Morgana pulled her axe from the throat of one of the guards she just killed. Charlie was cleaning her own spear after slitting another guard's throat. One of the guards was still partially alive, so General Taylor Earhardt came up and put him down with a single shot from her blaster.
"Dockyard's just up ahead. Let's move, people," Taylor instructed, and Charlie and Morgana followed as they neared the observation point.
Charlie directed her attention to Morgana, saying "Let's go find this bitch."
They went up the small hill until they were overlooking the entire dockyard. Her Submarine sat on the dry dock, ready for takeoff, and nearby was at least a dozen or more vehicles, some of them with mounted machine guns. As for the minions on the ground, there was a fuckton of them. More than had been present at Elgar's complex, they were made up of Phiranatons,Quantrons, Cogs, Cedals, Yokai, Tenga and Stingwingers.
"Well, well, that fucker Elgar wasn't lying," Charlie noted, looking down at the scene below.
"It's like a fucking bad guy convention down there," Morgana commented.
"Taylor, get on that sniper rifle," Charlie ordered, "Morgana, scan the area. We need a positive ID on Divatox before things go hot."
Taylor went prone and set up the bipod of her weapon, adjusting the scope so her line of sight was clear. Morgana took out her binoculars and observed the scene below.
"Any sign of Divatox?" Charlie asked.
"No, not yet," Morgana said, scanning all over for signs of the space pirate. She saw numerous Generals standing guard, but none of them looked like Divatox. She hoped to God that Elgar wasn't lying or she was gonna kill the bastard herself when they returned planetside.
Upon further observation, she took a look further at the minion on the ground. Elgar said something about a deal going on, but with whom?
That's when she recognized the minions, completely white with a weird pattern on their bodied and green hair.
"Holy shit," Morgana spoke aloud, "Vivex."
"What!?" Taylor sounded shocked, "What the fuck is Sledge doing here!?"
"Whatever they're doing here, it can't be good," Charlie responded.
"Do we abort?" Morgana asked. Their mission priority was to assassinate Divatox, but the presence of Vivex and possibly Sledge changed things.
"No. Continue as planned. Divatox dies tonight," Taylor told them, "Come on, we have a job to do."
"Truck coming in on the left," Charlie noted, and both Morgana and Taylor directed their attention to the incoming vehicle. The truck pulled to a stop, and someone got out of the backseat wearing a blue track jacket of some kind. She definitely stood out to everyone else on the airfield at the moment.
"I think I might have eyes on Divatox!" Morgana exclaimed.
"Hold fire, we need to a positive ID or this whole thing goes to shit," Charlie ordered, "Morgana, can you make out her face?"
"Not yet, her back's turned," Morgana replied. From the rear of the truck two associates of her were carrying a crate forward. One general soon identified ad Wrench approached from the other side, and from the way he approached and was speaking to the girl in the blue jacket it had to have been the leader of the group. The two opened the crate and Wrench inside, he and the blue jacket girl then walked closer to the plane, and they remained at just the right angle that they couldn't make out the her face.
"Shit, still no visual," said Morgana.
They stepped onto the lowered ramp of the plane, where inside was more crates of the stuff. Just then, the girl in the blue jacket turned around and revealed herself as Divatox as Wrench stood just barely in front of her,
"It's her! It's Divatox!" Morgana said, "I have a positive ID!"
"General take the shot Now!" Charlie ordered.
With an exhale of breath, Taylor aimed for Divatox's head and pulled the trigger. But as the bullet traveled through the air, Wrench took a step forward where his head was now blocking Divatox. The bullet hit Wrench's head knocking him down, but left Divatox unharmed.
"Fuck! I missed" Taylor swore as she chambered in another round. By then, Divatox realized what was going on and ran further into the plane. The Minions looked to where the shot came from, and the rangers knew they were compromised.
"Go loud!" Charlie ordered, and the rangers started picking off the hostile on the dockyard one by one. The dry dock release began and if they weren't quick enough Divatox would get away.
"We have to stop that sub!" Charlie ordered.
The rangers hooked their lines and ran down the hill. When they got down to the ground, one of the Cogs got on the back of one of the trucks and manned the .50 cal mounted on it. Without hesitation, Morgana swung her axe, sending the grenade back and destroying the truck to smithereens.
"We can't stay here!" Charlie shouted, slashing down two Vivex. A Quantron was about to get the drop on Charlie till Taylor put a round in his head.
Two more trucks with MGs approached, and the sub was starting to pick up speed.
The submarine ship was already starting to slide down the dry dock slip stream.
"Shit, it's taking off!" Morgana shouted.
"Get to that truck! Charlie, drive!" Taylor ordered, pointing to the truck they had just cleared.
"Got it!" Charlie responded, sliding over the side of the hood to the driver's side and getting in.
"Morgana, get on that .50 cal!" Taylor ordered, and Morgana clambered in the back before readying the gun. Taylor got in the passenger's seat. Charlie started the engine and was racing to catch up to the ship.
