Advance Wars: Dark Star
-Chapter 4: The Copter Command Plan
The small Orange Star force began to make its way through the dense snowy forests of Blue Moon while heading north toward the capital. Andy as well as the other forces had bundled up in heavy coats and worked slowly through the weather and the forest. His small party consisted of an APC and two recon units while been given a division of Medium Tanks for backup. It wasn't a lot to work with, but then the condition of the Orange Star forces wasn't top shape after being hit so hard. Every single one of the soldiers hoped that they wouldn't find Black Hole out here.
The areas Andy passed through reminded him a lot of the last war where he was pushing into Blue Moon on a mission to find and capture Olaf for attacking Orange Star. He thought it was funny now that he was going to ask for their help. He knew that Grit wouldn't mind helping out, but Olaf on the other hand would be a completely different story.
"Commander Andy..." The driver called out. "Take a look ahead."
"You know you can just call me Andy right?"
"Uh... sure... but look."
Andy stood up from his seat grasping the frame of the windshield and look ahead through the white landscape to see several trees fallen down on the road. The first thing that came to mind was bulldoze it with the Medium Tanks. The convoy stopped and Andy got out along with some other soldiers who were riding in the APC and approached the fallen trees. Upon a closer look, it was easy to see that there was far too many trees to just bulldoze with the tanks.
"Crap. This is just great. Now I know why I don't live in Blue Moon territory."
"The weather out here must play havoc with the movement of troops." One of the soldiers suggested.
"Naw... Not for Olaf at least. Where's the map? Let me see it."
Now Andy as well as some of the other soldiers were gathered around the map looking at it and partially to deflect the cold winds that were beginning to whip their exposed faces. There was an alternate route, but it wound itself up and down a nearby mountain. Grey Crater Mountain.
"Great, a mountain?"
"Look we can't wait for this snow to thaw so that we can bulldoze these trees, we got to go around." Andy commanded. "Let's get going."
Once they had returned to the vehicles they could see a barely visible dirt road near the fallen trees and went down it. As they passed by, a lone soldier hiding in the trees put down his binoculars and picked up a radio.
"Commander Adder, they're playing right into your hands. By the time they make it up there, it'll be nightfall." The soldier reported with a hoarse voice.
The Orange Star forces began to climb the mountain in a excruciating slow pace. The road they used to move across the mountain wasn't paved making it all the more dangerous. There also wasn't any guardrails making it easy to swerve off the edge and tumble down the mountain into the dark forest below. Before they knew it, it was nightfall, but at least it wasn't snowing. The moon was out as well, but it was still very dark. Andy looked behind him and was still able to see the recon in the back but the snow and his speed was his major concern.
"I beginning to hate snow." Andy grumbled. "Isn't there anyway we can speed this up?"
"Unless you want to plunge off the side of the mountain." The driver responded.
"Shoot."
Suddenly the night was lit up by a bright light and then a screaming missile rocketed toward the side of the mountain and blew the rear recon into pieces. The tanks turrets swerved as the gunners manned their machine guns and Andy got up to look off the side of the mountain into the darkness. He couldn't see a thing but someone was obviously shooting at them. Another rocket lit up the sky and now that they were looking, the faint outline of a black battle copters could be see hovering around the mountain. Their engines were practically silent, only a murmur was heard through the night.
"Crap! It's Black Hole forces!"
The radio in the jeep began to beep and a voice came out.
"So Andy... How does if feel to be lost in the dark?" A cruel voice asked him.
"It's Adder! Guys! Open fire! Shoot!" Andy commanded.
The Medium Tanks began to shoot out into the darkness and lit up the night skies. Even with the flashes of light from the machine guns. The copters were still barely able to be identified. This time a group of five rockets fell from the sky and hit the tanks damaging them, but not crippling them.
"We're sitting ducks on this mountain!" The driver yelled out.
"We gotta get moving!"
More rockets erupted from the sky, but this time it did not hit any of Andy's units on the side of the mountain, this time they hit the black helicopters and one exploded into a ball of flame revealing the others with the intense light. Adder's bewildered voice could be heard over the radio.
