inside. The air was suddenly filled with bright blue tracer fire. "Tally bandit 11 oclock low!" Lunar cried into his mic. "I have him." Jack watched as the young pilot put his reaver into a dive and opened up on the enemy mosquito a few hundred feet out. The enemy aircraft didnt even see it coming. The tail structure shreded under the massed 20mm barrage and the little aircraft went into a death spiral crashing into a mountain with a firy blast that lit up the early morning sky. Jack looked at his map. The Galaxy was 2 miles south of Iva and moving fast. Tracer fire that looked like long beams of light poked at the sky looking for the enemy aircraft it knew were there. An occasional SAM was launched but it fell harmlessly back to the ground, they could see nothing on radar. A strange tingle started at the base of Jack's spine and traveld up his back to the back of his skull. Enemy aircraft. Out of the corner of his eye Jack locked on to a three reaver formation to the east.
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2004-06-15, 01:17 AM
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[Ignore Me] #108 | ||
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Chapter 28: Great Balls of Fire (Part Two)
Tally 3 bandits 3 o clock high, at angles 8, range six thousand." He calmly keyed in. "I've got 'em." Standing the reaver on its tail he taped the burners and was heading straight up. A quick flick of the stick and the enemy formation was right 'above' his aircraft. He pulled the stick and buried it in his gut. Now he was flying right at them upside down. Voices started realing in his mind... ' If engaging Vanu aircraft with the element of suprise the enemy will always break with a dive, they prefer the extra energy for manuvering.' 'The reaver is a fickle bird. It pulls up alot faster than it will nose over.' 'they also fall apart if you hit one of the mounted engines right.' and so on. Jack locked his crosshairs on the lead aircraft and waited as the distance closed. He was approaching them from the tail as they went north towards Iva. He had a major advantage in this case. A squeeze of the trigger and 40 20mm cannon shells exploded from the cannons on the gunship. The struck the left engine of the reaver and the tail structure. It stuttered once and started to go into a slow spin as the right engine pushed more than the left. The other two ships immediatly broke and dived as the voice had told him. Jack again had the advantage. He pulled back on the stick and the ship responded quicker than the enemy who were nosing over. As a result he turned inside of them and came out under them. He pulled up a little and dumped cannon ammo into the second ships underside. A few cannon shells found the rocket pods and the aircraft desintigrated in a firey explosion. Jack looked behind him to see the third reaver had slowed down and was now on his tail. He switched his engine to idle, set the next selected speed to reverse and jamed the afterburners. The aircraft's engines facing forward and burners on full caused it to stop on a dime. Jack was firing before the enemy aircraft was even visible. It ran right into the lance of shells, the right engine exploded and it went into a tight spin crashing into the sea. Jack's ship started to fall as he set the engines to hover. The ship stoped falling and he kicked the rudder shifting the tail around. He was now facing the other way and looking at the injured lead reaver as it tried to escape to the west. Jack again taped his burners and was on him in a second. A click of the switch and the enemy was gone. "Scratch 3." "Nice job Peace." Heavygain chimed in. "No celebrating, we have a job to do." Sentrosi rang. Jack again checked his radar. The galaxy was only a half mile from the base. The dogfight had lasted less than 30 seconds. He burned off towards the base. Two mossys were rising to meet the galaxy. The lead craft started to fire and suddenly exploded. Lunarwarrior's reaver burst through the cloud of debris and did a victory roll. "Shit 5 more reavers." Lunar called out. "I count 4 mossy." Jack responded. "I got two libs on our tail." Sentrosi called. "Overwhelming air presence. Escorts clear the area!" Lunar immidiatly burned over the base to the north. Jack watched in disbelief. You dont just abandon a full galaxy. "Fire!" Came an unknown voice of a woman. The galaxy's sides suddenly shot open and 20 12mm chainguns poped out of shutters on the side that were nearly invisible. They immediatly locked onto an airtarget and started firing. Enemy aircraft all around exploded into splinters of metal, smoke, and fire. The radio crackled to life again. "This is Dragon 1 we are over the target. Drop. Drop. Drop." Jack watched as the bottom hatches of the galaxy opened and the 30 man platoon of dragonwolves droped out of the ship. The skyblue flames enshrouding their bodies. They all landed around the back door and an intense firefight ensued. Jack suddenly saw 10 magriders on the cliffs of the base open up on the drop site. He dove in with lunar to his left again and dumped a salvo of rockets into the driver area of the first tank. Its anti grav systems dead the tubish tank slammed to the