Battle For Diamond Square
Chapter 3
Battle For Diamond Square
9th of Undurn, 3456 A.D. On the Main Planet of Gowyei. Aevoth took it to himself to seek assistance from the Muraclion Union, the Equine and Unicorn based species, to help fight off the Legion.
"Look, I'm not asking for you to send all you have, but you must help. Might I remind you we helped your people escape Earth centuries ago, even gave you this planet?" Aevoth states rather distrot.
"I understand, trust me I do, but what could we possibly do? Your rogue A.I. have advance systems that even push past our systems." Rune, Celestial Ancient Mare of the Muraclion Union replies in a concerning manner.
"What you can do is help us, we thought we could hold them on Imaryu long enough to find a networking code to inject into the Legion's servers. We were wrong, and now they are at our doorstep. Send anything, I dont see use living through day on without your help." Aevoth then lays down onto his stomach, feeling a lost sense of hope in his last sentence.
"You and the other 4 are our greatest allies. Hell, I would even go as far as saying you are our family. With the Protaph being, well the Protaph, I cant leave my planet undefended in the event those canine bastards decide to invade, but I will do what I can. If it resorts to it, your people are welcome on our planet, we will get anyone and everyone we can off your planet." Rune looks over, pushing up on Aevoths chin with her left hand, trying to reassure the large feral dragon. "The Muraclion Union stands with you and your people, through life and death, dont you forget that." The celestial mare then leans in and kisses the horn on top of Aevoths nose.
"You are most humble, Rune." Aevoth smiles from the warming words.
Standing back up on all four the large dragon gives a curtsy neck-bow to Rune. Rune returning with a neck-bow as well.
"My city, burns in ash and dust, rubble and death." I said as I looked around the windows from the Kryta's bridge over looking the war torn city. "Everything we have accomplished, all being swept away from.. our own creations." Getting angry, I punch the window, cracking it. "Whats the status report on the navy?" I direct my question to my communication officer, Lady Unti. Giving a soft sigh, "Defeated, Sir." "Bring the ship to the Unity Citadel, we are going to need to give whatever support we can.I want our on-board soldiers down on the loading bay." looking over to my first mate. "Lucy you are with me." Then looking at my Head Tactician Officer. "Destris, you'll take command, dont blow up my ship." The bridge saluted. Lucy and Me took route to the loading bay where I would link up with my soldiers.
"Sir, we will not be able to land, you will need to drop down, Diamond Square is flooded." Destris says over the intercom as I reach the loading bay. "Thats fine just get us there." I replied to him. "Yes Sir." the intercom shut off. Walking over to my soldiers they salute, guns ready.
"We are going into the pit ladies and gents, I dont expect much to come out of this alive, but I expect that we will die in victory. The Legion have pushed past the navy in DeLooms Canal. This means they will be arriving here soon." Opening up the large cargo bay door pointing out to the burning city. "This, is what the Legion has done to us. Are we going to stand for this?" looking over each of the soldiers. "No Sir!" they all replied. "Good." I said. Pulling out my rapier and pointing it out to the city, the Kryta now flying overhead Diamond Square. Jumping from the cargo bay, landing in the small opening, my troops following close behind. We headed for the Citadel of Unity, this is where the main command HQ is being stored. The Citadel was flooded with troops, weapons, and even despair. I could feel the depression deep into my bones from the people around me. They were scared, and lost of hope. Its disgusting, but I cannot blame them, for I have lost hope as well. Unica was laying in his main quarters, commanding what he could. I walked up to him.
"Its sad, You know? Ive brought what I could for our people, I unified the very nations to make DSU a more unified faction, and yet here we are, at the bare bones of our teeth, awaiting for the Legion to advance. Aevoth is no where to be found, he just vanished, and dont toy with me that, thats just what he does. Why would he leave of all times with his Whispers. I knew I couldnt trust such a selfish dragon..." Unica states in both a depressed and angrying tone. "Shouldnt you be with the Whispers anyways? Your Daughter left for earth, Rynaroth hasnt been on Ragrinok in years, Ingret is off with Unrati somewhere other then here. Sina is on Gowyei, and Kingred is off on some Oxy made mission in the far outer rim, so what compels you to stay here and die with the rest of us?"
