The SDF Macross hung in orbit over the red planet. There was definitely something wrong. Mars Base Sara did not respond to any of its hails. It was determined by Captain Gloval to send a recon party down to the planet and investigate the base's problem. Assembled was Misa Hayse and a handful of pilots selected from Vermilion squad.
Again, Dave had to tell Mimi, at the last minute, that he would not be able to see her for lunch. Instead he will be escorting Misa Hayse down to the Sara Base with Luke, Hikaru, Max, and Ben. She seemed upset as usual but then she waved it off and remained in her cabin, by herself, when Dave left to the bridge to receive orders from the Captain.
Captain Gloval held an audience with his bridge officer and the pilots inside his ready room. Everyone was seated around a fine hologlass table where images of the Sara Base has been captured from the Macross in Mars' orbit. From the looks of things, the Zentraedi have already been here and did some damage to the base, signs of battle scarred the bunkers and airfields. Misa appeared distant during the debriefing.
"I only hope that the brave men and women manage to survive long enough for us to rescue them," Gloval said with a sober tone in his voice. He refused to look his crew in the eyes as he was truly pained that such an atrocity had happened to Mars.
After taking a sip of water from his glass, Gloval spoke up one last time, "For this mission, Lieutenant Commander Hayase will be in charge. This is a recon only mission, if there is any sign of hostile activity I want this mission aborted and for the lot of you to return aboard the ship. Is that understood."
Everyone spoke their agreeances.
"Good, Lieutenant, take your team to the surface, and good luck to you all," Gloval said as he dismissed his company.
The five pilots from Vermilion squad entered the hangar bay where the modified, transatmospheric Valkyries were held. These Special type Valkyries were outfitted with twin fastpacks so that they can breach planetary atmosphere and reenter it as well. As well as the fastpacks, extra armaments have been added to the fighters, such as extra plating here and there to absorb reentry. Extra rocket houses have been outfitted on their bellies and the fastpacks themselves have heavy weaponry built into them to serve as extra firepower against these aliens.
Meanwhile, Lt. Comm. Misa Hayase went over her inspections on the catseye recon jet. This versatile jet has been modified so that it may breach Mars' atmosphere as well. She will be taking the lead, performing low altitude scans for life over the area of Mars Base Sara while her assembled team will follow in formation just in case the aliens who destroyed the Mars base is still around.
After everything checked out the pilots took to their canopies and were given the green light to launch.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the red planet, Kamjin's fleet hung in orbit. They have secured their orbit and remained in stealth so that the Macross would not detect them. The fleet had performed their duty in destroying the micronian's allies on this planet. And now they wait for their lord to return and rejoin them so they can assault the Macross for the final time.
"Captain," Kamjin spoke on the comscreen, "I regret to inform you that we may be delayed. We are undergoing another operation. Should the ship attempt to leave the red planet I want you to slow them down so that we can unfurl our plot."
"Yes, m'lord," the Captain of Kamjin's fleet snapped.
The screen faded to black and the Captain was left with an image of the red planet below. He informed his crew to stay in stealth mode and keep a close watch on the ship. Should it flee they must engage the enemy and hold them off long enough for their lord to arrive with Warlord Azonia and High Commander Breetai.
The vista down below was scarred and shattered. Surely, if there were any survivors, they would be in bad shape. Dave's mind boggled as he glanced around his canopy to view the surface of Earth's sister planet. At first he felt the excitement of being an explorer on a new world and then reality sat in. Mars Base Sara has taken a massive blow. Wreckage pocked the area of the base and its neighboring lands.
"I'm moving in for a closer scan," Lt. Comm. Hayase spoke over the com line.
"Roger that," Dave and the others returned as they dove to a lower altitude.
"No sign yet, I'm going to set her down on that airstrip over there and explore the base," Misa said as she descended her jet more so as she neared the airfield. The five Valkyrie pilots were unsure at first, they all thought that they would only be passing over by jet to do their scans, none of them knew that they would touched down.
"Ma'am, is that wise? Captain Gloval only wanted us to fly by and perform recon, what if there's an ambush," Dave asked over the line.
"Listen Cadet Monroe, I am in charge of this mission. If you do not want to go against the word of the captain than I suggest you keep flying, however I have my own motives and I will be investigating the base, any volunteer will be appreciated but I will not force anyone to act insubordinate to Captain Gloval," Misa explained.
There was silence over the line as each pilot thought about their decisions. And when no one spoke up the line came back on with Hikaru's voice.
