MechWarrior: Shadow Company

Hello again! This is once again a reviewer chapter… same person. And I found out something very interesting… an Overlord dropship actually can carry FORTY FIVE MECHS! But I already said that the dropships can only carry four lances, and that's what I'm going to stick with. On to the story!

Chapter ten: Intro part II

The fleet arrived at a pirate jump point above New St. Andrews. They slowed their ships to barely a crawl in preparation of an attack. The turrets were swinging wildly as they scanned the area for anything that could have been dangerous. Even though Fox hadn't requested it, the shield was drawing every extra volt of power from the reactor that it could without risking an explosion.

Fox and Alison had been given specially made full body coolant suits, that also acted as light armor against any shrapnel. Fox was securing his helmet as he walked toward the briefing room. By the time he was there, he had figured it out and put the visor up.

He walked in to see his fellow mercenaries sitting or standing around the large room. Cory was off in a corner, Alison was sitting patiently in a chair, and Eric was talking with Sergeant Williams of Alpha lance. The others were gathered around a little arm-wrestling match between Major Layton and Sergeant Joshua, both of whom were in Fire lance.

Alison looked over at Fox, then at the others and scrapped her claws along the table to get their attention. Needless to say, it worked, and they also saw Fox. They immediately broke off the match, and sat down quickly.

It took Fox a second to get the pain out of his ears from Alison's stunt, but soon enough he started forward, toward the head of the holo-table. He reached it and typed in a few commands, bringing the other ships into the meeting. He greeted the other warriors and started up the holo-table.

"Alright, this is the planet we're going to be landing on, and fighting on for hopefully not too long." He zoomed in on a large space port. As the others looked, they could see that it had seen quite a bit of action. Small craters littered the ground and scans showed they were slightly radioactive, indicating a reactor had detonated in that spot.

The seven landing zones designated for the Shadow dropships lit up as Fox talked. "These are the landing zones of our ships. We have info that our employers have a rat somewhere, so we can expect the LZ to be hot."

The map went three dimensional as it showed the dropships hovering above the drop spots. It then showed the gantries opening on the five Overlords and several Mechs jumping out. "Some of us are to perform a hot drop, all of you chosen for this have been notified, correct?" When they had nodded Fox continued. "Good. Your mission is to secure the LZ of your dropship, although some will have to go help the tanks' ship touch down."

The hologram then showed a light fire fight as the dropships touched down. "Once the dropships are down, the rest of the Mechs will exit and join the fight, if there is one that is. The shamashes will take off out of the tank transport, and provide locations of any enemies they find, and if they're just infantry, they'll take em on. If all else fails and we take too many casualties, we pull back into the dropships and let them return fire as we get whatever repairs we can. Then jump back into the fray."

He shut off the holo-table. "We won't get any air or orbital support, cause we're in a port. Other than that, any questions?" He looked around, no one was raising their hand. "Alright, admiral. How long till we can deploy?"

"Right about… now. We're right over the LZ. Detaching dropships, good hunting."

They felt the dropship come loose from the Great Fox and start to head towards the planet. Fox dismissed the others and headed for his Hatamoto, his lance following.

When they reached the hanger, they saw a squad of Elementals positioned in it. Fox explained that they were there to protect the ship from boarding parties. They reached their Mechs and started the climb up.

As they powered up, the ship hit some turbulence, though it was out quickly. As the Gantry lowered, Alison got ready for the jump, and performed it perfectly.

She hit the ground in a crouch, guns level and sweeping the space port… nothing. The other Mechs touched down in the same position, and they didn't see anything either. She keyed her comm. link. "I don't see anything Samurai. Just a barren space port… wait." She zoomed in on what, to anyone else, looked like a black dot.

However to her, it was something very, very dangerous. She looked around and sure enough, there were more of them. "Holy, shit! All units evac, evac! Dropships get us the hell out of here!"

"What's goin on down there Shadow Cat?" Fox asked, very nervous.

"They rigged this place, that's what! This whole damn place is gonna blow to hell with us in it if we don't get out now!"

Fox started sending out orders immediately, and the tank ship pulled out fast. The others had to wait for their Mechs to get back in. Alison was the first one in, as the others jumped to get out as quick as possible. Within seconds they were pulling out of the space port, and as they reached a safe altitude, the entire area they had just escaped from blew in an amazing fireball. The Ridinghood Cavaliers didn't take any lives, but they kept Shadow Company off the planet a little longer.

End Chapter

Alright, short chapter I know… But I hit writer's block half way through the damn thing and I figured, eh, what the hell, this is as good a place to stop the chapter as I'll be able to think of. Review responses!

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