Shadow  wathed the   ever growing wall as the Vids  popped up on  everyone's  screens.

   Shadow  joined in  ...the world needs heroes  who  leave nothing up to fate... we  will raise   our guns for justice..

Around the  other  fighters    Piltos  Joined in. perhaps  none  louder the   Foster who had  two kids of his own.

 Shadow   smiled  as   the Admiral  said   " we did not 'sert you!"...,,this is one of the reasons  he followed the man...of course..killigngbad guys  was a cap ship load of fun!

    The delta Fleet CAp ships  adjust  heights  as the bore  down  on the enemy.. some  moves  called    the  2nd  line of ships to be hit..other moves, 'stepped in the way'  of a  quickly fired   round, and  some  caused  'glancing ' impacts

 two  direct hits on the Hermes  should the ship..  Damage Control lights   when on as the impacts  happened    on the  lower  decs.

 The Vulcan   never  Moved    as the   red Lining   Cap ship  smashed into the   Roussian cap ship , just  aft of the Roussian bridge.. The   Roussian vessel   started to break  apart,  Gases  and  electric  flashing   in the bigger after section.. the  rear two   starboard  Guns  fired    down the   inside of the  Hull , blowing it  apart...

 Bodies  filled the  area as  the Roussians were sucked into space... the Vulcans . puts its  Nose   down  as it  streamed  sparks  and  smoke, she   turned  broadside to the planet   after they dropped below the  Nivarians.. and  fired  Blindly  towards the planet..sending random death to where ever  those   shells  or Pulse  rounds hit...,, crippled, and  tryign to save  thier own vessel from dying, the Vulcan   would   try to  put its  orbit closer... so thier Pulse   pounds didn't get 'thinnied  out' by  flying through Atmo, and their hard ammo could reach  the light, they assumed were cities.

 Captain   Si  had  The Hermes  slided Between  tow caps ships that had   hit them...  Shots   down the Bow  of the starboard, and the  thrusters  of the port, Caused Massive damage.. the   thrusters hit   Blew  apart seconds  after the Hermes  passed... the Bow  ship   had alot of Balck   on the bow section as power  went out, and thier Bridge was  dark... to its  credit..it  kept firing..

  Shadow watched the  screens  and  used his own eyes...There  they are... a bunch of   angry Hornets   whose nest  got kicked.... Time to  exterminate them.... Good  Hunting

  Beth?....  we need somehting.. somehting you can pipe to the   eggplants!

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RFeIj-xwEM

    then it started... The   Roussians   met the tip0 of the spear...now... the arrows came....

  Shadow Punched his    Thrusters      flying straight  for the      Biggest cloud of Roussians

 Lily Breaks through...Um... LC...  we have... information...from  the Udenesde... R-3  fighters.. two seaters... um.. rear gunner....  4..weapons , 2 on each wing..faster..smaller   one ..um..seaters?...  two weapons  on each wing...assume... they have hard  amo.. Undenese    weren't sure..

 Thanks LT Lily... You all hear that?.. two seaters..  don't  come from  above on thier 8?.. stay under them   or from the   forward angle...

  Lights  flashed  all around  as weapons went off  and Fighters from  both sides  died  along  the , impossibly long...  Delta Fleet AA guns were in  operation as,  the Roussains   didn't see the  fighters  until people started to die.

  Shadow  and Flroes  looked like they were  tethered  by a  cable as the  sweaved throguh anti   aircaft fire  and  explosions... then three  Roussians, on a two seated  Vansihed in   Balls of  purple red   fire..

 Lizzy called Nikki and said," Ok wingman, lets see how these child killers like too feel the wrath of FIRE and FURY. Lets kick their asses." Lizzy was flying mad who sends ships to kill children and Lizzy was going for kill shots and staying with Nikki like glue. If they have a shot at a ship's hanger bay they will try and coordinate their attack, other than that Lizzy would stay with Nikki and fly like a madwoman and shoot as many bad guys she can, of course if she sees a ESN?APF fighter in trouble she will veer with Nikki to help them. Lizzy was being aggressive but not so much to put herself out there to get easily shot, tactical aggression using the anger that they tried to kill all those children.