"Ma'am, I'll follow you," the younger cadet said as he dove his Valkyrie Down to keep up with the Catseye.
"Very good, Cadet, the rest of you continue the mission and pass over another time to see if you find anything," Misa said as she and Hikaru broke off and proceeded to land their jets on one of the few airstrips that had little to no wreckage.
"Copy that," Dave said as he led the other wings away to pass the base over once more.
"Captain," the Zentraedi bridge officer began after he saw images appear on his scanner.
"Yes," the captain of Kamjin's fleet answered, "what is it?"
"We've just picked up six images on the scanner, it appears that a group of fighters have flown into the atmosphere of this planet," the scanner officer spoke once more.
"If our cover is blown we will have to initiate combat with the ship before our lord arrives," the captain said more to himself than the rest of the bridge.
After pondering the situation the captain addressed his crew once more, "Send some of our fighters down there, have them ready to engage the enemy should we become discovered."
"Yes, m'lored," the officer said.
"That's weird," Max said once more.
"What is," Luke asked over the line.
"I thought I saw something on the edge of my radar, but I don't detect anything," Max answered.
"I don't like the sound of that," Ben added.
"Where did you see the readings," Dave asked.
"A few clicks to the west of here, I may be paranoid but I don't think that that's artifact from the atmosphere, I could swear that those blips looked like fighters," Max added.
"They could be some of ours," Luke brought up.
"Or they could be those blasted aliens," Dave concluded.
"That's what I'm leaning towards," Max added, "I want to go check it out."
"Roger that," Dave said as he followed Max. Ben and Luke also swooped aft and followed the rest of their team as they moved westward, away from the base.
"We're deviating from our mission," Ben brought up as he watched the base disappear behind them.
"We were suppose to find activity on Mars," Dave started, "and we have, these may be the enemy but there might also be a chance that these are friendlies."
Ben wasn't reassured by this but he went along with everyone else and left Misa and Hikaru behind in the ruined base.
"I'm picking up a faint reading up ahead," Max said as he cought a few blips up ahead.
"I saw something too," Luke added as he glued his eyes to his radar.
"Three, no four, five, six images up ahead," Max alarmed.
"I read it," Dave answered as he too saw the images on his radar, "they don't look like ours."
"They're heading this way," Luke said.
"Okay bastards, let's get ready, we don't know if they're ours or them, I'm going to open a com line with them," Dave barked out.
He flipped the com line on to an open channel, "This is Cadet Monroe, acting wing commander of Vermilion squad of the SDF Macross, over."
No response.
The wing leader of the Zentraedi fighters kept a close watch over all possible scan when something odd happened. He adjusted his radio band on his fighter pod and picked up a weak, staticy signal. He tried to bring the message over expecting it to be a message from his captain or one of his wingmen. What he got was a series of strange sounds and syllables. It said, "this is Cadet Monroe, acting wing commander of the SDF Macross, over."
"Did anyone else get that," the wing leader asked to his wingmen.
"Is that what these micronians sound like," one of them asked.
"My equals, this may very well be contact, I want to send this transmission to the captain and have it analyzed," the wing leader said.
The wing leader then hailed the bridge to the destroyer above in orbit.
"M'lord, I have obtain an audio of these micronians, I believe that this could be rather important for our superiors if we could have it analyzed," he then said.
"Very good, transfer the audio," the captain said.
The wing leader routed the audio through his fighter's processor and transferred it to a band that would record on the destroyer's com history. The captain played back the message and felt an eerie sensation go over his spine as he heard the enemy's first words.
The captained slumped into his chair and listen to the audio play over and over again.
"This is remarkable, open a com line to Lord Kamjin, I want him to hear this," the captain said.
"M'lord," the wingman said to the wing leader, "I'm reading four images on my screen, the enemy is closing in on us."
"Unbelievable, take evasive and try to outrun their scanners, we're not to be detected," the wing leader said to the other Zentraedi.
The six fighter pods arced around sharply and tore of into the western horizon of the red planet.
"They're gone, again," Max exclaimed.
"They did not return any of my hails," Dave said, "it's a safe bet to say that these aren't our boys."
"What do you suggest we do," Luke asked.
""If they are the enemy they were probably on recon and they just found out that we're here, I say we track them down and stop them before they tell their superiors that we're here," Dave ordered.
"But Dave, what about the base," Ben asked.
"Ben, we have bogies, we must intercept," Dave said.
