Pirates of Glee Anselm

Pt. 2: Pirates of the Carigleean

A few minutes after Ami told SunTzu what happened and why she was on Glee Anselm, Rei, Hulk and Rudy joined SunTzu and Ami in her room and they talked about the next raid.

A large convoy, transporting fuel, ammo, weapons food and fresh water with large repulsor craft and secured by AT-AT-Swimmers, Speederbikes and repulsor platforms was on it's way from a large Kengal base a few hundred kilometers away to their main storage depot in the area.

For the Mercury's Revenge alone the raid would proof too much of opposition, but with AICA being available now, things looked different.

SunTzu called in the starfighter and a few minutes later she arrived over the repulsorcraft.

Just as she came in to take him, Sailor Mars appeared next to him.

"Thought you're leaving without me again?"

AICA used her sensors to reconnoiter the convoy, while the Revenge took course and informed a group of the Sapphire Pirates with a gunboat and some smaller vessels about the incoming raid.

As soon as the AI had tracked the enemy, SunTzu shut down the sensors again. The convoy wouldn't find out what was going on before it was too late.

He steered AICA above the clouds and closed in on the convoy.

As the convoy was below him he turned AICA around and pounced down on it.

He shoot one of his precious remaining missiles onto the AT-AT leading the convoy while he took aim at the second one at the end of the convoy.

He opened fire and after a few salvos the swimmer exploded too and broke in half.

He leveled AICA so low that the fish under the ocean surface fled in panic.

Hands wandered over his body as Rei leaned in.

"God, I love when you fly like this."

While shooting past the convoy he destroyed a repulsor platform and used AICA's shield to destroy a speederbike by ramming.

He accelerated and made some distance for another run. Throwing AICA in a tight turn he returned and destroyed another platform and two speederbikes before he hovered into the front of the first transport vehicle. AICA used her loudspeaker to let the vehicles' crews know that they should stay where they were if they didn't wanted to be destroyed too.

The Revenge was already closing in.

One of the transporters veered away and tried to flee the scene.

"Oh Baby, something more stupid didn't come to your mind?" AICA stated as SunTzu started to chase behind the vehicle.

The Mercury's Revenge closed in on the rest of the convoy, armed Commandos on deck.

"Bring me over the transport, let's do this the old-fashioned way." Sailor Mars said and unstrapped herself.

He brought AICA over the transport and opened the canopy. Rei jumped out and landed on the upside of the transport. In this moment a hatch opened and two stormtroopers, in white and the same neon green as the Kengal Logo emerged.

Sailor Mars casted a Fire Soul that hit the first trooper as he was reading his weapon. A second fireball made the other stormtrooper throw away his weapon as his arm was hit. He didn't gave up though and draw a vibro blade with his uninjured arm.

Sailor Mars smiled as she draw her dagger, she even gave the trooper a motion to attack her.

The man stormed forward trying to hit her with the blade and she just sidestepped him, kicked her heel into the hollow of his knee and as he kneeled down in pain, Rei slide her blade through his neck.

She wasn't as proficient with small blades as she was with a Katana but this had been too easy.

The next trooper that tried to get out the hatch was greeted with a kick on top of his helmet and feel back inside.

She jumped down as well and landed beside the man, immediately driving the blade into the thigh artery of a surprised Stormtrooper down there before she hit the last trooper with a Fire Soul in his throat.

The guy who fell down came up again and she knocked him out again with a fast kick.

A few guys in working overall were still in the room. Sailor Mars blew a strand of hair out of her face.

"Anyone else wanna fuck around and find out?"

The men held their hands up.

"Good." She cleaned the blade on her skirt and put it away.

"And now stop this thing."

A moment later SunTzu appeared in the hatch.

"You good?"

"Never been better." She looked up with a satisfied grin.

A few minutes later Nava and Ribeiro arrived on speederbikes and helped to secure the transport.

A few further minutes later Nautolan members of the Sapphire Pirates arrived and took over the transports, bringing them away.

The Mercury's Revenge soon left for another group of islands and AICA, with SunTzu and Sailor Mars onboard, patrolled the surrounding skies.

It was late afternoon on Glee Anselm as they rendezvoused again on the outskirts of a mangrove forest on a small, densely wooded island.

Pilot and Senshi got out of AICA and the starfighter landed nearby on a sandbank.

Ami was very pleased with the raid and the supplies they captured were enough for a month for various islands at once but the Pirate Captain wanted to run another raid tonight. A labor camp was nearby and also it wasn't well defended.

The Nautolans held prisoner there were there mostly because of political reasons or for the smallest of delicts like not being able to properly identify themselves. A lot of the inmates were incarcerated because they couldn't pay the exorbitant taxes Kengal collected, often by force. Real criminals would be charged on the capital islands from the official judicial system. The prisoners there were just slaves for Kengal.

The employees of Kengal really lived up to their history and while some said the Imperial Remnant got all of the best of the Empire, Kengal obviously got the worst that was left.

The group got together and discussed the plan on how to attack the installation.

The prison was surrounded by lush jungle so sneaking in and hiding wasn't much of a problem.

AICA and SunTzu would destroy the watchtowers and the generators for the electric fences that kept the inmates inside.

Another main target would be the guards barracks.

The Earthlings also contacted the nearest groups of the Sapphire Pirates to help bring away the freed prisoners.

The attack would commence in two hours. AICA's electronical combat and jamming systems would prevent radio traffic going out or in from the labor camp.

Although not to be underestimated as force, Kengal's mercenaries equipment was outdated to today's standards and it was no problem for the advanced starfighter to jam their communication and sensors.

The only downside was that AICA's ammo was almost depleted and it wouldn't take long before she would need some tibanna gas for her lasers and coolant for her reactor.

SunTzu put Dish on a way to find him some resources, like raiding an air field or spaceport.

For the Commandos it was a bit weird to raid targets in daylight or before darkness but Captain Mercury and the local leaders of the Pirates insisted to attack as soon as possible.

Because they had fire superiority the commandos still agreed to do the job.

Four of them would take a boat and meet up with the assault element of the Sapphire Pirates. When the Pirates heard that they were going against a labor camp everybody of them wanted to participate in the battle and now masses of boats and repulsorcraft filled with combat-ready Pirates were on their way.

When the Commandos arrived at the meeting point it became clear that they were just a support element and force multiplier. Even better if the locals were ready to fight on their own now.

The guards of the labor camp on the overgrown island, were they used the inmates for working on clearing the forest and working in mines, were doing their change of shift when suddenly one of the camp's four wooden watchtowers exploded after a hail of red light fell from the sky.

Before anyone could react the second one exploded and alarms began to ring.

They tried to contact their headquarters and call in support but all of the communication was jammed.

