Say the Magic Words

Posted on Sat Feb 29th, 2020 @ 3:12pm by Commander Telios Wintersnow & Fleet Captain Torilla Yamaguchi & Company Sergeant Major Jeffery "The Mountain" Duval & Major Daisy Rohr-McKnight & Master Sergeant Gunthar Werner & Zuko Omakan & Master Gunnery Sergeant Chalan Fal & Gunnery Sergeant Olga Vaal & Staff Sergeant Yuri Grissom
Edited on on Sat Feb 29th, 2020 @ 3:36pm

Mission: Mission 33: Losing the Peace
Location: Various Locations - USS Roanoke
Timeline: 1300Hrs - May 3rd, 2391

Nightstar gave a very unhappy sigh, and looked straight at Chalan and Duval. Most of the other marines where also grouped around them, the nearest one being the newly restored Staff Sergeant Gunthar Werner and his Squad.

Chalan knew Nightstar's look, "Whats wrong."

Nightstar had an incredulous look, "Captain Tane is allowing the Remans to land, until the governor agrees to her terms."

Chalan looked dumbfounded," Well, This is unexpected"

Duval held his rifle in his hand as he slung it back until the barrel rested against his shoulder. "Say what big man?" he inquired as he lifted a set of bino's to his eyes. "Mmm.. so far Nadda.."

Werner looked over at Chalan. "Tane does understand that they do pay us to shoot Romulans?" he asked rhetorically.

Olga looked over at Nightstar "Can we at least shoot at the transports?"

Nightstar nodded," Yeah, the captain doesn't want the shuttles getting away." He then looked at yuri, whom was sitting on top of one of the Silo's with his rifle, scoping out enemy positions. Tapping his combadge, he said," Overwatch, how many troops are guarding their shuttles."

The reply was quick," About a dozen remans sir."

Nightstar then looked at Werner and Vaal, saying, "Take your squads and disable those transports, Chalan will take another squad to cover you guys."

"Thank you Sir." Werner replied. "Vaal, we need to make time. My squad will be in front with yours trailing about one hundred yards back. If my squad takes fire, we will provide support and you will be the maneuver element. Alright? Move out." Werner ordered as Olga nodded in agreement.

The two Marine NCOs took their squads and moved out.

Chalan made a quick headcount before moving out, but then he noticed someone missing. "Hey Nightstar, we are missing someone."

Nightstar looked around at all the marines before asking, "who."

Chalan looked around again, then sighed in annoyance when he realized who was missing," Private Bitchal Bremer."

Nightstar gave a low growl of annoyance, "Great, the private whom is wider than he is tall."

Duval sighed. "Oh dear god." he sighed as he tapped his combadge. "Duval to Bremer, yo meathead... where you at?"

"Umm... I'm lost sir... wait.. no.." then there was a sudden scream as a harsh voice growled something that Duval couldn't make out. "Private... run... run as fast as your fat ass will... oh nevermind.." he sighed as he tapped his combadge again to close the channel.

Meanwhile the half dozen Remans watched the massive Federation enlisted guy wandering around on his own, sidearm in hand as he seemed to have lost his rifle before someone took a potshot at him, they were rewarded with a loud scream as he threw his sidearm into the air and proclaimed in a loud voice. "I surrender.... don't..hurt me!"

The two ranking Remans both shared a look as they both seemed to agree, they drew their sidearms and proceeded to start shooting at the Federation man who began screaming as he took hits.

Bremer felt the pain wash over and through him as the impacts overloaded his already overly sensitive nervous system, he suddenly felt himself void his bowels as he felt one blast hit him from behind, the stench of burned shit filled his nose, he moaned softly before he dropped to the ground, dying in extreme pain.

However the Remans didn't stop shooting at him until until he was little more then a red smear on the ground.

Yuri, meanwhile, whom was on overwatch with his TR, contacted Werner, " Whenever your ready, I'll start popping them."

Wener and Vaal had made it to the Romulan transports and had place their squads. Four transports had made it to the surface. They all had their ramps down. There were a few Reman commandos standing guard and a few Romulan officers inside the transports on the comm barking orders to the commandos out on the raid.

Werner heard Yuri's request. Before answering he looked over at Vaal. She gave him a thumbs up to show her squad was ready. Werner tapped his comm badge. "Light them up Yuri!" He told him. Werner then shouted at his squads to open fire.

The fusillade of shots struck down all the Reman Commandos. Several rockets fired and connected with the transports. Within seconds they were a conflagration. A few Romulan officers ran from the pyre, screaming as their bodies burned.

"Shift fire! Shift fire!" Werner bellowed as he moved in his squad to clean up any survivors.

Yuri wasted no time in picking off Remans. Thanks to the transporter on his rifle, it didn't matter if the remans where behind cover or not, no amount of cover would protect the remans from the bullets of the TR.

The transports were burning and the commandos lay dead. The Marines had secured the area and had a handful of EPWs. Werner tapped on his badge. "Yuri, how is your position?"

Yuri responded back quickly," I don't think they even figured out I was here. I love the TR with transporter attachment."

