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Green squad was as far into the fray as was humanly possible. They shot through the resonating explosion from the missiles.

"Sir, almost throu..." said Green 1 as his comm went blank.
"We've lost Green 1!" said Green 2 as Green squad past through the explosion. Just as they got through a piece of shrapnel stabbed right through Green 3 cockpit killing the pilot.
"Green 3 is gone Sir!" shouted Green 2 just as he took fire and was disabled.
"Green 2! Where the Hell'd that come from!" Steven shouted to himself as he looked up. It was what he had worried about; there was another wave behind the first one and they had open fire on them. Steven pulled up sharply trying to evade, but he took a glancing blow that caused the ship to jolt. Steven struck his head on the top of the cockpit. He pulled back as he continued to evade. Steven felt blood trickle down his face.

He was furious now. He was angry at the Drathonians, he was angry at his men, and more importantly, he was angry at himself. He was surrounded by dozens of enemy fighter now, the first wave had turned around towards him, and the second wave continued to fire. He knew he was going to die with the rest of Green Squadron, but he didn't care anymore; he was blood-drunk. He gave a deafening cry and turned the rock music up full blast; he turned the ship towards the enemy and opened fire.

((wait i thought i was the only surviving member. where'd the second guy come from?))

Steven's head was throbbing from the gash on his brow, but he didn't notice. He had taken many hits, but kept flying. He had shot down many enemy fighter by time Blue Squad reached him. He did not even notice them until he felt the jerk of the tow cable.

"Get off me!" he yelled into the comm at the Blue Squad. He gunned the engine trying to pull away. "I don't want your help!"

((oh, OK))

Steven listened too the message from the new Blue Leader. "Then unhook me!" he shouted at the man, "I have to get back there!"

"I think it's a good idea to listen to the man Green Leader," said Green 2 in a weak voice.
Steven stop his yelling when he heard that. "Green 2 I thought you were taken down too!" Steven said.
"Nah, they only disabled me is all," Green 2 managed, "And besides what do you think the other Greens would think if they saw you acting like this?"

Steven stopped altogether when he heard that. He then switched off his engine and took off his helmet. He then turned off his comm. as well, and for the first time since he can remember he felt a tear go down his cheek.

Kurohime and the other Engineers had been working on setting up the shields to help the boarding party,
"Right, Abul, use that panel to figure out what kind of automated defence they should have, we can't risk doing anything major yet though, except fight, we don't want to draw attention to our group."
After a few minutes of fighting, the Drathonian Security squad had been wiped out, with no casualties.
"Good, now lets move on before more come, us engineers will use the data visors to follow the route, if you see anything with a tail heading towards us, just shoot it before it shoot us."
She heard alarms starting to go off, "Well, hopefully, they'll concentrate on the other, larger groups."
The shields had been taken down now,
"Right, lets move!" She said, motioning which direction to go.

At the next junction, they ran into a drathonian patrol, only they saw the lizards first, Kurohime pulled out her EV-47, and crouched behind a corner, she spotted a camera and fried it, while the marines took out the patrol.

Apart from that one incident, the group ran into very few Drathonians, something was wrong, there was not fighting on the level either.
Maybe the distraction plan worked? she thought, No, even if it had, they know they have a boarding party here, they'd have sent some more down, wouldn't they?
They were close to Engineering now, but she knew something was wrong, she could hear Drathonians up ahead, lots of them.
She quickly used her Data Visor to plan an different route.
"Wait," she whispered, this is too easy, she looked at the map then said
"In here, it's an emergency store room, used to store extra engineering parts, mainly pipes and wires, nothing worth guarding really.
Abul, get the door open, I'll need you to hack their cameras, I want to know excactly how many lizards are outside engineering, it sounds like a lot from here.
And we'll set up shields at the door, in case it's a trap and they want to box us in."

"Yup" was Kai's simple replythen he punched the 'launch' button and the pod was fired at high speed across the battlefield at the enemy command ship. The pod bumped and jolted on the way, but there was no damage to it, and soon it smashed into the side of the Drake class. A bit of whirring and grinding noises told them the pod was having a bit of trouble breaking through, but before long there was a sharp CLANK as it locked in. a wooshing noise told them they had pressurised, and then the door opened. out in the hallway was nothing. they had landed on the same level as engineering had, and were just as confused by the lack of lizards. "Come on! let's go! Kai yelled at his squad, then led them through the maze of hallways, checking each door along the way. Nothing, till the last door in the hall and it was full of: the engineering group. "Oh, hello, good to see you guys here" he said. "need any backup?"

Meigan had a bit of trouble keeping her balance as the pod shot towards the ship, but she was able to stay standing.

When they boarded Meigan was just as surprised as everyone else, why would they leave this section unatended, were they too busy with other things? No, the drathonians outnumbered them by a great deal, surely they would be able protect the whole ship at once.

But as the squad ran down the corridors, checking all the doors on the way, it became relevant that there were no enemies in sight. Meigan came to a stop with the rest of them as they opened the door and found the engineering group.

As Blue Squad neared the Hymn Darian noticed that the Scourges were gone. Nothing but Terran ships and wreckage showed up on censors. A minute later, rescue beacons were filling the space around the hymn. Only then did Darian realize just how much damage had been done.

A voice cut through the local com chatter and said, ""Retreat to the hymn for maintenance and repairs. All ships still with little or no damage, your priority is now search and rescue."

Darian quickly called out orders to blue squad. "7 and 9, get Green Squad to the docking bay. 8 and 10 cover them. meet back up with us when you are done. Blue 4, 5, and 6 are on recovery duty. Blue 3 and I will be flying cover in case they show up again."