Well, I'll try another one too. (This one I'll also be making up on the spot).
A little more recently, I was working for the Zatchit. We had just been testing somenew Gunships, and decided to let the Renegades know about our new weapon - by using it to take out The Rock. Especially since a spy had informed us that Guhana's Gang would be visiting The Rock soon. Guhana's gang was the most famous band of renegades in all of the Crecent. Thier leader, Guhana, was an alien from far beyond the Crecent - belonging to the same race as Miranda. I was reminded of my deciest friend - who me and my fellow Zatcha had fought beside like brothers. Since I left my family on Earth so many years ago, the Zatcha have been the only family I've had. When he died at the hands of the bloodthirsty Renegades, this whole thing became more than making a difference in the universe - it became personal. Now, going up against Guhana himself, I was reminded of my lost friend - and all the more determined to reduce Guhana and his gang to space dust.
We gathered togather all the Zatcha we could that night. If we were to catch Guhana's Gang at The Rock, we would have to act quickly. After recruiting about 15 Zatcha, and a few hours sleep, I was in my Igdzra heading for The Rock. Even though it had been years since I'd worked in UE space, I still named my ship the U.E.S. Hellraiser III. For some reason, I felt it was necessary.
Little did we know of what was in store for us. As we went to refeul at New Mire, there was a small Renegade fleet that was harassing a few freightors. Needless to say, we quickly blew the crap out of them. However, when we landed, Zatcha Tuian was missing. We greived for the loss of another brother. This was becoming an all to regular occurence. Oh well, I thought, maybe after this assult the Renegades will quiet down a bit. Little did we know what was in store for us.
The next day, we left for the final journey to The Rock. But when we entered the DSN-6116 system, we found a huge Renegade fleet waiting for us. We were caught a little off guard, and we paid for that dearly. Soon, five of us were dead, and we had all taken some damage. We retreated to the other side of the system and then regrouped for the counter attack. I hailed Zatcha Quina "Who the hell are these guys?"
"I don't know. But they can't be Guhana's Gang - there are Lizaras and Aradas here."
It was true - everyone in Guhana's gang had upgraded to Crecent Warships a long time ago. Somehow, the Renegades found out about our offensive and sent this force to intercept us. The only thing that I wanted to know is how they found out. We hadn't told anyone about this except the Miran Council of North Tip - the section of the government that sponsors and oversees the Zatcha. I locked my turrents on the neares hostile target as we sped in formation towards the Renegade Hoard. I looked at the target data, and couldn't believe my eyes. The ship was the Eternal Fire - Zatcha Tuian's ship. But it's transponder code no longer read Zatchit - it read Renegade. I hailed Zatcha Quina again. "That son of a bitch double crossed us!"
"Who?" she replied
"Zatcha Tuian! He's attacking me!"
However, Zatcha Tuian had never liked Aradas much, and he hadn't had time to upgrade ships, so he was still in a Zatchit Fighter. Of course I easily destroyed the ship. While I physically destroyed the Eternal fire with ease, mentally it was one of the hardest things I had ever done. Over the years, I had gotten to know Zatcha Quina particularly well, and she knew me well enough to know what i was feeling now.
"You had to do it, 21," she said.
"Easy for you to say," I replied, now in a very bad mood.
Soon, the Renegade fleet was space dust, and we re-grouped. Zatcha Veirna took a head count. There were 8 of us left, and Zatcha Quina, Zatcha Fuin, and Zatcha Yorlin had taken heavy damage, and were in no shape to continue on the assuly. They went back to New Mira for repairs. We now had only a third of the origional assult force. After a very heated debait, we decided to go anyway. If we turned back now, the Renegades would grow ever more confindent, and with every assult on the norther Miran worlds, the Zatcha became weaker. We had to draw the line here. So a mere five vessals, we set out to assult Guhana's gang. Any sane person in the known galaxy would have called that suicide - indeed it would be for most of us. But this was too personal now. We shortly discussed out battle plan, and then made the final jump for The Rock.
We got there to find Guhana's gang already in space, ready for action. That son of a bitch must have warned them. All 7 Crecent Warships, piloted by the most cunning, evil pilots in the galaxy. They had been called North Tip's Captins of Freeport. And now, they almost laughed at us. One Igdzra, one prototype warship, 2 Zatchit Aradas, and 2 Zatchit Fighters. They send 12 of thier Crecent Fighters to deal with me. I turned away and acellerated to full speed, then turned around to face the fighters. I watched as they steadily gained un me, until they were just within Phase range. I could feel the Hellraiser shake as 48 Phase cannons pounded on her hull. But I ahd a trick up my sleve that none of the fighters expected.