Clentching my fists a bit. "I'm here because my people need me. I dont care what your problems are, but if you truly want to make an enemy of me Unica, be my guest. I came here to ask where you needed me. Clearly I can see you dont need me at all. I can see why everyone in here has lost hope so easily, Our own "Unifying" ancient is dug deep into the dirt beneath him. Im not going to sit here and wait for this, Waiting is whats killing us, and you sit there, not doing anything but pretending to look at reports. Pathetic." I replied. "Enjoy watching these walls crumble around you. Im going to actually push these people back into having hope, something you seem incapable of." Walking out, and heading for the entrance to the Citadel, grabbing an intercom.
"Listen up, I know all of you are scared, quite frankly I am too, but we cant give up. Look around you, this city we built from the ground up, is being torn back to the ground because we are giving up. There's no room, none at all, for this. Do any of you know whats being built beneath us right now? Its our ticket to victory. We need to hold this position, we need to fight. If we dont, then all the lives lost today, was for nothing. Im not going to stand for that, and none of you should either." pushing my rapier into the sky. "Today is the day these A.I. learns what happens when you push a Dragon into a corner!" I gave the speech to the masses in a strong tone. It was slow coming, but soon the people began to cheer. Not for me, but for our victory. Blave Senthist soon took to the stage, despite being wounded from escaping the Ending Sorrow, he raised his own pistol. The people began to raise their weapons while cheering. It was beautiful to see the people with so much faith into their eyes that we will be victorious.
Thats when the flare from the Legion launched into the sky, the advance was beginning. I ran down from the stage and ran over to the large barricades placed on the main road heading to the canal. Looking over and seeing the columns of troops and tanks. I took a deep breath and hopped over the barricade. Charging at the Legion troops, My troops and Lucy followed behind. I became the decoy so the people had time to line up and get ready to defend. Using the building and rubble for cover, I continued forward. Death never entered my mind despite charging into the enemy. a few legion troops took out their swords and charged for me. The distance closed rapidly, jumping from an abandoned car I leaped straight into the first legion trooper, stabbing my sword into the head. My troops opened fire with their rifles. pick apart as many of the troops as they could. Slicing my way through the enemy I caught up to the first tank. Running up and pulling my pistol out, shooting the pistol down the barrel of the tank and hitting the shell loaded inside, this detonated and the turret flew up and landed behind the tank. Being preoccupied with this I didnt notice a Legion troop leaping at me with his sword. Turning around and noticing I had little time to react. Then an arrow slammed right into the troopers head, the arrow was heavy enough to send the trooper int he opposite direction the arrow was fired from. Looking up I saw Laude Harving loading up another arrow and firing it into the crowd of Legion troops. Soon enough the buildings around came alive, Hundreds of Whispers troops jumped from the buildings and ambushed the Legion.
The people back at the barricade saw this, forgetting the barricade and jumping over, charging full to the enemy. Artillery from the Legion began to rain down onto the positions around us, but no one lost their ground, they kept fighting. Oxy flies overhead and exhales a line onto the legion troops. Eleist running up to aid. Lyss and her Illusion Guards joined in the fight as well. Soon the battle raged from one road, to over 15 city blocks wide, then up to 24 city blocks wide. The Illusion Guards, masters in the Illusionary Magic were able to manipulate even the legion computer systems to make them believe there was 10 times more of each guard then there actually was. Hierarchy tanks pushed forward, these tanks housed a dual 150mm turret, using this, they bombarded the Legion MAT's in the distance. However the artillery from our captured navy ships began to open fire, raining shells on our positions faster then our tanks could fire back. Both sides were taking heavy losses, soon enough the Hierarchy was being pushed back into Diamond Square. Using the barricades they had a small advantage in defending. Just as people thought we were losing to hard the first Muraclion bomber flies over head and bombs the legion MAT's in the distance, Muraclion Fighters were strafing the Legion troops. The Muraclion Union Cruiser, the Unity. was first to break through the smoke filled sky. Opening fire on multiple Legion ships and ground targets. While the battle for Diamond Square was underway the Muraclion Union was able to leap in almost unnoticed by the Legion and were able to attack them from behind, breaking some ships through to the surface while the rest engaged the ships in the space.
