-Swarm Part 2-Prison Base-

Private Wajing the Xweetok walked into the large Hangar. In the center was an A.T.A. (Attack Transport Aircraft) Its name, the S.M.A (Sakhmet Militia Aircraft) Freefall. Wajing stared at the Triangular shape. The Large cockpit extended a bit from the fuselage and at the spot where the cockpit and fuselage met, two curved triangular wings extended like fins from the entire fuselage. They were racked with missiles and machine guns of all kinds and at the rear stood an open ramp and to each sides, a pair of big exhaust pipes that propelled the airship, just like that of a space shuttle. Captain Tigershadow the Kougra was walking up the ramp when he saw Wajing, "you're late! Get in here or we'll leave you behind." "Yes, sir" said Wajing as he ran up the ramp. It closed behind them as Tigershadow and Wajing walked up to the cockpit. "Looks like you guys finally got here." said Corporal Trideli the Eyrie who was sitting at the control console, flight being his specialty. Intelligence Officer Drihy the Draik sat at the co-pilot's console, "all systems ready" said Drihy "open the doors" Trideli nodded and pressed a button, "tower, this is the S.M.A Freefall requesting Hangar 12 to be opened" a moment later, a voice responded, "Identification cleared, good flying Trident Squad" and the massive doors began to open, revealing a runway which sat beside many more runways. The tower was the only structure that saved 6B's airport from being only hangars and runways. Drihy flipped a few switches and there was a "fwhoosh" as the thrusters of the Freefall were activated. "Better strap in." said Trideli as he and Drihy both began flipping switches and pushing buttons. Wajing sat right beside H'dans while Tigershadow strapped in, alone, on the other side of the cockpit. The Freefall began to move faster and faster and faster down the runway until the lifted off into the air. Several minutes later, Trideli said, "ok, you are free to unbuckle and move freely around the cabin." Everyone got up, even Drihy, and left to different parts of the Freefall.

"Tigershadow, get up here! There's something you need to see" said the speaker in Wajing's crew room. He looked up from his book. There was some scrabbling in the hallway and a minute later, the speaker turned on again, "Trident Squad, report to the cockpit, now!"

"We're going to need bigger guns" was H'dans' wise statement after he was finished staring at the picture before him. The prison facility was colossal, titanic, gargantuan, and several other words that described big. "Trideli, contact Queen Amira, quick!" the words Trideli then said were words that started one of the most heroic conflicts ever, "they've jammed our communications!" suddenly, the ship rocked and a nearby pipe cracked, spraying engine coolant all over the place until the emergency seals activated. "Trideli! Get us on the ground, quick! The rest of you! Battlestations!"

"Sir, there is a Neopian airship hovering above our installation." A bug informed Vickaten, the current leader of the bug army. Vickaten looked up from his throne. Revealing his face and the scar that crossed his forehead, "shoot it" then he looked back down, in deep thought, "yes, sir" then the bug walked away.

"Fire again! Fire again!" Wajing tried to obey but only destroyed a light AA gun from his turret as Trideli spun the ship around looking for a clearing to land in. H'dans stood at the machine gun beside him. "Helicopter! Shoot it, quick!" Wajing saw the threat and strafed its fuel tank until it blew up in a fiery haze. The speaker in the port turret room suddenly went off "this is Trideli! I've found a clearing, get full battle gear on, quick!" Wajing and H'dans dashed through the cabin, Tigershadow joining them along the way, until they all reached the plane's armory. "Plan of attack?" Asked Wajing as he strapped on some battle armor. "We haven't evaluated the battlefield enough for that yet" and then Tigershadow strapped a pistol onto his combat pants. "We didn't put my slugger in here?" complained H'dans. He then picked up the next best thing, a huge gatling gun.

"Get down!" shouted Tigershadow. Wajing dove for cover at the last second as tank's cannon rippled the air beside him. Then H'dans' jumped up and strafed it with a long burst. He ducked back down again and said, "I just knocked out their machine gun but we won't get anywhere with main cannon still shooting us up!" Tigershadow nodded and shouted at Wajing, "Try to sneak around and blow up that tank!" Wajing nodded and did something extremely stupid, that is, if you weren't good enough to do it. He vaulted over the sandbags and rolled right onto the battlefield. He ducked, he dodged, and all the time slowly making his way towards the tank. The gunners of the tank didn't seem to notice as the cannon was focused towards Tigershadow and H'dans. He took this advantage and rolled into cover right beside the tank, suddenly, something popped over his head, and he went unconscious.

