Mac walked over to the com station, and sat on chair that was set next to it. He placed his hand on the coms array than turned it on. It turned on with a low hum that turned into a gentle buzz. He took his helmet off, and connected to the task fleet. "Task Fleet this is Captain Mac come in please." He waited a few second listening to the static than tried again. "Task Fleet this is Cap-"
"Captain glad to hear your still alive."
Mac smiled, and collected his thoughts. "My recon mission is complete, and i have discovered survivors from both the Ground Task Force and a couple of Civilian Survivors, and i am requesting a bird sir... Mine got shot down."
After a few seconds of more static Mac started to listen on the background on the other side, and he swore he heard key words such as "Bombardment", "more reinforcement" and something about losing contact with one of the ships in the fleet than blowing it up. But than the man returned. "Sorry Captain Mac no can do. Order from the Chancellor himself no one is to go on the planet or leave. We're not even able to bring you supplies. My suggestion is to find a deep deep whole, and stay in it...(coughs, than clears throat) scans indicate tectonic plat shifts so it might shake you guys up a bit, but i think we can come get you guys ounce it's over.. you'll just need to survive it... Well good luck, and may the Force be with you."
Mac sat their for a few minutes just starring at the coms array all the while thinking 'They're actually going to do it. Their going to bombard the planet till nothing else is left. He quickly stood up, and started to look for a map. Zoey must of noticed him for she shook his shoulder.
"Captain are you all right?" He must of looked terrified for her face recoiled, but than she just cleared her throat and repeated her question.
At first he just waved her off. "Yeah yeah i'm ok i'm... You know what no i'm not." He walked back into the main room were the rest of the men were. "None of use will be ok. And it's not those things we have to worry about, it's the damn fleet in orbit."
Cutter stopped talking top one of the guys and walked over to him. "Cap.. What are you talking abo-"
"A earthquake... Can you believe it, they think i won't know what 'Earthquake' really means." Cutter must have figured it out for his face went white and he avoided eye contact like he usually does when he's in thought, but one of the Civs didn't.
"Uhh what do you mean by earthquake? There is no fault line any were near here."
Mac just laughed. "That is exactly what i mean... You must of heard of what's like to feel the bombardment of an orbiting fleet? Put two and two together man, they're going to destroy the planet to kill all those things." And one by one Mac could see it in their eyes as they gnawed on the new information, and one of them (a young women) just sinks to the floor sobbing.
Zoey looked unfazed by the news. "What do we do than? They must like it any more than we do so they must have told you what to do so we can survive this, cause i didn't survive all this to die by the people come to rescue me."
Mac sighed. "He said to go hide deep deep under ground, but no matter how deep we go there is no place deep enough around here that would protect use from that kind of fire power."
One of the civs then spoke up. "What about the metal mines? They go down at least 12 kilometers."
Mac thought about it and started to nod his head. "Yes that would work, but were is it?"
Zeoy sighed. "On the far side of town, we would need to go through so many of those things to get their. Besides the place was closed down, and we would need to have a miner pass to get past the gate."
Captain Lock than chuckled. "Well good thing we spotted a Walker on our way in, it won't be very fast, but hey, those things won't be able to touch use in it."
Mac nodded, alright so the plan is to follow Lock and his men to the walker, get it than ride to the Mines, use the Walker's main gun to blast open the gate than get in and wait this out."
On of Lock's men who had a par of binoculars came in. "Well let's get moving for additional ships just came in, and they are know starting to get into position around the planet. I would say in about two hours we better be in those damn mines."
Mac nodded. "All right let's move out." They all grabbed there gear and headed out, in a circle formation with the civs in the center, and the troopers on the outside to deal with any threat they found.
They slowly moved through the streets blasting any of the things that got between them, and the walker, and ounce he saw the walker he just chuckled.