While completely overwhelmed guards, those men had been former regular troopers, not former members of the Stormtrooper Corps, hurried around, trying to get to defensive positions their generator, fueling the electric fences was molten down from another laser salvo from the sky.

They heard the thunder of a fast flying fighter overhead but it was to fast too really make it out, obviously attacking with the sun, that slowly began to sink, behind it.

As tower number three exploded suddenly blaster and gun fire came out of the trees surrounding the camp as well.

Nautolans, dozens of them, stormed towards the camp, mowing down the guards near the fence. The few guards that made it to trenches near the camp's gate were either killed by sniper fire or when the Nautolans used detonators to clear the trenches.

The four commandos gave over watch to the assaulting Nautolans and took aimed shots at targets of opportunity, AICA came in lower now and destroyed the last tower while on the ground the Pirates assaulted onwards.

The first Pirates reached the inmates barracks just in time as the guards were to execute the prisoners.

The atrocity was prevented and the angered Locals made short process with the guards now.

The plan to snatch one guard for interrogation had to be abandoned but such were things on a battlefield, especially within insurgencies.

The Commandos shrugged it off, those who want to kill their prisoners couldn't expect mercy.

After the battle the Pirates took everything useful out the camp and started fires, burning it to the ground before they and the freed prisoners left the island.

SunTzu flew a large radius patrol but couldn't detect any enemy movements and soon escorted the Commandos back to their mobile headquarters.

The whole operation didn't last two hours but freed a few hundred Nautolans.

Leading an insurgency maybe wasn't the best PR but freeing innocent people definitely was.

The Mercury's Revenge was still at the same place near the mangroves as when they had left.

Sun was slowly going down as the five men arrived back and AICA flew over to the sandbank again.

On the back of the Revenge's top Briggs and Piedro were grilling fresh catched fish for dinner.

Rudy and SunTzu went straight to the captain's room for a short debrief.

Rei was with Ami in the room. And both looked drained of their energy. Ami looked completly drained of any energy again.

Still she was pleased and already had made radio contact with the higher echolons of the pirates. The other pirate leaders were very happy and pleased that the inmates had been freed and were on the way back to their families.

More and more locals joined the fight and reports came in that the central islands authorities had finally caught wind of the things going on here as well. An investigation from judicial, military and other departments was scheduled for the near future and the first investigators were to arrive in the area the next few days.

Those were people they definitely should meet.

Ami closed the meeting as SunTzu could see she had trouble keeping herself up and had to cling onto the table. SunTzu could even feel her exhaustion and sadness through the force and he was sure that Rudy recognized it too.

SunTzu felt that Ami severely needed rest so he didn't bother her but he made a note to himself to ask Rei what happened.

Rudy as well as a worrying SunTzu left the room and on his way to the topside he stopped by at Dish's, the Team's communication specialist, working place in the upper troop compartment.

"Lieutenant, I found a small air strip used by Kengal, around two hundred kilometers away from here. Looks like they have a few Ties there and what they need to service them. Might be worth checking it out at least."

The Commando handed him a datapad with maps and other informations.

"I've been so bold and checked if any of our cells are operating there too and we got some serious support there. One of the units we trained before is operating there, the Gressharks. They're former Glee Anselm forces members and some of the best the Sapphires have. I already told them to get ready along some other units."

"What do you mean, trained before? You've been here for a week, haven't you?" SunTzu asked, looking up from the datapad.

The Commando smiled.

"Didn't anybody tell you? We've been here before, training some of the Pirate Cells under the disguise of training trips to somewhere else in the galaxy. She also brought weapons to the Pirates, I guess you saw some of the Pirates armed with AKs already. Captain Mercury is a master when it comes to masking deployments and secret supply runs."

SunTzu made another mental note to find out how many shadow wars his blue haired friend was actually waging when she was feeling better.

"We could strike at dawn if you want. I just need your go."

SunTzu thought for a moment. Maybe they could even annex the base.

"Do it. Tell them, I'll be over the base when the sun rises."

"Yes Sir."

The Radio Specialist got back to his communicator.

Except Ami everybody ate outside. Rei arrived shortly after SunTzu. Without words she sat down next to him and started eating. She looked similarly tired to Ami.

He looked over to her and she understood what he was about to ask.

"I'll tell you later." She said and laid her head on his shoulder.

They finished their meal and the commandos went back inside while SunTzu and Rei stayed outside sitting next to each other.

While SunTzu was gone Rei had cleared that she and SunTzu would sleep in the crow's nest.

As AICA held overwatch they didn't need anybody on lookout and she wanted some privacy for her and SunTzu.

After dinner the Senshi of Passion just sat there, looking at the sun slowly sinking at the horizon.

"Rei, what happened?"

"He's calling her." She bent her knees and laid her head on them. "Ryu has psychic abilities too, you have to know. And every evening and morning at the same time he calls Amy telepathic. And as she can't find him it slowly drives her insane." She was still looking out to the ocean.

"I tried to join the psychic connection and use a pendulum to find Rui's location but I couldn't. It drained my energy almost as much as it drains Ami's energy to hear him."

She paused for a moment before she turned her towards SunTzu.

"I feel so bad for not being able to find him. Ami's heart is so broken and it costs her so much energy to keep going. And I can't help her."

A tear rolled down her cheek and he took her in and embraced her.

"I try to get some resources for AICA tomorrow at dawn. And then, we start searching the old way. And we will rescue Ryu."

She forced a smile and gave him a small kiss.

"Can you please carry me up there?" She motioned up the crow's nest with her head.

The crow's nest was rather big and spacious and both could easily fit in there.

He was sitting behind her and she laid her head on his chest, as they were holding hands and watched last part of the sun sinking into the ocean.

SunTzu woke up a few minutes before dawn as AICA called him in, telling him it was time. As he got up he asked Rei if she could sleep some more as the pilot got up and the only half awoke Senshi nodded before she fell asleep again. Before he climbed down he kissed her forehead and in her sleep she began to smile.

He did a little bit of personal hygiene like brushing his teeth a bit at the backside of the Revenge. Breakfast was a unheated mixture of coffee powder as well as chocolate pudding powder from a military ration as well as some cold water. At least he really was awake afterwards.

AICA came hovering in, just using her repulsors.

It was still dark when he hovered away again and then turned and flew into direction of the airbase.

Dish was also awake already and gave him the newest Intel about the Gressharks position and their radio frequencies.

A few fishing boats were the only thing they passed on their way as AICA flew through the dying night, jamming every electronic signal around her.

Twenty kilometers before the base he called in the Gressharks and told them that he would start his attack now, ETA 90 seconds.

AICA already was jamming the base's radar and other sensors and reading incoming target data.

