Helm (2024)

The Double Trouble

Completely ignoring the plot hole of what happened in the cargohold, and the out of place announcement about a totally not Falklands war inspired conflict, the crew is heading out of Burkeland.

However, as they set sail, they notice something, and its bad news.

It turns out WCN has catched up to them, on the horizon they could see half of WCNs fleet, excluding Archer since he retired or something, idk ignore the plothole

However, again, another however, they soon realized things were much worse, turns out these giant metal meotoroids that fell onto the planet 5 years ago, no biggie, were actually quite a biggie.

The metal oval meteroid ontop of one of the hills in Burkeland, Suddenly its top began moving, rotating, unscrewing, moments later, a weird tripod machine has left the cylinder, inittialy with clumsy and random movements, as the Tripod stabilized, it immidately raised its heatray and started demolishing the Whitecrest fleet.

Helmer: "What the hell is that thing?"

Before anyone could say anything back, they just passed WCNs flagship, an old Prometheus, however before any shots could be exchanged between the Goose and the flagship, the tripod played its war cry, an ear shattering "ouuulaaaah" could be heard as WCNs flagship was hit by the tripods heatray in its bow, eventually cutting all the way to the boiler, making it explode.

Helmer and his crew was lucky, as the boiler explosion stunned the Alien Tripod, giving them a window to escape.
as Burkeland was slowly dissapearing on the horizon, the alien tripod, taller than any Purshovian Gears seen before, was still visible, destroying Burkelands mainland.

Zut: "That was a close one, wasnt it?"
Viv: "Only reason we're still here is because that Prom. Tanked whatever that was."
Zut: "Im more of concerned on WHAT it was."

While Viv and Zut were discussing recent events on the bow, looking out onto the horizon for any sightings of the Tripods or Whitecrest ships, The Goose made its way onwards to Inyola.

However, it was not over.

Suddenly, multiple tripods emerged from the water infront of Goose, as The helmer engaged in evasive maneuvers, more and more tripods kept emerging from the sea, including flying contraptions of the ambiguous invaders.
As the goose sped onward, the tripods have fired their heatrays, missing horribly as they rolled a nat1.

The Helmer ordered all crew to operate the cannons, as the ship sped inbetween the tripods, the crew fired the cannons in vain, turns out shitty 35 pounder cannons from 18th century dont damage alien machinery.
Seeing this, the helmer broke his rule for the first time in the last 20 years, deciding to crew the L44 Stern smoothbore gun, firing off a shot at one of the alien tripods
Giving it a super-precise lobotomy with a SABOT shell.
Kypricus soon followed, using her semi-automatic burkish musket carbine, magdumping at a random tripod to no avail, no surprise.
 
However, as no one was helming, the goose rammed head-first into a tripod, causing it to crash ontop of its front, causing structural damage and most importantly, causing the ship to list forwards.
Soon, like it was a clowncar, 10 invaders exit the tripod, wielding brekonium daggers.
However they didnt realize they've brought knifes to a gunfight, they had heatrays but never invented infantry firearms.

As the Breki rushed the crew onboard the goose, Kypricus raised her Ancient hyperborean runic sword, formerly owned by the beer hipster LightW3ight, as she raised the sword, it emitted "all i ever wanted - basshunter (sped up)" as it also started to glow, suddenly her mind was full of Images of the Mythic land of Agartha, as she seemingly blacked out becoming unresponsive to everyone else, she decapitated the first breki with a single slash, yelling random things about gnomes and ancient aukai forests. the second breki got a non-precise sword induced lobotomy as she did a 180 impaling its head, the 3rd breki attempted to backstab her but she roundhouse-kicked it off the boat, the breki was never seen again. 
Soon others followed as Zut and Viv pulled out their standard issue bluesteel balreskan longswords, Zut brutally decapitating Breki 4 and 5 with a single slash, with Viviane at the same time making a sishkebab out of breki 6 and 7, as that was happening, Kypricus cut Breki 8's leg off with the hyperborean sword, as breki 9 attempted to jump on her, Zut dropkicked it mid-air into the water, he coincidentally landed ontop of breki 8, crushing it to death. the last breki, breki 10 was begging for his life, as the helmer moved over to him.
"Kept you waiting, huh?" he said before non-lethaly smashing its head into the ships deck, then throwing it into the cargohold.

Seemingly after this whole ordeal, kyps hyperborean sword turned off, making her actually black out this time.
Amidts all of this, the ship was still listing due to the tripod wreck, due to this helmer engaged gooses steam engine, and popped the thing in reverse.
As the tripods around them head out for nearby landmasses, they sped off to Inyola once again, with all of the crew focusing on repairing the damaged Goose.

Except the Helmer.

After heading into the cargohold for the night, and doing his usual prayers to the Goose, the helmer went into one of the gooses many rooms, where the 10th breki was kept.
His name was Joe "John" Breki.
The Helmer: "So, what the fuck are you?" The helmer said while staring at the tied-up gnome-sized alien.
Joe "John" Breki: "Im a fuckin alien isnt that obvious you dumbass?"
The helmer promptly roundhouse kicked the thing into the forehead.
The Helmer: "WHAT are you doing here?"
Joe "John" Breki: "Years ago, we lived underground with our gnome brethren, up untill recently when the 3rd Agarthan HyperCivilWar Happened, kicking us out."
The Helmer: "And why are you attacking surfa- wait hold the fuck up Agartha? Thats real?"
Joe "John" Breki: "Yes, it is, and now we have to take over the surface to effectively find hyperborea, and activate the ancient deluvian portals."
The Helmer: "I see.. thats all I needed to know."
Deciding the Helmer wanted a maid, he decided to keep the breki alien locked up untill he finds out a way to make him clean the cargo hold.

END OF CHAPTER