All the Bad Egg members looked at the white bat with the goggles and most, except for the clownfish nodded their heads in unison to show that Zac had carried his point across and made his statement clear. Their leader took notice of this and then soon dismissed them to prepare for the following day.
The very next morning was a foggy and damp one in their region of Battlesaw. As the sun arose and the morning fog was penetrated by the radiant daylight the base of the Bad Eggs was active more than ever as Zac's operation was about to be sped into motion. Around the airfield mercenary soldiers and engineer personnel were hastily preparing the Unit's airships for takeoff.
Meanwhile, at the hanger bay an orange fured echidna with a right cybernetic hand and green eyes was busy prepping two ships that would be used by both the assault and the infiltration teams respectively. As she did the final diagnostic on both of the ships she would often speak to them and hug them as if they were actually able to hear them.
"Don't worry babies, mama is going to make sure that you both are repaired when you return safe and sound back to this place. Uncle Zacy will pay for full damages I'm sure. Now be good and fly well for mommy." The orange echidna said as she finished checking the status readings on either ship.
Soon however the door from the hanger opened up and out from it came the Bad Eggs. Each of them were following Zac while they exited their base door into the hanger. For the most power they moved out of a line and followed him rather casually, well except for Wrath who was walking around starring at things and the clownfish who was sort of wobbling around as if he were drunk.
"Ah! There you are my Zac! I've gotten everything prepared! Both of these beautiful gunships have been fully attended to under my care and are ready for combat!" The echidna said rather cheerful to Zac.
"Ah, marvelous my little Engineer extraordinaire! This is a momentous assignment and we cannot be flying unattended vessels." Zac replied back to her.
"Of course my dear, now I hope you all are ready for a good flight in my babies!" She stated.
They all looked at her in a rather puzzled manner, however few of them would doubt her craftsmanship and skills in maintaining the Bad Egg's arsenal of vehicles and weaponry. Ophelia almost chuckled at the echinda's devotion to their gunships, as she to be honest could relate in watching over something precious. The clownfish on the other hand tried to sneak over to spray paint one of the ships, however Apex stopped him in his tracks and grabbed a hold of him.
"Don't even think about it!" The mobian dolphin said as he held up his clownfish sidekick
"Aww, spoil sport!" The clownfish let out as the dolphin directed him back into the group.
Soon however someone else entered the hanger. Walking in from the side of the hanger came another echidna woman, but she had red fur color and a red cybernetic glowing implant to her left eye that would shine an ominous red glow that drew fear into even some of the Bad Eggs. As she walked she did so with pride and authoritative demeanor with her hands behind her back, her posture straight and disciplined, and her face showing an expression of observation.
"Captain on deck, Bad Eggs file up!" Zac let out sternly as he watched them franticly move into a line.
Most of the Unit members did so and while they were rather lose and clearly had little in the ways of comprehension of standing a formal attention they still complied for the most part, savor the clownfish who the dolphin had to literally place in line and Wrath who was rather clueless until Ophelia grabbed his hand and calmly moved him next to her. The red hedgehog with the cybernetic eye then proceeded to walk up to Zac and June who also stood at attention in pure respect for her as well as saluted to her. This action followed as most of the Bad Eggs proceeded to salute her back, even though yet again this was sloppy and their lack of formal disciplined clearly showed.
"Alright 'troops', we got a big day ahead of us! I cannot stress to you how much of a critical assignment this is. We will be attacking the very stronghold of our most hated and despised enemies, the royals of Acorn. You all have been given this task not because you are expected to be more qualified, but because you all have a debt to pay to the great Doctor and his generosity in giving you the luxury to be under the wing of his empire and not a part of his grand Egg Army! Today you will not only repay this debt, but you will be given the opportunity to prove your worthy of such liberty by showing the true brilliance of the Doctor to our foes with this surprise offensive! Master Zac, as well as myself will be leading you into the fray on this mission, you will take orders from him, Warrant Officer June, and myself. I will not tolerate failure. You may have unique gifts but let me make it perfectly clear, you are no match for the might of the Empire alone and I will see you are given your fair share of dire consequences should you choose to preform lower than anything extraordinary. Do I make myself clear Bad Eggs?"
"Ma'am yes ma'am!" Most of them said, except for Joker who pretended to yell it and Wrath who yelled it loud afterwards after the others had.
"Now, you will prove to me today that you should be given the right to proudly pronounce you are far better than those lowered mercenaries you so heavily depend on. However, before we begin I want to organize us further. Assault team, step up!"
Psycho Witch proceeded to move up while continue to saluting. As she did so her ruby red slippers clopped upon moving upward and impacting the pavement. Tala simply muttered
"That's us, dear" before moving up with while holding Wrath's hand. The red echidna then walked up to them and inspected them, Psycho Witch was a bit intimidated by her bionic eye, but Tala seemed fine and continued to salute. Wrath on the other hand looked out of place, but he tried his best to salute as well."
"So this is my squad? While you two ladies, and you child, don't look like you've seen any real sights of war I will personally be sure to change that. I shall be your squad leader. You will do what I say when I say it, am I clear?" She asked them
"Of course, ma'am!" Tala said.
"Si, you are the boss miss creepy eye!" Psycho witch replied.
"Yeah!" Wrath let out.
"Good, I will expect you to follow my orders to the letter. Today you shall be shown how a real Egg soldier leads. That being said you can rest assure I will do my best to bring you three back in one piece. Now, follow me and bored the left gunship." She said as she marched forth.
Tala, Psycho Witch and Wrath did just that as June pressed a button on her command prompt for her left cybernetic arm and the doors from the back of the gunship proceeded to open. The captain then walked up the ramp and the three Bad Eggs soon followed behind them. She instructed them to sit down in their seats and buckle up, Wrath especially who sat next to Ophelia/Tala.
"Wish me luck, sweaty." The orange echidna with the green eyes replied back to Zac.
"All the best of luck my dear, fly safely and bring these Bad Eggs there safe and sound!" Zac replied back to her.
Soon she walked over and entered the main canopy of the gunship as she climbed up the side of it and opened the hatch to the cockpit. The orange echidna then hoped into the cockpit and fastened her harness as she closed it and pressed a sequence of buttons to raise up and close the back hatch that the others had entered.
"Alright Infiltration team, time to get in the other ship. On the double, one two!" Zac said as he pressed a button on his glove and the second gunship's hatch opened.
Thorn, Apex, and the clownfish then proceeded to enter in the rear hatch of the second gunship. The only loll gagger was the joking clownfish as he proceeded to prance into the ship like an idiot. Zac in return boarded the second gunship and entered the canopy like his female warrant officer companion had as well. He closed the back hatch and turned on the engines and the calm radio to his trusted female companion pilot in the other ship.
"Testing, testing one. Two…three. Do you come in my dear?"
"You know I do, heh, I feel like a bus driver with the kid aboard, but he doesn't look like he will cause too much trouble back there with Kiara!" She said cheerfully.
"The same cannot be said with the clownfish, but if he causes trouble I will have the others silence him for good. Now, are we ready for takeoff, love?" Zac asked her via radio.
"Ready Zac, Bad Egg Carrier one is all systems go!" She replied
"Then to a good mission, may the Acorns and those meddlesome freedom fighters finally be brought to the Empire's full account!" He said as Zac brought the gunship off the ground.
Both Bad Egg gunships then proceeded to fly out the hanger one after the other, while this was going on several of their mercenary transport dropships proceeded to follow behind them in formation. Now they would head westward to the kingdom of Acorns where they would make a first beachhead before regrouping and planning their daring surprise offensive on their unsuspecting foes!