On the base the sole radar and sensor operator in the small tower of the airbase was cursing. His boring shift was almost over as somehow every system broke down. Probably a technical malfunction.

He tried to call the guards on duty to get a technician to check the installation but his communicator was down too. Great, everything in this shitty place was falling apart.

The man took down his headset and fished a stick of dried t'bac and lighted it.

As he took a deep draw and hoped that the end of his shift wouldn't be canceled because the malfunction he heard something rumble in the distance.

Strange, the weather forecast didn't say anything about thunder.

The sun was just getting up on the horizon as the man took another draw.

He got up and walked to the nearest window to look down on the runway.

In the twilight he could see the two hangars next to the short runway, four Tie-Targeters were parked on a concrete area in front of the hangar.

The rumbling came nearer and nearer and the sensor specialist now was searching the sky for any signs of lighting.

And then the radar operator saw something which made his t'bac stick fall out of his mouth, up there was an almost complete black starfighter and it just turned in to dive onto the air base.

The man turned around and wanted to run to the red alarm button near his console.

He just had done his first step as a high velocity blaster bolt shot from a sniper a few hundred meters away hit the middle of the back of his head and came out his face again.

At the same moment a guard on a tower was shot in the head from a second sniper and a anti-air-emplacement at the end of the runway exploded.

In a matter of second all hell broke loose.

While SunTzu took another turn to engage the second emplacement that guarded the airfield the Gressharks opened fire.

Heavy blasters raked towers and buildings, rockets blow away vehicles and a few seconds later SunTzu and AICA blew off the second air-defense-emplacement.

They shot over the airfield again and began to give air support for the troops on the ground, being in close radio contact with them.

An armored repulsor car was blown to pieces in the next run.

A pilot, brave and fast enough to run to his Tie and start the attack craft was shot down of the sky just as he was up a few meters. The Tie crashed into the ground next to the runway, but didn't explode.

The other pilots decided to stay where they are after that failed attempt.

With their air support the Gressharks soon were on the airbase and fighting the enemy up close.

As SunTzu couldn't make out any more targets to engage from above he made AICA touch down, got his gun and gear and joined the Gressharks as they were clearing the buildings in the base now.

He assisted them in storming the headquarter building and the tower.

Because of the fast and agressive attack a lot of the Kengal Mercenaries were so panicked that they surrendered. They were secured and brought into a barracks building where they were guarded. Maybe they had some Intel about Kengal or even Rui's location.

The battle was over before the sun was even fully up.

"Darling, we just seized an airfield." SunTzu told AICA over his chrono.

The Nautolans could seize three TIE-Targeters, various transport vehicle, infantry weapons and ammunition, Bacta and other pharmacies and other supplies.

And that wasn't even all.

A Nautolan NCO, the Gressharks were actually dressed camos clothes and armor, all in a very efficient colored blot Camo for this parts, lead him over to a bunker near the runway. To SunTzu's surprise the soldier had an rugged AKM-Rifle with him.

Every Insurgent's darling the pilot thought.

The bunker contained the supplies for the Ties and contained dozens of Concussion missiles and bombs. They also found coolant for an starfighter reactor and even some Tibanna-Gas, although it wasn't the same high-quality the GA and the Taskforce used.

When told about AICA answered that it was okay to use for her.

"We're Pirates now so all of us have to renounce on something."

The only problem was that there was no ground crew available but a check in the hangars showed that the maintenance on the TIE's was done via Droids.

A putting a connection cable from AICA into the droid's main chips soon lead to AICA's personal fully autonomous electronic ground crew.

She loved the fact that so many droids were taking care just of her, exactly what a girl needs.

Obviously the shutdown of her AI didn't had any effect on her behavior.

More Pirates came in and helped to put a security perimeter around the base and the surroundings.

A village was nearby and the Leader of the Gressharks met with the Village Elder. Soon the area was completely and locally backed under the control of the Sapphire Pirates.

Buoyed by yesterday' successful actions against Kengal a lot of Pirate Cells had engaged the enemy on their own since the last afternoon and this early morning a combined assault of various cells destroyed a sensor station at the east of the Pirates sphere of influence and an important supply depot in the northeast had been seized as well. Right now Pirates over there were busy warding off Kengal's counter attack.

Not all attacks in the last hours had been successful, but at least the casualties on the Pirate's side were only moderate while Kengal had massive losses. The missing Ties and absent supplies already showed effect.

While AICA was maintained and supplied SunTzu wanted to visit the officer barracks of the base.

A group of Gressharks were standing in front chatting and having breakfast and when they saw him coming they gifted him a fresh local fruit and invited him to join them.

He praised the men's good work and they complimented his flying while they were eating.

The fruit, it reminded him of a large Mango, was very tasty and sweet with a little hint of sourness. He could get used to this.

After breakfast he thanked the soldiers again and went inside the building to inspect it.

Comfortable beds, an office including holo projector, a common room and bath rooms including refreshers. And they were working.

He ran back to AICA got out some fresh underwear and a new flight suit and happily treated himself with a quick visit into the refresher.

Oh yeah, It were the small things in life.

Some time later, the sun finally was up at the sky, SunTzu stood a few meters in front of the hangar AICA was being serviced and smoked a cigarette.

A squad of Gressharks guarded the hangar and the TIEs in front of them.

SunTzu let his gaze wonder over the air base. It had all they needed for as new HQ. Maybe it was time to move to a more static place.

A hour and some minutes later, it was high morning now, the two Shuttle Pilots turned AT-AT-Pilots were tracking something familiar coming in very fast onto the Mercury's Revenge, which was up on the ocean again.

The Commandos were going after their regular business.

Mercury heard the news about the successful attack on the air base as well as the other attacks.

If the Sapphires could and would actively attack and seize on their own now she would have more time to search for Ryu.

She shook her head. No, she couldn't put her own sake over the one's of these people.

Aussie was sitting in the crow's nest and Nava and Sailor Mars were guarding the back side of the Swimmer, although as they were wearing just bikini tops someone could have said that they were actually sunbathing. On the other side Hulk had manned the back cannon and was scanning for threats as well.

Suddenly something shot past them very fast and was gone before they saw it.

"Don't mind, it's just my boyfriend showing off." Rei said to Nava. Inside she was overflowing with joy that he was back though, it had been strange for her to wake up and he had been gone already.

SunTzu shot past another time, breaking the sound barrier. He came in another time and over AICA's loudspeaker he greeted the Revenge and his crew.

"Good Morning you Pirates of the Carigleean! Guess how's back?"

He soared in a last time and jumped on the deck, AICA followed the swimmer on her own a few meters above.

Rei, stood up and walked over to him as he just pulled down his suit's top down to his hips.

