Solar Warden

Escape Part 130

"They are gone," Ryan said as he looked at the tactical screen. It was a bit delayed because of the distance. The enemy fighters were changing the course now. Still they were far away and with the speed they had built up, it would take them some time to alter course to a new target.

"The door in the cave is opening," Samuel informed.

"Then we have to hurry," Ryan replied and switched to Owens, "We need to go down fast, they opened the door in the cave probably to lock the first door we hacked."

"Affirmative, then get all in the seats and fasten the belts," Owens informed the other ships.

The combat drones and one fighter went ahead. Ryan and Newman helped Knight into the seat. He could now move all body parts a bit, that helped a lot.

Ryan informed Owens as soon as all were prepared. Then it started to shake and the acceleration was to feel as they went over the limits of the inertial damper. It was a maneuver they could do only for a short time and when entering the atmosphere, they had to compensate a lot more effects. This time they would go down as a fireball directly over the facility area. Giving a target highlight in the sky. The combat drones were the first. Compared to the stratosphere jump this was a hell ride. Flying down with an insane speed. Then decelerating with about five G were three G could be compensated. It would have gone a bit faster. But the leader of the shuttle group in SW-3 shuttle, wanted to let the fighter and the combat drones have a bit time to secure the area. Which meant to spread out and scan.

Then the shuttle went in and landed near the cave. The area was still monitored by the scout drones. SW-6 and 7 went first out of the shuttles, with the bikes they headed into the cave. SW-2 took care of the still not fully operational three. They brought them into SW-1 shuttle to put their combat suits on. SW-5 secured the area of the defect combat drone which Newman and the other two scientists started repair.

Samuel tried do check what the Grays were doing. SW-3 went into the cave and checked all incoming sensor data which meant the position of the enemy fighters and what was happening in the cave.

The assigned one combat drone and one fighter stayed while the others left now back into space. The rest of the combat forces followed SW-6 and 7 into the cave.

Watkins also lead the rest of the scientists into the cave as it was clear that the three Grays they spotted would not make much resistance.

Yamada was guiding the combat troops in. All three Grays were in the control room. They didn't even try to shot down the drones which were on standby.

Fujita was now trying to scout the open door. There was another hall, it looked quite similar and all doors were closed.

Now three Grays went out of the control room. They seemed to know what was coming. Samuel could at least tell they had removed the spy connectors. How successful they were with the door he could not tell. But the last was closing.