Hells Bells

Azur Erupts

June 17th, 2025. Azur Dimension. Off The Coast Of Sicily.

Ships cut through the calming waves as the raging storm above starts to calm down. Danish vessels come into sight of the Italian island they seek. The lead escort ship turns to starboard, and leads the line into the nearest port. As the last ship drops anchor and is tied to its mooring, an Italian military truck pulls into the dockyard. The soldiers jump out and start boarding each vessel searching for contraband. The captain in charge of the convoy departs from his destroyer and makes his way to the lieutenant in charge of the search. Upon finding the man the captain starts to argue with him about the unwarranted search.

CAPTAIN: What is the meaning of this?

LIEUTENANT: You have been suspected of carrying illegal goods to the Azure Republic.

CAPTAIN: You have no evidence. You have no right to seize vessels from our country. You want to cause an international incident?

NILAN: What are you doing lieutenant?

The mech pilot comes up behind the two. A look of disappointment is plastered across her face. The lieutenant stands at attention.

LIEUTENANT: MechCommander Luvi, has ordered the seizure of these vessels MechSarge Nilan.

The pilot looks to the captain, but before she can utter her apologies. The lieutenant receives a radio call, after a brief moment the lieutenant then dismisses the captain and tells him to refuel and leave. The lieutenant clacks his heels and brushes past the pilot patting her on the shoulder. The soldiers deboard the ships and reboard their transport which pulls out of the dockyard. An hour passes and the Danish convoy pulls out back to sea with increased haste to the Suez Canal. The lead destroyer picks up multiple sea contacts just in radar range, the captain moves to the starboard side of the bridge. He looks through his binoculars and sees the trail lines in the water from RS2 Mechs skimming through the water. The captain shouts across the bridge and the men scurry around. The front gun of the destroyer swivels to port and elevates fifty degrees. The mechs take a right and come into the guns range, after twenty minutes of warnings for identification from the captain, the gun fires, sending a shell their way. The shell lands a few feet away from them and the mechs take to the air flying out of both radar and gun range. The convoy starts to employ zig zag maneuvers and turns toward an oncoming electrical storm to avoid the scouting party. The convoy will pass through the Suez Canal unmolested, but many convoys like it met a more unsavory fate with many being sent to the bottom of the sea floor or being seized under false pretenses. The tension in Azur is taken to an extreme with many countries supporting the embargo or breaking the embargo, condemning the radical measures taken to enforce the embargo. While the neutral, condemned, and victims bicker. The two forces that caused this weird situation, engage in a final confrontation in the frigid waters of Alaska and in the earth's orbit.

Azur Dimension. Just Out Of Orbit. Uss Montana.

The ship glows a bright pink as the shields take most of the shots. An alien vessel ambushed the ship by jumping in at point blank range. Tomahawks and cruise missiles perforate the alien vessel. With the main guns from the Montana finish off the stricken craft with a broadside. The alien ship loses power in its engines and reenters the planet's orbit. The Montana and her escorts target the main alien force with missiles and F-98 StarCougers. Two more alien ships re-entered orbit as their engines gave out. The Montana takes two more hits to her foremost deck but it doesn't penetrate the shield. The remaining alien ships try closing the gap and form a v shape around their battleship. Putting armored cruisers and lightly armed destroyers in the front. The US naval fleet withdraws their carriers and starts to descend back into orbit. The StarCougars and F-14 StarJets dive into orbit, re-entering the earth's atmosphere. The alien fleet tries to redeploy their vessels to chase down the Montana and the destroyers and cruisers. The alien fleet becomes more disarrayed as the US fleet jumps out of the dimension following the carriers. The alien fleet is then ambushed from behind as a new US fleet jumps in miles from the previous. The alien fleet also tries to close the gap with this new fleet, but are picked off by cruise missiles. The alien battleship tries to flee with a destroyer escort.