The Space Liberators

Chapter 12: Stuck in the Mud

Chapter 12: Stuck in the Mud

The United Galaxies fleet which was being lead by Admiral Smith and his ship HMS Liberator was on course towards the Gladiolus Imperial Inter-Galactic Empire until they came across a planet that was unidentified but it was commonly known as "Stuck in the mud", Admiral Smith told the fleet "We shall investigate the planet", and so the fleet went into the planet. "The planets weather system is very strange" said Dominic, "Why is that?" asked Smith, Dominic continued "Well for the first six months of the year it's all tropical storms and then for the other six months it's just hot sunshine", Admiral Smith replied "No wonder it's called 'stuck in the mud"; the ships entered the planet and landed into a river, this allowed the ships to switch off their main engines and float along the river but the rain wouldn't last long because it was the last day of the six month period of tropical storms, the next day would be hot sunshine.

The ship ploughed on along the river for what were the last hours of tropical rain. The next day the ships were still a float but not for long as the sun was high above and the heat was making the river dry out but not at a normal rate, the river was drying out fast, then ten minutes later the river had dried out and the whole fleet of the United Galaxies was stuck in the mud, Admiral Smith decided the fleet should "set up a base so we can survive under the heat until the rain arrives", and so construction began on building a base. A week later a barracks was built and so was a ammunition storage shed, there was also a cafeteria and sleeping quarters for the army, the base was coming into shape so Admiral Smith requested more supplies and reinforcements, King Maltalic accepted his request and sent out supplies, also sergeant Bolter, Vaughanork and Grant were called up to go to Admiral Smith's location; also an aircraft carrier group was formed and sent out to provide air cover for the fleet. All of this was to warp to Smith's location which would take four hours.

Four hours later the supplies and the reinforcements arrived at Admiral Smith's base, the troops set up positions and Smith requested an "air sweep" on the left and right of Admiral Smith's base, 2 squadrons (66 squadron and 25 Squadron) flew out to do air reconnaissance; 66 squadron reported nothing but 25 squadron reported an enemy base which was the equivalent size of the city of Reading, Admiral Smith immediately ordered "SET UP DEFENSIVE POSITIONS", the huge steel guns sung into life, Admiral Smith shouted out instructions "ALL SHIPS TRAIN YOUR GUNS TO STARBOARD BROADSIDE, RAISE THE GUN BARRELS TO SIXTY-TWO DEGREES". The guns started to turn into position and the barrels started rising to show the dominance within the battle; Sergeant Bolter got his platoon into position on the deck of HMS Liberator, Sergeant Vaughanork's platoon took position in the mud to act like camouflage and Sergeant Grant's platoon took vantage point on-board the aircraft carrier HMS Camper on its flight deck. The atmosphere was tense no-one fired nor give orders until Admiral Smith yelled "OPEN FIRE", bursts of flame and smoke immediately erupted in the battlefield, shells flew out of the ships guns and zeroed in on their targets, while the rifle spat out bullets which were soon to hit the enemy infantry and the aircraft would drop a package called "hell" a fiery blaze will appear burning it's foes and the woodland.

Meanwhile as the battle went on there was troops located north of Admiral Smith's position, it was a battalion which were about to enter the battle; the person who was leading the battalion is Commander Augustus Bazzoli.

Bazzoli was a commander with experience in the army via a 35 year service as well as seeing action during the first inter-galactic war, in the battle of Falklamania and the Siege of the Richland Nebula.

Meanwhile at Admiral Smith's position the battle continued but with the enemy base up in flames and the whole of the Germanican 8th and 9th infantry divisions scorched within the fiery woodland, the only Germanican force left was the 10th Panzica division, Admiral Smith had an idea of what to do, "All ships lower the gun barrels to zero degrees" the huge barrels dropped down, Sergeant Bolter and his platoon started to split into two halves one on the left and the other on the right, but Sergeant Bolter stayed out at the middle between the first and second barrels of the first turret, then ten seconds later the barrels spat out fire which covered Sergeant Bolter, luckily his uniform was fire proof, meanwhile the shells flew towards the enemy tanks and gave a heavy punch as shells ripped through the panzica's armour and exploding from the inside, killing the crew inside the enemy tanks.

Then Admiral Smith saw more troops but they were in the old British Redcoat uniform, Smith knew they weren't part of the enemy because the redcoats had come from a northerly position; hiding within the woodland they'd sneaked up towards the enemy tanks.

Admiral Smith ordered "cease fire" against the enemy everyone was shocked, Sergeant Bolter shouted "ARE YOU AN ABSOLUTE IDIOT!" Admiral Smith replied "NO, look to the right Sergeant Bolter ". Sergeant Bolter and his platoon looked to the right and they saw Infantry in old British redcoat uniform, he too knew they weren't part of the enemy tanks but he watched with interest as the redcoats approached the enemy with C4s; they planted three C4s on each Panzica, Commander Bazzoli ordered his troops to fall back at a safe distance, 20 seconds later he pulled the trigger on his detonator, then a second later there was bursts of flames from the Panzica's their turrets flew into the air and came crashing down to the ground.

Admiral Smith went to the deck to join Sergeant Bolter, and then the Redcoats appeared from the wreckage. The whole of Sergeant Bolter's platoon pointed their rifles at the redcoats who didn't draw their weapons; Smith looked at the men in the platoon with disgust and disgrace, and then ordered the men to "LOWER YOUR WEAPONS" with a commanding voice, the whole platoon lowered their weapons while Admiral Smith continued to speak "I apologise for the inconvenience, I am Admiral Smith, Leader of the United Galaxies Fleet and guardian of planet Earth", Commander Bazzoli replied by introducing himself "I am Commander Augustus Bazzoli, leader of the 10th Falklamania Battalion, welcome to the Great Englashica Empire", Smith was relieved to know where he was; he requested to see the leader of the Englashica Empire, Commander Bazzoli accepted the request and escorted Admiral Smith to a transport aircraft.

Then Smith requested he'd be accompanied by Sergeant Bolter and Sergeant Grant and also General McFarrison; the men immediately got on-board the aircraft, and then the aircraft took off towards the heart of the Englashica Empire, the planet Londoshkisk which is home of the legendary football club Larnsenach and also the Grand Imperial Englashica Navy.