Chapter 2: Fighting for L345-X45F
The rebels patrolled the colony after having defeated the battleship Titanus. Capturing many ships still within the docks led to a moral boost but no mobile suits were captured and they were still underhanded of suits.
''When can we expect the new mobile suits General Kagomero?'' Nick asked an older looking man ona vid-screen.
''In approximately 36 hours, hopefully BOA doesn't decide to attack you before then as you said you were low on ammo and fuel,'' General Kagomero replied, he was the commander of the Orbital Renegade Colony Alliance's main force, the Tiger Fleet, ''If BOA orchestrates a large assault on you we are not sure if we will be able to help. We do not want to risk a war yet with the Earth.''
Nodding Nick responded,
''Hopefully not, my father has become ill and we just don't have the
manpower to fight off an assault right now. Goodbye General Kagomero'
Turning off the vidscreen before the General could reply he stood and
headed to the hangar where the 8 remaining Jellyfish stood. Due to lack
fo ammo the large torpedo wings had been removed from the suits.
Chainguns were being fitted to the machines their large ammo packs being
placed behind the shoulders.
''Craig hows the repairs
coming along?'' He yelled to the lead mechanic working on his own
Jellyfish he had suffered a minor joint injury from the explosion of a
Cobra that hadn't been noticed till he docked.
''Fine we are almost done, would you like us to add a
chaingun as well to your suit?'' Craig yelled back as the crew welded
the armor back over the joint.
''No I want one of those 500mm Bazookas with as many rounds
as possible not being used for other suits.'' He yelled back Craig
nodded.
Elsewhere in space...
A large fleet of ships
carrying the BOA insignia crept around the shadow of the moon toward
L345-X45F. With 12 cruisers, 4 Battleships and 1 Carrier the force was
large and commanded by Captain Phillip Somat a well decorated Captain
for his many battles with space rebels.
''There it is, Stephens are the mobile suits ready to go on
all ships?'' The radioman on the carrier turned to Somat and nodded,
''Good commence launching in 20 minutes'
The crew of the Titanus were all
being held in cells on the colony with rebel guards patrolling outside.
Shinagama and Michelo were talking in a corner about the distress signal
sent out before the Titanus had been destoryed.
''Do you think
they got it Shinagama?'' Michelo asked as a guard passed their cell, he
was nervous the space rebels had been known for assassianting their
prisoners.
''I hope so Michelo
and if they didn't my absence won't go unnoticed for long.'' Shinagama
replied as the guard passed by again his mind drifting to the possible
outbreak of war soon.
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A young boy ran into the hanger yelling to Nick, ''Sir we have multiple enemy ships enroute to the colony, estimated time of arrival 10 minutes!''
Looking around all 8 suits ready for battle he nodded to himself, ''Suit up we are going to fight! Craig send a message to my father to get off the colony we don't know what the earth scum are going to do. Have every able soldier head to the captured ships with atleast working batteries.''
Craig nodded and dashed to the communication center as the 8 Jellyfish moved out of their holds and headed to the airlock. As his cockpit closed before the airlock opened he sent a message across the radiowaves, ''Fight for your lives and for your families and most of all for space! We may be outnumbered but we are going to show these earthnoids we can fight!''
The doors slid open showing the large fleet spread out across the sky atleast 50 Cobras approaching the colonies with different armaments and Pythons holding back with rocket launchers. Pushing down the pedals Nick took off into space, he readied the heavybazooka on his left shoulder as the others headed toward the on coming Cobras. 50 against 8, the odds were not good at all, he grimaced as the Pythons launched rockets both toward the Jellyfish and the opening dock.
The small battle
cruisers in the docks piloted by the rebels one by one entered space,
they would help even out the battle. Sending a message back into Craig
he headed toward the battle ''Craig try and contact General Kagomero and
see if he can send any additional reinforcements or anything ahead of
the Tiger Fleet we are going to need all the help we can get. Already he
say the Jellyfish being ganged up on by the Cobras, they werre fighting
back. without the torpedo wings they were much faster than usual.
Bringing
up crosshairs he targeted the main largest ship in range one of the
battleships, he had 5 rockets and was going to target the ships,
especially that carrier. Letting off a rocket he pushed down on the
peddles launching himself toward the ships. The rocket struck low on the
battleship tearing open its belly in a large explosion.
A Cobra dashed toward him from ahead and above, throwing
himself to the side he dodged a beam rifle shot, using the bazooka as a
melee weapon he launched into the cobra using the strong front head of
the weapon to crush its head with an uppercut type move. Firing a
torpedo into the suit he launched over it as it erupted in an explosion.