"What the hell! Who's shooting at us?"
Another voice came on the radio, but this time it was not Adder's or anyone else Andy recognized.
"This is Commander Alexander reporting for duty! All right guys, take down those black vultures right quick!"
Now Andy could see a sizeable force of Orange Star helicopters move in front of them. It was easy to distinguish the Black Hole helicopters with the silent engines from the noisy Orange Star ones. These helicopters had bright spotlights and fired a multitude of rockets like a machine gun into the darkness. The Black Hole helicopters went down in flame and suddenly Adder's voice came back on.
"All right! Ground forces, take them from both sides before they can escape!"
The rumble of tanks could be heard through the darkness but like the helicopters could not be seen. It was then Andy noticed paratroopers landing on some cliffs above them and taking out rocket launchers to shoot at some tanks that were right in front of him. There was the same maneuver executed behind them and before long, Adder's forces were beat back for now.
"Yahoo! Nice shooting! Let's get our guys off the ground before that snake moves in for the kill!"
Now Andy could hear a chorus of loud rotors as transport copters began to appear and open up their side doors. Some soldiers leaned out and called out to Andy and the rest of them to get on. They were lifted onto the copters one by one until everyone was pulled from mountain. The copters pulled away and left the remaining vehicles abandoned on the side of the mountain. Andy could only grin and give the thumbs up to the helicopter crew. Then an old man stepped from the cockpit wearing a paratroopers uniform and gave a salute. His face was wrinkled, but didn't hinder the confident face he had on, nor did the glasses.
"Hey, are you that Alexander guy who was on the radio?"
"Affirmative, son. Nell sent you some back up, I'm the copter expert. My guys can fly through any weather, they can perform all kinds of daring helicopter feats. I call it Copter Command."
"Copter Command huh? So how did you shoot down those Black Hole helicopters?"
Alexander sat down and pulled the glasses off of his face to give them a cleaning.
"The Medium Copter is the ultimate rotor machine. It's got the latest and greatest technology. The only way to fight Adder is with Night Vision, like all his units have."
"The Medium Copter? You've got them? Wow, I only heard stories about that unit. So that's how those missiles were fired so fast."
He grinned and put the glasses back on his face before turning toward Andy.
"Yep, I got them, and I'm a gonna use them too. We can't pull any punches for these new guys were fighting. Got to give them all we got."
There was some gunfire they could hear from below and the soldiers from Andy's forces instantly went to the window. They feared it was anti-air fire, but the weak light that was showing up from below signaled it was small arms fire.
"Anyway, I meant to tell you. Sonja's found out that Black Hole is dividing tasks among Dark Star now. This snake guy, what's his name?"
"Adder." Andy corrected.
"Yeah, Adder. He's got Blue Moon, launched his forces a couple of days ago. Right after you left for these parts. Sami and Max have identified Sheila in Orange Star, and it seems that Boris is trying to take on Yellow Comet."
This caused Andy to remember the reaction of Eagle to the sound of his father being a part of Dark Star and instantly brought him up in the conversation. Alexander leaned back and looked up into the air thinking hard. Eventually turned back to Andy and nodded his head.
"Yeah, that's right. Hawke has Green Earth. You know, I always wanted to meet that Eagle guy, I heard he's got some powerful copter units. I could learn a thing or two..."
"Commander Alexander..." The pilot interrupted.
"Yeah?" He old man yelled back.
"We've confirmed that several more of Adder's copter units are giving chase."
"Too bad for him then huh?"
"What?" Andy exclaimed. "What do you mean 'too bad'? We can't simply lead them straight to the Blue Moon capital!"
"Don't worry sonny. We're gonna out run them. I've got the fastest copters anywhere."
Andy shook his head in disbelief and then let out a laugh. It seemed like nothing could get Alexander down. The man was almost way too overconfident, but then again his forces were armed with the new Medium Copter. It was then Andy as well as his troops realized how tired they were and eventually drifted off to sleep to the hum of the rotors. It almost seemed to him as soon as he fell asleep, someone was nudging him.
