--->Hangar Dec

About thirty seconds into the battle Harry would realise that her hands had stopped shaking and that she no longer felt like she was going to throw up. After another minute or so she realised that despite all of the chaos, carnage and confusion she was actually beginning to enjoy herself.

Sticking close to her wingman Harry would pick out a Lagran fighter that had managed to isolate itself from the others, just as she heard Justin's voice over her comms "Everything is A.O.K with me Justin" Harry replied as she swung her fighter round to bear on her target "...I just hope they don't think I'm some kind of a specialist flying this thing" she said with a wry smile with the thought that her uniqueness might mark her out as a target only just occurring to her, oh well never mind!

Leading the Lagran fighter Harry would fire her lasers just as she had done the previous night in the Sims before then firing the 37mm cannon dead into the middle of the shield's corona in the hope of achieving her very first kill.

   As they Broke off to attended to business.. Kat and Candy   stayed on  either  wing of Shadow..

  ..Kat?.. Candy?.. why don't you girls go play?.. I'm fine!

 ..Nyet , Conrade... I make promise to  Irina to keep you alive..after  you give her the mininuke...

  ..Sorry, Flyboy.. you got me back into an ESN unifrom...  Morris told me not to let you down...

 Shadow sighed...

  his wingladies  chewed  up  a parasite and  a Creshian fighter...

  Waggles?... You pair off  with Macon....   Justin, you pair off  with Harry...

 then he  said into all COMs......if a pilto   Pods out.. make sure you  stay on you COMs..so someobe can pick you up... there's a lot of  junk out here.. and PODs don't last forever...

  Harry was  rewarded  but the 37 MM  rounds  cutting through  the shields  like tissue paper, and  sending the   pilot to the 9 hells...


 Justin  took apart a Bug  fighter, as  another one  came into vire..making it easy for him to   take it out as well..

 The Ajax  WC came on.....hey?.. Shadow? They don't know what's going on!

 ... enjoy it.... becasuse  when they do......

 Parasites  were thinning out  ,a round the Ewald  now... the  lights   were blinking out near the   Hive, where the resevere LArgans and Creshian Cap ships were speeding  thier way to Anzio space.

 thus far... the  enemy  had not noticed the Dark blue   Cap  flowing over 'The Field' like a  rising  tide...

In reply to Fighters (msg # 14):

Acknowleded LC replied Justin sliding the 25 into position alongside the Bee, tagging another couple of bandits in the process bringing his tally to three. F25 to Bee I'm on your Port wing. You up to leading the way. Justin commed Harry. As you can see this is quite the target rich environment stay cool and try to make sure you finish the one your targeted if you can't let me know and I'll see what I can do.
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  Some fighters   did notice the  Delta Fighters, as of yet, it had not sunk in , that there3 were so many.

 The BUgs never   had too much , in teh way of imgination.. the  largrans were smart. but most of they fighters were off  attacking  the Alphas.

  Penilli  called into the COMs.....Mister Hero?... look  at 12:00 High...  10 parasites and   at elast a dozen fighters  heading towards the Sally Ride...

 .. we have   ships  and  fighters there... our  Job is here... we need the Ewald...

In reply to fighters. (msg # 16):

Garrat listened to the com chatter for a bit then turned to Bloodstar, "By the way, welcom on board.   They call me Garrat.  What can I call you?"

     The  crush of the   weight of the delta fleet was finally seen, when a Largran's COMs were cut off in mid conversation with a sister ship.

   Alerts  spread through what was left of the creshian  and LArgran's  Fleet

  ..attention all  Delta Fleet shisp , they know were are here Now... Adamiral's  Orders Up coming...

 ..ALL HEAR THIS.... the ships assigned to the Ewald and taking on the nest ship will remain lightless.... Every even Numbered ship in the fleet.. Turn your  Lights on..... the rest..stay dark.. they  may think your  scrap, until you get your shots in..Remember your attacks... its better to destroy one, then cripple two.... CArry on...

 ...well?.. Since they know were ehar and all.. how about flooding the COMs with some fight Music...