Arming three more torpedos in his legs he fired them down into a mass of
Pythons with rocket launchers. One got struck by two of the torpedos
exploding as its rocket launcher took one of the hits. More Cobras were
targeting him as he headed full speed toward the carrier.
Inside Captain Somat saw the approaching suit and screamed to his team, ''Anti-Mobile suit cannons fire!'' The team going to work quickly.
The ball like turrets on the
top of the carrier fired at him, thrusting downward two red beams
slammed into a Cobra right on his tail causing it to explode. He brought
the bazooka up and with devilish smirk fired a shell toward the carrier,
he was rather close and it struck just below the bridge exploding in a
large fireball.
A beam passed just past his
knee burning and melting a bit of the armor, he turned to look at the
brave Python who fired at him. Two torpedos were soon enroute to the
Python, which tried to dodge but amateurly swung into a loop being
caught on the side tearing off its right arm and causing external damage
to the suit which floated to the side. Turning as secondary explosions
tore up the tower into the bridge causing a brilliant flash, the battle
seem to go into standstill as the carriers hull tore open with
explosions. Turning just in time to see a row of Cobras explode he
blinked then saw the battle cruisers opening fire on the enemy mobile
suits.
A warning went off in the
cockpit as he turned to see 3 Cobras holding beam rifles aimed at him.
Firing off the third shell in the bazooka he flew upsidedown and
backwards as they fired the armor being singed at 2 more near misses. He
frowned to many more of those and he was bound to get hit, the rocket
exploded only striking one of the suits but causing a large enough to
knock one of the Cobras into the still dissengrating carrier. He took
count quick seeing only 4 other Jellyfish left firing into Cobras with
their chainguns. The smaller battlecruisers of the BOA fleet were moving
in to battle with the 18 stolen cruisers, he saw one of the BOA cruisers
erupt as three mega particle beams struck it. The damaged battleship was
starting to retreat but he wasn't about to let that happen. Pushing down
on the peddles he launched past the carrier toward the battleship was
going at a snails pace due to its belly wound.
He swung himself up around as its slow turrets tried to catch him with fire, he flew up face to face with bridge, he saw dozens of faces staring at him as he armed three leg torpedos, kicking both feet into the bridge tower he kicked back firing the torpedos one targeted for the bridge the other 2 heading for the open hanger bay where a Python was about to launch. The bridge erupted in an explosion as the Python went to get out of the way, he succeeded but the torpedos flew into a stationary Cobra causing an explosion, the hull stretched then blew open smoke billowing out as the ammo stored in the hanger went off as well tearing the hanger away from the ship as it to 'sunk'.
He was a distance off
but aiming for one of the remaining 3 battleships he let off the last
bazooka round before discarding it to float with the battleship that now
erupted in secondary explosions. He armed his beamrifle he headed toward
the mobile suit conflict as the rocket struck one of the thrusters of
the battleship as though guided by luck and the ship practically erupted
as the fuel tanks were ignited and the reactor overloaded as one
thruster got all the force of its output. Swinging around the wreckage
of the carrier he caught a Cobra targeting a fellow Jellyfish off guard
and shot it three times in the back. It drifted to the side before
exploding.
The
BOA cruisers were being shot down as they began to retreat the rebel
cruisers advancing. He noticed only 3 damaged Jellyfish remaining as he
shot a Python weighed down by a rocket launcher. Out of 50 only 17 Cobra
remained, 2 Battleships and 5 Cruisers, the space cruisers had only lost
3 ships and were probably the deciding factor in the battle. The Cobras
began to retreat back to their ships, he took a few shots toward them
the Pythons having been wiped out of the battle as they were slower and
were mostly weighed down by the rocket launchers. He wiped his head
which was covered in sweat, ''Good job today boys, its time to mourn our
losses and hope that ORCA arrives soon. Without those cruisers this
battle would have been lost. Inside L345-X45F...
''Oh my god Michelo did you see that?'' Shinagama said in disbelief his legs shaking as he watched out a porthole in the cell.
''Yes,
how did they do that? That was a large fleet, even with captured
cruisers that battle should have been a win for us. I can't believe
this, what now?'' Michelo replied almost in a whisper as the remaining
Jellyfish and Cruisers headed for the docks.
''I dont know Michelo, I truly don't know what BOA is going to do without me, hopefully General Negel can pull something together and quick.'' Was all Shinagama replied slumping to the floor with a sign..
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Better than the last, please review no one is reviewing I mean if you don't like it you can flame me. Well hope you enjoyed it more violence in this one.