"Too early. Five more minutes." Andy groaned.
"Sami's gonna catch you!" He heard a voice say to him.
Instantly Andy sat up with a frantic face and began to look around quickly. The next thing he knew there was lots of laughter in the transport copter. Alexander was looking in from the outside with a sly look and the pilots in the cockpits were laughing as well.
"What's going on?" Andy asked still drowsy.
"Had to give you some modivatin' to get moving. Come on, we've reached Fist Peninsula. Time to go ask for some Blue Moon assistance." Alexander explained. "I all ready told them what's going on. Hopefully we won't get into a messy situation with our Blue Moon neighbors and hosts."
"Oh, ah. Ok."
As soon as Andy stepped out of the transport copter he was greeted with brutal blast of cold air and he pulled his head into his coat to try and shield himself. They had landed at one of the Blue Moon's airfields and all of the copters from last night were on the ground around them. Some large hangars could be seen in the distance, some were closed, some were half open revealing a bomber parked inside. All ready there was a number of jets parked on the runway.
They were greeted rather indifferently by the Blue Moon soldiers who watched them from jeeps parked around the copters. A number of vehicles were parked and waiting for Alexander and Andy to take a seat. The drivers said little and began off toward the Blue Moon ministry of defense. The city looked much like Russian capital, with the domes that are found on the Kremlin. Snow was everywhere to Andy's dismay. The soldiers pointed out some sites just to be friendly but most kept to themselves. It wasn't a long ride from the airfield before they came upon a large rectangular building with an extravagant look.
The jeeps had to stop before a security gate and check in before moving on inside to the parking lot. It was a terribly quick transition from the cold parking lot of the ministry to the warm waiting rooms with carved wooden chairs and a huge flag of the Blue Moon forces up against one of the walls. Now they were to wait, which Alexander told him was typical of Blue Moon when you wanted to meet them unexpectedly. He told Andy it was their way of feeling important.
"I hope we don't have to wait any longer. Something could be happening to Orange Star right now..."
"Now don't worry sonny. I've been in the service for years, and I know what I'm saying when I say we have some reliable, resourceful men and women who are defending our country. They'll be fine, just be concentrated on the moment."
More words of wisdom for Andy to absorb during their wait and eventually the doors opened up and a man in a suit walked through.
"Supreme Commander Olaf of the Blue Moon forces is ready to see you now."
"All right, finally." Andy said with a bit too much enthusiasm.
They entered an office and sure enough, Olaf sat behind a large desk that was furnished and probably cleaned until the point where you couldn't clean it any more. He was in his usual mood with his hands folded and his elbows on the desk giving a firm look to the two Orange Star COs that entered the office. His blue uniform and cap looked almost as if they had come straight from the cleaners. But none of this concerned Andy mostly because of his age and because of what was happening in Orange Star at the time.
"Well, well, well. If it isn't that disrespectful little twerp. Andy. How are things in Orange Star?" Olaf asked in a cynical voice.
"Olaf you got to listen to me. Black Hole is attacking us, we've suffered some pretty heavy casualties and damages. We need your help." Andy explained.
This caused a loud and deep laugh to erupt from Olaf who sat back in his chair and looked toward Andy skeptically.
"You want... Blue Moon... To help you?"
It was difficult for Olaf to get anything out through his laughing. Andy was suddenly ready to give Olaf a smack upside the head, but Alexander held him back and looked at him firmly. By this time, Olaf had managed to stop his laughing, but still kept a wide grin across his face.
"We had one moment of weakness Andy." Olaf began. "When Sturm manipulated our country into warring with you. We wanted revenge and we got that revenge. Blue Moon wanted nothing to do with Orange Star after that. And we still don't."
Andy's mind raced, he wanted to say something that would change Olaf's mind. If he couldn't get Olaf to see it his way, then there would be no help from Grit or anyone else among the Blue Moon ranks. Frustration was clearly apparent on his face, and Olaf openly loved every moment of it.
"So, you can leave. Good luck with Black Hole."
"When Sturm is done with us where do you think he'll go next? He's coming for you! Because you backstabbed him!"
