Stranded

Chapter 12- The Meeting

Hello again! I once again must apologize for the long wait, with graduation, regionals for my sport, and life in general I'm struggling to find time to write. Thank you so much for the phenomenal support!! I'm also really happy that the explanation chapter cleared up the confusion! Don't be afraid to comment, or PM me if you have any questions, and I can always write another explanation chapter if necessary. Enjoy Chapter 12!

The oh-so-top-secret-meeting, that literally everyone knew about at this point, was in full swing; as expected, people were yelling.

"We should just shoot them down!" Thanatos hollered out when the question was raised about what they should do now that the Castle of Lions was entering their atmosphere.

"We don't have the firepower to shoot them down." Persefoni argued.

"We have that Ion Cannon we salvaged a few years back. We should use it now; destroy the incoming ship, then reinforce our teams in the field and take out the other five. The technology that their vessels possess could save our people!"

"We can't use the Cannon." Dearil spoke up for the first time in a while. He fell silent after explaining the situation to them, and allowing them to voice the ideas in their heads.

"It's the only weapon we have that could take that ship down! Why do you hesitate?"

"We have three shots, at best, with the Ion Cannon. Our new opponent is here to rescue the one's stuck here, they will have their guard up. They are expecting an attack. There's no guarantee that the Ion Cannon would be able to bring them down."

"Not to mention, since this vessel is here, we now have six enemy ships on our planet and half that amount of shots. Say that we do take out that vessel with a single shot from the Ion Cannon, the other five would immediately prepare for the same attack. From examining those five smaller ships, we know that they have excellent movability which would make them almost impossible to hit with the Cannon." Persefoni added to Dearil's comment.

"If we set off the bombs in the leg joints of the ships down here, it would decrease their mobility; however, since the mis-trigger in the Blue One I'd expect that they'd be working on a way to remove or deactivate those bombs. Again, no guarantee that the bombs would activate, and even if they did, we don't know if it would slow them down enough to hit them with the Ion Cannon." Morana pipped up then.

"Even if the bombs still worked, that's five opponents with only two shots remaining." Persefoni added before nodding to Morana. It had taken a while, but she was finally starting to think like the second-in-command officer that she was. Persefoni knew after receiving a terrible injury almost two years ago that he was unable to continuing serving as the second-in-command, but he wasn't exactly thrilled when Morana was chosen to take his place. Still he trained her; doing his best to prepare her, although her fiery attitude quickly proved to be difficult to tame which caused some tension out in the field, but recently she started to embrace her role and mellowed out a bit.

"Why are you even here Persefoni? A war council is no place for a washed-up soldier." Persefoni scoffed at the comment, Thanatos knew he had lost the argument, but he refused to go down. Persefoni really didn't care about the snide remark, he'd gotten them before; he knew his worth, and wasn't about to let something like a bitter comment get to him. However, other members present in the meeting didn't take too kindly to that comment.

"Persefoni has served for many years, his experience and expertise makes him an invaluable resource to us. He may be injured, but he still continues to serve in any way he can. He is my trusted advisor whose presence is essential here. I must say I'm a little confused as to why you're here." Dearil activated his eyes as he spoke, for the most part, he was pretty laid back despite being the leader, but anger him, and those red eyes would remined you exactly who he was.