The Fallen | Risen Book II

Chapter Seventy One

Ambush
Jeff Price

The wind blew through my air as the airship approached the outpost below. The ship flew up in the clouds, a crew of forty men and woman looking for riches.

"Ready the starboard cannons!" I ordered from the helm of the ship.

I heard the sound of at least twenty cannons being loaded with old fashioned cannonballs.

"Ready stabilizers!" I ordered and then heard the electric current run through the fake wood of the ship. The ship itself was made of a special metal that was redesigned to appear as a old fashioned wood plank. All of our boots linked with the metal, ensuring nobody falls off.

I grabbed the joystick next to the large steering wheel and pushed it to the right. The entire ship swayed to the right, until all of the starboard side cannons were facing directly down at the outpost.

"Fire!" And all twenty cannons fired down to the outpost below. I watched as buildings were torn to pieces and saw tiny people running back and forth trying to prepare some sort of defense

Then I flipped the ship to the Port side.

"Prepare the Port side cannons!" I ordered and heard all of the port side cannons be loaded with the same cannonballs.

"Fire!" I ordered as I looked to my left down to the ground. Cannonballs rained down towards them and more buildings were blown to pieces.

I moved the joystick back to the right and leveled out the ship.

"Ground unit! Go!" I ordered as Jorge, Carter and seven or eight others threw ropes over the edge and began to climb down to the ground.

After several minutes, Carter called up and gave me the all clear. I had Holly and a few other pirates pull the ropes back up as we began our sweep.

We lowered ourselves closer to ground level and circled the base like a shark trapping it's prey. Keeping the base to our Port side. Only the main problem with the sea is there is always a bigger fish.

"Sir! Enemy approaching Starboard side!" Our spotter shouted from the lookout nest.

I slowed down the Ships engines and looked out starboard side to see a small one man duster plane.

"Aim the turret to the Starboard side! Shoot that thing out of the sky!" I ordered as I say one of my men arm the turret and began unloading onto the duster plane.

"you sure we shouldn't use the Cannons sir?" Holly asked rushing to my side.

"No, it's just a duster plane, doesn't even have a gun attached to it" I explained pointing out to the plane

Only the pilot was better then I expected, he rolled and avoided most of the bullets. The plane started getting awfully close to, that's when I realized.

It wasn't going to stop.

"BRACE FOR IMPACT!" I shouted as I ducked for cover.

The duster plane crashed into the hull of the ship and someone jumped onto the top deck of the ship. The man wore a brown coat, large boots and a wide cowboy hat.

a dozen of my crew drew there swords and pistols and surrounded the man.

I stood up by the wheel on the poop deck, wondering why they haven't already killed him.

"I'll give you one chance" The man spoke "Surrender, or that duster plane won't be the only aircraft I crash today" 

Without hesitation I shouted. "Kill him!"