Act 5 scene 4: Christian Dies
All the cadets rushed to their positions. Cyrara and Bretete went farther up the hill to get a better look at the small figures coming up the hill.
"Give it up keronians! We knew you were there all this time." The viper from before, the one with the deep voice jeered. The glint on his hat showed that he was a colonel.
"Shoot, they did recognize the food sack." Cyrara muttered.
"You probably have at max, 40 of you and we have 2000," the viper boasted, "if you surrender now we won't kill you."
"Better 40 with the brains of 2000 than 2000 with the brains of 20. We're not going to surrender." Cyrara yelled back. A chorus of assent rose from the cadets.
"Pretty reckless there. Just don't cry when everyone around you dies." The Colonel sneered. "Same here." A cadet yelled.
The first lines of the vipers charged but were immediately shot down. That didn't matter much, for the next lines immediately took their place.
"We need to ration our ammo till the reinforcements come. Cadets, don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes!" Cyrara ordered. Someone threw a bomb at the viper forces. The bomb exploded but the vipers put up their shields in time.
"Ah darn! Prepare the land missiles," Bretete called, "Eh- Cyrara?"
Cyrara was where he was. But he was in pekopon form. "I don't know what's going on," Cyrara replied to Bretete's curious look, "one second I'm keronian the other… I'm a pekopon! I can't change back. I think the machine or something is malfunctioning but that's not really of importance right now; the vipers are getting closer to us and are almost in firing range."
"Fire!" Some cadets launched the missiles and some lines of vipers went down. "They keep on replacing the fallen lines!" A keronian griped. The viper line opened fire. A few cadets fell from their positions and others rushed to help them.
"Shoot! They're starting to fire." Cyrara ran down to help the fallen cadets, Bretete close behind him. Unkown to both of them, something started to glow from Cyrara's pocket.
The vipers kept on coming towards the hill. Then, out of the blue, explosions littered the battlefield. Large craters marked the remains of where entire viper platoons once stood. "What was that?" The colonel viper looked up from where he was thrown from the explosion. He jumped away from where he was just in time. A bullet pierced the ground where he was a moment ago.
"Who's on the upper-hand now?" A figure landed in front of the Colonel viper. The figure had a visor over his face and was wearing protective armor. Beside him were two large guns aimed right at viper.
"A pekopon? H-How the hell did a pekopon get here!" The Colonel was stunned. The "pekopon", Christian (Cyrara), looked down at the viper, "These are the keron cadets. And we defeated you." he said gesturing towards the top of the hill, "So give up your base and get off this planet."
"Heh, as if." The colonel scorned recovering from the surprise.
"I'm giving you ten seconds before I fire." The guns started to charge their lazers, "One…Two…Three-"
"All right!" The viper cried turning around and throwing his hands up, "Arras is yours."
The guns stopped charging their lazers and Cyrara looked down on viper.
"Retreat back to your planet now. Unless you want total destruction." Cyrara said.
"All right. You stupid keronians…" viper quickly turned around, "…actually believed that?"
"What?" Cyrara heard a faint buzzing sound behind him.
"Cyrara look out!" Bretete yelled. He called too late. The sergeant viper, the other one the cadets overheard on the microphone earlier, fired at Cyrara.
Cyrara dropped to the ground and the colonel viper laughed, "We have the upper-hand. We had it all the time stupid pekopon and foolish keronians."