"Why is taking your clothes off your automatic reaction to seeing me?"

"I don't know, must be the bikini top that's so inviting."

She pulled him in into a hug and they kissed.

"I missed you." She whispered, only audible for him.

"Good. As you were enjoying your beauty sleep I seized a new home for us. Where's Ami?"

"Guess. Working in her room, as always. By the way why you smell so good?"

SunTzu shrugged.

"Perks of being a competent officer."

Just as he was about to turn around and go below Captain Mercury, looking not really fit, came up trough the hatch.

She walked over to him, shielding her eyes against the Sun.

"Good work up there. Could you resupply AICA?"

"Yes, Ma'am. We're ready to wreak havoc from here to Pieralos. I also have a proposal."

Ami looked up to the sun and frowned.

"Can we talk about that in my room please?"

They went below and SunTzu gave Ami his proposal to relocate to the air base. They could still use the Revenge for attacks or as backup.

After some time to think about it she decided for it and after today's raids the Mercury's Revenge would relocate to the newly seized base.

—-

The earthlings intercepted two supply convoys and although the PMCs now upped their security it wasn't a match for a starfighter of AICA's caliber.

It was late afternoon and SunTzu had been out somewhere since lunch, attacking Kengal Forces and helping the Sapphire Pirates wherever he could.

Before he boarded AICA, he gave a goodbye kiss to Rei.

"Causing chaos is the only thing I can do for Ami right now and I'll make them regret capturing Ryu. Every second of it."

It was evening and the two Senshi were in Ami's room.

"It's starting again. He's calling for me."

Rei pulled one of her Ofudas and held it up, closing her eyes and concentrating.

She had crafted this one earlier, it wasn't for casting out evil spirits but rather for enforcing spiritual energy.

Rei motioned for Ami to take her hand and the blue haired put her fingers over her fellow Senshi's.

Sailor Mars could hear Ryu's voice now too. He was calling for his wife.

Rei took a deep breath and tried to focus on his voice. Suddenly she and Ami where in a cell, Ryu lying on a plank bed, apparently he wasn't hurt.

Ami run over to him and kneeled beside him.

"Ryu! Oh my Ryu."

She tried to take his head in her hands but her hands went straight through like she was a ghost. She understood they weren't there physically.

Ryu opened his eyes and his eyes shot over to Ami.

"Ami. Are you okay?"

The scientist tried to embrace his wife but his arms and body went straight through the vision of her.

On the cell's door Sailor Mars had more and more problems to keep the connection up.

"Ami, you have to hurry. I can't keep this up any longer."

"Ryu, where are you?"

As she said that the cell room faded and they were back in the captain's room on the Revenge again.

"Ryu, I'm going to save you!" Ami shouted as she lost the connection to her husband.

Sailor Mercury needed a moment.

"At least he's unharmed. But we still don't know where he's located at."

"I don't know if you felt it, but the building or whatever he was in, was moving." A visible exhausted Sailor Mars told her and grabbed the communicator on the table, switching to SunTzu's frequency.

"Hey TopGun, as angry as I am that you apparently don't come home anymore to say Hello to the Goddess your girlfriend is, I need your help."

"Rei? Hey, how are you?"

"Exhausted. I just had a very enduring out-of-body experience with our favorite genius. Anyways, since you're out there anyways, I need you to gather information about any moving headquarters Kengal has."

"We keep our eyes and ears open. Although that probably means that the Goddess my Girlfriend is, has to wait even longer for me."

Rei's lips curled up to smile, although she was deeply tired.

"Where are you anyways?"

"Somewhere far in the west. I'm looking down on what used to be a field camp of Kengal before we got here. Looks like someone needs new place to sleep tonight."

Mars shook her head. Since ever he left earlier today he left a trail of chaos and destruction on the Kengal Mercenaries.

"Try to be safe. And try to get some rest somewhen."

"Affirmative. You might wanna get some rest too."

"I will, and SunTzu?"

"Hm?"

"I love you."

"I love you too Rei. Give my regards to Ami."

He ended the connection and him and AICA searched for the next opportunity to harass Kengal.

In the captain's room of the Mercury's Revenge Sailor Mars put the communicator back on the table.

"You're worrying with him, do you?" Sailor Mercury asked her. Ami was looking a bit better now. Seeing Ryu revitalized her.

"You probably know more about it than me, but you saw what can become of him. I mean I get the prophecy but there's so much more to him than just being a warrior. And I don't want him to become the embodiment of War. He's too good of a soul for this. As Soldier of War I should guide him and keep him on his rightful path but I can't even tell my grandfather about him."

Ami reached over the table and held up a bottle.

"Care for a bit of girl talk? I guess we both could use it right now."

They went up topside and sat down at the side of the Revenge, feet dangling down the transporter.

"How you do that Ami? You make being married, a Sailor Senshi and Intelligence Officer seem so easily."

Ami smiled and took a sip from the bottle of rum.

"You mean when I don't try to desperately find my husband, as he got kidnapped by enemy forces because I, mostly on my own, started what spiraled into a civil war on a foreign planet? I don't know." She took another sip and handed the bottle to Rei.

"As you know I always was dutiful and it became even more when I awakened as Sailor Mercury again. It just seems the right thing to do to me. And so far it always worked out. Not that there's much choice when you're a Sailor Senshi. In this reincarnation I at least had a childhood and my parents are still alive. I'm one of the more lucky of us. Especially since I found love too."

"Oh yeah, Ami and one of the seven devils. But who am I to talk with grandpa."

Rei laughed and took a sip of the rum.

"I don't know. Apart from diplomacy, a duty that I absolutely love although it can be truly exhausting and frustrating, I don't know how much my duties as Senshi are what I really can stand behind. I'm supposed to be the Senshi of Combat but the more I see of war the more it disgusts me and since Bestine I think about If I still want to fight on openly or If I just want to change the universe in a more peaceful way."

Rei took a long sip of Rum and looked down at the ocean below them.

"I probably should be in my office in Crystal Tokyo and try to find out who plummeted the galaxy into war and don't let my personal feelings let me wage war with a Mega-Corp, yet here we are. I know that we exist to protect the Neo-Queen and the Crystal Kingdom but we can't bring peace to the galaxy if we close our eyes before the problems of this whole galaxy." The blue haired woman took a sip before she continued.

"And I understand the exhaustion. Time traveling apart, we've been fighting half of our lives now. Having enough is natural at one point. Especially lately, you've seen more of this war than me already. And I'm greatly disgusted from what i saw."

"Yeah. I understand what we're doing it for and it's the right thing to do but I'm growing tired. It seems that whenever we finish one battle two others arise. And the war just started, who knows what will follow."

