The Eagle's Rise From The Ashes

Arrival

On board a Steel Talons Ship

"commander, I want you to take a fleet of small, but fast frigates and transports to set up FOBs on Copper-9 for large scale ops once the rest of the fleet arrives with the heavy support, I am only permiting ops directed by you to be done, once you have set up a couple of bases and have landed a decent amount of units, remember, we don't know the full capabilities of these worker drones, JcJension claims the most they might have are some decently powerful small arms and improvised explosives, and potentially a few light vehicles," said General Kain of the Steel Talons. "yes sir, I understand," said the commander. "Good, remember, you only have infantry, humvees, and jets for offensive capabilities, plus recon will be a problem, the weather patterns make survalence from orbit impossible, so you have to stick with arial recon and boots on the ground," said General Kain. Then the coms were turned off, "pfft, as if improvised explosives or small arms could shoot down a Mig, if I encounter trouble I will just bomb it into oblivion," thougt the commander.

2 weeks later aboard the same vessel

"Sir, were approaching Copper-9 now and are preparing to enter orbit," said the navigations officer. "Good, begin landing infantry and dozers to begin construction of bases in key areas," said the commander. "Yes sir," said the crew. "this should be easy, after all, small arms only do so much good in inexperianced hands," thought the commander.

Meanwhile in th US HQ

"General, we have a development in orbit, it appears as though a small fleet belonging to the Steel Talons mercanary corp has entered orbit around Copper-9, and from what comunications we've intercepted this only a small foward operating group meant to prepare for the main group," said an officer. "Damn, Jc wanted the best to deal with us, must mean we really are getting under their skin, alright we have trained for this, put everyone on alert, I don't want these guys blindsiding us, get Hitman team ready to intercept some of their transports, and prepare some MLRS to prepare and destroy the main base they set up and some Auroras to clean up after them, and start using our satilites to both keep an eye on these mercs and begin broadcasting the realization program to all Dissesembly drones around the planet, I want every available asset we can use to fight these mercs," said General Thunderstorm. "Sir yes sir," said the officer.

1 week, 6 days, and 5 hours later

A officer was relaxing in his command chair in Alpha base, he had an easy job, manage the base and make sure the neccasary logistics are put in place and defenses, "should be easy," he thought. Thats when the comms came on, "Ah mercanary, thats quite a nice base you have there, such a large target for my cruise missiles," said a voice. "who are you?" asked the officer. "You will never know," said the voice, and the comms shut down. "pfft, probaly just a worker drone trying to intimidate me, how would they of gotten a hold of cruise missiles, I mean what can go wrong?" thought the officer. Then the officer whent to the window and looked out, and he saw at least a hundred missiles flying at the base. "OH SHIT!" yelled the officer as the base was bombarded by the missiles, most of the base was leveled. The officer managed to survive, barely, "whoo, I managed to live," said the officer. then he looked up as black and red streaks flew overhead as a whistling sound could be heard, "OH COME ON!" yelled the officer as a fuel air bombs blew him and the rest of the base to smitherines.

3 miles to the south

"good job boys, most of the base was leveled in a single volley, the Auroras will finish up, lets head back to base," said the comunications officer.

400 miles to the East

<Hitman team, all call signs check in> said Galaxy. <Hitman two, Diplomat, im green across the board> said Diplomat. <Hitman 3, Comic, ready to go> said Comic. <Hitman 4, Prez, im all set> said Prez. <Uh Hitman 1, Monarch, what about you?> asked Galaxy. <Fine, I will say it, Hitman 1, Monarch, ready to give them an airshow> Said Monarch in a somewhat southern accent. <About time you spoke, I was about ready to drag you to the doc to see if your voice synthisizer was broken> said Prez. Monarch<.............>, <oh, he has gone silent again, oh well> said Prez. <ETA to transport, one minute, remember, go for the thrusters, we want to bring it down over the base so that when the ship goes down it levels the entire base> said Galaxy. <Got it> said Diplomat. <Wohoo, lets do this, me and Monarch will go for the transport, Diplomat and Comic, you keep the enemy fighters off of us> said Prez. <alright the transport is entering atmosphere now, begin slowing down to mach 3, and procced to engage> said Galaxy. All of Hitman team switched to MLAA and locked on to all of the Mig-31s escorting the transport ship and fired. <Good tone> said Galaxy. two thirds of the escorts were eliminated, one third only barely managing to evade. Merc pilot <what the hell? were did those missiles come from?>, Merc pilot 2<wait, enemy contacts to our left, wait those are fighters with no radar signitures, how the hell the worker drones get a hold of stealth fighters?>. Diplomat and Comic broke off and engaged the remaining escorts as Monarch and Prez flew in behind the transport and fired their laser cannons at the thrusters, destroying 2 of the 5 thrusters keeping it in the air. <shit, they destroyed 2 of our thrusters, divert more power to the remaining three>. <Monarch, Prez, destroy one more, and wait to destroy the last two> said Galaxy. Monarch fired another laser into a thruster. <Damn, they took out another thruster, more power to the reamaining two, we must get to the base, then we will be safe, how did they sneak up on us? our Radar was active the whole time, launch all the Migs we have on board>