(OOC: Jack, weren't you being pulled in by that tractor beam?  Whatever....(OOC)

Laguna slammed his throttle full, tailing one of the y-wings, as he heard Jacks voice calling them in.  He put a few shots into the Y-wing, disabling its shields.

"Jack, I'll finish off this Y-wing, don't wait up for me," said Laguna

"Make it quick," called back Jack.  "We need to escort Beta."

Laguna fishtailed his interceptor, spinning to the right as the Y-wing tried to out-run him.  The bomber was much slower than his, giving him the advantage of catching up quickly.  The bomber was just an open target, trying to make its run for the Overlord.  Laguna fired 5 more blasts, damaging the Y-wings hull heavily.  The Y-wing broke hard to the left, trying to evade Laguna once more.  Laguna laughed to himself.  What kind of pilots did they have?  You put someone like that in one of their bombers, that deathtrap, and they are dead when the likes of us come up against him.  Laguna let off 3 more bolts, ripping throught the rectangular cockpit of the long bomber.  Seconds later, the Y-wing was in pieces, and the pilots life ended.

Laguna turned his direction to where his flight was, protecting our bombers who were on their run.  The throttle whirred even more as the speed of the tie interceptor came to its peak of speed.  Laguna spotted his flight flying behind the group of bombers, watching over them.  A group of X-wings came out of the corner of his eyes.

"Guys, Your Six!" Laguna yelled
 
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Laguna Loire
Vast Empire Navy
FM/LCRW Laguna/Nazgul 2-3/Wing I/mSSD Atrus/VEN/VE
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Ex-soldier turned journalist, Laguna is a strong willed man with amazing energy. His compassion for the unfortunate drivers him to help the weak and bring down their oppressors.

(OOC: I like this (:OOC)

Laguna twisted and turned as the blue proton torpedoe stayed on his tail like a nerf on bait.  Laguna sacrificed everything except his lasers into his engines, and gained a litte more speed.

"This is Nazgul 2-3, reporting in.  This missle is not letting off very easily!"

"Bring it around to me, I'll try and shoot it down," said Shazam.

"Alright"

Laguna whipped his fighter around in a new direction, towards his squadron commander Shazam's fighter, which he identified as Page.  The fighter was red, and looked nothing like an imperial fighter, something that was customized to its full limites.  The fighter flew in circles, waiting for Laguna to bring his fighter around.  The missle felt like it was gaining on Laguna, so he tried his best to keep it off of him.

As he was bringing the fighter around in an arc, an x-wing came in, adjacent to his fighter.  Laguna could actually see the pilot.  He was grinning through his orange/yellowish shield.  Laguna slowed his throttle down, inch by inch on the throttle meter.  The missle was catching up faster than Laguna thought.  The x-wing stayed on its path, right beside the x-wing on his right side.  The x-wing slowed down to stay on course with Laguna.  Just as the missle was about to catch up to his interceptor, Laguna slammed his throttle forward, and shot forward.  He turned to the right, just after passing the nose of the modified snubfighter.  The missle collided with the side of the x-wing, ripping the whole left side off of the fighter.  The pilot was sucked into the space, and immediately frozen.  He was held in by the resperator that was attached to his flight suit.  The x-wing continued its course, heading straight for the large cruiser, the interdictor.  Laguna looked back over, just as the x-wing smashed into the hull of the interdictor, hindering its shield power.  Laguna checked his targeting computer.  The interdictor had no shields.  Guess our torpedoes really cut into that cruiser

Laguna looked over his shoulder, and TIE bomber group beta firing their torpedos at the cruiser.  The missle crawled towards the massive cruiser slowly, and finally collided with it.  The numbers slowly decreased on the screen infront of him, and the whole interdictor started to explode.  Combustion was seen all the way across the large deck of the cruiser.  After the explosions stopped, silence could be heard throughout space.  It kind of hurt Laguna's ears, the silence.  It was broke by a massive explosion fron the cruiser as it seperated in two.  A shockwave shook Laguna's fighter.

Laguna brough his fighter around closer to the now destroyed interdictor.  He spotted rebel staff floating around in space, and a few fighters that didn't have the chance to make it out of the hanger.  His peice was broke by the turbo-lazer fire from the Mon Calamari that was defending the Interdictor.  Laguna tried to break from the fire, but was boxed in by a group of A-wings.  He tried increasing his throttle, but it was being cut down as his systems were failing.  He guided his fighter towards the defending Mon Calamari.

Shazam and Jack came out of nowhere, providing cover fire for Laguna.  The A-wings scrambled, and seperated from their attack on Laguna's fighter.  Laguna pulled the fighter to the right, away from the Mon Calamari's turbo-lasers.  He slammed his throttle gauge all the way forward, but nothing happened....



 
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Laguna Loire
Vast Empire Navy
FM/LCRW Laguna/Nazgul 2-3/Wing I/mSSD Atrus/VEN/VE
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Ex-soldier turned journalist, Laguna is a strong willed man with amazing energy. His compassion for the unfortunate drivers him to help the weak and bring down their oppressors.

While Nazgul was busy destoying the two Interdictors, Kaph moved in on the third cruiser. Lead Will, Flight 2 flew straight twards the target.

"What you guys say we go and take out that cruiser off to the right of the other two? It doesn't seem to be doing anything but sending more and more flighters to help the other two. Lets go take it out, and give Nazgul a hand."

"Sure. Whatever you say, boss." The cruiser was doing nothing indeed. It doesn't even seem to be moving much. and neither is it joining the battle between Nazgul and the other two Rebel cruisers. Seems to be a bit odd. "Alright, Kaph 2, We're going to make an attack run on the cruiser that is to the right of the other two cruisers."

"x-wings and y-wings straight ahead." Will said calmly. "Let break into teams.Earth, and Stormz, get into formation of two, and i'll join Kam to form two teams. Split when i tell you to, not yet."