Nikki smiled, on a side channel she she cued up a small playlist of just music for her and Lizzy "I got this which I think should do for kicking Roussians outta black" she had it rocking in her cockpit like a banshee wail and shared it with Fury.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XNkFdpyD0s

  Kat  says  to Harry..... the   2  seaters!.. they  are  flyign above  two   fighters... that makes them hard to get at from  below..I will swing pas  the   ports   side    and   draw  that  fighter.. You   come under   the   2  seater  and  try to gut it...

 not waiting for  the  answer,  Kat Barrel rolled  Like   a  log rolling  down him  a, firing into the port  side   fighter..   Smoke  appeared  right  away,   as the Starbaord   fighter    tried to  swing up and  across  after   her..

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 Lizzy and   Nikki     followed thier  flight  leader into the fray..   Fitz  torched the two seater    headed towards  them   its    fighter  escorts    both broke  wide.

  Mitch's  aricraft fired a torpedo  into the  hanger  Deck  of a turning Roussian vessel, sendign  out a  Gout of   Flame into The Black as well as   bodies  and   debris.

 Torpedo  1  comign in for  another load!

 he veered off towards  The Hermes Hanger Dec

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 Machins   saw the  same thing  Kat had seen...They  fly  in threes.. two   fast  fighters, one  two seater...  Take out    the fighters  when you can..  take a shot  at the  2 seater  if  you have it.... DO NOT.. come in from their  6 and high!

Almost as a way to prove his point,  a Fighter from  the Athens    broken up  as  it  dribed to dive  down  on the   rear of a two seater.

  Some Roussians   rose , slowly ,  to try and meet the  Burians... thier  weapons   firing  as the  did... 2 Burian vessels  took solid  Hits,,, one   started to veer away  , but fired a broadside into the  Roussian vessels .

  it would only  take  about   10 seconds   for   Sarah's  ship   to  slip through  and  have a chance to cross the T on two vessels.

The Burian's each unleashed multiple fusillades on their targets as they passed through. Aboard the Vengeance, Captain Donaldson saw an opportunity as they got an opportunity to cross the T of 2 different vessels. Sarah saw it as well, "Take it Captain." She said to him via the link between the flag bridge and the bridge of the ship. "Already done Commodore," he said, as each of the guns fired once more and then fell silent coming to bear on a juicy targets of opportunity. As they passed each ship he gave the order to fire and the guns lashed out shooting directly down the nose of the two Roussian ships, each gun firing as rapidly as able attempting to unload the maximum possible destructive power upon their target being given a textbook ideal shot.

   Sarah and her Gunners saw  one  ships  split apeart like a hideous  flower blowing.. the   other lost most of its port  side.

  The Damaged  Roussian  puts its   nose  down, in the Universal act of  'getting out of the way".. or 'Retiring from the field"

 Lizzy followed Fitz and veered off to take the right fighter, Lizzy will take an approach to pull behind and under and unleash all weapons into the Child killers ass. Hopefully that gets the bastard, Lizzy will then find Nikki and see if she needs help with her fighter.

Muttering irritably under her breath, Harry would shut off CE-VA's feed as quickly as possible so she wouldn't be distracted from what she was supposed to be doing. As great as it was that a ship load of children hadn't been killed there was definitely a time and a place for this kind of thing and in the middle of dog fight was certainly the wrong time in her opinion.

As the fight got under way, Harry would stick to the plan and follow the LC into combat before  peeling off with Kat to go hunting for targets. Spotting a trio of aircraft; with the two light fighters protecting the vulnerable underbelly of the larger two seater, Harry would watch as Kat moved to draw the fighter's attention, with her waiting until they had taken the bait before accelerating rapidly. With her guns aimed at the two seaters underside she would calmly squeeze the trigger of her rotary cannon; stitching a line of 25mm rounds along it's belly before veering off to come in on the tails of the light fighters that had gone for Kat. Hoping to pick them off whilst they were distracted.

Nikki veered opposite Lizzy.  slightly above the plane of battle and moved down on the Roussian fighter and fired.  She pulled up and level as she fired giving her a wider arc of hitting the craft multiple times.  "Crash, Boom, Pow!" she said as marks appeared on that craft.  Each shot connecting for a scared child her wanted to kill.