"I hope we didnt miss to much of the Party, I enjoy a good party." Rune said over a transmission to all coms of the Hierarchy. Troop transports began to fly from the Muraclion fleet and down onto the surface. attacking the Legion troops from behind.
The battle seemed to have been turned to our favor for once. Moments later our Titan started up. Being built under Diamond Square ship was finally ready to engage. The roar of the engines was like bliss to all of us. Hope flourished in all of our hearts in seconds as the Titan pushed its way out of the ground. The moment the first deck guns appeared they aimed up into the sky. The 512mm Quantum artillery guns shook the ground as they open fired on the Super Dreadnoughts in the inner orbit. Soon enough wreckage began to rain down from the sky. The guns tore the ships apart like cheese. The titan kept rising up, as the second set of deck guns came online they began to shell the ground where the Legion took positions. Legion positions turned into rubble from the massive shells slamming into the ground. With the Titan opening fire on multiple targets, the Muraclion troops attacking the Legion troops from behind, the Muraclion fleet engaging the Legion ships both in orbit and in the Atmosphere. This drove the people overboard, hopping back over the defensible position and charging back into the Legion. pushing them back.
"Payback" was painted onto both sides of the Titan, a fitting name to say the least. The Titan roared its engines harder and began to push itself up into Orbit. While Legion troops were having to fight on 2 sides, it wasnt long until the Legion were pushed back to the Canal from the both sides. "Kryta, do you read?" I said over intercom. "Read you loud and clear sir." Destris replied. "Head to our position we will be boarding and taking my ship up to help the Titan." The Kryta turnedf around from the battle with the Muraclion Fleet headed to my position. My troops, Laude, and a few Whispers troops climbed the building next to us for pick up, here we boarded onto the Kryta and rushed to the Bridge.
The Kryta engaged full power to engines and off into the sky we went. It was almost seemingly quiet as we got into orbit with the Payback. The large "Planet Cracker" beam, stationed on the nose of the Titan began to charge up. You could feel, the power the beam had as it charged. The Titan turned to intercept the Achillies Titan. The Achillies titan also charging up its own beam. being quicker the Achillies Titan fired onto the Payback. The beam traveled and bounced off from the Payback. My crew cheered seeing the beam do nothing. Thats when the Payback returned fired with its own beam. the Large beam slammed right into the Achillies Titan, overloading its shields and digging into its armor. Soon enough the beam dug through the entire ship and the Achillies Titan split in half. Achillies Titans are the server ground for the Legion Fleet, once the Titan exploded the Legion fleet immediately stopped firing. This didnt stop the Payback however, charging the beam again and firing right into the Achillies titan another 4 more times. "Fire our missiles into that damn Titan, I want it to be nothing more then centimeter pieces." I demanded "Yes Sir." Destris replied. Soon all 40 missile bays opened fire with HE missiles. The Achillies titan soon became nothing as all 40 missiles slammed into it back to back. "Take that you robotic bastards!" Laude shouted and pointed at the destroyed Titan. Soon the battle of the ground came to a halt as the Achillies Titan was destroyed, the Legion troops shut off and fell to the ground, completely lifeless.
"This is Aevoth on board the Payback. Not only did we gain our first major victory against these synthetic weaklings, but we have defended our home. Against the impossible odds we have done it."
The people began to cheer harder then ever. The roar from the people could be heard for miles around. The victory against our Synthetics were just what we needed to be able to continue forward, now Under the Hierarchy Banner.