Deadly Imperials by
GoldLeader
Part 5: First Wave
GL
got in the Falcon Claw and headed for UPA Slaughter.
"Hey, it's GL. Any room in your docking bay's to fit a
Muurian Transport?" asked GL to the person on communications
on the Slaughter. "Yeah, come on aboard, sir,
docking bay 1." replied the Slaughter. GL landed in
docking bay one and exited the Falcon Claw. GL saw
UPA_BlueLion pass by and said "Hey Blue, know where Yoda
is?". "Yeah, he is in his quarters, sir." replied
BlueLion. "Thanks." said GL as he headed to the
turbolift to go to Yoda's quarters. When he reached the door, he
pushed a button on the panel to alert Yoda he was there.
"Come in." said Yoda. GL came through the door and said
"Hey Yoda, how you doing?". "Hey GL. I'm just
watching some holo's. So, what's up?" asked Yoda.
"Well, first of all, Hacker is back." said GL. "He
is? Great!" said Yoda. "And second of all, I wanted to
ask you if you wanted to be my partner at my casino." said
GL. "Sure thing. I then can give sell my beer at an even
higher price." said Yoda. "Yeah. So, I'm going to put
you head of the bar. I will be head of the casino." said GL.
"OK, so, did you think of a name for it yet?" asked
Yoda. "Hmm... not yet, I was thinkin-" said GL as he
was interrupted by the intercom, "ALERT, ALERT! An Imperial
Star Destroyer and 4 VSD's entered the system! Repeat, an
Imperial Star Destroyer and 4 VSD's entered the system! They have
launched fighters! All pilots to your stations!".
"Well, I better get back to the Virtue. Get out there and
kick there butts!" said GL as he headed to the door.
"OK, see ya later GL." said Yoda.
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"This
is it? These guys must not know what their doing. They will be
killed in seconds!" said Drew aboard the UPA Stonewall.
"I'm gonna try and talk them into surrnedering. I'll keep a
channel open for you guys to listen." said R2 as he hailed
the ISD of the enemy, "Imperial ships, you have invaded the
territory of the United Pilots Alliance. If you guys are even
thinking of attacking us, just take a look at our fleet. Now,
either surrender or else you'll end up like your Task Force
Lightning friends.". A few moments later, R2 said "They
aren't responding, guess we'll have to kill them.".
"Right. OK, I'm gonna have Falcon Wing destroy the
starships. We shouldn't even bother to send in our cruisers, our
fighters can take em." said GL. "Ok, I'll have Panther
take care of superiority." said Farell. "So will Tiger,
but we'll intercept the bombers as well." said Drew.
"Guess Eagle and Dragon will stay back and defend the
base." said R2. "Yep." said Hacker. "OK,
let's go!" said GL. The SC members relayed their commands to
their squadrons and the SLs did so to their pilots. "OK,
here's the plan, Rogue group. We're gonna reach the melee and
take every kill! Leave most of the fighters for me though."
said Teal. "Hey, me too Teal." said Jedi. "I don't
think so you guys, Cobra is gonna take every one of these bad
boys down!" said Saj. The arguing between the squadrons of
Panther continued until Farell finally said, "Would you guys
shut up! You just past the first wave of fighters without getting
one kill! Now, shut up and kill them!". Meanwhile, all the
pilots of Proton and Gold fired only 1 torp each at one of the
VSDs. When they hit, the VSD's shields were down and most of the
hull was destroyed. A few laser blasts to the bridge finished it
up. "Oh man, this is no sweat. If everyone of us in Falcon
just fired one warhead each at the ISD, it would be
destroyed!" said Hobbie. "Yeah, so lets do so."
said Vapor. They all did, and the mix of concussion missles
hitting the shield generators, the torps hitting the hull, and
even some heavy rockets hitting the bridge destroyed it
instantly. "Good work guys. Shadow and Vortex, take on the
one nearest. Gold and Proton, the one after, and Lambda and
Polearm, the last one." "Roger that." said Hobbie.
"Yep, got ya, GL." said Daedalus. "Oh crap! 6 more
ISDs just entered the system!" said R2. "Uh oh. Err,
umm..., hurry up and finish with these guys and then take on
those ISDs." said Drew, "We'll need another wing to
help kill these ISDs.". "OK, sending in Dragon Wing to
take care of those ISDs." said Hacker. "Great, I'm
still stuck guarding the base." said R2. "The VSDs are
gone!" said GL, "Moving in the help take out those
ISDs!". "Panther and Tiger took out the fighters.
Moving to intercept some more." said Farell. Once Dragon
wing started firing their torps at the ISDs, another 8 more
entered the system. "What the hell is going on
here!?!?" said GL. "Ok, now it's time to send in the
fleet." said R2, "All starships, move in to engage the
ISDs! Support ships, stick close to your squadron leader's
ships!". "Oh no! We are starting to lose fighters! No
casualities yet, but they have to be picked up." said Drew,
"send out the ATFs!". "I'm going out in the Claw
to pick some up also." said GL. "OK, good luck."
said Drew. Meanwhile, out in the heat of battle, Sniper was on
his attack run on one of the ISDs shield generators. "Guys,
I'm going in, give me some backup!" said Sniper. "Roger
that, coming to assist." said Rockerus. Rockerus followed
Sniper in, but while backing him up, he decided to target the
other shield generator and destroy it. Both hit almost
simultaneously and the ISD's shields were down. But, since they
were using heavy rockets, the explosion that blew up the shield
generators also consumed the top of the control tower just
consuming the bridge as well. Sniper and Rockerus flew through
the explosion with little damage. "Phew, that was
close." said Sniper. Warheads of all sorts hit it and the
rest of the ship blew up in seconds. In the melee, Tiger and
Panther were sweeping the TIEs, but they just kept on coming.