  Harrys  37 MMs   hammered into the  belly of the  two seater,  it  started to break  apart then exploded..   Kat had  turned insdie the    second  fighter    and shot   the  tail off, leaving the  rest of the  aircraft    tumbling through The Black  with  smokes  and O2   tailing after.

 Kat was laughing,They must  be short on metal!.. they use too much for thier Big heads!

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    Nikki's aircraft  shuttered   as  grey vapor started to  stream out the  port side where the  wing  met the  fuselage... It put its nose  down.. the  two seater Lizzy  fired  on  went up as   a 37MM hit the  powerplant. the top part of the rear  gunner shooting  out into space  leaving a frozen  trail of gore.

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 Shadow  was concerned  about the Baord on the COMs...Captain Si   do You want us...

 as you were LV!... just kill fighters, if  we need help  ,, we'll ask...

  Shadow   just said...all ready done,Ma'am..  even as he said  that,  Shadow and Flores    came in  on a wounded cap ship that was sending  shuttles towards  the   Hermes...Shadow  shot  down   a smaller fighter... while Flores  torched   a shuttle, even as the    Roussian cap ship hit is  surrender lights...

 Roussian #337?   may was  well keep your lights off.. you're all dying today... the best chance you have  his to go home!

With the two seater going up behind her like a firework on New Years day Harry would arrive in time to watch Kat torch the remaining fighter from the trio "Well I'm not complaining, the easier they go down the quicker we can get them the hell out of our space" Harry responded, already hunting out a new set of targets for them to engage "Targets sighted, 2 O'clock high, moving to engage" Harry suddenly announced sighting more of the Roussian Heavy fighters and their lightly armed escorts moving to join the growing fur ball.

 Lizzy smiled as the 2 seater blew up, she thought they got off easy. She would look for the next target, and she sees Nikki smoking," Hey Fury you ok over there, can you continue?" As Lizzy spoke she searched for new targets, fighters, shuttles, or even a Cap ship too hurt. She stayed with Nikki.

Nikki had several alarms going off she queued the fire supression and turned off unneeded warnings quickly.  "Not sure can I get a fly-by.  my port side.  trying to level up."  if she was luck she was just hit by a piece of shrapnel slicing a hydrolic line.

 Lizzy would watch the skies then reply," Already done Fury." Lizzy wll fly bye Nikki's port side to take a look at the damage. Lizzy will still look for child killers too blow up as Nikki figures out if she can fly, Lizzy will look for another single fighter in need of a wingman if Nikki has to head back.

 Da..I see them.. there a many.. we will have a long  day of killing!

  around them  other fighters  were tearing apart Roussains... The  Purple people were ill prepared  for  the Delta Fleet.

 .. we both go under the  two seater.., but..veer off, you take  port side escort, i take  starboard, then    cross over  under the   2 seater, to see who gets to kill!

The Russian Banked  away, using Pusle  rounds  as tracers  until  they tore Into the Fighter, as  it  went to veer  away,,Kat killed it  with  two, rather  close  range  37MM round,
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  With the Roussians  in disarray  with scattered  communications... Nikki and    Lizzy saw  two   formations of the  tri-fighters   heading   towards  the bellies of the   Burian  Task force..

 they also saw   more  fighters     coming down the line to try to help with the Massive hole in the middle of the Wall.

 on each flank, Blossoms of big  explosions were signaling the death  of  Roussian vessels that we    caught  in the  wall

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 A Corvette with two fighters  was heading towards   Cloud of fighters.. it was going too fast to  engage..

 ..your call , candy? Corvette  or  fighters...

 ..Corvette...  I'll get my fill of fighters   after..  Shadwi  flew   towards  the   Corvette   fired off   Pulse  rounds  into  it Bow, then Veered off,  the two Fighters  chased him.. leaving a grinning Flroes       to come   around  with ther  weapons  trained on the  Thrusters.

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 Machins  and Billy went into the  furball   as machins    told her which  3 they would attack..You get the  Two seater.... I'll get the fighter, we'll switch next time!

 Lizzy sees the two groups of tri-fighters and says to Nikki," See those two groups of tri-fighters heading for the Burian fleet lets thin them out." Lizzy then hit all comms for fighters, This is Hermes Phoenix we have two groups of tri-fighters heading for the belly of the Burian fleet, could use a little help Nikki and I are on it."

 With that Lizzy would try to come in on the middle fighter's blind spot and then open up all weapons on the child killers.

