Sat Aug 27, 2005 8:11 am
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Ch.9
Alvaro sees images from his past dreams, mostly that of the mysterious aliens. He sees them disappearing, years passing, and strange conversations.
“They’re coming….” “Man the turrets!!!” “WARNING!” “Wake that idiot up!”
He feels a jolt of pain, and slowly he wakes. All he sees is black, which gradually brightens to show some iron bars. He turns his head to the left, and sees two men throwing trash at him.
“How does the rat like that!” said the guard
“That’s probably the most food he’s seen in one place!” said the other
Alvaro turns his head away, and looks to the left, and can see a hallway leading off into somewhere. He can hear the explosions of the battle as distant ”Booms”, and the blares of the intercom. Alvaro looks around, and sees that the guards are still there. He then hears the sound of a door sliding open. The guards fall silent and go over to the wall. He can see the shadow of something approaching. The mysterious person steps into Alvaro’s range of view, and he can clearly see his shape; a tall, massive man with a blond military cut with a long, black cape with the Hessian Insignia imprinted into it, as well as an eye patch on his right eye. He steps over to Alvaro’s chair, grabs Alvaro’s chin, spits right into Alvaro’s face.
“I’m not sure why we bothered to dig you out of that mess”, he said, “We should’ve just let you burned with that tin can”
The man turns Alvaro’s face over to the left, and can see Alvaro’s eye patch.
“Oh Ho!” he said, “It seems you’ve seen your share of combat!”
The man reaches over to his trench coat and pulls out a remote and pushes a button. Alvaro can hear some sliding, and the man turns around his chair. Alvaro can see a television mounted on the wall. It shows the battle and pans around towards Crete. What Alvaro sees causes his only eye to widen up; He can see massive fires on certain areas of the cities of the planet.
“Why!” he yelled out, “Why the hell are you doing this!”
The man punches Alvaro, sending him to fly off his chair. He tries to get up, but both his legs and arms are tied up.
“What we do is our own business!” said the man, “but since these moments will be your last moments alive, I’ll tell you. Someone sometime ago approached us with a very intriguing offer. He approached our commander in Vogtland, and offered a large amount of credits- 10,000,000,000 for the extermination of the Corsairs, and 50,000,000 upfront for supplies. We don’t know why he wanted you guys dead or why he’d be willing to give out so much money, but we didn’t give a damn. We confirmed the guy had that many credits, so we’d work for him no matter what. We used the money to buy off blueprints for these warships you’ve been fighting. They look the same but they aren’t as any where close as powerful as the Rheinland navy’s, but the get the job done nonetheless! And plus, we’d have you guys off our side and have some new places for our ring…”
That’s all Alvaro needed to hear. His train of thought drifted off, and the man’s words didn’t seem to matter. Alvaro wondered “Who’d want us dead? Even the Bretonians won’t go as low as a full blown extermination…”
The man kicks Alvaro in the stomach, sending him flying into the bars.
“That’ll probably be the last time I’ll ever get to hit a Corsair like that…”, he said.
He makes a gesture to the two men outside the prison cell, and leaves. The two men salute him, and come inside. They grab Alvaro and drag him out of the cell, and go down the hall. Alvaro lifts his head up to the wall above him, and sees the words
“Airlock”
“Crap...”, thought Alvaro, “I’m in a really big mess now… How will I get out of this mess?”
The men drag him towards a gate, and punch some numbers into a keypad. The door opens up to lead to another door, where he proceeds to another keypad to open the door. It opens to lead to another door, and they start pushing Alvaro towards there. They get a knife out, and break Alvaro out of his bonds, and push him to the ground.
“We weren’t supposed to do that”, said one guard, “But it’ll sure be funny to see you squirm!”
They start leading him to the last door, and Alvaro gets nervous.
“Could this be it? Is this really the end of my life! It can’t be…”
The door looms closer, and Alvaro closes his eyes, preparing for the inevitable.
Suddenly, an explosion erupts and rocks the ship, and throws the three in different directions. Alvaro looks at the two guards, who are against the furthest door. He struggles over to the control pad, and raises himself to the keypad. He hits a button, and a warning alarm goes off in two languages
“WARNING! AIRLOCK DOORS ARE OPENING!” and again in another language that Alvaro can’t understand. The two guards pull themselves up and go towards Alvaro, but the door shuts in front of them. He can hear the banging of the guards on the door, and then a deafening scream cut silent instantly. Alvaro takes a sigh of relief, and makes his way back down the hall, and struggles back to his jail cell. He reaches down to a pipe that the guards had thrown at him, and picks it up. He looks up at the sign, and another sign points to “armory”. A small grin goes across his face, and he goes towards the door to the armory. He knocks on it, and puts himself against the wall. A guard comes out of the room, and looks off to the other direction saying “Anyone there?” Alvaro grabs his pipe, and slams it into the back of the guard’s head. The guard falls over into the wall, and Alvaro grabs his legs and drags him into the room. He ties the man up and puts him in a locker. Alvaro goes over to the munitions rack, and grabs 4 weapons- two pistols, one assault rifle, and a shotgun. He starts making his way down to the hall, and starts thinking of things to do.
