Solar Warden

Omega protocol Part 75

Knight left as last the forest. He was on a bike and one of his squad members was driving. Behind C4 charges went off to further secure their retreat. Knowing this would not stop them for long he switched to Icarus communication. "Captain, we left the forest. Requesting Omega Protocol immediately!"

"Initiate Omega Protocol!" the Captain ordered.

"Affirmative!" Then the drone officer entered the prepared command for that.

A fighter plane near the combat drones was informed via encrypted radio. With his voice interface the pilot activated the request and confirmed it with pushing of a button. At once a nearfield message went out to the nearby combat drone and was relayed to the others.

Already a broadcast went off and all surface scout drones which were assigned to the forest went with a new formation back to identify and marking the position of every enemy they will spot.

Receiving those information, the already accelerating combat drones, flew in waves to their new targets. These targets had to be in a certain area, so no one outside could be targeted.

With near supersonic speed the combat drones closed in. The first one fired two, one second, bursts at the first target, then pulled up. Following the second drone fired two bursts at two targets close to each other. Then the third drone fired on the next. This was the first wave which flew away while the explosions occurred. Dust spilled out of the forest. Trees were falling and the second wave came in and fired on its marked targets. The first wave was already turning and flying back as the third wave came in. Now both waves fired from different angles and crossed each other at different altitude. These three waves flew now an eight over the forest, continually firing on new targets. As there were no enemies left they shot on trees near the small cave entrance to the mountain base. A dust cloud was now coming out of the forest. There was nothing to see, as the combat drones kept firing on previous stored tree targets and the small cave area.

"Send nine reinforcement drones, soon they are out of ammo down there. Fly directly down," the Captain ordered.

At once combat drones started from the Icarus front side launch bays, which were five on each side. These slots are always filled with drones. To the combat site it was a short travel as the Icarus was now in an orbit over the facility area.