She pulled out an Etui with cigarettes and lighted one.

"It's probably not the best to be with the man that is deemed to become humanified war when you're growing tired of fighting." She said and blew out a cloud of smoke into the evening sky.

"But I love him. You know, there's so much good in him. I just worry that this war will corrupt him and I don't have any idea what I can do to prevent that."

"Love, Rei. I can see that all he needs is your love. And although he's out there, fighting like a demon, all he wants is to come home to you."

Ami forced herself to a smile.

"This is Love Rei-Chan. I don't want nothing else as well. Coming home to Ryu."

A tear rolled down her cheek and Rei embraced her friend.

SunTzu and AICA flew attacks till deep in the night, slept a bare minimum inside the starfighter while AICA was parked in a remote Sapphire Pirate's camp somewhere in a jungle. He wondered why the pirates here were clothed like historical pirates or at least were very inspired by those clothes. And those here had weapons from earth as well.

Another thing he had to ask Ami about he thought as he was back to flying attacks before the break of dawn.

After he just destroyed an AT-AT-Swimmer on patrol in the ocean SunTzu thought that he should get back to resupply soon.

He checked his messages for the first time since yesterday evening. Rei had send him a message before she went to bed. It said "I miss you."

Yeah, he should at least see if anything new came up. His stomach growled.

And maybe eat something.

AICA dropped him at the Revenge, which was on her way to the airbase and then flew to the base to get resupplied.

Careful and slowly he opened the hatch and went through the transport, trying not to wake anyone up.

Dish was sleeping at his table but Hulk and Briggs were standing guard in the first compartment.

Hulk told him that Rei was in Ami's quarter.

Again trying to be as silent as he could SunTzu went down the second hatch and sneaked through the sleeping Commandos and sat down next to the door. He didn't want to wake up the girls. As soon as he stretched out his legs ,exhaustion overwhelmed him and he fell asleep.

When the Commandos woke up they let the pilot sleep, he was out cold anyway.

Rei and Ami had slept together in Ami's hammock and they woke up soon after the commandos.

Rei was the first to step out of the room and she was startled a bit when she found someone sitting near the door. Only to begin smiling when she saw it was SunTzu.

"See, as I told you, he just wants to come home." Ami whispered to her.

Rei kneeled down and kissed SunTzu on his forehead.

He opened his eyes and was pleasantly surprised to find Rei in front of him.

"Hey." SunTzu said and his mouth curled up as he tried to wake up completely.

"Hey TopGun. You finally came home." She kissed him again, this time on the mouth.

"I saw your message." He had his eyes closed again, being still sleepy.

Ami was standing behind them.

"You might want to switch into my hammock, it's more comfortable."

SunTzu and Rei laid down in the hammock and Ami got to work.

Two hours until they would reach the air base.

The base was firmly secured by a large group of Sapphire Pirates and parts of the Gressharks, using the space to train other Pirates.

They parked the Mercury's Revenge near the hangars and went to inspect the other buildings, while Ami met with the leaders of the pirate groups at the headquarter building.

Ami was very satisfied with the base and they changed their headquarter into the officer's barrack and after over a week of cleaning themselves in the ocean, showers were a blessing for the commandos.

While the Commandos and SunTzu brought in the stuff from the Mercury's Revenge the two Senshi borrowed AICA and flew to a meeting with more pirate leaders.

They came back in the afternoon and told them that the Pirates all agreed to start an offensive, even the more moderate ones that just wanted peace at their home villages.

The next target would be the main equatorial island, a larger landmass with the regional capital. And lots of Kengal Infrastructure. The attack would start in the night.

The group got together to make plans how to support and prepare the attack, local cells and contacts were activated and soon after lunch Team 1 and their attachment were on or near the island.

She didn't like these kind of jobs and this was actually her first one of this kind. A lot of Agents had to do them and some actually were for a cause but she didn't like those jobs, she thought as she got out of a repulsor taxi in front of the city' s highest and most exclusive hotel. Apart from being so expensive that no locals could life her anyway, as it was Kengal operated it only allowed humans inside.

The woman walked inside and took the elevator to the rooftop, where a bar and a pool were located at.

The elevator had a mirror and she checked her appearance again.

The white summer dress she was wearing nestled tightly on her curves. Fortunately the austerities in the last days didn't make her loose any of her appeal. She would never tell anyone but she was proud of her body and her curves.

She stroke through her long blonde hair. Let's hope this guy likes blondes.

The elevator opened and Ami stepped out, telling herself to be like Minako as she went over to the Bar and ordered a drink.

She got the drink and took a sip, scanning the rooftop. Not many people were here and she soon found her target. A middle aged man, wearing short swim trunks. He was in pretty well shape and lots of woman would think of him as attractive.

Ami despised the man though, he was the local regional manager for Kengal around here, off-spring of a COMPNOR-Officer, a xenophobist, sexist and an opportunist, that came to his position because he was good with words and violent with anyone opposing him.

Yeah, Ami didn't like these jobs but this man was important. She downed her drink.

Showtime.

Ami walked over to some sun loungers, made sure that she could be seen and very slowly peeled herself out of her dress revealing a nifty white bikini.

Of course everybody was looking, but that was the goal.

She jumped into the pool and swam a few rounds.

And soon the manager came over and kneeled down on the edge of the Pool.

"Hi. My name's Armand, I'm a big shot in this town. Interested in a drink?"

Straight to the point, huh? Well, at least he took the bait.

"My name's Mizuno. And a drink sounds great."

She got out the pool and his bodyguard brought her a towel.

They got to his place at the loungers and he poured some blue liquid out of an expensive looking bottle into two glasses.

Ami and the Manager toasted to each other and drank a sip.

He engaged into smalltalk with her, and god he was full of himself. And obviously a man that always got what he wanted. At least he thought that.

After a while Ami asked him if there was a place they would be on their own and with a satisfied smile the man told he had a suite in the hotel with a private pool.

"Wow, you have a privat pool? How cool? Let's go there."

The went two floors down and entered the room, his bodyguard stayed back at the door to the suite.

Ami threw her bag on a sofa and ran towards the pool. She already had swum to the end of the infinity pool as he entered the balcony with the pool.

The Man sat down at the edge as she looked over the infinity pools railing, seemingly marveling over the view.

She turned around with a flirtatious smile and looked at the manager.

"Come in, the water is great."

The man got into the pool as Ami swam back and they met In the middle of the pool where she was just able to stand.

She laid her hand around his neck while her other hand was behind her back.

He expected that she was opening her bikini top.

"I have a surprise for you." Ami whispered in the man's ear and he started to grin.

