The Journey of a young Terran named Lance

[AztecWarrior]

This kicks ass. Keep going.

[Kikinchikin]

=)

Chapter 6 Against the odds

The hum of the Vanguard engines became more and more audible, until finally Lance could see the sun reflecting off the cannon of the lead Vanguard as the convoy moved over the hill. "Here they come!" shouted Crunch into the com. "Alright I better pray this basilisk doesn't crap out on me," Bismarck said in a joking but slightly nervous tone. The distance between Bismarck and the convoy continued to close. "500 yards... 400 yards... 300 yards," counted Bismarck. When the convoy reached 200 yards Bismarck knew it was time and pulled the triggers on his dual 20mm machine guns. 20 bullets spewed from the barrels and off into the distance. Most missed, but a few became embedded in the lead Vanguard's armor. "Target ahead!" screamed the gunner. "It's just a basilisk. Weird," replied the driver. "What are our orders?" "Ha, pathetic. How predictable of these foolish Terrans. Let him go, its obviously a trap," drawled a sinister voice, no other than 50cent. Lance saw Bismarck rev his engine and floor it off to the tower, but no one opened fire or followed him. It appeared that the NC had been able to read them all to well. "Shit he's not taking the bait!" yelled Bismarck. "Very well," said Frank over the com. "ALRIGHT WE'RE GETTING REPORTS OF THE CONVOY ABOUT 100 YARDS OUT FROM THE BASE! OPEN FLAIL FIRE!!!" Immediately the HMX-1 flails responded to Frank's orders and launched their first shots. They flew off into the distance and the soldiers could only watch and hope that they were accurate.

The cocky New Conglomerate soldiers were about to reach the base when they heard a whistling. "What the fu--SHIT!!!!!!" The two flail shots smashed into the lead Vanguard, obliterating it. The Terran troops cheered as there was now one less Vanguard in the field. "Shit, they are using mobile artillery," snarled 50cent. "Air squadron ENGAGE!" With that 15 Reavers and 10 Mosquitos flew from the back of the convoy at full speed off to the tower. "Sir I think I see something," said Hitman. "DAMN AIRCRAFT! TONS OF EM! Ready the Bursters and the Skyguard!" Bursters deployed their anchors on top of the roof and prepared to open fire. The aircraft became in range and the bursters opened fire. Striker missiles flew into the air. Even the flails fired their shots. "We are now in range, prepare to engage mobile artillery," radioed the lead air captain, known as Peacemaker. "Wow they have more than we expected. We have Burster's and JEEZ at least 8 prowlers waiting too! Continue pushing toward the to-.." With that the planes flew into a storm of flak. It tore into the armor of the aircraft. One plane spewed smoke and plunged toward the ground exploding in a huge fireball. Another's engines jammed and it plummeted to the earth. "We're in trouble here!! Head directly for the flails!" shouted Peacemaker. Suddenly a glowing flail orb appeared directly in front of him. He jammed his air brakes and swerved to the right narrowly missing it. The orb plowed head first into a mosquito following directly behind Peace, disintegrating it. "Yeeeeehaw! Keep those bursters going guys!" But the tide began to turn then. The reavers took aim at the bursters instead of the flails. Not expecting this they were unable to unanchor. 4 of the 5 were blown away. The fifth one, inhabited by an HMX soldier named Orb was knocked off his anchors and into the guardrail. A reaver slowed to a hover and reloaded his rockets about to deliver the final blow. But just then a striker missile flew up from no where smashing into the tailfins of the reaver. He was forced to afterburn away, but 3 more missiles caught him and he was sent spiraling out of control into the mountain range up ahead. A few soldiers were able to help the injured Orb back into the tower. "Orb to command. Who just saved my ass?!" "Orb think nothing of it," came the easygoing voice of Hamma. "Thanks man."

The aircraft, having eliminated the bursters focused on the Skyguard next. It was destroyed within seconds. Now the flails were to be targeted. Reaver salvos hit the flails battering them badly. One exploded killing it's inhabitant, while the other had undeployed and was trying to escape. Peacemaker personally tracked down this fleeing flail and destroyed it quickly. "Artillery is eliminated! Aircraft retreat!" said peacemaker. At these orders, the remaining aircraft flew back to the south, their mission accomplished. Out of the 25 aircraft that had began the mission, only 14 remained. However, the Terran's ability to destroy vanguards was severely hampered. They moved the prowlers to the front line and hunkered down for the ensuing invasion.

