The Galactic Civil War Pt1
#1 of The Galactic Civil War
On a station orbiting the planet earth; Warren looked down at his former home,
Six months ago the world's greatest historical moment arrived; first contact with alien species', representatives from the horse, feline, fox and wolf clans met with the world leaders. They talked about many issues including if earth was willing to join them in their war against the Galactic Federation; if earth joined it would a major forward staging area for the Galactic Alliance of free worlds but earth declined to join the war.
Two months ago, a Galactic Federation fleet entered orbit and demanded that earth join them or else; again earth refused. The federation fleet decimated 85% of the cities in the northern hemisphere in twenty minutes, before the alliance arrived to stop them. With 850 million+ died and billions injured, earth joined the alliance in the war against the galactic federation.
Four weeks later; the world's governments sent their best pilots now trained to fly and fight in space with the alliance forces aboard the renamed star-carriers Reliant and Enterprise.
The world watched in horror as first the Reliant and then the Enterprise were destroyed within hours of leaving earth orbit. The world leaders gather every last pilot (minus any instructors or any currently under training) together and send them off to fight.
Five weeks later; the headline on the front page of every news paper in the world ‘World Governments request volunteers to continue the fight' Warren wanted to join but his parents refused to hear him out.
Six hours later; Warren showed up at the space training centre after ‘disappearing' while on a delivery, Warren made sure to leave the keys in the car, he left his cash bag at the store.
When suddenly cars showed up, police cars and his parents, Warren made a dash for the gate, a female feline MP tried to stop him by closing the gate but Warren dived through her legs and skidded over the perimeter line to safety, he was going to space. The MP helped him up "I'm here to join" he said hefting his backpack back over his shoulder
"Right this way, welcome to the 82nd volunteer squadron" she said, flipped a sign then walked him to the briefing room "the armed forces will be providing everything you will need for the next six months" she said, she couldn't make heads or tails of this young man, all she knew was that he had a determined nature.
After some tests and a physical, the squadron was transported up to the station to await the arrival of the Saratoga, their new home and the rest of her battle group. Warren hadn't spoken to any of the other squadron members; his squad consisted of seven guys and five girls including himself, they talked amongst themselves, he didn't care, all he knew was that out there somewhere they would die and that fact didn't bother Warren one bit.
A ringing sound broke through his thoughts; the other volunteers looked at him as he pulled a satellite phone from his bag "I'm here" he said
"Where are you?" his friend TK asked
"On my way to war" Warren replied
"Are YOU nuts" TK said
"Am I nuts, well yes I am, I am an outcast, a survivor, a fighter, I am unloved, under-respected and I am finished talking about it" Warren said "if I survive my first day, I will drop everyone a note, ok",
"Be careful and take care" TK said and hung up.
Warren put the phone back in his bag; he knew he would have to surrender it at the MPs on the shuttle.
With several flashes; the Saratoga and her battle group arrived, the Saratoga was flat but wide like someone taking a hexagon pulling two sides far apart, and fighters were dropped out of the sides through hanger doors. A door open and dozens more people walked in ‘more volunteers' Warren thought, the shuttle docked and everyone got on, everyone belongings were loaded and everyone was told that their stuff would be searched then delivered to their respective squadron quarters, the shuttle ride back was quiet.
"Welcome volunteers!" someone yelled, Warren saw five ‘furries' standing up ahead, a bear who was doing the yelling, a lion, a gazelle, a fox and a feline "the 106st follow squadron commander bates" the lion held up his hand and directed the 106st volunteers to move over to the left "the 94th follow Commander Annabelle" the gazelle held up her arm and a chunk of people followed her off to the right and out of the hanger "finally the 82nd your commander is squadron commander M'ress" the fox held up her arm
"82nd stay put" she called out "welcome to the saratoga, before we move up to the briefing room, I just going to read off names just to confirm we have everyone" she said and read off some names "did I miss anyone", Warren raised his hand
"Yes commander, you missed me" he called out standing a little off to the side, the bear made a hand gesture and the cat jumped over the rail and raced straight at Warren, gun drawn.
Warren's brain screamed ‘incoming threat' Warren reacted by grabbing the cat's gun arm and swung it down and up behind the cat, flipping the feline head over heels and the feline landed on his back, Warren then drove his fist into the feline's middle.