"But Captain Gloval said not to engage the enemy," Ben reminded.
"This could be the makings of an ambush, I will not have those fucking aliens hit us from behind, I say we strike now and prevent another run in with their warships," Dave concluded as he opened up the thrusters on his fastpack to chase down the fleeing fighters.
Max and Luke followed Dave and Ben remained behind, reluctantly. After a while he bit his lip and gave away all his caution and followed the rest of his friends into the horizon.
"Lord Kamjin, this just came in from your captain," Azonia said as she turned slightly to see the Warlord step aboard the bridge. He had taken his personal time to get some sleep when he was told about this news. His clothes seemed somewhat disheveled and very unkept to warriors' standards. As he approached Azonia he fastened his cloak and smoothed out his shirt.
"Very well, play it for me," Kamjin said.
"This is Cadet Monroe, acting wing commander of Vermilion squad of the SDF Macross, over," the recording said.
"What is this," Kamjin asked as he listened to the gibberish that sputtered over the ships' audio file.
"According to your captain, this is a micronian," Azonia concluded.
"We must notify Lord Breetai, at once," Kamjin exclaimed.
"I have already summoned for him," Azonia added.
"You have," Kamjin stammered out as he finished dressing his uniform properly.
The bridge doors hissed and slid apart as High Commander Breetai stepped in with his counterpart, Exedore.
Kamjin stood ready along with Azonia as the larger Zentraedi stepped in. His eyepiece staring coldly at his two underlings as he approached them.
"May I hear it," Breetai asked.
The message played over and over again.
"Exedore, what do you make of it," Breetai asked.
"I do not know but I shall have it examined with the few audio records we have collected during our last encounter with the ship," Exedore said.
"Excellent, maybe now we can come up with a means to communicate to our crafty foes," Breetai said at length.
Exedore stepped over to the processor and inserted a disk into a slot to make a copy of the audio recording. He then limped his way back to his cabin.
"I will inform Lord Dolza of our recent find," Breetai said as he followed his counterpart down the gangway to the cabin decks.
"I've got a visual on them, let's rock and roll, boys," Dave said as he pushed his Valkyrie ahead and singled out his target.
The Zentraedi fighters broke apart and attempted to evade their attackers but then the lot of the ships entered a dog fight. Gunfire and laser blasts screamed across the Martian sky.
"Every man take a fighter and stick with them, we are outnumbered," Dave said over the com line.
Luke broke off and glued himself to the tail of his target. This crafty fighter pulled ahead and dove into the trenches of a canyon. Luke adjusted to the tight atmosphere by converting to gerwalk mode and skating alongside the cliff walls of the canyon. His enemy was quite good at using the surroundings and ducked under a natural bridge and hooked to a paralleling canyon which carved away on the right side of the trenches. Luke nearly lost his but he kicked back with a maneuver with his gerwalk and then continued his pursuit into the new trench which led the two into a tunnel.
"Luke, where'd you disappear to," Dave exclaimed over Luke's line.
"I'm okay, I'm in a tunnel, I'm in pursuit with this bastard," Luke answered back as he maneuvered around the jutting stones in here.
"I want you to keep an eye open," but the Dave's voice was replaced with static.
"Dave, Dave! Holy crap," Luke cried out as he recognized that cold, angry sound of static, "Dave!"
Luke couldn't believe it. He felt his throat choke up as an empty feeling crept over his stomach. His vision blurred as he slowed his pursuit al little. Memories of his best friend flooded his mind. He remembered junior highschool where he first met his fellow mischief maker, they use to bully littler kids for their lunch money and skateboard over the campus, and then highschool memories where they were called into detention on several occasions and where he, Dave, and Kelly began hanging out and becoming good friends together. And then there was Mimi. And then there is Mimi. Luke was stunned with how Mimi's reaction would be when she would find out what just happened.
Anger then coursed through his veins as he wiped tears away with the back of his gloved fist.
"This one's for Dave you alien son-of-a-bitch," Luke exclaimed as he sped down the length of the tunnel and locked up his target. Once the crosshairs matched up he left his finger depressed on his trigger and emptied his GU-11 gunpod's entire clip into the enemy fighter. Out of the darkness in this tunnel the enemy burst into a ball of fire. The flames licked the tunnel walls and splashed over Luke's nose where wreckage and debris from the tunnel rained over his Valkyrie.