“Should I go for the hangar bay?”
“But then I’d still have to fight this battleship…”
“Maybe I should go up to the bridge…”
Alvaro goes into a small storage closet, and thinks about what to do next.
“It’d be better for me to go to the bridge, and bring this big bird down…”
He grins, and stands up, and makes his way to the elevators. He goes down the hall, and can see the elevators down in the distance. He steps towards them, and presses the down button. He stands there, and can hear some whirring. He turns around, and can see the camera behind him. He focuses on to its lenses, and can see them moving.
“Oh ****…”
Alarms start blaring off, and the intercom system begins to say
“WARNING! WARNING! INTRUDER SPOTTED ABOARD THE SHIP! HUNT HIM DOWN!”
Alvaro’s heart begins to thud, and he sweats uncontrollably.
“Crap…”, he thought to himself, “Now the place is going to be swarming…”
Alvaro keeps a hand on his pistol, and the elevator comes down. The door slides open and the guard standing there reaches for his weapon. Alvaro pulls out his pistol quickly, and shoots into his face. Blood gushes out every where, and splatters all over Alvaro’s face.
“Didn’t know these things were that messy…”, he said to himself.
He reaches down into the man’s uniform, trying to not to look into his shattered face. He pulls out some weaponry, and a keycard. He looks up at the elevator buttons, and presses the one labeled “bridge”. Alvaro gets out his Assault Rifle, and puts it to aim in front of him. The elevator opens up, and Alvaro unloads a barrage of bullets. Some guards in front of him fall down to the ground, riddled with bullets. He pulls out his shotgun, and aim at the guards above him. He shoots one, who falls down into the pit, and rolls behind a computer. Gunshots erupt, and Alvaro shoots up on the walkway above him, shooting the two guards on it. He aims up onto the platform above him, and shoots three guards. More gunshots erupt, and Alvaro looks up above him. He can see a cape, and can here some buttons being pressed.
“There’s that bastard!”, he said to himself.
The man then runs across the walkway, and gets into the door before he could shoot him. The other guards follow, not bothering to shoot him. Alvaro stands up and makes his way up to the platform above to the control panel. He stands and looks at the console, and suddenly the ship begins to turn. Alvaro looks into the window, and sees that it is turning towards Crete.
“What the hell!”, he thought to himself, “This thing’s going on a suicide course! Unless…”
Alvaro pushes more buttons on the command console, and brings up the cargo bay contents. He scrolls down, and sees an item that catches his attention.
“Chemicals”
“If this thing goes and blows up in the atmosphere… Those chemicals will disperse, and kill us all…”
Alvaro pushes buttons frantically, trying to control the ship. He brings up the map for autopilot, and touches the ships near him.
“WARNING! THE SHIP’S TRAJECTORY COURSE IS NOT SAFE! ABO…”
Alvaro shoots into the control panel, and the ship begins to turn towards the nearest group of battleships. The ship turns away from Crete.
He runs across the walkway, and opens the door. He runs down the hallway, and sees the sign: “Railway to Hanger Bay”.
He makes his way down a hall and opens a massive door. The room has a massive rail system, with only one car remaining. Two guards try to run to it, and Alvaro runs as well. The guards go in, and Alvaro jumps in with them. The car blasts off, and the guards engage Alvaro. Alvaro punches one, and then grabs him and throws him off the car. His screams fill the hall, and the sound of the man being electrocuted. The other guard lands a kick on Alvaro, sending him to the front of the car. The guard pulls out a knife and jumps on Alvaro. He tires to slit Alvaro’s throat, but Alvaro grabs his wrist. The two try and get an edge over each other, and the guard slowly pulls the knife towards Alvaro.
“Damn…”, Alvaro thought to himself, “That idiot is really going to kill me”
Alvaro then remembers an old move his brother thought him, and gets his legs into position. He lands a powerful kick into the groin, grabs the man, and throws him off the car. Alvaro takes a sigh of relief, and makes his way over to the command console. He puts up the speed, and the car blasts towards the door in the front. Alvaro can see the ships of the hangar bay looming in front of him, and some empty rail cars blasting back towards the bridge. The hangar bay door starts to close, and Alvaro gets nervous.
