Watching the shuttle leave orbit was an amazing sight. But as she fell from
the sky, people could see a missile hitting her as she climbed to her high
orbit. As debris fell from the ship we wonder were the missile came from.
It looked human, but how could that be? There hasn't been a war on earth
for over a hundred years. As the debris fell we hid under anything we
thought was sturdy enough. I watched it hit buildings and then they turn to
dust and rock as they fall, covering the city in a grayish ash to be you
couldn't see the shards of metal falling from the sky. Another big peace
shakes the ground as I see it roll over and plow into my car. I hear
someone shout out, is that the last of it? Another person is screaming out
in pain, and other screaming for a lost love one. We could make out
something in the sky, a red emblem from the attacking ship. Is that one of
our own? That is one of our own, one of our old destroyers we had sent for
mars planetary conquest. But I thought the mars colonists were still are
allies!
With a pace all my own I rush across the street and turn on the news,
only to see that many other ships leaving orbit have been destroyed and
that earth's forces are being assembled. The president of earth is talking
about meeting with the priminister of the mars colony tonight to find out
what has provoked the attack.
As we re-coupe from the attack we wonder what will happen to this
peaceful planet if we are plunged into full scale war, but we shouldn't
talk of such things. Not in this day and age. War is foolish and we frown
upon it hole-heartedly. People are glued to there TV sets as the president
of earth and the priminsiter of mars meet to talk about what had happened.
The primisister denies attacking earth's ships and that in no way are they
agents earth and our way of life. But as they talk the signal to the space
station were the political leaders are having their conference breaks up,
but we can still hear them. Gunshots and screaming out. People trying to
save the president and the primister. But who could this be, just then the
television switches to a privet channel were what seems to be a public
official is speaking to us. He states that mars is no longer a peoples
union, but is controlled by one leader now, not some priminister or
president, but an emperor of sorts, I announce that admiral Zarrof of the
mars defense fleet is taking control of mars. To become supreme leader of
the new Mars Colony!
The television switches back to the president ional channel were we
see the space station breaking up and people falling from open docks out
into cold space, we see people jumping to reach fleeing ships to get away
from the explosions and the chaos. And finally the station's reactor is hit
and an explosion is seen from both earth and mars as it takes up the entire
daytime sky, almost blinding people for a short time. The world seems to
gasp at what has happened, the biggest assignation in history has just
taken place. Just as we feared we knew that this would mean certain war.
The vice president comes on with a tear in her eye as she states that
we are now officially at war with MC and all of there officials and that
our plans are to get the ships that they have in orbit around earth back to
mars and were they came from as fast as possible before more damage is
done. With that all the reservists are called into action, and I hear my
phone ring. I knew this was going to happen. I knew I would be called in;
they always call the pilots into action. So I grab my suit and run to my
car, but I relise that it still had a peace of space shuttle crumpling it.
So I hop into another reservist's car and we ride to the base. We are
scrambled to our fighters and we are shipped out, little did I know but my
ride to the base was going to be my wingman, and if he flew as well as he
drove I wasn't worried. We screamed out of the base like a bat outta hell
as our fighter went into formation to attack the closest ship. Guns were
firing from earth like giant cannons on a ship, and we could see little
dots leaving the ships. The dots got bigger and bigger as we came closer as
we found out they were fighters of their own. We dodged missiles and firing
lasers as we fought off the defending fighters. I had a cart with every
kill on it that I have, empty until today. One after another my guns never
seized to fire, but they never stopped coming. I yelled to my partner to
use a stronger gun, so he shot implosion missiles into the swarm of enemy
fighters taking out dozens of MC's in one black fireball. We could see that
the dent left a hole open in the ship's defense so we took the chance; we
turned on afterburners as we rushed past the enemy fighters. Rushing to the
bridge of the enemy ship we fired all we had at it in a fireball that lit
up the entire ship. We could hear the exploding ship even through space as
we flew home as fast as we could to escape the explosion. We took heavy
causalities but made the ships leave orbit. But now we knew the fight was
far from over. Time to strike back, time to go on the offence. We could see
ships from all over earth attacking and defeating the MC ships. Like little
fireballs enemy and friendly ships fell from the sky as they retreated.
Causalities were inevitable but we need to defeat this foe as hard as it
might be.
