Damiann47

The End (Engel & Damiann47)

Hope you don't mind a long one, also I had to take some liberties in order to make this happen, again hope you don't mind too much.

The End (Engel & Damiann47)

They were already down two pilots, while they have managed to take down a few of them, it really wasn't nearly enough. Through her communications system Tania received her orders from the wing leader, they were to engage in an offensive retreat, after all they were still supposed to slow down the Squid advance, couldn't forget they were acting as the rearguard. Tania pushed her mech into a backwards flight, moving away from the battle, but still facing the enemy, there she was continuing to provide fire support. Another Squid quickly became nothing more than a floating hunk of metal, although this was another one of the chargers, probably wasn't going to make much difference.

Throughout the fight Tania had been observing a practically skilled Squid fighter, no matter what they threw at it the pilot was able to evade everything. It became clear if they wanted to survive, that Squid had to die, and even more importantly by taking away one of their more skilled pilots, the Squids become that much weaker in the future. Tania was confidant in her marksman skills, especially with computer assisted targeting she should eventually land a shot. So the Squid Ace became the focus of her attacks, slug after slug was fired at it, yet each time she failed to connect.

Tania kept up her assault, hoping to become the target of the Ace's wrath, much easier to take it on directly than attempting to hunt it around the battlefield. (Hope you don't mind me taking a little control of Chynn here.) After a few more shots, it seemed she succeeded, the Squid was starting to seriously engage her. Tania upped her thruster power, and started heading in the direction of VH-28, away from the rest of her wing. They were hurting pretty badly as is, if she were to be unable to defeat the Ace... and die, then maybe she can at least buy them some time.

Tania's mech wasn't nearly as agile as the Squid made craft, in a straight up dogfight she would quickly lose. The Ace's weapons proved to be quite powerful, but it seemed they couldn't exactly punch through her heavy armor at a long enough range. This was good, it meant she had some fighting edge here. All the while Tania was still flying backwards, still constantly firing, and still constantly missing time after time. It was no good, she was starting to lose space, her rail gun simply wasn't fast enough to catch such a swift target. It was then Tania had an idea, it was a stupid idea, and probably one that would get her killed, yet she wasn't in any position to do anything else.

The pilot started the process of bypassing the safeguards built into her weapon, these were power limiters designed to make sure the rifle wouldn't literally melt itself, but without them in reality it could fire with much more force at a higher velocity. When the last limiter was deactivated, the effects were already noticeable. The gun's rails and coils started to glow faintly, obviously from the overwhelming charge flowing through them. Tania waited for just a little longer, a little longer to build up as much energy before her weapon would ultimately fail... then fired.

The slug was launched at unbelievable speeds, much too fast for her to even see with the naked eye. This time the Ace had no opportunity to maneuver, no normal sentient being could. Unfortunately the shot went a bit wide, probably due to the warping of the barrel, yet it still hit. The blow took off both of the mech's lower wings, while Tania didn't exactly understand Squid engineering, she knew they probably had to be important for movement, meaning without them the craft was unable to control it's direction anymore.

Tania was almost about to celebrate, she didn't kill the Ace, but she landed a serious blow to it, yet suddenly her cockpit was filled with the sounds of blaring alarms. She pulled up the mech's diagnostics, her heart instantly dropped. Engine failure. She was overusing her thrusters at such a high power for way too long, the entire system quite literally burned out. Next she found her navigational data, again she was filled with even more dread. Good news, she wasn't about to float in nothingness until she'll eventually expire, but instead she was on a direct collision course with VH-28. Her relative speed was so high that she will reach the celestial body in the matter of minutes even given her long distance from it. Tania was absolutely stuck on the course, there was nothing she could do about this.

Dragged Into the Darkness [Leysos & Damiann47]

Edit: I just read your post. You really must have your drive back, as it's probably the best post I've seen from you thus far. Keep it up, dude!

@Leysos

My secret is tons of Two Steps from Hell while writing. Well I've always done that, but it helps to get a great rhythm going for me.

Dragged Into the Darkness [Leysos & Damiann47]

Hey to anyone who reads these posts, I really won't mind if you come out and say something on the OOC, especially if you come here often. I'm dying to know if there are fans, or if I'm just going crazy.

Dragged Into the Darkness [Leysos & Damiann47]

By the way if you read my status, I'm seriously wondering if we got fans or something, because I usually see guests on our thread when either of us post. If that is the case, and some people regularly read our stuff, that's honestly kind of cool, just saying.

Dragged Into the Darkness [Leysos & Damiann47]

@Leysos

Surprise, the more I thought about those sides stories the more I didn't like them, don't know just felt like it took something away from the main RP. Well, sorry for being whishy washy, and made you run around a bit for nothing, guess I just keep having a change of heart.

