Chapter 4
Demolition
Location: Okinawa
Job: Demolition of Maverick Military Base
Client: Japanese Government
"Wow!" exclaimed Dawn, "I had always wanted to come to Okinawa it's just so beautiful here. I'll have to do some touristy stuff once I blow the mav base out of the water."
Dawn stood on a beach facing the direction of the Maverick base, which had just been completed of the coast of Okinawa. To blend in she wore a yellow sundress that matched her dirty blonde hair.
"Well if I want to see the sites I had better get rid of the base, oh yeah collecting my fee while I'm here will give me some money to buy souvenirs for everyone back home." Dawn thought as she morphed into her orange and yellow armor. She put her hair up so that she could put on her helmet, which had an orange D on it, she insisted on having the D just like her big brother. Set for her operation she began towards the ocean smiling cheerfully thinking about what she was going to do after she was finished.
As she approached the water two thrusters on her back kicked in and she took off, keeping herself right above the water in the air. Staying under the base's radar was important because Dawn's sensors showed that their anti-air defenses were up and running, she really didn't want to explain to her brothers why she needed her armor repaired from missile damage. As Dawn approached the base she lowered her visor so that she could get a closer look at the guard status. Through her visor she could see about 20 soldier reploids walking on the deck, four ride armors equipped for ocean operations, and two guard towers.
"Ok the direct approach is out; I'll just have to try taking out the support columns." Dawn thought to herself as she grew closer to the base.
Zerra thought that being sent to a new base was a step up since he joined the Mavericks, but what he was sadly disappointed when he learned that he and about 50 other soldiers were being stationed there to guard the base until Deep Kraken arrived with his unit. He had gotten enough of guard duty when he was originally a security droid for a pharmaceutical company.
"Sitting in this tower is not my idea of how a Maverick's life should be." He thought to himself as he scanned the horizon. "I joined up with this army so that I could lay waste to cities and gain some glory on the battlefiel…" his train of thought was cut off as he saw something moving low and fast toward the base. He scrambled for his binoculars so that he could get a better look at the object.
A small grin crept across his face. "A Maverick Hunter." he thought, his excitement getting the better of him at the thought of finally proving himself in battle against the enemy. He slammed his hand down on a red button which triggered a siren to go off.
"Enemy incoming, all hands prepare for battle!!!" Zerra screamed down from the tower at the scrambling soldiers. Zerra turned to check on how far the hunter was from the base. As he looked through his binoculars again he saw that the hunter was female and that a buster shot was flying right toward him.
"No way." He thought as the blast engulfed the tower. As it fell to the ground he thought about how unfair it was that he didn't even get to fight after getting so excited about finally seeing some action. The now flaming tower crashed down onto one of the fueling tanks causing a massive explosion which destroyed everything in the immediate area.
Weapons fire was coming from the base and Dawn was doing her best to fly through the barrage. She noticed that the ride armors were now mobilizing, their pilots turning them toward the sea.
"Damn I thought that I would be moving to fast for any of the watch towers to see me." She thought as she fired off another charged buster shot. Dawn was aiming for the watch towers, seeing as what happened to the first caused so much damage, hoping to take out more troops and whatever facilities she could.
Her original plan of taking out the support columns was still her best bet to sink the base, along with its annoying troops. Dawn increased her speed as much she could so that she could still maneuver between enemy fire. As she drew nearer to the base the aquatic ride armors jumped from the deck so that they would be able to fire upon Dawn while she was under the deck. Dawn dodged some that almost landed on top of her and fired off a couple of semi-charged shots trying to hit the pilots, she managed to hit 2 out of the 15 that fell into the ocean.
"Before the armors surface I have to plant some charges on the support columns, otherwise I might not be able to." Dawn thought to herself as she began fixing a charge to the nearest support column.
As she planted the second charge onto the column the first of the ride armors resurfaced and began firing at her. She quickly dodged the shot and flew down toward her assailant. Dawn reached to the back of her hip and retrieved her solar tonfas, raising them to the ready is flipped on the energy blade tips at the end of the tonfas and slashed at the ride armor pilot's eyes. The pilot screamed as he was robbed of his sight and Dawn began spinning the tonfa in her other hand to the point where it seemed as if she was carrying a buzz saw.
"Eat this!" she yelled as she moved the spinning weapon and sliced the ride armor down the middle. By this time the rest of the ride armors had surfaced and began firing in Dawn's direction.
"This is starting to look bad." Dawn thought to herself, "Looks like I'll need some back up."