The four TIEs flew directly at the incoming fighters, until they almost went into range. "Break!" Will said excitedly. and did a barrle row to the right and below with Kam, and then flew up, did a small u-turn and slid into positon behind the group of 3 y-wings. Will's ship was a bit quicker than Kam's interceptor, so right when he lined up with the y-wing on the right, he fired a series of shots into the back of the enemy's engine, which exploded instantly. The other two saw that they were no longer the attcking ones, tried to loose the TIEs on their tails by trying to out excellerate them while manuvering the  ships left and right trying to avoid anymore shots from the TIEs. after a while of unsuceesful dedges, they tried to split in two different directions, but found Will coming up along side the ship on the right. The rebel found that there was no way out to the right, slowly cut his trottle a little and made a sharp turn to the left, his wings barely missing the other y-wing. But he never made it out from behind his friend, for Kam had lined up with the y-wing on the left, linked his cannons, and fired 5 shots that went twards the enemy fighter. The unexpected turn from the y-wing had caught Kam off-guard. the shots instead of contacting with his target, had hit the turing y-wing right in the mid-ship. The explosion over heated the remaining y-wing's engine, and it too exploded into a fireball.

"Mayday! Mayday!" came through the intercom as Will and Kam saw two ships rolling twards them. The w-wing was having sparks coming out of its engine, and the Interceptor didn't seem to be damged. Appearently, the x-wing was shot, and went out of control, hitting a corner of Earth's side with its wing-tip, taking Earth along with him on a course twards Will and Kam, like a pair of dice being rolled on a table.

"Earth, dont panic! You're fine. All you have to do is gain control of your ship by trying to stop the rolling and fly in a straight line." Will commanded Earth while trying to line up a shot at the incoming x-wing. Once the targeting computer glowed green, he pulled on the stick hard after shooting a series of bolts at it. The shots ripped through the cockpit and two wings sending the ship rolling even more, while its pilot was sucked out from the ship and was instantly frozen.

"Good shot Will, lets go give the other two of your flight members some hand. Earth seems to be getting control over his ship as well." Kam said to Will after a while. "Earth, do you copy?"

"Yea, I'm fine now, thanks for taking that x-wing out for me. I didn't see who it was, but thanks. Now i dont have to deal with it after i get control of my ship back." Earth answered, now barly rolling, but a far distance away from the others.

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-(William the Conquerer)-
We are still here because we conquered our enemies, and we will do it again!
FL/SCRW Willtconq/Kaph 2-1/Wing I/mSSD Atrus/DEF/VEN/VE (=A=)

Jack started to lead Nazgul's Two Flight toward a squadron (or at least, what was left of a squadron) of X-Wings guarding a MC-80a. Jack was familiar with the design and weak spots of the MC-80, so he decided it was best to use its one weak spot - a small engine charger just above and behind the main engines.

"Two Flight, form up with me. We're heading for a weak spot behind the cruiser," Jack said.

"What about those X-Wings?" Jack heard a voice ask. He couldn't tell who had said that, because the trasmission was gurgled by the sound of the MC-80a's engines.

"Okay guys," Jack began, "Take out the X-Wings first, but maintain comm silence. We'll go in quietly behind the cruiser and then blast its engines after the X-Wings are gone."

Jack heard an almost silent "Yes" from everyone before a volley of green-white lasers shot out from the TIEs to the X-Wings. When the X-Wings were so close that Jack could see an astromech droid, apparently hit by laser fire, hanging out of the fighter's droid socket. Orange-yellow sparks flew out of its inactive dome before evaporating. A split second later, the pilot ejected that same craft and burned up in the Mon Calamari cruiser's engines.

"Okay guys," Jack began, "X-Wings are evacuating. Prepare to concentrate all fire on the MC-80's engines. Light them up good."

"Yeah!" the flight members shouted in unison.

Jack and the other fighters of Nazgul Two Flight brightly lit up the enemy cruiser's engines.

Jack patched his comm over to Shazam's fighter. "Shazam, this is Jack."

"What do you need, Jack?" Shazam asked.

"I think we should signal the Devastator. Get them to fire their turbolasers at the MC-80's engines. We'll wound them before they flee," Jack said.
 
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Revenge is what holds this galaxy together. Without it, the universe would be a boring place.
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Jack Nebulax, Vast Empire Imperial Navy.
FL/SCRW Jack Nebulax/Nazgul 2-1/Wing 1/mSSD Atrus/Defensive Fleet/VEN/VE (=A=)
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Jack Nebulax, Planetary Governor of Ullyr, Directorate Network (http://www.directorate.net/)
PG/MAG Jack Nebulax/Ullyr/Phare/Empyrean
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Jack "Zax" Nebulax, Commander of Nemesis Wing

      Chip made a quick duck down, barrel-rolled to his left, and made straight back for the Overlord. Damn, the X-wing was still following. He yanked the controls, pulling a vertical u-turn as sharply as he could. Dang, still being tailed. He feinted left, then yanked right and turned back to the Overlord again. Wasn't too much farther. The capital ships were moving closer to each other, soon they'd be within turbolaser range of each other. Dang, he had to get to cover or this guy was gonna tear him apart!

      "Kaph 3-1 to nearby Alpha flight. Anyway you can get this guy off of me?"

      "Roger that. Alpha third inbound." The three TIE fighters came about on approach 40 degrees to Chip's right. The X-wing reacted as soon as he saw it. Turning slightly, the rebel fired a missle at the lead TIE and switched straight to lasers. The lead broke upward immediately, but the missile stayed on target. The two flight members tried to follow, but the one on the right caught several bolts to the underside and side struts. In a moment nothing was left but wreckage. The lead evaded well, but not well enough.

      Chip cursed. At least the X-wing was gone. Stupid sucker was fairly good. The last member of the Alpha flight formed up on Chip's right. Well, at least now he had a flight member.
 