Olaf lifted an eyebrow and began to think this over. But he didn't lose face for long and leaned forward in his chair.
"Blue Moon will triumph when Sturm tries to attack. We know he's coming now, thanks to you Andy."
"But his forces are all ready here!" Andy screamed at the top of his lungs.
The frustration had reached a boiling point and even Alexander couldn't hold it back. This statement didn't get to Olaf right away but after a momentary pause, he began to tug at this moustache and squirm in his chair.
"You don't have any proof..."
"Actually sir." Alexander began but was quickly cut off by Oalf.
"Who are you?" Olaf demanded.
"Oh, I'm Alexander, commander of the Orange Star helicopter units. We ran into a sizeable force of Black Hole troops trying to get here. If you call you other bases, I'm sure your troops have seen forces moving through the night."
"This is absolutely preposterous..."
The phone rang and all three of them jumped. Olaf stood up and reached across the desk picking up the extravagant looking phone and putting it to his ear. Andy and Alexander could hear voices, but not clearly enough to understand it.
"Grit? What are you doing calling me when I'm in the middle of a conference with... What? Your kidding! When? Are you sure? There isn't some kind of mistake is there? Grrr... Beat them back Grit! Don't take any crap from the likes of Black Hole! I'll be coming with re-enforcements shortly!"
Olaf slammed the phone down and gave an angry glare towards Andy. But this glare came with another feeling, one of concern and perhaps a little bit of fear. He moved out from behind the desk and straightened his hat.
"All right Andy, here's the deal. Your going to join me against this force of Black Hole with your new copters. Your going to help us beat them back. When we're done here, we'll see about helping out Orange Star."
"You promise?" Andy demanded eagerly.
Olaf began to stutter and ball his fists.
"I promise, no I swear upon the crescent shape of the Blue Moon. I'll help out Orange Star." He admitted reluctantly.
"Then let's go!" Andy cried out cheerfully.
The three exited the room side by side, reading themselves for their first encounter against the new Black Hole forces on the battlefield.
-Next Chapter: Plans and Executions!
-Chapter 4: The Copter Command Plan
The small Orange Star force began to make its way through the dense snowy forests of Blue Moon while heading north toward the capital. Andy as well as the other forces had bundled up in heavy coats and worked slowly through the weather and the forest. His small party consisted of an APC and two recon units while been given a division of Medium Tanks for backup. It wasn't a lot to work with, but then the condition of the Orange Star forces wasn't top shape after being hit so hard. Every single one of the soldiers hoped that they wouldn't find Black Hole out here.
The areas Andy passed through reminded him a lot of the last war where he was pushing into Blue Moon on a mission to find and capture Olaf for attacking Orange Star. He thought it was funny now that he was going to ask for their help. He knew that Grit wouldn't mind helping out, but Olaf on the other hand would be a completely different story.
"Commander Andy..." The driver called out. "Take a look ahead."
"You know you can just call me Andy right?"
"Uh... sure... but look."
Andy stood up from his seat grasping the frame of the windshield and look ahead through the white landscape to see several trees fallen down on the road. The first thing that came to mind was bulldoze it with the Medium Tanks. The convoy stopped and Andy got out along with some other soldiers who were riding in the APC and approached the fallen trees. Upon a closer look, it was easy to see that there was far too many trees to just bulldoze with the tanks.
"Crap. This is just great. Now I know why I don't live in Blue Moon territory."
"The weather out here must play havoc with the movement of troops." One of the soldiers suggested.
"Naw... Not for Olaf at least. Where's the map? Let me see it."
Now Andy as well as some of the other soldiers were gathered around the map looking at it and partially to deflect the cold winds that were beginning to whip their exposed faces. There was an alternate route, but it wound itself up and down a nearby mountain. Grey Crater Mountain.
"Great, a mountain?"
"Look we can't wait for this snow to thaw so that we can bulldoze these trees, we got to go around." Andy commanded. "Let's get going."
Once they had returned to the vehicles they could see a barely visible dirt road near the fallen trees and went down it. As they passed by, a lone soldier hiding in the trees put down his binoculars and picked up a radio.