His grin faded immediately as she piled a pointy piece of ice with all her force into his ear. The man went limp as a small streak of blood ran out of his ear and Ami let go of him and left the pool. His dead body was drifting in the pool as she dried herself up, put on her dress again, took a datapad, with the Kengal logo on it from his sofa table, putting it in her handbag and left the room.

The bodyguard nodded towards her with a commiserative look. Apparently Armand was pretty fast with the girls.

The Pirate Leader took the elevator and got out of the hotel.

Yeah, she didn't like this jobs. But this hit had felt good. And if she was lucky they might even get some infos where Ryu was from that datapad.

In front of the building she ripped down her blonde wig and shook her natural short blue hair.

Better.

A red, sportive looking repulsor convertible stopped abruptly in front of her. A shade wearing Rei was on the co-driver's seat smiling wide, an AK-47 Rifle laying on her lap.

"Your Uber has arrived."

Next to her SunTzu was steering the repulsor car, cigarette in his mouth.

Ami jumped in on middle of the backseat. Around her were large black bags.

"Departure!" She said and the convertible shot off.

That moment a loud explosion could be heard coming in from the city center. Ami smiled, everything was going as planned.

Rei Hino, dressed in a simple orange dress with a stylised collar as it was trendy in some parts of the galaxy and also sunglasses and a shawl over her hair, took a last drag of her cigarette and threw it away.

Behind her was SunTzu, also in plain civilian clothes, at least if a Hawaii shirt could be called plain, and shades, sitting behind the steering wheel of a red repulsor convertible, secretly scanning the surroundings.

This was another one of the things she never done before and probably wouldn't ever do if it wasn't for helping Ami.

But honestly she had to admit it had its appeal and she was excited with what they were about to do. And also it had a cause and hurted the right people. And nobody innocent would be hurted.

Rei took a deep breather and stepped inside the bank she was standing in front of.

Let's see how being on the other side feels like.

The black haired waited in line, there was only one counter as the bank was rather small and was used exclusively by Humans. Definitely not the most noble thing to come to a foreign planet and ban the natives from using your services.

Three guards were visible. Two with slug throwers and one with a blaster pistol in his holster. They were wearing light armor but no helmets.

After a few minutes it was Rei's turn at the counter and the clerk, a middle aged bored looking woman attended her.

"Hi, I want to open an account In your bank."

Rei lied and hoped it would all go as how they planned it.

"A moment please." The bank clerk said and pointed to a row of seats at the back of the room.

Rei sat down and after another minute a manager appeared, greeting her.

"Hello, my Name is Akira Mustermann, and I just go to this planet. I'm with the local bookkeeping and want to open an account here." The diplomat was very polite.

"Also I'd like to know if you have lockers. I inherited some expensive jewelry from my grandmother I'd like to store away."

"Of course. If you want we can give you the tour." The Manager said and nodded to the guard with the pistol that he'd join them.

They gave Rei a tour of the bank and then went into the basement with her, the guard not really taking care of her, opening the two gates before the safe and the big walkable safe there. The cash, local currency and Galactic Credits and lockers were in there.

Too easy Rei thought as she pressed a small button on a ring she was wearing.

"Wow, what a big safe this is!"

In the red car in front of the bank a smoking SunTzu heard Rei say that she was in the safe. He smiled and threw the cigarette out the car.

Showtime. Too bad that he didn't have a mask, preferably a hockey or clown one.

The pilot got out of the car and walked to the trunk, opening it.

He took two big black bags and two AK-47 Rifles from the trunk, hanged the bags and one AK with a sling on his back, and cocked the bolt back on the one in his hand. Just to be sure he took another Mag into the cargo pockets of his pants before he closed the trunk again.

Oh, this gon' be good.

SunTzu stormed in the bank, and shot a salvo in the air.

"This is a stickup, everybody get the fuck down! Men on the left and women on the right!"

The guards moved slow and as the first one raised his rifle he was shot down by SunTzu.

The other guard, now alarmed dove into cover behind the counter while yelling broke out by the people in the bank.

Too bad the bank counter downside was made out of wood.

A salvo from the AK penetrated the wood and the man got hit into his collar bone.

SunTzu ran over to the counter and jumped over it, another shot in the man's temple making sure he wouldn't be a threat anymore.

"Next motherfucker trying to be brave gets one in the head too. And now shut the fuck up and get down!"

A story below the guard reached for his blaster as soon as he heard the automatic gunfire above him. Too bad that Sailor Mars was in punching range and a fire blazing hit the man in the back of his head, taking him out. Good thing he didn't have hair, nobody liked the smell of burned hair.

The dumbfounded bank manager asked what Rei was doing.

"Shut up and get on your knees. Or you'll be the next one kissing my flaming fist."

The now panicked man got down and Rei knocked him out cold with a sidekick to his head. Fishing the key for the door out of his pocket she went upstairs again.

As she arrived SunTzu was guarding the shocked people in the back. Behind the counter lay one of the guards, his brain splattered on the floor around him. The other guy laid where he had been standing before, also dead.

She walked up to him and took the second Assault Rifle from his back, cocking it, before handing her boyfriend the key to the safe.

"Down the corridor on the right." She told him where the stairs to the basement were before she turned around and raised her weapon.

"Ok bitches, whoever moves gets shot! You know the deal! And I'm the less calmer one of the two of us!"

SunTzu walked off to the basement and into the safe.

Stepping over the dead guard and the knocked out manager, the fiery fire fist of the Far East had hit again, he went to where the credits were stored and started pouring them into the bags.

A few minutes later, the bags now filled to the brim with credits and heavy on his back and left side, he walked back up again.

He passed Rei and left the building.

"That wasn't so hard, wasn't it?! But I suppose you stay down a bit longer." Rei yelled and shot a salvo into the ceiling before she followed SunTzu outside.

SunTzu threw the bags on the rear seats and jumped into the driver seat, starting the car. The engine came on the moment Rei sat down beside him.

She grinned at him and threw the shawl from her head, revealing her long black hair.

The convertible shot away as SunTzu hit the pedal.

A block away from the back a patrol repulsor car with blaring siren and activated flashing light shot passed them first before it made a U-Turn, almost crashing into another repulsor craft.

The patrol car began to pursue them.

The Kengal Mercs acting as police force were telling them to stop the vehicle immediately.

"My dear Rei, would you please let them know what we think about stopping?"

She smiled and grabbed her AK. Aiming, and making sure she wouldn't hit any innocents she let off full auto into the patrol vehicle.

Half of her magazine later and various shots hitting the car's front window at the driver's side the car veered off and crashed into a parked repulsor van.

SunTzu gave full thrust again but another patrol car came from a side street and pursued them. The man on the co-driver seat hanged out the window of the vehicle and opened fire on them with a blaster pistol while both vehicles passed vehicles in traffic left and right.