Suddenly, I acellerated engines to full speed towards them, pouring feul into my afterburner. Just as I passed over the fighters, I let lose 4 defence pods on them. They had seen me running from them, and had already anticipated thier vistory. I caught the by complete surprise. Since they had been flying in close formation, they resulting explostion whiped out all but three of them. While they were much more wary now, the damage ahd been done. For while they are deadly in large numbers, three damaged Crecent Fighters were no match for the U.E.S. Hellraiser III. Soon, I looked back to see that it was jsut me and 6 Crecent Warships - my fellow Zatcha had either ejected or been killed. Immeadiatly I was bombarded with SAD modules. I started to hug the asteroids and waited out the hailstorm. Through years of practice against the Igdzari, I had become very good at hiding from SADs and SAEs in the asteroids. Soon, the Crecent Warships were out of SAD modules. My shields were about 70%. One by one I seperated the pirates from the fleet and engaged them. Each one I destroyed, but each one cost me precious shields - too much shields. Soon my shields were 2%, and there were two ships left - Guhana himself, and Oanges, his second-in-command. Oanges, however, wasn't as experienced as Guhana was. He saw my shields, and raced in for the kill. Indeed, I would have been doomed, if Oanges hadn't made one fatal mistake: he failed to notice the plates of Doposect Armor coaring the Hellraiser's hull. By the time he realized his mistake, it was too late. He was bombarded Defence pods. He tried to get away, and got our of phase range with 7% shields and looked back defiantly at me - right at a trio of Pursuit Missles. The missles slammed his ship and it broke apart with violent force.
Then, I stood face to face with Guhana. We circled each other warily. Fortunatly, he was unaware that my armor was down to 13% - otherwise, he would have immeadiatly engaged and destroyed me. Another 3% and I would be disabled. Then I ordered one of the engineers on board the Hellraiser to abandon repairing the Armor and start an experimental shield generator that was on board the Hellraiser. But I told him to put a block on the plasma flow - so nothing regenerated, the energy just backed up there. I flew around Guhana, appearing to shoot pursuit missles at him through the asteroids - most of which were jammed anyway. I waited until I had 50 terrawatts of shield energy stored up, and then let it all lose at once - springing my shields isntantly up to 10%. Guhana must have been baffeled and a little scared, because his reaction was unexpectedly delayed as I moved in and started pounding him. Eventually, I had to retreat, as my shields were gone again. Now I had exactally 10% armor. If he hit me with one more phase blast, I would be disabled, and he would destroy me and the Zatcha's hope of winning this war with me. His shields were about 35% and he was after me now, and he wasn't going to fall for the experimental generator trick again. It seemed like all hope was lost. But I still had one more trick up my sleve.
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Guhana was so close to victory he could smell it. As he closed in on the Hellraiser, he thought it couldn't have too much armor left, and he wasn't going to give 21 a chance to spring that generator thing on him again. Then, suddenly the Hellraiser passed behind an asteroid and disappeared. Did he retreat? thought Guhana, enraged. That wasn't like anyone, and there was no jumpstream residue from a hyperspace jump. That asteroid was too small for a ship the Hellraiser's size to hide behind. Where the hell is he!?!?
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I maunvered the U.E.S. Hellraiser III, invisible to Guhana, right over Guhana's Crecent Warship. Now I just has to wait for the right moment...
A few seconds later, I slammed the un-cloak button and the launch secondary button almost simptaniously. Four defence pods slammed down on Guhana's ship - killing his shields. Just as he returned fire, an asteroid drifted in between his ship and the Hellraiser, allowing me to escape out of Phase range unscratched, my armor still 10%.
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For the first time in years, Guhana was scared. This is it - he thought. Those who fight and run away live to fight another day. With that, he activated his hyper-engine.
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Which I had expeceted. Like all Renegades, his greed and egocentrism was his most fatal flaw. For I had laid 4 more defence pods right in his escape path. As his ship sped out of the system, it colided with the defence pods, which all exploded simotaniously. By the time he realized what had happened, he would be well into hyperspace, and even if he did eject, he wouldn't be in a star system, so he would just drift aimlessly in space intil he ran out of air.
I then went over and started pounding on The Rock untill in blew up, and then in my rage I started pounding on the pieces of it. Until a Renegade Arada jumped into the system. I had forgoten the state of the Hellraiser - indeed, even that Arada would ahve been serious trouble. However, then an Adzari Arada warped in next to it, and started pounding the Renegade Arada. I stayed only long enough to make sure that the Renegade Arada was toast, and then left before I would have to defend myself from the Agdzari Arada. There was no doubt in my mind that I could beat it, but I still tried to avoid engaging Agdzari ships. I went back to Outpost Zatchit and reported that both The Rock and Guhana's gang had been destroyed. I told them about how Zatcha Tuian had stabbed us in the back. And then I got the chasualty report: Other than the three Zatcha that had turned back in the DSN-6116 system, I was the only survivor of the assult. It was a blow to my heart to hear that, and I almsot considered leaving because I counldn't stand losing so many friends so often. But at the same time I realized that the Zatcha had been weakened by this assult almost as much as the Renegades had - and that they needed me more than ever now.
You may have noticed that a few things here didn't add up. Like me flying an Igdzra with an Experimental Shield Generator. And how "Through years of practice against the Igdzari, I had become very good at hiding from SADs and SAEs in the asteroids". This will be explained in the next story I post here, but for now I have to go.
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Cuz I'm a 21st Century Digital Boy
I don't know the Monty Python but I've got a lotta toys
My daddy is a Renegade, his name is Hellcat Helian
Wait a second...