"Commander Adder, they're playing right into your hands. By the time they make it up there, it'll be nightfall." The soldier reported with a hoarse voice.
The Orange Star forces began to climb the mountain in a excruciating slow pace. The road they used to move across the mountain wasn't paved making it all the more dangerous. There also wasn't any guardrails making it easy to swerve off the edge and tumble down the mountain into the dark forest below. Before they knew it, it was nightfall, but at least it wasn't snowing. The moon was out as well, but it was still very dark. Andy looked behind him and was still able to see the recon in the back but the snow and his speed was his major concern.
"I beginning to hate snow." Andy grumbled. "Isn't there anyway we can speed this up?"
"Unless you want to plunge off the side of the mountain." The driver responded.
"Shoot."
Suddenly the night was lit up by a bright light and then a screaming missile rocketed toward the side of the mountain and blew the rear recon into pieces. The tanks turrets swerved as the gunners manned their machine guns and Andy got up to look off the side of the mountain into the darkness. He couldn't see a thing but someone was obviously shooting at them. Another rocket lit up the sky and now that they were looking, the faint outline of a black battle copters could be see hovering around the mountain. Their engines were practically silent, only a murmur was heard through the night.
"Crap! It's Black Hole forces!"
The radio in the jeep began to beep and a voice came out.
"So Andy... How does if feel to be lost in the dark?" A cruel voice asked him.
"It's Adder! Guys! Open fire! Shoot!" Andy commanded.
The Medium Tanks began to shoot out into the darkness and lit up the night skies. Even with the flashes of light from the machine guns. The copters were still barely able to be identified. This time a group of five rockets fell from the sky and hit the tanks damaging them, but not crippling them.
"We're sitting ducks on this mountain!" The driver yelled out.
"We gotta get moving!"
More rockets erupted from the sky, but this time it did not hit any of Andy's units on the side of the mountain, this time they hit the black helicopters and one exploded into a ball of flame revealing the others with the intense light. Adder's bewildered voice could be heard over the radio.
"What the hell! Who's shooting at us?"
Another voice came on the radio, but this time it was not Adder's or anyone else Andy recognized.
"This is Commander Alexander reporting for duty! All right guys, take down those black vultures right quick!"
Now Andy could see a sizeable force of Orange Star helicopters move in front of them. It was easy to distinguish the Black Hole helicopters with the silent engines from the noisy Orange Star ones. These helicopters had bright spotlights and fired a multitude of rockets like a machine gun into the darkness. The Black Hole helicopters went down in flame and suddenly Adder's voice came back on.
"All right! Ground forces, take them from both sides before they can escape!"
The rumble of tanks could be heard through the darkness but like the helicopters could not be seen. It was then Andy noticed paratroopers landing on some cliffs above them and taking out rocket launchers to shoot at some tanks that were right in front of him. There was the same maneuver executed behind them and before long, Adder's forces were beat back for now.
"Yahoo! Nice shooting! Let's get our guys off the ground before that snake moves in for the kill!"
Now Andy could hear a chorus of loud rotors as transport copters began to appear and open up their side doors. Some soldiers leaned out and called out to Andy and the rest of them to get on. They were lifted onto the copters one by one until everyone was pulled from mountain. The copters pulled away and left the remaining vehicles abandoned on the side of the mountain. Andy could only grin and give the thumbs up to the helicopter crew. Then an old man stepped from the cockpit wearing a paratroopers uniform and gave a salute. His face was wrinkled, but didn't hinder the confident face he had on, nor did the glasses.
"Hey, are you that Alexander guy who was on the radio?"
"Affirmative, son. Nell sent you some back up, I'm the copter expert. My guys can fly through any weather, they can perform all kinds of daring helicopter feats. I call it Copter Command."
"Copter Command huh? So how did you shoot down those Black Hole helicopters?"
Alexander sat down and pulled the glasses off of his face to give them a cleaning.
"The Medium Copter is the ultimate rotor machine. It's got the latest and greatest technology. The only way to fight Adder is with Night Vision, like all his units have."