 ..All ready Done, LC.. oldie but a goodie....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MTR9S9ojxY

 The  Song Blasted through the   COM intercepting  LArgan and Creshian  feeds...

  Miklo opened his COMs,..it is good you are  Here!... we... are having  some bad times....

Roy led the way into the bridge with one of the bug bombs, hurling it as far onto the bridge as he could get it to go before stepping off the ramp with his weapon up, firing at anything non-human that moved in front of him.  "I can tell you everything I know about steering cap ships in about ten seconds, Garrat...I get the feeling we aren't supposed to be bringing this ship back, though!"

He moved to one side as he spoke, firing in bursts at each target, trying to maximize damage to the Creshians with the explosive rounds but avoiding damage to the ship where he could, and clearing the path for the rest of his shuttle crew to come in behind him and fan out.

  There were  4  Humaniod Creshians on the  Bridge,  the Bug  Bomb hit  a flourished  into a brownish-green cloud,  One of them  was caught in it.

 It wore a rebeather  rather then a helmet..  and soon the  hoses started to melt... The  creature     Emitted  a long, long  Chirping sound.. as it  fell to its  Knees. another one had some of the  stuff on its  right 'arm' and  panicked as it  tried to  run to the door  that lead to the  Officer's Mess.


 The other Two  we Gunned  down  by Hemsly and Karson as they Dropped down into the bridge.

 the  Bridge ws quiet... the  controls looked to be fine... the attack, looked almost surgical , as the hole  olnly took out  some minor systems like passege way lighting and shut.

  while they unloaded,  those interested what the Bug Bomb cloud  setting onto the  Dec...some of the leather on the  chairs  began to smoke as the   misture at its  was  through...tentrils of  brownishgreen smoke  rise ,laxy..into the  semi-air of the damaged Bridge.

   Howe, and the rest of  the  Hermes 'protectors'   Moved around. looking for  parasites to hit. Thus  far, none had   found the  4 dark ships near the Ewald... the mass of the Delta  Fleet flowed around them, and the  Empire  Vessel were focused on them.

   the fighters  from the  4  ships..  did  find a target, once in a while as a fighter or parasite  came into view...

   Shadow  called through the COMs,... Justin, Harry?  right below us.. a Parrasite with  three fighter  escorts are heading toward the transport that is trying to catch up to us... we need that transport to EVAC who ever is left on the Ewald... You two Go down.. see what you can do....

 ...Waggles?  You and your   Wingman fly over  watch... don't  go down  unless they need you...

 Raven  and the Harvester's  fighters were flying   above the  four  dark ships  as the set up around  the Ewald.. Torching  any aircraft that  did not  have the colors or transponders, of the ESN.

In reply to Fighters. (msg # 21):
Acknowledged LC, on our way replied Justin Harry we both target the Parrasite destroying, then focus on the fighters doing the same to them sequentially. I'll follow your lead and keep them off your 6. suggested Justin waiting for her thought or suggestion on how to go about this.

Garrat advanced slowly onto the bridge, "I've been studying your ships piloting systems.  I think I might be able to help."  He sweeps the bridge with the rifle and sets up covering the entrances.  "The only question now is whether we are hunting Serpents or Eurochs...er wild herdbeast.  Serpents, you cut off their tail just behind their heads.  With Eurochs you cut their legs out from under them then shoot them in the head at your leasure."  He looks at Roy and winks.  To humans it is obviously a code so the Admiral can make a decision.  When they ram the mother ship should they go for propulsion to cripple the ship or just do as much damage as possible?

   "Oh, I like that one," Garrat said holding his position until further orders, "it reminds me of some of the asgard missiles.  They were just standard power plants with armored noses.  They would accelerate beyond the reactors capacity so they overheated and exploded just after punching into the target.  It could be more effective than a warhead in some cases.  Same concept of getting to the core of the matter."