"Enough" Commander M'ress yelled, Warren stood and looked at her, the cat picked himself up, M'ress and the bear came down to Warren "you will report to the brig until we can verify your identity, will you comply",
"Fully, Commander" Warren said
"This way" the bear said "if he's this good in a space battle, we'll have to find more like him" the bear said to M'ress, she nodded.
Fifteen minutes later; M'ress escorted Warren to the squadron's bunk level "all your things are in the locker under your bunk, your music has been uploaded to your ‘jukebox'" she said, Warren listened in silence "here we are, you are grouped with Amanda, Anita, Kelly, Gina and Bridget" she said as they came to a ladder-well, she climbed up followed by Warren, as they climbed Warren looked up several times checking out her rear
"Is there a problem" M'ress asked
"No ma'am" he replied, when they got to the top, the bunk area were in chaos and noisily
"Commander in deck" she yelled behind her Warren snapped to attention but no-one else did
"Warren, this is your bunk" she pointed to a bunk to her right near the ladder-well, a whistle cut through the noise.
"Commander on deck, stand at your bunks and shut the fuck up" Warren yelled behind her, the cadets stopped moving and stood up straight
"Thank you" she said
"Anytime, commander" Warren replied
"You all seem a bit disorganised" she said
"We can't get in to our lockers, sir" a cadet said
"It is commander or ma'am, what is your name, cadet" she asked
"White, ma'am" the cadet said, M'ress looked at the name on the bunk
"Ok, can I have the boys down that end and the girl up this end" she yelled, Warren sat on his bunk, everyone now in their correct area soon found his or her bunk, Warren touched his ‘jukebox', it activated under his touch and he selected a song "any problems" M'ress asked
"Yes ma'am, how are we suppose to get changed with them watching" a female cadet asked
"There is a hatch between you and them, I suggest you close it" M'ress replied
"And what about him" the cadet said pointing at Warren
"He is a member of your group and we can't put him anywhere else, so I suggest you talk and become good friends" M'ress said "briefing is in one hour then we hit simulators" she called out and left.
Warren lay on his bunk listening to his music as the girls talked amongst themselves, "excuse me" Bridget said,
Warren pulled his headphone off "yeah" he said
"The commander said we should talk" she said.
Up the other end the boys watched Warren and the girls talk "hey baby, don't talk to him talk to me" one dude said thrusting his hips in their direction, Amanda walked up to him and kicked him in the balls
"Sick bastard" she spat at him and closed the hatch behind her, another dude walk over to the hatch and hit the ‘open' button, the hatch didn't open.
When Amanda closed the hatch, Warren walked over to a junction box and with a smile he pulled the fuse for the door controls "that should hold them" he said
"You have a black sense of humour" Amanda said
"Sometimes a person must survive by any means" he said.
The briefing was short, in the sim; Warren skimmed over the hull of an enemy carrier, cannon fire from an enemy frigate chased him punching holes in the carrier's hull until Anita put a jackhammer missile into the frigate's engines. The frigate blew its self to pieces.
Suddenly the screens went blank and the canopies went up "sorry cadets but this is all the training you will get for now, saddle up we have a convoy in trouble" M'ress said.
Everyone followed commander M'ress to the magnetic lift "first of all you will be flying ‘puma' class fighters with the exception of Warren and Amanda who will be flying ‘coyote' class fighters" commander M'ress said
"Warren and Amanda will be in charge of taking out any gunboats encountered in the combat area," M'ress said "the rest of you will act as a fighter screen for the convoy, the pumas were faster and had more shielding but the coyotes are more manoeuvrable, have slightly more armour and have six hard points to the five hard points the pumas have".
"Everyone's radar operators are waiting in the hanger" M'ress said and watched them walk into the hanger and then jump to the convoy's location
Thirty minutes later; one fighter returned, badly damaged, "their all gone" was the only transmission received before the fighter landed, fifteen minutes later; Warren and his ‘back seater' courtney, who couldn't stop crying, sat in debriefing, M'ress and the bear captain listen as Warren laid it all out; how the convoy was saved and how the squadron was lost.
Warren sat in one of the big space windows in the pilots' lounge, he had a drink in his hand but he had hardly touched it. Pink's ‘nobody knows' song played in the background, the tragic loss of the squadron was too much for Courtney, she had taken her side-arm, put it under her chin and pulled the trigger. She had taken her own life less than an hour before; Warren was now under constant surveillance by security sitting nearby.