"I need more Ammo!" Rei yelled.

SunTzu fished the spare magazine out of his pocket and Rei reloaded.

Taking aim she let off a single three shot salvo and hit the guy that was shooting at them. The next salvo hit the driver and the vehicle drove onto a repulsor car in front of it, getting catapulted over the car and landing smoking and screeching on it's side.

Rei waited a few moments more but no more patrol cars came and she turned around again.

She started laughing. Who would have thought that she ever would find a bank robbery fun.

"That was pretty fucking Gangster." SunTzu stated as he swerved through traffic.

She leaned over, put her hand between his legs and kissed him, biting his lip.

SunTzu really had to concentrate to not hit another car.

Rei stopped and got back in her seat, throwing her hands into the air.

Next Stop, Ami.

For her it was strange feeling. It was a tactic that the enemy usually deployed against her and her comrades. The opponent would call it terroism, and it was, after all it was against the security force. On the other side how good was a security force that harassed and subdued the citizens? That sounded like something a fascist regime would do. And she would do anything to fight a regime like that. Everyone of her background would do.

Hulk and Nava had been brought brought into the city by First Lieutenant Tanaka, the pilot of the Lambda-Shuttle and now pilot of the Mercury's Revenge. They had acquired a repulsor car from one the local pirate cells.

Wearing the stormtrooper armor of the Kengal troops the pilot had dropped the two soldiers in an back alley.

Good thing they acquired quite a lot of these armors in the last few days, so even the towering Hulk and the rather petite female Ex-IDF-Soldier found fitting armors.

The sight of two of the Stormtroopers already made every local take a large detour of the alley.

Nava shot a salvo out of her E-11 Blaster into one of the walls surrounding them and waited, while Hulk, equipped with a heavy DLT-19 Blaster Rifle made sure nobody observed them and hid a big bag In a trash can. But somebody would hear the shots and call the security forces.

A few minutes later a patrol vehicle of the local Kengal Security Force, came in, sirens and lights on.

The two commandos motioned the two Kengal Stormtroopers inside to follow them and ran around a corner.

As the two newly arrived Troopers ran behind their alleged comrades they suddenly ran into an empty alley.

They looked around dumbfounded but didn't notice that behind them the two commandos closed in, knives in hand.

Two precise cuts on throats later the two Stormtrooper were dead and the two fake ones were boarding the patrol car.

They drove to the security forces station, which had been a police station a few years ago, before the privatization.

The island hadn't been attacked yet and and this showed in the slacking control the two commandos had to go through when they entered the station's vehicle parking lot.

A single stromtrooper just looked inside the vehicle and when he saw them wearing armor he let them pass.

They parked the patrol car in midst of other patrol cars in the middle of the parking lot and got out.

While Hulk stood cover, Nava put down her helmet, revealing her face and her hair in a ponytail. She got to the backside of the patrol car and opened the bag Hulk brought with him and had kept hidden earlier in the alley.

They didn't have a dedicated explosives specialist in their team but most of them were trained in the basics. As Ex-IDF-Soldier Nava of course knew quite a lot about the topic.

She armed the roughly 8kg of C4 plastic explosive and closed the bag and the back door again.

The two earthlings walked back to the exit they just came driving in and now the young woman with her helmet under her arm and the giant walking close behind her draw attention of the parking lot guard.

He would have noticed a good looking woman like that before.

"May I see your IDs?" He asked and unholstered his blaster.

"Our what? Dude, we just came back from investigating a reported shooting in the city. I was glad the locals didn't pulled us in an ambush. Or didn't you hear what's going on around the equator? Me and big guy here are going to have a caf now." Nava replied annoyed.

"Why haven't I seen you around here yet?"

"Really, what is your problem? Haven't you been there when the Sarge announced us yesterday? We're the reinforcements from Pieralos. You wanna check in with him?"

The trooper thought about it for a moment. The Sergeant was a mean, old sadist, notorious for mobbing and beating up his subordinates on bad days.

"Okay, but I'll keep my eyes on you."

"Whatever. I'm used to guys staring at me anyways."

The two commandos left the parking lot and walked over the street, a main street with four lanes and before they went into a caf shop on the other side.

When they entered the Nautolan customers all went out of their way and they were immediately catered for.

They ordered three caf to go and bought sweet pastry. While Nava payed, Hulk called Tanaka and told him they were ready to Exfil, meaning he could take them away.

Nava paid up and the clerk was very surprised and thankful to receive a generous tip, or rather a tip at all, from a Kengal Trooper.

They were handed the cafs and paper bags and left the store just as Tanaka arrived.

Nava turned around and ran back to the clerk again, handing her a high summing local credit note.

"For the window." She said to the dumbfounded clerk and followed Hulk out to the vehicle with fast steps.

Hulk got into the co-driver seat and put one of the cups into Tanaka's hand.

Nava was on the backseat and turned around to look behind as the repulsor vehicle left off, away from the police station.

She pulled out a remote control and extended an antenna, before she turned it on.

On the security base an alarm glared and troopers were running to their vehicles, someone reported a heist on the local Kengal Bank.

As the trio was about to turn into another street Nava pressed a red button on the remote.

Down the street the plastic explosives in the patrol car exploded in a large explosion, ripping the vehicle it was stored in as well as the vehicles around and the troopers rushing in to man them apart.

The trooper guarding the vehicle lot and his small guard house were shredded to pieces in milliseconds while the blast wave made parts of the former police station collapse in it self.

In the proximity all glas windows broke, as the police station was standing around a plaza and Nautolans avoided the station the only collateral damage was the window of the caf store.

Even in the repulsor car they still felt the shockwave and Nava smiled. One more successful jab at those oppressors.

Kiwi and Aussie, covered in Ghilie Suits where lying on a small, heavily vegetated hill, overlooking a large villa, outside the city, a kilometer afar.

Both were on their stomachs, Aussie behind a large 50. Caliber Sniper Rifle, Kiwi being his spotter behind a large binocular, having a small ballistic computer beside him working. They had been in this position for hours now.

For the two of them this mission was exactly what they were trained for.

Inside the Villa the local Security Forces Commander, a Colonel, Ex-Imperial Army, was having his opulent lunch at his home. The heavily obese man in his fifties always had his meals at home.

The Villa was heavily defended with high walls, electric fences and sensors as well as a whole Platoon of Stormtroopers.

A big boom came in and a pilar of smoke rose from the middle of the city.

Kiwi looked at his watch.

„Right on Time."

Aussie behind his scope just gave a small nod.

Alarms blared in the Villa and Troopers swarmed the place, ready to defend the place.

A few minutes later an armored repulsor limousine drove up.

