Thundersdawn PT5: Chocky's Thunder
by Chaos_eternus
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Chapter 14: The Great Marinas Turkey Shoot
The first clue the Jaffa had that they had been discovered was for many of them their last, as the Naquadah enhanced Sparrow missiles impacted on eight Al-Kesh. With their shields down for the covert approach, the Al-Kesh's little armour was all that stood between the craft and destruction at the Tau'ri's hands, but the armour was only designed to stop small arms fire whilst the craft was on a planets surface. As a result, eight Al-kesh vanished from space in an expanding cloud of debris and flame.
The Jaffa were no slouches, they knew instantaneously they were under attack and quickly began to bring the weapons and shields of their craft online, as a second volley of missiles struck, wiping another nine Al-Kesh from the sky.
A third volley struck as the Jaffa finally got their shields online, one missile frying an Al-Kesh shield just in time to allow a second missile through to impact the Goa'uld bomber, a third missile was cut in half by a shield snapping into place, the explosive Naquadah tip spinning wildly through space, impacting on the inside of the shield, the explosion, magnified by its containment utterly atomised the Al-Kesh in the moments before the shield failed. Two Al-Kesh shields were knocked down by missiles four and five, missiles six and seven got lucky, hitting before the shield generators came online, the other missiles missing.
Now, 11 Al-Kesh remained, disorganised and demoralised by the fast and unexpected destruction of their comrades they were slow to regroup and attack, allowing a final volley of missiles to vaporise the shields on 5 Al-Kesh and destroy the two already de-shielded craft.
Finally, the Lancers hit knife-fight range, and switched to their pulse lasers, their stabbing beams of energy quickly finding, and silencing the damaged Al-Kesh. Now four very angry and fully operational Al-kesh remained, receiving the up close and personal attention of 10 RSS Lancers. The Lancers split into their wing pairs, each pair diving onto the tail of an wildly manoeuvring Goa'uld bomber, the last pair, Eagles 5 and 6, both now out of missiles broke off momentarily to signal for assistance, before diving back in, assisting Eagles 1 and 2 with their Bogey, the Lancers pulse lasers slowly weakening, but not destroying the Al-Kesh's shields, just holding the Goa'uld ships in place for a heavy to arrive and finish them off.