Chapter 10: Fall of Montressor Spaceport
It was a chaos. Everyone were screaming and running for their lives. The ships started lining in one line. This wasn't good.
"Prepare the battleships!" Cooper yelled to RIA's men that were getting ready at the launch pads under the spaceport. The plan was to attack them from behind. "Others go out and able the laser cannons!"
Scarlet and Jim were still looking up.
"Scar? What are they doing?"
Scarlet's eyes were horrified and wide opened. "I… I think they're trying to destroy Spaceport. We can stop them! Where did Cooper go? Did he call out the ships?"
Suddenly few RIA ships flew over their heads with cannons ready to shoot. But before they knew two longboats flew towards them and blew them up. Ten more came out and shoot down pirate longboats. But victory was anything but close. Flint had more. Pirates and rock-climbers started jumping of the ships and climbing down the ropes. It seemed like there were thousands. Jim loaded his gun and pointed towards one of the pirates and killed him. Others didn't mind about him. They had one goal. Hall of wisdom. They probably thought the map was there.
"Jim, where RIA keeps all the ammo?" Scarlet asked.
"On the launch pads below. Why?"
"I have an idea. Take me there."
They ran over the main square to the edge of the port. Under one of the piers was s stairway. They went few stories down and saw a big pad where all the ships for emergency were parked. Of course all of them were now out. They just had to find the weapons now.
"This is awesome. How come I never knew about this?" Scarlet said looking around.
"Maybe because it's kinda classified."
"Why do you know about it if it's kinda classified?"
"Ben told me."
"Then he told you where the weapons are."
"I think it's a big hangar where they keep it. I don't know where the doors are."
"You meant these doors?" she asked and pushed the big doors a side. "Whoa… this is… EMPTY?"
"What do you mean empty?"
"Where are all the laser guns, and grenades and RPG's?" she said looking around like she was desperate. "A longbow? Are you kidding me? They left us a freaking longbow?"
"I guess we'll have to stick to out guns."
"Screw that I'm taking the longbow. I have an idea."
Back on the main square Scarlet and Jim looked at the line of ships still getting ready. Scarlet took out an arrow and spilled it with rum.
"Where did you get it?" Jim asked.
"Down there."
She rook out some matches and lighted the arrow. She pointed and let go. The arrow hit one of the bigger longboats. "Watch this."
After a moment it exploded and ignited few other ships closer.
"Scar! Watch out!"
Scarlet looked at the direction Jim pointed. A rock-climber was sprinting towards them. She took out another arrow and hit the creature directly in the forehead so it collapsed inches from her feet. Their little hiding spot wasn't safe anymore. They had to go somewhere else or just run and shoot. Because few ships were burning and they collapsed down on the main square the formation stopped for some time. That will help them gain some time. But the situation didn't seem really well. RIA's ships kept on falling. They were out numbers.
"We're loosing sir!" one of soldiers said to Cooper.
"We should give them the map! We still have time." Amelia insisted.
"We're not hading over the map. We can still win this! Send out all the ships."
"We already did sir." Soldier said.
"Call backup from Watercropolis."
"There's no time."
"Then go out there and fight." He said and pushed him out the Hall of wisdom on the hell battleground.
"We can't stay here forever defending the building Coop!" Silver said reloading.
"We can't go out neither."
"Dahl is dead. We have nothing more to defend here."
"Silver. We stay here. I'm in charge now!"
Silver wasn't willing to listen to him right now. They were friends and all but Cooper was going mad right now. He thought about Jim and Scarlet. Should he go out and look for them? That would be a suicide.
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Ben tried to hide in the narrowest streets trying to find Jim. He was holding Morph so he didn't made a sound.
"We have to find Jimmy. He's with that girl. She's a pirate and we can't trust her."
Morph sighed. It all seemed useless. They had no guns and Spaceport was enough small for pirates to find them. Then he heard footsteps from behind. He turned around and saw Jim.
"JIM!"
After few moments Scarlet ran after.
"And her…?"
"Ben? What are you doing here?" Jim asked. "Are you ok?"
"I'm fine. What is she doing here?"
"We're trying to find a way to take those ships down. Where are others?"
"Back in the Hall of wisdom. I think you should go to Amelia. She wants to hand over the map."
"Why? I didn't think we want that."
"She thinks is the only way to get rid of them."
"It actually is. Flint wants the map." Scarlet said.
"Don't you try to fool me lady! I know you're one of them. You probably want the map for yourself."
"If I want the map for myself, why I didn't take it yet?"
"Do you think I'm stupid?"
"Well I guess it's not your fault they made you like that!"
"Would you guys stop it?" Jim said. "We have more important things to do right now. I don't know about handing over the map but I think it's not the best solution. And we can't fight either. We're trapped right now. And we don't have much time."
"You can say that again." Scarlet said looking in the sky. They walked out from the small street back to the main square and looked up. The ships were lined and turned sideways facing the cannons towards the spaceport. The like went all the way up and down the spaceport.
"What are they doing?" Ben asked.
"They'll blow the whole port on half!" Scarlet said shocked. "Quick! We have to go."
"Go? Go where?"
"Away! Or we're dead."
"Dead?" Morph mumbled scared and hid in Jim's pocket.
"Come on!" Scarlet said and started running but Jim stopped her.
"What about others?" he asked.
"Do you wanna die?"
"I'm not leaving Doc, Amelia and Silver here."
Scarlet looked down at the piers were few last longboats were and then back to Jim. "Fine."
They sprinted towards the Hall of wisdom over all the dead bodies. They had to shoot few pirates and rock-climbers to reach it. "Doc! Captain!" Jim called. He saw Doppler's head looking out the doors.
"People! It's Jim!" he said to others. Amelia walked to the doors and looked out. After some time they sprinted in and hid.
"Where have you been?" she asked.
"No time captain." Scarlet said. "We have to go. They'll blow up the whole spaceport. If we wanna live we have to go. I mean right now."
"We're not leaving anywhere." Cooper said. "It's hell out there."
"Call the men and tell them to leave this place immediately. And then get your ass to the longboat and leave. Did you understand me?"
He stayed quiet shocked by Scarlet's reaction. "Fine then." He said.
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Flint walked out to the captain's desk on the deck and looked down on the crowd running up and down, leaving the spaceport. He smirked.
"Look at them. Just look at them. Leaving the spaceport in hope they'll live. I'm sure they never saw something like this, what I'm about to do." he said to Mitch who was standing behind him.
"Should we order to fire?" he asked.
"Few more moments," he said looking trough the spyglass. "Let me enjoy the chaos a bit more."
But after some time he put the spyglass away. "This is a historical moment!" he raised his voice. "They'll remember this day as Montressor Spaceport fell. This will be the day when Montressor Spaceport fell under us!" He took another deep breath. "Fire!" he yelled.
"Fire!"
"Fire!"
Scarlet hear them yelling from one of the piers. "This is it guys. Move!" she said and jumped in the longboat. They lifted up the sail and started the engine. Canons on all ships got filled. After a moment of silence a line of blasts and explosions was heard from behind. Every cannon shot several times. All they could do was looking back and feel sorry for those who stayed behind. The spaceport eventually fell apart and it was shattered in pieces. For a moment Jim thought he could actually do something. Everyone was looking at those few pieces that left floating in the sky. They can join those on Solar Edge. Their loved and familiar place that took years to be build was now gone. All the victims, all those ships, boats and buildings. This was probably one of the greatest catastrophes in the history.
This was the fall of Montressor Spaceport.
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