"The Medium Copter? You've got them? Wow, I only heard stories about that unit. So that's how those missiles were fired so fast."
He grinned and put the glasses back on his face before turning toward Andy.
"Yep, I got them, and I'm a gonna use them too. We can't pull any punches for these new guys were fighting. Got to give them all we got."
There was some gunfire they could hear from below and the soldiers from Andy's forces instantly went to the window. They feared it was anti-air fire, but the weak light that was showing up from below signaled it was small arms fire.
"Anyway, I meant to tell you. Sonja's found out that Black Hole is dividing tasks among Dark Star now. This snake guy, what's his name?"
"Adder." Andy corrected.
"Yeah, Adder. He's got Blue Moon, launched his forces a couple of days ago. Right after you left for these parts. Sami and Max have identified Sheila in Orange Star, and it seems that Boris is trying to take on Yellow Comet."
This caused Andy to remember the reaction of Eagle to the sound of his father being a part of Dark Star and instantly brought him up in the conversation. Alexander leaned back and looked up into the air thinking hard. Eventually turned back to Andy and nodded his head.
"Yeah, that's right. Hawke has Green Earth. You know, I always wanted to meet that Eagle guy, I heard he's got some powerful copter units. I could learn a thing or two..."
"Commander Alexander..." The pilot interrupted.
"Yeah?" He old man yelled back.
"We've confirmed that several more of Adder's copter units are giving chase."
"Too bad for him then huh?"
"What?" Andy exclaimed. "What do you mean 'too bad'? We can't simply lead them straight to the Blue Moon capital!"
"Don't worry sonny. We're gonna out run them. I've got the fastest copters anywhere."
Andy shook his head in disbelief and then let out a laugh. It seemed like nothing could get Alexander down. The man was almost way too overconfident, but then again his forces were armed with the new Medium Copter. It was then Andy as well as his troops realized how tired they were and eventually drifted off to sleep to the hum of the rotors. It almost seemed to him as soon as he fell asleep, someone was nudging him.
"Too early. Five more minutes." Andy groaned.
"Sami's gonna catch you!" He heard a voice say to him.
Instantly Andy sat up with a frantic face and began to look around quickly. The next thing he knew there was lots of laughter in the transport copter. Alexander was looking in from the outside with a sly look and the pilots in the cockpits were laughing as well.
"What's going on?" Andy asked still drowsy.
"Had to give you some modivatin' to get moving. Come on, we've reached Fist Peninsula. Time to go ask for some Blue Moon assistance." Alexander explained. "I all ready told them what's going on. Hopefully we won't get into a messy situation with our Blue Moon neighbors and hosts."
"Oh, ah. Ok."
As soon as Andy stepped out of the transport copter he was greeted with brutal blast of cold air and he pulled his head into his coat to try and shield himself. They had landed at one of the Blue Moon's airfields and all of the copters from last night were on the ground around them. Some large hangars could be seen in the distance, some were closed, some were half open revealing a bomber parked inside. All ready there was a number of jets parked on the runway.
They were greeted rather indifferently by the Blue Moon soldiers who watched them from jeeps parked around the copters. A number of vehicles were parked and waiting for Alexander and Andy to take a seat. The drivers said little and began off toward the Blue Moon ministry of defense. The city looked much like Russian capital, with the domes that are found on the Kremlin. Snow was everywhere to Andy's dismay. The soldiers pointed out some sites just to be friendly but most kept to themselves. It wasn't a long ride from the airfield before they came upon a large rectangular building with an extravagant look.
The jeeps had to stop before a security gate and check in before moving on inside to the parking lot. It was a terribly quick transition from the cold parking lot of the ministry to the warm waiting rooms with carved wooden chairs and a huge flag of the Blue Moon forces up against one of the walls. Now they were to wait, which Alexander told him was typical of Blue Moon when you wanted to meet them unexpectedly. He told Andy it was their way of feeling important.
"I hope we don't have to wait any longer. Something could be happening to Orange Star right now..."