"I got one! I actually got one!" Harry cried excitedly as she watch the remains of the Lagran fighter spiral away and explode, adding to excitable giddiness she was feeling "I see you F25" Harry would confirm in a still rather excitable voice as she caught sight of Justin moving into position on her port side moments before receiving Shadow's orders to engage a parasite and it's escort "Roger that LC, moving into position" Harry replied over her Comms before gracefully sending her fighter into a dive that would bring her in just behind the enemy landing craft; listening to Justin's suggestion before making her reply "Roger that, I'll rake the starboard side with fire while you deal with the port side" she said with a grin before strafing the starboard side of the parasite with her pulse cannons to then execute an Immelman so as to bring her guns to bear for a second pass should it be required.

In reply to Harriet Lynch (msg # 25):

Justin grinned at Harriet's excitement it wasn't long ago that he too felt the same exhilaration. replying to her proposal with a Sure thing as he mirrored her attack run pumping three bursts towards the parasite's port side. The pair swept across the area executing a dual Immelman to line up for another pass. Quickly assessing the condition of the parasite. ooc do they need another run

     Harry and   Justin   dove towards the escorted parasite.. The  enemy fighters  were  moving up..slowly as the spotted   Judy Resnik of the gamma Fleet.. her fighters  were busy with parasite  removal, and seemed to be doing a good job... these Creshains  wanted to change that.

   As Justin and  Harry began to fire.. The peppered  the  side..  Her  Round   reach sometging.. power cell?..Gases..  but the craft broke in Half.

  Justin manged to take out one of the excaots, leaving three angry fighters  as they turned on the attackers..

 the  first one hit is   rudder  and Sprayers  in a circle... Justin and  Harry felt pulse round  bang into their aircraft.. but no lights  came on.. the other  two , each took a flank, to come in on these things..that they could see.. but not scan.

In reply to Fighters (msg # 27):

Heads up Harry I'll try and drive the port bogy into your kill zone. Justin commed as he pivoted his 25 towards the bogy; snap shooting in the process. Knowing the burst had little chance of doing much to the bogy, save diverting the it into Harry's killing zone.
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Having unwittingly hit something vitally important within the parasite, Harry would gleefully watch as the ship broke apart in a series of small explosions with the sound of her excitable laughter echoing across her comms to Justin as she looked for another target.

However, upon feeling the pulse rounds striking the armoured sides of her fighter she would quickly roll to starboard in an attempt to throw off the aim of whoever was shooting at her; thankfully noting that no warning lights were showing just yet.

Acknowledging Justin's instructions with a simple "you got it" she would make the most of the Bees greater manoeuvrability by throwing her fighter into an aggressively sharp turn to port; firing a short burst from her 37 as the enemy fighter cross her "T", being sure not to over do it and risk hitting her wingman.

  Shadow  Banked to the  his right, a bit away from the Ewald looking  for  targets.. there was a parasite near the  Engine  room,    and   rolled over  to  fire into it.. 3 37MM and   a lot of power  bursts    shattered it..  leaving the pieces to  float away , Joining the rest , of the mess, in 'The Field"

 He   Kept an Eye on the fledgling below ,   Flores  COMed,..want me to go down?

 ...no..but  be ready  incase the  Bugs  get help.... let them handle this on thier own until then.

   Frans COMed,... Not  Much left in our  Area, LC?

  ..that's the point.... we're  just  little bits of nothing here.....,anything comes  By we take it out... if all goes  well... nothing  takes the chance for  running through the Fleet to check on us.... The Admiral has  something in mind for that  Big old monster over there....

  Pilots    the rest of the  Hermes   intercept  pilots  were ranging  higher and lower.. looking for  Targets... THus far, Howe  took out a Parasite close enough to the Hermes, that some damage was down to the Portside  plates.. but nothing  too grim.

 SANRI:

   On the Hanger Dec COMs  Opened up from the Sanri,..This is  LT Flix... the .....there is a pause......Captain  does not wish to leave the Shuttle.. My men and i have  Cut  down many of the Humnaiod  troops...  we are setting up to stop further entry  to the hanger Dec... The Shuttles' weapons   accounted for many of the  UEs....There are..maybe a dozen crewmembers  alive..most are wounded...The Med tech has many wounded.. we should evac them from here?