Good news is along the way I found my zeal again, my solution was trying to angle for more romance progression, that's something that will get somewhere. Don't worry I'm not going to force it out, but it seemed to me after Jeremy's magic got revealed, and hell how Rena physically dried his pants because she's a little weird, they clicked in a major way, plus this was a big milestone right? Things are going to start changing, at least on Rena's side, it would be odd if nothing shifted after what happened.

Anyway enough of my rambling, let's get this back on track.

Dragged Into the Darkness [Leysos & Damiann47]

Thirty minutes later the two were crouched around Rena's coffee table, it was this or sit on the floor, well Rena didn't want to eat right off the carpet so tiny coffee table it was. Her choice of Chinese cuisine was General Tao's Chicken and fried rice, with the everyday complimentary egg roll packed along with it, all inside the same styrofoam take-out box. Rena took their orders and ran to the restaurant, which was only a block down the street to pick up their food, it was a bit cheaper this way since she didn't need to pay for delivery fees.

In her hand was a pair of plastic chopsticks, she kept her own rather than relying on the typical disposable ones, she also offered another pair to Jeremy, in case he liked using chopsticks as well, wouldn't be surprising at all. For the most part it was a very normal meal, at least to Rena, the same jokes were being said, the same jabs at each other, it was amazing really that their friendship hasn't noticeably changed... you know on account of the groundbreaking revelation that happen just that day. While Rena absolutely did not want to bring the subject up, out of respect for Jeremy more than anything else, she was also dying to learn more.

Images of the ice bolt kept repeating itself in her mind, the idea of magic being real was seriously ludicrous, even if she saw it with her own eyes. In all honestly in a different situation she would probably be hysterical right now, Rena knew herself well enough, but with Jeremy it was different, hell maybe the very reason it was Jeremy made all the difference. That got her thinking, she was always loyal to friends, there was no question about that, but even for a friend it was stretching it, to trust them with magic and all that.

It was during this line of thinking Rena realized something, she actually really likes the guy... but in the greatest best friend kind of way, right? Ever since they met a month ago they have been spending a lot of together, they mesh well, at least she thought so, and they shared some core interests. Yeah, she did start hanging out with him out of sympathy, to help a nervous guy like him to find some confidence, but somewhere down the line he had become a critical part of her life really, the mere fact she took his secret so well had to be proof of that.

"I wonder what kind of girls he likes..." The words slipped from Rena's lips without any real conscious thinking on her part, call it a Freudian slip. Imminently she wanted to take them back and pass it off as a joke, anything like that really, then she stopped herself. Why was she even thinking this in the first place? Rena cleared her throat. "Ah, uh... yeah... what sort of girls do you like?

What in hell was she trying to do?

The End (Engel & Damiann47)

Figured to keep the combat going for a little longer. If you feel like getting a move on, feel free to progress the plot on your post, otherwise I'll do it in my next one.

The End (Engel & Damiann47)

Tania scanned the battle scene using both her sensors and her own eyes, a quick count showed they were outnumbered two to one... not the most favorable conditions to be fighting in, especially with their objectively sub par equipment. This meant they had to make up the difference through superior skill, tactics and honestly with a bit of luck, actually a lot of luck, but that's how interstellar war usually was. She decided she had enough looking around, Tania leaned forward and flicked a few switches, on her cockpit view a targeting reticle appeared. Even in the pressurized cabin she could hear the quiet hum from her main weapon, a massive rail gun, because it placed so much strain on the mech's reactor it had to be kept off when not in action.

In a matter of seconds the gun's electromagnetic rails were fully warmed up, and ready to fire. It was then Tania picked out her first opponent, a Squid outfitted with one of those large swords they seemed so fond of, in fact this very one was attempting to charge her from a long distance. It never made sense, why do the Squids throw themselves so willingly into a melee, even when it's more than likely they'll be gunned down before the could enter close range. Tania brought the over sized rifle up, aiming directly at the berserk Squid. Now at this distance it was probably a done deal she'll hit, more so if the Squid doesn't change it's path, yet she wasn't about to take the risk of missing. Instead she allowed the targeting computer to give her a firing solution, slowly the reticle narrowed until eventually it flashed green, indicating the computer found the best angle to use.

Tania popped open a capsule on the side of her throttle control, much in the style of old school sci-fi movies, whatever engineer designed this had to be nostalgic. Her thumb hovered over the button for a second, before she caught her hesitation then slammed down on it. The rail gun's blast shook the mech something fierce, not enough to topple it over, but more than enough to shake Tania around in her seat. The large slug catapulted through empty space until it found it's mark, she wasn't quite able to tell where it hit, but it was enough damage to take a huge chuck out of the Squid mech's side. Whatever pilot was in there had to be dead, and if it wasn't dead it's craft was effectively disabled. Automatically the used shell popped out the gun's back, the metal glowed white hot from the sheer energy it had to endure, as for the rifle itself, well it had already cooled down thanks to state of the art coolant technology.

The End (Engel & Damiann47)

Cool, so how do you want to play it out from here? Have some good old mech combat for a few posts, or go straight to how they will end up crash landing.