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FL/WO2 Chipmunk Man/Kaph 3-1/Phoenix/mSSD Atrus/DEF/VEN/VE/(=A=)(=SA=)[LoC][MC:1][LSM][MC:1]

Explorer Post 1863 photos - - Explorer Post 1863 Main Site - - Co. D 62nd PA Volunteer Infantry

Co. E 30th PA Volunteer Infantry - - James Buchanan's Wheatland

"They make the weather, then they stand in the rain and say "s**t, it's rainin'!" -Ruby Tues in Cold Mountain

Jack and the rest of Two Flight had really damaged the MC-80a's engines, with help from the Devastator. Most of the engines, offline, of course, showed sparks flying out into the void of space. The battle was turning to an Imperial victory.

One Interdictor was down and destroyed; the other one smashed with its gravity wells at 20%. If the destroyers could make it out of the dying cruiser's reach, they could escape into hyperspace. But Jack thought otherwise.

"Two Flight," Jack began, "Our mission is almost complete. A few fighters left and a scattered bulk cruiser here and there. Good job, men."

"Thanks," Laguna said.

"Nazgul Squadron," Shazam's voice began, "Nice job. Kaph Squadron also did pretty good, too. The Navy's unbeatable. Let's clean up this scene."

"Uh," Dirk began, "My sensors show Kaph Squadron under attack. Plus, I've got what looks like about four more enemy cruisers here. Mon Calamari class with support ships."

"Dirk, are you sure? My sensors show those other cruisers, but-" Jack tried to finish, but before he could, he registered four more enemy cruisers, along with a dozen support ships before they winked out.

Suddenly, Shazam's voice boomed out. "Nazgul Squadron, another enemy fleet arriving from hyperspace. They're jamming our sensors! Battle stations everyone!!"

(Hope you guys don't mind this, thought it would be more fun with more cruisers and fighters.)
 
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Revenge is what holds this galaxy together. Without it, the universe would be a boring place.
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Jack Nebulax, Vast Empire Imperial Navy.
FL/SCRW Jack Nebulax/Nazgul 2-1/Wing 1/mSSD Atrus/Defensive Fleet/VEN/VE (=A=)
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Jack Nebulax, Planetary Governor of Ullyr, Directorate Network (http://www.directorate.net/)
PG/MAG Jack Nebulax/Ullyr/Phare/Empyrean
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Jack "Zax" Nebulax, Commander of Nemesis Wing

      The TIE bomber next to Chip tore apart as a missle impacted with the right support strut. Chip yanked left, trying to keep on the tail of the A-wing he was chasing. Damned A-wings, so freaking hard to kill. And those stupid shields! It didn't take long to knowck them out, but they recharged faster than anything. He got so few opportunities to fire that he'd linked all his cannons to maximize the impact when he did get that rare shot in.

      Most of the VE pilots had concentrated on the Y-wings and X-wings, and so most of those were gone. But now Kaph was tangling with the squadron of A's, with remnants of Alpha and Beta giving occasional helping hands. They'd moved as close to the Devastator as possible, so the turbolasers could give extra fire support. But stray lasers didn't distinguish between friend and foe, so it was almost as dangerous for the TIE's as well.

      Chip fired. Gah, missed again. The stupid thing was just too manuverable. Chip had one TIE from Alpha on his wing, all with his new flight member Dag Splason. "Dag, take Alpha 3-3 and break wide left. See if he watches you too more than me. Maybe I can sneak a shot in then."

      "Got ya." They broke left, and the A-wing went right. Chip cut a slightly harder right, lined up, and waited for the reb to pass through his sights.

      Bingo! Two shots burned a small hole in the shields, just enough for one more bolt to cantact with the right wingtip. The reb, suprised by the jolt, froze a second and a half. Chip fired again, this time one of his bolts entered the right engine exaughst while the other hit the engine casing. The right engine exploded, tearing the wing off and sending the A-wing hurtling into space with no flight control.

      Heh. Unless the sucker was saved by one of his buddies, he'd last a few hours until his life support ran out. A horrifyingly slow death. Chip loved it. Served the stupid freak right. And as far as Chip was concerned, every rebel scumbag deserved to die similiar slow, horrifying deaths. Terrorist scumbags. "Good job. Form back on me and lets get the next one."
 
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FL/WO2 Chipmunk Man/Kaph 3-1/Phoenix/mSSD Atrus/DEF/VEN/VE/(=A=)(=SA=)[LoC][MC:1][LSM][MC:1]

Explorer Post 1863 photos - - Explorer Post 1863 Main Site - - Co. D 62nd PA Volunteer Infantry

Co. E 30th PA Volunteer Infantry - - James Buchanan's Wheatland

"They make the weather, then they stand in the rain and say "s**t, it's rainin'!" -Ruby Tues in Cold Mountain

    Kaminari had mostly been following Will's lead throughout the entire fight; doing well in simulators was one thing, but you couldn't actually die in those. After having survived the first few runs, however, Kaminari's confidence was building, and after narrowly avoiding another fireball he set out in search of his own target.
    Soon, he had some luck. He spotted a flight of Vast Empire Interceptors going head-to-head with a group of A-Wings; Nazgul Squadron, it looked like. Kaminari watched the engagement, seeing the three A-Wings vanish into molecular clouds and watching the one Interceptor get tractored into the MC-80's fighter bay. The other Navy fighters scrambled, and Kaminari followed them.
    An alarm sounded, and Kaminari threw his flight stick to the side just in time to avoid getting hit by an X-Wing's fire. Kami dropped his throttle to 1/3 and pulled into a tight loop, dropping on to the X-Wing's rear as it flew past. He flicked his cannons over to dual-fire and squeezed the trigger, pounding on the X's rear shields. The Rebel tried to evade, but the X-Wing was no match for the more maneuverable Interceptor. Kaminari increased his speed, and a minute later, the X-Wing's reactor overloaded as Kaminari's lasers slammed into the back of the craft. Kaminari pulled up and waggled his fighter slightly in a victory gesture, then pulled around to look for another mark.

