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Battleship
I lean on the railing of our warship's observation deck, staring out at the clouds in front of us. We finished delivering the cloaking devices and now we're nearing the mountain in West Virginia where we'll first have to use our inferior, understaffed Warship to destroy the Anubis, which boasted the ability to take on the entire fleet, though I seriously doubt that, and then infiltrate the mountain and obliterate every Mogadorian in it. Personally I favor the boarding and annihilation plan of taking the Anubis the same way Six, John, and Adam had our warship, which I still marvel at given John did it almost single handedly, apparently. However, I was strictly told we would be obliterating the Anubis, not taking it over. So now, we had to come up with a plan to fight a superior ship with our already damaged one.
"We're going to need all of our strength to fight Setrákus Ra," Marina says, stepping up next to me. "Otherwise I'd be going over onto the Anubis with you to wipe the Mogadorians out the more fun way."
She grins at me and I smirk back, forcing the panic still trying to overwhelm me down. The closer we get to the mountain, the more I feel like something bad is going to happen. But first, we have to deal with the mountain's guard dog.
"I could always go inside and blow up a bunch of fuel canisters," I state. "That would take the ship down without us risking getting blown up too."
Marina nods and leans on my shoulder.
"I know you feel helpless," Marina says. "And I can tell you're afraid something's going to happen, more than you've ever been since I met you. But trust me. We'll all be okay."
I nod, smiling at her and kiss her. Then, I look forward again. John has already left to check the status of the Anubis. And now, it's time for Six to get to work. Fortunately, there are a few clouds around us at the moment, so Six doesn't have to generate the storm from nothing. She steps up beside me and Marina, holding her hands over her head. The clouds around us begin to darken and grow rapidly, rain pelting the window and wind howling outside. Six grits her teeth, starting to tremble quickly as we rise into the storm. The storm front is massive. Bigger than any I've seen her make before. As we near the Anubis, Six hurls a lightning bolt at it, the bolt bending around on the force field.
"Doesn't look like it penetrated," Rex, the new Mogadorian ally of ours, speaks up.
"That's fine," Six growls, concentrating as her storm wraps around the Anubis's force field, the clouds and rain failing to breach the shields but still blinding the ship.
"Imagine their faces," Five speaks up from his spot at one of the ship's four weapons control stations. "I bet they're shitting their pants."
"Shut up," Nine growls out of habit.
Marina tenses slightly as Five speaks so I wrap an arm around her. The infiltration plan is not exactly my favorite part of the plan. When we get through the mountain's barrier, I'm supposed to help fight the group that inevitably meets us while Five flies Six and Adam around them to the entrance while invisible. Then, he will engage the Mogadorians from behind and I'm supposed to break through and catch up with Six and Adam and help them drop the shields around the mountain. Then, and only then, am I allowed to go help Marina, John, Nine, and Five fight Setrákus Ra, assuming he's not dead yet. Somehow I don't think he will be.
Marina reaches out, putting her hand on the window. Thanks to Ella and John's Telepathy, in my mind I watch as three massive tornados rage around and around on the Anubis, inside its force field, chunks of frozen rain falling inside of it as well, hitting the Anubis and freezing, weighing it down. The tornados are ripping armor plating and an assortment of other metal objects off and hurling them, hopefully doing a lot of damage. Finally, the Anubis turns, beginning to flee.
"They're retreating!" Rex shouts.
"That's not good," Adam growls. "Six has to stay in range to keep up the weather."
Suddenly, something explodes into a massive red fireball off to one side. Then again on the other side, like fireworks.
"They're shooting at us!" Sam shouts.
"They're blind firing!" Adam says. "They don't know where we-"
He's cut off by a shot hitting our shields. It explodes with a deafening boom and everything outside the window flares red as the force field becomes visible. Not good. Now we're illuminated.
"We're hit!" Rex shouts.
"Brace yourselves!" Adam shouts, grabbing his desk hard.
I wrap an arm around Marina, grabbing the railing and then wrapping force field chains around Six, tethering her to me and Marina. Less than a second later, the ship is blasted. It's a constant stream of energy throwing everyone to the floor. I lose my grip on the railing and my focus on Six's restraints and all three of us crash to the floor just as the blast ends, a siren suddenly sounding, screaming throughout the ship.
"Shields at forty eight percent!" Adam reports.
"Forty-what!?" Sam gapes. "I thought these shields were impenetrable!"
"To your weapons!" Adam snaps. "They're recharging their main cannon. I don't know if we'll survive another hit!"
I shoot the alarm over my head with a force field bullet to avoid it giving me a headache. Then, I turn to the window. My turn now. Just need a little cooperation. Before I can, the sides of the Anubis come alive with tiny specks. Skimmers. Hundreds. I growl in annoyance.
"Is our main cannon lined up?" I ask.
"No," Adam says. "Not yet. Five, Malcolm, open fire right...now!"