“NOO!”, he thought to himself, “I have to get through that door!”
Alvaro pushes the speed control to maximum, and lies on the floor. The rail car goes fast, and runs right off the rail, and flies through the hangar bay door into hangar bay. Alvaro pokes his head out, and can see Sabres lifting off. A guard runs right by him, not bothering to kill him. Alvaro looks around, and sees his Titan in a corner, fully repaired. He runs over to it, and sees a guard running for it. He pulls out his assault rifle and shoots the man in his head. He jumps into the cockpit, and blasts towards the hangar bay door. He blasts through the Hangar Bay door, and looks behind him. The battleship begins to blast towards another battleship, and collides into it. The battleship ruptures, and explodes into a massive green explosion. The other ships around it spin out of control into Crete and burn up into the atmosphere. The other battleship goes towards Crete, and disappears into the atmosphere. Some blasts hit him, and he turns his ship around. There are three Sabre looming right in front of him, and the center one hails him, and a picture of a blond man with an eye patch appears- the Commander.
“YOU BASTARD!”, he said, “You ruined my plans! But no matter, you’ll be destroyed soon by me and my two greatest fighters! You’ll regret the day you crossed paths with Commander Otto the scythe!”
“Crap…”, Alvaro thought to himself, “ There’s no way I can handle those three by myself…”
Another Titan pulls up next to Alvaro, and hails him.
“HEY!”, he said, “You’re alive! Thank GOD!”
“DAD!”, yelled Alvaro, “What are you doing here?”
“What do you think? I’m here to help you fight those two bastards!”, he said.
A Valkrie comes up next to him on the other side
“Van Clausen!”, said Alvaro
“Hey kid!” said Van Clausen, “You’ve already gone through your share of fun, now it’s my turn!”
“Cut the chatter!”, said the Hessian, “It’s time for you guys to die!”
The ships begin to get closer to each other, and Alvaro gets his hand on the trigger. He wipes his sweat of his face, and touches his eye patch.
“Time to rumble!”, said Otto
End Ch. 9
Feedback appreciated.
Edited by - MercZ on 8/27/2005 9:13:05 AM
Edited by - MercZ on 8/27/2005 9:13:57 AM
Edited by - MercZ on 8/29/2005 3:45:48 PM
Ch.9
Alvaro sees images from his past dreams, mostly that of the mysterious aliens. He sees them disappearing, years passing, and strange conversations.
“They’re coming….” “Man the turrets!!!” “WARNING!” “Wake that idiot up!”
He feels a jolt of pain, and slowly he wakes. All he sees is black, which gradually brightens to show some iron bars. He turns his head to the left, and sees two men throwing trash at him.
“How does the rat like that!” said the guard
“That’s probably the most food he’s seen in one place!” said the other
Alvaro turns his head away, and looks to the left, and can see a hallway leading off into somewhere. He can hear the explosions of the battle as distant ”Booms”, and the blares of the intercom. Alvaro looks around, and sees that the guards are still there. He then hears the sound of a door sliding open. The guards fall silent and go over to the wall. He can see the shadow of something approaching. The mysterious person steps into Alvaro’s range of view, and he can clearly see his shape; a tall, massive man with a blond military cut with a long, black cape with the Hessian Insignia imprinted into it, as well as an eye patch on his right eye. He steps over to Alvaro’s chair, grabs Alvaro’s chin, spits right into Alvaro’s face.
“I’m not sure why we bothered to dig you out of that mess”, he said, “We should’ve just let you burned with that tin can”
The man turns Alvaro’s face over to the left, and can see Alvaro’s eye patch.
“Oh Ho!” he said, “It seems you’ve seen your share of combat!”
The man reaches over to his trench coat and pulls out a remote and pushes a button. Alvaro can hear some sliding, and the man turns around his chair. Alvaro can see a television mounted on the wall. It shows the battle and pans around towards Crete. What Alvaro sees causes his only eye to widen up; He can see massive fires on certain areas of the cities of the planet.
“Why!” he yelled out, “Why the hell are you doing this!”
The man punches Alvaro, sending him to fly off his chair. He tries to get up, but both his legs and arms are tied up.