(Short post, yeah, but this is his first combat. XD)
 
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FM/CRW Kaminari/Kaph 2-4/Wing I/mSSD Atrus/DEF/VEN/VE (=A=)

Jack's TIE Aggressor shot away from a formation of A-Wings. They were coming in pretty quick when Jack heard the news: Laguna had been captured by the enemy. Jack, figuring out a way to save his comrade, dove for the MC-80 where Laguna has held up in.

On the way, Jack blasted a few X-Wings and one or two A-Wings. Flying over the MC-80 once, he knocked out the closest tractor beam to the hangar with a bomb. Then, he dove straight into the hangar and blew up a B-Wing preparing for take-off. Jack's TIE Aggressor skidded and finally came to a stop by a mechanics' station.

Jack was surrounded.

Thinking quickly, Jack carefully opened the fighter's cockpit and climbed out. "Freeze," one of the mechanics said, a blaster pistol in his hand.

Jack slowly rose his arms up, and when they saw the Super Battle Droid arm on him, they were startled. With a quick charge, the blaster arm killed or mortally wounded all the mechanics. Jack started his quest for his captured comrade, blaster arm charged and ready for anything at all.

Jack would show the Rebel scum how the so-called "Imps" won their battles.
 
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Revenge is what holds this galaxy together. Without it, the universe would be a boring place.
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Jack Nebulax, Vast Empire Imperial Navy.
FL/SCRW Jack Nebulax/Nazgul 2-1/Wing 1/mSSD Atrus/Defensive Fleet/VEN/VE (=A=)
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Jack Nebulax, Planetary Governor of Ullyr, Directorate Network (http://www.directorate.net/)
PG/MAG Jack Nebulax/Ullyr/Phare/Empyrean
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Jack "Zax" Nebulax, Commander of Nemesis Wing

Right, well, now that Shazam was pointing pistols, everyone seemed to be a lot more scared of him.  Apparently, the rest of the ship was still unaware of the fact that people were currenlty being held hostage, the man watching from the room above must have been sleeping or...  Nevermind, he's dead, Shazam noticed that a side to a ladder had dislodged itself from the other half and made its way to the balcony above when Shazam had crashed in.  Shazam had managed to land himself in an enemy cruiser before, that one was bigger, he thought.

Chip was with him that time though, he favored the shotgun while Shazam grabbed random things and used them the best he could.  Then of course, was Chatham with them?  He couldn't quite remember, maybe he wasn't there yet, because he wouldn't have been taken away by then.  Oh well, lets just, yea...

"Congrats, you've moved in the correct direction, just continue on over there, yep, through...  No, over a little, yep...  Now, just walk yourselves into the utility closet." Shazam was pointing all over the place with the duel pistols, his eyes had been taken off of the man who was suposed to be giving him new batteries.  Noticing the absence of sound from behind him, the imperial suddenly busted around and shot at the dark abject which had been charging full speed ahead.  The man didn't just drop though, he continued forward although with no control of where he was going.  Shazam stepped out a little and let his foot stay where it had been.  The repair man looked like something going off a ramp as he connected with Shazam's foot. 

The audience which had been pretending not to notice the mechanic flying at him, were now shot with terror as thier allie pushed them into the closet.  Why none of them moved must have been some strange act of inertia because they sat there like a deer in headlights...  BOOM!

Now that everyone was thrown into the little chamber, Shazam shut the door and used a nearby torch to weld the lock up quick, then he went to work on the rest of the fram to keep them from being saved too quickly... 

Page's pilot jogged back surveying what the mechanic had managed to achieve.  Four batteries lay in front of him, not to heavy by the looks of them, so Shazam would have to get a ladder... 

                                        *****

The Viper was rebooting itself, warming up the engine Shazam liked to think.  He figured it would take him about two minutes to get the batteries in, ended up taking him about ten because he couldn't find the correct tool to open up cabinets to replace the batteries.  I need to get some rechargable batteries, he noted, this ship is cost me a pretty fair amount of cash if I start to frequent the thing. 

Shazam was sitting in his cockpit, pretty much ready to go when he looked down at the little datapad which was now nice and clear, not blinking like a siren.  Okay, hows Jack doin with the rest of the squadron, he clicked on in to the little pad.  What?  Dirk's in control?  Shazam was just kiddin about the 'if Jack dies' thing, Jack wasn't dead was he?  Ah ha...  He decided to get himself into the MC-80 as well; if this thing got blown up, Nazgul's decomissioned he thought.  Oh fudge...

Shazam spun around to look behind his seat, various weapons had been strapped back down to the lids of the batteries.  Its not like he'd never ran around shooting people before, might as well...

The imperial pilot was now pretty well armed...

(Alright, les not spend too much time in here, a couple of more post, then lets get back out there guys...)
 
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*Flash Was Here...*

CMDR/WO1 Shazam/Nazgul 1-1/Phoenix Wing/mSSD Atrus/1VENF/VEN (=A=) [LoM] [LSM]

Jack had just begun walking down the shaft with the interrogation chambers when he heard a scream. Jack knew it was Laguna. He bolted off to find him.

Jack saw a cell farther down with two guards on duty. Aiming from around a corner, he blasted both of them dead. He ran to look inside the cell. Sure enough, there was Laguna with her arm cut off, a commander interrogating her.

Grabbing a guard's uniform, he walked into the cell. He spoke to the commander.

"Sir," Jack began, "you're wanted at the bridge. They say it's urgented."

"Oh, yes, of course," the unsuspecting commander said. He began to get up. "Back to your post, trooper," he commanded as he walked out.

"Not likely," Jack said and shot him twice in the back.

Jack quickly unstrapped Laguna, and together they bolted out, down the long corridors that led to the docking bay where Jack's fighter was. Before long, they met up with a dozen guards.

"You okay?" Jack asked Laguna.

"Never better," he replied.

"Can you shoot with your other arm?"