Someone sat down in the window too, it was a red fox vixen "this window is taken" he said not even looking at her
"I was just wondering if you are from that human squadron that was lost?" she asked
"The 82nd, yeah" he replied
"I'm sorry, I didn't know any one returned from that massacre" she said "I'm sad to see that your top gun didn't make it back",
"Who was that?" Warren asked looking her in the eye
"His name was Warren, 17 confirmed kills, the highest for any mission flown" the fox said looking off into space smiling slightly,
"He's not dead" Warren chuckled "not yet",
"Did you know him?" she asked
"Of course, you're looking at him" Warren said looking back out the window, the vixen's face lit up, she grabbed his arm and pulled him over to the kill board, she touched the console, his photo and other information came up
"It really is you" she squealed,
Warren looked at the screen; at the bottom it said ‘Flight Status â€" Awaiting reassignment due to loss of squadron'.
Back on the bunk level; Warren was packing his bag, his war was over before it had began. Commander M'ress stepped on to the deck "I'm sorry about courtney, she would have made a great ‘back seater'" M'ress said "I heard you made a friend in one of the fox squadrons, an ensign Terri Fennec aka ‘Ice maiden' but everyone just calls her ‘Ice'",
"What gonna happen now" he asked
"What do you mean?" she asked. Suddenly alarms blared
"FEDERATION CARRIER HAD JUST JUMPED IN, ALL PILOTS TO THE HANGER BAYS" M'ress grabbed Warren
"Move" she yelled
"But I'm grounded" he said
"As of this moment you are on active duty, now run" she yelled.
Warren and M'ress ran to some available puma fighters, the back-seater jumped as Warren dropped into the pilot's seat, he looked left and saw M'ress climb into a fighter, he looked right and saw ‘Ice' in the fighter next to him "nice to have you with us Warren" he heard M'ress say
"82nd ready for launch" Warren said
"82nd" he heard his back seater squeak in shock. Warren checked his load out; 5 bandit anti-fighter missiles and 1 jackhammer, the space door opened and he was dropped into the battle.
Warren strafed several enemy fighters with his cannons then he took out the carrier's torpedo launcher with his jackhammer, he launched a missile at a fighter chasing ‘Ice', the fighter spun its self to pieces, he used the rest of his missiles to take out three more fighters and a torpedo bomber. The federation carrier took several hits from the Saratoga's bombers; Warren flew straight at the enemy bridge, strafing it with fire, the enemy carrier had enough and jumped out. Warren cleaned up any nearby enemy fighters then joined M'ress and Ice with securing the area.
The pilots' celebrated their victory, Warren sat in the same window as before ‘but at what cost,' he thought ‘3 more pilots lost', he got up and walked to the kill board; commander M'ress had top spot with her career total of 45 kills and himself next with 24, Ice was sharing 5th spot with six other pilots with 18 kills each.
Warren left the party and returned to his bunk. he stood in the shower, the water was hot against his body, he heard someone coming up the ladder, he jumped out of the shower on top of the intruder, pinning her to the floor "Ice, what are you doing here?" he asked helping her up and grabbing a towel
"I saw you leave" she said checking him out as he wrapped the towel around his waist "and I thought we could have our own private party".
Ice unzipped her flight suit "how did you get your call sign?" he asked "Ice maiden",
"I turn down males everywhere I go" she said, she climbed into his bunk, pulled off her flight suit and threw it at him.
Warren threw the towel away and climbed in with her, "I don't think you'll be turning me away" he said, she gave him a playful lick on the nose, she licked down his face to his neck, he felt her fingers stroke his cock, his fingers found her cunt lips, she was wet, he slowly pushed two fingers inside her, she moaned as she squeezed his fingers tight.
He pulled her close, "fuck me now" she said rolling him onto his back, she lowered herself slowly onto the tip of his member, she gasped loudly as he pulled her down sharply, thrusting deep inside her until she came then he pushed her up and pulled her back down, she leaned back in his arms, he felt himself building to release,
Warren ground her against him, she came soon after causing him to blow his load moments later, Warren rubbed her sides as she lay down on top of him and pulled the covers over them "I love you too" she said running her finger down his chest, she lay her head against his chest and they both drifted off to sleep.