"Good, thanks Yuri." Werner replied. "Nightstar, We've secured the landing zone. Doesn't look like there are any more enemies. Do you want us to head back to your position?"

"Yes, Go ahead and return to our position, good job."

Duval was watching the entire event go down from his position through his bino's. "I love my job...." before he tapped his combadge. "Duval to Marine ground teams... Nice work... I think the enemy shit themselves..."

In other area's of the planet, the Remans were running amok while the marines held their position and didn't do anything to stop the remans from ransacking the place.

Meanwhile Commander Torilla Yamaguchi was on the main bridge, she glanced at the short range sensors as she noticed two federation ships approaching while the space battle was winding down.

She had a half dozen warheads ready but had yet to launch them. "Alright.... lets see..." she paused. "torpedoes ready..."

Alyssa McKinley then reported, "Captain, we are getting a hail from the planet, its the governor."

"Put it through," Zara smiled, for her plan had started to fall into place.

Alyssa opened up the channel and put the governor on the main viewer.

"Captain Tane, this is Governor Tresher again." His voice was panicked and there was a lot of noise in the streets outside his building. "We need help. Romulans have ground forces ransacking our city and stealing our goods."

"Say the magic words," Zara pressed, without a care to his situation at all.

"You would doom us?" Tresher asked angrily.

"No... My intent was to train your people to be able to hold off the enemy until help arrived. If you can't do that, then your colony is lost," Zara retorted very coldly.

Tresher turned to someone off-screen and Zara could tell he was mouthing something to them. And for whatever reason, his shoulders slouched and sighed in resignation, "All right. We'll send out a notice immediately for people to join this defense force of yours."

"Good." Zara smiled pleasantly at that, then turned to Torilla. "XO, give Daisy her green light. Roll out the wing to assist in killzone tactics, should Daisy need them."

Torilla nodded her head as she began tapping at her display, then she tapped her combadge. "Roanoke to Rohr. Green Light.. Kill em all." she commented. "The governor has signed on with us..."

"Roger that Commander." Daisy acknowledged. "Rohr to Nightstar: you have the green light. Shoot them up!"

Nightstar nodded, "Acknowledged, Nightstar to all fire teams, we are cleared to eliminate the Remans, Snipers, you are clear to eliminate any hostiles that you see."

Yuri acknowledged by eliminating another Reman some distance away using his TR.

Meanwhile, Zuko still had the Dreamcrusher pursuing the retreating two romulan ships when two more ships warped in.

An Akira and a Galaxy class starship came into the field, and caused the remaining Romulan ships to turnabout and head back toward the Dreamcrusher.

All around the Akira was forty Valkyrie fighters and together, the ships and fighters laid down a massive display of weapons on the enemy.

"Your cavalry is here," a young man spoke from the lead fighter of the new contingent.

Meanwhile The dreamcrusher just unloaded another volley of 72 heavy quantum's. Zuko then noticed one of the Rowling's fighters wandering straight in the path of the heavy quantums, prompting him to send the pilot a message," Hey pilot, your about to get hit by a bunch of heavy quantums, get out of the firing line."

"Wave off," the pilot told his people. All of which scattered, though he came mere meters from being hit with one of Dreamcrusher's warheads.

Yamaguchi blinked as she watched the event go down. "Wait... what the heck... Who was that pilot that almost got killed by an anti-ship weapon?"

Zuko watched as the heavy quantums impacted the remaining warbirds, annihilating both of them. He then asked Telios, " So whom was that pilot that nearly got hit by our weapons."

Wintersnow touched the display next to her with her delicate looking fingers. "Mmm... one Major Robert 'Dire Wolf' Sullivan."

Yamaguchi sighed. "Oh shit.." she whispered. "Zara... Things just got a lot worse around here.... that pilot... is Phoenix's brother... and he hates her, which is ironic because she doesn't hate him... he's her kin, one of her last."

"Right... I'll go get some beer and popcorn to go watch that shit storm," Zara noted dryly, then turned to Torilla. "You wanna watch too?"

Yamaguchi stepped back from the tactical station. "I'd be delighted." she responded with a smile. "I need some tactical training." she sighed.

Meanwhile, Rykar, whom was at the ops station, mentioned, "Captain, the Dreamcrusher is hailing us."

"Someone's doing pots and pans tonight and it ain't on my ship," Zara teased to Torilla before she signaled Rykar to open the line.

Torilla sighed softly as she opened the communications channel. "Some days, I hate my job.."

Zuko's face came on the main viewer, "Ah Roanoke. So tell me, whom was the blind idiot that was shooting torpedoes at my ship."

"She did it," Zara smiled with an evil snicker. "I totally wasn't at fault."

Zuko looked straight at Torilla, saying, "So it was you, tell you what, how about you come over to my ship and help clean up the mess you helped make."

Torilla sighed softly as she gave Zara a rather evil glare. "Fine, I'll be over in twenty minutes.." she commented before she looked down at her panel, the other tactical officer gently tapped her shoulder as she nodded, turned she walked off of the bridge without asking to be relieved.

"I was thirty percent wrong," Zara spoke apologetically to Torilla.

Torilla ignored her as she entered the turbolift and was gone.