"Yep. Give me the target; I'll blast him to death."

"Good." Jack handed Laguna a blaster rifle, and they shot out a guard one after another. When they were all dead, they continued their escape, hoping to catch up with Shazam along the way.
 
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Revenge is what holds this galaxy together. Without it, the universe would be a boring place.
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Jack Nebulax, Vast Empire Imperial Navy.
FL/SCRW Jack Nebulax/Nazgul 2-1/Wing 1/mSSD Atrus/Defensive Fleet/VEN/VE (=A=)
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Jack Nebulax, Planetary Governor of Ullyr, Directorate Network (http://www.directorate.net/)
PG/MAG Jack Nebulax/Ullyr/Phare/Empyrean
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Jack "Zax" Nebulax, Commander of Nemesis Wing

      A fellow pilot captured. Damn, not again! Again, some bad memories flashed through Chip's mind. Well, there wasn't a snowball's chance in Hell that he was going to leave Luguna. He didn't know the guy too well, nor was he even in Chip's squadron. But LA was a comrade. And Chip had been behind enemy lines before, and had some idea of what it must be like. Sure, the job was probably better left to the Army ground-pounders. But getting them in place would take too long. Chances were the the rebs would torture LA to death before the troopers had the hallways around the hangar properly secured.

      Chip had seen Shaz and Jack's mini invasion, and decided to give a hand. He knew his place was supposed to be in his fighter. And he'd probably take all sorts of hell for this. But he was gonna do it anyway. 'Sides, he still hadn't heard from Scout or Gene.

      "Dag, you got any experiance with small arms?"

      "Exucse me sir?"

      "Can you handle you shoot a blaster?"

      "Uh, well, I never owned one..."

      Great. This was gonna suck. Dag really didn;t have much to offer. Neither could he shoot, nor did he have the experience to handle a dog-fight on his own. Well, he'd be better off just following Chip. "Alright, we're going in anyway. Just follow me, take it real smooth, and try not to fly into the walls.

      "Excuse me sir? Go in where?"

      "The rebel cruiser." Chip brushed off Dag's objections with the simple statement that he didn't care what happened, LA wasn't going to be left behind. Besides, Alpha, Beta, and the rest of Kaph and Nazgul were more than enough to give the Devestator the cover it needed.

      The rebel cruiser seemed to be having difficulty with it's defenses. Shields were already down, although hull was still at 99%. The VE forces weren't paying it attention do to the fact the it's power distributor was malfunctioning, denying the turbolasers the energy they needed to fire. Effectively, it was nothing but a defenceless personell carrier.

      Chip and Dag made their landings without too much trouble, although Dag nearly skimmed the roof, and came close to tapping his wingtips against the wall he pulled up to. Chip undid his harness and pulled his shotgun out the pilot pack he'd had installed in the seat. It was desinged for close-quarters: pump action with a pistol grip, heat shield over the barrel, and an overall length of two feet. Dag didn't have anything other than the hold-out blaster that came standard in his seat. Chip gave him the basic instruction of how to shot and aim, and the two paused a moment to listen for the shooting.

      Ok, it was that way. They set off down the hallway, looking to give the three Nazgul boys some back up. But Chip made damn sure that Dag was at least five feet behind, to keep the kid safe.
 
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XO/FL/WO2 Chipmunk Man/Kaph 9/Phoenix/mSSD Atrus/DEF/VEN/VE/(=A=)(=SA=)[LoC][MC:1][LSM][MC:1]

Explorer Post 1863 photos - - Explorer Post 1863 Main Site - - Co. D 62nd PA Volunteer Infantry

Co. E 30th PA Volunteer Infantry - - James Buchanan's Wheatland

"They make the weather, then they stand in the rain and say "s**t, it's rainin'!" -Ruby Tues in Cold Mountain

(Hmm... capturing a MC-80? Not a bad idea...)

Jack, Chip, Shazam, and Laguna all held their distances from the squads of enemy troopers. Capturing a Mon Calamari MC-80 Rebellion Star Cruiser was a hard job, even for experienced Imperials like the small band.

There was no other choice.

On their way to the docking bay, they had run into too many soldiers to escape in their fighters. Jack's TIE Aggressor was thankfully still intact, but having everyone escape all at once was tough.

So they headed for the bridge.

Jack and Laguna had met up with Chip and Shazam seperatly during their way to the hangars. Faced now with impossible odds, they ahd to complete this mission. Capturing the MC-80 would practically spell victory for the Vast Empire.

They could not fail.

The only other option was death.

(Sorry it's short, have a very limited time now.)
 
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Revenge is what holds this galaxy together. Without it, the universe would be a boring place.
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Jack Nebulax, Vast Empire Imperial Navy.
FL/SCRW Jack Nebulax/Nazgul 2-1/Wing 1/mSSD Atrus/Defensive Fleet/VEN/VE (=A=)
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Jack Nebulax, Planetary Governor of Ullyr, Directorate Network (http://www.directorate.net/)
PG/MAG Jack Nebulax/Ullyr/Phare/Empyrean
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Jack "Zax" Nebulax, Commander of Nemesis Wing

(OH crap.)

Shazam sat there, pondering for a moment...  Okay, what do we know about MC-80's?  Thier extremely powerful, extremely well defended, they had enough weapons inside to invade a planet, and they could quite possibly be one of the more secure ships in the Rebellion.

The commander thought for on another thing just then, what do we have?  We have assorted firearms, a band of imperial pilots and not army men, a small boarding party that was just now reaching them, and some slight knowledge of an MC-80.  Yea, there was no way they could just walk up and take it over, it wasn't as simple as the cruiser Chip and he had taken over a while back.  This thing was full battleship, heavilly armed troops guarding the bridge at all times, security at every level with top knotch defences; it would take some time to make past even one security measure while the main battle was still going on outside. 