"Dammit," Luke cursed as he stopped his Valkrie. The ball of fire was intense and bright. When all of the dust settled Luke rolled over in his canopy and looked all around. The blast had caused a bit of a cave in and he found most of his ship buried in rubble.
"Dammit!"
Again, Dave had to tell Mimi, at the last minute, that he would not be able to see her for lunch. Instead he will be escorting Misa Hayse down to the Sara Base with Luke, Hikaru, Max, and Ben. She seemed upset as usual but then she waved it off and remained in her cabin, by herself, when Dave left to the bridge to receive orders from the Captain.
Captain Gloval held an audience with his bridge officer and the pilots inside his ready room. Everyone was seated around a fine hologlass table where images of the Sara Base has been captured from the Macross in Mars' orbit. From the looks of things, the Zentraedi have already been here and did some damage to the base, signs of battle scarred the bunkers and airfields. Misa appeared distant during the debriefing.
"I only hope that the brave men and women manage to survive long enough for us to rescue them," Gloval said with a sober tone in his voice. He refused to look his crew in the eyes as he was truly pained that such an atrocity had happened to Mars.
After taking a sip of water from his glass, Gloval spoke up one last time, "For this mission, Lieutenant Commander Hayase will be in charge. This is a recon only mission, if there is any sign of hostile activity I want this mission aborted and for the lot of you to return aboard the ship. Is that understood."
Everyone spoke their agreeances.
"Good, Lieutenant, take your team to the surface, and good luck to you all," Gloval said as he dismissed his company.
The five pilots from Vermilion squad entered the hangar bay where the modified, transatmospheric Valkyries were held. These Special type Valkyries were outfitted with twin fastpacks so that they can breach planetary atmosphere and reenter it as well. As well as the fastpacks, extra armaments have been added to the fighters, such as extra plating here and there to absorb reentry. Extra rocket houses have been outfitted on their bellies and the fastpacks themselves have heavy weaponry built into them to serve as extra firepower against these aliens.
Meanwhile, Lt. Comm. Misa Hayase went over her inspections on the catseye recon jet. This versatile jet has been modified so that it may breach Mars' atmosphere as well. She will be taking the lead, performing low altitude scans for life over the area of Mars Base Sara while her assembled team will follow in formation just in case the aliens who destroyed the Mars base is still around.
After everything checked out the pilots took to their canopies and were given the green light to launch.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the red planet, Kamjin's fleet hung in orbit. They have secured their orbit and remained in stealth so that the Macross would not detect them. The fleet had performed their duty in destroying the micronian's allies on this planet. And now they wait for their lord to return and rejoin them so they can assault the Macross for the final time.
"Captain," Kamjin spoke on the comscreen, "I regret to inform you that we may be delayed. We are undergoing another operation. Should the ship attempt to leave the red planet I want you to slow them down so that we can unfurl our plot."
"Yes, m'lord," the Captain of Kamjin's fleet snapped.
The screen faded to black and the Captain was left with an image of the red planet below. He informed his crew to stay in stealth mode and keep a close watch on the ship. Should it flee they must engage the enemy and hold them off long enough for their lord to arrive with Warlord Azonia and High Commander Breetai.
The vista down below was scarred and shattered. Surely, if there were any survivors, they would be in bad shape. Dave's mind boggled as he glanced around his canopy to view the surface of Earth's sister planet. At first he felt the excitement of being an explorer on a new world and then reality sat in. Mars Base Sara has taken a massive blow. Wreckage pocked the area of the base and its neighboring lands.
"I'm moving in for a closer scan," Lt. Comm. Hayase spoke over the com line.
"Roger that," Dave and the others returned as they dove to a lower altitude.
"No sign yet, I'm going to set her down on that airstrip over there and explore the base," Misa said as she descended her jet more so as she neared the airfield. The five Valkyrie pilots were unsure at first, they all thought that they would only be passing over by jet to do their scans, none of them knew that they would touched down.
"Ma'am, is that wise? Captain Gloval only wanted us to fly by and perform recon, what if there's an ambush," Dave asked over the line.
"Listen Cadet Monroe, I am in charge of this mission. If you do not want to go against the word of the captain than I suggest you keep flying, however I have my own motives and I will be investigating the base, any volunteer will be appreciated but I will not force anyone to act insubordinate to Captain Gloval," Misa explained.
There was silence over the line as each pilot thought about their decisions. And when no one spoke up the line came back on with Hikaru's voice.
"Ma'am, I'll follow you," the younger cadet said as he dove his Valkyrie Down to keep up with the Catseye.