There was over 300 fighters in the melee alone. "Hey,
Panther Wing SLs, I got a plan." said Houdini, "Lets
form up, Line Abrest. We're gonna plow the road. I'm sending in
the waypoints.". "Good idea Houdini." said Teal.
"Yep, lets show them what Panther is made of!" said
UPA_Realblue. They formed up side by side and went into the
densest part of the battle. They fired their lasers, single fire,
and totally destroyed anything in their way. "Hard to see
who's getting kills here!" said Zed. By the time their first
sweep was done, over 30 TIEs were destroyed. "We're in
attack posistion, guys. Be prepared for some shaking." said
R2 to the fleet. "Whoa, got heavy fire on my shield
here." said Drew, "Oh, not anymore." said Drew
again as the ISD on the Stonewall's port side was
destroyed. "Concentrate all fire on 1 ISD at a time! I'll
keep telling you what target I have currently. When I do, attack
that same one." said R2. "Got ya, R2." said
Farell. R2 sent the info on the next ISD he targeted and the
firepower of about 20 cruisers hit it, destroying it instantly.
R2 was still about 4 km away from the fleet battle though.
"Ugh, this is no fun guarding the base. You guys aren't
letting any ships through! That does it, I'm coming out their in
the Aquila's Eye." said R2. "OK, I'll take
over targeting." said Drew. R2 headed toward the docking bay
of the Paradigm and got in the Aquila's Eye. He
fired up the engines and took off. "Ahh, good, now you could
help me pick up some pilots." said GL. "Sure, whatever
GL, lemme just get some kills first." said R2 as he killed 3
TIEs and disabled 2. "Whoop, the Claw is full.
Gotta head back to the Virtue to drop off." said GL
as he turned the Falcon Claw and headed back for the Virtue.
"Alright, time to pick up some guys." said R2. "Oh
no, is that Acid?" he said as he headed toward him. He
picked him up. "Acid, what are you doing out there?"
asked R2. "I was taking a walk. What does it look like? I
got shot down by 4 squadrons of TIE Fighters." said Acid.
Teal's voice cackled through the comm as the Panther Wing
Sweepers past overhead, "Whoa Acid, I've never seen an SL
get shot down by a T/B!". Acid blushed. "Well, while
your here, make yourself useful. Get on the guns." said R2.
"Roger, R2." said Acid as he headed out of the bridge
and into the gunners chair. Acid targeted a T/I and tried to hit
it. After about 19 consecutive shots, he finally hit it's wing
pylon. It span out of control into R2's view and he destroyed it.
"Phew, I'm back. Any guys left to pick up?" asked GL.
"Nope, not anymore, for now. I'm heading back for the Paradigm
to drop off the guys I picked up." said R2.
"Fire!" said Hobbie over the comm as he fired two torps
at once. 24 torps hit one of the ISDs and it's shields were down.
There was hardly any hull damage. "Ugh, I think all of
Falcon Wing is out of warheads!" said Daedulus. Two
concussion missles, which came out of nowhere, flew towards the
bridge of the shield-less ISD and destroyed most of the control
tower. "Nice shot, eh?" asked GL. "Yep, pretty
good." said Vapor. "How many ISDs are left?" asked
Hacker. "9." replied Drew. "Whoop, make that
5." said Drew again. "Seems like they're
retreating." said Farell as the 9 remaining ISDs turned
around and headed for their hyperspace point. "GET BACK
HERE, WUSSIES!" said Desperado. "Everybody! Target the
left most ISD and fire your remaining warheads!" said Yoda.
Onlu about 2 torps and 4 concussion missles headed toward the ISD
and blasted against the shields having no effect. "We're all
out, Yoda." said Manx. The ISDs headed into hyperspace and a
rock flew towards where they were. "Who threw that?"
asked Drew. The Panther Wing Sweepers, who were all the SLs of
Panther Wing, were still clearing up the melee. The remaining 23
TIEs that were left were destroyed in a minute. "Phew,
that's about 126 kills for the Panther Wing Sweepers." said
Teal. "Yep, we kick arse." said UPA_Hockey. "Pshaw,
the-umm, the Falcon Wing, hmm...... the Falcon Wing Bombers will
take on the sweepers anyday!" said Vapor. "I think Wing
Wars is gonna start again soon." said GL, "OK, good job
everybody. But no celebration today. We'll leave that till the
day after tommorow.". "Why not right now?" asked
Thor. "You'll see." said GL.
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2
days later on Bespin's Cloud City...... "Ladies and
gentlemen. All of you are probably wondering why I brought you
down here. Well, it's kind of obvious, it can hold the over 300
members of the UPA. What I've come here to tell you all is that
my casino is finally finsihed being completed! So go on up to the
Spacestation of Blues! Drinks are on the house, for the first 1
hour." said GL. The crowd burst into applause and everyone
headed back to their ships to head up to the Spacestation of
Blues. While up there, the SC sat at their special table and were
talking. "Nice place, GL. I gotta hand it to you." said
Drew. "Thanks Drew.". "Now, about the battle. I
don't think we have seen the force of this Task Force yet."
said R2. "R2, we went up against 15 ISDs and 4 VSDs. That
wasn't big enough for you?" asked GL. "Well, we have
faced bigger. And there was no command ship. I think something
big is on the horizon." said R2. GL asked "Yeah, like
what?". R2 replied "I dunno, but something really
big...."
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The
Black Hole's almost hexagonal shape glowed against a
nebulae. Grand Admiral Barnacy, who was looking out of the
viewport from the bridge aboard the ISD III Flaming Star
said, "Oh, soon you will be complete and the UPA will be
crushed once and for all........". END OF PART 5