"Guys.  We need more firepower or something, if we're even going to think about trying to capture this beast...  We need more firepower, more shortcuts, and some way to cut off forces that might harm us on our journeys.  Since we don't actually have that type of arsenal, I say we just help the men outside..."  Everyone, including the recently arrived party were watching intentively as Shazam now turned and issued a request for everyone to start firing upon the MC-80.

"Ah ha...  Well.  Not quite was I thinkin either man," Chip said breathlessly, he and his friend must have been sprinting around for a while before they all managed to find eachother.  Kind of dumb luck considering the size of this particular cruiser, if all of them would have been let go at in the hangers an hour apart, they probably wouldn't have ever found eachother, by Shazam's measure.

Chip was glancing around the walls, now feeling them with his hand, a curious look moving about his face.  Jack was glancing at the same wall now, even Laguna slightly interested.  Shazam was staring down the hall readying his weapons and trying to think of the greatest place to attack...  With the navy after this ship it wouldn't take much time to find themselves in trouble... 

"You there," Chip said to man in the boarding party, sweating up a storm while supposebly being the groups leader. 

"Yes sir?" he said, slightly bolder than he looked.

"Do you carry explosives at all?  Anything that is reactive?"  Shazam now stopped checking all the halls for enemy troops all though they were bound to find thier way to them. 

"You think you found a weak spot?" Shazam asked.  Chip now had his head against the wall trying to pick up some sounds or vibrations. 

One full armored troop had moved to the front of the pack near Shazam and was displaying his wears.  A dark briefcase styled incasing held a couple of heavy duty door charges, and on his back he was wearing some remote activated explosives that were equivelent to those used in mining.  Not bad, he thought. 

"Condensation...  I think the room next door here is the center for thier water...  We shouldn't be getting water like this unless thiers an excessive amount of moisture in the air...  I don't quite know what else it would be..."  Jack glanced at Shazam in bewilderment...

"You think it will effect the infastructure of this craft?" he asked but was riveted by the sound of explosions detonating everywhere.  It had begun.  The MC-80 suddenly shook to life with supreme power, gunneries could be heard everwhere and fighter groups were still being launched. 

Everyone had been flung to the sides, the small troop of board men were clutching to eachother for stability.  Shazam yelled over the noise though,"So what do you want to do?"

Chip had a slight grin on his face...  "Lets freeze this bitch..."  his eyes becoming efforvescent and extremely excited.  Everyone nodded, most of them having no idea what was going on or what anyone was talking about, but the sound of seemed to interest all of them.

"We're ganna need something cool..."  Jack said, finally starting to understand. 

"Everything runs next to eachother in everything.  Everything connects to eachother, so hopefully, we'll be able to just release some of the cold they have running through some of those rubber tupes...  It looks kind of like gas when you cut it, you know..." he said, trying to let Jack have a better idea of the plan. 

"I don't think it's on this floor though.  The entrance is above us I think, but the tanks are next to us right now." Chip continued.

The leader of the boarding party spoke up now,"I noticed that there haven't been any entrances to this side since we've met this area.  How big do you think those tanks are?"'

Shazam waved the idea off and then said," It doesn't matter how much water there is necessarilly...  Its how far it goes.  Ice tends to make everything around it more brittle as it expands.  If we can create a weakspot on the ship, this ship can be taken down in no time..."  The group nodded in acknoledgment but were soon interupted by the sound of footsteps and then bodies crashing to the ground as a tremendous blow was made to the shields surrounding the outside of the ship, more cannon fire...

Shazam jumped out from the side of the and looked down the three hallways that were juntioned in the exact position in which everyone was standing.  On the far left, sixteen men, most with repeating blasters and pistols, had been driving right towards them and found that the floor was no longer there after the ship rocked...  A few had managed to hurt themselves severely, but most were standing back up, firearms back up. 

"They're ganna try and trap us man..." Chip screamed over the now erupting blaster fire going on within the hallways of the MC-80.  Chip rolled sideways and Shazam dove the same way while the boarding party held position and began firing at the regiment of the men; Jack had carried Laguna aside surveying the would for infection... 

"Shaz, we gotta get to an elevater and get this over with or we're done for..."  He nodded and twisted around the corner and began a siries of blind shots into the volleying fire.  Chip waved to the Jack and Laguna to run past the boarding party and join them while Shazam created cover fire. 

Two men in the boarding party suddenly dropped, one of them was the bomber they needed...  The commander quit his random firing, now looking for specific targets, the rest of the group had suddenly become accurate as well.  The rebels found there was nowhere to go and became extint within a few moments.  The area was now charred with several different forms of burn and Shazam had rushed over to the explosive man to unstrap his equipment.  The briefcase was pretty heavy as well as the vest Shazam now threw on containing several small explosives he hadn't noticed before.  Jack gave him a look like, don't be standing next to me when you blow...

The last thing he put on, or could put on for that matter, was the explosive back on the dead imperials back.  This was the heaviest of all and felt like a load of metal and nothing at all dangerous... 

Soon though, as Shazam finished his re-arming of even larger preportions, rebels began to pour in from all sides, now aware of thier exact locations.  Twenty-two men had come down the side thier allies had just been destoyed in while another sixteen men came from the opposite.  The remaining boarding party now surrounding Shazam, Jack, Laguna, and Chip would was standing tall in the center of the group and acting like a turrent in then center of a cruiser.  The group progressed down the only open hallways now, which was now filled with about six men who were about to be followed up by twenty before a perfectly time detonation went off from the exterier of the ship.  Almost all of them were thrown into an open entryway which had a sliding door that came down from on top.  Four of five managed to knock themselves out into the walls.  The door that had been open just seconds before came crashing down, locking as it hit. 

The entire group of imperials crashed into the side of the walls, the armored men on the outside protected the rest of the group from any real injuries while the remaing rebels, now enclosing together and being forced into a bottleneck by the small hallway, collapsed together and continued trying to get up.

