Chapter 11: Food Fight in the Cafeteria:

Mean while back up in orbit on the bridge of the flag ship U.S.S Norad (Heavy Cruiser Class).

The bridge of the ship is large and has several stations, 3 doors leading to different areas, several screens showing ground troop status, life signs of troop members, and other sensors, with Admiral Justin at the captain's seat. Justin is a stern and strict leader who will push his men to the limit if he needs to.

"Admiral, the ground troops time is up, sir, should I order U.S.S Venture to attack the ion cannon?" the ensign at the helm station asked.

Justin sat in his chair pondering what his decision should be.

"Admiral, your orders?" the ensign asked again.

"Very well their time is up, hail the Venture," Justin finally said.

"Aye, sir, what should I tell them sir?" a lieutenant at the communication station answered.

"Order them to go in guns blazing," Justin said.

"Aye sir," the lieutenant answered.

As the lieutenant began hailing the U.S.S Venture, Justin began to ponder again. "What if they still need time?" he asked himself.

"Admiral the Venture has confirmed the orders, and are moving in," the Lieutenant answered.

"Good, I'll be in my waiting room, keep me posted on the battle," the Justin ordered as he began to walk to one of the 3 doors which lead to his waiting room. The doors opened and then closed as he entered.

Back on the planet in the confederate base.

"Covering fire!" Riku yelled to his team.

"Aye, sir!" the team yelled.

"WHAT THE FUCK?" two privates yelled as they saw the 11 soldiers break into the cafeteria.

They then picked up their weapons along with the other rebels, only to be shot and have to fall back to the back tables of the cafeteria.

"SUPPRESSING FIRE!" the rebel sergeant yelled.

The 11 soldiers broke through the enemy doors and began to take positions near the door they entered. There were bullets and laser fire going left and right hitting their marks or hitting the tables and chairs. The room began to liter with shot up tables, chairs and soldiers.

"THIS IS GETTING US NO WHERE!" Sora yelled as he fired his rifle.

"WERE LOSING MEN!" Riku yelled as two more of his squad fell in the battle.

"WE BETTER DO SOMETHING SOON," Sora yelled to Riku.

"I KNOW, EVERYONE GET DOWN," Riku yelled.

Sora and the whole squad looked at him with surprise and then did what they were ordered.
Riku then got up from the safety of his position and threw his flash grenade at the enemy. There was a slight flash and then the squad, Riku, and Sora heard the screams of the rebel soldiers as they were blinded by the light of the grenade.

"COMMENCE FIRE!" Riku yelled to the squad.

Then everyone began to fire their weapons and killed all the rebels in the cafeteria.

"ARRRGGGHHHHH!" One rebel yelled as ten rounds flew though his lower gut.

Then as the light from the grenade began to die, the squad began to look around the cafeteria. From all over they could only see bodies of the rebels lying everywhere, along with several overturned seats and tables. Everywhere were bullet holes all over the room and the bodies in it.

"Looks like the jobs done here," Sora said as he began to walk to the door on the other side of the room.

"Okay let go men, you're not going to live forever now," the second lieutenant yelled to his squad.

"Yep, lets move, we don't have that much time left," Riku said to his squad. "Private you take point," Riku said as he pointed to one of his squad mates.

"The name's Victor, sir, private first class Victor, sir," The private first class said.

"Very well, Victor, take point and make sure to checks the corners before giving the clear," Riku said to Victor, with an almost laugh.
"Sir, yes sir!" Victor said as he took point.

The two squads entered the door and began to walk with caution down the hallway, with their rifles at standby. As victor slowly peeked over a corner at the end of the hall, he yelled, "SIR!" and quickly got up and stood at the corner dismayed.

"What is it Vic-," Sora's sentence stopped mid short as he looked straight down the hall that Victor was looking at.
All over the hall were dead bodies of federation and rebel forces. There were several bodies that were face down; others were lying there wide eyed with open mouths.

"Riku you better come see this, you too second lieutenant," as he began to move into the hallway.

"What is, oh shit," Riku said as he saw the dead bodies.

"Hmm, guess like we missed on hell of a fire fight," The second lieutenant said as he walked into the hallway.

"Yeah, I bet these young boys never got a chance to fight back," Sora said as he approached a federation body and slowly closed the eyes of the young soldier.

"Well, collect their dog tags and let move on, we still got a job to do," Riku said as he began to walk over some of the dead bodies to try and reach the end of the hall.

"Yes, sir!" his squad answered back.

"This war is hell," Sora said as he got up.

"Its hell alright, but someone's going to have to fight," Riku said as he walked behind Victor who was taking point.

"And I guess that someone is us, right?" The second lieutenant said as he caught up with the two of them.

"Yep," Riku answered.

They continued to walk with Victor at point and both squads in the rear. That's when they heard something terrible over the radio, from the fleet above.

"This Admiral Justin, your time is up, the U.S.S Venture is already on its way down to take out the cannon, sorry boys," the admiral said before the com cut.

"Fuck, we ran out of time!" Sora yelled.

"Not yet were probably a few feet from the control room lets keep moving, it will take the U.S.S Venture a while before it can get into weapons range," Riku said to everyone.

"Yeah, he's right we can still make it," The second lieutenant said.

"Then let's move!" Sora said as he began to catch up with Victor.

They continued to move down the hallways turning corners every once in while for ten minutes till they finally reached the corner outside of the control room to the ion cannon.

"There are about two guards with auto-machines guns armed," Victor whispered over the radio.
"Damn, we'll have too take them out before we can destroy the ion cannon, before the U.S.S Venture can get shot up by it," Riku said to his squad and Sora.

"Got it, lets move now!" Sora said.

"Wait," the second lieutenant said, "I'm getting orders from the admiral to move to the hanger bay of this base, sorry my squad is need else where," the second lieutenant said with down look.

"This is bullshit, now were being split up?" Sora said, with a tone of anger.

"Its ok, continue ahead down to the hanger, we'll meet up with you there later," Riku said to the second lieutenant.

"Got it, lets move out," The second lieutenant said, as his squad began to move down the hallway in an opposite direction.

"Well it's just us now," Riku said.

"Yeah, that sucks," Sora said back.

"K lets get a move on!" Riku yelled to his squad and Sora, and then they moved up to where Victor was positioned.

"So, what now," the private first class said as he was sitting at the corner.

"Well, first things first we, throw two grenades at those two guard positions and take them out," Riku said.

"So, who here's got some grenades on them?" Sora asked the squad.

Everyone looked at each other only to see that none of them had a single grenade.

"Crap, well that's an idea down the drain," Sora said to Riku.

"So what we do now?" Victor asked.

"I have an idea, what about we try to use a decoy to try and lure the guards out instead?" A soldier asked.

"Good idea," Riku said, to the soldier.

"So, now then who wants to be the decoy?" Sora asked everyone.

Everyone began to whistle quietly and look down on to the ground.

"Come on someone has to do it," Sora said to them.

"I'll do it then," Victor said, as he stood up.

"Victor, good, we are depending on you, lead them to us but try not to make them try to shoot you or you'll regret it," Riku said to him.

"I'll keep that in mind sir," Victor said to Riku.

"Keep that in mind and make sure that you survive to fight another day, K?" Sora said to Victor.

"K, now, here I go!" Victor yelled as he got out from his hiding spot and ran out into the open.