Deadly Imperials by GoldLeader

Part 3: Giving a Helping Hand

"WHAT?!? THE TASK FORCE IS NOT FOR US?!?!" asked GL enraged when he heard the news. The SC and VER members were talking about the information they got from the Imperial Dreadnaught Hanadon. "Unfortunately, well and fortunately, no. It's for OMEGA." said Vapor. "OMEGA? Uh oh, we better warn them before it's too late!" said R2. "Alright R2, go ahead and make the message, we'll finish up here." said Drew. "Already on it" said R2 as he left the room and headed for the communcations station. "Ok, how large is this task force again?" asked Farell. "There are 5 ISDs, 8 VSDs, 4 Neb-B frigates, 10 corvettes, and-oh, that's it." said Jon64. "That's it? Well, we better send in a wing or two to help out, anyway." said GL "They are one of our best allies.". "Ok, I'll send in Tiger to help out. Did the plans say how long it was until they were going to reach the OMEGA base?" asked Drewhead. "About 1 and a half days." said Vapor. "Ok, I'll get Tiger's fleet ready." said Drew.

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"S1, good to see ya. Listen, you have incoming. The Imperials have sent out a task force for you. GL just told me that they are going to attack you in 1 and a half days." said R2 talking to OMEGA_S1 over the comm. "Thanks for the info R2.". "Oh yeah, we are going to send in Tiger Wing to help you out." said R2. "Tiger? That's not GL's wing, is it?" asked S1. "No, it's Drew's. GL's is Falcon." said R2. "Oh well, it would of been good to see GL again. Ok, thank's again for the info. I'm having our fleet prepared for incoming as we speak." said S1 "And who knows. After we kill these stupid remnants of the lost empire, maybe we could have a celebration together. GL's treat of course, hehe.". "Yep, hope so. Tiger Wing is on their way." said R2 "See you at the celebration.". "Yep." said S1 as he signed off.

