Zephyr was thrown to the side as the Ringman suddenly lurched to the side after receiving a rather unpleasant hit from one of the pirate frigates guns, the Ringman's own turrets sang out too, taking out one of the pirate fighters that got too close.

The entire convoy had scattered like a flock of scared sheep, the pirate fighter aircraft on the whole were successfully avoiding the conveys flak turrets and were getting their own licks in. One of the airships just to the right of the Ringman suddenly exploded into a giant fireball ball under the firepower of the fighters, much to the surprise of the Ringman's captain.

"Who the bloody hell has Hydrogen sacs?" Exclaimed Captain Wildstar incredulously as she watched the other airship fall out of the sky in a giant fireball, distracting her from their current situation.

"If we don't do something soon that'll be us!" Shouted Trent from his position at the gunner console.

That shook the Captain into action "Okay, Trent keep firing the turrets at the fighters and someone get on the radio and get some bloody help!" She shouted order quick and fast. Jack, one of the airship's engineers began calling for help on all radio frequencies and sent out an emergency SOS to anyone in the area. He was interrupted as the Ringman lurched violently to the side, throwing everyone off their feet as it suffered a direct hit from the pirate frigates cannons, staggering back to his feet Jack checked his console.

"How bad is it?" asked the Captain nursing her head where she smacked it against one of the consoles when she had fell. The rest of the crew where also getting back onto their feet and Trent sat down at the gunny console again cursing as he realised the guns where out.

The engineer hissed under his breath as he looked at his console. "Its no good, they got our engines, main power is out" Jack cried out, cursing under his breath as he tried to coax a little life out of the engine to no prevail.

The Ringman slowly floated in the sky with the speeding frigate coming up beside her, the other airships in the convoy where not having much luck either as the pirate aircraft where strafing them disabling engines and turrets, leaving them helpless to boarding parties later from the frigate.

Zephyr watched helplessly as the Sky Ark, the most powerful airship and only airship left out of their 6 'ship convoy that was not either disabled or destroyed. The Sky Ark was trying to fend off the combined attacks from the two pirate fighter wings and the frigate. While the Sky Ark was inflicting heavy casualties on the fighter wings with her advanced turret system, she was having little luck damaging the frigate with its armour.

The main cannon on the frigate spoke, firing a high power explosive shell into the rear of the airship, metal ruptured under the force of the explosion and a large chunk of the back of the airship buckled and collapsed destroying her engines and silencing her guns. Zephyr wondered if any of the crew survived as the ship floated lifelessly as the pirate frigate came along side her and clamped onto it in order to board it.

"Oi kid take this" Shouted Trent as he threw Zephyr a pistol, looking around he could see the grim faces of crew as the got themselves ready to be boarded. They were going to go down fighting it was better than being captured and being sold as a slave or worse.

The entire crew had been dragged up onto the bridge, as that was where they were going to make their stand, it was the most defendable place on this particular airship. Sarah, another one of the airship's engineers had dragged Katrina, Zephyrs sister up from engineering, as she was injured and unconscious from receiving a head injury which was bleeding more than Zephyr liked.

Both Zephyr and Katrina had been orphans as their parents had both served and died in the ongoing war between the liberty forces and the coalition, they had eventually been adopted by Captain Naomi Wildstar and had lived on the Ringman ever since. Captain Wildstar looked on concerned as Trent knelt down besides Katrina and began treating her injury making 'oooh' and 'arrh' sounds every few moments that didn't help their worrying.

"She'll be okay wont she?" Zephyr asked trying to focus on his injured sister rather than all of their potential deaths or captures once the pirate frigate had finished with the Sky Ark.

"Should be" Trent said with double meaning for which the Captain shot him a disapproving look that he shrugged off as he finished treating and bandaging Katrina's injury.

The pirate frigate was now docked along side the Sky Ark, no doubt its boarding parties would be all over the ship, its cargo would most liked be brought over to the frigate along with any surviving crew members. Pirate fighter craft idly circled around the group of the disabled airships like a flock of hungry vultures.

Then out of the sun another group of fighters suddenly descended on the circling pirates catching them unaware, felling three of their number before they could even respond.

"Hey this is Britannia navy patrol Delta 056…… Did you guys call for help?" Came a cocky voice over the radio as the Navy fighters smashed into the pirate fighters and scattered them.

Although they where out numbered at least 5 to 1, the Navy fighters had the advantage of superior training and the fact that the pirate frigate couldn't bring its guns into play because it was still docked with the Sky Ark. An advantage that the Navy fighters used to their full advantage destroying as many of the pirates as they could before the frigate undocked.

The remaining pirate fighters began to recover from being suddenly attacked out of nowhere and rallied themselves that's when the dogfight began in earnest as fighter danced in a deadly game.

Authors note: Again I am sorry for the amount of time it has taken to update this fic. PLZ PLZ if your read this fic REVIEW! That's all I can say.

Also I'm not 100% happy with this fic, personally I think I have made the chapters to short and not detailed enough and I might do a rewrite once I get this first copy finished, it should be a 10 chapter fic so look out for updates which I promise will come faster than before.

Anyway thanks to sulkodds and everyone who reviewed!