Chapter 17: U.S.S Venture Found:

The both of them climbed down from the vehicle's turret. Just then a Captain came running up to them. "Are u all that remains of the Centurion Squad?" he asked.
"Yeah, we are," Riku answered.

"Well, good to see that you boys are still alive and that we did not make it here too late," the Captain said to riku and sora.

"We were just lucky I guess," Sora said.

"Lucky is right, now lets get this hanger bay door open and see if we can look down to the beach where the U.S.S Venture crashed," the Captain said, and he went and ordered a private into the control room.

Just then the private called back, "SIR, I think you might want to come up here and see this!"

The Captain went up along with sora and riku. They entered the control room and then the private pointed to something that was on a monitor screen. The lieutenant, Riku, and Sora's mouths opened and stayed opened. There on the screen was the U.S.S Venture, being bombarded by over twenty or so artillery, and tank, and infantry members from the Confederates. At the same time some areas on the ship were shooting back and then two enemy tanks burst into flames. (probably got hit by anti-tank weapons)

"Well we found, the U.S.S Venture," Sora said in a parched voice.

"More like what's left of her," Riku said.

"Damn that most be almost every enemy soldier on the whole island attacking the U.S.S Venture," Sora said as he took a closer look.

"So, what do you want us to do, sir?" the private asked the Captain.

There was a moment of silence as the Captain thought about this. Then finally he answered, "Get on the horn with the admiral, order him to send down an air strike on the enemy troops attacking the Venture, then when the areas clear, we'll then move in to aid, them, or mop up the remainder of the enemy troops."

There was another moment of silence after they said this.

"WELL LETS GET THE LEG UP MARINE!" the Captain yelled, and the private quickly ran out of the room.

The lieutenant then turned to Riku and Sora.

"I'll have you lead what's left of Zulu team, Riku, and Sora you will lead what's left of Charlie," the Captain said to Sora and Riku. "I'll lead the rest of the troops in, after we made sure that we have cleared the base of any enemy forces, so we don't get hit from behind us, got it?"

"Sir, yes sir!" Sora and Riku answered.

As the two turned to leave the private ran back up and then said while panting, "The admiral said that he's got a squadron of fighters on the way, they'll be bombing the enemy troops any minute now."

Slowly Riku and Sora took a look at the screen one last time to see enemy troops get blown up by a large squadron of fighters. Then the two walked out and into the middle of the hanger bay.

"Well, looks like we got to split up again, huh?" Sora said to Riku.

"Does seem so doesn't it?" Riku said back.

Then the two shook hands and Sora said, "Good Luck, and come back alive, ok?"

"Same to you too," Riku said back.

Then the two split up to begin to reorganize what remains of the Zulu and Charlie Teams, and wait till they had to be sent back into hell again.

Meanwhile, Back on board the U.S.S Norad.

Admiral Justin was standing against the wall as the Nurse cared for the slash across his forehead. All of the Sick Bay beds were currently full, and the floors as well, with wounded. The admiral had decided to stand in a corner and wait for to be the last one to be tended too, since there were more people in the sick bay who needed more help then he did. Their were people who had taken up the beds, and some were on the floor, and others were from the crippled frigate. Their were so many people, with bandages over their shoulders and heads. As he stood there he could not, but feel that all this was his fault that this was all happening because of him. But as soon as this thought came to mind, he pushed the thought to the back of his mind. Instead he stood there and kept the wounded company, until a nurse was finally able to take care of him.

Then all of a sudden the sick bay door opened up suddenly and an ensign came running in, he saluted the admiral and said while panting, "Sir, we just got a response from the first wave planet side sir, we have some casualty counts that are kind of high, but aside from that everyone is battle ready, sir!"

"That's good then, keep me posted," said the admiral, but before he could send him off, he said, "sir, we also have requested that we send in an air strike on some ground troops, that are attacking the crashed U.S.S Venture."

"What, they found the U.S.S Venture?" the admiral said with surprise.

"Uh, yes sir, they found it, but they report that they will lose her, if they don't get an air, strike to take out the enemy troops," the private continued.

"Well then, scramble up what ever fighters we still have and send them all at those Confederates and take them out," Justin said finally.

"Aye, sir!" the ensign said and he went off.

Then after a couple of minutes, in which that they had already treated the admiral's forehead cut, he was on his way back to the bridge. The intercom flared up and he heard the same ensign yell in it, "ALL PILOTS THIS IS A SCRAMBLE ALERT, WE NEED ALL PILOTS TO PREPARE TO ATTACK, REPEAT THIS IS A SCRAMBLE ALERT TO ALL PILOTS!"

The admiral then saw some pilots run pass him, and salute him as they passed, on their way to the hanger bay and their ships. In the hanger bay, the huge metallic doors slowly slide open and one by one, the fighters launched to strike at the enemy ground troops. The admiral finally reached the turbo lifts, and as they slid close he pushed for deck one the bridge. As the turbo lift was being sent to the bridge, he thought to himself, "I just hope that we come home safe after today."

Meanwhile back in the base in the hanger bay.

"Is everyone ready?" asked Sora, as he looked at what was left of Charlie team, there was less then 300 left standing, out of around 550, it was a large lost. Sora took a slight glance toward Riku who was now usher the remainder of Zulu team, (which there were only 410 out of 550 soldiers left) into a crowd, to plan out their attack.

"So, what's going on then?" a private asked.

"Well, we have found the location of the U.S.S Venture, it has just crashed landed on the beach a couple of clicks, outside those doors," Sora said as he pointed toward some huge doors, "They are taking a heavy beating from all the remaining Confederate troops, and are losing, our orders are to go out an assist them, after the air strike force hits the enemy first wiping most of the enemy out," sora continued. "Then we move in and mop up the mess, a simple tactical move, so let's not try and lose any people during this part of the mission, ok?" Sora asked the group.

"SIR, YES SIR!" the group said back.