ground and rolled down the hill into a tree exploding. A second mag was unlucky enough to be caught in Lunar's furious barrage and it outright exploded. Jack swung his ship around and came down hard on a few infantry with his cannons. The MAXs and infantry were simply enveloped in the fulside. He pulled back a little and looked down the barrel of a magrider. Ten rockets later and another tank was reduced to a heaping hulk. Lunar in turn took out two more magriders. Soon enough the rest of the MBTs turned tail and ran. Jack and Lunar quickly gave persuit. Rocket barrage after rocket barrage found its mark on two more tanks and they quickly fell. By now the gunners had trained their cannons on the two aircraft. "Shit." Jack chimed to lunar. A bolt of energy was heading right at him. Suddenly everything slowed down. He could see a rain drop splashing on his cannopy and several more slowly falling. He could see the energy bolt coming at him, raindrops flash boiling before they came within a foot of it. He slammed the right rudder and the ship slowly responded. Suddenly everything sped back up. The bolt flew right past his ship missing by a mere two feet. Two more bolts slowed time down for Jack. But these wernt heading for him. They were heading for Lunar. The first smashed into his right engine and the whole tip was gone in an instant. The gunship spit a tounge of flame from the wing tip and started to spin down towards the ground. The second lance of energy struck the ship midship and it exploded mid air. Nothing but smoke was left. Jack felt a surge of rage rip through his body. Lunar was dead. Gone. The vanu had taken the life of someone he knew. "The bastards! They will pay." Jack smashed the button for his afterburners and tore off after the tanks. Switching to his cannons he laced the floating cigars up and down. Nearly disabled he dumped two rockets into each of the surviving tanks and they exploded nicly all over the landscape. "Dragon 2 this is Ground Dragon. We need the tube drop now! We took alot of casualties." Someone yelled into the coms. "Roger ground dragon disabling jamming and making our run. We have 23 troops ready for you." As soon as the transmission ended the RWR lit back up. Jack looked at all the sites. Nothing could make it through. The galaxy and its men would be slaughtered. He truned back towards Iva and hammered down on the burners again. He dodged a few large SAM missles made for shooting down liberators on the way. The galaxy wouldnt be so lucky. He had to do something. He got to Dragon 2 as it punched through the cloud cover. Almost instantly all of the radars started painting the big ship. Nothing good could come from this. Ten seconds later the missles launched from their rails and started homing in on the transport. Jack did a tight turn and pulled out infront of Dragon 2. "Hope your watching this boys." (Fucking chacter limit. The origonal post was 699 letters too long so I split it in two. I really got into this chapter expect more soon.)
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2004-08-03, 02:15 AM
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Ok guys. Seeing as I have a few new fans Ill be writing the next chapter sometime this week. The general rule is, if I see new people posting in the thread enjoying it I will write another chapter. If I see the same two people doing it I will probly post another chapter.
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2004-08-11, 10:32 PM
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[Ignore Me] #117 | ||
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Chapter 29: Defying Expectations
28 enemy missle indicators popped up on Jack's hud. Several were smaller anti fighter missles that would rip up the troops in the Galaxy's hold, the others were more akin to a flying telephone pole. Long and slow they were biult for destroying larger aircraft. Jack watched as they all rose together from the base. "Dragon 2, 3 miles out. 90 seconds to target." "Roger that Dragon 2. We are holding at the back door for the drop. Where is Dragon 1?" Sentrosi called back up. "We have taken Dragon 2's position and are warming up the ECM. It will be a few moments though." came the eirily familar womans voice. "Dragon 2 here, 75 seconds to target, we have a large concentration of SAM's coming. Where is that ECM!?" "We are working on it!" Came back the voice. "Were not going to make it!" Jack took this as his que. He positioned his ship between the base and the Galaxy off its nose. The missles were only half a mile away now. All of them seperated by a few hundred yards. Jack took a deep breath and it happened again. Time skipped a few beats and everything slowed down. The nose of Jacks reaver trained onto the first missle and the cannon pods erupted. The missle caught a shell nose on tearing a fin off sending it on a balistic course back to the planet surface. Quickly onto the next missle and down it went. Next missle, a massive explosion as the 35 foot long missle exploded in midair taking 4 smaller missles with it. These in turn exploded and shreded two more large missles with shrapnel. The large missles plumited to earth. Another cannon shell found