"Very good, Cadet, the rest of you continue the mission and pass over another time to see if you find anything," Misa said as she and Hikaru broke off and proceeded to land their jets on one of the few airstrips that had little to no wreckage.
"Copy that," Dave said as he led the other wings away to pass the base over once more.
"Captain," the Zentraedi bridge officer began after he saw images appear on his scanner.
"Yes," the captain of Kamjin's fleet answered, "what is it?"
"We've just picked up six images on the scanner, it appears that a group of fighters have flown into the atmosphere of this planet," the scanner officer spoke once more.
"If our cover is blown we will have to initiate combat with the ship before our lord arrives," the captain said more to himself than the rest of the bridge.
After pondering the situation the captain addressed his crew once more, "Send some of our fighters down there, have them ready to engage the enemy should we become discovered."
"Yes, m'lored," the officer said.
"That's weird," Max said once more.
"What is," Luke asked over the line.
"I thought I saw something on the edge of my radar, but I don't detect anything," Max answered.
"I don't like the sound of that," Ben added.
"Where did you see the readings," Dave asked.
"A few clicks to the west of here, I may be paranoid but I don't think that that's artifact from the atmosphere, I could swear that those blips looked like fighters," Max added.
"They could be some of ours," Luke brought up.
"Or they could be those blasted aliens," Dave concluded.
"That's what I'm leaning towards," Max added, "I want to go check it out."
"Roger that," Dave said as he followed Max. Ben and Luke also swooped aft and followed the rest of their team as they moved westward, away from the base.
"We're deviating from our mission," Ben brought up as he watched the base disappear behind them.
"We were suppose to find activity on Mars," Dave started, "and we have, these may be the enemy but there might also be a chance that these are friendlies."
Ben wasn't reassured by this but he went along with everyone else and left Misa and Hikaru behind in the ruined base.
"I'm picking up a faint reading up ahead," Max said as he cought a few blips up ahead.
"I saw something too," Luke added as he glued his eyes to his radar.
"Three, no four, five, six images up ahead," Max alarmed.
"I read it," Dave answered as he too saw the images on his radar, "they don't look like ours."
"They're heading this way," Luke said.
"Okay bastards, let's get ready, we don't know if they're ours or them, I'm going to open a com line with them," Dave barked out.
He flipped the com line on to an open channel, "This is Cadet Monroe, acting wing commander of Vermilion squad of the SDF Macross, over."
No response.
The wing leader of the Zentraedi fighters kept a close watch over all possible scan when something odd happened. He adjusted his radio band on his fighter pod and picked up a weak, staticy signal. He tried to bring the message over expecting it to be a message from his captain or one of his wingmen. What he got was a series of strange sounds and syllables. It said, "this is Cadet Monroe, acting wing commander of the SDF Macross, over."
"Did anyone else get that," the wing leader asked to his wingmen.
"Is that what these micronians sound like," one of them asked.
"My equals, this may very well be contact, I want to send this transmission to the captain and have it analyzed," the wing leader said.
The wing leader then hailed the bridge to the destroyer above in orbit.
"M'lord, I have obtain an audio of these micronians, I believe that this could be rather important for our superiors if we could have it analyzed," he then said.
"Very good, transfer the audio," the captain said.
The wing leader routed the audio through his fighter's processor and transferred it to a band that would record on the destroyer's com history. The captain played back the message and felt an eerie sensation go over his spine as he heard the enemy's first words.
The captained slumped into his chair and listen to the audio play over and over again.
"This is remarkable, open a com line to Lord Kamjin, I want him to hear this," the captain said.
"M'lord," the wingman said to the wing leader, "I'm reading four images on my screen, the enemy is closing in on us."
"Unbelievable, take evasive and try to outrun their scanners, we're not to be detected," the wing leader said to the other Zentraedi.
The six fighter pods arced around sharply and tore of into the western horizon of the red planet.
"They're gone, again," Max exclaimed.
"They did not return any of my hails," Dave said, "it's a safe bet to say that these aren't our boys."
"What do you suggest we do," Luke asked.
""If they are the enemy they were probably on recon and they just found out that we're here, I say we track them down and stop them before they tell their superiors that we're here," Dave ordered.
"But Dave, what about the base," Ben asked.
"Ben, we have bogies, we must intercept," Dave said.
"But Captain Gloval said not to engage the enemy," Ben reminded.
