DEV's Revenge
"What's that!?! It's amazing!" the small well dressed
child shrieked with joy. As the boy got closer to the
display cabinet he placed his two small palms on the
glass to get a better look at the display piece.
"It's a piece of a battlemech...wow!" he said
astonished. The piece of battlemech was an arm from a
Strider 'mech. On the arm there were multiply scars
from lasers and projectiles which must have been
pasted into the armoured plates. "I can't wait 'till
I'm older and I can pilot one for myself" he stated to
himself. Moving around the cabinet he read the notice
which hung above the 'mech arm. It read "This arm was
believed to have belong to one of the legendary known
battlemechs from the unit 'DEV'. The arm is what is
left from a Strider chassis and was also believed to
belong to the pilot known as CWolf. It was all that
was left of the 'mech after the great battle of
revenge launched by 'DEV'. "Hmmm" the boy thought to
himself as he heard a woman telling the rest of the
museum visitors it was closing time. Making it home
he ran to his room, locking the door, he sat himself
down at his computer display desk and ran a search for
'Battle of revenge'. His eyes suddenly widened as he
visually scanned his display screen. On the screen
the words showed a file called 'The account of CWolf
of the battle of revenge'. Getting into his bed he
reached for his portable extension and started to read
the account...
Clan/Is Boarder
Near New CapeTown
June 21st 3060
"How are things Buff? Still hugging your Madcat huh?"
mused CWolf. "Laugh it up Wolf but if you don't take
care of her she won't like it" Buff replied referring
'her' to his 'mech. Only days before had Buffoutboy
been out on a pirate hunt when his leg aculator had
malfunctioned. Lucky for him he found no pirates but
it took him 5 hours to make the 1 hour trip back to
base due to that fact, therefore he was being more
careful this time around. "Yeah well at least my
'mech still looks ok, not like your Strider or "Baby"
as you like to call it" laughed Buff. Looking into
the direction of the west side of the 'mech bay Buff
spotted CWolf's Strider. It was a small 'light' 'mech
which somehow he had made into a laser turret on legs.
On it's arms were large holes from where obvious AC s
had wormed their way into the armoured plates and on
it's legs there were missile scars lacing their way up
and down like a well designed pattern. CWolf was on
the pirate patrol with Buff but when Buff had to
return due to his leg problems CWolf had decided to
carry on a little further and that was a mistake he
wouldn't do again in a hurry. Two pirate 'meets had
ambushed him from a valley and had almost buried him
alive with tons of LRM and AC. Lucky for CWolf his
'Baby' could reach up to 145 top speed and had taken
to, now identified Scats, out without too much delay
yet his 'mech had been badly damaged. "Oh well, guess
we both are a little stupid" Cwolf said trying to hold
back another laugh. "Talk for yourself Kid, I
think...you try to think...BIG difference" Buff
replied with a small laugh. "Sure, whatever you say
sir...Anyway don't you think we should..." Wolf never
finished his sentence as the dropship's 'mechbay, they
were currently holding their conversation in, was
overthrown by alarms and klaxons. A husky female
computer generated voice joined the two mechwarrior's
conversation almost yelling "Warning...Warning...
Incoming aerospace Fighters...Warning... aerospace
Fighters are aggressive". "Damn" yelled Buff.
"Lets
get to the Bridge Now!" he ordered.
Both 'mechwarriors ran down the corridors of the
union class dropship in a staggered zip-zap line. The
dropship was now under heavy attack by multiple
fighters, the 'Rogue Knight' dropship had launched
it's own fighters to counter the attack but they were
out numbered and fading fast. Spiriting through the
bridge's open doors they saw Brig. Gen. Surn and Brig.
Gen. Fang along with many other high ranking officers,
feeling a little out of place as the only NCO or
non-commissioned officer Cwolf tried to keep his mouth
shut as the battle unfolded. The bridge had a direct
patch linkup with the DEV fighters defending the
'Rogue Knight', sadly the linkup decreased the moral
of the troops hearing it.
