All are in position and Bob was a bit excited as he had never been seated in a spherical gun mount in years. The last time he did this was when he was a student and capital foreign service was required to graduate.
Feeling anxious he prepared himself for battle. "So Gener, what are we looking at here..... a squadron huh..... How many is that?"
"Relax my brother, just half a dozen fighter may be. They'd be no match to Nene." he proudly declared as he has every right to be.
What the Brahms failed to discover is that Jauro-bears make excellent fighter pilots.
When the Brahm war regiment started to employ the Jauro as ground assault infantry ride for their captains, the bear's sense of proximity provided an additional defense to his master. It is this proximity skill that makes a Jauro-bear a pilot with skills hard to match.
Even way better than the Brahms.
"How much long do we have to wait?" said Bob, now feeling a bit impatient and eager for action.
"Easy brother, they should be appearing right.... Now...."
What appeared from the curve-jump was a battleship escorted by 30 fighter speeders.
Bob's jaw dropped to the floor and everyone fell silently terrified at the sight.
It took several moments before anyone can hear Gener shouting frantically at the comms. "Scramble!! Scramble!!!"
Rodrick jumped at the helm and took control of his ship while Nene started her maneuver, and instantly took out three fighters in the process.
The enemy formation broke and all hell breaks loose.
They are everywhere.
The once calm universe is now in chaos of tremendous fire and explosions.
Bob started to shoot at practically everywhere too in his panic attack, and almost hit Gener at one time too.
"Easy Bob.....try to concentrate your fire to your 12 o'clock and that large battleship."
"Aye aye, captain!" he replied with a rigid salute.
"What the fuck did he just say?" Kai said irritatingly.
It was Bob to first reply.
"Hahaha, you really do like me don't you."
"Fuck off.....don't flatter yourself. I don't like you."
"Then stop paying attention to me and maybe I'll believe you."
"Heads up boys...they're gonna flank us." Gener interrupted.
The enemy speeder formation turned into a large spiral at the mouth of the battleship. This is Scoltice attack by the book.
They intend to jump to semi-sonic speed to drill their way thru the now retreating pirate ship.
"Back away now!! And head for the moon rings!" Gener shouted.
It was a good plan, but the intensity of the Scoltice spiral attack that poured a rain of laser fire on them did not help.
Even the rock formation of the moon rings added more debris to aid their destruction.
"This isn't gonna work. There's too much of them."
"What are you suggesting?"
Gener paused, then finally.. "Lets jump to sonic-speed straight to the Callesten station. We'll use the station's defenses to stop that formation, if not; we let that thing ram himself to that sorry ass station that Lima built."
Bob and Kai laughed at the idea.
Then the two kept quiet at the awkward first time sharing of simple joy.
Rodrick noticed it and just shook his head at the kids.
Puppy love. What can I say.
"Let's do it." Rodrick finally said and everyone at the comm-link shouted in excitement.
Nene headed the trajectory and before they know it their ships are at sonic speed curve jump.
When they reached firing distance of the station, they broke formation as the pursuers was met by the station's cannon defense bombardment. Somehow they expected the battleship to stop at the firing prowess of the space station but it just kept going.
The cannons and artillery guns ripped the spiral formation and the battleships fore, but it just kept going.
The Scoltice lost control when they followed Bob's group into sonic speed. And now it plummeted down to the station with no remorse.
The devastation was awesome.
So is general Lima's fury as he continuously fired his artillery gun to the exploding battleship that was tearing his station in half.
Like a small bread knife plunging into cake it devoured the station that made it loose orbit.
Within minutes the remains of a once massive outpost station for the Runkan capital is now entering X-3R's atmosphere in flames.
It will take more than a year to replace this facility if the capital helps.
If not, never.
"I am not coming back here again." Bob said, and he can't help notice how cute is Kai's chuckles over the comm.
"Let's re-group and get ready for curve-jump..... I'm hungry." he said.
And when they all met each other at the mess hall of Rodrick's ship, Bob felt a different Kai that smiled sweetly at everyone.
She's either rejoiced at still being alive or she's a psycho that loves the sensation of near death fights.
Either way he loved seeing her this way.
She is beautiful.
"Bob..." Rodrick called.
"You blew out the accelerator chamber with your wild fire with the guns. We have no curve jump."
The mess hall grew quiet and Bob could feel Kai losing that sweet smile into a dark and cold face of fury.
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RIPE & DRAGGERS
FantasíaSilence first. Then the Brahm spoke. "Every object in the universe that is moving creates a drag in the space-time continuum. The bigger the object, the bigger the drag; and this drag creates an energy field that can be harnessed and manipulated." ...