The next morning; Warren awoke to find Ice still lying on top of him, he gently stroked her neck fur. Minutes later he heard someone coming up the ladder, he quickly pulled the covers over Ice's head as commander M'ress appeared from the ladder-well "Warren" she said,
"Commander" he replied
"You haven't seen Ice have you?" she asked, he tried hard to suppress his smile, he knew she had seen the person sized bulge under his covers and he gently lifted up the covers revealing Ice's head, M'ress shook her head "When she wakes, tell her that you pair were in the sim all morning and you never saw me" M'ress said
"Yes, commander" he answered.
At that moment Ice stirred, she opened her eyes and saw the commander, she scrambled off Warren and stood at attention "Sorry, ma'am" Ice said, Warren rubbed her flank
"The commander was just leaving" Warren said, M'ress bowed her head and disappeared down the ladder-well, Warren ran his fingers along her side, she sat on the bunk, Warren squeezed her leg
"You feel like this is a stupid mistake that has happened but I will stand with you if you get in trouble for staying here last night" Warren said
"Very brave and noble of you" she said.
Two hours later; Ice and Warren stood before her CO, he yelled at her for going AWOL from her squadron and missing a patrol call, he blasted Warren for causing; ‘general disobedience'.
Ice felt the tension in the room go up as Warren and her CO fought for control, Ice's CO went to discipline her with a slap on the muzzle but Warren pulled her out of the way, Warren was in control and her CO didn't like that "GET OUT OF MY SIGHT!" he screamed at both of them.
Once outside, Ice shook uncontrollably she had never seen anyone so angry before, Warren was unfazed by her CO's anger, to Warren he was nothing more than another pissed off customer, he held Ice as she cried on his shoulder, Warren did his best to calm her down "shh, I'm here" he said
"I'm so scared" she whispered
"Of what" he asked
"My CO" her replied
"I've dealt with his kind, always needing to be in control and always ready to lash out when they don't get what they want" Warren said then gave her a kiss on the top of her head.
Three weeks later commander M'ress asked Warren and Ice to see her "your CO is still upset with Warren's actions in his office, Ice" she said
"I know" Ice replied
"But I think he was protecting you" M'ress said
"I..." Ice started, Warren wrapped his arm around her and she turned, embraced him and started crying on his shoulder again
"I have never been so scared" she sobbed,
At that moment Commander Annabelle walked in "Am I interrupting something?" she asked
"Not at all, please come in" M'ress said "you have the transfer orders for Warren?"
"Yes" Annabelle replied
"Transfer orders?" Ice asked "You're transferring him to another ship?"
"Yes" M'ress said
"But you can't, I won't let you send him away" Ice said holding Warren tight
"Well he may decide not to go without you" Annabelle said
"I don't understand" Ice said
"What the commander said was that there is a good chance that I won't take the transfer without taking my beautiful foxy-lady with me" Warren said, Ice slapped him, both the Commanders jumped
"I am not beautiful, I am just an average runt" Ice said, Warren smiled
"To me, you are beautiful and no matter how hard you hit me I will always love you" Warren said, Ice's face flushed red under her fur.
Warren turned back to Commander M'ress "So where are you sending us?" he asked
"The Ranger and you will both be promoted to lieutenant status" M'ress said
"The transfer orders will be posted after you leave" M'ress said "Congratulations on making lieutenant both of you, report to the armoury and get suited up".
As they left, Commander M'ress had a feeling she would see them again...soon.
Ice watched as techs made adjustments to her combat suit, it was better to wear the suits because every last scrape of space on the shuttle was needed for supplies and stuff. If the ‘suits' weren't worn they would start to malfunction.
She saw a tech hand Warren a pressure ball and asked him to squeeze it; Warren crushed the ball like a soda can. She was not surprised at all; the suits were designed to enhance the user's abilities in combat like increasing strength, speed and endurance.
She had seen a demonstration of the suit's abilities by having a little kid in a suit arm wrestle a horse; after 90 minutes the horse conceded defeat because ‘there was no way he could win'.
An hour later; Ice was pacing around the cabin of the shuttle, Warren was sitting very still, his breath just audible to her ears, the pilot came over the com "Lieutenant Fennec, Commander Annabelle on the line, it's urgent" the pilot said