Both do so. Five fires wildly, breathing erratically. Malcolm takes the time to track each target. Personally, I think Five might have it right on this one. There's a lot of Skimmers and only one shot is needed to take it down.
"I can't get the shields up!" Rex says. "They're not responding. I'm a navigator, this isn't my area of expertise!"
"You sabotaging us freak?" Nine growls.
"No!" Rex swears. "I swear I'm trying. I only need another couple of minutes-"
"Let me try," Sam says. "All power to the shields!"
The sirens stop. The guns stop. Suddenly we're falling. I create a force field on the ground, attaching myself to it then grab Marina as she begins to float into the air as we fall. Nine grabs Six, using his antigravity Legacy to do the same.
"Tell me you didn't just shut off another ship!" Lexa shouts.
"Another?" I ask.
"Long story," Marina says.
"All power to the shields," Rex says. "All power to the shields means we can't fly you idiot!"
"I'll fix this!" Sam promises. "Power to the engines!"
Nothing. I see Skimmers closing in, flying in a straight line. I grin forming a large spiked force field wall between us and them, the wall moving with us.
"Six, Marina, hit the force field with ice!" I say.
They work together, freezing rain into massive chunks of ice the size of basketballs. The Skimmers are battered for a moment until one hits the back of the force field and it blasts away from the ice which shatters. The force field wall I made crashes down through the Skimmers, blasting them all into pieces and sending them hurtling to the ground.
"Come on you Mogadorian hunk of junk!" Sam is shouting. "Engines on! Give me something!"
"Hold on!" Adam suddenly shouts.
Suddenly, the Anubis's main cannon discharges, the blast crashing into the shield directly in front of the observation deck. Everything flares red. The heat from the blast hits us, suffocating. The several feet thick window in front of us begins to crack. Then, it's over. The blast fades and I sigh in relief.
"Shields held!" Rex shouts. "Barely!"
"I think you just saved us Sammy," Nine grins. "For a few minutes at least."
"We're still falling you fools," Five snarls.
"Good," Adam says. "We're going to ram them. Six?"
"Yeah?" Six asks.
"I need everything you've got. Bring them down."
Six holds her hands up again, growling in effort. One tornado. Two. Freezing rain augmented by Marina. The storm's even bigger and more powerful than before. The Anubis is losing groups of panels at a time, blasters breaking. Lightning blasts the ship from within the shield where she's formed clouds this time. The main cannon begins to shriek, a glowing red light in the barrel. A moment later, a lightning bolt drills straight through. There's an electric shriek followed by a deafening explosion and suddenly the cannon has exploded, taking a massive chunk of the ship with it. The Anubis teeters. It's barley holding together.
"Keep going!" Rex shouts. "You could knock out their systems!"
Lightning flashes through the air, blasting the window of the Anubis's command deck, exactly where we'd be standing if we were on that ship. A moment later, Mogadorians, bits of metal, and a bunch of other debris are all sucked out the broken window. The tornados have grown so strong that the trees on the mountain side are being sucked up, igniting against the Anubis's shields when they hit. More power. Six groans as she strains to push harder. We're getting dangerously close to the Anubis now, and falling fast.
"You know," Nine speaks up, still holding Six against himself to keep her steady. "If I'm going to die, there are worse positions."
I reach out and playfully slap him, Six grinning as I do. Then, a tree slams into the belly of the Anubis, a loud boom reaching us as it dents the metal plates. Wait. How'd it get to the ship if the ship is shielded.
"The shields are down!" Rex shouts and I grin.
It's over. We win.
"Brace yourselves!" Adam warns.
I grip the railing with my left hand, holding Marina tight with my right. Our force field hits the Anubis, caving it in. Panels and computers on our bridge spark and explode, fires suddenly dancing to life around the room. I form an air tight force field around each flame, causing it to go out after a moment. The Anubis crashes down on the mountain's shield. A column of bright orange flame explodes into the air and the Anubis falls, pinwheeling away from the mountain, breaking apart under its own weight as it tears through the ground.
"Thrusters!" Adam shouts. "Sam, give me back the thrusters!"
"Ship!" Sam shouts. "Engage thrusters!"
Still nothing.
"Ella, I'm picturing the way the ship works!" Adam says.
"Got it!" Ella nods. "Over to you Sam!"
Sam nods and closes his eyes, focusing on the image.
"Thrusters!" Sam shouts. "Ship, give me the thrusters!"
Success. The thrusters kick on and Adam pulls up, just barely managing to pull up in time to not crash. We move up to hover over the mountain and I grin, looking down at the Mogadorians gathered in front of the mountain. They look terrified.
"One down," I grin. "Still not as fun as it could have been my way, but good enough."
Marina laughs, hugging me then sighs.
"Thank God that actually worked," Marina says turning to the others. "Next stop, Setrákus's grave."
We all nod grinning. It's almost over. But even so. That feeling of terror is stronger than ever.
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