"This could be the makings of an ambush, I will not have those fucking aliens hit us from behind, I say we strike now and prevent another run in with their warships," Dave concluded as he opened up the thrusters on his fastpack to chase down the fleeing fighters.
Max and Luke followed Dave and Ben remained behind, reluctantly. After a while he bit his lip and gave away all his caution and followed the rest of his friends into the horizon.
"Lord Kamjin, this just came in from your captain," Azonia said as she turned slightly to see the Warlord step aboard the bridge. He had taken his personal time to get some sleep when he was told about this news. His clothes seemed somewhat disheveled and very unkept to warriors' standards. As he approached Azonia he fastened his cloak and smoothed out his shirt.
"Very well, play it for me," Kamjin said.
"This is Cadet Monroe, acting wing commander of Vermilion squad of the SDF Macross, over," the recording said.
"What is this," Kamjin asked as he listened to the gibberish that sputtered over the ships' audio file.
"According to your captain, this is a micronian," Azonia concluded.
"We must notify Lord Breetai, at once," Kamjin exclaimed.
"I have already summoned for him," Azonia added.
"You have," Kamjin stammered out as he finished dressing his uniform properly.
The bridge doors hissed and slid apart as High Commander Breetai stepped in with his counterpart, Exedore.
Kamjin stood ready along with Azonia as the larger Zentraedi stepped in. His eyepiece staring coldly at his two underlings as he approached them.
"May I hear it," Breetai asked.
The message played over and over again.
"Exedore, what do you make of it," Breetai asked.
"I do not know but I shall have it examined with the few audio records we have collected during our last encounter with the ship," Exedore said.
"Excellent, maybe now we can come up with a means to communicate to our crafty foes," Breetai said at length.
Exedore stepped over to the processor and inserted a disk into a slot to make a copy of the audio recording. He then limped his way back to his cabin.
"I will inform Lord Dolza of our recent find," Breetai said as he followed his counterpart down the gangway to the cabin decks.
"I've got a visual on them, let's rock and roll, boys," Dave said as he pushed his Valkyrie ahead and singled out his target.
The Zentraedi fighters broke apart and attempted to evade their attackers but then the lot of the ships entered a dog fight. Gunfire and laser blasts screamed across the Martian sky.
"Every man take a fighter and stick with them, we are outnumbered," Dave said over the com line.
Luke broke off and glued himself to the tail of his target. This crafty fighter pulled ahead and dove into the trenches of a canyon. Luke adjusted to the tight atmosphere by converting to gerwalk mode and skating alongside the cliff walls of the canyon. His enemy was quite good at using the surroundings and ducked under a natural bridge and hooked to a paralleling canyon which carved away on the right side of the trenches. Luke nearly lost his but he kicked back with a maneuver with his gerwalk and then continued his pursuit into the new trench which led the two into a tunnel.
"Luke, where'd you disappear to," Dave exclaimed over Luke's line.
"I'm okay, I'm in a tunnel, I'm in pursuit with this bastard," Luke answered back as he maneuvered around the jutting stones in here.
"I want you to keep an eye open," but the Dave's voice was replaced with static.
"Dave, Dave! Holy crap," Luke cried out as he recognized that cold, angry sound of static, "Dave!"
Luke couldn't believe it. He felt his throat choke up as an empty feeling crept over his stomach. His vision blurred as he slowed his pursuit al little. Memories of his best friend flooded his mind. He remembered junior highschool where he first met his fellow mischief maker, they use to bully littler kids for their lunch money and skateboard over the campus, and then highschool memories where they were called into detention on several occasions and where he, Dave, and Kelly began hanging out and becoming good friends together. And then there was Mimi. And then there is Mimi. Luke was stunned with how Mimi's reaction would be when she would find out what just happened.
Anger then coursed through his veins as he wiped tears away with the back of his gloved fist.
"This one's for Dave you alien son-of-a-bitch," Luke exclaimed as he sped down the length of the tunnel and locked up his target. Once the crosshairs matched up he left his finger depressed on his trigger and emptied his GU-11 gunpod's entire clip into the enemy fighter. Out of the darkness in this tunnel the enemy burst into a ball of fire. The flames licked the tunnel walls and splashed over Luke's nose where wreckage and debris from the tunnel rained over his Valkyrie.
"Dammit," Luke cursed as he stopped his Valkrie. The ball of fire was intense and bright. When all of the dust settled Luke rolled over in his canopy and looked all around. The blast had caused a bit of a cave in and he found most of his ship buried in rubble.
"Dammit!"