..................

 FELRITES/ANGELS:

   The Cats  and  angels called out   down the ramp ways, for  any surviors. The  P=ways were  full of bodied of UEs, Humaniod  Creshians  and , Humans.. with an Occui or Sanur  thrown in.

  The Cats  climbed the starboard entry ways and threw Frag grenades into the AA Gun emplacements. Not even bothering to check if the  Creshains were  dead or not..

 ..This is Az-El... we do not have any answers to hails..Lt Hirr has her  people throwing  up the AA gun emplacements..... we do not know, what we  be  at the Elevators.. i would say.. we do not Evac this way?

............

 BRIDGE

 The  5th began to Move  around the Bridge.. the heavy weapons  folks covered the two doors.

 Lyri sat cown at the COM control and   tried to fire it back up.... Waggles  set down  the Omnicom and  began to pull panels off the COM Console to  check  the wiring

Roy gestured for Garrat to go help Lyri..."Show us what you've got, Big Guy," he said, before turning to the others.  "Make sure we've got the War Room and Bridge cleared, bump up the atmo pressure in here, and let's get a perimeter set up."

He keyed his comm.  "Stoly, if the Admiral's plan is what I think it is, we're gonna need to get out of here in a big hurry, so don't get too cozy out there."

He listened to the other comm messages, before answering.  "Flix, get any wounded you can aboard and get ready to clear out, but do everything you can to prevent the Creshians from getting onto the Hangar Deck before you get orders to leave.  I've think I understand what the Admiral has in mind, we need to keep the Creshians contained as long as possible for it to work, but we don't have to kill them all off.  Leave the Captain on the shuttle...at this point, I think he'd be more of a liability to you than any sort of assistance.  Az-El, evac should be happening to the aft of the ship.  Set up what defenses you can, as far into the ship as you can, and do what damage can be done on the Creshians, but be ready to withdraw to your shuttle on my command."

He looked over at Waggles.  "Can we patch into the ship's intercom?  Or internal comm systems?"

 Waggtaff looked at  Lyri, then back to Roy,..I can Patch the OminCOM into the ships COMs... we won't get the OminCOM back.. But   Lewis of the  5th as the other OminCOm...

 Hemlsy and KArson at listening at the door that leads to the war room, and  P-way there.whadda Think, SM , Do ya want us  ta take a bloody peek..or  wait?

 Karson has  the 'terrorist" In a tight Grip...Don't you worry  none.. you'll get your chance to be a hero..

..............

  Flix  here...Alrerady  done... My OminCOM man  has sent  word   for  Big Uglies to get people off the boat  that we can...By the way.. we have  access to the QMs now.. the lcoked the cage.. There was one  man left in there.

................

 Lt Hirr cam one The COMs,we have been blowing up the AA gun people...I am to thinking, the   one pass the  Elevators our .. our people? The enlisted  quarters.. they are not good...UEs sitting  on piles of chewed meat that used to be  people.. we have  been using the Burning thing ..that shots out the wet fire... it works good, and we shut  door....
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   swinging thier  ships   around in a concave, formation, the Alhpa fleets was  beginingto pay the LArrgans and Creshians  back for the pounding they had taken.

 The Attila was in a bad  nay, but stayed in the certain of the  curved  line.. The entire  Alpha   fighter wing  and   formed into  one large  cloud of fighters...

 The Naragran were  just now , meeting the GAmma  Marines

Roy shook his head at Waggles.  "Let's just try and blast this over ESN channels and hope the folks in the aft end have ears on..."

He keyed his comm.  "Attention, all Ewald crew members.  This is Sgt.Major Roy Spencer, of the Earth Space Marine Corps.  We have shuttles inbound to evacuate as many of you as possible, from the aft end of the ship.  We only have time for one round of evacuations.  We have reinforced the points of contact with the Creshians...if you are not in direct contact with enemy forces at this moment, head for the Engine Room and we'll give you directions from there.  If you don't make it off with us...you likely won't make it off at all."  He cut the comm transmission, then listened to the updates.

