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sparta12



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Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 3:32 am    Post subject: Virtual Chapter 18: March Of The Remains  

Virtual Chapter 18: March Of The Remains


Anne was in trouble. Two of her squad members had been taken down due to the nuclear bombardment of the navy and her last squad member was now getting his fighter repaired after taking a few hits so she was on her own with Boragnians around her, no friendlies from assisting and she was awaiting reinforcements while she tried hard to avoid being shot by the remaining Boragnian fighters.
'Seventh Fleet Command this is Bravo Wing Leader! I cannot hold out for much longer! I need permission to link up with another wing! Now!' she demanded as another laser round slammed into the rear of her fighter and the shield percentage went down. She looked at the radar integrity metre to find that her shields were now down
'Bravo Wing Leader this Seventh Fleet Command. Negative. You are to hold out. We have two fighters en route to your location. ETA Five minutes over,' a calm voice crackled over the Lieutenant's headset. A smoke trail had just missed the right side of her cockpit. God damn it... Got to do something fast... What would Jack do... Got it! she decreased throttle and increased as she saw a pair of Boragnian fighters fly past her. Narrowly avoiding her deadly maneuver. She pulled the trigger and used her remaining rounds taking down most of the fighters that had flew right by her and she turned the fighter around to face a frigate just as a small spiral of Boragnian fighters came at her again. She heard the dull tone of a missile lock but kept flying at the small formation of enemy fighters and two rockets launched from the wings of the alien spacecrafts. She tried launching countermeasures but she was out. The rockets were getting closer. A small holographic indicator appeared on the cockpit window informing her on how many metres until collision.
100 metres...
She was trying to think of what to do. These homing missiles would get her if she tried to pull up or away from the fighters but so would going straight forward.
50 metres...
She looked around the cockpit for something to stop these missiles. It was miraculous how the aliens lasers were missing her fighter, as if they were driving away from her ship. Finally. She looked at her flight-stick right in front of her.
25 metres...
She flicked the cover on the flight stick and she heard the cocking sound of the fighter changing from its guns to rockets. She fired wildly and launched all three rockets attached to her fighter.
10 metres...
The first rocket missed but rammed into another fighter and the second rocket narrowly missed one of the inbound missiles. She thought it was the end. She needed two of the three rockets to hit them but they hadn't and now the missiles were going to collide and blow her fighter into oblivion. She closed her eyes and awaited the inevitable to happen.
0.697 metres...........
She felt a shockwave from the detonation and, opened her eyes to see if she was dead and that she had crossed into the next life. But instead she saw smoke in front of her and some words formed on the holographic window:
Rockets Evaded.
A few seconds before impact the last rocket she had fired had collided with one of the Boragnian rockets but the second rocket that was heading towards Anne was in the radius of detonation which caused it to also detonate.
'Sweet Jesus...' she whispered as she flew through the smoke and past the fighters
'Seventh Fleet Command this is Bravo Wing Leader requesting permission to re-arm and repair!'


Jack and his wing were now falling back as the Serabus ship was right behind him and his fighters could do nothing to this beast. They were insignificant flies to the Serabus, unworthy of even being shot at and as Jack lead his wing to back to the seventh fleet he took a glance at his battle radar to see a red light flicker only for a split second. He was familiar with this and he knew the possibilities. Normally it would mean a glitch but Jack would always look into it. He turned to the small keyboard to the right of him and started typing while keeping an eye for the enemies behind him. He quickly went through the options, his right hand typing swiftly and finally his Battle Radar showed hundreds of red blips. Then the class of ship appeared above them reading:
Boragnian Destroyers: 100 total.
He immediately got on the radio to command.


Naval Commander Alterar stood at the screen that separated him from space and he looked at the remaining enemy forces. Emerging from the smoke as if they were dead but still lusting for battle and marching towards the human navy. There was a small amount of remaining forces that approached and the extended line the Human Navy had formed was firing calmly and precisely at these ships. Alterar turned around
'All fleets are to commence Zeta Rail Cannon on my command-' but the commander was cut off by a Warrant Officer who stood up but sent his chair flying backwards
'Sir! Alpha Wing of Phoenix Squadron, Seventh Fleet is reporting an unknown fleet of enemy Destroyers! Approximate amount is one hundred sir!' he reported to the commander of Pride and the Navy.
'Continue the bombardment of the Zeta Rail Cannon. We'll deal with the destroyers afterwards,' Alterar said decisively but the officer retorted
'Sir we have reports that about a half of this destroyer fleet is remotely manned and filled with nuclear explosives sir!' and for the first time in years. The commander of the entire human navy had to pause and, think about his next move rather than quickly and tactically solving the problem in an instant.
'I want the Seven-Zero-Eight Bomber Squadron to take off and eliminate those destroyers. Get the Two-Five-Seven Fighter Squadron to escort them. Now I want the Zeta Rail bombardment to commence on my mark!'


The blockade that had been set up at the wormhole was drifting in the quiet nebula. The crew members of the ships were annoyed that they were missing out on the greatest battle of history but a Warrant Officer in command of a Frigate reminded them that they were a part of the battle. They were the ones that were stopping the Boragnians in their tracks while they try to escape while eliminating their escaping forces. No more Boragnians had shown up in an hour and command had ordered them to hold their position at the wormhole and that order excited some of the Battery gunners that they might get more action but that was a half hour ago. Finally they saw something emerge from the clouds in the distance. It was a group of small transport ships and one or two boarding ships with it but behind this group was a Destroyer with two battleships. They were in trouble.
After a few seconds of terrifying awe of this discovery the ships started shooting their batteries, their flak turrets and anything that could shoot. The frigates were concentrating fire on the transport and boarding ships while the rest focussed on the three threatening ships. The two battleships were concentrating fire on the one battleship while the corvette took on the monstrous destroyer with its guns.
The escaping ships that held non-fighting Boragnians were shirnking in numbers quickly one of the battleships turned on the frigates which then launched a volley of missiles at the four human ships and destroyed one of them in the first wave. They had to take care of these guys quick. They had damaged one of the battleships a good deal, the escaping ships were down in numbers but that destroyer was starting to hurt the corvette bad but just as the captain of corvette witnessed one of the frigates get blown to hell he remembered the Zeta Rail Cannon on his ship. The Boragnians paused as they watched the human ship lift something from inside the ship and onto the roof of it. It was a large barrel. The Boragnians were in awe but the destroyer started firing again when they saw that this long barrel was charging up and was going to release alot of fury upon them.