Shazam decided to use one of his small explosives that was hooked to his vest to see if he couldn't get rid of some of the pursuers.  He unclipped the small rectangular bomb and placed on the ground were the magnets clung to it for dear life.  The rest of the group managed to pass over it safely, and Shazam stuck his arm out for a moment to tap the top which bevelled down for a moment, then popped back up, the samll red light on top blinked mischeviously, picking up speed... 

The imperials now rushed down the hall at Shazam' warning of the explosion, but his instruction to take a right was mistaken to take a left when the small device suddenly burst into a series of fireworks that killed several men instantly, many charged through though and continued firing as quickly as possible.  The back of the rebels were leabing over the dead bodies of thier comrades attempting to catchup with the group who had not been affected by the blast but were simply blinded by smoke. 

Holy hell...  An elevator, yes.  As he began to step in, Laguna held out his arm and tugged on Shazam's flight suite.  "I'm dying over here and your about to kill us all.  If this place is as secure as you think it is, do you really think it would be very smart to take a lift thats controlled from the bridge and probably watched...?"

Shazam slapped himself on the forehead as another man suddenly fell next to him, the few remaing board men enclosed the gap and began an array of fire... 

"Then we'll take the stairs!" he said, screaming at the top of his lungs, unable to hear himself even then as more explosinos went off and more fire fight ensued. 

About twenty feet downt he hall was a small stairwell that skipped every other floor, so it would be no use to them, but the group didn't know that so they simply ran up it quickly.  Shazam glanced back as he swung the door open, now out in the open facing three more open hallways which were bound to be filled with men, he noticed there were now only two board party members left and the fighter pilots, but Jack had just been saved by his metallic hand as a bolt made haste for his head; he had been trying to drag Laguna on and was wiping some sweat from his forhead as a wisp of smoke suddenly floated innocently from it. 

"IN here!"  yelled Shazam.  They let off a few more blast, another board member dropped leaving only the nervous captain who seemed to be one hell of a fire fighter since the battle had erupted.  Climbing the stairwell at full speed, Shazam noticed that they were about to skip a floor and stopped the group.  Everyone now turned downwards and reigned bolts of energy upon the incoming intruders.  Chip kept glancing upward as to make sure no one would come from that end.

Shazam had gone up and felt the wall, moisture...  Not as much, but still quite a bit for just wandering around inside of an MC-80...  Man, they'd travelled down atleast two or three hallways worth, there was no telling how large this thing was.  Without even thinking to consider, Shazam opened up the breifcase before him and set the door explosive against the wall.  A large cirular peice of metal attached to the very spot he put it, magnetic?  He couldnt' atually be sure...  Four smaller explosive ends detached from the sides and were connected by a wire that would set them off into the wall.  Shazam pulled them out about four feet from the center and took a step back as he input the order to explode.  Everyone moved back a little although all the energy went directly into the wall, showering pieces of shrapnel through to the other side.  There was a muffled sound of explosion, and smoke filled the room as more fire began above them.  Shazam had covered his ears expetantly, but glanced back as a bolt grazed his right hip, sending him to the ground. 

A six feet wide six feet tall hole was now sitting in the center of the wall, debris scattered about the entire area, and the body of a young women who was dressed very well lay in the ruins.  She was ganna be dead by the end of this battle anyways, he thought, trying to barder his guilt.  Shazam found he couldn't get up from his laying position though until Chip had propped him up next to him, together they climbed through the hole the last remaining imperial boarding member stayed behind trying to stop the now charging rebels; Laguna still being held on tightly by Jack's metallic arm was dragged in through the hole and followed behind Chip who was now holding Shazam up. 

"We've gotta get something for that wound, and I mean fast man...  Someone got you good," said Chip, surveying the damage. 

"Med-packs are for woosies..." he said indignant to Chip's concerns.  Chip ingnored it and spun around for a moment to watch the boarding parties captain fire his last shot in a war cry of glory, now with a fully automatic repeating blaster he had managed to pick up along the way.  With a deafening roar, he suddenly collapsed as the now massive amount of Rebels charged through the entrance overtaking him.  The four remaining imperials jumped to the side to protect themselves. 

Chip reached down onto Shazam' vest and pulled off another mini-exposive, pushed it down quickly and tossed it into the surging mob of rebels.  The entire area burst white for a moment as many were forced back through the hole in the wall creating a road block for the rebels still stuck on the otherside.  Six still remained on the side containing the pilots though, but Jack made short work them by surprising them behind the a corner as they passed to try and capture Chip and Shazam.  They fell mercilessly to the hand of Jack, but they did not die without others to see it becuase they group stuck behind dead bodies were now filtering thier way through. 

Jack picked up Laguna, he had his blaster out and was firing at anyone who crept through to the entrance, and sprinted towards Chip who was already halfway down the hall and reaching a highly fortified door.  He had wasted no time on this one and unclipped all of the remaining mini-bombs to the hinges and ran back to Shazam who he had laid in a corner.  Shazam had mustered up enough streangth to throw one of his last grenades into the army of insurgents... 

The two explosives, one on the door and the other exploding in the midst of rebel troopers, ignited unanimously and triumphantly.  The door protecting the precious water on board suddenly dropped from the very position it had been sitting and fell forward.  Chip dragged Shazam's near delirious body into the room as Jack let off a burst of fire into the crowd of rebels who were now flinging themselves into the blaster fire like morons. 

Dragging Laguna as Chip had Shazam, he continued to hold the trigger towards the man-made entrance at the end of the hall while making his way to the entrance. 

Once inside, Chip laid Shazam against the entrance, he had snuck his blaster around the corner and was now providing Jack with the necessary cover fire as he pulled Laguna threw the door with both hands. 

The ship was rocked once again by enemy fire and more men flew from their position, more dramatically then ever, Chip found himself flying onto a glass case of water about a block long...  Jack flipped over the railing that led down a stairs into the water compartment.  Shazam glanced at the sheer size of the thing as Laguna threated to roll off the platform he was sitting on.  The room was absolutely huge, one of the largest swimming pools he'd ever seen, he throught to himself as men now ran from the opposite hallway.  Shazam, held the trigger and many of them died at that moment.  The group that was coming now stopped and hid behind the corner thinking there was some kind of rapid fire army barricading themselves within the waterworld. 