Various minions were coming alongside in their trucks. Morgana, with quick thinking, swerved the gun to meet them and opened fire. The heavy caliber rounds ripped easily through both metal and flesh, and Morgana did not let up for a moment.
She swerved the gun to the right and took care of two more trucks and their gunners. Taylor took out the driver of on of the trucks, causing the truck to crash into the one just behind it and get caught behind.
"That's right, fuck off!" Taylor exclaimed.
"Goddamn it, they're getting away!" Charlie shouted.
"Not yet! deploy the RC!" Morgana shouted.
Taylor got to work readying the thing, then opened the truck door before placing the RC-XD on the ground. She then grabbed the controls of the thing and activated it, driving it forward towards the ship. He flipped a switch priming the explosive charge embedded within and had it speed up further. Taylot was able to get it just under the dry docks structure.
Blow it!" Charlie ordered, and Taylor pushed the detonation switch.
At once, the RC exploded, destroying the drydock and parts of the lower ship with it, creating a terrific explosion
"Holy shit!" Charlie exclaimed as Divatox's ship crashed against the drydock. Some of the enemy vehicles driving alongside were crushed by debris, while one managed to swerve out of the way but lost control. Its side ended up slamming into the front of the truck the Rangers were in, and acting quickly Taylor drew her blaster and killed the driver and passenger. The enemy truck swerves away but the force of it causes Charlie to lose control of the truck.
"Everybody out, now!" Taylor orders, and Taylor, Morgana and Charlie bail out of the truck and onto the dock. The ship continues exploding, and Morgana then sees a beam from the drydock falling towards her.
"Oh fuck!" Morgana screams and braces herself for what's to come.
Everything went black after that.
She doesn't know how much time has passed when she comes to. There's a ringing in her ears as fire and smoke surrounds her in-
"Morgana!" Charlie calls out, "I found Morgana, She's alive!"
Morgana opens he eyelids to see Charlie up above her.
"Fuck, my head hurts," Morgana comments.
"Least you're still breathing," Charlie laughs. She puts her hand out and Morgana grabs hold of it, letting herself be pulled to her feet.
Morgana looks around her at all the fire and debris.
"Holy shit," Morgana said, "Where's Taylor?"
"She's good, Is checking for Divatox," Charlie told her, helping to support the injured Morgana.
"That was one heckuva bang," Morgana said,
"Ranger suits can take a beating," Charlie laughs again before helping Morgana down onto concrete, the two Rangers can see what's left of Divatox's sub slowly sinking into the waters, the out from the smoke of the wreckage Morgana and Charlie could see Taylor dragging Divatox across the concrete.
"You piece of shit!" Taylor shouted at her, throwing her in front for Morgana and Charlie to see.
But Divatox laughed. The maniac was fucking laughing.
"SPD!" Divatox continued to laugh, "You Rangers really are that fucking stupid!"
Divatox pulled a pistol from her jacket, but Taylor kicked the gun out of her hands before she could fire it. Charlie approached the space pirate and picked the gun up off the ground.
"We're Kiryu Force get it right. The game is up," Morgana said.
Divatox laughed again, "Fools, all of you! His plan is underway, and you won't be able to stop him this time!"
"Stop who?" Charlie asked.
"Drakkon," Divatox said with a sneer.
"What the fuck did you just say?"
"Drakkon, you imbecile," Divatox laughed at them all.
"Bullshit." Taylor responded bluntly, "Drakkon is dead."
Charlie cocks the pistol in her grip, meanwhile Divatox continues to laugh. Morgana knew that something wasn't right, but she never thought she'd hear that name ever again.
Morgana places a hand to her head. Hearing that name brought back painful memories.
"All this time, and you didn't even know!" Divatox laughs, "Drakkon will see the universe burn, and you along with it!"
Without any moments notice, Charlie pulled the trigger of the pistol and shot Divatox in the head. Her blood and brains now decorated the ground.
Charlie turned around after performing the deed and observing for any hostiles in the area behind them.
"The fuck was that!?" Morgana suddenly shouted.
"Hm?" Charlie grunted, turning back towards Morgana, "What do you mean? Divatox? That was the mission."
"This asshole just told us Drakkon was alive, and you just shot her before we could see what else she knew?" Morgana asked. This caught Taylor's attention.
"Hate to say it, but Morgana got a point," Taylor said, "We still don't know what the hell Divatox was doing here with Sledge or why the fuck they were giving them weapons."
"The mission comes first. And our mission was to take out the space pirate," Charlie said, "No loose ends."
"And you don't think that her mentioning of Drakkon warrants concern?" Morgana asked harshly.
"It concerns me a great deal, Morgana," Charlie shot back, "That's why we'll brief everyone once we're back onboard the Gotengo."
Morgana was still majorly concerned why in the ever-loving fuck Charlie would just nonchalantly execute a lead like that.
"Come on, let's sweep the docks for survivors. Someone may know something," Charlie said, walking off back.