When Anne saw the Naval ships with their Zeta Rail Cannons already out and ready to shoot she pulled up. The fighters chased her and shot at her but she gracefully avoided their attempts to shoot her down unlike her last encounter. She kept going up, spinning and avoiding enemy fire while the ships prepared to open fire and begin their bombardment upon the Serabus.

'Afterburners now!' Jack screamed to his two comrades over his headset and slammed the afterburner lever forward. The three fighters approached the fleet of Naval ships and hoped to reach them before they got caught in a wall of Zeta Rail fire and became cannon fodder. He kept his eye on the reticle that said "Freedom" which also had a gun open. The speed their fighters reached was amazing, the speed was keeping them glued to their seat and they were fighting for control of their fighters as the flight stick moved everywhere. He could see the cannons charging up and he was getting close to the friendlies
'Come on, come on!' he muttered as he clutched the flight stick with both his hands. The cannons were lighting up and were fully charged.


'Commence Bombardment!' Alterar screamed so loud that even people decks below could hear the naval commander screaming at the top of his lungs.
The cannons opened fire. Green light emerged from the barrels of each ship and they all formed a wall of Green light that lead directly to the Serabus ship and everything else in the path of the miles thick and long wall of Rail fire was evaporated. Enemy fighters, bombers and even friendlies were evaporated into space. The wall of Rail fire that was over a 1,000 miles thick engufed the Serabus ship and nothing but Green light could be seen. Even from galaxies away people could see the fascinating fluorescent green light. This amazing wall of light could be seen for 30 seconds before it finally ceased. The action stopped for a few minutes while everyone got their eyesight back and when they regained sight of the Serabus they found it was still drifting towards them. Only now it was missing the bottom half of the ship but somehow the ship was still operational. Only a few guns were online but the ship was still heading towards them like a kamikaze pilot and everyone was amazed that the Serabus hadn't been fully evaporated. Alterar ordered the naval ships to charge up again to finish off the Serabus.


The destroyer had been evaporated entirely and the two boragnian battleships were retreating while the transports and the boarding ships were left to head for the wormhole only to be trapped in a volley of fire from the three remaining frigates. The ships that had to the wormhole were eliminated and, the two human battleships chased down and eliminated the retreating ships before they could escape their battle radars. The blockade then requested assistance and repairs. They were satisfied with the action they had encountered.

One engine on her fighter was dead but the Boragnians that were behind Anne were all dead. Not one remained and she cursed at command for not informing her about the bombardment
'God damn it command why didn't you inform me? I could've gotten killed!' she swore at them.
'Bravo Wing Leader the communications log says that we did inform you. There must have been something wrong with your comms. We're sorry but it's not our fault Bravo. Reinforcements will be at your position in thirty seconds over,' they retorted in a calm manner
'Roger that Seventh Fleet Command. Bravo Wing Leader Out.' she finished and turned her head to see the reserve pilots. She then ordered one of them to take charge while she got her ship re-armed and repaired.


'Comms problem my ass command you didn't tell my wing at all you ignorant sacks of shit!' Jack yelled over his headset and then listened to what excuse command had for him. He acknowledged it and then took his wing into the hangar bay to get re-armed and repaired. Before he begun the landing procedure Jack twisted his neck to see that the smoke had cleared up, the planet was visible as was the destroyer fleet and he knew the Destroyers which were extremely close now. Were going to be eliminated quickly. Though he began to wonder... What will happen to the Boragnian Homeworld?
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sparta12



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Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 3:33 am    Post subject:  

Hey,
Hope you all enjoy this chapter. You will have undubiously found some errors which I don't have time to fix right now but I'll fix them when I can.
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ethereal_fauna



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Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 5:51 am    Post subject:  

Great suspense as Anne battled for survival. And I’d tend to be frustrated with ‘comm trouble’ as well. Feeble excuse that endangered lives.

The Homeworld should be razed. As cold as that sounds, this threat needs to be dealt with completely.
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sparta12



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Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 9:58 pm    Post subject:  

Okay the first thing I did this morning was post the poll and right now Im checking up on the chapter.
I didn't want to get into another awkward tie phase where I would have to grab someone who doesn't read the story and get them to vote (i.e. Ravenwing) so I just posted 2 options.
Have fun!

Thanks for commenting Fauna :D
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Smee



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Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 11:50 pm    Post subject:  

Good chapter Sparta :)

I too enjoyed Anne's battle for survival - nicely told.

No point risking ground troops, who knows what the bastards have hidden away on the surface. Bombard it to rubble.

You're right, there are some errors in there. One I stuck on the clipboard....

Quote: Green light emereged from the barrels of each ship

Keep it coming :D
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sparta12



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Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 12:36 am    Post subject:  

Smee wrote: Good chapter Sparta :)

I too enjoyed Anne's battle for survival - nicely told.


Yeah. Little technique I picked up from reading Matthew Reilly books.
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Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 9:21 am    Post subject:  

Bombard to the core!
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