“What we do is our own business!” said the man, “but since these moments will be your last moments alive, I’ll tell you. Someone sometime ago approached us with a very intriguing offer. He approached our commander in Vogtland, and offered a large amount of credits- 10,000,000,000 for the extermination of the Corsairs, and 50,000,000 upfront for supplies. We don’t know why he wanted you guys dead or why he’d be willing to give out so much money, but we didn’t give a damn. We confirmed the guy had that many credits, so we’d work for him no matter what. We used the money to buy off blueprints for these warships you’ve been fighting. They look the same but they aren’t as any where close as powerful as the Rheinland navy’s, but the get the job done nonetheless! And plus, we’d have you guys off our side and have some new places for our ring…”
That’s all Alvaro needed to hear. His train of thought drifted off, and the man’s words didn’t seem to matter. Alvaro wondered “Who’d want us dead? Even the Bretonians won’t go as low as a full blown extermination…”
The man kicks Alvaro in the stomach, sending him flying into the bars.
“That’ll probably be the last time I’ll ever get to hit a Corsair like that…”, he said.
He makes a gesture to the two men outside the prison cell, and leaves. The two men salute him, and come inside. They grab Alvaro and drag him out of the cell, and go down the hall. Alvaro lifts his head up to the wall above him, and sees the words
“Airlock”
“Crap...”, thought Alvaro, “I’m in a really big mess now… How will I get out of this mess?”
The men drag him towards a gate, and punch some numbers into a keypad. The door opens up to lead to another door, where he proceeds to another keypad to open the door. It opens to lead to another door, and they start pushing Alvaro towards there. They get a knife out, and break Alvaro out of his bonds, and push him to the ground.
“We weren’t supposed to do that”, said one guard, “But it’ll sure be funny to see you squirm!”
They start leading him to the last door, and Alvaro gets nervous.
“Could this be it? Is this really the end of my life! It can’t be…”
The door looms closer, and Alvaro closes his eyes, preparing for the inevitable.
Suddenly, an explosion erupts and rocks the ship, and throws the three in different directions. Alvaro looks at the two guards, who are against the furthest door. He struggles over to the control pad, and raises himself to the keypad. He hits a button, and a warning alarm goes off in two languages
“WARNING! AIRLOCK DOORS ARE OPENING!” and again in another language that Alvaro can’t understand. The two guards pull themselves up and go towards Alvaro, but the door shuts in front of them. He can hear the banging of the guards on the door, and then a deafening scream cut silent instantly. Alvaro takes a sigh of relief, and makes his way back down the hall, and struggles back to his jail cell. He reaches down to a pipe that the guards had thrown at him, and picks it up. He looks up at the sign, and another sign points to “armory”. A small grin goes across his face, and he goes towards the door to the armory. He knocks on it, and puts himself against the wall. A guard comes out of the room, and looks off to the other direction saying “Anyone there?” Alvaro grabs his pipe, and slams it into the back of the guard’s head. The guard falls over into the wall, and Alvaro grabs his legs and drags him into the room. He ties the man up and puts him in a locker. Alvaro goes over to the munitions rack, and grabs 4 weapons- two pistols, one assault rifle, and a shotgun. He starts making his way down to the hall, and starts thinking of things to do.
“Should I go for the hangar bay?”
“But then I’d still have to fight this battleship…”
“Maybe I should go up to the bridge…”
Alvaro goes into a small storage closet, and thinks about what to do next.
“It’d be better for me to go to the bridge, and bring this big bird down…”
He grins, and stands up, and makes his way to the elevators. He goes down the hall, and can see the elevators down in the distance. He steps towards them, and presses the down button. He stands there, and can hear some whirring. He turns around, and can see the camera behind him. He focuses on to its lenses, and can see them moving.
“Oh ****…”
Alarms start blaring off, and the intercom system begins to say
“WARNING! WARNING! INTRUDER SPOTTED ABOARD THE SHIP! HUNT HIM DOWN!”
Alvaro’s heart begins to thud, and he sweats uncontrollably.
“Crap…”, he thought to himself, “Now the place is going to be swarming…”
Alvaro keeps a hand on his pistol, and the elevator comes down. The door slides open and the guard standing there reaches for his weapon. Alvaro pulls out his pistol quickly, and shoots into his face. Blood gushes out every where, and splatters all over Alvaro’s face.
“Didn’t know these things were that messy…”, he said to himself.
He reaches down into the man’s uniform, trying to not to look into his shattered face. He pulls out some weaponry, and a keycard. He looks up at the elevator buttons, and presses the one labeled “bridge”. Alvaro gets out his Assault Rifle, and puts it to aim in front of him. The elevator opens up, and Alvaro unloads a barrage of bullets. Some guards in front of him fall down to the ground, riddled with bullets. He pulls out his shotgun, and aim at the guards above him. He shoots one, who falls down into the pit, and rolls behind a computer. Gunshots erupt, and Alvaro shoots up on the walkway above him, shooting the two guards on it. He aims up onto the platform above him, and shoots three guards. More gunshots erupt, and Alvaro looks up above him. He can see a cape, and can here some buttons being pressed.
