Private Prague, U.N.P.K
Chapter 23

A MOO HOPE

"Fire Fire Fire!" a BLADE in a Skell yelled as he fired his assault rifle at the incoming drones.

"We can't hold them off for long!" another BLADE yelled as she stabbed one of the drones with her large Skell knife, "We need to fa- AH!" she has hit by an enemy missile and sent careening down to the earth.

"GAH!" another Skell was blown up in the sky, and all its pieces scattered from the fireball.

The Drones sped into the line of Skells firing an assortment of laser bolts and missiles, some striking their targets, other being destroyed before they inflicted damage, and others scoring direct hits.

"Damn it! There's more of them!" another BLADE growled as more Drones appeared, "We can't hold th- BWAH!" his Skell's arm was blown off by a laser bolt, "Ret-"

The drones that were incoming were instantly destroyed in a straight line, that entire rank was decimated in a cloud of flames.

"What in the-"

"We're here, boys." Irina came on their radios as she clawed through a drone, "No time for a welcoming party!"

"That's the Colonel!" a BLADE looked a the glowing red flagskell of the group, "Wow! We're saved."

"Not unless we destroy them!" Elma spoke to them, "Stop wasting time and get to the job!" she blasted a drone with a shotgun burst.

"Protague, help me out here!" Lao grumbled as he cut an incoming horde of drones with a large scythe.

Protague nodded and swooped down, striking an incoming drone with his large beam saber.

"I got your cover fire!" Lin appeared and launched several missiles from her pod, all of them striking one drone and causing others to scatter.

"Die! Die!" Gwin fired his laser rifle to rescue a fellow BLADE, "Irina! Watch out!" he sniped a drone that was aiming to strike her.

"Thanks..." Irina muttered as she saw the drone fall apart behind her, "HRAH!" she cleaved another drone.

"I need some help over here!" Elma growled as she was surrounded by 5 drones, all poised to strike at her.

"I'll Blow Them To BITS!" Protague finally spoke and pulled out a large gatling gun, then fired a fury of rounds that struck every single last one of those drones, and then some.

"You weren't lying about the cheesy one-liners." Prague swooped down and launched a missile which struck a drone, "HRAH!" he fired his gatling gun at another three enemies.

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"We're losing drones, sire!" one of the cow soldiers ran up to Slugzzar, "All of them have been concentrated on Noctilum, but we still can't push them off!"

"What?!" Slugzzar yelled, "If we cannot win Noctilum... we cannot resurrect Go-Rha... And our plan to dominate the Universe will fail!" he seethed in rage, "Send the Herz fighter corps!" he pointed to the planet in anger.

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"DIE!" Lin screamed as she destroyed the last drone in the area with an electrified club.

"Phew..." Gwin wiped his brow, "Wow, that was a ton-"

"No time to celebrate..." Elma grimly spoke as she saw a large mass moving on her radar, "There's more on the way."

"Where are they all coming from?" Lin groaned.

"More of them?" Doug complained as he reloaded his assault rifle, "I tell you... It's either they want to give us more easy game or just bother us."

"I wouldn't s- DAH!" Lao yelled when a huge laser beam from the sky broke his Skell in two, making his body plummet.

"LAO!" Lin yelled, "No AHH!" she screamed when another beam hit her Skell, forcing her to eject.

"What is going on!?" Irina looked up to the sky to see a giant spaceship hovering above them and making it rain down beams of death.

Unfortunately, the beams were deadly accurate, and in their awe and immobility, each member of the group was struck.

"What the-" Prague yelled as he saw all his allies' skells were blown out of the sky, and then saw their subsequent ejection down to the earth, "Humph..." he grunted and started to ascend to the sky, "Why did you guys stay in place!? That's the advantage of a jet fighter." he chuckled as he applied afterburner, "FIRE!" he launched two missiles towards the large spaceship.

POOM! POOM! The missiles exploded before they struck the ship, revealing a forcefield covering the large hull.