The convoy now steamed ahead towards the tower. They were finally moving towards the point where Lance could photo the enforcer. He caught a faint view of it as they approached his position. "HOLY CRAP!!!!! THERE'S GOTTA BE AT LEAST 12 VANGUARDS WITH EM!" Indeed there were. 12 vanguards, 4 enforcers, 5 basilisks, a galaxy, 5 sunderers and a deliverer thundered towards the tower. "Guys we best get out of here!!!!" warned Lance. "Negative on that KiKiNCHiKiN." responded Frank in a cool tone. "We will defeat them. You worry about that photo." Indeed it was good that Frank had said this, because the gold enforcer was passing right in front of him. He zoomed in and snapped 4 shots of the enforcer. "Got it! It's 50 alright. I saw him through the window." "Roger. Crunch, Lance get to Neit now. We may be here a while." "Roger that..." responded Crunch in a mishchievous manner. The two then set off back to the base only a few kilometers to the west.

The vanguards entered shelling range a few moments later. 150mm shells smashed into the tower. The prowlers began to fire their shots as well. Blasts erupted across the terrain. A vanguard burst into flames and combusted setting fire to a nearby basilisk. A vanguard shell blew open the top door of the tower killing 3 soldiers standing on the top floor. Sniping was not possible now. The tank shells from the Terran side began to diminish as the prowlers were being destroyed. When only 2 remained Frank called that they move back and repair. Although the prowlers did an extraordinary job, 6 vanguards still remained. The perimeter of the tower was secured and all troops were forced to head inside to await the incoming invasion. 35 Terran troops remained. They knew that if things became too bad they would have to recall. They had a landing blocked off by maxes solely for this purpose. They hunkered down and prepared for the incoming onslaught.

The vanguards setup in clumps of 3 and ceased their fire while the sunderers drove up to the tower. Out poored 50 troops, some maxes others grunts. They lined up at the two base entrances and readied for their assault. 50Cent waited in his enforcer which was guarded by 3 vanguards. "Wait for the galaxy to drop. When the soldiers enter from the top, bust in through the bottom. We will sandwhich these Terran bitches." said the menacing tone of 50cent. The galaxy flew past the vanguards and neared the tower. It was only 100 feet away from the drop point, when suddenly bullets began to pierce its armor. The pilot, surprised by this looked to the west. 2 aircraft flew towards it guns blazing. The galaxy was caught way offguard, and jerked to the east, bypassing the drop point."Galaxy what the hell are you doing?!!" "Sir we've become under attack by two Terran airships," responded the pilot. "Roger that, sending airforce!" The airforce flew towards the wounded galaxy and the two attacking Terran planes.
They began to open fire on the red and black mosquito and reaver, but as these two planes took a sudden recourse down into a ridge, the New Conglomerate airforce received an unwanted surprise...

[Bismarck]

* DUN DUN DUN!!!!*

Cool man, kepp it up, i dont normally read this forum but this is cool.

And yea, I was TR but then went NC a while ago.

[Kikinchikin]

Chapter 6- Against the Odds Continued

Peacemaker gasped as he saw 25 black and red aircraft rise up into the air from the ridge. They immediately opened fire downing 3 planes. The NC pilots immediately forgot about any offense and began trying to evade. Peacemaker had 3 mosquitos on his tail. He weaved through a series of low hanging trees, causing one mosquito to pull out. He slammed hard on his airbrakes, and swung a 180 degree turn around a tree. A mosquito clipped its wing on the tree and was sent spiraling out of control. The third mosquito driven by Black, continued to hound Peace. Peace's reaver had received 3/4 damage and he was about to bail, when Diddymao came careening full speed at Black, making contact and knocked both reavers off course. Peace sighed with relief, and limped his badly damaged Reaver back to the Hossin Warpgate. He would live to fight another day. "All aircraft abandon mission! Repeat abandon mission!" said Peace. The 6 remaining aircraft bugged out, against 50cent's orders. "DO NOT BUG OUT THAT'S AN ORDER!!!!" But 50cent was unable to get them to listen. As the fleeing NC planes flew past the tower, 21 Terran planes swooped down on the vanguards. "Shit!!!!! Abort mission!!!!! ABORT MISSION!!!!!!!!" screamed 50cent. His three vanguard escorts and his 3 remaning enforcer escorts turned to leave, but at least 50 rockets steamed their way. "DAMNIT!" 50cent's gunner, Malone fired off Firebird missiles like mad, bringing down 2 reavers. But suddenly as he was about to fire another missile he was hit in the face with a bolt. The launcher swung around and flew into a friendly enforcer killing the driver. Malone's limp body fell off the buggy and onto the ground. "Yes, I've been wanting to kill that sonofabitch for a while now," said Hitman with an evil grin on his face.