its mark on the engine of a large missle. It shot straight up and twirled into oblivion exploding as it ran out of fuel. Jack was shooting them down but they were getting close, the reaver's cannons continued to miss over and over. It was just too slow, wasnt the same. "Same as what?" He wispered to himself. Jack shook himself back to the task at hand. Even in slow motion the missles were getting closer and closer to the galaxy. He couldnt down them all. Two more missles and now 3 more were a few hundred feet away. He couldnt get them now. "ECM is up!" Cried the voice. The missles stuttered once then twice and all together stoped working. The also like all the others fell to the surface and exploded. "Holy shit! Did I just see what I think I saw?" Came a transmission from Dragon 1. "Yea.... he just shot down ten missles." Was the reply from Dragon 2. "How?" "Hell if I know....... oh shit! Drop Drop Drop!" The galaxy drisgorged its troops and replay of earlyer took place. 23 infantry with blue licks of flame jumped from the galaxy's hold and set down near the back door. No resistance was met this time. "Dragon 2 here, mission complete. Returning to station." "Roger that Dragon 2. Nice work up there guys." Suddenly three of the wall turrets on the base started spitting shells at the galaxy. The long fingers of shells smashed into its tail structure. Jack in turn dumped some cannon shells into one of the high rate of fire turrets but this only turned them all against him. "Son of a bitch!" Jack cried. Everything slowed down again and Jack watched the cannon shells approaching. He jammed his left rudder but the ship only lurched. What was wrong!? Why wasnt it responding!? The cannon shells smashed into the Reaver and tore away at the armor. In a split second nothing was protecting the avionics and engines. Soon they were obliterated in the barrage. The reaver cockpit clouded with smoke as Jack pulled the ejection lever. This was a new fealing. Ejection. The canopy blew away with a small blast and the seat shot Jack out at an incredible rate of speed. He started to fall a few seconds later and the Kenetic Dampeners kicked in on the seat. He bounced off the wall of the facility and smacked into a tree. The seat came to rest there and he quickly unstraped. Standing before him was KaosReign. "You ok?" He asked. "Yea I am fine." Jack responed. "Damn fly boys, always puting on a show!" "Looks like I am getting my boots dirty now." A burst of Pulsar fire flew over Jacks head a second later. Kaos fired a few return shots and they ducked behind a tree. "We are pinned down on the east side!" Kaos radioed. "Ive got 'im." Came a calm voice. A crack rang out and the soldier on the wall fell. "Nice shot Orange." Kaos radioed back. Jack and Kaos ran for the back door. They arived with no problem and the door slid open. Inside was the rest of the squad. 27 members of the Dragon Wolves. All in battle armor. All looking very rested. The thing that got Jack the most was the one that turned to greet him. "Sup Peace?" "Lunar!? What the hell?" "What do you mean?" "I thought you were dead!" "I was dead!" "Huh!?" Sentrosi came out of no where at that moment. "No worries Jack Ill explain later." He said. The whole squad ran down the hall way and and Jack grabbed a sweeper off a dead Vanu soldier. Down the ramp into the basement. The squad stacked up and the door slid open. A MAX armor stood on the other side but NoSurrender and Cyrus stood by with decimator rockets. They both impacted on the chest and a huge bloody gaping hole was torn in the suit. It stood for a second and fell over. A few lasher orbs flew in and one of the electric arcs singed Jack's arm. A grenade was launched from a thumper and the problem solved. The squad piled through the door and ran for the stairs in the center of the base. Jack ran along on the edge of the squad when suddenly he bumped into something. Something that wasnt there. He swung the butt of the sweeper and clocked something. It impacted on the wall to his left as he trained the weapon on it. A shot rang loud and a bloody neck appeared. Nothing could be seen but the stub of the neck as it slid down the wall with brains and blood splattered on the wall. A flickering and a cloaking suited Vanu was revealed. Down the halls further. A rexo soldier appeared and was quickly cut down by the squad. They came to the stair case and tossed a few grenades further down the hall. Up the stairs untill they came to the main room. The door slowly slid open to reveal no resistance. "What the hell is going on here!? Where are they all?" Incompentent asked. "Who the hell knows." Replyed Lunar. "Quiet! CE's get that cealing ready to blow. We have to get up and clear out the gen in under 10 minutes. The rest of the attack is coming in 15 minutes." The Dual Cycler MAXs quickly deployed facing the doors and everyone found some cover around the large rectangular room. What ever came through the doors would be quickly cut down.... they hoped. Sentrosi and Manitou took positions in the med lab and set up a mobile command post. Jack quickly followed them in. He had to ask Sentrosi something.....
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