"Identifying..." Prague muttered, "Forcefield... With my armaments it will take about 7 jets to at least break the force field, 20 to take it down." he grumbled as he blasted the forcefield with the gatling gun.

"Prague!" Elma spoke on the radio, "Stop! There's a lot of ships coming out of there!" she warned.

Surely enough, a handful of armed mechs blasted off from a port on the back of the ship.

"Ah..." Prague scanned the 10 mechs, "They look like Skells... Perhaps they have the same weakness as Skells." he turned to face them, "It seems they don't use thruster technology."

The mechs launched balls of plasmatic energy as well as an array of small missiles. However, the plasma balls merely screeched off of the jet's forcefield when they struck.

"Hmph..." Prague grunted as he avoided all the incoming attacks, "HRAH!" he fired his missiles, scoring two direct hits that incapacitated two of the enemy mechs.

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"We're so glad we could recover you, Colonel." some BLADEs rejoiced as they led the fighters down into the plains of Northern Noctilum, "As you can see, Drones aren't the only guests here." one of them said and pointed to an army of robots that were firing laser rifles from an entrenched position.

"We're entrenched and so are they, huh?" Lao muttered as they entered the trench that covered the BLADE forces, "What is this, World War I?"

"As long as we don't have domination of the air, we're stuck here, sir." a BLADE spoke as he looked at the line of his comrades spanned across the trench.

"We need to break this stalemate..." Doug muttered as he fired at the robots ahead, "Whatever the cost!"

"We absolutely must not let them take over Southern Noctilum." Elma told the BLADEs, "There's something they want there if they are using this much of their forces to break us!" she yelled and fired her guns.

"It looks like the air war is still going strong." Lin muttered as she saw Skells and the newcomer Mechs fight it above ground, "Look, there's Prague!" she noticed the jet screaming across the sky.

"They'll be ok with him up there!" Gwin reassured them, "He'll blow them to bits!"

Protague shook his head in disappointment at Gwin's comment.

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"I can't get him!" one of the Herz soldiers (the cowmen) growled as he tried to shoot down Prague's jet, "Damn dirty human scum!"

"We need to take him down!" another soldier muttered, "He appears to be the Ace!"

Prague was trying to keep himself and his allies in the air, but by this time he was out of missiles, one of the cons of having a jet.

"It will be another 30 seconds until my Missile Art reappears..." Prague growled as his computer indicated the bay was empty, "I can't keep using my gatling only- Agh!" he barely dodged an incoming Herz Mech.

However, this sudden movement allowed him to see a large ship, which had come out of the starship above them, slowly descend to the ground, followed by three others of its build.

"What in the world?" Prague observed the ships hover over the land below.

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"What is going on over there?" Lin asked as the ships stayed for a few minutes, then ascended back up into the much large starship above.

"I don't kno-" Elma heard Lao gasp, "What is it, Lao?"

"IT's... It's..." Lao stammered as he looked down his scope, "You won't believe it..." he removed his eye and looked at her with worry.

"Oh my God..." Irina muttered as she saw what was dead ahead of them.

Large machines, shaped like bulls, that walked on four legs. The were made of metal, and were probably a hundred feet tall.

"What the hell are those!?" Doug yelled as he saw the giant machines lumber down towards them.

Huge cannons appeared on the sides of the machines and fired, causing massive explosions on their side of the battlefield.

"What in the hell are those!?" Doug repeated as the BLADEs cowered in fear.

"They appear to be some kind of All Terrain Armored Transp-" Lin stopped when one of the giant armored vehicles slipped on the terrain and fell to the ground, exploding in a burst of flames.

"So much for All Terrain." Gwin chuckled as the other giant machines were struggling to walk through Noctilum's thick vegetation.

"Who designed those things anyways?" Irina laughed as another machine crashed down in flames, "What kind of person puts legs on a tank? That's stupid! Why didn't they just stick with tracks?"

The rest of the 6 machines continued lumbering down the think brush, accompanied by robots and what appeared to be Herz operatives on the ground. The combined might finally managed to gain momentum and started a new offensive against the BLADE forces...

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