“There’s that bastard!”, he said to himself.
The man then runs across the walkway, and gets into the door before he could shoot him. The other guards follow, not bothering to shoot him. Alvaro stands up and makes his way up to the platform above to the control panel. He stands and looks at the console, and suddenly the ship begins to turn. Alvaro looks into the window, and sees that it is turning towards Crete.
“What the hell!”, he thought to himself, “This thing’s going on a suicide course! Unless…”
Alvaro pushes more buttons on the command console, and brings up the cargo bay contents. He scrolls down, and sees an item that catches his attention.
“Chemicals”
“If this thing goes and blows up in the atmosphere… Those chemicals will disperse, and kill us all…”
Alvaro pushes buttons frantically, trying to control the ship. He brings up the map for autopilot, and touches the ships near him.
“WARNING! THE SHIP’S TRAJECTORY COURSE IS NOT SAFE! ABO…”
Alvaro shoots into the control panel, and the ship begins to turn towards the nearest group of battleships. The ship turns away from Crete.
He runs across the walkway, and opens the door. He runs down the hallway, and sees the sign: “Railway to Hanger Bay”.
He makes his way down a hall and opens a massive door. The room has a massive rail system, with only one car remaining. Two guards try to run to it, and Alvaro runs as well. The guards go in, and Alvaro jumps in with them. The car blasts off, and the guards engage Alvaro. Alvaro punches one, and then grabs him and throws him off the car. His screams fill the hall, and the sound of the man being electrocuted. The other guard lands a kick on Alvaro, sending him to the front of the car. The guard pulls out a knife and jumps on Alvaro. He tires to slit Alvaro’s throat, but Alvaro grabs his wrist. The two try and get an edge over each other, and the guard slowly pulls the knife towards Alvaro.
“Damn…”, Alvaro thought to himself, “That idiot is really going to kill me”
Alvaro then remembers an old move his brother thought him, and gets his legs into position. He lands a powerful kick into the groin, grabs the man, and throws him off the car. Alvaro takes a sigh of relief, and makes his way over to the command console. He puts up the speed, and the car blasts towards the door in the front. Alvaro can see the ships of the hangar bay looming in front of him, and some empty rail cars blasting back towards the bridge. The hangar bay door starts to close, and Alvaro gets nervous.
“NOO!”, he thought to himself, “I have to get through that door!”
Alvaro pushes the speed control to maximum, and lies on the floor. The rail car goes fast, and runs right off the rail, and flies through the hangar bay door into hangar bay. Alvaro pokes his head out, and can see Sabres lifting off. A guard runs right by him, not bothering to kill him. Alvaro looks around, and sees his Titan in a corner, fully repaired. He runs over to it, and sees a guard running for it. He pulls out his assault rifle and shoots the man in his head. He jumps into the cockpit, and blasts towards the hangar bay door. He blasts through the Hangar Bay door, and looks behind him. The battleship begins to blast towards another battleship, and collides into it. The battleship ruptures, and explodes into a massive green explosion. The other ships around it spin out of control into Crete and burn up into the atmosphere. The other battleship goes towards Crete, and disappears into the atmosphere. Some blasts hit him, and he turns his ship around. There are three Sabre looming right in front of him, and the center one hails him, and a picture of a blond man with an eye patch appears- the Commander.
“YOU BASTARD!”, he said, “You ruined my plans! But no matter, you’ll be destroyed soon by me and my two greatest fighters! You’ll regret the day you crossed paths with Commander Otto the scythe!”
“Crap…”, Alvaro thought to himself, “ There’s no way I can handle those three by myself…”
Another Titan pulls up next to Alvaro, and hails him.
“HEY!”, he said, “You’re alive! Thank GOD!”
“DAD!”, yelled Alvaro, “What are you doing here?”
“What do you think? I’m here to help you fight those two bastards!”, he said.
A Valkrie comes up next to him on the other side
“Van Clausen!”, said Alvaro
“Hey kid!” said Van Clausen, “You’ve already gone through your share of fun, now it’s my turn!”
“Cut the chatter!”, said the Hessian, “It’s time for you guys to die!”
The ships begin to get closer to each other, and Alvaro gets his hand on the trigger. He wipes his sweat of his face, and touches his eye patch.
“Time to rumble!”, said Otto
End Ch. 9
Feedback appreciated.
Edited by - MercZ on 8/27/2005 9:13:05 AM
Edited by - MercZ on 8/27/2005 9:13:57 AM
Edited by - MercZ on 8/29/2005 3:45:48 PM
Seriously, this is getting really interesting.