"Now don't worry sonny. I've been in the service for years, and I know what I'm saying when I say we have some reliable, resourceful men and women who are defending our country. They'll be fine, just be concentrated on the moment."
More words of wisdom for Andy to absorb during their wait and eventually the doors opened up and a man in a suit walked through.
"Supreme Commander Olaf of the Blue Moon forces is ready to see you now."
"All right, finally." Andy said with a bit too much enthusiasm.
They entered an office and sure enough, Olaf sat behind a large desk that was furnished and probably cleaned until the point where you couldn't clean it any more. He was in his usual mood with his hands folded and his elbows on the desk giving a firm look to the two Orange Star COs that entered the office. His blue uniform and cap looked almost as if they had come straight from the cleaners. But none of this concerned Andy mostly because of his age and because of what was happening in Orange Star at the time.
"Well, well, well. If it isn't that disrespectful little twerp. Andy. How are things in Orange Star?" Olaf asked in a cynical voice.
"Olaf you got to listen to me. Black Hole is attacking us, we've suffered some pretty heavy casualties and damages. We need your help." Andy explained.
This caused a loud and deep laugh to erupt from Olaf who sat back in his chair and looked toward Andy skeptically.
"You want... Blue Moon... To help you?"
It was difficult for Olaf to get anything out through his laughing. Andy was suddenly ready to give Olaf a smack upside the head, but Alexander held him back and looked at him firmly. By this time, Olaf had managed to stop his laughing, but still kept a wide grin across his face.
"We had one moment of weakness Andy." Olaf began. "When Sturm manipulated our country into warring with you. We wanted revenge and we got that revenge. Blue Moon wanted nothing to do with Orange Star after that. And we still don't."
Andy's mind raced, he wanted to say something that would change Olaf's mind. If he couldn't get Olaf to see it his way, then there would be no help from Grit or anyone else among the Blue Moon ranks. Frustration was clearly apparent on his face, and Olaf openly loved every moment of it.
"So, you can leave. Good luck with Black Hole."
"When Sturm is done with us where do you think he'll go next? He's coming for you! Because you backstabbed him!"
Olaf lifted an eyebrow and began to think this over. But he didn't lose face for long and leaned forward in his chair.
"Blue Moon will triumph when Sturm tries to attack. We know he's coming now, thanks to you Andy."
"But his forces are all ready here!" Andy screamed at the top of his lungs.
The frustration had reached a boiling point and even Alexander couldn't hold it back. This statement didn't get to Olaf right away but after a momentary pause, he began to tug at this moustache and squirm in his chair.
"You don't have any proof..."
"Actually sir." Alexander began but was quickly cut off by Oalf.
"Who are you?" Olaf demanded.
"Oh, I'm Alexander, commander of the Orange Star helicopter units. We ran into a sizeable force of Black Hole troops trying to get here. If you call you other bases, I'm sure your troops have seen forces moving through the night."
"This is absolutely preposterous..."
The phone rang and all three of them jumped. Olaf stood up and reached across the desk picking up the extravagant looking phone and putting it to his ear. Andy and Alexander could hear voices, but not clearly enough to understand it.
"Grit? What are you doing calling me when I'm in the middle of a conference with... What? Your kidding! When? Are you sure? There isn't some kind of mistake is there? Grrr... Beat them back Grit! Don't take any crap from the likes of Black Hole! I'll be coming with re-enforcements shortly!"
Olaf slammed the phone down and gave an angry glare towards Andy. But this glare came with another feeling, one of concern and perhaps a little bit of fear. He moved out from behind the desk and straightened his hat.
"All right Andy, here's the deal. Your going to join me against this force of Black Hole with your new copters. Your going to help us beat them back. When we're done here, we'll see about helping out Orange Star."
"You promise?" Andy demanded eagerly.
Olaf began to stutter and ball his fists.
"I promise, no I swear upon the crescent shape of the Blue Moon. I'll help out Orange Star." He admitted reluctantly.
"Then let's go!" Andy cried out cheerfully.
The three exited the room side by side, reading themselves for their first encounter against the new Black Hole forces on the battlefield.
-Next Chapter: Plans and Executions!