Pulling a hard bank ColdFlame, Red Leader,
manoeuvred
his Aerospace fighter to avoid a salvo of incoming SRM
4's. Getting a Clan Sabutais into his targeting
sights he released a fury of 2 Ultra AC 20's fitted
onto his fighter. The Clan Sabutais was an
omni-fighter, similar to the omni-mechs Clanners used
these fighters could be fitted out with weapons pods
to fit a certain mission or assignment. In this case
it was a capital ship destruction mission. As
ColdFlame's 40 Ultra AC projectiles travelled to their
target the omni-fighter pulled a hard pitch, 10
projectiles passed harmlessly beneath the fighter but
the other 30 were anything but harmless. As the first
10 made contact with the Clan F-F armour it torn plate
after plate away, leaving them difting in the empty
vacuum of space. The second lot of 10 projectiles
finished off the now lightly armoured chest of the
Sabutais leaving it's chest bear and open for internal
damage and that's just what the last 10 projectiles
achieved. As they entered, almost exactly where the
previous attack had left vulnerable, masses of sparks
generated by damaged systems spewed out of the
omni-fighter's chest. "Got ya" shouted ColdFlame in
extreme joy. As he watched the omni-fighter drift
away a furious fire ignited in the large crater
recently acquired by the generous attack. Without
warning the omni-fighter almost melted from sight
accompanied by mini-explosions all around it. Smiling
to himself he headed to find a new target. As he
searched to help his fellow DEV pilots he saw...none.
"Oh my God!" he realised that his forces had been
wiped out along with Green and Blue groups. He
rapidly patched a direct link into the main bridge of
the 'Rouge Knight', DEV's dropship. "Sirs this is
ColdFlame...Red leader. I have to report 99% losses
and I am the only fighter left. I have multiple
targets converging into my position. I will try to
stop them but you must land now. Otherwise you will
die like I will. Take Care and Good Luck...2nd Lt.
ColdFlame out". Giving the dropship a silent salute
in the quiet cockpit of his hammerhead fighter he
smiled to himself. The clanners where in for a
surprise.
"Poor guy" Wolf quietly said.
"He doesn't have a
chance". "And nor do we if we just sit here Sergeant.
Helm... take us to the nearest planet to land, we may
need to make this a crash landing. We are pushed for
time." voiced Drivin2Fast who had walked out of his
office "Aye sir" replied the jr. officer at helm. The
nearest planet was called 'New Capetown' and at that
moment the 'Rogue Knight' was making a 4G burn towards
it. From a distance the radar showed around 8
omni-fighters about to attack ColdFlame just as they
came within firing range ColdFlame's fighter went
white with tremendous head and looked like a star
going supernova. For a fraction of a second the
fighter imploded then exploded with such force it
equalled or even surpassed a nuclear explosion. The
flames rippled through the 0 gravity and wave after
wave of flame hit the incoming fighters making them
overhead. Melting their reactors thus making their
reactors going critical. From the safe distance of
the dropship it was a beautiful yet horrific sight.
All who saw the white diamond in space growing and
engulfing the clan omni-fighters knew a very brave
pilot gave his life for DEV as well as the other DEV
pilots who fought alongside him. They would never be
forgotten. Looking around feeling ever more out of
place Cwolf was about to leave but then another
warning came. The husky female voice announced
"Incoming Missile Attack"..."Who...Where?" Required
Fang as he filled the jr. officer with questions.
"Sir..the attack...the missles...they have been aimed
at the bridge". Looking at Brig. Gen. Fang he knew
what would happen next and his face went pale with
anguish. Almost as if the jr. officer could see into
the near future the missiles hit with devastating
effects. The first salvo of missiles that hit
weakened the structural integrity of the bridge, the
second and final almost penetrated it leaving only
thin armour shielding the whole bridge crew. Inside
the bridge was another story.
"Get away from the bulk heads now!"
Blodlust yelled
trying to get over the alarms and klaxons. A few of
the crew got away in time others weren't as lucky.
The bulk heads, made of similar metal to battlemech
armour, cracked and steamed as they melted and
splintered under the heat and pressure of the attack
made by over 200 LRM missiles. The unlucky crew who
were too close to the bulk heads were instantly
pulverised and pieced by the bullet like bulk head
fragments. As the metal tore through their flesh it
was a fast death. Four crew men already lay dead or
dying on the bridge deck in a pool of their own
crimson blood. A split second later a metal girder
fell from the roof of the bridge. Seeing it fall Buff
staggered towards the jr. officer who hadn't seen it
racing towards him. No matter what he did, yell,
scream, bellow nothing would work this time and Death
would have his way. The jr. officer turned around
just in time to see the huge metal girder smash into
his head and chest. Shunting him across the bridge he
was pinned against the already jagged bulk head and
the metal girder...the life was draining out of him
and there was nothing any of the DEV warriors would do
to help him. Deciding to help the poor man Blodlust,
in all the chaos and panic, raised his small laser
pistol from it's holster. Aimed it at the man's
head....and fired. Then the dropship hit the ground
of 'New Capetown' and everything went black for the
bridge crew...
..............to be continued
~author Cwolf