Private Prague, U.N.P.K

Chapter 22

ATTACK OF THE DRONES

A giant spaceship, the size of a city, hovered over a locked point on Mira. This was joined by three other large craft, and an assortment of other smaller vessels.

Slugzzar looked at the planet from his large circular window, then turned when he saw one of the cow soldiers walk up to him.

"Grand Daakan!" the cow soldier spoke, "Our men are ready to move out. Should we board the landing vessels-"

"No." Slugzzar muttered and clenched his fists, "Let the Drones take care of them... We shall not defile ourselves by fighting them!" he pointed up.

"Send the Drones!"

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"Faster!" Lin cheered as Lao drove the Warthog-ripoff down a dusty road in Oblivia, "Lao, come on! I want to go fast!"

"Gotta go fast!" Lao chuckled as he switched to the sixth gear, "Laooo! He's Number One! Laooo! He's number one!" he revved up the engines to maximum, causing the entire car chassis to scream and the engine roar like a Millesaur.

The car reached a turn, at which Lao shifted and started to drift.

"Woah!" Lin tried to keep her composure up, "AH!" she screamed when her lunchbox opened, releasing three banana peels on the road.

The car behind them ran over the peels and spun out of control, slowing down to a stop soon after.

"Yeah! Hahaha!" Lao cheered as he saw the car driver shake his fist at them, "Time to get to fir-" he stopped when he saw a burning fire ball shoot down in the horizon just left of them.

KAPOOM! The fireball crashed with a large boom.

"What in the world?" Lin muttered as Lao slowed down and pulled off into the curb, "Lao, what was that?"

"I don't know, Lin." Lao stepped off and grabbed his sniper rifle, "Stay right there." he told her and peered down his scope and scanned the crash site from his distance.

The only thing Lao saw was a large plume of smoldering smoke, which greatly occulted his vision of the place.

"What the hel-" Lao saw several large black figures come out of the smoke, "What in the worl- Lin, give me my holodev." he extended his hand while still peering into his scope.

"Here." Lin handed him his device, which he promptly turned on and contacted Elma.

"Elma." Lao spoke, "We got ourselves a- What? You got them too? We're in Oblivia right now and we just saw on- Holy hell!" he saw as the black figures started to fire upon a distant base camp.

"What is it!?" Lin asked Lao, who put up his rifle and holodev and jumped into the car.

"Those things are crashing all over Noctilum, Sylvalum, and Cauldros." Lao spoke as he shifted gears, "Their hostiles!" he reversed.

"What do you mean? Why would humans attack each ot-"

"They're not human..." Lao muttered as he turned and drove back, "We have to rendezvous back at Blade HQ. Nagi wants us there." he rode off.

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"What in the hell is going on!" Doug yelled as the group reunited in the Blade Tower.

"We have several attacks on our most distant Basecamps." Vandham informed them, "We don't know who the enemy is or what their purpose is." he turned to the large holoscreen behind them.

"It seems to be some kind of Autonomous Flying Machine..." Nagi pointed to a quick snapshot of a large stealthy plane-shaped robot, "Some were shot down and revealed no pilots inside, so we have reason to believe that they are controlled by an outside source."

"The majority of attacks have occurred in the Central Noctilum Area." Vandham informed, "In the pass seperating Southern Noctilum and Northern Noctilum." he pinpointed the area.

"They came from the sky!" Lin said, "We saw the fireball! They came from space!" she pointed up.

"I saw them too." Gwin spoke, "We must consider the possibility that some foreign power has sent them from an orbital location high above Mira's thermosphere." he muttered intelligently.

"I agree with Gwin." Elma nodded, "This must be the work of some outside power..."

"Like the ones who destroyed Earth?" Irina asked, causing a dark mood to enter the room, "It couldn't have been them..."

"We were attacked on getting here..." Lao grumbled, "It wouldn't seem impossible... What do you think, Prague?" he asked the android.

"I am trying to intercept any possibly frequency that the host could be using in order to control these machines." Prague muttered, "But according to my inputs, the probability of this being an alien race is beyond minimal..."

"What do you think, Rook?" Vandham asked Protague.

Protague nodded sternly, then looked at Elma.

"How are we doing in repulsing the enemy attack?" Elma asked, "Are we successful?"

"For the first few waves we were taken by surprise and suffered some casualties." Nagi informed, "But we have now tipped the scales."

"We're sending you to the heart of the matter..." Vandham pointed to the wide plains of Northern Noctilum, "That's were some of the bitterest fighting has happened." he looked at the map, "It seems the enemy is doing a southern drive, and you must help the BLADEs here before they are cut off and annihilated."

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"This is Elma, signing in." Elma spoke as she boarded her Skell.

"This is Doug, signing in." Doug boarded his large armored Skell.

Protague nodded as he was in his Skell.

"Irina, signing in." Irina smiled as she made her Skell roar in life.

"Gwin, signing in." Gwin bobbed his head as his Skell turned on.

"Lin, Signing in." Lin giggled, "Hey, that rhymes."

"Lao, in port bow." Lao joined in, "Let's do this now!" he walked his Skell up.

"Prague, signing in." Prague's jet fighter rolled up, "I... uh..."

"Wow, way to ruin it, Prague." Irina grunted as she saw the jet fighter, "We're all here with Skells and you roll up in that archaic piece of earth weaponry."

"Jet fighters are fast and maneuverable, plus I don't have the range limit you all have." Prague responded, "Skells are only superior to jets in the close range... but I can blow you away before you even get that close." he scoffed.

The group took off, off to attack the alien threat!

SM's Time-

Let's do it! Action time!

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