"WAJING! WAJING!" Tigershadow kept screaming into his radio, after a while he finally stopped, "get back to the ship! There's no use throwing ourselves against their defenses like this!" H'dans frowned, "but—" a mortar exploded just a few feet away and the they both ran for it. When they got there, Trideli was wounded on the floor, "oh, Fyora" said Tigershadow, "what happened?" "a small team snuck in" rasped Trideli, "we held them off, but they captured Drihy and cut our engines, the ship can't fly" Tigershadow thought for a moment, and after a while, he asked, "can you still fly?" "What?" asked Trideli, "you're an Eyrie, you can fly, correct?" Trideli hesitated and said, "Yes" then Tigershadow looked to H'dans, "you can still fly, can't you?" "Yes, but I haven't in a while" then he joked, "do I need to take passengers?" he chuckled a bit, "no" said Tigershadow, "only Trideli has to" they were both dumbfounded for a moment and then H'dans grinned, "so… Trideli has to fly you out of here?" then he burst into laughter, "well I'm a Kougra, I can't scratch myself out of here or smell my way out of here." Then he added, "And stop laughing, the bugs could burst in at any given moment" they were both suddenly all business, "ok, since there's probably a battalion of bugs trying to get in here already, we're going to have to be quick" they both knew what to do already, it might as well have been written on the wall. Trideli went up to controls and opened the ramp, punching a quick override so it would take time to build up pressure, giving them seconds to prepare and opening the door extremely quick, "you ready?" asked Tigershadow, "ready" said Trideli, "steady" said H'dans, at that moment, the ramp opened up fast, crushing a bug, "GO!" they all ran out the door, trampling bugs as they did, H'dans jumped off the canyon first, extending his wings out and tucking his arms ont his thigh, thus, falling straight down the Cliffside, just because it looked cool. Trideli went next, he HAD to do the same, or else he wouldn't catch Tigershadow, who had no wings. Then Tigershadow went, also extending out his front legs, you can't be a soldier without having several occasions in which you do something just to look awesome. They all fell down, faces almost brushing the side of the canyon. Suddenly, Trideli hit the brakes by extending his wings, Tigershadow fell right onto his back, they all knew one thing, one thought that drove them on towards Outpost 6B, Wajing and Drihy will be rescued during the full invasion, they WILL.

"Give him the shot" "yes, sir" Wajing couldn't see a thing, he was tired, confused, and there was a sharp pain in his arm now. He finally regained movement and tried to sit up, something pushed him right back down on the uncomfortable surface. "Oops, forgot to put on the restraints" something shackled his arm and he couldn't move. He squirmed around a bit but it was no use. "Give him the other shot" "yes, sir" there was another sharp pain and he regained sight, looking down at him were two bugs, he did the natural thing even a brave soldier would do, he screamed as loud as he could. the bugs grimaced and covered their ears, "make him be quiet!" shouted the bug in the uniform, the one in the lab coat obeyed, he picked up a rather large stick and whacked him with it, Wajing stopped screaming, "why didn't you use the vocal toxin?" yelled the uniformed bug, "sorry, sir" "good, now get this thing inside a prison cell" "yes, sir" suddenly, the table he was on detached and two bugs with labcoats carried him away as a robotic arm came down and replaced the table. They carried Wajing, still on the table, down towards a large isolation chamber, obviously for extremely dangerous subjects, opened the door, and threw him inside. The first thing Wajing noticed was he was not alone in the prison. On one side of the large cell was a red Wocky, still clad in old battle armor. "Who are you?" asked the Wocky. Wajing was immediately all business, "Private Wajing, Xweetok, Green, Trident Squad of Battalion 6B" that right there, was the full identification of any soldier, rank, name, species, color, squad, battalion/post. The Wocky stared at Wajing for a while, then did a very surprising thing, she hugged him. "Wajing!" she yelled excitedly, "what are you doing here?" it took Wajing a few milliseconds or so to connect the dots, "Lrasta? I'm glad to see you! We thought you were dead!" he immediately added, "how do we get out of here?" they sat down on a long bench lining this side of the wall, "I've been working on that," said Lrasta, "I've gotten nowhere," she sighed with a resigned look on her face, "the fortress is invincible, we'd need the best IO in the whole darn Miltia," the door slid open, and a pair of bugs threw the best Intelligence Officer in the whole darn militia inside.