By now the New Conglomerate soldiers were panicking. The damaged galaxy had already made a crash landing near Enkidu. 2 of the 4 sunderers were able to load up and retreat, however, Terran republic soldiers had begun pouring out of the tower, and smoked the remaining two sundys. The New conglomerate soldiers tried to put up a fight, but now they were the outnumbered ones. They fell systematically to the fierce chainguns of the TR soldiers. Reavers and skeeters picked off stragglers. Unfortunately, in the chaos, one of Strike's best soldiers, Salchite was filled with buckshot while tending to a wounded soldier. He fell crumpled to the ground. "SALLLCHITE!!!!!!!!" screamed Hitman. He ran up to the soldier that had killed him and stabbed him with his chainblade. He then blew the soldier away with his rocklet rifle, anger coursing through his veins.

The fight became less intense until finally all of the NC ground units had either retreated or been destroyed. 50cent had escaped, his enforcer damaged badly, with 2 flat tires its hood gone and one of the missile launchers dragging in the back. Out of the 80 NC troops that had arrived at Marduk, only 32 were left. It was a complete disaster for the Conglomerate and an unbelievable triumph for the Terrans. All of the commanders survived the fight. Only 9 of the soldiers who were trapped inside the tower were killed. "YEEEEEEEEEHAWWWWWWW," shouted a triumphant Frank over the com. "We just beat them outta here like they were nothing more than a 5 year old with a beamer!" Cheers erupted inside the battered tower. Frank then asked for the status of Lance and Crunch. "Crunch, Lance where are you guys?" With that two war torn planes landed next to Frank; the same two that had led the airforce to the trap. "Howdy boss," said a very happy Crunch. Lance climbed out of the mosquito next to him. "Good fight I would say." Frank's face lit up with astonishment. "Damn. I knew Crunch was a good pilot, but KiKiN, you kicked some ass out there." "Thank you sir."

After the celebrations had died down, the Dragonwolves and HMX-1 each loaded up into their respective galaxies and took off toward the sanctuary, where they intended to take the day off. When everyone except Strike Gaming Extreme had left, Frank debriefed his soldiers. "Excellent job out there today guys, we really beat the odds. Crunch and I will now go back to the sanctuary where we will turn in the evidence of 50cent's defection. As soon as you are acquitted Lance, I will radio you and HustlaH will bring everyone else back." "Uh Frank, what about me?" came the voice of Bismarck. "Bismarck! Glad to see you made it!" "Yeah I was up in the hills sniping. So you'll make sure they know I am now a Terran now right?" "Yup. Sure will." With that they all saluted, and Frank and Crunch climbed into Frank's liberator and started off towards the sanctuary.

3 hours later, a com came from Frank saying that the Terran High Council had seen the evidence and had acquitted Lance of all charges. It had also registered Bismarck as a soldier for the Terran Republic. Cheers went out inside the tower. "Alright. HustlaH will pick you guys up."

45 minutes later a galaxy landed at the top of the tower. Lance, Hitman, Maverick, Neo, 0000, Rok, LeperCe, and Bismarck loaded into it. As it set off, Lance felt an odd feeling in his stomach. Perhaps it was all the beer he had consumed since their victory, but he felt that something was not right. Suddenly a flying object caught his eye. He saw it in full view, right as it slammed into the side of the galaxy, completely destroying the engines. "OH CRAP WE'RE HIT!!!!!! We're going down!!!!!!" "Everyone hotdrop now!!!!!!" The eight soldiers plummeted to the earth, as their gimped galaxy crashed into the mountains, emitting a gigantic explosion. 5 of the 8 were unconscious. Lance attempted to stand up, but fell back in excruciating pain. It was obvious his leg had been broken. Bismarck, Neo, 0000, LeperCe and Rok had been knocked out cold. Hitman and Maverick appeared in ok condition. As they all began to recover from the shock and decide what to do, a Sunderer, with a monstrous launcher on its top rolled up beside them. 10 NC soldiers lept out and quickly disarmed the 3 conscious soldiers. "You are under arrest by the New Conglomerate. You are now prisoners of war," said the cold voice of a lieutenant. The 5 unconscious soldiers were dragged into a second sunderer that had arrived. Lance, Hitman and Maverick were shoved violently into the same sunderer. Right before he was pushed inside, Lance caught a glimpse at a final man exiting the first vehicle. His gaze met the evil eyes of the man he loathed so intensely. It was 50cent. He smiled an evil, sickening smile, and Lance was locked into the Sunderer. 3 soldiers with Jackhammers accompanied the prisoners in their quarters. The two vehicles started up and began to move, what Lance guessed was the way back to Hossin. Somehow the New Conglomerate had known when they were leaving. Lance tried to think, but the pain in his legs was so bad that he passed out from it. And then he began to dream.