Chip sat up, regaining contiousness after completely blacking out and disappearing for about a minute.  He immedietly remembered what was going on and checked to see how Shazam was doing, which was bad and under heavy fire but he figured he'd just get the job done, reguardless of whether they survived or not.  Maybe this was the end, probably, Shazam seemed to accept it pretty well as he savigly ripped into the rebel forces now attack from both sides.  Shazam could only attack one side at a time, well, for a moment.  That was before he now no longer cared about even getting out and unslung his flamethrower which he brandished with malice.  Holding that trigger as well as the fire mechanism on the E/11 pointing the opposite direction.  The entire right side of the hallway was encased in flames and death while the other simply continued to pour death... 

Shazam was beggining to lose continousness though and moved began dropping his blaster although still holding the trigger. 

Chip had made his way to where all the pipe began to expore the ship and disconnected a coolent wire about four inches thick from the wall.  Chip climbed onto a small scafold as the ice came boring out in a gaseous form, he had taken his blaster to the glass casing around which the water was being stored and punctured it just slightly.  Throwing the rubber tubing upon the hold, it sunk into the water for a moment without any reaction; Jack had set Laguna underneath the stairwell which Shazam was loosing the ability to see on top.  The coolent suddenly turned the water to ice and a stream of ice suddenly pread through the entire system and through the piping of the side in which the imperials found themselves.  After about a half a minute of freezing, several cracks could be heard on that side of the ship, Jack could even here it over the fire of the enemy as he tried to help Shazam.  Laguna, although slipping into deep sleep from his wound even heard the cracks.  The pipes in the wall closest to Chip began to expand and then pieces began to fall, larger and larger.  Suddenly, an area of pipes exploded with shame exposing an entrance to the floor which all the imperials had originally entered on. 

A leak of hope!  Chip sprinted to Laguna who was just gone all of the sudden and screamed to Jack to get Shazam.  Jack let off a furocious round of fire and picked up his friend on his shoulder and sprinted down the stairs to where Chip had jumped off and found his exit.  The rebels poured into the area blasting everything and were dropped from twenty feet as Shazam's vest that had been left behind burst into flames underneath the stairwell. 

The four imperials leaped through the open hole and now flew down the hall in which they knew thier ships were still awaiting.  Chip had Laguna and was sprinting towards his ship in the hanger bay which was surrounded by rebels investigating the fighter.  The imperial pilot burst through the entrance with a second wind and began to fire with amazing accuracy, the adrenenline was pumping through him as it had never before. 

"Get out of my ship!" he screamed at the man who was about to rip open the controls and was now standing through the hatch.  He jumped out quickly and still found himself laying on the ground crippled by the intense burns of a blaster.  Chip jumped into the ship, throwing Laguna behind the seat powered up his figher and made way, speechless at his performance and the fact he'd managed to get out without any real injuries. 

Shazam was still in the midst of battle with Jack though, he was racing for his own fighter when his commanding officer told him to take a right. 

"What?  Are you insane, the fighters right there man!"  Yes, infact there wasn't a single being alive in the hanger bay, but Shazam demanded he take him to Page, his loyal Viper which probably be more able to get the out through the battle alive to one of the ISDs.  Jack didn't bother to argue and started sprinting.

As he reached the entrance to the hanger bay, he found non here either except for two ment trying to cut open a door to a utility shed within the hanger.  Shazam dismissed them as he pulled his blaster and let them have it.  At that point, he closed his eyes and slept, losing life...

Jack jumped into the ship and he found it was sittin in idle, waiting for its owner to return with good news.  Instead, he found a total stranger with his owner draped over his shoulders, but felt compelled to fly none the less.  A legion of men suddenly burst into the hanger bay formed combined fire upon the small fighter.

The ship roared to life as Jack threw Shazam over the seat and turned the engine... 

The fighter rose from where it sat and floated, Jack still trying to figure out the controls to the fighter, a bit new to him...  His spun it around slowly as the shields starting moving down very steeply, the rebels now had about twenty or thirty men sitting in the hanger bay just firing at the ship. 

Fully turned, Shazam glanced up coming out of his coma for just a second, looking at the endless expanse of space and the ongoing battle he was sure to return to as soon as he was healed up.  He dropped just then as Jack pushed the throttle to full and they fled the hanger bay...

(Kind of rushed it there at the end...  But oh well.  Got the job done...)
 
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*Flash Was Here...*

CMDR/WO1 Shazam/Nazgul 1-1/Phoenix Wing/mSSD Atrus/1VENF/VEN (=A=) [LoM] [LSM]

Laguna arose in the small compartment in the back of the fighter as they turned and he slammed into the wall.  His head throbbed with an enormous pain.  He looked around the seat to see one of his fellow pilots at the cock-pit position.  It was chip.  One of the people in the Navy that Laguna really didn't know much about.

Another shot of pain ran through his body.  He looked down at his arm.  From a few inches from the elbow down, it was gone.  He remembered back to the interrogation.  Why me? he thought.  Why me?

Chip looked back for a moment and realized that Laguna had awoken.

"Good to see you're back around.  Shaz is down too, but not as bad as you it seems.  We are taking you back to the Devastator.

Laguna mumbled a bit, the words wouldn't come out.  He tried to lift his head to say something, but he blacked out again.

(OOC:Not really much I could do with this.....)
 
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Laguna Loire
Leader of Nazgul Flight 3
Vast Empire Navy
FL/LCRW Laguna/Nazgul 3-1/Wing I/mSSD Atrus/VEN/VE (=A=)
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Ex-soldier turned journalist, Laguna is a strong willed man with amazing energy. His compassion for the unfortunate drivers him to help the weak and bring down their oppressors.