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"We are about to reach OMEGA base." said the navigation aboard the UPA Stonewall. "Alright, thank you." said Drew as he got on to the Tiger Wing communications channel, "Alright, everybody, we are about to reach OMEGA base. This is going to be a pretty easy mission, but don't loosen up. Be prepared for everything. And for you guys who flew in GL's mission, be prepared for that interdictor and 6 squadrons of T/Bs and T/As. When we arrive, the imperials will probably be arriving a couple of minutes later, so get to your ships and may the Force be with us.". A few seconds after Drew's speech, the wing reverted into real space. "Phew, you had us think they came early." said S1. "Well, they should be coming any minute now." said Drew. Both the OMEGA fleet and Tiger Wing were set up. OMEGA had 12 ISDs, 16 VSDs, countless number of carrack cruisers, about 24 frigates, and other small ships. Tiger Wing was set up with the MC40's surrounding Drew's assualt frigate UPA Stonewall, and with the millions of support ships surrounding their command ships.. In about 9 minutes after Tiger Wing arrived, the imperials finally came, but this time with..... "Uh oh, seems they knew we had info and sent in reinforcements." said Drew. S1 told Drew "I count 6 ISDs, 10 VSDs, 9 Neb-B firgates, and 18 corvettes, plus an ISD Deuce, and 2 Interdictors.". "Tiger Wing, launch all fighters! Be careful not to shoot OMEGA ships, rely mostly on your targeting computer." said Drew, "Defiant, and Stalker, play superiority. Claw, concentrate on the support ships and some heavy capital ships. Wraith, take out the interdictor's first, then the VSD Deuce, then as many cap ships they have. Fang, stay back and cover the fleet from any incoming bombers and shoot down as many projectiles as you can.". "Roger that Drew, we're on our way!" said Thor, "Alright, Wraith group, put all power to engines to get over that blockade.". S1 came over the chatter and said "Wraith, I'm sending in 3 T/B squadrons to assist you in taking out the interdictors, they are firing at the left one first.". "Thanks, SI," said Thor, "Ok guys, you heard him, fire a pair of torpdoes at that left interdictor, except for Wraith's 10, 11, and 12, you guys fire at the right one.". Wraith and the 3 squadron's of T/Bs from OMEGA launched a pair of torps from each of their fighters, adding up to over 60 torps heading for the two interdictors. About 40 of the torps completely overwhelmed the first interdictor and it was destroyed in about 7 seconds after the first torp hit it. The second interdictor got lucky, and only it's shields were down and had minor hull damage. "All bomber's on the interidictor's, prepare another volley of torps, but only fire one each." said S1. By the time that the interdictor was turning around the leave the battle, the volley hit it and totally destroyed the engines, with the flames later engulfing the ship. "Ah-ha, that got em!" said Thor. Meanwhile, Claw was taking out the support ships one by one by spliting up into 4 and firing a pair of torps each at each support ship. "OK, only 9 support ships left. Head back to the ship to reinstall more torps. Everyone should be out now." said Praetorian. Defiant and Stalker squadron's were having no trouble with superiority, since they had the help of about 2 T/I squadrons and 4 T/F squadrons from OMEGA. Zappa already had a kill count of 9 in this missin alone. He was on the tail of an enemy T/I. He dropped his throttle to %33 and locked on, but the T/I moved out of the way just when he fired. "Oh, your a sly sucker, huh?" said Zappa. The T/I tried to get behind and was on his left, but Zappa retaliated by turning his rudder and his yoke to the left at the same time, bringing him directly below the T/I. Zappa fired in an instant and the quad laser blast broke through the floor of the T/I and came out the hatch on top, blowing up the T/I seconds later. "That's 10!" said Zappa. Grey23 and Evil were on the tail of about 4 bombers heading towards the Tiger fleet. "Come on Evil, lets take em out before they reach Fang." said Grey23. "Ahh... think you are gonna get em first, huh Grey? Come on Fang, let's show them who's the star squadron of Tiger Wing!" said Acidburn. Grey and Evil were already in firing range of the T/B's in a few seconds, but Fang was only about 1.5 klicks away. They both fired quad laser blasts at each T/B simotaneusly so they would be destroyed before they could manuver. They managed to kill 3 T/B's before Acid fired a torp without them noticing and killing 2 T/Bs at a time. "Torps, hey that's not fair!" said Evil. Fang squadron, Grey, and Evil all fired quad laser blasts at the last T/B, totally destroying it. Claw was rearmed and ready to go as they split up into quads again and did what they did before. This time, they saved 2 pairs of torps each and used laser barrages to destroy the remaing corvettes. "Now, let's take out those Nebs." said Praetorian, "Split up into sixums this time though.". They managed to take out 4 Nebulon-B frigates before they ran out of torps. "Ugh, we have to refill again!" said Praetorian. "No you don't." said Drew as the Stonewall and some VSDs from OMEGA opened fire with all they had on the remaining 5 Nebs, destroying them instantly. Back at the VSD II, the 3 T/B squadrons and Wraith had took out the generators and were firing lasers since they also ran out of torps. But, pairs and quads of laser blasts coming from 42 fighters do quite a lot of damage, especially when they fire again about 3 seconds after. Most of the lasers hit the command center, and it burst into flames. "Hey, Wraith squadrons, you guys mind to stop firing on that VSD? We'd like to keep it as a remembrance of how stupid the remnants of the empire are." said S1. "Sure, no problem. It's completely disarmed anyway." said Thor. An escape pod flew out from the VSD II and Zappa came out of nowhere and destroyed it. "Haha!! That's 20 kills in one mission!" said Zappa. "Good work team, let's head back to base." said Drew, "OMEGA, you are welcome to come over to celebrate if you want. We are in the Bespin system if you didn't know.". "Sure, that would be good. I'll have some of my SL's come over as well as myself." said S1. "Alright, see you in about 6 hours." said Drew. Tiger wing and a couple of OMEGA ships headed into hypespace, heading for the UPA Base.

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"Hey, C1, S1, long time no see!" said GL. "Yeah, good to see you again GL." said C1. "So, did you guys crush those imps?" asked GL. "Yeah, they were no match for us. We still have a flaming VSD II about 5 kilometers from our base." said S1. "Oh, really. That's cool, I guess... So, any of you guys wanna play sabacc?" said GL. "Er, um-" said both S1 and C1. "Don't worry guys, I only have about 10 credits on me, I'm broke from buying everyone drinks." said GL. "Oh alright. What the heck?" said S1. "Good." said GL as he though Ahh, good yes, that 10 will become 100, then 1,000, then 10,000, then 1,000,000, and I will make some money again! HAHAHAHA. "GL, you coming or what?" asked C1. "Yeah, lets go." said GL. It was another great day for the UPA and OMEGA. But is the story over yet?? THE END OR END OF PART 3