Siva (Volume 2) The First Departure

Chapter 13: Intervention

Chapter 13

Intervention

Along the sound of the sudden mobilization of the whole Titan force, the loud cry of their turbine engines came like thunder from the distant plains.

The marching men who stomped the ground with a rhythmic motion all resounded along the booming of the drums and the blowing of the horn. Monsters tamed by the players roared angrily as they pulled and pushed artilleries of warfare. The mammoth tanks began to fire volleys of lights and those equipped with projectile cannons all took the roles of line’s vanguard.

Thousands of Cyclones began to darken the sky and their numbers alone were enough to over power even the Golgoda’s supreme defensive abilities.

Thousands of reinforcements are coming down from the west horizon.

[All Sylph sky infantry units! All Sylph sky infantry units! Retreat to your mother ships immediately! All Sylph sky infantry units, retreat to your respective mother ships immediately!]

The orders that Captain Nash heard in his helmet was echoing with urgency and hard tone. It came from the Command HQ inside the fortress, in the tower started from the ground, 250m high. 

He saw a large ship’s shadow in the west as the moon who was fully blue and bright was there, parting the clouds and showing off its brilliance. The shadow was big, he knew instinctively, and with the bright moon, Luna, with its distinctive dark hole on the north pole, lighting up the background of the big ship, the terror he felt crawled all the way from his legs to his spine. 

The large ship had a rectangular shape, longer than the Missouri, bigger than the Nicholas. It had the eyeing characteristics of the Three Sisters and even from 20km or so away, Nash felt the gravity of that hovering fear.

He kicked the air and his body straightened but his arms are free as he went towards the Missouri.

“Bridge! Come in! Bridge, this is Captain Nash!”

[We read you captain!]

“What is the situation?! Why is the whole TGG force suddenly mobilized?!”

[It seems that Commander Elsass had decided to settle this in a quick manner. He had just broadcasted a message not long ago in all of the open channels.]

“What?! So that speech earlier…”

[Yes captain! This is an all out attack!]

When Nash reached the main deck of the Missouri, he immediately went towards the entrance hatch, pulled a lever, and a small opening 3sq. m wide opened up where he dived. Later on, he made his way to the ship’s command bridge and sat down on the captain’s seat. As soon as he sat down, holo-panels began to take life.

“Report.”

[TGG units coming in from the west sir. Speed at steady 40kn. Distance, 58km! Type-1 heat signature detected! It’s the battleship Camarilla!]

‘Camarilla?!’

‘The TGG’s flagship?!’

‘They’re really coming…’

‘What should we do now…’

The voices and murmurs of the crew were heard in a frightened whispering. The ramblings did not help to lift the tension rising on Nash’s chest and he could only look at the reports and images displayed on his console with a grim face.

“How many units are coming?”

[About 20,000 Cyclone units sir! Five fleets of Air Infantry Units. S-Seven escort warships! Referencing from database indicates that it was the Hugo, Jackal, Jones, Safari, Hyperion, Piranha, and Asakura! All of them are Nebuchadnezzar-class Battlecruisers!]