He nodded at what he heard.  "Lt. Hirr, round up any survivors you encounter and hustle them back to your shuttle.  Keep taking out Creshians as the opportunity presents itself.  Lt. Flix, pull out all the heavy pulse ammo and explosives you can get ahold of and stack it in the middle of the hangar deck...when we pull out, I want you to blow it all up."

He looked over at Hemsly.  "Get some heavy guns on that door before you open it...if there's anything on the other side, shoot it dead and toss a bug bomb in there.  Give it a few seconds to work before you follow it in."  He grimaced, and added, "If there's a door on the other side of the room, we can send our 'hero' to check it out."

  SANRI:

  Flix   Answered in the fluid   voice of a Sanri,..Aye, Already Done..The first of the  Big  Uglies is  Pulling up now..The.... Med Tech Lab is ...not good.... many of the Civies are not in good shape.

 The Sanri blew the Cage  door, got the wounded QM seaman out to the shuttle... he wouldn't let go of his Thompson.

  He also have, what few Ewald  crew were left carry any  Med tech supplies they could to the  Big Ugly to help easy the strain on whichever  Med Tech vessel would be receiving the  wounded..

 The Ewald was newer then the Hermes, Her Adjudant's 'shed' was a Modular design, rather then a Shed... Flix himself  gathered the  log and information from the shed.

  a pair of troopers  were stacking Power cells  with   Heavy Pulse ammo and grenades a Hover  cart loaded  with C-10 was  set down by the pile as well, and one of the troopers   was  wiring  detonators   in.

 ..Take  half  those  Cells to the shuttle...the Hermes  can use them.. the rest will serve us, Just fine. but  waved his lower left  arm,..all weapons  Heavy pulse  cells  stack up..

By the time he  had  come back to check, the first Bug Ugly was  hooking up the boarding Tunnel and the wounded began to make thier way over

 ..there are 4 darts on  the Dec  that have not been launched....

....................

  Felrites and Angels seemed to be  twice the number that they were as the moved  swiftly, Tossing grenades into AA batteries.

 ..Az-EL  here.. to all EWALD  crew.. begin to make your  way to engine   entrances on your Dec... we are blowing  any  site we thin has creshians...

 A wounded humanoid  Creshain lay near the  elevators  that split the enlisted quarters from the NCO  quarters... SGT Ai-LI  looked at it and  shuigged  , flashing her  Angel blade to take its head off.

 .. we have  only 4  survivors .. one..may not make the trip back to the Hermes... they say the NCO  section is flooded  with UEs and is serving as an egg chamber?. I suggest.. Booby trapping   elevator and entrances  from this side..

.............

 Supe  still had  over watch on his door  on the   Offcier's mess side of the Bridge... Hemlsy looked back an Minnet,,, Hodden shifted over as well.. then they opened the doors.. Minnet didn't  heistate as her  30  firied  over two turests in a controled fashion.. 4  Humanoids  were cut  down and  a  Bug bomb  too care of a dozen or so UEs..

 McCloud   Looked  into the war room,..Seems  clear.. 'ave  ta  wait fer the  bloody  bug jusice to fall..maybe .. 30 seconds?

   Unless he has been granted a ride, Joseph has had one heck of a time keeping up with the Naragran.  Mass assault is not a strong point for Joseph though he has marksman skills with his pistols and can make his sabre and dirk dance nicely.  It seems having two hands on the same weapon is difficult for him and affects his accuracy horribly.

   His strength [beyond music] was in bringing communications together and seeing patterns in his environment.  As the Naragrans approached the local marines he sent out a blanket com, "Hello gentlemen, we hope you don't mind a little help from the Navar moon.  Since you couldn't drop by and visit our beautiful jungles, we thought we would kindly bring the jungles to you."  He grins a little evilly and signals over the data boards "Let's show these bugs what a real exoskelleton can do."

   With Beth's permission he cranks som music over the coms, especially loud on enemy channels. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-9IU6XVgmM
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