May 2nd, 2366 Planet Crematoria
"Enter" beckoned James Korban as he stood apon the observation deck, starring into space. "Sir, the techies have done what they can on the BladeDancer but without supplies of Illumnium they have only been able to put out the fires and fix the electrical damage, we should return to Mars after we are done this opperation" replied Sergeant Kitomi Ammune. "Peacfull isnt it" commented Korban.
"What?"
"Space, from a distance it all looks so peacful, and would be if it were not for mankind" answered Korban. "If it were not for General Longblade, Helen's people would have escaped before The Fist's attacked and obliterated them!" replied Kitomi. "Yes, I know that it must be done, I only hope he would see reason, his rebellion lacks purpose. I know that your family was killed in that attack, I have had a similar experience" re-assured James. Kitomi ran up to the balcony and stared him right in the eyes "HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT!". " I have my sources, but it is of little concern, you will need to keep your cool for the battle ahead. Krasian's ship is arriving soon, you'd best get to the Aeris, its going to be a long day."
-- Unregistered Ship Doomsday, entering high-orbit over planet Crematoria, 0700 hours --
Space distorted and sparked as Krasian Longblade's cruiser arrived for refueling. "Sorry we couldnt meet you at the coordinates, our space-fold drive has been having problems" apoligized the fueling ship. "Its ok we're on our approach." replied Krasian. "Sir, they have launched a nuke!" yelled one of his crewman. Suddenly the ship was hit hard and its shields dissabled. "Deploy the squadron!" ordered Krasian.
Suddenly 4 more space distortions formed and out came 3 TAU 4's and the Aeris, which quickly began destroying the ships armaments. Krasians forces quickly overcame the TAU 4's, only to have the Aeris destroy 5 of his men and dissable the engines, sending the ship hurtling towards the planet.
-- Czerka Mine Site #5643, Planet Crematoria, 1100 hours--
"He's pretty well dug in" observed the recently released Mike Corvin. The mining complex had been abandoned for a good century due to something that has remained secret to even this day. The forces slowly began to advance around the east side of the mountain and Corvin,the TAU 4's and Aeirs on the mountain. "Darn those bastards recovered an Anti-Air truck" remarked Kitomi. She quickly rose the Aerise up a good 100 meters off the top of the hill and destroyed the missiles as they aproached her and launched her LRMS into the truck, disabling it. Dragons suddenly launched for the far side of the cruise and came at them, only taking out one TAU before they were destroyed. Kitomi flew the Aeris back and began to attack the forces station on the spaceport, desabling one knight who wasnt paying attention. She was about to home in on Krasian when she was suddenly hit from the side by a Punisher equipped with railguns. Her battlesuit slammed into the cliff face and plummeted to the ground.
Meanwhile things were looking even worse for the ground forces. Their 2 forward scouts were impaled by cloaked trinnium longswords, leaving their comrades to shoot at open. Mike dropped down and using the neural interface becan hacking through the invisible foes with his new Illumnium greatsword. "This is Corvin to Lonestar, we need a repair ship down here ASAP" orderd Corvin."Aye, sir we are sending one down" came the reply.
5 Knights launched from the Space port and swarmed and eventually defeated the TAU's, losing only 2 in the conflict. Suddenly one the pilots saw a flicker of blue through the smoke and the next minute his battlesuit was being sent flying backward across the battlefield in pieces. The other 2 shared a similar fate. Noticiting Krasian's Battlesuit on the the roof of the Space port, Genereal Korban quickly headed down.
"So we meet again!" yelled Krasian as their blades locked sending sparks into the air. "Why have you betrayed the UNSC!" questioned Korban as he came in for another attack."It is not the UNSC that should have been!"shot back Krasian as he parried the attack and lunged back onto a neerby mountain "The UNSC must be unified if there is to be peace!". Krasian unloaded the Gargantum II's guns into empty air as the Bladedancer easily dodged them and came in for another attack. "Then why did you rebel!" wondered James as their blades locked once more...
To Be Continued...