Strike Witches
The
Winged Chronicles
The Attack
Most of the girls are still of edge from what happened, it was understandable it was only a day ago, I still can't believe the events that just occurred Mina thinks to herself as she walks towards the dining hall. I held a group meeting and I discussed what I knew to try and calm the ones who were still unsettled and still a little shocked, after that I went to HQ and gave them a piece of my mind about Maloney's actions and tried to get a court marshal on him, Mina decided to get something to eat since it was morning. Only Yoshika, Lynette and Perrine were in the kitchen, Mio was outside training like her usual self, unphased. When Mina walked in to the front of the kitchen no one said a word, Yoshika was quietly chopping onions and potatoes and put them into a boiling pot on the stove while Lynette was across on the other side of the kitchen preparing some berries without reacting to Mina's presence. Perrine was setting the large main table with a look of disbelief and concentration at the same time. Mina shakes her head and sits down at the table, Perrine brings her a glass of juice and walks away without waiting a sign of recognition, like she all ways does Lynette puts a bowl of mixed berries on a try in the kitchen as Yoskika pours a bowl of soup and also places it on the tray and brings it to Mina. Mina says "thank you" and Yoshika lets a faint voice in sign of recognition and walks back into the kitchen, the same thing happened to every single person who came in but it was mutual both ways. Even when Mio came in and Perrine served her the feeling was a mild depression among the entire group. It seemed the only people who seemed to be normal were Mio, Barkhorn, Shirley and Erica. The meal fell to silent ears, when the meal was over most of the girls left without saying anything.
For the entire day it seemed that everyone subconsciously was looking for Griffin in every corner of the base. Mina even caught Yoshika and Lynette coming out of the basement looking for him, Catching everyone by surprise the alarm for a Neuroi attack never rang, everyone was silent.
The following morning when Mina walked into the dining hall it seemed that the girls had a little more bounce to their step and had a little more hope in their eyes. After the meal Mio took Yosika,Lynette and Luchinni for training and not even before half of the training was complete they were exhausted, they collapsed onto the ground and were only a few minuets into their rest when the alarm for a Neuroi attack sounded. Mio Yells "Enemy attack" as all the girls start to rush towards the hangar. When the four arrived at the hangar Mina, Erica and Barkhorn were already starting to head out. The rest of them not wanting to be left behind rush to their striker packs and grab their weapons and fly out of the hangar. Lynette about thirty seconds into flight instinctively turns behind her to see if he was catching up like usual, but then she knew that he wasn't there and she turned back to the front griping Griffins weapon and focuses on the mission at hand.
When the girls approach the section where the Neuroi was spotted, Mina confirmed the Neuroi and Mina orders everyone to split up into the assigned groups and to engage. The Neuroi as a speed model was interested once it was attacked, changed it's trajectory and went to intercept the girls. The Neuroi was fast and took advantage of that and focused a lot into hit and run tactics, Mina kept yelling "get in front of it, cut it off!" Everyone acknowledging it kept fighting, the Neuroi kept using its speed to enhance its energy attacks and would hit the girls harder than the size of the Neuroi attack should naturally do.
Lynette using the double Gatling gun was even having a difficult time keeping up with it, due to to the guns weight and the push back of each shot and the distance to the target. Lynette was chasing behind the Neuroi and with the wind slightly blinding her grunts and lifts the gun in front of her and aims. Lynette pulls the trigger and with a screech Lynette sees the explosion and the Neuroi half ascends into the sky through the clouds. With Neuroi shards falling all around them Mina catches up with Lynette with Yoshika trailing behind her asks "you get it?" Lynette shakes her head and says "I dont know, i saw the explosion but no confirmation." At the corner of Lynette's eye she a greyish figure figure with spikes coming out its sides near an island just hovering and watching. Th figure in an instant disappeared with a faint blast wave that came from the figures direction a few seconds later. Lynette knew who that figure was and with a smile shoe turned back towards Mina and focused on her current mission, a half minute later the rest of the girls start gather around Mina's and Lynettes position with a smile saying things like "great shot and nice work" and with Lynette embarrassed turns her back towards the group. At that instant without any sign of warning a beam of crimson comes from the sky and with no one expecting it heads straight towards Mina. All Mina could do was close her eyes not being able to react fast enough and brace for impact, a second later everyone hears the impact and instantly accepts the outcome. But to everyone's supprise the beam has stoped inches above Mina's head, everyone amazed and not knowing what happened.
Right after that everyone notices a shield is what was holding off the attack against Mina, the rest of the girls start to look around and all of them instantly notices Lynette with a look of determination and her right arm spread out in front of her with gun hand breathing heavily. Instantly everyone knew where the shield came from, everyone stood there in amazement as Shirley charging at full speed yelling "Idiot, don't just stand there Lynette cant hold that shield forever" as Shirley grabs Mina and flies off with her in hand and Barkhorn and Erica charge towards the source of the attack. Lynette's hand shakes a little as she lowers the shield with a exhausted sigh, with a loud splash the beam hits the water and Lynette smiles with her arm still in front of her says "I did it" and with that word finished another beam drops from the sky before Barkhorn and Erica and make it with no warning hits Lynette's right hand and completely disintegrates her gun,her entire hand and half of her forearm. Yoshika in pure horror screams out and everyone turns and all they see is a few dropes of blood and Lynette's back as she slowly turns towards them and the rest of the girls discover what happened.
Lynette with eyes of shock and horror slowly starts to fall as Lynette slowly starts to grab her arm and lets out a bone shattering screech. That screech echoed through out the area and an instant later before she fell ten feet and her back turned thirty degrees backward her striker pack falls off and Yoshika drops her gun in pure terror and coves her head and yells "NO!" As if a gun had gone off a greyish blur passes them and all they see is Griffin with his wings spread out grabbing Lynette in one arm as he quickly makes a green healing orb and says "this will hurt" as he forces the orb into whats left of her forearm. Lynette cringes and shrieks a little from the pain as Griffin finishes puttin the orb insertion and say "This should stop the bleeding."
Griffin instantly faces Mina with Lynette shaking in his arms with a stare straight into Mina's eyes. Mina Yells "save her" as Griffin nods and says "hold on" as Griffin extends his wings and with a mild screech he lowers and stars to fall backwards and falls head first for the ocean, a second after Griffin clears the girls Griffin with a cannon going off takes off like a jet and races in the direction towards the base. As Griffin is flying Lynette is being held and a pool starts to form where her arm is on her chest and starts to drip to the base of her foot and is increasing. Lynette starts to cringe as she continues to hold on to forearm, a single tear falls from her eye. Griffin makes another green orb in fear of loosing her due to blood loss and yells "Don't you die on me!" as he shoves it into her forearm to stop the rest of the bleeding. Lynette shrieks from the sudden increase of pain and Lynette's head falls backwards and she passes out. All she heard before is Griffin's voice yelling "Lynette!"