The double door of the main entrance opened and spotter and sniper zoomed in.

"Get ready." Kiwi said calm while Aussie made the last corrections on his scope.

"Northerly wind, 10 km/h." A small pause.

"On Scope." Kiwi reported that he had the Colonel in his sight.

"On Target." Aussie confirmed that he had the Colonel, who was walking up to the car, red faced, because he was so full of anger that they were being attacked, in his marks.

"Fire."

Aussie pulled the trigger, a bullet left the heavy rifle and the Colonel's upper body pretty much dissolved into red mist a blink of an eye later.

The two Commandos were up and leaving their position before the sound of the shot rang through the surroundings.

One Shot, one kill. As they were trained for.

For him it was strange, while he wasn't new to explosives, placing IEDs against the enemy was new to him. He could remember back in the Early Global War on Terror when IEDs just came up and were the biggest threat to him and his comrades. And now he was employing the same tactics on his adversaries as his enemies did on him back then.

Such is Guerilla Warfare.

Rudy and Piedro were putting trash over the small Improved Explosive Device out of a concussion missile they just planted next to a road leading into the city from a nearby supply depot. The trash was to cover the warhead and the wires and primer.

In a few minutes an armored transport, containing the pay of the city's security forces for this week would pass here.

Apparently pay day was to be canceled for this week.

When the two Commandos were finished they ran into the nearby vegetation and hid there in their Camo clothes, rifles trained on the street.

Right at schedule the transport, this one even on wheels came down the street. The armored vehicle even had a gunner on top.

Rudy pulled out a remote control, while the truck drove further towards the bomb. The gunner on top didn't even watch out for anything suspicious.

As the truck was on the height of the IED, Rudy pressed the remote and the bomb exploded right beside the truck. The truck, weighing tons, was flipped to it's side and the top gunner was crushed beneath it. The vehicle was catching fire. The driver and security personnel inside tried to get out but the explosion deformed the doors so much that they couldn't be opened anymore. The Kengal personnel, at least the few still alive after the explosion and flip over, inside was damned to be burned alive.

"Muito bom." Piedro commented, as he watched through is rifle's optic.

The two Commandos got up and began their relocation to their exfiltration point.

Rudy didn't look back. He knew the truck and it's freight were done for. He saw enough aftermaths of IED Attacks to already know what was going on inside the vehicle.

Dish, Briggs, Doc and Smithy were laying in a concealed position in a small forest and observed a nearby Garrison, which guarded the city.

A few hundred troopers, and their vehicles, a lot of them armored.

The base was well guarded and the four commandos collected as much info as they could, with Dish stating the infos into a radio.

The four Commandos had enough experience with this and some of them were former Recon Marines, and this used to be their bread and butter.

"Can y'all believe they ain't have any fixed air defense?" Briggs said looking through a binocular.

"Well better for us then." Smithy stated and pulled out a laser target device. "Dish, call her in."

High in the atmosphere of the planet, somewhere over the ocean, a single black starfighter with grey stripes and her sensors off flew circles and waited to be called into action.

"Hey Black Beauty, this is Sapphire 1-4, two targets are lased." Dish came in on AICA's radio.

"Affirmative 1-4, coming in hot."

The A-Wing accelerated and swooped down, taking course on the garrison base.

A few moments later the Kengal Troops, mostly former Imperial Army and Navy Troopers heard a fast flying fighter coming in and raised alarm. People rushed to their positions and Missile launchers were giving out to defend the base against the incoming aerial attack.

Thousands of meters above AICA, was already veering away again, having dropped two laser guided cluster bombs from her bomb bay.

"Bombs away. Gentlemen, have a nice day." The AI told Dish as she sped away.

On the ground the Kengal Troops were nervously watching the Sky.

The Starfighter was gone, it's sound fading away in the distance.

Someone pointed with his finger to something falling to earth fast, heading directly towards them.

One laser target was marked on the vehicle depot, near the service point.

The other target was on a barrack in the middle of the accommodations of the troops.

The two bombs didn't explode on impact, a few dozen meters above the ground they splitted and released hundreds of miniature bombs, each of them at least the power of a hand grenade. They distributed over the base before they hit the ground exploded there.

The effects were devastating. Men and machines were hit by shrapnel and shockwaves and obliterated.

The casualties and dead rose up into the hundreds.

After a short damage assessment the four Commandos got up and rushed to their exfiltration point to meet up with their comrades. Just another successful Recon & Destroy Mission for the Team.

AICA descended and slowed down. Scanning for any targets she made her way to meet with her pilot.

In the rear mirror the now from black to grey turning column of smoke rising from the City Center was visible as the red convertible shot out the city outskirts and headed for the coast.

A few kilometers further outside the city, between two small forests, the vehicle turned onto a small dirt road and stopped a few hundred meters down the road.

AICA was hovering low their and extended her undercarriage when she saw her pilot and his two female companions coming in with the red repulsor car.

They stopped the car and got out.

AICA opened her canopy and SunTzu carried the bags with the stolen credits over to his figther and placed them on the snub's backseat.

"Captain Mercury, your transportation is ready."

Sailor Mercury walked over and climbed into the pilot seat.

AICA would take her to an important meeting with the other pirate leaders, where she would also distribute the stolen money to them.

SunTzu and Sailor Mars were to meet with the rest of the Commandos at a river mouth where the Mercury's Revenge was waiting for them.

"You guys have twenty minutes before you need to be at the Exfil Point." She said with a wink before the canopy closed and AICA shot away.

Obviously she must have noticed how Rei and SunTzu had been eying each other in the car.

AICA wasn't even fully out of sight as Rei was already on SunTzu's lap, her mouth all over him.

The couple arrived punctual on the minute, although looking a bit disheveled now, at the point where they would get rid of their car, beside a bank near the river.

Their rifles on their bags, SunTzu opened the trunk and pulled out a canister of flammable liquid. Rei, burning cigarette in mouth was standing a bit aside as he opened the canister and poured the highly flammable liquid all over the seats and inside, before he tossed the almost empty canister on the backseat.

"Okay, NOW that backseat is really ruined." Rei stated before she took a draw of her cigarette.

SunTzu stepped back.

"Too bad, that was a nice car." He took the cigarette out of Rei's mouth, took a draw himself and flipped it into the car, igniting the liquid almost immediately.

"When all this is done, we should go on a road trip. Just you, me and a convertible like that." Rei supposed.

SunTzu loved the idea.

They hurried down the bank and headed for the river mound nearby while the car behind them was engulfed in flames and the canister and the rest of the liquid exploded.

A few minutes later the couple and all the commandos plus Lieutenant Tanaka were back on the Revenge and the AT-AT took off to the open sea.