Nikki managed to get level and a real short punch from two fire suppression nozzles for a gun mount killed the exhaust.  Moving as fast as she was it flew back to the exhaust smoke.  a clear test fire ensured her guns were good she booked it to the side of Lizzy "149, Banshee still up and kicking.  Now I want some Roussians butt to be cooked" she had a close enough to 147 and could she Lizzy and gave a thumbs up and gestured to the trio on the left.  she soooo wanted to chew a Roussians ass.  'I think the Kamikazi scissors" a maneuver she called to Lizzy
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“Roger that,” Billie said with a smirk, tuning out all the background noise going on. With a smirk, she broke off from Machins, moving into at more favorable position, avoiding the 6 o’clock. She accelerated quickly, firing her hard rounds at the underside of the two seater.

”Roger that” Harry replied as she threw her fighter into a tight turn that would bring her guns in line with the heavy fighter’s belly. After firing a sharp burst of 37mm rounds into its exposed underbelly, in a place that would kill the rear gunner if not the entire aircraft, Harry would gracefully flip her fighter around and fall upon the escort with her once again firing her cannon. Her crosshairs firmly aligned upon the fighters canopy.

In reply to burains (msg # 18):

Sarah watched the severely wounded ship attempt to disengage, "Task Force two, make sure that damaged Roussian doesn't go anywhere I'm not looking to recover ships here. I'm looking to send a message." She watched as Exquisite Blood, Chill Grip, and Sharp Tail split off bearing down on the heavily damaged vessel continuing to punish it ripping it apart.

Task Force One continued to burn hard towards the planet and armor plates started to glow slightly as the ships scraped the upper layers of Roussa's stratosphere. As the began to devastate the surface of the planet not bothering to prioritize any specific targets but simply raining hell fire on every settlement that crossed into each guns zone of fire.

Sarah continued to watch the fleet command nets as well as her own battle net. "LT Mayhew, we need fighter coverage at our bellies." She called out, hearing his already done come in reply and then seeing a few flights split off to provide some extra coverage.

 Sam sent out the orders to send fighters to under the Burian fleet, and getting defenses ready. Sam monitored the fight, and tracked damage to all Burian vessels and tracked what the Roussian fleet was doing. If Sam gets any surrender lights she tells the entire Burian fleet they will not be taken, destroy all enemy vessels, they want to try and kill kids they will pay the price, Sam was pissed and she would do everything she could to hurt the Roussians as much as she could.
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  Shadow   ran away  from the two fighters that were trying to pepper him, they came  Close to  Hitting a  wing or two , But he managed  to   tweak or swerve, ,,,just,,,    Enough.

 Even  as   Flores  ripped the two seater  apart,  Shadow    Dove    done, rolled out of it  to    Come up  tearing    a Fighter to shreds...

 The other   one vanished in a Ball of flame,  as Brivet and Chatty Smith Zipped By...sorry for the cherry pick, LC..just on our  way  to those at 4:00 high..

 Shadow chuckled a Brivet   as  Flores  formed Up and then    Moved to the next enemy group.

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   Lizzy and  Nikki approached    the nearest of the   3 aircraft formation..... far to the  starboard were Burian fighters  screaming down on the other  Three.. weapons  Blazing    as the two  seater Vanished    and the   escorts peeled off, followed  by  the  Burians..


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 harry's   two seater ,, cracked  open with a flash,, it  was then , harry saw, the   Two seaters  had   two..bombs  of  rockets  in the belly..

 Kat   disposed  of    one of the escorts...   Harry  chewed  up the  second   as he   weaved  and Dove stright  down...

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 Machins     damnced  with the  fighters... flaming One, they other turned to try and run away...

 Billie  torched the   2 seater,, its  Payload goign up like  fireworks...

 Machins  simply said.. leave the runner.. there is a mess inside the Ball, they could use a few  more Hermites there... .. he rolled out  and took a diving  slope  towards  the mass of  fighters   dancing, firing and dying...

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 As  crippled ships  , and the Burian Cap ship  began to unload on  Roussa..Beth's  COMs  came through....

 All Cap Ships!... check you  Tact  screens... Red  dots  are major  cities.... ornage  dots  a military... Yellow   dots  are secondary.. enjoy!