[ZionsFire]

Hey if you want another character you can use ZionsFire.

[NewCong. Marine]

Keep on writing

[Black]

Nice story keep it up

[Kikinchikin]

Chapter 7- Revelations

He was running. Towards what he did not know, for everything seemed black. Suddenly he saw them. His parents besieged behind a bunker, hundreds of bullets zooming past them and into the wall. They looked at each other, not with fear, but a kind of knowing that this would be their last fight, even though reinforcements were supposedly on their way. Suddenly another figure appeared. It was a tall figure, a man, not running, but walking, swaggering even. A jackhammer held in his arms, he moved slowly to the wall that shielded the two trapped soldiers. And then, he jumped. He flipped over the wall his gun blazing. Just as the first shot hit his father, Lance saw the face of the soldier. The face was relatively young, and wore a malicious grin. Lance's view then shifted to that of his father, now completely lifeless. His mother still sat there, speechless. "Well what a let-down. I figured he would at least get a shot off," sneered a familiar voice. "Oh well, may as well make quick work of you too." As he raised the gun and started to pull the trigger, she vanished. Suddenly she flew out of nowhere, a chainblade in hand. "YOU WILL PAY!!!!!!" screamed Lance's mother. The man side stepped just in time to avoid being stabbed in the heart, but caught a heavy hit to the face. The knife skimmed his face leaving a deep gash. The man fired his weapon hitting her in the legs, thus immoblizing her. "That's quite enough out of you," snarled the man. "My son will avenge us. Count on it." And then 3 shots rang out and Lance awoke suddenly. He looked around, sweating wildly. Could what he had seen really be true? Could that man really have murdered his parents. And what was more, the voice. It had sounded so eerily familiar. He couldn't quite place it until he looked up at a New Conglomerate soldier looking at him with confusion. The voice was 50cents! And then he realized that it was indeed 50cent. The knife. It had sliced into his face just before he killed her. That is where the massive scar came from! 50cent had been the one that killed not only his commander, but his parents as well. Lance felt sick. And then he lept out of his seat, intense fury and rage coursing through his veins. He tackled the nearest soldier, clawing and beating him. He felt several dull things hit him in the side, but paid no attention to it. That is until he became blinded by a searing pain all over his body. He felt himself let go of the soldier and then be thrust into a wall, where he slumped over. As he regained his composure he caught a glimpse of the man he had attacked. His nose appeared to be broken and pieces of armor were astrewn across the floor. The man was helped up and taken away to the driver's cockpit, while Lance was chained to the seat. The soldiers then departed, after making sure that Lance was secured. Lance finally was able to gaze at his comrades. They were all awake now, looking at him with confused and dumbfounded expressions on their faces. Lance then felt compelled to explain his actions.

"50cent killed my parents."
"What are you talking about? He was serving the Terran Republic when they were killed. I talked to him the day before," said Hitman.
"No. I know he did it. I saw him vividly in my dream."
"You were dreaming bud. Those things can happen," replied Maverick.
"Tell me this. When you saw him before that day, did he have the scar on his face?"
The soldiers all exchanged looks at each other.
"Well... come to think of it no he didn't. In fact I'm not sure how he got it."
"WELL I AM! I saw my mother slash him across the face with a knife, right before she was killed!"
The soldiers looked at each other again.
"No, it couldn't be true. There's no way he could have don..."
And at that moment Hitman looked up to see everyone staring at a man that had just walked in.
"Hello Lance," came the evil drawl of 50cent.
"You killed them... I know you did! YOU WILL PAY!"
"Ah so you finally realized how I got this scar did you? Yes, it is true. I was the one who got the pleasure of doing them in. Didn't put up much of a fight really."
"LIAR!" Lance struggled with his fetters, but his efforts were futile.
"Well we are now arriving at Hurakan. You will all be held prisoners here indefinitely. I must suggest to you, that if you wish to abridge your time spent here, perhaps you could supply us with any 'information' that you know..."
And with that the sunderer came to a halt. The door opened and the humid airs of Hossin greeted them, as they were marched out of the bus.

[Bismarck]

/bump

[NewCong. Marine]

Cool.

[Neo5]

sweet kikin i love the story i havent read a good story like that in a while. youve got some true talent

[HitmanLC]

that rocks man - keep it coming

[Neo5]

/bump

[Kikinchikin]

Hey guys. I havent written in about a week because of Comcast. Yet again I cannot get on to PSU because of DNS error or w/e. I'm on my school laptop right now. I'm going to write chapter 8 tonight and post it tomorrow morning. So I hope i didnt lose any fans here, make sure to keep checking, for I'll try to update more often.

[Black]

Fucking Comcast bullshit..